{"id":126933,"date":"2025-06-12T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=126933"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:22:24","slug":"christopher-simmons-musewire-again-ranked-among-the-top-70-music-industry-blogs-for-2025-by-feedspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/christopher-simmons-musewire-again-ranked-among-the-top-70-music-industry-blogs-for-2025-by-feedspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Simmons’ MuseWire again ranked among the Top 70 Music Industry Blogs for 2025 by Feedspot"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEMECULA, Calif., June 12, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — MuseWire has been selected by the panelists at Feedspot as one of the \u201cTop 70 Music Industry Blogs\u201d on the web for 2025. Ranked #30 this year (#35 last year<\/a>). MuseWire™ (aka\/formerly Music Industry Newswire) covers music makers, music gear, audiophile gear, the music business and related topics; established 2006. A publication of Neotrope\u00ae. Edited by Christopher Laird Simmons, a working tech journalist since 1984, and member ASCAP.<\/p>\n

\"MuseWire,
Image caption: MuseWire, a music industry blog magazine edited by Christopher Simmons.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNice for folks to notice my blog is still alive and kicking, even if my time for music journalism has dropped a bit in past couple of years,\u201d said Christopher Simmons. \u201cLooks like I moved up a few spots to #30 this year. It\u2019s an interesting list, with some notable industry portals and some fairly obscure stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

About MuseWire:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MuseWire is an online magazine published and edited by Christopher Simmons, an award-winning artist, author, musician, photographer and creative. The publication covers new music, new music tech and gear (both music instruments and audiophile gear), and selected news from music education and music business concerns. MuseWire was originally known as Music Industry Newswire (MIN) prior to a rebrand and scale back circa 2016.<\/p>\n

Learn more at: https:\/\/MuseWire.com\/<\/a> and https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/musewire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

View an example Wayback Machine snapshot of the old Music Industry Newswire version of site, from 2010 here (Wayback Machine): https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100106014415\/http:\/\/musicindustrynewswire.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

About Feedspot:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feedspot is a Content Reader. It helps you keep up with multiple websites in one place so that you need not visit each website to see what\u2019s new. \u201cFeedspot makes keeping up with your favorite websites as easy as checking your email.\u201d<\/p>\n

See the complete list of music industry blogs honored for 2025 at: https:\/\/music.feedspot.com\/music_industry_blogs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

About Christopher Laird Simmons:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christopher Simmons has been a working journalist since 1984 when he sold his first music industry article to POLYPHONY magazine (purchased by MIX and became Electronic Musician). Later writing for diverse pubs including Computer Player, Digital Imaging, Micro Publishing News, Spazz, the Graphic Artist\u2019s Guild newspaper, among many others. He has been widely interviewed on topics related to technology, marketing, health and entertainment.<\/p>\n

His full-time gig is acting as CEO and founder of NEOTROPE\u00ae and its PR brand Send2Press\u00ae.<\/p>\n

As a musician he played in several bands in the \u201880s including PROJECT 11 and PETS GONE WILD (featured in the LA Times \u201cCalendar\u201d section and an LA Weekly \u201cBand Name of the Week\u201d).<\/p>\n

He released numerous indie cassette albums in the 1980s under the moniker, BLUETOY. His music has been played on late night space radio stations, and positively reviewed in Electronic Musician and \u2018zines like SYNE. A CD of his music from the mid \u201880s was released on Neotrope Records<\/a> in 2000, \u201cBESERKER.\u201d The album is still available on most streaming platforms (albeit in horribly recompressed form).<\/p>\n

His music has been used for two cable TV productions in the late 1980s in California: the award-winning \u201cVIDKIDCO\u201d and \u201cViewpoints on Video\u201d from the Long Beach Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

Simmons has some minor notoriety for having published two highly popular genre fanzines: in the late 1970s, \u201cThe Adama Journal\u201d – and late 1980s, \u201cGalaxy Class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris is no relation to a Canadian pianist of the same name, another electronic musician of the same name, nor a graphic artist based in San Francisco, also of same name. Recently he began using his full name to better differentiate himself from the brothers from another mother.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Christopher Simmons at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/ChristopherSimmons.com\/<\/a> (website under reconstruction; it\u2019s a mess!).<\/p>\n

X\/Twitter: https:\/\/x.com\/tophersimmons<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook (main personal page): https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/christopher.l.simmons<\/a><\/p>\n

Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/neosimmons\/<\/a><\/p>\n

LinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christophersimmons\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Neotrope Records: https:\/\/neotroperecords.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Neotrope Press: https:\/\/neotropepress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

MULTIMEDIA:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo link for media: https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/21-1231-s2p-christopher-simmons-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Caption: Artist, author, musician, Christopher Laird Simmons (2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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