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AMG Online Music

http://allmusic.com/amg/om/omroot.html

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

http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad

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

Discographies (and More)

http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs

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.

Friedman/Fairfax Publishers

http://www.webcom.com/~friedman/

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.

GEMM: Global Electronic Music Marketplace

http://gemm.com

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

http://www.hype.com/music/home.htm

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.

Mammoth Music Meta-List @ VIBE

http://www.pathfinder.com/@@DSzPaQAAAAAAANkP/vibe/mmm/

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

Random Band Name

http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/band_names.html

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.

Rockmine Archives

http://www.rockmine.music.co.uk/

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.

Similarities Engine

http://www.ari.net/se/

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

Ultimate Band List

http://american.recordings.com/wwwofmusic/ubl/ubl.shtml

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

http://www.music.indiana.edu/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.