I Love Music

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For the song, see I Love Music (song).

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, PappaWheelie, 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 Mark Sinker, former Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy, Peter Chung (creator of Æon Flux) and Fluxblog author Matthew Perpetua.[citation needed]

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, I Love Books, I Love Games, I Love NFL, De Subjectivisten and the extra-top-secret Curtis's Borad.[6]

The 2001 ILX compilation Do Not Listen (If You Hate Us) featured songs from regular contributors (such as the Pinefox, Chaki, Vietgrove and the Dayglo Fishermen) to the I Love Music message board.[citation needed] A second volume followed and a third volume was made available in June 2007, having been suggested and then co-ordinated by ILX regular Mark Grout.[citation needed]

As of February 2007, ILX is hosted on a server (paid for by board users) in Canada and sponsored by PaperThinWalls.

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "ILXor.com FAQ", Retrieved on 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. ^ "Talkin' my language", Guardian Unlimited, 2003-09-25. Retrieved on 2006-02-15. 
  8. ^ Sanneh, Kelefa. "The Rap Against Rockism", The New York Times, 2004-10-31. Retrieved on 2006-02-15. 
  9. ^ Endelman, Michael. "The 25 Best Music Websites", Entertainment Weekly, May 22, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-13. 
  10. ^ "NYLPM response: The Strokes Coverage" thread on ILM, reprinted in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002 ISBN 0-306-81166-9
  11. ^ Fighting talk | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
  12. ^ The new album from the Sri Lankan sensation M.I.A. - By Jon Caramanica - Slate Magazine

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