Done Waiting has the comfortable feel of a group of friends chatting about records they dig, links they like, SXSW, and the scene in the site’s home base of Columbus, Ohio. There’s a message board, an in-house record label, and they were all over MTV (more…)

Kenyon Hopkin runs Advance Copy, a thoughtful and wide-ranging site that encompasses new music, great old videos, interviews with rockers, and live reviews and photos, all run through the POV of Hopkin himself, who’s a former (current?) (more…)

In our opinion, Motor City Rocks is the porch at the Lager House. The battered, veteran Detroit rock hang has this tiny porch out back, and while it’s a nice place to smoke, it’s also the place to learn all about who’s quitting who’s band, which label is releasing what, and where the afterparty’s going to be. Imagine that, now imagine it on the Internet and without any pretense or drama. That’s (more…)

A few months ago there was a great post on Scissorkick, the music and MP3 blog run by Brooklynite Steve Marchese. “You can find virtually any new album online because irresponsible bloggers don’t check The Hype Machine before they post,” (more…)

To us, Gold Star Pioneer sounds like some band of indie-centric hippies with beards and hand-carved shoes that should be garnering Internet buzz and a sold out raft of NYC club shows right now. But that’s not true. As JRC from Detroit-based blog Five Three Dial Tone tells us, (more…)

All class, that Said the Gramophone. Not only do you have dudes posting MP3s who are actually into music (and not just posting MP3s first, last, or otherwise), but StG is often written from the carefully-considered, but always slightly amused point of view of a Moleskin-toting nature writer. It’s very calming on (more…)

Rachel Hurley describes her workday like it’s no big deal that she publishes two blogs, contributes to the independent music Web site BreakThru Radio, and maintains the blog of Memphis’s legendary Ardent Studios. How does she find the time to check her email (she does, barely), watch cable TV (she doesn’t), or defend the musical integrity of John Mayer (which she does, apparently)? Discover the (more…)

Like most bloggers not named Tila, Kyle Gustafson started his for the hell of it, and because he wanted a creative outlet. Since then Information Leafblower has become one of those stop-by’s in the morning and throughout the day, to glean a bit of celebrity, sports, or music info, or just to look at pictures of cats. And the name? Channeled from (more…)

Aquarium Drunkard has recently been pimping out stuff from Band of Horses, the new Plant/Krauss collabo, and up-and-coming recordings from Portland’s Shaky Hands, who the site decribes as “perky, jangly, rough and the edges college rock.” If that phrase doesn’t nail the zeitgeist of unkempt bands making moves in Web 2.0, then we don’t know what does. Anyway, it’s a one-stop shop for a lot of this stuff (more…)