Music Reviews from Non-Music Magazines

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What non-music mags do you see offering the most helpful or entertaining music criticism? Or the worst?
My wife sometimes picks up Bust -- it's a scream -- which runs a lot of bite-size reviews. They usually have good taste, although the write-ups themselves are of the "wow, this CD kicks ass" variety.
Any others?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 21 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Sterling to thread?)

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

greil still writes the occasional column for interview.

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 21 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

do music pages/columns in newspapers count as different? i like reading the one in Metro

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Details covers some indie stuff.

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Saturday, 22 March 2003 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the Onion A.V. Club .. does that count? :)

― ryan, Saturday, 22 March 2003 06:41 (twenty-three years ago)

My GF reads Bust, too, and they do have good taste, but I only know that because I'm already familiar with a lot of the bands they like. If I wasn't, Bust would not be helpful at all. Those are not record reviews. There are no nevative ones, for one thing, and there are no insights in even the positive ones. They may as well just make a list.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 22 March 2003 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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