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I’m tired of the news and arts commentary websites i consult regularly. have any of you found any interesting websites along these lines recently?

I haven’t downloaded music in a while. Can you more web-savy people share your favourite sites and also perhaps suggestions as to how to avoid viruses and such

For film, I’m kind of partial to the pop-culture obsessed and snooty www.pajiba.com.

www.slant.com is also good, but you probably already know about that one.

For music, the very-likely-soon-to-be-illegal www.allofmp3.com has a terrific selection and is ridiculously cheap. And it’s legal thanks to Russia’s lax copywright laws. I’ve been using it for some time and haven’t had any credit card or virus issues.

Also, www.pitchforkmedia.com (another one I’m sure most everyone knows about) is the gold standard for hip music criticism.

Somebody else! Go!

thanks for these jasonvb! those look interesting and useful. clearly i’m not one of everybody who knows about these things :)

i’ve been enjoying [b:112ae8353b]emusic[/b:112ae8353b] for a while—good independent music. apparently all the major labels have not licensed to emusic because they have a commitment to the mp3 format (so it will play in any music player, not tied to a specific one) which means no digital rights management. so without the major labels, we’re left with independent labels—and a lot of good music!

if you sign up for a demo account through catapult’s homepage (left side, partway down the page), catapult gets $6 or so, i think, you get 25 free songs with no obligation.

i’ve found some good stuff here.