New Musical Express

NME's online presence is a force to match the long-standing newspaper. They've got to grips with what the net can do for a music paper, in terms of news updated several times a day and stacks of e-cards, competitions, listening posts, web chats, web casts and microsites devoted to whichever band or event has brought them out in a hot flush. There are no technical glitches, either. Indeed navigation is staring you right in the face. Artists takes you to band histories, a cracking selection of photo archives, archived reviews and news stories about particular bands.

Reviews are archived and uniformly excellent - and, with major gigs (comebacks from Richard Ashcroft, Radiohead and U2, for example), you occasionally find the review and set-list on the site minutes after the band has left the stage. You can also have news mailed to your desktop, tailored toward your favourite artist if you so wish. Ten minutes browsing this and you'll realise why NME has lasted while others have fallen by the wayside.