BTEC Level 3: Print Based Media (Level 3): Music Blogs / Online Music Mags to Check Out

As I have told a lot of you this week, to plan and make pages for a fictional music magazine and present your own photos, you need a convincing knowledge of the genre and what music is out there in your preferred genre. You need to do research to ensure quality in that area.

If like me, you like reading blogs, to make it easier to keep up with them all, there are some tools to make it easier.

You can follow them on Twitter and their latest news will show up on a newsfeed. You can follow Twitter using an app on your phone and ipad. You can 're-tweet' or 'RT' to share with friends.
You can go to BlogLovin - http://www.bloglovin.com/ - open an account and it will put it all in a newsfeed for you. I have managed to put a tab linked to it on the browser of my laptop so I can go straight to it. I have added a 'Blog lovin button' to my blog so others can follow mine, perhaps you could too!

Like this:

You can obviously bookmark them on your computer / ipad.
You can sign up to get email updates if possible.\

Please 'keep tabs' on the blogs below, depending on your preferred music.

Pop Music

http://www.popjustice.com /

Popjustice is about loving pop and shouting it from the rooftops.

R'n'B / Soul

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/

SoulCulture is a thriving global online magazine and creative hub for music, arts and entertainment. Formed of culture-savvy music lovers, predominantly aged 18 – 35, SoulCulture’s core readership is in the US and UK whilst our global audience spans Europe, Africa, Australia, South America and Asia.

Dance Music

http://www.harderbloggerfaster.com/

Harder Blogger Faster is a electronic music blog based in Manchester. Through a constant stream of news, reviews, features, track giveaways, interviews and competitions HBF has garnered a loyal following of the most up-to-date and music savvy readers online.

Local Music

http://brightonmusicblog.co.uk/

Watch this space for news, reviews and interviews, or just random ramblings from our contributors.

Indie blogs

Pitchfork

http://www.pitchfork.com/

The essential guide to independent music and beyond

Gorilla vs Bear

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/

A Texas-based music blog. Once called “the New Yorker of hipster blogs,”. They blog about relevant artists of the day, with no particular genre-specific focus. Newsweek thinks we’re “influential.”

Large Hearted Boy
http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/

Keeps track of new releases in music and books with new mp3s every day.

Ear Milk

http://www.earmilk.com/

A music blog based out of the United States & Canada which has an international appeal with it’s top cities being major metropolitan areas all over the world. We use our experience as journalists, musicians and fanatics to share our musical taste on the latest hits and underground discoveries across all musical genres.

We are Hunted

http://www.wearehunted.com

They listen to what people are saying about artists and their music on blogs, social media, message boards and P2P networks to chart the top 99 songs online right now.