About BitCritic

What is BitCritic?

BitCritic meshes the power of an online community with the prominence of professional  critics to create a more comprehensive and democratic tastemaker guide to music.

Think: Rotten Tomatoes crossed with Pitchfork Media.

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Want to know what album you should start with to get into the Flaming Lips? Or do you have a passion for something more esoteric, like the latest album from ambient deep house artist Nicolas Jaar?

BitCritic allows you see what the music community is saying, without dredging through obscure blogs.

How? 

• BitCritic is the first music site to weigh Pro-Am reviews side by side.

• MORE perspectives and MORE music coverage via crowdsourcing. Pro critics can’t review the 75,000 albums released annually, tapping into younger crowds and wider genres.

• Incentivizes an amateur community; best reviews get upvoted to most visibility

• Top secret recipe for the BitCritic Overall Weighted Score, weighing publications, prominent amateurs, and the masses

• Users can manipulate the data

(the above photo pictorially represents different weight to Pitchfork, Anthony Fantano’s famous blog The Needle Drop, and Scaruffi–independent music reviewers )

BitCritic users can tailor which reviewers–professional or amateur–that they want to constitute their “My Critics” weighted score.

• Recommendations  + data analysis
  •“BitCritics with similar taste to you gave this 8.7/10” or Netflix style: “You gave Nevermind by Nirvana a 9.3 ; you should check out Wavves’ “Afraid of Heights”

• Streamlined SEO for general music queries. Googling “best Frank Sinatra songs” yields results that thousands of Sinatra fans–amateur and pro–have judged with weight given to more experienced/upvoted users.

Still don’t quite get it? Watch this HD video: BitCritic explained

By showing the Pros and the Joes side by side, BitCritic will be the only resource needed for music talk and discovery. 

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Please contact Nick Pappageorge via email:  npappageorge at gee mail.