All Music Guide - This is "a complete online database of recorded music." It has a search engine that allows searching by artist name, album title, song title, label, and musical style. Biographies, full discographies, and album reviews are available for artists. Essays and a glossary are provided as is a unique feature: music maps, which trace a particular style's development from other musicical styles.
 

American Music Resource - AMR contains bibliographies, lists and text files about all styles of American music and related issues. The collection is indexed by subject-name (i.e. the last names of composers) or topic-name (e.g. Electro-acoustic music).

Billboard Music Charts - Abbreviated versions of the sales charts from Billboard magazine, including hot singles and top albums, rock, alternative, country, R&B, rap, dance, and latin charts.

Experience Music Project - Experience Music Project (EMP) is a music museum combining interactive and interpretive exhibts that document American popular music. Online exhibits feature both well known and underground artists and bands as well as interactive educational sections which provide instruction on harmony signing, recording techniques and guitar playing and more.

Eyeneer Music Archives - Educational site with information on international, contemporary, classical and jazz music, instruments and musicians. Also includes a list of artists web sites, categorized by music genre.

History in Song - The editor of this site says, "These pages of (mostly) song lyrics owe their existence to an American Studies class taught by Dr. Heiner Bus at Johannes-Gutenberg- University, Mainz, Germany in the mid-1970s. While going through my collected papers these days, I was struck by the sheer number of song lyrics pertaining to the various stages of American history which had been collected by Dr. Bus and ourselves (his students) at that time -- and since a lot of these papers became yellowed and faded over the last 20 years, I decided to preserve them, transcribe them into HTML-format and eventually include them all on these pages." The contents of this site is organized by "SUBJECT" and "SONGS BY INDIVIDUAL SONGWRITERS/ARTISTS."

Lyrics World: A Collection of Lyrics Sites - This site links to several databases of song lyrics. Databases include the lyrics of top 40 hits dating back to 1930. You can search by year, by artist, or by title. There is also a database of lyrics for popular Portuguese artists.

MPA Copyright Search Resource Guide - "Are you looking for the publisher of a piece of music?" This website serves as a guide to other databases that may help you find the music copyright information that you are looking for.

MPA Directory of Music Publishers - "The Music Publishers' Association (MPA) Directory of Music Publishers is comprised of a current directory of music publishers and an index of publishers' imprints with hypertext links to entries in the directory of publishers." A text version of the directory is also available for downloading.

Music Notes - Subtitled "An Interactive Online Musical Experience," this detailed and well-researched Web site covers many aspects of music, including music theory and history, musical styles, music professions, and musical instruments. There is also a glossary of musical terms and a list of the resources used to create the site. Interactive games allow you to test your knowledge. This site, which was created by high school students for ThinkQuest, provides good introduction for beginners, but is also helpful to those who are more knowledgeable about music.

Music Resources - Listed in PC Magazine's Top 100 of 1996, this site provides a directory to web sites about every musical genre under the sun, from jazz, blues and rock to folk, gospel and opera. Also includes links to pages about famous composers, research and theory, music schools, instruments and more.

MusicNewswire - An index to music-related news stories from Web-based publications, organized into the following topical areas: top stories, general news, industry news, label news. Also includes daily critical reviews of rock, pop, jazz and world music in RealAudio format.

MusicSearch - A large, searchable directory of music-related Internet sites, with descriptions provided by the sites.

Save Our Sounds - A collaborative project by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution to preserve recordings of spoken word and music. Recordings on various media are being converted to digital formats to be preserved on CD-ROMs or placed on the internet. Recordings already added to the site include poetry from Langston Hughes, J.F. Kennedy honoring Robert Frost, and samples of the sounds of a steam locomotive and a space satellite. Recordings require RealPlayer.

Songtext.Net - This site contains a searchable database of the lyrics to over 130,000 songs. Search for your favorite song by song title, artist name, or album name. You can also search this site if you can remember some of a song's lyrics, but don't know the song title. Search results will display the song titles, and the lyrics to about half of the songs in the database are available for viewing.
 

The Mozart Effect: How Classical Music Improves Intelligence & Learning - This site documents the continuing research of Dr. Gordon Shaw, who presented the original findings of this work in 1993. He and his colleagues discovered that participants in the original study improved their scores on spatial-temporal tests after listening to one of Mozart sonatas. Further research has continued to explore the relationship between music, intelligence, and learning.
 

The Ultimate Band List - A monster list of recorded music related resources on the Internet; very well indexed. Focuses mainly on popular music but also has listings for classical, jazz, country, etc. If you can't find what you're looking for elsewhere, look here.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Developed by the Indiana University Music Library, this resource offers an index and links to academic sites, user-maintained information, non-academic sites, geographically local sites, artist-specific sites, and other lists and indices. Has links to FAQs, mailing lists, newsgroups, and virtual libraries.
 

 

CarSound - "Source for the latest in the world of car audio, electronics and navigation."
 

Future Music - "The UK's best-selling magazine dedicated to high-tech music and equipment."
 

Technologies for Worship Magazine - "Technologies for Worship Magazine is an educational resource for pastors, ministers, volunteers, and technical support staff within the church. It offers technical information on audio, video, broadcast, computers, drama and lighting for use in a worship environment."
 

Online Trombone Journal

 

Bass Player

CelticMusic.com Magazine - This e-zine includes articles about Celtic music, interviews with musicians, reviews of recordings (some with sound samples), and an instrument exchange classified ads section.

Computer Music Journal - "A collection of resources for the computer music, MIDI, and digital audio signal processing community."
 

Ethnomusicology Online - Ethnomusicology Online is a full text online scholarly resource on ethnomusicology. The articles are peer-reviewed and include graphics, audio, or video. They include reviews of audio, video or multimedia titles. The page also includes enhanced Ph.D. dissertations that have graphics, audio, and video. The scope of Ethnomusicology includes anything related to the subject and includes links to non-reviewed articles and other sites including ethnomusicology teaching pages.

Guitar World

MandoZine - "The Online Journal for Mandolin."

Modern Drummer

The Singing News Magazine

Stagebill - "The premier guide to the performing arts."

Music Charts From Around the World - Extensive listing of "hits" from around the world. Contains current and past charts.

 

Artists around the World - classical
Disc Makers - bulk CD /Tape manufactureCo. now has Pro Studio Recording Tips and Interview Archives
Four Front Media & Music - ideas for marketing your music product/ promotion/ publicity/ performance
FarmClub - showcase for artists/bands to get noticed by major labels. Claims to be the new go-between
From theTop - PBS site for young performing artists
GetSigned - free advice from some of the pros
Gajoob.com - find whats up in the indie community
IndieBiz - Music business connectivity, resources
Music-Law.com - great for all your legal questions
StudioFinder.com - looking for a recording studio?
Sunhawk.com - Downloadable Sheet Music
Zebra Music -find Record Labels wanting material + Gig Sharing links, free Musicians Tip Sheet + more
 

Guitar
Guitar Sites - over 80 links
Harmony Central /guitar - guitar mega links
Lessons / Instruction
Riff Interactive Kewl - Live Guitar Lessons. Now featured on Paul Allen's EMP Live - way to go!
Tablature Search Engine and links to Tab Sites
Guitar Tablature Links & Search Engines
Guitar Tab Universe awesome
 

Epitonic Radio - Hi Quality Free and Legal Quality MP3 Music
iTunes - Apple's excellent music player & digital music collection in AAC format.
Articles on the Best Music Sites - good overview of the status quo in music download sites from Fortune Magazine.
Music Match - over 400,000+ songs - site in six languages.
Music Now - 400,000+ artists - WMA.
Real - 450,000+ Artists - WMA & AAC.
Audio Launchbox - buy & sell independent music.
Find Sounds - search the web for sound effects & musical instrument samples.
Sounds Online - source for royalty-free sounds.
Sound Effects - sound effects, movie sounds, free samples & more.
Sound Shopper - popular source of royalty free music.
Big Fish Audio - sample libraries & loops.
Sony Music - Free Music Downloads from Sony Music.
Imusic - free music downloads, MP3's, music chat & more.
Partners in Rhyme - free sound effects & royalty free music.
Midi World - links to more free sound sample libraries & sound utilities.
 

Glyphs - "Art, music and film reviews."

Film Score Monthly - "Film Score Monthly is America's leading (and only) magazine about motion picture and television music. Although song-oriented soundtrack albums are today bigger than ever, we are primarily interested in the background music‹the instrumental underscores which play such an important part of the filmgoing experience."
 

Glyphs - "Art, music and film reviews."

Mojo Magazine - "Since its launch in 1993 Mojo has earned a reputation for being the most authoritative and entertaining all round music magazine."

Wall of Sound Top 100 Albums - Wall of Sound, a music news and review site, has recently polled users on the ten best albums of the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. Over 400,000 votes were received, and Wall of Sound has compiled lists by decade and a list of the top 100 Albums of All Time. To create the final list, Wall of Sound ranked each album based on the percentage of total votes it received within its decade. A capsule review and RealPlayer sample is provided for each.
 

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