Sputnikmusic is a website and online community archiving user-submitted compact disc reviews and music-related help articles. A compact disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...

History and Background

Sputnikmusic was launched in January 2005 by Mxtabs creator Jeremy Ferewerda, comprising the third wing of the Mxtabs network until the parent site was taken offline in 2006 and subsequently sold to sheet music retailer Musicnotes.com. ^[1] Initially only tending to CD and music DVD reviews, Sputnikmusic has grown significantly as an independent website and now boasts a twenty-one strong staff, regular featured articles and an active news section. Sputnikmusic is one of the resources used by media review collator Metacritic to gauge overall critical response to a musical release. ^[2] Mxtabs. ... Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and books. ...

Development

In the short period since the launch, a number of user features have been added, including:

• Individual user ratings for each album
• Wiki-style band biographies
• Extended chart of former and current band members (temporarily disabled)
• Music news section
• Dynamic user profiles focused on user's musical interests
• A music lessons sister-site for guitar, bass, and drums (temporarily disabled)
• Journal section
• Music-related list-making feature
• Sound-offs (short reviews)
• Streaming audio

News

The music news section was created in December 2005 and quickly became one of the most-viewed sections of the site. News is 100% user-submitted and maintained by both regular moderators and two additional news-specific moderators. Users are encouraged to write articles in their own words or to cite their sources when copy/pasting and are checked for accuracy and presentability. For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ...

Best of Lists

In 2006, Sputnikmusic posted its first annual "Best of" lists. Such lists had been made informally in the past but with the inception of the review site and the staff reviewers, the lists were formalized and made part of the site. The three primary categories are User Top 100, Staff Consensus Top 15, Individual Staff Lists Top 10. You may be looking for information on: Look up staff on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Staff Consensus Top 15 for 2006

1. Converge - No Heroes

2. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue

3. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

4. Yo la Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

5. The Decembrists - The Crane Wife

6. Isis - In the Absence of Truth

7. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

9. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

10. M. Ward - Post-War

11. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

12. Scott Walker - The Drift

13. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

14. Butch Walker - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites

15. This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain

Converge denotes Converge PL a programming language developed by Laurence Tratt Converge, a metalcore band from Massachusetts For the mathematical meaning of this term see Convergence. ... No Heroes is an album by Massachusetts band Converge. ... Kayo Dot is an American experimental rock group that was formed in 2003 by Toby Driver. ... Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue is the second album by Kayo Dot. ... Gnarls Barkley is a Grammy-award winning musical collaboration between DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) from Baltimore, and rapper/vocalist Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway), from Atlanta. ... St. ... Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band, based in Hoboken, New Jersey. ... This will be Hoboken based indie rock band Yo La Tengos upcoming album to be released on September 12, 2006. ... The Decemberists are a five-piece indie pop band from Portland, Oregon, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. ... The Crane Wife is an album by The Decemberists, released in 2006. ... Isis is a Los Angeles, California-based band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997. ... In the Absence of Truth is the fourth studio album by Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band Isis. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... TV on the Radio is a New York City indie rock band formed in 2001 whose music spans genres as diverse as free jazz, a cappella/doo-wop, soul, trip-hop and electro. ... Return to Cookie Mountain is a critically acclaimed album by TV on the Radio, released July 6, 2006 worldwide (except the United States) by 4AD. An unmastered version of the album had previously surfaced on the Internet in early 2006. ... Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981[1]), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. ... FutureSex/LoveSounds is Justin Timberlakes second solo studio album. ... Matt Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who, until Summer 2006 was part of the music scene of Portland, Oregon. ... This article should be transwikied to wiktionary The term post-war is generally used for the period after the end of World War II, i. ... Deftones are a Grammy award-winning experimental alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. ... -1... Scott Walker is the stage name of the American singer-songwriter Noel Scott Engel (born 9 January 1943 in Hamilton, Ohio). ... The Drift is a Scott Walker album—his first since 1995s Tilt—due to be released worldwide on 4AD in May 2006. ... Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas. ... The Trials of Van Occupanther is the second album by Texas rock band Midlake. ... Butch Walker (born Bradley Glenn Walker III on November 14, 1969) is a recording artist, songwriter, and record producer. ... The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Lets-Go-Out-Tonites is the third full-length album by Butch Walker, released on July 11, 2006 on Epic Records. ... This Will Destroy You is an instrumental American post-rock band. ... Young Mountain is an EP by the American band This Will Destroy You, released on 6 June 2006. ...

Music & Musician Forums

Formerly known as Musicianforums.com and part of the mxtabs network, it became secondary to Sputnik after the closure of mxtabs and the focus on the new review site. The forums, often called "MX" by its users, is the second largest music-themed message board in the world.^[3] It currently has approximately 128,000 members, with over 494,000 threads and over 14,000,000 posts. Members can discuss a diverse range topics from sports to videogames to politics and movies, however music is the core motif throughout. Membership can refer to: Set membership - comprising part of a set in mathematics Social group membership - in sociology, the process of socialisation aims/results in achieving membership of a social group This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Debate is a formalized system of (usually) logical argument. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as...

References

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