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Elwood Blues in The Blues Brothers (1980)
Owned and operated by Mississippi College, in Clinton, MS, Alive 93-5 (WHJT-FM) is a commercial radio station that features adult contemporary Christian music. This Web site offers a searchable index of its Christian music CD collection. Search albums or songs by artist or title.
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.
Music of black origin (worldwide). Searchable index of 10,000+ albums—search by artist, title, year, or label. Note that results are in alphabetical order, by last name for some artists (for example, you’ll find Sergio Mendes under M, not S as in some databases). Also includes music forums ranging from reggae to hip hop to gospel, a Music Exchange buy/sell/swap area, and music reviews.
Because of the longstanding trade embargo between the U.S. and Cuba, very little has been imported from Cuba to the States—and that includes Cuban music. The creator of this database records the music with a boom box from the shores of south Florida and then puts some of it online for the rest of us to enjoy. The site even includes lyrics (in Spanish and then English) for some of the songs.
This isn’t a database of folk music itself; it’s a digest of folk music discussion—the WWW home for Alan Rowoth’s Folk_Music Digest. Read or search the Folk_Music archives (back issues are available as well). Some of the postings are fascinating, even if folk isn’t your favorite genre.
Freidman Publishing publishes a variety of nonfiction titles and this page provides an overview of their Life, Times, and Music Series. Provides links to jazz, rock, classical, Broadway, weddings, kids, music polls, and so on.
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.
For use by teachers in the classroom (or for fun). Songs can be downloaded and printed, or reviewed onscreen. A nice collection of links to other sites as well. The text of the site is in English, but of course the songs themselves are in German. Also includes a collection of MIDI Christmas tunes.
If you’re into guitar music—playing, recording, or listening—check out this site. Hundreds of listings for sites: guitar shops, guitar chords, guitar dealers, guitar publications, guitarists… you get the idea. But it’s not just guitars—everything music seems to be included. (Note: The screen colors may be a little extreme on some browsers.)
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.
Based at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, WNUR-FM plays a variety of interesting music of all genres. The JazzWeb page is devoted to the jazz spectrum. Fairly complete discographies of many popular (and some more obscure) artists. Search for your particular favorites, or roam around in the other sections for something new.
KFJC, 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA, plays a mix of music completely determined by the “on-air host” (note, not DJ). You may hear psychedelic, rock, pop, reggae, hip-hop, western, jazz, experimental—all mixed together. No “hits,” all new. The database follows the same philosophy, providing a wide array of music, some of it fairly obscure, a lot of it rare. Search by label, artist, reviewer, genre.
Contains a directory of music-oriented Web sites. Includes folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz, world, classical, rock, and other styles of music.
Includes lists of the 50 albums voted best, worst, most (?), updated every 10 minutes. Search for favorite artists or albums alphabetically or by individual entry. Lists tracks on each individual album, and includes some reviews.
Billing itself as “the Web’s largest Industrial/Gothic music index,” this site offers more than 3,000 listings of titles divided somewhat arbitrarily by the Webmaster into a variety of categories: industrial, techno, Japanoise, atmospheric, gothic, and others. You can also search alphabetically, of course.
A collection of more than 1,000 traditional British-related folk dance tunes, divided into jigs, reels, hornpipes, and other categories. Most are chords only; some have the score in GIF format. Scores are downloadable in PostScript format in case you want to print them.
Browse over 100,000 CDs and over 1 million songs at this site. Searches the CDDB (otherwise accessible through CDDB-aware CD players—download the information for the CD currently in your CD drive). Search by artist, title—even by song.
Updated daily, this particular database offers more than 35,000 tabs and chords for playing the songs, and more than 5,000 MIDI files. Searchable, of course, by title or artist. Plenty of MIDI files to play or download.
Helps you 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.
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.
A large collection of downloadable music software for use in recording and playing music with your computer. Instructions and assistance provided by the Webmasters. The Music Machine Bookshop, in collaboration with Amazon.com, offers a nice collection of music-related books you can order from the same site.
http://crolinks.cronet.com/cromusic/
http://phys.udallas.edu/rugby/songs/nzsongs.html
A list of Sri Lankan sheet music and lyrics (in PostScript format) for guitarists and singers. Chords are for rhythm guitar. A link is included to the Ghostview site, in case you prefer to view the files onscreen rather than print them.
Enter the names of your favorite artists to receive a list of other bands or artists in which you might also be interested.
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.
Hosted by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University. Contains links to almost every imaginable music-related site—artists/ensembles, composers, genres, publications, the music industry, general and miscellaneous resources, Usenet groups, research, and more.
http://www.accsi.com/music/database.html
http://www.channel1.com/users/fxxm/