CapnMarvel's Rock Record Review Bonanza: This is, very arguably, one of the top two or three reviewing sites on the internet. It is run by one Ryan Atkinson, an American living in Russia, a man who loves his beer cold, his TV loud, and his rock HARD. Well, sorta - his tastes are actually pretty similar to mine, with a healthy love of 60's-70's rock (even some prog rock and art rock, though he gives my beloved Selling England by the Pound a B+, not to mention that he basically sodomizes the Moody Blues with a broomstick handle) crossed with liking the best representatives of 80's-onward music. If you're more predisposed to classic hard rock than I am, though, you'll definitely be a fan of this guy's tastes. More important to me, though, is that the reviews this guy writes are absolutely phenomenal, as they combine the wit of Mark Prindle, the tireless analytical mind of George Starostin and the passion of Adrian Denning into jaw-dropping rants and raves that entertain, inform and inspire with the best of them. He's a bit too angrily anti-religious (then again, so's Prindle, though Prindle doesn't have a fanatical need to rip into Mormons all the time), and lets this seep into his writing quite a bit, but that's a minor quibble.
Update: The Capn' seems to be on a semi-permanent hiatus.
COSMICBEN RECORD REVIEWS: Ben Marlin is a really nice, REALLY unpretentious guy who doesn't write a lot of music reviews, but does a nice job with them nonetheless. Reading just the album reviews, one gets the feeling of a lot of untapped writing potential, but that's largely because he puts a lot of his net-energy into his online journal, as well as into goofily amusing things like reviewing a breakfast he had recently. His reviews are relatively brief (but very insightful), and if you're not howling at things like his parody of a Pitchfork review of Abbey Road, you're just not me.
Update: Ben hasn't updated since September 2006.
Disclaimer Music Review Archive: For a long time, Chris Willie Williams has had a link to my site on his, wherein he mentions that my site doesn't mention his at all; hence, I am now holding up my end of the deal. Chris is a big modern/indie-rock guy, which is actually kinda nice for the WRC, which has too many people like me focused on older music. Reviews are short and effective, just like the music he tends to review.
Music Junkies Anonymous: MJA is a kind of one-stop reviewing emporium for a bunch of people who want to write music reviews but are too lazy to start and maintain their own sites. It's run and maintained by Nick Karn, who also contributes the most reviews, but reviews have been written by 20 or so people on it, and while some of them are somewhat amateur (understandable given that a lot of the people writing there only write a very small handful of reviews for it), a great deal of them are extremely good. It used to be primarily album-oriented instead of band-oriented, but that has largely not been the case since 2001 or so, and in my opinion is to the site's benefit. If you, like me, enjoy the idea of being able to see two or three quality reviews of an R.E.M. album all in one place, stop by. The one drawback, unfortunately, is that it appears to have been abandoned.
Only Solitaire: George Starostin's Music Reviews: A site I enjoy so much that the first year-and-a-half of the site's existance was essentially a hybrid of his site and Prindle's (see below). It probably didn't hurt that there's still a lot of taste overlap between us; you'll still see references to me as a "George Clone" from time to time, very often from myself. But no matter. George is a reviewing fiend, somebody who is really trying to create a comprehensive "The History of Rock as Seen Through My Eyes" sort of site. His reviews are lengthy (some would say too lengthy, but I mostly don't mind), strongly opinionated, and make a strong attempt at putting whatever it is he's listening to in its proper context (there are a couple of unfortunate anachronisms on a couple of his pages because of those efforts, but they're really few and far between). He's a great reviewer, and even as I've put great effort and time into developing my own style and approach, I've never really 100% escaped his influence, which stems from high admiration of his efforts. An absolutely essential site.
Update: George seems to have completely forsaken the music reviewing business as of April 2006 and has dropped off the face of the earth (except in regards to his academic pursuits).
Prindle Rock And Roll Record Review Site: Simply put, none of the sites mentioned here would exist if it weren't for this site. His older reviews tend to be fairly short, his more recent ones somewhat longer, but all of them show an amazing ability to efficiently explain his opinions and feelings towards an album while at the same time keeping the reader totally entertained. Yes, sometimes this involves somewhat over-the-top vulgar humor, but the humor almost never seems tacked-on, and that's something that can't always be said about his various reviewing disciples (myself included). Simply put, anybody who can trash a late-period Beach Boys album with a review that can be sung to Wouldn't It Be Nice? is a genius, and the reviews always reflect this.