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Music

New Sites Added Since May 18

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    General Resources

  • AddANY, music search and price comparison.
  • All-Music Guide, ongoing project to review and rate all music (whether in-print CDs or out-of-print on vinyl). For many recordings includes detailed song and performer listings. Albums for each music artist are rated against their own best work and not against other artists in their genre.
  • The American Gospel Music Directory
  • American Music Conference
  • American Orff-Schulwerk Association: Music and Movement Education.
  • ARTISTdirect.com, combining the ARTISTdirect booking agency, a record label called Kneeling Elephant, and the Ultimate Band List.
  • ASCAP, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
  • Austin Cyber Limits, the Austin City Limits web site.

  • BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., including Repertoire, a database of who owns 7.5 million song titles.

  • CD Now
  • The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers
  • Common Music Dictionary, from the Heinrich Taube School of Music at the University of Illinois.
  • Country Music Association

  • Discover Classics, classical music portal.

  • Dr. Wax, specializing in new and used records, CDs, and collectibles.

  • Ear 1, includes exclusive artist information, sound clips, and contests from the Warner Music Group.
  • Early Music FAQ, from the EARLYM-L mailing list. Information about Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque Western music.
  • 80's Music Central
  • Eyeneer Music Archives, Steve Bahcall's music archive "that seeks to make comprehensive information about music publicly available." The site is divided into four main music genres--international, modern jazz, contemporary classical, and traditional American music. Includes background info, biographies, discographies, new releases, photos, QuickTime video, and sound samples.

  • FestivalFinder: Music Festivals of North America.
  • Folkmusic.org, with information about artists and venues, resources for musicians and links to other folk-related World Wide Web and Internet information.
  • Folk Stuff, from Pittsburgh Folk Alliance, with information for folk musicians and those designing and building folk and experimental musical instruments, including dulcimers, autoharps, kalimbas, theremins, didjeridus, pennywhistles, and flutes.

  • GeZi's Record Outlet
  • A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments, from Musica Antiqua, Iowa State University. Includes recorded samples in .wav format.
  • Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock

  • Harmony Central, Internet Resource for Musicians.
  • Hip Hop Search Engine
  • Hong Kong Chinese Music Troupe, including many sources of Chinese music.

  • IDRS, the International Double Reed Society.
  • Indiana University School of Music
  • Instrument Encyclopedia
  • Internet Ghetto Blaster, information on new album reviews, new artists, reviews of older hip hop music, and a message board.
  • Internet Underground Music Archive
  • InterNotes, NY Area Music Scene.

  • Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, spans the years 1780 to 1960. Especially strong in 19th and early 20th century American popular music.

  • Multimedia Instrument Encyclopedia
  • mp3.com: Music Downloads, Audio Software, Hardware, Genres, and News.
  • MTV
  • Musi-Cal, concert Information.
  • Music Dictionary, from CreativeMusic.com.
  • Music History and Studies Resources, from Academic Info.
  • Music History Resources
  • Music Index, with coverage from 1978, now offers a subject author guide to music periodical literature on the web. Indexing covers more than 640 publications. Accessible off-campus via the proxy server.
  • Music Library Association
  • Music Publishers Association, featuring the MPA sales agency list, the copyright resource center, and the Paul Revere Award-winning scores.
  • Music Resources, from Florida State University.
  • Music Reviews
  • MusicSearch
  • Music Selection Resources on the WWW
  • Music Theory Online

  • MusicWeb Popular Music Encyclopaedia, by Donald Clarke.

  • NARM: The National Association of Recording Merchandisers.
  • National Academy of Recording Arts
  • New Musical Express

  • Pollstar, Concert Hotline.
  • Professional Societies
  • Progressive Rock Website

  • Ragtime Press
  • Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.
  • Rock Around the World
  • Rock Online, Inc., featuring college music.
  • Rock on the Net, provides news in the music industry as well as detailing the careers of many musical artists and providing music charts and links.
  • RockOnTV, guide to musical appearances on upcoming television shows.
  • RockWorld, Rock & Roll CyberGalleria.
  • RootsWorld, small labels and individual artists from all over the world, specializing in "roots" music (folk/world music/traditional and contemporary international pop).

  • Scholarly Music Resources, from the Institute for Academic Technology. Annotated links "which we have found of interest in our Mellon Foundation sponsored work on information technology and music scholarship."
  • Songfile
  • Songs.com
  • SonicNet.com

  • Tempus, provides information about music and music study in the United States. Features include a searchable database of music schools in American colleges and universities (from the University of Alabama School of Music).

  • Ultimate Band List from ArtistDirect.
  • University of Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music
  • University of Miami School of Music
  • University of Michigan School of Music

  • VH1 Music First
  • Virtual Audio

  • Yahoo! Music
  • Yahoo's Guide to Music Resources


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    Bands and Artists

  • Tori Amos
  • The Art of Noise

  • David Baerwald
  • Bears, The
  • Adrian Belew
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
  • Black Sabbath
  • Luka Bloom
  • The Bobs
  • David Bowie
  • Jonatha Brooke
  • Bush

  • Cake
  • J. J. Cale
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • Ray Charles
  • The Church
  • Clannad
  • Lloyd Cole
  • Paula Cole
  • Shawn Colvin
  • Concrete Blonde
  • Ray Condo and his Ricochets
  • Cowboy Junkies
  • The Cranberries, the official site.
  • Marshall Crenshaw

  • Dandy Warhols
  • Dave Matthews Band
  • Ray Davies
  • Ani DiFranco
  • The Doors
  • Bob Dylan

  • Galaxie 500
  • Garbage, the official site. Includes video clips, photos, tour dates, and news.
  • Gomez
  • Official Grateful Dead HomePage
  • Gravelblankets
  • David Gray
  • Guided By Voices

  • John Wesley Harding
  • John Hiatt
  • Peter Himmelman
  • Hooverphonic
  • Bruce Hornsby
  • The Horse Flies

  • The Innocence Mission
  • Interpol

  • Joe Jackson
  • Jethro Tull
  • Joan Jones
  • Rickie Lee Jones

  • Journey
  • Paul Kelly
  • Led-Zeppelin
  • The Kinks

  • Daniel Lanois
  • The Levellers
  • Loop Guru
  • Love Spirals Downwards
  • Luna
  • Luna Groova, a funk/rock/jazz fusion original band from Lexington, Kentucky making new music.

  • Wendy Maharry
  • Aimie Mann
  • Angela McCluskey
  • Lorenna McKinnett
  • Sarah McLachlan
  • James McMurtry
  • Mercury Rev
  • Midnight Oil
  • Moon Seven Times
  • Peter Murphy
  • My Scarlet Life

  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Heather Nova

  • October Project
  • William Oldham - Palace Brothers
  • Beth Orton
  • Obital
  • Over the Rhine

  • Paul Van Dyke

  • Peter Gabriel
  • Graham Parker
  • Pink Floyd
  • Wally Pleasant
  • Poi Dog Pondering
  • Portishead
  • Elvis Presley
  • John Prine
  • Chuck Prophet

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Lou Reed
  • R.E.M.
  • Rolling Stones
  • Henry Rollins/Rollins Band
  • The Todd Rundgren Connection

  • Saint Etienne
  • The Samples
  • Santana
  • Seven Mary Three
  • Michelle Shocked
  • Sigur Ros
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Smashing Pumpkins
  • Squeeze
  • Steely Dan
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Tim Story

  • James Taylor
  • Texas
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Throwing Muses
  • Tanita Tikaram
  • Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Richard Thompson
  • Tomita
  • Pete Townshend
  • Tragically Hip
  • Jen Trynin

  • Ultimate Band List
  • U2

  • Suzanne Vega
  • Velvet Underground
  • The Verve Pipe
  • Vigilantes of Love

  • Muddy Waters

  • Wild Colonials
  • Album Info

  • Steve Wynn

  • World Party

  • Young Dubliners
  • Neil Young
  • ZZ Top

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    Classical and Opera

  • The Aria Database, searchable reference of opera arias for both singers and non-singers. Includes voice part, synopsis, MIDI files and translations into English.
  • Atlanta Opera

  • Beethoven Bibliography Database

  • Classical Music Resources
  • Classical Music on the Net, Dr. Douglas Bell brings you an easy way to find available resources. Information is organized around a simple set of music topics and subtopics.
  • ClassicWeb, guide to classical music resources.
  • Handel

  • Gramophone: "The World's Best Classical Music Magazine." Includes archive of 25,000 classical record reviews searchable by composer or catalogue number.

  • Mozart, Encyclopedia.
  • The Mozart Project
  • Music under Soviet Rule, ongoing collection of articles, essays, interviews, images, and general paraphernalia pertaining to classical music made in the Soviet empire from 1917-1991.

  • New York City Opera

  • Opera America
  • OperaList, links to opera sites by name and location.
  • OrchList, links to orchestra sites by name and location.

  • Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts, an ever-growing corpus of more or less raw texts in minimal HTML format with links to some other sites.

  • Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.

  • San Francisco Symphony

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    Magazines and Journals

  • Alternate Music Press: The Multimedia Journal of New Music.
  • Alternative Music Press
  • Alternative Press
  • AMP, from MCA records. An online magazine about new music developments.

  • Billboard Magazine Online
  • Bring the Rock, indie-music weblog.

  • Electronic Musicological Review, quarterly trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, English) publication featuring articles and reviews on historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory and analysis, performance practice and composition.

  • Irish Music Magazine

  • Journal of Seventeenth Century Music

  • Keyboard Central,from Keyboard Magazine.

  • MandoZine, mandolin magazine.
  • Modern Drummer Online
  • Music & Anthropology, online multimedia interactive journal, founded by the Study Group on "Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures" of the International Council for Traditional Music.
  • Music Industry News Network
  • Music News Digest
  • Musician, covers the art, business, and technology of making music.
  • MusicDish, a musician's magazine.
  • MusicNewswire

  • The Northeast Organist Magazine

  • Perfect Sound Forever, online music magazine.

  • Rock n' Roll Reporter
  • Rolling Stone Magazine

  • Spin Magazine

  • Webnoize,magazine covering music on the web.


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    Jazz and Blues

  • Blue Highway, information about the Blues as well as links to Blues' sites.
  • BluesWeb, information about blues artists, records, and festivals, and links to other blues websites.

  • House of Blues, includes live music cybercasts, news, reviews and more.

  • The Jazz and Blues Wing of the Electric Gallery, with paintings of jazz and blues greats.
  • Jazz FM98 KIFM, San Diego. Full-service contemporary jazz station, home of JazzTrax with Art Good.
  • Jazz Online, articles, calendars, reviews, and links to record labels and other sites.
  • Jazz Photography of Ray Avery, photograph exhibition of jazz musicians, including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Clark, and others.

  • Monterey Jazz Festival

  • That Blues Music Page

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    Record Labels

  • Alligator Records
  • Almo Sounds, from AM Records founders, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Almo Sounds has offices in London, LA, New York and Nashville with distribution in the UK by Pinnacle, US via Geffen and MCA for Europe. This site is run out of London and carries information regarding Nilon Bombers, Peter Bruntnell, Murray Young and a link to Almo US via the Geffen site with info on Garbage.
  • American Recordings

  • Caroline Records
  • Chromatic Records
  • Compass Records, contemporary folk, singer/songwriter, acoustic instrumental, and world music.

  • Drag City Records

  • ECM Records
  • EMI Music Publishing

  • 4AD

  • Geffen Records
  • Green Linnet/Xenophile Records

  • Mammoth Records
  • Matador Records
  • MCA Records
  • MCA/Universal
  • Mercury Nashville Records

  • Oh Boy Records

  • Palace Records
  • Projekt

  • Racer Records
  • Reprise Records
  • Rykodisc

  • Sire Records Group
  • Sony Music
  • Sub Pop Record

  • Universal

  • The Verve Music Group, record label
  • Virgin Interactive Entertainment, support, information and news about current and upcoming products from Virgin and affiliated labels.
  • Virgin Records America

  • W.A.R., What Are Records.
  • Warner Brothers Records
  • Windham Hill Records

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    Local (Lexington, KY area) Music Scene

  • A1A, Lexington.

  • Bogart's, Cincinnati.

  • CD Central, Lexington CD store.

  • Cheapside Bar & Grill

  • The Dame, Lexington.

  • Eugene Records & Fanzine

  • Festival of the Bluegrass

  • Headliners Music Hall, Louisville.

  • High on Rose

  • Kentucky Center for the Arts (Louisville)

  • Kentucky.com Music page

  • Lexington Action Arts Collective

  • LexMusic.com

  • Louisville Live Wire

  • Louisville Scene Concert Calendar

  • Magus Productions: Live Music in Cincinnati.

  • Phoenix Hill Tavern, Louisville.

  • SlyMusic.com: "A Guide to the Freaky Side of Lexington, Kentucky's Music Scene."

  • Southgate House, Newport.

  • Starlight Music Club, Lexington.

  • Taft Theatre, Cincinnati.

  • Troubadour Series at the Kentucky Theatre, Lexington.

  • WRFL, 88.1 FM, "Radio Free Lexington."


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    Miscellaneous Resources

  • African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University.

  • African Music Encyclopedia, covering music from Africa and throughout the African Diaspora.

  • Internet Cello Society
  • Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago.
  • Computer Music Journal Sound Archive
  • Contemporary A Cappella Society of America

  • Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online, from Indiana University.
  • DrumNetwork.com

  • Euphonia Rex, a web site devoted to this beautiful yet relatively obscure instrument.

  • Global Electronic Music Marketplace clearinghouse for used, out-of-print and esoteric recordings.

  • Historic American Sheet Music, from Duke University.

  • The Juilliard School
  • John Jacob Niles Center for American Music

  • Maghreb Music, from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

  • The Percussive Arts Society
  • Pepper Music Network, catalogue of printed music scores from all publishers, including music for band, orchestra, and chorus, piano teaching materials, popular music song folios.
  • Performance Practice Encyclopedia, compendium of musicological articles that summarize current and past research concerning performance practice.
  • Piano Education Page, with tips for students and parents, explanation of various teaching methods, where and how to find a suitable teacher, how to buy pianos and digital keyboards, and links to related sites.

  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

  • Soul Choice DJ Pool & Entertainment Group, part of the Canadian music industry with DJ's who play hip hop, soul, r&b, reggae, soul jazz, latin, jungle, go go, and bass music. They also provide feedback to music labels and create a top 50 chart.
  • Strictly Urban Recordings, rap, reggae, and r&b music site.

  • Traditional Music Archive, Indiana University.

  • Violink, "the world of violins."

  • World Music Archive, Harvard University.

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  • Music-related Electronic Information Resources, available in the UK Libraries.

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