Friends and Other Archives
Music archivists are a dying breed. This list is comprised of like-minded individuals who seek to preserve their interests for Googlers to come.
B-side Archive
B-side Archive has a mission very similar to ours. For years, they have been saving rare material from dissapearing from public availability. Demos, live sets, unreleased material can be found in their archives.
This blogspot blog rose fromn the ashes of B-Sides R Us, which was a must-bookmark blog in the 2010s. You'll see a fair amount of overlap between this site and theirs as we've been privately swapping rare Mansions material for years.
Checkout their website and join their Discord server.
The Myspace Archive Project
As we mentioned in our bio, the MySpace data disaster is one of many contributing factors in the erasure of "scene" music of the aughts. This project has been working dilligently to archive metal, emo, and other alternative genres from the days of MySpace on The Internet Archive.
Sophie's Floorboard
Perhaps one of the longest running music blogs still in operation (thank you, blogspot), Sophie's floorboard is a staple in the rarity hunter's toolkit. Kevin has also maintained a list of other blogs doing what he does.
Lost Songs
Another blogspot blog with a focus on punk-adjacent music run by Joemoo and TheGreatLine.
blonded.blog
This website began following a series of Frank Ocean preservation projects across various blogs. After porting over what existed there, the project expanded into something far greater. The mission of this blog is the documentation and archival of Frank Ocean-related materials. This includes complete lists of performances, songs, videos, and a news archive dating back to 2009.
In active development is a mixtape of Frank Ocean rarities as well as a contributor blog dedicated to long-form opinion and analysis pieces.
More Archives
Thanks to Sophie's Floorboard and Lost Songs for the basis of this list.
Angry Emo Nerd | Autumn Wire | Black Hand Inn | Canadian Wasteland | Capital Loss | Dead Air At The Pulpit | Desperate And Lonely | Drifting With The Ice | Here On This Island | I Hate The 90's | Le dictionnaire de l'emo | Make Friends With Time | Miss The Stars | Noise Never Ends | ObscureEmo | One Track To Hell | Open Mind / Saturated Brain | Pony Necklace | Positive Punk | Punk.Cat | RawPunkHC | Shiny Grey Monotone | Shoegazer Alive | Take Metal | Tempo Violence | Terminal Escape This Endless Breath | This Noise Is Ours | Wasted Life | What We Do Is Secret | Woolworm Archive
Inactive / Deleted Archives
83% | A Whole Orchestra | Am I Mean? | Barren Praise | Blogged And Quartered | Contrived | Aesthetics | Chug Life | Circling The Drain | Crack Fever | Creation Of Minerals | Crust Or Die | Cut & Paste | For Ivadell | Fucked By Noise | Geração 666 | Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie | Gonna Make The Pony Trot | Imported Society | Justified Arrogance | Keep It In The Family | Mad Blasts Of Chaos | Make Friends With Time | Memories Like Ghosts | My Endless Minutes | Noise Never Ends | NOmainstream | Petrichor | PTD | RottenYoungEarth | Seeeing Red | Share This Breath | Sonidos Rabisos | Stuck In The Past | Today And Tomorrow | Toxicbreed's Funhouse | We Heart Kent | What Are Blood Wings?
RIP
It-leaked, Waffles, What.cd, B-sides-r-us, MP3boo, and many more...