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  • The Chronic Music blog has been going strong since January of 2008. One of the first things you will notice upon visiting the blog is the simple, yet stylish three-column layout, which features a number of different navigational options to choose from. The thing I love the most about this blog is that it is truly eclectic, offering up everything from acid jazz to melodic death metal. I love exploring the tag clouds on blogs such as this, as they tend to be a invaluable resource, either for broadening my knowledge of genres and artists that I know very little about, or introducing me to those that I am completely unaware of.

    It is evident that a great deal of time has been spent perfecting this blog. Several modifications have been made in order to provide a variety of methods for navigation. Dropdown menus replace the traditional archived posts and labels lists, and as I mentioned above, he has also added a tag cloud for labels. Chronic Music also provides more information than the average blog about the content being posted. In addition to the great write-ups, you will also find links to the artists' official sites, wikipedia entries, discogs page, a preview track, and links to several different sites where you can buy the album. The Chronic Music blog certainly believes in offering a broad range of choices to it's visitors.



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    eirdo Music is the first non-blog to be featured here. You may be wondering why the featured blog isn't a blog at all. The reason I chose to feature Weirdo Music is because it's owner does a great deal to promote and share music that would remain largely unnoticed were it not for his efforts. The site is operated by Marco Kalnenek from Heerlen, the Netherlands. Weirdo Music is a multi-purpose site, delivering news, reviews, and columns, in addition to serving as an online record shop. One of my favorite areas of the site is the downloads section, where Marco features a revolving collection of music blogs which focus on rare and unusual music. In addition to Weirdo Music, Marco has also been operating his own net-label, WM Recordings, since 2004. The WM catalog features a rather eclectic selection of independent artists, offering everything from Pop to Afrobeat. The majority of the WM Recordings catalog can be downloaded for free, but there are also a few commercial releases available at a generous price. Marco is also an accomplished independent musician in his own right, having self-released several full length albums and EPs. You can read more about his musical projects here.

    Weirdo Music: http://weirdomusic.com/
    WM Recordings: http://wmrecordings.com


  • The Chocoreve music blog hardly needs any introduction to many within the music blog community. It's operator, Chocoreve has been going strong since February of 2005. During it's first few months of existence, it simply linked to other websites, pointing out where to find quality albums. However, in June of 2005, Chocoreve started to serve up albums from his own collection. During the last couple of years it has developed into a vast treasure trove of vintage music from around the world. Chocoreve is probably best known for it's huge collection of compilations of rare garage rock and psychedelic tracks from the 60's and 70's, the majority of which contain tracks that you won't find anyplace else. It is a simple site in terms of presentation and design, remaining largly unaltered in appearance since it's first inception. Most of the albums do not feature reviews; however, don't let this small fact discourage you from downloading any of them, as the majority of them are unsung gems well worth listening to. Chocoreve is a legendary blog to all who are familiar with it, and if you're unfamiliar with it, upon visiting it you will soon understand the reason why. Have you left your comment today?


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October 30, 2008

Halloween Music Blogs





Halloween is almost here, and this month the Digital Meltd0wn Music Blogroll will be putting the spotlight on all the music blogs that are celebrating the occasion. I will be featuring all the blogs that have posted Halloween compilations, Halloween soundtracks, and other horror related music. Of course I will also be listing the blogs which feature Halloween music year round. Once I have gathered enough blogs which are celebrating Halloween, I will also be temporarily replacing the widget currently at the top of the page with one featuring only those blogs. I will replace it with the current one once Halloween has passed. If you are a blogger paying tribute to Halloween, please leave a comment and let me know. Likewise, if you you know of a blog that should be included on this list, please leave me a comment. I hope to put together the most comprehensive list of Halloween related music blogs available. Please help me with my mission.







I am excited to report that there is a community event taking place with several blogs participating. John Rozum started the idea of Halloween Countdown 2008 (More Info: http://johnrozum.blogspot.com/2008/09/youre-invited.html). Basically the idea is to make one Halloween related post a day until the end of the month. I should point out that the majority of the blogs on this list do not primarily focus on music, and although some of them may post an album or two during the countdown, the majority of them are sharing a variety of Halloween related posters, comics, novelty items, etc. So without further ado.. here is the list of blogs participating in Halloween Countdown 2008:

13 Visions
Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng (Music)
Azathot's Abode on the Plateau of Leng: The Dungeon (Music)
All Eyes and Ears
Art By Bubba Shelby
Branded In The 80's
Calvacade of Awesome
Comic Coverage
Cool-Mo-Dee
Cool-Mo-Dee
Creepy Los Angeles
Dave Lowe Design!
Diversions of the Groovy Kind
Distinctly Jamaican Sounds (Music)
Digital Meltd0wn (Music)
Dr. K's 100-Page Super Spectacular
Drunken Severed Head
Frankensteinia
Franklin Mint Blog
Geektarded
Halloween Addict
Harvey's Midnight Hour
The Holiday Queen
Houses of Wax
The Horrors of it All
Horror Host Graveyard
I-Mockery
John Rozum.com
Mark Harvey's World
Monster Crazy
Monster Memories
Monster Rally
Monsters and More
Moongem Comics
Mostly Ghostly (Music)
Music From The Monster Movies 1950-69 (Music)
Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anywhere Else (Music)
Musty TV
Neato Coolville
Negative Pleasure
Nostalgia Factory
A Nostalgic Halloween
Oh the Horror
Orange and Black
Para Abnormal
Plaid Stallions
Plastic Pumpkins
Pumpkin Hollow
Pumpkinrot
Random Acts of Geekery
The Retropolitan
The Sexy Armpit
Skull A Day
Sweet Skulls
Tikiranch Hallows
Trixie's Treats
Universal Horror Sounds (Music)
Valhella
Vinnie Ratolle's Records (Music)
Weird Hollow
Wonderful Wonderblog
X Entertainment

7 comments:

brianna said...

Halloween Blog is really very interesting . I will definitely take part in your mission.

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brianna

DoRadio

Azathoth said...

Zer0_II: I added you to my Halloween Countdown list. You can certainly count my blogs under the year round halloween / horror themed blogs in your list.

In answer to your questions left on my blog:

No you don't have to do anything to be added to list...

But you might want to also leave a msg for John at John Rozum and Jon at Random Acts of Geekery (Rozum got the ball rolling on the Countdown thing, and Jon over at Geekery made the countdown logo)- as they have countdown lists as well. And Erick at Wonderful Wonderblog is also keeping a pretty up to date list so you might wanna leave a post over there too. You can find links to all those sites in my countdown list.

I updated my list by going through all their lists and some others so I think right now mine is probably the most complete. I think the one flaw in the countdown concept was that each person seems to be adding sites to their list as ppl leave comments on their blogs and there wasn't one official list keeper so to speak, and so although mostly the same, none of the lists have all the sites or exactly match each other.

Azathoth said...

To make things simpler for you here's links:

http://my.opera.com/Azaroth/blog/
http://azathoths-abode.blogspot.com/
http://wonderfulwonderblog.blogspot.com/
http://johnrozum.blogspot.com/
http://waffyjon.blogspot.com/

IMI said...

Yup, add my blog to your countdown list.
http://idlemindsinc.blogspot.com/

Anastácio Soberbo said...

Hello, I like the blog.
Sorry not write more, but my English is bad writing.
A hug from Portugal

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