I thought it would be cool to start compiling links to musicians I enjoy who run their own weblogs, so let’s at ‘er. When I talk about cool, I guess I’m talking about cool as it pertains to me (who else?), and when I talk about weblog, I’m talking something fairly frequently updated by the artist themselves. If you know of a musician I’ve missed, please let me know.
Clarification: If I can find the artist listed on MP3.com (which uses the All Music Guide data in a site that doesn’t suck ass), Metacritic, or Pitchfork, it gets added to the list. Not a very good (or fair) definition of “cool”, but I gotta have some kind of criterion.
Follow the jump for a rather massive list.
- Bob Mould
- Pete Townsend
- Mike Doughty
- Edith Frost
- Franz Ferdinand
- Radiohead
- David Byrne
- Steve Earle (not updated very often, it seem)
- Moby (I’m almost a bit loathe to include this here as I don’t know if Moby is on my “cool” list any more (sorry), but he was one of the first, and that counts for something)
- The Waking Eyes
- Mountain Goats
- Momus
- Doktor Frank (Mr. T Experience)
- The Blow
- DJ/Rupture
- Sleater-Kinney
- Ted Leo (of Ted Leo & the Pharmacists)
- Robert Fripp
- Sarah Slean (don’t know her work, to be honest, but she’s Canadian, so what the hell.)
- William Shatner (hey, he has a few albums out, right?)
- The Dresden Dolls (written by Amanda Palmer)
- Melissa Auf Der Maur (warning: embedded audio in the left column)
- The Doves
- Hey Mercedes
- Ottmar Liebert
- Matthew Good (not a fan, but another Canuck)
- Dean Clean (of The Dead Milkman - yes, Dean, you’re cool!)
- John Mayer (not a fan, but you might be)
- Adam Duritz (of Counting Crows. Hey, he sang backups for Ryan Adams - I guess that’s kind of cool)
- The Format
- Belle and Sebastian
- Idlewild (infernal frames - click on “Diary”)
- Ed Harcourt (click on “Diary”)
- Kristin Hersh (ex-Throwing Muses and solo artist)
- Andrew McMahon (Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin)
- Brian May
- My Dad is Dead
- Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer, if that wasn’t already obvious)
- OK GO
- Jason Mraz
- Jeff Klein
- Nickel Creek
- Duncan Sheik
- Phantom Planet
- Tony Levin
- The Barenaked Ladies (not very cool, but Canadian all the same)
- TV On The Radio
- Craig Northery (from Canada’s The Odds)
- Trent Reznor (no archives, though?)
- Sasha Frere-Jones (Ui)
- Neil Michael Hagerty (Royal Trux, Pussy Galore)
- Van Conner (of Screaming Trees fame)
- David Pajo (Slint, Tortoise, Zwan, King Kong, and many more)
- Kathleen Edwards (click on “News”)
(still more editing) Pulling more of the links in the comments up:
- Ben Lee
- Guster
- Dave Navarro
- Death Cab for Cutie (Click on “journal”)
- Forss (Haven’t heard of this artist before - anyone?)
- Eskobar (“dream pop” from Sweden, apparently)
- Rick and Rose (Poster Children)
- Dan Treacy (Television Personalities)
- Bill Nelson (Be-Bop Deluxe)
- Sondre Lerche
Thanks to Kottke and Andy Baio for getting the word out.
I’ll keep updating this post with more as I receive or find them. There are a few more in the comments that I couldn’t find a listing for on MP3.com and didn’t add to the entry. Sorry, folks, but if I opened this up to absolutely any musician we’d be here all year.
