The New Yorker magazine
Longform: (US-based) round-up/recommendations of longer features and non-fiction
The great guitarist Bill Frisell
PoliticsHome: everything you could ever want to know about UK political news (and more)
People’s Republic of Cork: irreverent and satirical news/comment from Ireland’s “real capital”
Do The M@th: a music blog by Ethan Iverson
The Believer: “utopian” American literary, arts and culture magazine founded by Dave Eggers
Letters of Note: a collection of inspiring and unusual correspondence “deserving of a wider audience”
(Le) Poisson Rouge: eclectic and adventurous New York music and art space
Composer/educator/collaborator/humorist Robert Percy
The Wire magazine: adventures in music and sound
Mind Your Language: a Guardian blog about English language usage and abusage
Inimitable improvising Australian trio The Necks
Two of modern Americana’s finest: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
The splendid London Review of Books
The Blue Moment: a blog about music by Richard Williams
Modern-thinking UK jazz magazine Jazzwise
The Blue of the Night: wide-ranging late-night radio music programme, a kind of Irish equivalent of…
BBC Radio 3’s marvellous Late Junction
Excellent online magazine/platform Narratively: overlooked “human stories, boldly told”
BOMB: a quarterly magazine edited by, and featuring conversations between, artists of all disciplines
Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches: a “jazz-meets-metal” blog by writer and musician Hank Shteamer
“Greatest jazz club in the world” for 80 years (and counting): the Village Vanguard
The painter Jacqueline O’Driscoll
The Vinyl Factory: where records meet art
A Noise From The Deep: podcast interviews by trumpeter Dave Douglas and bassist Michael Bates
British online music, arts and culture magazine The Quietus; home of “Baker’s Dozen”
Tiny Desk Concerts: intimate video performances from NPR’s All Songs Considered
The blog of English pianist Liam Noble, Brother Face