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There are thousands of artists selling their music, and there will be a lot more. Review sites, music blogs and zines do the same job for indies that the mainstream media does for the Majors. Here are a few good ones. Some of these sites combine news, forums, reviews, downloads, indies and even some big label tracks. There’s some overlap between them—some of the zines sell tracks and some of the communities carry reviews. Blog aggregators like The Hype Machine provide a convenient round-up of the action on music blogs.
| Zines etc. | Brief description |
|---|---|
| Aural Innovations | Psychedelic mail order, web radio and web zine |
| Barcode | Electronic music and various other multimedia, including DVD, Soundtrack & Film. |
| Brainwashed | Massachusetts weekly digest from staff and contributors of brainwashed. |
| Drowned In Sound | UK indie news, reviews, gigs, downloads and forum. |
| Empire Underground Magazine | We interview bands, write album reviews, shoot underground show footage & more. |
| God Is In The TV | The Independent music and culture webzine. |
| Milk Factory | UK contemporary music for contemporary people. |
| MyDadRocks | Never stop enjoying good new music; indie for all ages. |
| Musicmen | Mainstream news, reviews and radio. |
| Pastepunk | Punk, hardcore, emo, indie, and metal reviews, and compilation CDs. |
| Perfect Sound Forever | Manhattan online music magazine with warped perspectives. |
| Pitchfork | Chicago daily independent music. |
| PlayLouder | UK news, reviews, features and everything else. |
| PopMatters | International magazine of cultural criticism (not as heavy as it sounds). |
| Ptolemaic Terrascope | Zine, forum, and so much more, sponsors of the awesome event that is Terrastock |
| Shakenstir | UK reviews - some mainstream, some indie. |
| Stylus Magazine | US/UK wide range of reviews, articles and interviews (closed in 2007). |
| Unpeeled | The small, but perfectly deformed publication for the kind of music played by John Peel. |
Related pages: DIY projects