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This is our “About” page, where you can scroll down for a brief history and explanation of what we do here. To help you get around this site, here are some links which will take you quickly to our most popular features:

Our front page, updated on a daily basis

Our exhaustive, constantly updated guide to over 200 New York City music venues

Our most popular music reviews since 2007

Our 1000 Best Albums of All Time countdown – a work in progress…

Our big hit, the 666 Best Songs of All Time page

This link will take you directly to the most recently updated NYC Live Music Calendar, now a regular monthly feature at New York Music Daily.

Our archives since day one

How to get your music reviewed here

Links to our favorite blogs

Our music index and subcategory indices

Our snarky FAQs and Marginalia page

ABOUT LUCID CULTURE

April, 2007 – Lucid Culture debuts as the online version of a somewhat notorious New York music and politics e-zine, which then ceases publication. After a brief flirtation with blogging about global politics, we begin covering the dark fringes of the New York rock scene that the indie rock blogosphere and the corporate media find too frightening, too smart or too unfashionable. “Great music that’s not trendy” becomes our mantra. For a glimpse of the early years, here’s a somewhat tongue-in-cheek interview with one of Lucid Culture’s founders.

2008-2009 – world music, jazz and classical become an integral part of coverage here. Our 666 Best Songs of All Time list becomes a hit, as do our year-end lists for best songs, best albums and best New York area concerts.

2010 – Lucid Culture steps up coverage of jazz and classical while rock lingers behind.

2011 – one of Lucid Culture’s founding members creates New York Music Daily, a new blog dedicated primarily to rock music coverage from a transgressive New York point of view, with Lucid Culture continuing to cover music that’s typically more lucid and cultured.

2012 – ???

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