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Alternative

Be Happy or Die!

Focuses on the techno-pop group Art of Noise. Includes a complete discography with covers of each album above the track titles. Also includes a summary of all information from the liner notes in each album.

D’CuCKOO

The techno-tribal band made up of six women from Oakland who build and play their own percussion instruments, including 6-foot bamboo “trigger sticks.” Features the band’s interactive "showtoys" MidiBall and RiGBy.

Depeche Mode Home Page

Focuses on the eclectic alternative band. Includes lyrics, song parodies, dozens of pictures, and several links to other Depeche Mode resources. Also provides information on how to subscribe to the BONG mailing list.

The Ectophiles’ Guide to Good Music

Based on Ecto, the singer/songwriter Happy Rhodes’ mailing list. Provides a searchable index of similar music and explains the ectophile phenomenon.

fourtuoh

Offers links to Seattle-area bands page, including Phat Sidy Smokehouse, Kilgore Trout, and Ganja Farmers. Also includes show times and audio samples.

The High Lonesome

Focuses on the band The High Lonesome. Features bios, history, lyrics, photos, sound, ordering information, upcoming gigs, and more.

Kraftwerk infobahr

Includes pictures, sounds, and videos, and a collection of Kraftwerk MIDI sequences. Lets you add your name to the list Kraftwerk fans.

Lou Reed's Web Home

Provides information about Lou Reed and more. Includes a bootleg gallery, a couple of guitar tabs, and plenty more.

Pet Shop Boys Virtually

The European site that provides a huge picture library, fan club information, monthly updates, and sound files. Also includes a FAQ list, news hotlines, biographies, articles, and a pricing guide.

R.E.M. Home Page

Includes notes on the R.E.M. tour, all about Mike Mills, and a Frequently Asked Questions sheet. Offers a discography, lyrics, and guitar chord sheets. Also includes a photo archive.

Talking Heads

Provides Talking Heads information. Spares nothing—includes digitized songs, images, and more. Also includes information on signing up for the Talking Heads mailing list and “The Members: Life After Heads.”

The Cure

Focuses on The Cure. Includes fan club information, lyrics, images, and more. Also includes a few sound bites and tablatures.

They Might Be Giants: Home-away-from-homepage

Focuses on TMBG. Now lets you dial-a-song online and get previously unreleased material. Includes lyrics, graphics, and FAQs.

Turmoil's Seattle Music Web

Focuses on alternative and underground music in Seattle. Contains many .WAV clips and whole songs. Also furnishes a Seattle music calendar and related art.

Awards

Academy Awards[rtm] for Music, 1960s and 1970s

Lists music awards and nominees for both song, score, and adaptation. Includes release information about the film and other works of the composer or artist.

The Grammy Awards on the Internet

Focuses on the 1996 Grammy Awards. Lists all nominees and winners. Includes previous of video and audio files, Grammy trivia, and a hearsay column. Also provides QuickTime files.

Bluegrass

Bluegrass Unlimited Reviews

Offers reviews of bluegrass-related recordings by Archie Warnock III, originally published in Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine.

Central Texas Bluegrass Association

Offers information about the Central Texas Bluegrass Association, a non-profit corporation. Includes a calendar of events, as well as workshop and membership information.

Doc Hamilton's Bluegrass Home Page

Presents a photo gallery of bluegrass greats.

Doc Watson

Contains a brief biography, a discography, a concert schedule, and a performance by Doc Watson accompanied by his son Merle. Includes links to pages on other bluegrass greats, such as Bill Monroe.

Old Time Music Bulletin Board

Enables readers to exchange and sell instruments and discuss banjo playing, fiddling, songs and lyrics, reviews, and anything else regarding American old time music. Lets you post messages to the Anything Else? page.

Welcome to Planet Bluegrass!

Blue Planet Music, organizers of the legendary Telluride Bluegrass Festival, online. Contains festival schedule and information, as well as information about Blue Planet recordings and their mail order operation.

Charts

HitsWorld

The site to find out about music charts—Internet Top 30, Casey’s Top 40, Personal Top 20, Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40, Billboard, MTV Top 20 Music Videos, and many, many more. Features reviews and links to other music sites.

Christian

"Almost" Definitive Contemporary Christian Music Hot Page

Defines contemporary Christian music and serves as a guide to Web-related Christian music sources for all styles of music. Provides links to Christian artists and labels, related publications, and more.

Christian Music Online

Provides information about different types of Christian music, including contemporary, alternative, praise/workship, and rap. Includes concert dates, artists biographies, and sound files.

Michael W. Smith

Focuses on contemporary christian/pop artist Michael W. Smith. Includes information on contacting the fan club and the Michael’s Best Friend newsletter.

Susan Ashton

Serves as a resource page for contemporary Christian singer Susan Ashton. Includes the expected Net resources, as well as many meta-links that point to other Christian music resources.

Classical

Allegro

Allegro bills itself “the largest independent distributor of Classical Music in America.” Features sound bytes from recent releases, as well as instructions on how to subscribe to Allegro’s catalogs and automatic e-mailing list. This site also provides a link to the Magellan search engine.

American Music Center

Non-profit contemporary music information and resource center. Provides lists of scores, opportunities for composers and performers, and information on grants, as well as links to Web music indices and Internet newsgroups.

Aspen Music Festival

This site provides information about the Festival, its concert schedule, tickets, performing groups, master classes. There is also an audition schedule for the Aspen Music School that is a part of the Festival.

BalletWeb

Devoted to classical ballet and occasionally to modern dance, this site offers a photo of the week, a gallery of photos, articles from online magazines, reviews, commentaries, analyses, and links to other ballet sites.

Boston Chamber Ensemble

This instrumental group’s concerts are devoted to the music from the Renaissance Era to the present day. The BCE is particularly committed to supporting contemporary composers, and therefore holds an annual nation-wide composition competition in an effort to expand its interaction with American composers. Learn more about this competition and the BCE’s upcoming concert schedule at this site.

Building a Library: A Collector's Guide

Having trouble deciding what recording of Beethoven’s Fifth to buy? This page offers you some tips on classical record collecting. It also reviews certain selected well-known classical works. There’s a lot of reading involved here, so be prepared.

Cecilia Bartoli FanWeb (Unofficial)

Cecilia’s admirers are many and vocal (not surprisingly) in singing her praises! Lots of information about this talented mezzo-soprano’s recordings and career. You can converse with other fans and view their Web pages. Contains sound and image files, as well as links to other Bartoli pages.

Chamber Music Conferences

Provides a guide to chamber music conferences for amateur musicians and students. Contains information, schedules, fees, and application forms for more than 30 conferences.

Chicago Concert Search

Features a searchable database that contains classical music concert schedules, including festivals, for the Chicago area. Lets you search by calendar, performer, composer, or work.

Classical MIDI Archives

This multiple award-winning site provides archives of classical music audio files in MIDI format. Listen to your favorite works by Handel, Brahms, Scarlatti, and Albinoni. If you want to copy some of the sequences for your Web site, you must get the permission of the compiler.

Classical Music Home Page

Provides information on classical and early music. Includes a guide to building a basic CD collection, a buying guide for the serious collector, lists of more than 1,850 recommended CDs, and informative composer profiles. Searchable.

Classical Music on the Web

According to Dr. Douglas Bell, mastermind behind this site, navigating the Internet without a guide is like finding yourself in New York City without a map. With the help of this site, you’ll at least be able to find the Internet landmarks of classical music that are equivalent to the Big Apple’s Metropolitan Opera! While you’re at it, enjoy Dr. Bell’s “Ask the Musical Doctor” column.

Cleveland Concert Search

Provides a searchable database that contains comprehensive classical music concert schedules, including festivals, for the Cleveland area. Lets you search by time period, performer composer, or work.

Current Opera Website

Focuses on live opera. Features Current Opera Digest, a "daily gleaning of highlights from opera discussions on the Net," an article about a "conspiracy" to prevent a little-known composer from receiving his due, and links to other opera resources on the Net.

CyberDance: Ballet on the Web

Contains an extensive alphabetical list of U.S. and Canadian professional, regional, and school-affiliated ballet and dance companies, with links to their home pages. There are also many links to schools and international ballet companies.

DCI: Drum Corps International

Keep up with your favorite drum and bugle corps’ competition schedule and scores as it participates in the Summer Music Games. Includes profiles of the Top Twelve, the Open Class, and the Division II and III corps. Contains links to various member corps’ home pages.

Electronic Early Music

Features several dozen audio files, primarily of Renaissance dance music played on various MIDI instruments.

FAQ: rec.music.classical

Contains useful information for the novice classical music lover. Answers questions on how to select recordings, which books to read to learn more, how to identify a classical piece heard on the radio, TV, or in a movie, what distinguishes different genres of music, how to pronounce names of composers, performers, and conductors, and more.

FutureNet : Classic CD

Contains articles and reviews, a CD finder, and subscription information. Provides a beginner's guide that includes features on classical music in the media, and a history of classical music, plus a classical CD top 100 and an at-a-glance guide to the composers, A–Z.

Galliard String Quartet

This ensemble performs string quartet music written in the tradition of the 19th century. It has recently released a CD of music written by Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. You may order CDs from this site.

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

Wandering Minstrels and Modern Major Generals alike will be enchanted by this multiple-award-winning site devoted to the famous William S. Gilbert/Arthur S. Sullivan collection of light operas. Here you can find out where and when your favorite Gilbert and Sullivan works will be staged. You can also search the complete libretti of all 14 Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and link to Web pages by local Gilbert and Sullivan performing ensembles in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.

Gregorian Chant Home Page

For the serious scholar, this award-winning site sponsored by Princeton University contains extensive information pertaining to the study of Gregorian liturgical music. There are links to related pages that include sound files of early music compositions. Also included are links to sites of ecclesiastical and musicological interest, as well as downloadable texts and tutorials.

Indiana University School of Music

Presents information about IU’s renowned music school online, including it’s programs, schedules, and concerts. Offers a resource page that can help you find nearly anything related to classical music. Also includes an index of music resources on the Internet.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Contains a history of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) and its present home, the historic Circle Theater. Also features biographical information about conductor/composer/musicologist Raymond Leppard, and the ISO’s monthly concert schedule, as well as the schedule of Instrument Petting Zoo--a program sponsored by the ISO that teaches children about musical instrument families by allowing them to handle and play a collection of donated instruments.

Katia and Marielle Labeque Home Page

Meet the French sisters who have taken the music world by storm with their interpretations of classical two-piano literature. There’s a CD list that also includes their jazz/fusion recordings. A fans and links page connects you with other Labeque lovers.

La Ma de Guido

Title means “Guido’s Hand.” Guido was a medieval theorist, who supposedly used a diagram of the hand to teach students how to read music. You can see the diagram at this site, maintained by a publishing house that specializes in classical music and CDs by Spanish and Catalan artists. Biographies of the artists are included.

Le Nozze di Figaro

Contains information on Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro. Offers sections about Figaro’s composition, its music, and its dramatis personae.

Maestronet

Players and collectors of classical stringed instruments will find Maestronet’s site useful for finding and pricing the Stradivari of their dreams. The Instrument Showroom databases provide listings of instruments from around the world, as well as price information. The Conservatory secion includes sheet music in Adobe Acrobat format, which you can download and print. MIDI files of this music are also available, so that your computer can accompany you as you play!

Music Hall

Presents the music area of the Vatican Exhibit at the Library of Congress online. Contains four "rooms" of art treasures, primarily pages from Medieval and Renaissance illuminated music manuscripts. Provides notes with all the art works.

Music under Soviet Rule

If you would like to explore the relationship between music and politics, or simply enjoy the music of Prokofiev, Shostokovitch, or any other classical composer active in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1991, this site’s collection of documents will be of interest to you. There are also links to other Soviet music-related pages.

New York Philharmonic

The home page of one of the most highly respected symphony orchestras in the United States. Provides schedule and ticket information, profiles members of the orchestra, and supplies historical and archival facts about the orchestra and about its home at Avery Fisher Hall.

The Opera Schedule Server

Offers a searchable database that contains the schedules of opera companies around the world. Also contains basic information on major opera houses world-wide.

opera-l_home_page

Includes a guide to recorded opera, an A–Z guide to composers, an A–Z guide to operas, synopses of operas (you are invited to contribute a synopsis if your favorite opera is not already listed), photos of opera stars, and links to other opera sites.

Opera Stories and Background

Provided by BMG Music, this site offers a thorough synopsis, complete with sound clips, of such opera favorites as Aida, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly. Also includes historical information about featured operas and their respective composers. Opera afficionados will find the recommended recordings of great interest. There is also a Classics World search engine of classical music composers, conductors, and ensembles.

Performing Arts Sites

Sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University, this site includes links—carefully chosen for their quality—to opera, theater, Broadway musical, music, and dance pages. If you are looking for a place to stage your performance art, this site also provides links to possible locations.

Renaissance Consort

Lets you see and hear the instruments that make up a typical Renaissance consort. Provides photographs (accompanied by audio clips) of recorders, crumhorns, flutes, viols, and more.

SCA Music and Dance Home Page

Society for Creative Anachronism, online. Focuses on Renaissance dance and dance music. Includes dance "cheat sheets," a discography of Renaissance dance music, a collection of articles taken from the society's newsletter on Renaissance dance, articles on troubadours and bardic songs, and many links to other Early music and dance sites.

T. M. McComb: Music Home Page

Provides one music writer's recommendations of classical, early music, and world music CDs. Contains informative notes on the different styles of music.

Unknown Composers Page

Here’s where underrated, obscure, and anonymous composers the likes of Nikolai Miaskovski and Robert Fuchs hang out. Most of the biographical sketches say “his music reminds me of so-and-so’s”—alas, the fate of those who somehow missed the mark. Appropriately, there’s a Special Mystery Moment/Guess the Composer test, and some of the composers have accompanying sound clips. Your contributions are welcome.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

If you are planning on doing any sort of music research online, this is the place to start. Sponsored by Indiana University’s Music Library, this site provides an extensive list of music types, performers, and popular/classical musical ensembles. Other lists include schools and departments of music around the world, music industry leaders, and music-related journals and magazines.

Commercial Music Resources

Ace Ticket Service—Concert Tickets

Buys and sells tickets to concerts and other events. Search for concert information by artist, city, or venue. Also features an artist of the week, tour gossip, and information on new and top ten tours.

Akers Mic

Online CD store. Presents a catalog and other offerings within multimedia, surround-sound, and high-end HIFI. Contains more than 62,000 titles.

Andrak Music

Formerly Planet Music. Specializes in thousands of hard-to-find domestic and import CDs. Also sells video tapes and music T-shirts.

HMV Toronto Superstore

Contains new releases, charts, and reviews of Cds and videos, . Also contains a Canadian Indie Music Archive.

Hot Platters

http://home.earthlink.net/~oversight/HotPlatters.html

Serves as an auction for record lovers. Offers thousands of hard to find LPs, 45s, and 78s. Also offers posters, buttons, and other music memorabilia. Includes instructions on how to bid, and lets you submit bids by e-mail, fax, or the postal system. Also invites you to send an order or a want-list to Hot Platters.

Jazz Music Stores around the World

Serves as a guide to jazz record stores world-wide, arranged alphabetically by location. Includes useful information on shops strengths in terms of formats and new/used, bargains, and more.

Rounder Records

Presents a catalog for a variety of independent labels including bluegrass, pop, alternative, Celtic, and Latin sounds—and more. Features sound samples from recordings of several of their most popular artists. Also features artist profiles and discographies.

Country

Basket Full of Country

Offers a personal collection of country-related sites for country western music fans and cowboys. Also provides fanclub information and a penpal list.

History of Country Music

Focuses on influential country artists as far back as the beginning of country music itself. Features history on artists such as Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Gene Autry, Patsy Cline, Charley Pride, and more. Includes country styles such as western swing, urban cowboy, honky tonk, the Nashville sound, and others.

Obvious Gossip Home Page

Welcomes you to the official k.d. lang fan club. Lets you investigate the purchase of various k.d. lang paraphenalia and provides the latest album and concert information.

planet garth

Provides the latest on country sensation Garth Brooks. Includes world tour information, reviews, chart positions, pictures, and downloadable songs in RealAudio format.

Reba McENTIRE

Provides a wealth of Reba resources. Tells you how to join Reba's International Fan Club. Offers the latest Reba news, a schedule of appearances, Reba's Special Events, and more. Also lets you add your favorite Reba pictures.

Databases

AMG Online Music

Access All-Music Guide’s mega music database. Includes articles and reviews of hundreds of titles and artists from more than 200 freelance writers. Includes information on recent and upcoming releases and reissues, the latest in music news, and discographies. Many feature similar and related artist suggestions as well as artists biographies, their influences, and the time period in which they were popular or active.

Digital Tradition Folk Song Database

Here, you can search the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s Folk Song Database. Search by keywords, titles, or full text.

Discographies (and More)

Indexes many varied discographies of many bands, including Erasure, Falco, Devo, Men Without Hats, and many more). Be sure to check out the Discography Search Engine.

GEMM: Global Electronic Music Marketplace

Enables you to search for information about artists, albums, and companies. Lets you register to be notified when a particular item you want is mentioned elsewhere in the marketplace.

Hype! Music

Provides a searchable database of music reviews for all genres. Enables you to submit your own review of a CD for inclusion in the database. Includes a list of one-hit wonders.

The Mammoth Music Meta-List @ VIBE

Contains a directory of music-oriented Web sites. Includes folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz, world, classical, rock, and other styles of music.

Random '80s Lyrics

Generates random '80s lyrics. Once you start, it’s almost impossible to stop!

Random Band Name

Helps you can find a name for that band you're starting. Serves entertainment purposes, and generates names that actually come close to some current actual bands. Examples include Bellybutton Fuzz, No Tears of Happiness, and Barking Seagulls.

Rockmine Archives

Provides a collection (based on 750,000 text clippings, 7,000 hours of rock video, 25,000 hours of audio material, and various memorabilia) of information about British rock and roll. Includes—among other things—rock film posters and artist information.

The Similarities Engine™

Enter the names of your favorite artists to receive a list of other bands or artists in which you might also be interested.

The Ultimate Band List

Offers links to information about any genre or style of music. Includes information not only on Web pages, but on newsgroups, mailing lists, and more.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

Hosted by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University. Contains links to almost every imaginable music-related sites—artists/ensembles, composers, genres, publications, the music industry, general and miscellaneous resources, Usenet groups, research, and more.

Education

Brent Hugh’s Music Instruction Software Page

Focuses on freeware that introduces ear training, music theory and history, and note reading. Also includes lists of instructional materials, online sheet music, and a Music Instruction Video of the Week. Features a brief introduction to Braille music.

MIDI Home Page

Introduces novice and advanced users about how to work with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Includes MIDI archives, explanation of GM and GS formats, downloadable MIDI sequences, as well as links to other MIDI sites and newsgroups.

Neil Hume DJ Page

Provides information on what DJs do and how to go about becoming one. Lessons include an overview of the equipment you’ll need and how to use it, as well as how music works.

Ethnic Music

Abayudaya Jews in Uganda: Music

Documents the songs of the Abayudaya people of Uganda, who converted to Judaism in the 1920s. Contains several audio files of songs, most of which are versions of American-Jewish songs. Also offers photos and information on the history and culture of the Abayudaya people.

Afro-Caribbean Music

Yes, there’s reggae music here, but there’s also everything from Afro Funk to Ziglibithy to suit your musical tastes. Explore Africa and the Caribbean by artist, geographical location, and style. If you get tired exploring this site in English, you can exercise your French capabilities by clicking on the French flag. You’ll also find a list of African/Caribbean night clubs and restaurants in Paris.

Afropop Worldwide

Presents National Public Radio's popular African/world music program online. Features a station guide and program listings, as well as concert schedules, suggested disc lists, artist photos, and even recipes.

Ain't Whistlin' Dixie

Offers a collection of Irish, Scottish, and English traditional tunes played on the pennywhistle and ocarina. Each tune is presented in AU and AIFF formats. Note: AIFF takes 2 to 3 times longer to download.

Ari Davidow's Klezmer Page

Focuses on Klezmer music—a blend of traditional Jewish folk music and jazz. Contains articles, artist profiles, CD reviews, concert and festival information, a guide to radio programs, and contact information for Klezmer musicians. There are also links to sites where you can purchase Klezmer CDs.

Australian Music World Wide Web Site

This goal of this site is to provide information about as many Australian musicians and musical organizations as possible. Currently the site lists over 1160 Australian musicians in all areas of music, with links to over 309 pages. One particularly useful link—Australian Arts and Cultural Sites—contains a wealth of music- and other media-related links.

Bali & Beyond Home Page

Contains information on Gamelan music in general (a form of Indonesian orchestral music characterized by gongs, chimes, and percussion), and Balinese and Javanese Gamelan in particular. Also offers some technical information on musical scales and structure and a glossary of Indonesian music terms.

The Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts

This award-winning site provides information about the Batish Institute, located in Santa Cruz, California, as well as information about Hindustani (North Indian) and Carnatic (South Indian) music. An online journal—RagaNet—includes lessons in sitar and tabla performance.

Celtic Music Index Page

Focuses on Irish music. Contains sheet music for traditional tines, reviews of recent CDs, audio excerpts, and more. If you happen to be in the Milwaukee area and are a Celtic music enthusiast, there's an open invitation to join Dan (this site's creator) in a music session or two at Nash's Irish Castle or the Nomad World Pub.

Ceolas Celtic Music Archive

Claims to contain the largest collection of Celtic music information that is available online. Receives about 1,000 visits a day. The concentration is on Irish and Scottish music, though the music of Wales and Brittany is also represented. Provides a guide to Celtic music resources, artist profiles, discographies, reviews, sound samples, concert and festival schedules. Also featured are tune indexes, music software, a guide to musical isntruments, and links to countless other sites.

Chinese Music Page

Presents an archive of Chinese and Taiwanese music from the pre- and post-liberation eras. Contains many audio samples of traditional instrumental and vocal forms, and music from the folk, ceremonial, and military music genres.

The Clannad WWW Home Page

Features a discography, lyrics, images, interviews, sound bytes, and information about the Irish band, Clannad.

Classical Music Home Page: N.S.Sundar

Provides information on North and South Indian classical music, Indian classical dance forms, an FAQ for rec.music.indian.classical, and an eclectic gallery of photos ranging from musicians to Hindu deities to Mahatma Gandhi. Also includes databases of song lyrics and great personalities of Carnatic (South Indian) music.

Cuban Music

Provides music samples, Spanish lyrics, and English translations of a wide variety of Cuban songs. Most of the audio files are pickups of Cuban radio transmissions collected in the Florida Keys.

Flamenco Home Page

Focuses on the flamenco scene in Madrid. Contains useful information for the would-be tourist and flamenco aficionado about where to see live flamenco performances. There are links to other flamenco sites on the Web. Some information is in Spanish.

Hindi Movie Songs

Focuses on Indian movie songs in the Hindi language. Contains song information and full lyrics. Includes categorized indexes of singers, music directors, lyricists, films, actors/actresses, as well as a searchable song title index.

Home Page of MT&C Music Club

Contains information about Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Cantonese music and recent CD releases. Also presents an opportunity to browse and shop online. Contains full-track listings and pictures of all CDs.

Index of Bulgaria'sounds/

Provides audio samples of folk music from Bulgaria. Represents all the major regional styles. Includes scenic photos of Bulgaria and links to other Bulgarian sites on the Web.

Indian Classical Music

Features an introduction to Indian classical music, excellent biographies of master musicians, and some detailed information about the different ragas and styles of music. Also offers links to online catalogs of Indian CDs and to other Indian music sites.

Indian Music: Recordings and Instruments

Serves as an online source for CDs of Indian music. Claims to be able to get anything in print, and carries over 1,000 titles. Also offers a gallery of Indian musicians featuring photos, biographies, and audio selections. There is also a gallery of music instruments that offers illustrations, descriptive material, and sound samples.

Indonesian Music

Features information on various types of Balinese, Javanese, and Sundanese music and instruments, including the gamelan (Indonesian percussion orchestra) and angklung (a bamboo instrument). Also offers Indonesian song lyrics and links to North American gamelan orchestra pages.

Irish Folk Songs

Provides a searchable database containing the lyrics to more than 300 Irish folk songs. Also provides an alphabetic index for easy browsing.

Larry Aronson Home Page

Contains a variety of information on Afro-pop music, particularly Soukous, a variety of pan-African dance music that originated in Zaire and the Congo. Features recommendations on bands, CDs, and other useful information.

MIZIK

Presents an eclectic collection of world music information and extensive links to other ethnomusicalogy-related sites. Includes discographies, sound samples, reviews, and more.

Music from Africa and the African Diaspora

Contains information on African and African-influenced music and musicians from all over the world, including South America and the Caribbean. Includes articles, artist profiles, and sound samples. Also offers links to the home pages of the various countries. Provides text in English and Spanish.

Northern Journey: Canadian Folk Music Website

This site claims to be "the definitive guide" to Canadian folk music. Covers excerpts from the book Northern Journey: A Guide to Canadian Folk Music, contains information about Canadian folk artists and folk festivals, and reviews some new and recent Canadian folk CDs. There is also a Northern Journey online journal.

Richard Robinson's Tunebook

Offers a collection of sheet music of traditional tunes, primarily from the Celtic lands and Scandinavia. Lets you you access them by title, country, or type (jig, reel, waltz, and so on).

Roots/World Music FAQ

Offers definitions for the terms world music and roots music. Provides basic information on musical styles, notable artists, and musical instruments from a wide geographical area.

RootsWorld: Music on the Net

Offers news, CD reviews, articles, and special features, such as ethnomusicologist Philip Blackburn's Voices of Vietnam essay. There is also a great guide to the music and musicians of Finland.

Russian Music

Contains an archive of Russian singers and their songs. Includes photos, discographies, song lyrics, and audio and video clips. Also offers recommended recordings and where to buy them. Includes folk and pop music.

Samba in Sweden

Focuses on the thriving Brazilian music scene in Sweden. Provides information about current Samba groups and sample some of their music. Offers links to Samba pages, including Finnish and Scottish sites!

Sami's Urdu/Hindi Film Music Page

Serves fans of Urdu and Hindi film music. Offers articles on various singers, musical directors, and lyricists, lists ofsongs indexed by singer, music director, and so forth. Also provides notes and chords of songs, and presents many photos.

Shona Music

Provides information about Shona Music from Zimbabwe, and its typical mix of mbira, marimba, and other indigenous instruments. Contains a directory of Shona musicians and a Shona music bulletin board, and offers many links to other sites with information on Zimbabwe and on African music in general.

Some Peruvian Music

A page from the World Wide Web Server of Peru—Red Cientifica Peruana—this site contains sound files of Andean flute music as well as links to related Peruvian music topics.

Tara: The World of Jewish Music

Offers a wide variety of Jewish music selections. Provides an online catalog, sound clips, and jumps to other Jewish music links.

TuneWeb

Provides an archive of traditional tunes of mostly Celtic (Irish, Scottish, Breton), American, and English origin. Provides complete sheet music for all the tunes, with audio excerpts for many. Categorizes by tune type (jig, reel, hornpipe, and so on).

The Turkish Music Home Page

Hosgeldiniz! This site presents a Turkish music archive and index to other Turkish music sites. Includes articles on Turkish music genres, audio files, discographies, and links to classical, folk, religious, and other music styles from Turkey and Cyprus.

WOMEX '96

This year's"Summit Worldwide of World, Roots, Folk, Ethnic and Traditional Music" will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. WOMEX is a combination of conference, trade fair, and musical showcase. Provides the complete history of WOMEX, a conference schedule, and registration information.

World Music/Boston

Provides schedules and ticket information for world music concerts and festivals happening in Boston. Also supplies short but informative biographies of the performers.

Events

29th Montreux Jazz Festival Official Site

Covers an international jazz festival held annually in Montreux, Switzerland. Contains general festival information, programs, artists' photos and bios, band lineups, a catalog of festival merchandise, and more.

ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS Calendar of New England Folk Concerts

Offers a calendar of concerts, festivals, and events, organized by month, for folk fans in the New England area. Also contains a guide to other print and electronic folk calendars.

Creation 96

Provides information on Creation, the nation’s largest Christian festival, held annually in Mt. Union, Pennsylvania. Includes what visitors can expect, festival history, schedules, performers, speakers, directions, children’s events, and volunteer and merchandise information.

Lollapalooza Information (Unofficial)

Focuses on on what Lollapalooza was and is. Includes details about the multiband festival for every year since 1991. Includes links to the individual home pages of featured bands.

MBNA College Quartet Contest

Includes information on dates, rules, and previous winners of the MBNA Collegiate Quartet Contest. Provides contacts for general information and ways to get involved.

Musi-Cal Performer Index

Provides an international concert calendar for folk, bluegrass, blues, and world music performers, organized alphabetically by artist. Also, add your own concerts.

National Folk Festival

Presents the Australian folk festival. Provides information on the festival, including schedules, performers, tickets, and food and lodging.

Rob Kenney Presents: Kerrville Folk Festival

Provides information about the Kerrville Folk Festival (held in Texas), a major United States folk festival that continues for 25 days starting every May. Contains performance schedules, ticket information, upcoming events, and their limited edition 10-CD set.

Ron Smith Oldies Calendar

A “this week” of events in rock ‘n’ roll history. Includes charts for the number one songs of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, as well as links to “featured” artists.

Strawberry Music Festivals

Contains an eclectic variety of music and the presents the "Strawberry Way" to produce "the finest festival of its type, anywhere."

UFOJOE Presents: Information about Canadian Folk Festivals

Provides information and schedules for dozens of Canadian folk music festivals. Also features a festival discussion group and links to other festival information.

Folk

Fasola Home Page

Provides information resources for Sacred Harp (a form of early American three- and four-part a cappella folk music that traces its roots back to Reformation and Renaissance England) and other American Shape Note traditions of singing.

Folk Music Home Page

Covers every aspect of folk music: artists, albums, commercial resources, concerts, and folk music on the radio. Also contains information on ftp sites, mailing lists, and Usenet newsgroups, as well as links to many other folk music sites.

Folk on the Radio

Provides information on folk and bluegrass music on the radio, submitted by the programs' disk jockeys. Contains station lists, show profiles, and playlists.

Folk Stuff

Presents a directory of information for folk musicians and people designing and building folk and experimental musical instruments. Covers catalogs, books, and periodicals for a wide variety of instruments, including hammered dulcimers, folk flutes, and many others.

Folkbook

Contains all sorts of information about folk music and folk musicians. Provides information on venues, festivals, and concerts, artist profiles, discographies, record labels and distributors, song lyrics, tablatures, and more. Also contains links to Usenet newsgroups of interest.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Provides all the latest and most accurate information about what's coming up. Includes a biography, discography, and tour information.

Southern Folklife Collection

Contains archives of Southeastern American tradition-derived music that includes numerous photographs, interviews, oral histories, video and film documentaries, books, and periodicals. Contains pages on music and musicians in the following categories: early country music, old-time string bands, gospel and spiritual song, and southeastern blues traditions, all illustrated with photos.

Karaoke

Karaoke

Features the history of karaoke, FAQs, and a glossary of terms. Also includes order information for karaoke tunes of all genres from PRO SING and information on karaoke equipment.

Karaoke Home Page

Dedicated to karaoke education. Send for your karaoke catalog and information on ordering karaoke DJ shows. Includes links to cyberspace karaoke sites.

Instruments

Accumulated Accordian Annotations

Provides information on accordians, concertinas, and all free-reed instruments. Includes where to purchase instruments, where to study, and where to get accordion music. Also includes a bibliography of books about accordions.

The Autoharp Page

Brought to you by the Cyberpluckers, this site tells you everything you want to know about the autoharp, including publications, recordings, concert and festival schedules, and how to buy and get started playing an autoharp.

Banjo Tablature Archive

Contains five-string banjo tablature archives in a variety of musical styles, including classical, bluegrass, and jazz.

The Bodhran Page

Focuses on an Irish musical instrument, the bodhran, a goat-skin drum. Includes everything from making, buying, and caring for a bodhran to learning how to play. Provides information on bodhran players, recordings, and concerts.

The Bottom Line Archive

Electronic version of this magazine for electric bassists. Features articles for the practicing electric bass player. Contains all back issues. Also offers photos of musicians and links to various bassists' home pages.

CONCERTINA!

The concertina is a free-reed, bellows-operated instrument related to the accordian. This site contains links to Web sites for concertina or would-be concertina players. Includes information on associated music forms, such as Irish and Morris Dance music, as well as links to tune books.

The Digeridoo Page

Provides information about modern musicians who use the digeridoo—an Australian aboriginal instrument—in their music. Contains artist biographies, discographies, and record labels.

DREAMTIME, The Didjeridu W3 Server

Focuses on didjeridu players around the world. Contains myths, legends, and literature related to this Australian aboriginal instrument, audio samples, CD reviews, cover photos, information on building and repairing didjeridus, lessons and tips on playing, and a didjeridu player's resource guide.

The Drums and Percussion Page

Targets the active drummer or percussionist in all genres of music. Offers transcriptions of drum and percussion pieces, a searchable list of percussionists on the Net, a directory of drum and percussion-related organizations, assorted articles and bibliographies, FAQs, jokes, and links to other drum sites.

GUITAR.NET

Offers instruction via the guitar chord of the week (including sound clip) for those learning guitar. Lets you ask Abe Wechter questions. Also provides access to many files from the Online Guitar Archives.

Harmonica World

A harmonica page located in Japan. Provides harmonica photos and sounds, as well as information on harmonica players, CDs, concerts, even a harmonica festival. Represents all styles of music, although blues and classical predominate.

The Harp Page

Targets the harp or folk harp enthusiast. Includes information on harp societies, publications, and events, as well as links to various harpists' home pages and shops where you can obtain harps.

Historical Harp Society Page

Promotes the appreciation and use of historical harps (i.e. non-modern, folk and art music harps). Contains details about the Society's history, purpose, membership, and—of especial interest to historical harp enthusiasts—information about the Annual Historical Harp Conference and Workshop.

The Horn Players’ FAQ

Provides answers to commonly-asked questions about the French horn. Here, you can find lists of horn music, manufacturers, and dealers, as well as tips on performance techniques and information about horn summer camps and other horn-related Web sites.

IDRS WWW

International Double Reed Society online. Provides information for double reed players (oboists, bassoonists). Contains information on the society, its conference, and membership. Also offers online editions of their two publications, the Double Reed and the Journal of the International Double Reed Society, which contain many articles of interest to practicing musicians, from current and back issues.

Lark in the Morning

Provides information on music instruments for the performance of all types of acoustic music. Provides a wide selection of instruments, books, recordings, and videos for purchase. Also contains various informative articles.

The Mandolin Pages

Focuses on mandolins and related instruments (citterns, octave mandolins, bouzoukis, and more). Features instrument guides, historical information, and images of mandolins. There is also a list of the creator's favorite mandolin recordings.

Musicmaker's Kits, Inc.

Displays online catalog of instruments, providing descriptions and sound samples with each image.

The Official Hammered Dulcimer Page

Provides information on hammered dulcimers, including workshops, festivals, publications, photos, sound samples, musicians, and information on building or buying an instrument.

Phillip Mann's Banjo Tab Collection and Bluegrass Information Site

Contains a collection of banjo tablatures and a variety of other banjo and bluegrass-related information. Also includes Tab Transcriber, a program that transcribes midi files for you.

The Piano Page

Advice and suggestions on everything from buying a piano to its maintenance and service needs. Includes informatoin on humidity control, voicing, and more. Also features the Piano Technicians Guild.

Violette Instruments

Marti Violette is a builder of custom electric basses. You can view and order his products from this site. There are also many other bass-related links here.

Wayne's Lute Page

Offers a collection of lute information. Includes a gallery of old lute art works and photos of new lutes, as well as additional photos of various harps and bagpipes.

Will Clifton, Double Basses and Some Other Things

Will is principal bass player with the Omaha Symphony. This page offers some of his favorite music links—such as to the International Society of Bassists—and miscellaneous information about playing classical or jazz styles on the double bass.

Jazz

Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

Contains information about the organization whose stated mission is "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music. . ." Includes information on jazz events, their museum, instrument recycling, and the Jazz In Schools Program.

Arizona Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Festival

Offers complete schedules and ticket information for this fairly new jazz and blues event held in Flagstaff and brought to you by the organizers of the famous Telluride Jazz Festival. Also provides information on travel and accommodations.

The Electric Gallery

Features paintings and sound samples of blues and jazz greats.

The Hard Bop Cafe™

Serves as a complete guide to jazz in Canada. Includes concert and festival information, jazz on the radio, jazz publications, CD reviews, and more.

Jazz Central Station

Features worldwide club, concert, and festival information, interactive reviews from JazzTimes magazine, recent and upcoming releases, artist reviews, the Jazz Cafe, and the Jazz Market. Also includes official site for the International Association of Jazz Educators.

Jazz Improvisation

Presents a series of articles for a course on jazz improvisation, taught at the University of Wisconsin. Serves as an introduction to the subject. Includes many images of musical notation and photos of jazz musicians.

Jazz in France

Surveys the entire French jazz scene, including festivals, magazines, musicians, jazz on radio and TV, and jazz awards. Provides texts in English and French.

Jazz Net

Your guide to jazz on the Internet. Offers weekly updates and reviews of new jazz sites, as well as links to jazz-related sites.

Jazz Roots

Provides information on the early jazz masters, such as Fats Waller and Benny Goodman. Includes photos, bios, band members, discographies, and other information on the artists' careers.

Pacific Blues & Jazz

Contains a potpourri of jazz information, pertaining to the northwestern United States (mostly Washington). Includes area artists and their recordings, concert and festival schedules, jazz publications, and visual art.

Tom Morgan's Web Site for Jazz and Blues

Presents Tom Morgan, alternative radio station director, freelance writer, and author of From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African-American Popular Music 1895–1930. Features several articles and columns on blues and jazz. One of the best collections of record companies on the Web with links to more than 100 recording labels.

Traditional Jazz (Dixieland)

Focuses on Dixieland music. Provides information on the bands, festivals, publications, societies, and places to hear Dixieland on the radio all over North America. Offers many links to newsgroups, mailing lists, and other jazz Web sites.

Virtual Jazz Fest!

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Provides complete performance schedules, notes on the different musical styles, accommodation information, a survival guide, and a decade of festival posters.

William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz

Contains oral history interviews, recorded music, photographic collections and film, sheet music and orchestrations, and numerous files containing manuscript materials, clippings, and bibliographic references. Contains information about the archive, photos, sound clips, and a complete index to the oral history interviews.

WNUR-FM JazzWeb

Contains information on jazz. Includes essays on the different styles of jazz (accessible from a unique hypermap that reveals their interrelationships), artist bios, discographies, and reviews. Also offers information on festivals, venues, regional concerts, instruments, jazz in the media (radio, television, press), jazz art, and various jazz resources. Continually updated.

Lyrics

Jessica Ross and Her Amazing Mondegreen Circus

A site devoted to misunderstood lyrics from all genres. The line, “Sing us a song yellow pian man,” is a misunderstood line from Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” that goes “Sing us a song, you’re the piano man.” Contains hundreds of lyrics as well as information on how to submit your own.

The Lyrics Page

Search for lyrics by selected text, artist, or song title. Results return full text of songs, including titles and artists.

Twisted Tunes

Bob Rivers as Weird Al Yankovich. Features downloadable hits such as “Strawberry Rehabs Forever” and “I Shot the White House.”

Magazines

Addicted To Noise

Includes interviews with artists like Lou Read, Iggy Pop, and Neil Young. Provides columns by rock critics, including Dave Marsh and Greil Marcus. Offers daily rock news reports. Serves as a guide to rock spots on the Web. Also offers album reviews with sound bytes, movie reviews, rock book reviews, and music and technology columns. Use RealAudio to listen in on Radio ATN, one of the Internet’s only real-time audio radio stations.

Cybergrass—The Internet Bluegrass Magazine

Features everything you'd expect in a magazine, including articles, artist profiles, and an events calendar. Includes reader comments and bluegrass want ads. Also includes a guide to magazines and newsletters and offers links to other bluegrass sites.

Electric Magic—The Led Zeppelin Chronicle

Online edition of the fan magazine and rated “the best” Zeppelin site on the Net. Features photo and article archives, a video valult, information about the band’s appearance on the MuchMusic special and the Montreux concerts, plus much more.

ICE On-Line

Based on the printed publication and offers free trial subscription. ICE Provides information and exclusive articles on upcoming album releases. Also includes release dates that are updated weekly.

Northern Journey: Canadian Folk Music Website

Northern Journey: A Guide to Canadian FolkMusic, the online edition. Claims to be "the definitive guide" to Canadian folk music. Overviews excerpts from the book, contains information about Canadian folk artists and folk festivals, and music, book and video reviews. Also features the electronic version of Maple Roots, a publication of the Canadian Caucus of the North American Folk Alliance.

OffBeat Magazine

Online edition of the monlthly print magazine of the same name, "New Orleans' and Louisiana's only music and entertainment magazine." Features interviews, articles, reviews, polls, and more on the New Orleans jazz scene, as well as club, concert, and festival information, and classified ads.

Stirrings Folk Mag

Online edition of British folk music magazine. Features CD, book, and concert reviews, interviews, concert and festival schedules, news, and more.

Synthesis: Electronic Dance Music Page

A bi-monthly, online magazine format that emphasizes alternative and dance-oriented sounds, including the rave/techno scene, electropop, house, new beat/hardbeat, industrial, and experimental music. Also features the Force One Music service where you can purchase import CDs.

New Age

Bjšrk's—Web Sense

Presents the Web site "of the six senses. . . where sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and intuition" serve as the focus.

Enya—Unofficial World Wide Web Home Page

Provides pictures, sounds, translations of the Irish lyrics, the popular Enya Pages, transcripts of interviews with Enya, Quicktime movies and sound files.

Vangelis—The Man and The Music

Provides information about the man and his music and movies (Bladerunner being the most popular so far). Contains an array of pictures, sounds, and digitized film sequences, as well as a page with links to all of the Vangelis fans in the world.

Organizations & Clubs

American Music Center

Non-profit contemporary music information and resource center. Provides lists of scores, opportunities for composers and performers, information on grants, and links to music indices and AMC publications.

BMG

Lets you explore the universe of music and download sound samples, pictures, and videos of various artists. Provides much of the information in German.

Club ZigZag

Club ZigZag is an “online night club presenting an electic mix of performance and presentation from around Cyberspace and beyond. . .”

Muscle Music, Inc.

Serves the entertainment industry “through a number of services designed to increase the quality and efficiency of music and audio producers, publishers and record companies.” Contains information about music, video and Web services, and previews of artists and bios of Alabama music achievers.

National Music Foundation

The non-profit organization “dedicated to American music and the people who bring it to us.” Features a newsletter, press releases, the American Music Calendar, and links to music sites of all types. Also offers gift shop that includes a cookbook with recipes provided by your favorite country musicians.

Wolverine Antique Music Society

Presents the Wolverine Antique Music Society. Focuses on the preservation of music originally recorded for 78 rpm records. Offers much to the 78 collector and early jazz aficionado. Contains many articles on the music, collecting, and all sorts of technical and resource information pertaining to antique audio. Also contains information on the early record labels, 78 album cover art, and sound clips.

Pop

ABBAnatic

Serves as a source for all the ABBA lyrics. Also includes pictures and links to other ABBA pages on the Web. Contains information on bootlegs and post-ABBA projects.

Amy Grant Site in College Park, MD

Provides information on Amy Grant, including lyrics, the Friends of Amy Newsletter, an articles index, video clips, and the CDLink Voyager page, which lets you play your CDs in a whole new way.

and through the wire

Offers a collection of goodies about Peter Gabriel. Includes lyrics, pictures, and sound bytes. Also includes excepts from his authorized biography, recent news, B-side titles, updates on his “Real World” theme park, and Mojo.

Beastie Boys

Contains all conceivable data regarding the 80s hard rock band, along with more that you probably haven't conceived of.

The Boy George Home Page

Presents information about Boy George in the form of a fan magazine. Includes a discography with all lyrics, pop chart information, photo gallery, sound bytes, and articles and interviews.

The Bryan Adams Home Page

Offers lyrics, reviews, pictures and more. Also provides charts and statistics from around the world.

The Clash

Features a complete discography of all Clash albums and the lyrics to every track. Also offers a chart history of all the hits that made it big.

Caribbean Soul: The Jimmy Buffett Parrot(t)head Page

Includes resources for finding Jimmy Buffett on the Net. Offers tour dates, pictures, sound bytes, and the National Parrothead Raffle to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.

Chicago O(+> Nation

Serves as a resource for Chicago-area O(+> fans and collectors about the Artist Fomerly Known As Prince and his new wife, Mayte. Also shows the entire Former Prince community what Chicago has to offer.

Counting Crows

Provides Counting Crows information. Offers a complete discography, pictures, and an extensive FAQs file. Tells you who "Mr. Jones" really is.

Disgraceland

Provides information about Belinda Carlisle and the Go-Gos. Includes a large image bank.

ELP—Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Provides Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) information. Includes online back issues of the ELP digest and links to other ELP sites.

The Elvis Costello Home Page

Focuses on on Elvis Costello. Includes mailing lists, concert reviews, lyrics, interviews, photos, guitar tablatures, and a complete discography. Also features a page of closely related artists.

Enigma

Provides information on Enigma. Provides a discography of the band and its founding father, Michael Cretu. Also provides mailing list information, a picture gallery, and reviews of Enigma.

EXCESS OF INXS, AN

Includes INXS biographies, discographies, lyrics, pictures, guitar tabs, digital songs, and more.

Finally Found a Page: A Web Site Dedicated to Huey Lewis and the News

Provides biographies, pictures, and information on the band’s obsure releases. Features a Questions and Answers Page as well as a Merchandise Mart, and more.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood Fan Pages

Presents Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the band, online. Provides numerous FGTH resources.

Future Love Paradise: The SealWWW Site

Includes an image oasis, the Seal FAQ file, a lyric library, and more. Includes transcriptions of online conferences with Seal.

Gaia: Olivia Newton-John Home Page

Provides information about Olivia. Offers links to SoulKiss, the ONJ Internet Mailing list, movie information, videos, and a photo collection. Also offers information on how to join the fan clubs.

Gloria Estefan/MSM

Features Gloria and the Miami Sound Machine. Features background information, photo galleries, album lists, and where to read articles about the artist. Also contains video information, recent news, and fan club and mailing list info.

Lloyd Robbins' Moody Blues Page

Serves as a site for people who believe that all the best music was written 25 years ago. Offers links to information about the Moody Blues, including pictures and a discography. Also contains links to Alan Parsons Project information.

The Madonna Home Page

Serves as a means to finding any of a myriad of pages about Madonna on the Web. Includes a link to the Madonna Lyrics Archive, a complete discography, and Madonna's Top 10 List from the infamous Letterman episode. Also includes many pictures.

Men Without Hats: The (Unofficial) Home Page

Offers all the latest discoveries about this 80s band. Includes a complete discography and a few pictures.

Mike Markowski's Beatles Page

Includes a metaindex of other Beatles resources. Provides all the information you need about the Fab Four, including sounds, pictures, lyrics, merchandise, backwards messages, MIDI files, bios, bootleg records, and close encounters stories. Even non-fans will enjoy this site.

The Nicks Fix

Features Stevie Nicks, former lead singer of Fleetwood Mac. Contains Stevie news, album and video information, song lyrics, photos, and more. Also includes several links to other Stevie-related pages.

The Original Mariah Carey Home Page

Targets the Mariah Carey fan. Includes many pictures, links to other Mariah pages, and audio and video files. Also provides fan club information.

The Original Unoffical Elvis Home Page

Everything you ever wanted to know about Elvis. Reports recent sightings and lets you download some pictures and sounds. Brings Graceland to the Net. Includes lyrics, a collectors’ page, a copy of Elvis’ will, and links to other Elvis sites. Also lets you make an Elvis connection and find an Elvis pen pal on the Net.

Pete Lambie's Bruce Springsteen Page

Provides many pictures, lyrics, and more. Links to people who are willing to help you create your own bootleg collection and suggests a way to bring your bootlegs to life by making your own covers.

Planet Janet

Focuses on Janet Jackson. Includes the latest news, tour information, sounds, image gallery, lyrics, and more.

ROSS

Focuses on singer Diana Ross and includes plenty of reminiscence about the Supremes. Also provides information on how to subscribe to ROSS, the official Diana Ross fan club magazine, as well as how to join the fan club.

Simon and Garfunkel Home Page

Offers Simon & Garfunkel and some Paul Simon solo stuff containing many guitar tabs and some information on the duo. Contains a picture gallery and lyrics.

Simple Minds—Good News From the Web

Contains information about the 80s band Simple Minds. Includes a full discography, lyrics, FAQs files, rumors and facts, an auction, biographies, and bootlegs. Also includes many links to other Simple Minds resources on the Net.

The Sinead O'Connor Home Page

Contains an official discography, a biography of Sinead, pictures (including two photos of Sinead with hair), quotations, and additional Sinead information. Serves as a master index to all sorts of goodies.

Roxette: Home Page

Offers information about some tour information, an interactive discography, and many pictures. Also includes information on soloists Marie Fredriksson, Per Gessle, and Gyllene Tider.

Sarah McLachlan Homepage

Focuses on the music and activities of Sarah McLachlan. Includes a biography of Sarah, concert descriptions, FAQs, and links to other must-visit McLachlan sites.

Sting—The Soul Pages

Focuses on Sting. Provides the usual information such as lyrics, images, and sounds. Also provides information on Sting’s non-musical projects, his work with charity organizations, and his artwork. Includes a personal letter to Sting from the Web page’s author.

The 22nd Row

The site for Elton John fans. Features the Elton John AIDS Foundation, bibliography of books about Elton and Bernie Taupin, and information on third-party publications. Links to “A Most Excellent Discography.”

Tori Amos

Includes a special link to Really Deep Thoughts, a mailing list digest about the music of Tori Amos. Also includes many pictures and sounds, and a few QuickTime videos.

VH1 Music First

VH1 online. Features the latest information on various artists, from biographies and videographies to news updates and special features such as downloadable files. Also spotlights the videos and specials playing on VH1. Provides special coverage of events in music culture, a sounding board, and a multimedia library.

Welcome to HIStory!

Serves as the official Sony page for Michael Jackson. Includes graphics and considerable information and depth of thought.

Zar's Paula Abdul

Lionizes the Paula Abdul, complete with sound bytes, QuickTime videos, and plenty of pictures. Also includes personal information about Paula.

R&B

Biscuit Time on Blues Web

Possibly everything you ever wanted to know about the blues. Offers news, CD reviews, a great selection of audio files, photos, extensive biographies of musicians, articles, links to other blues sites, and more.

The Blue Highway

Offers a tour through delta blues country, introducing the blues immortals along the way. Includes photos and biographies accompanied by a road map of the route you take. Also lets you enter comments and read those of others who have traveled the blues highway.

Bluenote

Contains the FAQs from the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.bluenote. Contains basic information on blues and jazz.

BluesNet

Contains biographies of musicians, an archive of photos (many previously unpublished), a feature on teachers, and many informative articles. Lets you leave your comments in the guest book. Offers links to other major blues sites.

DC Blues Home Page

Provides information on concerts, events, and venues in the Washington, D.C. area. Lets musicians submit information regarding their own concerts to include in the schedule. Features sounds, pictures, and reviews of D.C. area musicians. Also provides information on the DC Blues Society.

House of Blues

Offers QuickTime virtual reality scenes. Includes concert schedules, music and video samples, blues bios, and more.

Live Blues and Blues Radio, Steamin' Stan Ruffo

Introduces Steamin' Stan Ruffo to the Internet community as a singer, songwriter, blusician, world-reknowned harmonicator, as well as producer and host of the blues radio show, Blues On Tap, on Visalia's K100 99.7FM. Also offers links to other music and nonmusic-related sites.

Recording

Patrick's Musicians' Page

Contains information about Patrick's musician's referral service and Web page service. Also provides information about Patrick's band and offers links to other regional/unsigned bands of all types.

Marketing Music on the Web

Provides marketing information for independent labels and alternative groups. Includes catalog services with price lists and sound bites, online ordering information, and links to promotional sites.

Moneymaking Music Resources

Everything you need to know about to turn a profit from your musical talents. Features marketing and sales secrets, and tips on improving composition and songwriting. Also includes the S.U.R.V.I.V.A.L resource guide and a one-year free subscription to Musician’s Business Building Bookshelf.

Planet StarChild

Serves as a music resource for artists and new music fans around the world. Offers home pages and Internet marketing help for indpendent artists and labels.

Rock

Aerosmith

Focuses on Aerosmith. Includes pictures of the band and downloadable sound bytes. Provides tour dates, concert tickets, quotes from lead singer Stephen Tyler, and other recent Aerosmith news. Also offers tabs and chord charts.

The David Bowie File

Chronicles the life of David Bowie. Provides information about his albums, movies, and videos.

The Death of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Contains samples from Jeff Pike’s book of the same name. Features “Untimely Demises, Morbid Preoccupations and Premature Forecasts of Doom in Pop Music.” Sections include heroin deaths, famous death dates, and “Beatles Bugouts.”

The Grateful Dead

Helps you keep your Eyes on the Dead. Includes everything from lyrics, pictures, and sounds to song chords, rumors, and Dead icons. Offers links to Garcia memorial pages, set lists, and tape trading networks. No need to keep Surfing Down the Web Feelin' Bad.

Green Day

Focuses on the band Green Day. Also offers links to plenty of other Green Day Net resources and links to other bands that sport a similar sound.

Hanspeter Niederstrasser's Def Leppard Page

Focuses on this eighties band who defined modern metal. Provides all you might need to complete your collection. Includes complete lyrics, band history, images, and sounds. Also presents a guest book and survey to fill out so you can express your opinion about the band.

Hyper Idol II

Represents every album as a separate page with images and lyrics to every song. Contains a growing collection of images besides those found on the albums.

Iron Maiden Page

Offers a collection of album covers and a running commentary on the meaning and value of each album. Includes many pictures.

Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros

Contains the latest facts on the bands. Provides detailed discographies, pictures, and sound samples from both Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros. Also contains links to many other Web pages (like Woodstock '94) and ftp sites.

Jethro Tull Music Archive

Focuses on the band Jethro Tull. Provides information about the band and its whereabouts. Includes lyrics to all the band's songs, tour dates, a comprehensive FAQ list, and more.

The Kinks Web Sites

Includes everything from pictures, sounds, and videos to a complete discography and lyric database.

KISS OTAKU

Details on KISS conventions, the reunion tour and tribute bands, and fanzines. Features a fan finder, sound files, trade pages, and photos (including candid shots and Beavis and Butthead as Gene and Paul).

The L.A. Rock & Roll Road Map

Contains L.A.-area maps, addresses, and pictures of hangouts where you can run into or reminisce about your favorite musicians and bands. Visit Chateau Marmont, former “home” of the Doors’ Jim Morrison, or The Rainbow, the hangout of the likes of Led Zeppelin, Keith Moon, and John Lennon.

Led Zeppelin Home Page

Focuses on Led Zeppelin. Includes links to the Digital Graffiti mailing list, plenty of pictures, a discography, lyrics, and guitar tabs. Also offers a link to a Zeppelin page written in French.

Mazzy Star Home Page

Focuses on Mazzy Star. Includes an "unofficial" discography and an ever-growing picture page. Also includes a video clip from the Jesus & Mary Chain.

Meat Puppets Home Page

Offers information on the band Meat Puppets, including photos, sound files, interviews, band art, discography, and guitar tabs.

Merger

Presents Merger, an original rock-and-roll band in the Los Angeles, California area.

Metallica

Features photos, tablatures, links to other Metallica sites, and information about the band—including the members’ favorite beers.

MOTLEY CRUE

Contains general information about the band Motley Crue, as well as sound and video clips and a discography. Links to other Motley sites.

nine inch nails: the unofficial home page

Targets the intense fan. Provides photos, lyrics, and frequently asked questions. Also offers chords, interviews, and reviews.

Phish.Net

Leave thoughts of Wilson behind as you enter this world of FAQs, photos, graphics, and show reviews, then run like an antelope through links to phan pages, the Helping Phriendly Book, and more. Stay up-to-date on tour info and band rumors. Unite, Lizards, and free Gamehendge!

The Pink Floyd Home Page

Includes many pictures, lyrics, a discography, and more. Also offers transcribed interviews with band members. Also offers a downloadable Pink Floyd screen saver.

Queen

Includes an art gallery, lyrics and discography, video samples, audio samples of classic tracks, and reviews. Discussions on Queen’s last album, “Made in Heaven,” information on the upcoming Queen game, and frequently updated news.

RADISH—Hot Original Rock!

Presents RADISH, an original rock band from Greenville, Texas (just east of Dallas), that plays original rock music as well as other classic rock. Introduces RADISH band members, Ben Kweller, Lauren Hamilton, and John David Kent.

Rock and Roll Hall of Shame

Features “performers who deserve a very special place on the mantelpiece—right up there with, say, your mood ring collection.” Categories includes the Kings Of Shame (Milli Vanilli), Lyrical Letdowns, Haute Rocks, and Flops on Film.

Rolling Stones Web Site

Contains a vast collection of sounds, pictures, and interviews. Includes a few pages especially for the new HotJava browser by Sun Systems™.

Room Full of Mirrors: The Official Jimi Hendrix Web Site

Provides many Jimi goodies. Sponsored by the Jimi Hendrix Foundation. Includes information about the “On the Road Again,” traveling exhibition, astrological charts, the “Searching for Jimi Hendrix” documentary, a personal memoir and the Virtual Museum.

Stranglehold—The Ted Nugent Page

Provides information about the Nuge. Includes a complete discography, pictures, articles, reviews, tour dates, FAQs, lyrics, and information on the fan club. Also features his “Spirit of the Wild” television show.

Welcome to the Jungle

Features information about the band Guns ‘n’ Roses. Includes a complete discography, lyrics, image gallery, and tour information. Also includes guitar tabs and interviews with the band.