Top 10 Digital Music Blogs
The whole point of having an iPod is to get access to a whole world of digital music. But when that world gets a little too big it's good to have a guide. Here are 10 blogs that help navigate the world of iPods, iTunes and all things MP3.
Ground zero for iPod Nation. Extremely busy site that offers multiple daily posts on every aspect of iPods and iTunes, plus voluminous links to free music downloads.
Technical aspects of transfers, downloading, file conversion, "jailbreaking" and anything else that increases your iPod fun.
For those as interested in making music as listening to it. Covers technology and trends in music production and services.
Listener-friendly discussion of iTunes developments as well as artists' releases of music on various digital platforms.
Mel's Internet Universe Music Blog
Weekly Top 20 charts and discussion from a Hawaii blogger with exceptionally broad tastes in pop. Mel frequently posts songs and video directly on his site for visitors to try out.
The legendary music mag/tastemaker has made a smooth transition to online, with a half-dozen music blogs plus downloads and a podcast of each issue.
Not so much a blog as a technology, Peel lets users bookmark music blogs they like--and then Peel will continually scan them for new music downloads, grab them and present them to you in a reader. As MacWorld put it, "Being a hip audiophile just got much easier."
Continually follows and aggregates a mind-boggling number of music blogs from around the world, and articles on the homepage always feature links to an MP3 file.
Consistently voted one of the Web's best, this Texas-based blog follows hip happenings throughout the music world, usually with MP3 samples attached.
Works with a range of artists and record labels to release free MP3s under Creative Commons-type licenses--meaning you can do burn, copy, share, remix, and do anything else to their tracks as long as you don't make money from them.
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