8-Track Heaven
If you grew up during the 70s you may still have a bizarre fondness for
these clunky, fragile, and ridiculous dinosaurs of recorded music.
Indulge—ka-chunk.
African Music Encyclopedia
From Afrobeat to Zouk, search for details on music from Africa and the
African Diaspora, by artist or by country.
All About Jazz
All About Jazz is a huge resource for jazz aficionados, created by
independent musicians, writers, and enthusiasts.
All Music Guide
One of the best search engines on the Web of any kind. Search
results contain a synopsis with dozens of links to related information.
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
The Music Never Stopped: This Deadhead's dream includes lyrics for songs,
information on lyric construction, and potential interpretations of the
lyrics.
Argus Music Searcher
This powerful tool searches online stores, archives, magazines, Web pages
and newsgroups for info on your favorite musicians.
The Aria Database
The Aria Database is a searchable reference guide to opera arias by name,
opera, language, and voice type.
Billboard Music Information Search
In association with Northern Light's Special Collections, search for music
reviews, press releases, job listings, or other info from thousands of
music Web sites.
Billboard's Online Review Database
A collection of nearly 20,000 music reviews. Billboard's "picks" or
"recommended" choices are highlighted, and many of the reviews provide
links to Liquid Audio sound samples.
Bluestown.com
Get the blues: radio programs, a 24 hour commercial free station, live &
archived concerts, full length CD's and chat "Speakeasy."
CDDB - CD Database
If you play CDs on your computer, this database can look up and display
title and track information on your PC automatically.
The Classical Midi Archives
More than 7,400 classical music files in MIDI format from over 570
composers.
Classical.net Review & Article Search
A useful resource for comparing different recordings of a single piece of
music, also featuring extensive biographical and supplemental information
on classical musicians.
The Discography Center
This directory of discographies contains links to recording information
for more than 300 musicians and musical groups.
ICE CD Release Dates
ICE magazine's listings of new music release dates, including rock/pop, reissues, blues, country and jazz recordings.
The Instrument Encyclopedia
Descriptions and pictures of musical instruments, including a glossary of
musical terms, information about museum instrument collections in Canada
and the United States, and links.
The International Lyrics Server
Can't name that tune? Search the International Lyrics Server's database of
more than 115,000 song lyrics.
Lyrics HQ
Sing out: the Lyrics HQ database currently boasts lyrics from more than
600 artists, 1100 albums, and over 6000 songs.
Miles Davis Database
Search by tune, sidemen, venue, city, media or group. From Peter Losin, a
quintisential "MF" (Miles Fanatic).
Music in the Public Domain
Information, search tools, and alphabetical lists of more than 3000 songs
in the public domain that may be used royalty-free.
MusicSearch
Artists, events, news, reviews, software, instruments—even groupies are
indexed in this directory of 17,000 reviewed musical listings.
Original Hip-Hop (Rap) Lyrics Archive
Click this link and in a blink they'll be in your face in this search
space... (annotation courtesy my friend Jeff Z, who graciously suggested
this site).
RoJaRo
RoJaRo (Rock/Jazz/Roots) is an index of articles, discographies,
live-/record-reviews in the music press published on the Web.
Tunes.com
Search for music, and access genre-specific programming and content
developed in collaboration with Rolling Stone, The Source and Down Beat.
