Other DIY music link pages: DIY projects • DIY downloads
There are thousands of artists selling their music, and there will be a lot more. Review sites and zines do the same job for indies that the mainstream media does for the majors. Here are a few good ones. Some of these sites combine news, forums, reviews, downloads, indies and even some big label tracks. There’s some overlap between them—some of the zines sell tracks and some of the communities carry reviews.
| Indie zines etc. | Brief description |
|---|---|
| Aural Innovations | Psychedelic mail order, web radio and web zine |
| Barcode | Electronic music and various other multimedia, including DVD, Soundtrack & Film. |
| Brainwashed | Massachusetts weekly digest from staff and contributors of brainwashed. |
| Drowned In Sound | UK indie news, reviews, gigs, downloads and forum. |
| Logo Magazine | UK free online and print magazine. |
| Milk Factory | UK contemporary music for contemporary people. |
| Musicmen | Mainstream news, reviews and radio. |
| Pastepunk | Punk, hardcore, emo, indie, and metal reviews, and compilation CDs. |
| Perfect Sound Forever | Manhattan online music magazine with warped perspectives. |
| Pitchfork | Chicago daily independent music. |
| PlayLouder | UK news, reviews, features and everything else. |
| PopMatters | International magazine of cultural criticism (not as heavy as it sounds). |
| Shakenstir | UK reviews - some mainstream, some indie. |
| Stylus Magazine | US/UK wide range of reviews, articles and interviews. |
| Unpeeled | The small, but perfectly deformed publication for the kind of music played by John Peel. |
There are more indie sites on the DIY download links page.
Other DIY music link pages: DIY projects • DIY downloads