Muzzle of Bees

Muzzle of Bees is a music blog that does more than promote the indy music scene.  The writing is smart and free of typical music-elitist arrogance, the regular segments are interesting and creative, and the extensive blogroll on the left has helped me to find even more great bands than the blog itself.  

The writer focuses mostly on the music scene in the Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison area, and the music tends to be of the folk variety, though he is always careful to write and demonstrate that he'll write about (and listen to) any kind of music, as long as it's good.  I'm lucky--he and I seem to have very similar tastes.  MoB is like my personal DJ...it knows exactly what I like, even in introducing me to something I've never heard before.  Some recent highlights: one of my favorite new guys, Bon Iver, releases a new EP (and a fantastic single, Blood Bank), an interview with an old favorite, Jason Anderson, and the best albums of 2008 (check out #15, Girl Talk, for something different/awesome).