I decided this week to review a website that lists the 50 top music blogs. Blogs are a great way for people to discuss issues in a forum, voice their opinions, share photos, videos, art, etc. Music is still one of the top industries throughout the world with endless amounts of blogs. This site gives us a way to narrow down the search to the top blogs that discuss specific types of music people like.
Clickitticket.com, a paid site, runs Top 50 Music Blogs. The fact that a paid site administers Top 50 Music Blogs means that it has more money to dedicate to maintaining the site better than someone that does this as a hobby. There are also other advertisements on the site that allow us to click and search mostly ticket information for venues. The McAfee secure link also lets the viewer know that the site is relatively free of viruses.
The first thing I noticed when looking at this site is that it had a small summary of each blog. This small summary can really come in handy when deciding if it’s the right blog to click on. I do like that the very first paragraph explains how they rate the blogs on the website. Many of the numbers generated to create the list are used to rank many other sites. The fact that most of these blogs are relevant, up-to-date and informative is important to most viewers.
The most important thing when looking at any site is that if they have a link to another site that it actually works. When I clicked each link there was only one that said website was unavailable and the other never loaded. Two out of 50 not working for me is not a bad ratio. Hopefully when the administrators update the site again they can remove the dead links and put new blogs in their place.
I’m very interested in indie music so I decided to click on a few of the indie links, which is the very first category listed. Obscure Music I subscribe to on my RSS feed and is a great site for viewing new artists as well as reviews for albums of established artists. One that I had not seen before was Gorillavsbear, which turned out to be a very underground music scene type of blog. The background picture on the site was very vintage also which gave it more of a down-home feel. This site provided me with names of artists I had never heard of which is the main reason many indie music lovers will frequent a blog. I would like to see a few more categories added to this blog like classical, dub/electronic and jazz but overall I would say that Top 50 Music Blogs is very well organized, informative and well ahead of its peers.
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