Sites that focus on critical theory in contemporary music

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Hi Everyone,

After listening to the April 13th episode of the podcast, I was thinking about what the gang was discussing in regards to centralised locations for games criticism and critical theory.

I want to hear about the types of ideas and ways of looking at a medium that goes beyond news, is the album good?, interviews with an artist about their art etc. I want to read things that look at various genres / scenes / communities as a whole. The late mark Fisher’s work about music springs to mind.

Is there anywhere I can go that specialises in this type of thing? I’m essentially looking for a site like Critical Distance, but for music.

Mike Rugnetta’s podcast Reasonably Sound is a great example of the type of thing that I’m looking for, but it tends to focus on Audio as a whole and I’d love to read more about contemporary music culture specifically.

Cheers,

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Probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but Tape Op is a quarterly (?) Magazine that mostly focuses on recording and producing, but sometimes gets into the more art-y side of what goes into making an album.

Otherwise, I’ve only really found stuff like that in zines that are typically pretty difficult to find.

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The Quietus tends to be pretty good, if not maybe QUITE what you’re looking for. They’re generally a good “culture” website full-stop with more of a focus on music.

https://thequietus.com/

Some interesting stuff they’ve published, off the top of me head:

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don’t know why I typed “full-stop”