Paste Magazine

Pros: CD sampler included with each issue; pop culture for hipsters.
Cons: Small, slick-looking text is pretty but hard to read.

Sometimes I think I will buy absolutely anything that is one dollar. Just yesterday, for example, I bought a box of 12 ballpoint pens at Office Depot because they were $1.99. Yes, I had bought a set of these a few weeks earlier, which I had barely even ...

Pros: Music on CD sampler is excellent, fresh perspectives, accurate reviews
Cons: None that I can think of right now

Let me start out by saying I am a fan of Paste Magazine. I consider their journalistic style to be fresh, creative, and unique in the music industry. Of course they are a smaller, less known magazine, compared to Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, etc., but ...

Pros: Discover artists and listen to music that is too smart and interesting for popular radio.
Cons: none

I have to admit that I know very little about new music. I listen to NPR and do not have much patience for commercial radio. Like most teenagers and young adults, I was very aware of new music until about my late twenties/early thirties. These days, I ...