Ripfork
Matt Wendus really dislikes music critics. Reading some of the reviews he dissects, you can see why.
http://ripfork.com

Doids
A blog filled with photos and videos of dogs driving cars. Sure, it’s a specific niche but it works.
http://doids.com

http://therubberbandits.com/

Q: What bar is reviewed in Day & Night this week?

Find the answer in the mag today and then turn to page 17 for details on how to enter.

1. Soundcloud – It started as a highly intuitive way for bands and labels to share music with others. Thanks to its lightning fast speed and visual waveform interface, Soundcloud has become the place to catch the latest new tracks, particularly in dance and electronic circles. Try out http://player.thejackplug.com as it shows you the most popular tracks on Soundcloud.com.

2. Tuneglue – An expandable interactive spider diagram that helps you find related artists to who you search for. It’s extremely accurate and is essentially a cool visualisation of the musical landscape and its interconnectedness.

3. Grooveshark – It seems to be operating in a legal grey area but its popularity is not in question. Type in a few artists and build a streaming playlist made up of user-uploaded songs. The library is deep with plenty of remixes and full albums.

4. 14tracks.com – If underground movements and cutting-edge genres are your bag, 14tracks is perfect for you. Handpicked compilations based on themes like Scandanavian disco, cosmic soul, junglist hardcore, UK funky and loads more for about €7.50 each.

5. The Hype Machine – The daddy of the MP3 blogs. Put simply: “Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love, and it all ends up here.”

6. WeAreHunted.com – We Are Hunted claims to chart the most popular songs from all parts of the internet world. It’s heavily skewed towards what’s popular on the music blogs.

7. Breakingtunes.com – An Irish initiative to pitch the country’s bands at industry globally but it also functions as a great resource for new Irish music with streaming songs, profiles and bio info.

8. Elbo.ws – A lesser known but equally great music blog aggregator. Less reliant on remixes than The Hype Machine, it features top artists, tracks and videos in the sidebar to give you an instant pulse of what people are writing about.

9. TVAdmusic – Ads can make or break a song these days (see Florence’s Cosmic Love), so if you ever find yourself wondering who that song in the advert is by, this site will probably tell you.

10. Mixcloud – Pitching themselves as the “Youtube of radio”, Mixcloud offers on-demand DJ sets, radio shows and podcasts. It’s been adopted in dance music first but has a larger potential beyond those confines.

iTunes’ 10 billionth song downloader
Louie Sulcer, a 71 year-old country fan from Woodstock purchased the 10 billionth iTunes download. The song in question was Johnny Cash’s Guess Things Happen That Way.
http://short.ie/itunesbillion

Cringeworthy overbranding at DJ battle
Who thought that getting DJs participating in a DJ battle to play atop giant McDonalds burger boxes was a good idea?
http://short.ie/overbrand

The Morning Benders
Heartbreaking indie-pop from a San Francisco band whose debut album Big Echoes was produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and is out soon. Watch the winsome video performance of Excuses as your intro and fall in love.
Discover at Nialler9

Japayork
Is this 23 year-old graphic designer/videographer going to be the latest electro pop poster boy? A buzz is developing online for sure.
http://www.myspace.com/japayork

NWA – the explicit version
A version of the gangsta rappers’ infamous debut Straight Outta Compton consisting entirely of just the rude words.
Download at Ni9e.com

Radiofail
Audio recordings of presenters and guests on radio shows saying and doing things they shouldn’t be.
http://radiofail.wordpress.com

Babies with Laser Eyes
Does what it says in the title with spectacular superbaby results.
http://babieswithlasereyes.com

We’ve got two Wolfman posters signed by Benicio Del Toro to giveaway. There are only five of these in Ireland so enter the competition!

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