Next up a series of music blogs, all of which fig­ure into our grow­ing col­lec­tion of Cul­ture Blogs. As always, these lists are a work in progress, and if you feel that we’ve missed some­thing great, please feel free to **@******re.com/”>email us and let us know.

• Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: A blog by the music crit­ic of the one and only New York­er mag­a­zine.
• All About Jazz Bloglist: What you get here is not so much a blog, but, even bet­ter, a meta-list of jazz blogs. This should keep jazz afi­ciona­dos busy for some time.
• Arjan Writes: A well-reviewed blog that looks at pop-alter­na­tive music. Fea­tures album reviews, inter­views and free down­loads of demo tracks and new releas­es, plus videos from new bands.
• Arts­Beat: A blog put out by reporters and crit­ics from The New York Times. Includes report­ing from arts events from around the world, includ­ing recent reports from the fes­ti­val at Coachel­la and the New Orleans Jazz and Her­itage Fes­ti­val.
• Blog­crit­ics Music: A com­mu­ni­ty of writ­ers and read­ers from around the globe mus­ing about music.
• Brook­lyn Veg­an: An “NYC-cen­tric most­ly-music blog that focus­es on report­ing inter­na­tion­al
  news, live show reviews, pic­tures, tour dates, gos­sip, tips, MP3’s,
  videos, and just about any­thing else a music fan could want.”
• Chica­go Clas­si­cal Music: A Chica­go-focused blog for clas­si­cal music enthu­si­asts.
• Coolfer: A blog that “focus­es more on the music
  indus­try than on spe­cif­ic bands.” Want to know about music sto­ries in the news? Then look here.
• David Gilmour: You know him from Pink Floyd. Check out his per­son­al blog.
• David’s Jour­nal: Along sim­i­lar lines, this blog is put out by David Byrne, heady head of the Talk­ing Heads.
• Feast of Music: A jour­ney through the music of New York (and occa­sion­al­ly oth­er places). Empha­sis is on clas­si­cal music.
• Glo­ri­ous Noise: An online music mag­a­zine fea­tur­ing essays and sto­ries about how rock and roll can change your life.
• Goril­la vs. Bear: Rec­om­mend­ed by Noth­ing But Green Lights. See below.
• Guardian Music Blog: An eclec­tic blog put togeth­er by The Guardian in the UK.
• I Guess I’m Float­ing: Music and music news of the rock ‘n roll vari­ety.
• Ionarts: A DC-based arts blog with a marked focus on clas­si­cal music.
• Large­heart­ed Boy: A “music blog fea­tur­ing dai­ly free and legal music down­loads as well as news from the worlds of music, lit­er­a­ture, and pop cul­ture.”
• Live Music Blog: Noth­ing like a title that pret­ty much sum­ma­rizes it all. Yes, this is a blog about live music.
• Marathon Packs: Writes about and lets you lis­ten to inter­est­ing songs.
• Moby’s Jour­nal: Here again anoth­er not-entire­ly-musi­cal blog by a music celeb — Moby.
• Motel De Moka: A dai­ly blog post­ing eclec­tic playlists, includ­ing indie rock, acoustics and ambi­ent.
• Music for Robots: An acclaimed mp3 blog that fea­tures diverse music. All music
  is post­ed with the per­mis­sion of the artist and/or label.
• My Old Ken­tucky Blog: What’s new and hot in indie rock, pop, folk and hip-hop.
• Noth­ing But Green Lights: A UK-based mp3 blog that keeps track of indie, elec­tro, folk & pop, all from the UK. The site only posts tracks that the inter­net is giv­ing away for free, or ones that have been grant­ed per­mis­sion.
• NYC Opera Fanat­ic:  A blog for the opera lover (a term, how­ev­er unfor­tu­nate­ly, that does­n’t apply to me).
• Ryan’s Smash­ing Life: A New Eng­land music blog com­ing out of Boston.
• Sandow: “Is clas­si­cal music dying? That’s a big top­ic, and a blog seems like a per­fect way to attack it.” That’s how crit­ic, Greg Sandow, describes his blog.
• Stere­ogum: A pop­u­lar gos­sipy blog about the indie music scene. The site often posts mp3s of new music, plus offers record reviews, announces tour dates, and cov­ers music fes­ti­vals.
• The Mod­ern Age: A high­ly tout­ed blog about “about music, pop cul­ture, the Strokes, pup­pies, Jack White, and cute boys.” Brought to you by Miss Mod­er­nage.
• Twangville: Cov­er­ing “twang-infused music with an alter­na­tive slant.” Alt-Coun­try, Amer­i­cana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues.
• Your Home For Soul: As you can tell, it’s a blog for soul fans.

We’ve pre­vi­ous­ly put you in touch with great clas­si­cal music pod­casts (here and here). Now it’s time to
focus on jazz. Today, we’re high­light­ing 16 pod­casts that will keep you cur­rent on today’s jazz scene. You’ll know what’s hap­pen­ing in Chica­go, Detroit, New York and beyond. You’ll also find some pod­casts that explore some jazz greats — name­ly, John Coltrane and Son­ny Rollins. This list will grow as we encounter more qual­i­ty mate­r­i­al. If you see that we’re miss­ing a good one, drop us a line. In the future, you’ll be able to find these pod­casts in our larg­er col­lec­tion of Arts & Cul­ture Pod­casts. For all of our pod­casts, click here.

• Bend­ing Cor­ners  Feed  Web Site
  • Bend­ing­Corners explores the groove with­in: acid jazz, afro-beat, bop, cool jazz, cos­mic jazz, dub, down­tem­po, elec­tro-jazz, fusion, future jazz, groove jazz, jaz­za­tron­ic, jazz dance, jazz-funk, jazz-rock, kozmi­groov, modal, phu­sion, pro­gres­sive, mod­ern, nu-jazz, soul-jazz, spir­i­tu­al, and world. (If you don’t know how to work with feeds, see our Pod­cast Primer.)
• Brook­lyn Jazz Under­ground  iTunes  Web Site  Blog
  • A pod­cast look­ing at the Brook­lyn jazz scene. Part music, part inter­view.
• Chris­t­ian McBride Pod­casts  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Talks with and pefor­mances by bassist Chris­t­ian McBride. Includes some video clips.
• Detroit Jazz Stage  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • A month­ly pod­cast fea­tur­ing the best in the Detroit jazz scene.
• In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • From Jazz mas­ters of past and present to emerg­ing new artists per­form­ing hard-bop jazz and fusion. Fea­tur­ing Inde­pen­dent Jazz artists from around the world. A pop­u­lar pod­cast.
• Jazz Cor­ner Innerviews   Feed  Web Site
  • Jazzcorner.com innerviews are vignettes with insight­ful com­men­tary, inter­est­ing sound bites and lots of great music with great jazz mas­ters and up and com­ing musi­cians. Each pod­cast ranges in time from 4 min­utes to more than an hour.
• Jazz in Chica­go  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Inter­views and infor­ma­tion about the jazz scene in Chica­go.
• Jazz Pod­cast from Mag­natune  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • 60 min­utes of straight, high qual­i­ty jazz.
• NPR Piano Jazz Shorts  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • For more than twen­ty-five years, pianist Mar­i­an McPart­land has wel­comed
    a stel­lar line-up of jazz artists for con­ver­sa­tion and impro­vi­sa­tion on
    her Peabody Award-win­ning pro­gram. Piano Jazz show­cas­es both acclaimed artists and up-and-com­ing per­form­ers.
• Pat Methe­ny — The Song X Podu­men­tary  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Gui­tarist Pat Methe­ny explores his influ­ences, record­ings, music and more on this inti­mate pod­cast series.
• Port­land Jazz Jams Pod­show  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Live jazz jams, inter­views with great play­ers, and instruc­tion­al mate­ri­als, all com­ing out of the Port­land jazz scene.
• Son­ny Rollins Pod­cast  iTunes  Web Site
  • A 12-part video pod­cast series to be released in month­ly install­ments. It intro­duces Son­ny Rollins, a major Amer­i­can jazz fig­ure, to new
    lis­ten­ers.
• Swing is in the Air  iTunes  Web Site
  • Although swing is some­thing of a focus here, this pod­cast com­ing out of Cana­da also looks at oth­er jazz forms.
• The Jazz Suite  Feed  Web Site
  • This is a pod­cast ded­i­cat­ed to Jazz played by inde­pen­dent and indie artists that the major music labels have missed.
• The Night Pas­sage Jazz Pod­cast  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • An Eng­lish-lan­guage pod­cast com­ing out of Rome, Italy.
• The Tra­neu­men­tary  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • A series of pod­casts fea­tur­ing the work of the jazz great, John Coltrane.