Critic Reviews

**Critic Reviews** is a category of reviews on AOTY. The category consists of reviews by magazines, websites with critic reviews, and notable music critics.

## Critics on AOTY

### **The 405**

The 405 was an independent online magazine based in London, concentrating on music and popular culture. It reported primarily on independent music, film, art, technology and fashion. It published independent music reviews, features, interviews, and media. Closed down on 30 November 2019.

### **A.V. Club**

The A.V. Club (The Audiovisual club) is an American online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

### **Albumism**

Albumism is an editorially independent music website dedicated to honoring the album as a vital art form, while connecting with the global community of passionate music fans to celebrate our love affairs with albums past, present and future.

### **AllHipHop**

AllHipHop is a hip hop news website founded in 1998.

### **AllMusic**

AllMusic (previously known as AMG, and All Music Guide) is an American music database. The platform employs critics who write reviews on music that is on the website.

### **Alternative Press**

Alternative Press is an American entertainment magazine primarily focused on music and culture, now based in Los Angeles, CA. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, and relevant news.

### **American Songwriter**

American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine covering songwriting. Established in 1984, it features interviews, songwriting tips, news, reviews and lyric contest. The magazine is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

### **Angry Metal Guy**

Angry Metal Guy is an online blog focused on reviews of heavy music albums, also on news and interviews.

### **The Arts Desk**

The Arts Desk is a British arts journalism website containing reviews, interviews, news, and other content related to music, theatre, television, films, and other art forms written by journalists from a variety of traditional and web-based publications. It launched in September 2009 as a shareholder collective.

### Beats Per Minute

Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM) is a New York City– and Los Angeles–based online publication providing reviews, news, media, interviews and feature articles about the music world. *Beats Per Minute* covers a variety of genres and specializes in rock, hip hop, and electronic music.

### **Billboard**

Billboard is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and style related to the music industry.

### **Blabbermouth.net**

Blabbermouth.net focuses on the latest heavy metal and hard rock news, reviews and music featuring tour dates and release dates.

### Clash

Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom.

### **Classic Rock**

Classic Rock is a British magazine and website dedicated to rock music. The magazine publishes 13 editions a year, mainly covering rock bands from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. As well as veteran rock artists, Classic Rock also covers modern rock bands and releases amongst the younger artists to have appeared on its cover in recent years.

### **Coke Machine Glow**

Cokemachineglow was a Canadian webzine dedicated mainly to music criticism, though it also featured articles about local music scenes. It was founded in 2002 and closed down permanently at the end of 2015.

### Complex

Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City. It was founded as a bi-monthly magazine, Complex.

### Consequence of Sound

Consequence (previously Consequence of Sound) is an independently owned New York-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television.