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Music(-related) Blogs

Notice

By listing the following blogs we do not endorse these blogs, mentioned and listed products and services, or any opinions made in the posts of these blogs.
Please recommend further blogs (even your own!): please suggest a category for the blog, the URL, the name, the tag line (or a very short description), which institution or which person is writing the blog (with a URL to this institution/person).
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Many thanks for making this list grow!
There are also quite a few blogs listed by Intute, and even more at http://www.musicblogscatalog.com/, which I will gradually look at, and I will incorporate the most interesting ones here. There is also a list of the Top 100 musicology blogs! Finally, ArtsJournal lists 'recently active' music blogs on its platform.
Acknowledgments for helping with providing information go to:
Kristoffer Brinch Kjeldby, Mary Burslem, Jim Cowdery, Liane Curtis, David Day, Santie de Jongh, Robyn Holmes, Karen McAulay, Brenda Nelson-Strauss, Matthias Röder, Caroline Shaw, Astrid Smith, Cordula Werbelow.

Commercial blogs

• 5 Alarm Music
  'is your music concierge for hot new music libraries, custom music, song replacement, music supervision and much much more'
• Music Online blog
  'Updates on Alexander Street's music and performing arts collections', by Alexander Street Press
• Naxos Music Library blog
  'music | education | technology', by Naxos Music Library

Composers

• John Cage Trust
  'Official blog of the John Cage Trust', by Laura Kuhn
• Ivor Gurney
  'A web journal of Philip Lancaster's work on the Gloucester composer-poet'

Education (and Music)

• Berkleemusic Blog Network
  'brings together music industry professionals, music educators, and Berklee College of Music faculty to discuss topics and current events relating to the music business, music production, songwriting, music theory, performance, and online education.'

Library-related blogs

• Danmarks Nationalbibliotek Musiksamlingen [in Danish]
  National Library of Denmark's Music Collections, written by Kristoffer Brinch Kjeldby, at the National Library of Denmark
• Mendel Music Library Blog
  'Official Blog of the Arthur Mendel Music Library at Princeton University'
• In the Muse
  'Performing Arts Blog', at the Library of Congress
• Music at HBPL
  'Music Blog at Huntington Beach Public Library'
• Musikvidenskab.dk [in Danish],
  "Musicology", but also info about the Danish National Library's Music collections' printed collections and manuscripts, written by Kristoffer Brinch Kjeldby (as private blog)
• Theatre Music Archive
  'Cataloguing 19th-century performance materials', at British Library, UK
• Intermezzo Blog
  IAML Australian's blog, by IAML Australia
• MusiCB3
  'about more than the Music Collections at CB3', by Music Librarians at Cambridge University, UK
• Musikbibliotheksbloggen [in Swedish],
  by Svenska musikbiblioteksföreningen [IAML Sweden]
• Regina Public Library - New Music CDs Blog
  Regina, Canada
• Sound Recordings Blog
  'about the sound recordings and associated activities and services of the British Library Sound Archive', at the British Library
• Whittaker Live
  'RSAMD performing arts awareness blog', at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, UK

Miscellaneous

• The Decibel Tolls
  'resource and community for those into psychedelic rock and psychedelically influenced jam hives, shoegazing, electric and freak folk, kraut, post rock ...', by Kenny Bloggins (Chicago) and Michael Hansen (Boston)
• New Music Daily
  'a brand new track from ... emerging talent will be posted each day.', by Gill Mills
• Zeitschichten.com
  'A web magazine about music, history and the politics of culture', by Matthias Röder

Organisations

• Feminist in the Concert Hall
  'shares the news, ideas and insights from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy', by Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Performers

• Glenn Gould
  blog / website by Glenn Gould Foundation
• Simon Hewitt Jones
  'Scraping on a Wooden Box', by Simon Hewitt Jones

Research Centres

• CeReNeM (Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield)

Resource-related and area-focused blogs

• Bibliolore
  'The official blog of RILM', by RILM
• Music and Dance Reference Reference Blog
  
by librarians at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo (Utah)
• Black Grooves
  'a music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC)', at Indiana University.
• South African Music Research Blog
  'Discussion forum for research on South African music', by various authors (under the editorship of Documentation Centre for Music, Matieland, South Africa)

Single-author blogs

• The EAM librarian
  'A blog about literature and web resources on electroacoustic music and sound art', by Pär Johansson
• Alex Ross
  'Books, articles, and a blog by the music critic of The New Yorker', by Alex Ross
• Slipped Disc
  'Norman Lebrecht on shifting sound worlds', by Norman Lebrecht