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Mine are:
1. Guido Fawkes (order-order.com) – scurrilous political scandal, gossip and news
2. Daily Mash – daft news
3. Facebook (in particular, groups devoted to The Fall and vinyl)
4. Twitter – mostly politics and current affairs
5. Various news outlets
Well, you don’t need to bother asking me.
You’ll go blind.
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Leeds United forums
the Guardian
the New York Times
Pushing Ahead of the Dame
various Usenet music groups
and youporn natch
Youporn, youwank, youjizz, pornhub, bonoisacunt.com. All the greats…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbHeq8WiLQ
I like some youtube channels:
NPR Music – I particularly like their Tiny Desk Concert series, in which artists or bands play three or four songs in a small shop/office. Too many examples to name, but The Pixies, Wilco, Leon Bridges, Son Little, Jackson Brown, Booker T and Cat Stevens are some that I’ve enjoyed recently.
Also their Front Row concerts are good. Savages and Iggy & The Stooges were highlights.
Mahogany Sessions – Stripped back solo/acoustic/a cappella versions of songs. Loads to choose from. Leon Bridges, Gregory Porter and Michael Kiwanuka were real highlights for me. I wrote a post here about this channel recently that blew everyone’s minds and proved to be one of the most popular posts The Afterword has ever seen.
955 KLOS Jonesy’s Jukebox – The obese ex-Pistol is a dj in LA and posts segments from his interviews with such luminaries as Iggy, Johnny Depp, Mike Garson, Vanian & Sensible, Jim Jarmusch, Duff McKagan, John Taylor, Gary Oldman etc etc. I love Jonesy’s approach – he belches, forgets his question, giggles like a cartoon schoolgirl, belches again. Professional it ain’t.
Amoeba – As well as sessions and interviews they have a series of videos called ‘What’s In My Bag’ in which famous shoppers talk about their purchases from Amoeba record store. Shoppers have included Duran Duran, The Supremes, Giorgio Moroder, Joss Stone, Clem Burke, Mike Scott, Savages, Flea, Johnny Mathis, Bootsy Collins, My Morning Jacket, John Cooper Clarke, Death Cab For Cutie, The Zombies, Macy Gray, Common, Moby, Lana Del Ray, War On Drugs, Peter Murphy, Dave Grohl, Noel Gallagher, The Swell Season etc etc.
Here’s Son Little’s Tiny Desk Concert:
There are other sites?
Actually,BBC, Guardian, Steve Hoffman forum, superdeluxeedition and a Welah rugby site.
Welah? Welsh!
Flipboard for me.
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Grauniad obvs
4. Urban Ghosts Media
5 (equal) Dangerous Minds/Shorpy Photo Archive
6-10,000. Everything else. I don’t do much work.
My first loyalty is obviously to this place. However, in no particular order apart from the order below….
Amazon
BBC News
The Guardian
Facebook (but I still hate it)
Americana UK
Daily Mash
BBC iPlayer
1. Twitter – for larks (and Cliff Richard calendar photos).
2. The Guardian and BBC for nooze.
3. Facebook – for groups, including the AW group from time to time.
4. SH forum – for info, and to laugh at the DR obsessives.
5. WhatMarigolds.com – for reviews, features and the letters page. (You should see the new calendar!)
Facebook – an outlet for fatuous comments and daft thoughts
Various Blogs (including my own)
Fantasy Premier League
Flashback (old photos, a bit like a historic instagram)
Band websites and Facebook groups
Amazon
Music Magpie
BBC (mainly Football)
The rabbit holes of wikipedia
45cat.
Rugby Relics – for books/programmes/history.
South West Peninsula League – VERY useful for the many football postponements I.e. last Saturday.
Cornish Pirates RFC.
Spin CDs – for information (used to be better) rather than purchases.
However, most of the time I’m reading actual/real/”paper” newspapers from 1924, soon to be 1925…..Woodrow Wilson’s just died, Newcastle have won the Cup, and Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last,” a.k.a. The one with the clock, is on at the local flicks.
Spin CDs’ info used to be better because they stole it from other sites, directly copying and pasting in the case of superdeluxeedtion’s content. I’m assuming they’ve stopped doing this now if their info isn’t as good.
The Trojan Forum and Roots Archives for lots of nice reggae news and discussions:
http://forum.trojanrecords.com/
http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/
Spent a few months cataloguing my modest-sized vinyl collection, so find myself on http://www.discogs.com a great deal.
Like to browse The Quietus for good music features, reviews – likewise Drowned in Sound and Consequence of Sound.
One fabulous little site I stumbled upon this year is Headphone Commute. Anybody with an interest in ambient, piano or minimal music should really check this site out – great place to discover new music and written so well, with a genuine passion for the matter in hand – https://reviews.headphonecommute.com
Musically, I look at Drowned In Sound, The Quietus and various blogs.
Otherwise, Polygon for games, PASOTI for football (Plymouth Argyle fansite). Don’t really look at any film sites, which is odd and I’d welcome recommendations. Page 45 newsletter for comics, Goodreads and NetGalley for books. Not much else, but I still seem to waste hours pointlessly dicking about on the net.
Fascinating stuff – giving me lots of rabbit warrens to disappear down for future non-work research. I had a look at the Steve Hoffman forums. Over 450 pages on a discussion about Pink Floyd vinyl reissues! Thanks all. Keep ’em coming if can bear to share.
“Over 450 pages on a discussion about Pink Floyd vinyl reissues!”
That’s how they lure you in. Pretty soon it will be hot stampers, matrix numbers in the run-off groove, AB comparisons and analyzing sample bitrates, and then it will be too late for you.
Don’t forget the dynamic range discussions, with Audacity screen shots and graphs!
I wanna see your peaks.
Mmmmmm – Audacity screen shots…
I’m a big fan of the Hull Daily Mail website.
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/
Standard mix of local paper clickbait, over busy ads and City of Culture boosterism but always guaranteed to reflect local life with some utterly scummy behaviour in the darker corners of the city. Today’s top story concerns Facebook reviews of life in Hull prison.
Also good for this kind of stuff:
http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/
I did actually work for a time for the HDM’s free paper spin-off – career highlight for me – and regularly had to persuade “angry” locals to fold their arms and scowl for our photographer. Though there was many the time when you’d pull up outside some particularly grim house and agree with the photographer – without leaving the car – that the inhabitants probably weren’t in.
Otherwise http://waxidermy.com/ – mainly for the fascinating “finds” section in the forum – likewise verygoodplus – and Cambridge United forums.
The comments field on the HDM site is priceless. The same three or four gibbering nazis in the middle of a literacy meltdown comment on every single story (and some of them get 1000s of ups, more even than Burt Kocain!!) I don’t know who these people are but I can tell you that there are many, many houses in this city where the curtains are never opened.
Mostly Facebook. I wasn’t a fan until the AW crashed and it was a way to get a fix until the site was, um, fixed. A lot of you lot post entertaining stuff there, and with my ‘Sal Warpe’ identity, I’ve left the door open to anybody who wants to friend me, apart from obvious trolls. I’ve just checked and it seems I’ve joined 60 groups, mostly music, politics and environment-related.
Five of them are Archers-related of which Archers Appreciation is the best – anarchic, crude subversion (anything goes as long as you aren’t rude about living people) – it’s like AW – cliquey, but friendly, similar demographic, just with more women than men. No need to bore you all here about my obsession any more.
Never forgiven the Archers one for announcing the death of Frida about 1 minute after the programme aired….
I make it a rule never to go to the group until I’ve listened to the latest episode. Those clever Archers fans have even created a special omnibus group for those who listen weekly.
Must have a look. I was enjoying it.
Here, the Beeb, Daily Mash, occasionally Twitter, Facebook (though having a break at the moment), Sound on Sound, Reaperblog (recording software nerdiness), Reaper forum (ditto). Oh and Amazon, damn their eyes.
Guardian , the vine , Facebook , the metro news , and different authors blogs, sound cloud for pod casts and music and flip board
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest
The Pool
The Grauniad
Have never had an FB account. I believe I’m not missing owt, there.