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Neumu
Neumu is a music website that features news, reviews, columns and downloads. The website was founded by Emme Stone and Michael Goldberg, who currently serves as the Editor in Chief. The site's album reviews are excerpted by Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ... and used as part of that site's average album score from professional reviews. Rating system Neumu's rating system for albums is as follows: *10 — All-time classic. One of the best albums in the history of recorded music. Desert Island material for sure. *9 — Perfection. Nirvana. Almost as good as sex. We saw god, or at least experienced some kind of revelation. *8 — Exceptional album. We like everything about it. *7 — Consistently great album with several standout tracks. *6 — We li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Goldberg (writer)
Michael Goldberg (born July 3, 1953) is a novelist, journalist, animal rights activist, and pioneering digital music entrepreneur. He is known for his work (1983-1993) at ''Rolling Stone'', where he was first a senior writer and later West Coast editor, and for envisioning and co-founding the first web music magazine, ''Addicted to Noise'', in 1994, for which ''Newsweek'' included him in its 1995 "Net 50" list of "the 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." Between 2014 and the fall of 2016 he published the ''Freak Scene Dream'' trilogy of '70s coming-of-age novels (''True Love Scars'', ''The Flowers Lied'', and ''Untitled''), and worked actively in animal rights causes. His nonfiction book, ''Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey'' (HoZac Books), was published in June of 2022. Early years Born in Oakland, California, Goldberg grew up across the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. He started writing short stories in elementary school, but seeing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Review Websites
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
