Music

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Music, generally | African | Blues | Rock and Pop | Classical

Music, generally

• All Music Guide - Encyclopedia of music and musicians
• Metacritic: Music Reviews
• Music Resources - Links from Sibelius Academy, Finland
• RootsWorld - World music
• WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists - All kinds of music

Music Services and Recommendations:

See also

• Radio
• Online Radio
• Pandora - Enter a musician or song title, and Pandora creates a "radio station" of other music you might like. Includes classical music as well as rock/pop. (Music Genome Project)
• Apple Music
• Last.fm - "Recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to"
• LivePlasma - A visual search engine. Type in a musician you're interested in and it finds you similar or related musicians. Movies, too.
• Rdio - Subscription music service
• Rhapsody - Subscription music service
• Spotify - Millions of tracks to listen to and share; make playlists, hear radio stations (some services require a subscription)

Recorded Music:

• MusicBrainz - Detailed database of musicians, composers, and recordings
• All Record Labels.com - Directory of labels, searchable by name or genre (by librarian Peter Scott)
• Record Store Day - Find a store that sells physical records or CDs and go there today!

• Second Hand Songs - Database of cover versions

Music Downloads:

Some downloads are free from these sites, but others must be purchased.

• Apple iTunes Music
• Google Play: Music
• Internet Archive: Live Music Archive - Some bands are well-known, some not
• Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)
• SoundCloud - Music and spoken word uploads
• Wolfgang's Vault - Concerts preserved by the legendary Bill Graham (some free, some not), plus memorabilia
• Yahoo Music - Music news, downloads, and videos

Concert Tickets:

• StubHub
• Ticketmaster

Scores and Lyrics:

See also Classical Music Scores, below.

• AZLyrics
• Genius - Annotated versions of popular songs
• Lyrics Freak
• Metro Lyrics
• Sheet Music Consortium

Music of Africa, African-Americans, and the African Diaspora

• Afropop Worldwide
• Archives of African American Music and Culture

Blues

• Blue Flame Cafe - "Encyclopedia of the Blues"
• The Blue Highway
• BluesNet

  Blues Artists:

• Buddy Guy (Official site: BuddyGuy.net)
• B. B. King, King of the Blues
• Muddy Waters - Official site
• Taj Mahal Enterprizes

Rock and Pop

Rock Music Web Directories, etc.:

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Info on all inductees, as well as about the Hall itself
• Trouser Press - The original guide to alternative rock, now online ("Alternative"? This was the guide we used when we called it punk and new wave.)
• Ultimate Band List
• World Wide Punk
• Encyclopedia Fakebandica - Fake bands (mostly from movies and TV) [fakeband.com]

Rock Music News:

• Billboard - News and the famous pop charts

Rock Artists:

Beatles:

• The Beatles - Official site
• 100 Greatest Beatles Songs (Rolling Stone)


• Camper Van Beethoven, et al.



Elvis Costello:

• Elvis Costello - Official site, run by Island Records. Includes Elvis' (sporadically updated) journal and "Ask Elvis"
• Elvis Costello Online
• The Trainspotter's Guide to Elvis Costello - A veritable Elvis portal!
• Elvis Costello - The Trainspotter's News - Blog with all kinds of Elvis news (a.k.a. CostelloNews.com)


• Cowboy Junkies - Official site

Grateful Dead:

• Dead.net, the band's official site
• Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics page by David Dodd
• Now available in book form under the title The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: buy it or find it in a library
• DeadBase - The database of setlists
• Dead Lists - Another site for set lists
• Grateful Dead Family Discography
• Grateful Dead Hour page by David Gans, who produces the radio show
• Grateful Dead Listening Guide
• Internet Archive: Grateful Dead - Thousands of shows for downloading or streaming
• 8/27/93 Shoreline Amphitheatre
• Old Hippie's Grateful Links
• Relix - Magazine about the Grateful Dead and other jam bands


• Little Feat Web
• Pretenders
• Bonnie Raitt
• Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street lyrics
• Talking Heads
• Lucinda Williams - Official site

Folk Rock:

• Dave Nachmanoff
• Michelle Shocked: Graffiti Limbo

Music Libraries:

Libraries and archives devoted to popular musicians

• Bob Dylan Archive, University of Tulsa
• Grateful Dead Archive, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Grateful Dead Archive Online
• Woody Guthrie Center, Tulsa, Okla.
• Lou Reed Archive - New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music, Monmouth University (N.J.)

Classical

• All Classical - Discographies for all major composers
• Chico Instrument Encyclopedia (University of Michigan)
• Classical Composers Database - Over 1,300 listings with links and other information
• Classical Music Archives - Download classic works and learn about classical music
• ClassicalNet
• Music History 102 - Biographies of composers; discographies (Internet Public Library)

Classical Music Scores:

• IMSLP Petrucci Music Library - "Sharing the world's public domain music." (IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project)
• Mutopia Project - Public domain sheet music

Web Directory of Classical Music Sites:

• Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher: Classical Music Databases and Web Resources - How to find information about, and downloads of, classical music. Some sources are good for other kinds of music, too. (Searcher, July 2006)