Sputnikmusic.com

Sputnikmusic is a dying American music community website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites. Established in 2005 by Mx, the site and its accompanying forums were originally created as an offshoot of mxtabs.net.

Community
In the early to mid 2000's Sputnik was the top website for music discussion, with a strong focus on punk and metal. However, with the rise of both reddit and 4chan's mu in mainstream culture, as well as The Great Server Shitshow, Sputnik's influence has declined in recent years. Sputnik's original love for punk and metal still exist, with rock and pop also being influential. Recently, the Hip Hop genre has gained a larger following, and J-Pop has gained a small niche following on Sputnik as well. While the site started out as a guitar tab database, this has subsided since the closure of mxtabs.com. More recently, the site has seen an influx of musicians who post their own content, with various degrees of success.

Sputnikmusic has a generally negative reputation on the internet. The site's community has been somewhat ostracized and mocked on sites like Reddit as well as smaller music forums, due to (mostly true) allegations of toxicity and elitism. This is in addition to a phase in the mid 2010's where mods were excessively banning innocent users (not so much today). For years, newer users have been harassed/flamed by older users in an attempt to get them to improve their content to general Sputnik standards. It can be argued that these older users are power tripping, elitist assholes, however the general new user attitude is arrogant, insensitive, and typically cannot take genuine constructive criticism, making this situation a lose-lose for both parties.

see: Sputnikmusic Users

History
Sputnik has a lot of history since its grand opening in 2005. Several album releases have shaken Sputnik to its core, and throughout the years major drama and trends have vastly affected the site's community.

see: history of sputnikmusic

Sputcore
Some artists have a rather large cult-like following on Sputnik music. This subsection of artists' value is severely inflated on Sputnik compared to other music websites. This "genre" is known as sputcore.

see: Sputcore

Moderators
Mx (site owner)

Jom

SowingSeason

Deviant.

AtomicWaste

Willie.