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Most Influential Music Blogs 2019

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1) Pitchfork
pitchfork.com

Pitchfork is the web’s most popular music resource, with expansive daily coverage of indie rock, hip-hop, electronic, pop, metal, and experimental music. Publishing daily reviews, features, and interviews, as well as real-time music news coverage.

2) MTV-USA
mtv-usa.com
Posts daily content forAll Geners musicians and record labels, including blogs about the music business, news and technology. Their posts are usually in-depth and well worth reading It’s all about making it easier for you to discover sick new music that you’ve never heard before. Working with musicians and record labels from all over the world to showcase a variety of the freshest Rock, Metal, electronic, hip-hop, indie, and alternative music to a global following that is comprised of millions of music lovers in over 110 countries.

3) MTVrock
mtvrock.com

Founded in 2004, MTVrock is an independent, NYC-centric, mostly-music blog that focuses on international music news, live show reviews, pictures, tour dates, gossip, tips, MP3’s, streams, videos, and much more. Non-music news finds it’s way on to our pages as well, and every post comes with an open exchange of ideas via the public commenting system.

4)BillboardMusik
BillboardMusik.com

Sharing the latest and greatest in the Hip-Hop, R&B, Electronic Dance Music (#EDM) and Rock Pop scene.

5) Pigeons & Planes
pigeonsandplanes.com

Pigeons and Planes is a music discovery site, brought to you by COMPLEX. New music and music news updated daily, ranging from hip-hop and pop to indie rock and electronic. They put you on to good music made by good artists, whether they’re established stars or rising newcomers.

6) Music | Reddit
reddit.com/r/Music

The musical community of reddit.

7) My Old Kentucky Blog
http://www.myoldkentuckyblog.com/

Indianapolis, IN Based Blog Bringing You The Best In Music, Art, and Culture. My Old Kentucky Blog also hosts its on show on SIRIUS XMU Satellite Radio’s “Blog Radio”: Every Tuesday at 12pm EST on Channel 35 w/ Replay at Midnight EST.

8) Trap Music Blog – Run The Trap
runthetrap.com

Your source for all things trap music, hip hop, 808 bass music & everything in between. A new order for underground music and culture.

9) Consequence of Sound
consequenceofsound.net

Consequence of Sound is an online music publication updated daily with music news, MP3s, tour dates, album reviews, festival lineups, and more.

10) EDM.com
edm.com

The world’s foremost authority on EDM : free music downloads, artist interviews, industry news, curated playlists, trending charts, and more.

11) All Music
http://www.allmusic.com

AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love.

12) Dancing Astronaut
dancingastronaut.com

Dancing Astronaut is the leading dance music media site in the US. Dancing Astronaut’s mission is to expose and promote electronic dance music in the digital media space in order to grow the industry’s reach and support talented artists.

13) Birp!
http://www.birp.fm/

BIRP is an indie music blog & monthly playlist sharing only the best new music. Keep up to date with music news, tours, videos & more

214) NPR
npr.org/sections/allsongs

All Songs Considered is the place to discover music. The acclaimed weekly program – available as streaming audio, a podcast and a broadcast – melds contemporary music, live concerts, videos and artist interviews to offer a truly eclectic mix.

15) Stereogum
stereogum.com

The original new music blog. MP3s, videos, news, reviews, and indie rock gossip.

16) FACT Magazine
factmag.com

The world’s most on-it music magazine, home of the weekly FACT mix series and FACT TV

17) Hype Machine
hypem.com/popular?workaround..

The best place to find new music on the web. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love — and it all ends up here.

18) Elicit Magazine
http://www.elicitmagazine.com/

Elicit Magazine is interested in the singers and songwriters who are so passionate about what they do, that no matter what, they will always be a music artist.

19) Hip-Hop Wired
hiphopwired.com

Keeping You Informed With The Latest on Hip-Hop Culture, Rappers, Hip Hop News, Rap and Entertainment News, Black Politics, Video Vixens, Music Reviews and Urban Lifestyle…

20) No Fear Of Pop
nofearofpop.net

No Fear Of Pop was founded in Berlin in late February 2010. It is a website about music of whatever genre and of whatever origin that seeks to transcend the habitual preconceptions about the “modern” in contemporary popular culture. The music written about will be pop in the broadest, most liberal sense of the term, rejecting accustomed dichotomies between the underground and the established – read mainstream. We believe that the music that you’ll find on this site is not to be missed within the context of the pop tropes of today and tomorrow.

21) Popjustice
popjustice.com

Popjustice is a website which bangs on about pop music at considerable length. We have been giving pop the respect it deserves and the disrespect it deserves since the turn of the century.

22) Drowned In Sound
drownedinsound.com

DrownedinSound.com, or DiS, is a UK-based music webzine dedicated to new, independent, innovative and groundbreaking music, as well as the best from established artists and international talents.