I Love Music (forum)

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I Love Music (ILM) is an Internet popular music forum started by pop critic Tom Ewing in August 2000 as an adjunct to his music website, Freaky Trigger.[1]

Notable posters have included Momus,[2] Simon Reynolds, Philip Sherburne, Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth,[3] John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats,[4] Frank Kogan, Ned Raggett,[5] former The Wire editor , former Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy, Peter Chung (creator of Æon Flux), former Pitchfork Media critics Brent DiCrescenzo and Chris Ott and Fluxblog author Matthew Perpetua.

I Love Music shares server space with its sister board, I Love Everything, which was introduced in June 2001.[1] Several other boards contained on the site have sprung up in the years since including All Noise Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar, Cape of Good Hope, I Love Books, I Love Games, I Love NFL and De Subjectivisten.[6]

As of February 2013, ILX is hosted on a server (paid for by board users) in Canada. Running costs are paid by yearly funding drives.

Press coverage[]

Guardian Unlimited described ILM as "a hugely popular discussion board where music bloggers swap ideas and insults."[7] ILM has been mentioned in The New York Times as a "critic-infested" site.[8] Entertainment Weekly ranked ILM 14th on its list of the 25 best music websites.[9] A thread from I Love Music was published in the music writing annual Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002.[10] An ILM thread on M.I.A. was mentioned in articles about her that appeared in Slate and The Guardian,[11][12] and The Guardian also referred to the forum's discussion about the lyrics of The Jam's "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" in an article.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "ILXor.com FAQ", Retrieved 2007-08-22
  2. ^ Momus - Ocky Milk - Review - Stylus Magazine
  3. ^ Rockism Revised - Pop Playground - Stylus Magazine
  4. ^ village voice > music > Mountain Goats by Laura Sinagra
  5. ^ blissblog: 04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007
  6. ^ ILX2
  7. ^ McClellan, Jim (2003-09-25). "Talkin' my language". London: Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2006-02-15.
  8. ^ Sanneh, Kelefa (2004-10-31). "The Rap Against Rockism". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-02-15.
  9. ^ Endelman, Michael (May 22, 2006). "The 25 Best Music Websites". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  10. ^ "NYLPM response: The Strokes Coverage" thread on IML, reprinted in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002 ISBN 0-306-81166-9
  11. ^ Lynskey, Dorian (2005-04-22). "Fighting talk". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
  12. ^ The new album from the Sri Lankan sensation M.I.A. - By Jon Caramanica - Slate Magazine
  13. ^ People and places: part three of 1000 songs everyone must hear | Music | The Guardian

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