Dirty Linen and Sing Out , for world music and folk. Dirty Linen also includes concert reviews and tour dates, Sing Out also lists recently published books and music. Down Beat covers jazz, some rock, world, avant-garde. For classical music. Public and college buyers both use this.
Fanfare illustrates quite a few good points about review journals.
The reviews that I find the most useful as a library selector are the ones that tell you about a title s strengths and weaknesses, so you can measure it against your own purposes. This is common among book review media like Choice and Library Journal, which use language like essential for specialized collections. Optional for general collections. Marginal, recommended only to completists. Here s one example of this review technique.