marathonpacks.com is a total blam-blam: marathonpacks' 2008 Year-End Lengthy Write-Ups
Excellent pieces on Deerhunter's Microcastle, M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes", and Wale's "Mixtape About Nothing." Easily one of my favorite music writers. I think it's the ethnomusicology background.
The Morning News: "Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW MP3s" by Paul Ford
"If I was in a band I would write a slow song with an 808, reverb, and a female vocalist, and call that song 'Zach Braff’s Eyes Reflected in My Nano.'"