Looking for music discussion

March 17, 2006 11:00 AM

I'm looking for either a mailing list or forum for music discussion.

Requirements:

a) I'm interested primarily in (first and second wave) alt.country and older music (1920s-1960s).
b) I have a dangerously low tolerance for hipper-than-thou and "indie rock" stopped being interesting to me around the turn of the century.

Help me!

posted by keswick to computers & internet (7 comments total)

miles of music is where you need to go. there's a mailing list you can get on, a blog you can read, reviews, etc. All kinds of roots-alt.country- y'allternative-no-depression-whatever you want to call it, plus lots of classic country reissues and such.

also - and this may be obvious - the nodepression magazine website has some great stuff, and a few relevant blogs and browsable back issues of the magazine, etc.
posted by ab3 at 11:27 AM on March 17, 2006

I have a dangerously low tolerance for hipper-than-thou and "indie rock" stopped being interesting to me around the turn of the century.

Whatever you do, stay the hell away from I Love Music.
posted by mykescipark at 11:39 AM on March 17, 2006

Heh. ILM's Rolling Country Thread is pretty great, actually.
Go for No Depression. I don't know if it's still a functional board on AOL, but that's where it all started.
posted by klangklangston at 11:44 AM on March 17, 2006

What about for non-alt-country discussion of music from the 20s through the 60s?
posted by keswick at 12:19 PM on March 17, 2006

Keswick— A lot of people moved into Alt.Country (which, if you have newsgroup access, still might be worth looking into) because of their love of older country and roots music. I can recomment several excellent radio shows too, if you'd like. And ILM does a pretty decent job of segregating hipster wank from people who really care about the music.

(I'll email the couple of guys that I know who do fantastic '20s-'60s country shows and see if I can turn anything up for you.)
posted by klangklangston at 12:34 PM on March 17, 2006

ILM does a pretty decent job of segregating hipster wank from people who really care about the music.

At times, but his restatement of the question leads me to believe that it wouldn't be content-rich enough in the sort of music he's after to make it worth the investigation.
posted by mykescipark at 1:11 PM on March 17, 2006

While it does cover indie rock as well, [self link alert but it's related] openingbands.com has forums with a lot of knowledgable folks who could probably suggest and discuss plenty of alt.country bands...

It's by no means alt.country focused, but I see it mentioned there plenty, and I know there's people into it who read... why not sign up and make a post?
posted by twiggy at 3:35 PM on March 17, 2006