Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#1

Post by Wesmax27 » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 7:53 PM UTC

I have been thinking about this recently and thought I would throw it out to the group. Is there a destination online that has meaningful discourse around music?

Hype Machine is the first thing that comes to mind, but I'd love to hear more thoughts about any HN or Friendfeed type conversations that are going on out there. Perhaps even suggestions of Twitter or Friendfeed people to follow to get a better idea of what's going on in the music world.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#2

Post by theoneill » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 7:58 PM UTC

http://thesixtyone.com may be what you're looking for.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#3

Post by moxy » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 8:15 PM UTC

While I'm pretty sure this doesn't offer the intellectual discourse you're looking for, http://cherrypeel.com utilizes a very reddit-style voting system to promote underground, independent music. I've discovered some fantastic new artists from this site.

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#4

Post by zacharye » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 8:34 PM UTC

Music is such a polarizing topic, if there is a place that has managed to put together a community of reasonable people and consistently interesting/civil discussion I will be surprised and impressed.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#5

Post by ionrock » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 8:38 PM UTC

There is also http://pandora.com/

It doesn't have voting, but for finding music it can be alright.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#6

Post by yan » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 8:40 PM UTC

I came here to suggest hypem.com, but you just mentioned it. Maybe follow some blog posts listed there?

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#7

Post by tricky » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 8:58 PM UTC

Not much discourse, but the guy at http://www.audioindie.com is really up on the indie music scene.

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#8

Post by inimino » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:33 PM UTC

http://rateyourmusic.com/ has a nice rating and recommendation system and is a good way to find new music (and procrastinate).

They also have discussion forums, which I haven't tried.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#9

Post by staunch » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:36 PM UTC

zacharye wrote: post #4

Music is such a polarizing topic, if there is a place that has managed to put together a community of reasonable people and consistently interesting/civil discussion I will be surprised and impressed.

If we can deal with programming languages, text editors, and operating systems here then music people should be just fine.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

#10

Post by hhm » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 10:01 PM UTC

I like http://thefeelgood.com/