websites that seem more like magazines

As part of my quest to breathe new life into Nocategories.net, I have begun to collect a list of websites that seem more like magazines. This is because, as I mentioned earlier, I am getting bored with the “blog” way of giving people things to read online.

Some of the results of my search have proved to be a lot of fun to browse, and so I thought I would pass them along.

The Morning News feels like a symbiotic mix between The New Yorker’s crackling insight and NPR’s This American Life, which helps us laugh our way through what could be a frightening tenure on this unpredictable ball of rock. There seems to be room on TMN for anything worth publishing: interviews, profiles, fiction, humor pieces, investigative journalism, rants, music reviews, personal essays and, most recently, a roundtable on the MP3 Blog phenomenon. The common denominator of TMN’s content, however, remains mirthful intelligence.

Paste Magazine is one of the fastest growing independently published music magazines in the country. We pride ourselves in being the premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit–indie rock, Triple-A, Americana, folk, blues, jazz, etc. What other magazine would dare run features on singer/songwriter Patty Griffin and rapper Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious) in the same issue?

The former appears to be an online publication, and the later a home page for a paper publication, but both do a fairly good job of reproducing the “feel” of a print matter on the screen. I’m on a break at the job, so I don’t have time for further comment, but check back later for more.