Cool Hunting

July 12, 2005 9:52 AM

I'm looking for some really hip websites, magazines or podcasts that comment and report on arts, entertainment, culture and a little (just a little!) on politics. I already read Salon.com, Slate Magazine and Rolling Stone, but I need more. Any ideas?
posted by JPowers to media & arts (11 comments total)

Coincidentally, Cool Hunting is worth following. It's a little more geared towards cool 'stuff', but there's plenty of arts and music there too.
posted by istewart at 10:28 AM on July 12, 2005

Check out We Make Money Not Art - fantastic links, good commentary, and it's all tagged for your shopping convenience.
posted by iconomy at 10:38 AM on July 12, 2005

Boing Boing is an incredibly obvious suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 10:44 AM on July 12, 2005

My arty & mag links.
And otherwise, as iconomy says - look at the links - I do!
posted by peacay at 10:45 AM on July 12, 2005

err...what I mean to say is: check out blogroll links on sites that appeal - that's where I've found most of my most loved sites.
posted by peacay at 10:52 AM on July 12, 2005

Some of my semi-daily design-related reads:

MOCO LOCO, "Modern contemporary design."
Sensory Impact, "The culture of objects."
IDFuel
Signal vs. Noise, a "weblog...about design, customer experience, entertainment, politics,...products we like, small business, ourselves, and more."
Design Observer

Any one of these will (as peacay notes) lead you via sidebars to more sites than you could possible absorb. And if you like Slate/Salon, The Morning News is kind of a hipster (both good and bad connotations intended) version of them.
posted by jalexei at 11:08 AM on July 12, 2005

Maison Neuve.
BBC Collective (more culture, less politics).
Spiked (more politics, less culture).
posted by speranza at 11:45 AM on July 12, 2005

Viceland
McSweeney's
posted by crapulent at 12:35 PM on July 12, 2005

2 Blowhards blog, despite its name, is written by some very smart people covering just the subjects you mention.
posted by capcuervo at 3:32 PM on July 12, 2005

ArtsJournal & ArtsJournal Blogs
posted by MLIS at 4:16 PM on July 12, 2005

For music info visit Pitchfork. It's basically the final word on hipster music (although I reeeeeally hate the word "hipster" -- I just can't come up with an adequate substitute right now).
posted by awegz at 6:12 PM on July 12, 2005