www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018916879/music-journalism-all-but-vanishes-from-our-media#:~:text=This%20week%20the%20country%27s%20biggest,in%20our%20papers%20and%20magazines.

Witchdoctor's Gary Steel still has occasional online reviews

witchdoctor.co.nz/index.php/category/music/recordings/

Yes - true. m
May be worthwhile compiling a list of blogs and other sources that we use for this now in Aotearoa.
poplibnz.wordpress.com/
and one by the above writer's brother:
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/why-would-anyone-want-to-write-about


Graham Rieds Elsewhere: www.elsewhere.co.nz/

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Thanks papahemi

Perhaps it could be made a 'sticky' under Music.?

Edit : With a more suitable title.? As above.

"Music Blogs in Aotearoa."?

Great idea.

Done here

darklantern.proboards.com/thread/3380/new-zealand-music-review-sites

And now dying worldwide as well, as influencers on Instagram and youtube take over.



Pitchfork is being absorbed into GQ!

"Inside Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ: When ‘music media’ becomes ‘men’s media,’ what’s lost?

Nearly three decades after it was established, Pitchfork, the most influential music publication of the internet age with the power to make or break an artist, is being absorbed by another entity — a men’s fashion and style magazine.

The choice to move the publication under GQ, she says, reminds her of ’90s music magazine culture, where advertisers classified publications like SPIN, Rolling Stone, Vibe, and Blender as men’s interest. “It truly feels like a setback,” Powers says.

Says Snapes: “Music is so much more than a ‘men’s interest’ or leisure pursuit. Pitchfork paid close, longform critical attention to so many different types of music, and so many different niches. I’m not sure how that will live alongside ecommerce pieces on stick vacuums."

apnews.com/article/music-pitchfork-gq-conde-nast-wintour-media-ecaef9445b5d9f86d9990c181306cb71