Finding Good Music Reviews Online

So you are a music fan looking for new music and you've got this wonderful resource known as the Internet at your fingertips, but the question is, how to go about it quickly and easily. There are numerous music review sites on the web, with many merely being blog like rants or uninformative fans spewing unwarranted praise. Yet, beneath all of those disappointing and lackluster pages lie a few that can help you discover new music and sometimes even be a fun read.

Pitchfork Media
www.pitchforkmedia.com
Pitchfork is one of the Internet's best known music review sites. It covers a wide array of music, from indie-pop and alt country, to electronica and hardcore. The site does focus largely on independent acts and music snob favorites, but manages fit major releases in as well. Pitchfork has a host of talented writers whose prose is often full of anecdotes and lengthy philosophical asides. Sometimes it makes for incredible and informative reads, while other times it merely comes off verbose and tiresome, with not enough focus on the music.

Pitchfork offers album, track, and concert reviews, as well as news stories, interviews, columns, and features.
Reviews and news are updated every weekday.

Metacritic
www.metacritic.com/music/
Metacritic does not offer original review material, but instead combines ratings from numerous sources to create an overall rating. Reviews from websites like Pitchfork Media, and All Music Guide are combined with reviews from publications like The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, and The New York Times. What you get are short blurbs from each publication, their rating, and then an average rating created from all the sources.

Metacritic offers album reviews.
Updates are made frequently.