Sheila Weller: Girls Like Us

Sheila Weller: Girls Like Us - Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation -- female version -- but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation has never been written -- until now, through their resonant lives and emblematic songs. Filled with the voices of many dozens of these women's intimates, who are speaking in these pages for the first time, this alternating biography reads like a novel -- except it's all true, and the heroines are famous and beloved. Sheila Weller captures the character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new information

Pitchfork.tv

Pitchfork.tv - Live recordings, interviews, and music videos from indie and alternative rock, post-punk, and experimental musicians and bands. Produced by Pitchfork Media

Misu

Misu - Mi iPod is Su iPod, Misu is an application thats lets you add the music on one iPod to another. It's software that lets you share the music you love with your friends for $19

Thisis50

Thisis50 - 50 Cent brings you in-depth and all access as he answers his friends' questions, brings you behind the scenes, and checks out your talent all right here

Mixwit

Mixwit - Create and share "mixtapes" - music, pictures, photos, art, and whatever you want

Muxtape

Muxtape - A simple way to create and share mixtapes

We7

We7 - We7 offers ad supported free music downloads so the artist still gets paid. Four weeks after the download, the track can be converted to an ad-free format

SpiralFrog

SpiralFrog - Ad-supported free music and video download site that advertises while music is downloading. Majority of revenues go to music publishers and labels who own the music

Slam!TV

Slam!TV is the TV twin of the popular dutch music station Slam!FM, Holland's youngest music station. Mostly international Pop, rap and rnb

Orange Music

"Austria now has a music platform, Orange Music, featuring exclusively Creative Commons licensed music with over 88 bands on board for launch day. Orange Music seems to accept submissions rather readily, and while the platform focuses primarily on Austrian groups, international contributions seem welcome as well"

Soundzabound Music Library

Soundzabound Music Library was founded by educators in 1996. As visionaries, they could see the need for music as technology emerged in education. Along with the exciting possibilities, they could also sense the growing dangers of copyright compliance

Indaba Music

Indaba Music is a place for musicians to find one another, create and remix music, and showcase their work. Record with our online session console, find musicians around the world, and blog about your new creations

Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license

Nine Inch Nails has released Ghosts I-IV, a collection of 36 new instrumental tracks that are available to the world under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license

Online Radio Stations

Online Radio Stations - Offers free Internet radio stations, including live radio and music stations

Jazz Loft Project

Jazz Loft Project - Documents an underground New York loft scene. Devoted to preserving and cataloging W. Eugene Smith's tapes, researching the photographs, and obtaining oral history interviews with surviving participants of the loft participants

Mozes

Mozes - Receive text messages from your favorite bands and brands. Build your own mobile broadcast list and send messages to your fans

Rock Street Journal

Rock Street Journal - Online version of the print magazine Rock Street Journal, featuring news, articles, gigs, and artist information from India

Clash Music

Clash Music - Music magazine covering music news, gigs, reviews, features, and interviews. Find everything from the hottest new artists to the latest in fashion and film

Songza

Songza - "allows users to search for any song or band and listen immediately using a simple, elegant interface. It is rapidly becoming the central place on the Web to find and listen to music. Artists can benefit from the visibility of music on Songza by participating in our Self-Promotion Beta Program. Your song will be featured in the Recommended list on the Songza homepage (where tens of thousands of listeners will see it and can listen); you also get to define the links that appear next to your song while it's playing so that people can buy the song or visit your band's website"

CD Baby DIY Music Podcast

CD Baby DIY Music Podcast - begun May 2007 and how has 21 podcasts available for downloading

SonicLiving

SonicLiving - Lets you know when great music is coming to town, how to get tix and who else is going. The service scans your iTunes, last.fm or pandora to add events to wishlists (artists you'd like to see play live) based on music you already listen too. You can also add the RSS to your iCal and see events on your iPhone

FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes - Aggregates music videos, photos, news, bios, and more from the best music sites all over the Web

The Regrettable Music Blog

The Regrettable Music Blog - Dedicated to panning the hideous things people do to music. Featuring album covers, live performances, music videos, and links to the ghastly songs themselves

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. Now available at Oxford Music Online is Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music - online for the first time by popular demand. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, the Encyclopedia is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative — and incredibly fun to read.

Coming in early 2008 is a complete redesign of Grove Music Online that includes not only functional updates and enhancements, but also the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content.

Later in 2008, Richard Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music will be offered through Oxford Music Online for a one-time purchase fee. This outstanding resource sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history

Musgle

Musgle originates from the idea of combining words Music and Google. The idea is simple yet very powerful. To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit 'Enter' - you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results

The Indie Venue Bible

The Indie Venue Bible is a revolutionary live music venue directory that was created with the needs of the touring/live performing artist in mind. It lists over 26,000 venues and 2000 booking agents in the US and Canada

Audiobaba

Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. Until now, there was no easy to way to browse for new music. Audiobaba lets you tell it what kind of music you like and returns results that sound like it but are in fact different. Because deep down we just want more of the stuff we already like

LastFm frees the Music

As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.

Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be. Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and Germany, and we're hard at work broadening our coverage into other countries. During this initial public beta period, each track can be played up to 3 times for free before a notice appears telling you about our upcoming subscription service. The soon-to-be announced subscription service will give you unlimited plays and some other useful things. We're also working on bringing full-length tracks to the desktop client and beyond.

TxtTunes

TxtTunes - Allows users to download songs as mp3s or ringtones and pay for them by charging the price to a cell phone. Users can also join an online music community and receive artist updates via text message

New Blog: Voice of America African Music Treasures

Enjoy African music? Now you can listen to it on a VOA blog. The Voice of America has launched African Music Treasures, its first blog designed especially for African music fans around the world. Matthew Lavoie, host of VOA's popular Music Time in Africa music show, will moderate the blog featuring music from VOA's extensive and rare African music collection, music commentary, audio clips, bios of interesting musicians, and chats with online participants. "Our archive is overflowing with rare music from every country in Africa," said Lavoie. "I'm excited to share it with my fellow enthusiasts," he added

A2IM

A2IM - American Association of Independent Music is a coalition of independent labels promoting fair music trade, musicians rights, and the distribution of independently produced music on mainstream radio and television

Free Music Zilla

Free Music Zilla - Find and download music from streams on social music sites like Pandora, Imeem, Last.fm, MySpace Music, and more. Site features a blog and forum

DanceJam

DanceJam - Hammer is back with this site for uploading and viewing hip hop dancing, rapping, and jamming. Users who upload the best dance videos win prizes and internet fame

TelevisionTunes.com

TelevisionTunes.com - "Here you will find tonnes of TV theme music and songs from yesterday and today. Browse our huge archive of 4,024 theme songs using the index above or below. All of the theme music is in MP3 format"

CDT Posts Music Download "Warning List"

"Center for Democracy and Technology has created a list to alert consumers about music download Web sites that charge fees and claim a large selection, but do not appear to have obtained licenses to ensure that users' downloads from the site are legal. Consumers looking to download music lawfully for the new computers and MP3 players they receive this holiday season may want to check CDT's list before paying money to unfamiliar but legitimate-looking music services. CDT hopes that warning consumers about these sites can help avoid confusion and promote the continued growth of the lawful online music market"

imeem

imeem is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends

CD Art Display

CD Art Display - Displays music cover art based on what your media playing is currently playing, also adds player control features to the desktop

Dan Fogelberg - 1951-2007

Dan Fogelberg - Official site of of the late Dan Fogelberg includes a biography, discography, lyrics, and photos

RemixToolkit.com

RemixToolkit.com - Develops professional hip hop and R&B sample libraries for remixers, DJs, and producers

NewMusicBox

NewMusicBox is a Web-based advocacy magazine and portal dedicated to the music of American composers and improvisers and their champions. A multi-media publication from the American Music Center, NewMusicBox offers: in-depth profiles, articles, and discussions; up-to-the-minute industry news and commentary; coverage of upcoming performances and new books; plus a direct portal to our internet radio station, Counterstream, where visitors can hear recordings of American music as well as special programs

Free Christmas Music from Magnatune

Create an elegantly merry mood with the Magnatune Christmas Compilation, featuring over 60 minutes of the most timeless and classic carols of the season, by ten of Magnatune's best-selling artists

Listen for Life

Listen for Life - a global organization created for the preservation and advancement of musical culture by serving the needs of music, musicians and music listeners in every region of the world. Through our variety of outreach, education and media projects, we aim to create an international family of music listeners, in community with those who compose, teach, and perform all of the wonderfully diverse musical styles that can be heard on the planet

Anywhere.FM

Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to:
Upload your entire music collection
Play it anywhere on the best web music player
Discover new music through Friend Radio

Barron's publishes Rock & Roll Heaven

Rock & Roll Heaven: A Fascinating Guide to 200 Musical Icons Who Have Joined the Great Gig in the Sky by Robert Dimery and Bruno MacDonald, published by Barron's

BoomShuffle

BoomShuffle - An online music experience that lets you and your friends collaborate to create great music mixes you can stream from anywhere on the Web. It's a fun way to make mixes that play back all the hottest tracks, in their entirety, for free. Think of BoomShuffle as an Internet radio station where you and your friends are the DJs. You all choose the songs that make up the mix.

Soundsnap

Soundsnap - Community-powered library with free sounds, sound effects, loops, and beats.

MuViBee

MuViBee - Search music videos from a variety of different sources. Browse by artist, album, genre, or charts. Build a video list and/or watch other users' video lists

NPR: Music

NPR: Music - Free, multi-genre multimedia site that presents the best of public radio music

Hitlab

Hitlab is an online lab where musicians can come and test out their songs to find out if they have a potential hit on their hands! Hitlab uses revolutionary DHS technology (Dynamic Hit Scoring) which compares your song's hit potential to the Top 100 Billboard hits of the past 6 years! And Hitlab is also holding a contest where you could see your dreams of getting a record deal fulfilled! With key players of the music industry on the jury listening in on your creations, your song could be the next one to top the charts!

TMF Pure

TMF Pure is a music video channel based in Netherlands, and is part of the MTV Networks Europe. It shows non stop pop music videos and occasionaly MTV's programmes like cribs, the Osbournes etc.

MTV Brand New

MTV Brand New shows alternative, punk and rock videos 24 hours a day without any commercial breaks. In the evening the channel also broadcasts MTV Live shows as well.

RCRD LBL

RCRD LBL is a network of ad-supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music streams and downloads from emerging and established artists

Stairway to Digital Heaven

"Led Zeppelin joins the digital age by making their entire catalog available on iTunes. This is a big deal for digital music lovers, even if you're not a fan of Led Zeppelin (and really, who's not a fan of at least one Zep song?). Maybe this will force the hands of stubborn bands who continue to resist the way of the Web" - The Spark

EsFresh

EsFresh allows you to watch every version of music videos, lyrics and many more for each song by your favorite artists and make your own Playlist. You can discover new music using our new Radio Station where you type a Genre or an Artist and esFresh plays similar Music

Berkleemusic Directory

Berkleemusic Directory - Music network and directory of musicians, engineers, producers, web designers, composers, and instructors. From the Berklee College of Music in Boston

Project Playlist

Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool similar to Google and Yahoo! but devoted entirely to the world of music. Our purpose is to help you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find webpages, images, and other media, but we also add a social /community twist. We make it easy for you to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others

Nexstage

Nexstage has been created by writer-performer Brenda Baker to help emerging musical artists take their live shows to the next stage of development

Musician Leader

Musician Leader - allows musicians and bands to network, find members, join a band, and publish their music online. Site features listings for musicians, bands, venues, and recording studios

KylieKonnect

Singer Kylie Minogue has launched her own social networking website for her fans to communicate with each other. The KylieKonnect website enables fans to create personal profiles and upload images, as well as "keep up to date with all the very latest on Kylie"

Oomix

Oomix - a site that allows musicians to collaboratively make and sell music online while each getting paid a portion of the revenue. Has creative tools for both the amateur and professional musician

Music-Alerts

Music-Alerts - uses Amazon to deliver RSS album alerts when an artist is about to release a new album. There's no registration. Just type in a list of artists and create a feed. As soon as it's in Amazon's system, you'll see it in your feed

Xclusivetrax

Xclusivetrax - Offers digital access to exclusive hip-hop songs, videos, and news. Members can also upload their own songs, blog, bio, and photos

AFA Music Group to Launch Digital Music Label

AFA Music Group, Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company is planning to launch its own full-service digital music label in early 2008. The label will encompass all aspects of a traditional record label including music distribution, marketing, publishing and merchandising. This endeavor will enable AFA Music Group to maximize revenues from its ownership in the master recordings. AFA Music Group plans to launch the label in the first quarter of 2008 and make music downloads, merchandise, art work, photos, and other artist information available through the Company's Web site, www.afamusic.com. At that time, the Company will announce additions to its roster of artists and simultaneously launch an aggressive marketing campaign, both domestically and internationally, to promote the label and the artists

Ruby Glover dead at 77

Vocalist Ruby Glover died a day after collapsing onstage during a benefit performance in East Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun said Monday. She was 77

International Music Score Library Project shut down

Feldmahler writes: "On Saturday October 13, 2007, I received a second Cease and Desist letter from Universal Edition. At first I thought this letter would be similar in content to the first Cease and Desist letter I received in August. However, after lengthy discussions with very knowledgeable lawyers and supporters, I became painfully aware of the fact that I, a normal college student, has neither the energy nor the money necessary to deal with this issue in any other way than to agree with the cease and desist, and take down the entire site. I cannot apologize enough to all IMSLP contributors, who have done so much for IMSLP in the last two years..."

Rhapsody on TiVo

"With Rhapsody on TiVo, you can choose from millions of songs, search for your favorites, tune in to continuous music on Rhapsody Channels, and build your own library straight from your TV using your TiVo remote. Whether you're in the mood for classical, hip-hop, or anything in between, it's all just a few clicks away. And with a Rhapsody membership, you can listen all you want, without the need to buy individual songs"

Jeff Beck announces rare shows

Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck has announced six shows in five days at the world-famous Ronnie Scott's Club in London’s Soho, running from November 27 to December 1. With a band featuring drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, keyboardist Jason Rebello and female bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, Jeff will be performing a wide selection of material over the week. Ronnie Scott's only holds 200 people and has recently had a GBP3 million makeover. No seat is more then 50 feet from the stage. So this is a rare opportunity to catch one of the world’s greatest guitarists in a very intimate environment

Rap Video

Rap Video - Featured rap artists, video spotlights and archives, reviews, and new DVD releases

The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine - A site that tracks music blog discussions from MP3 blogs. The goal? To make music discovery fun and promote artists

Hip Hop Roll

Hip Hop Roll - Hip Hop Roll is industry news, photos, and articles presented in a blog format and browsable by subjects like romance, sightings, rumors, interviews. Also includes bios for popular hip hop stars

Mixaloo

Mixaloo - brings the art of the mix-tape into the digital age. Explore a library of over three million songs and arrange unique music mixes that express your complex self

Lily branches out with record label

First it was fashion, and now pop princess Lily Allen is reportedly looking to expand her brand with her very own record label. The Smile singer, who is also in talks about producing her own TV show, is said to hope the stable will launch homegrown talent from around the world. It comes as the 22-year-old recently ditched her management company after she failed to break the US and pick up any major awards this year

Musopen

Musopen - "an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music"

Open Mouth Media

Open Mouth Media - Share Songs & Video. Blog. Create radio stations. Print On-Demand CD. Sell or Purchase Event Tickets. Create a Forum

Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media - Record reviews, plus daily music news, and features

ONE WAY Music Magazine

ONE WAY Music Magazine - Showcases new and classic rock, jazz, blues, singer-songwriter, acoustic, world, folk, and roots music with features, spotlights, and reviews of DVDs, soundtracks, music software, and audio equipment

TempoStand

TempoStand is an online musical portal that promotes independent bands, artists, and musicians in India by using CC-licenses. TempoStand records tracks for groups and then releases these recordings under a CC-India BY-SA License, allowing people to remix and redistribute the tracks as they see fit

Record companies win music sharing trial

"The recording industry hopes $222,000 will be enough to dissuade music lovers from downloading songs from the Internet without paying for them. That's the amount a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay for sharing copyrighted music online" - AP

Daniel Pearl Music Days

Daniel Pearl Music Days - An international network of concerts using the power of music to reaffirm commitment to tolerance and humanity. Inspired by the legacy of journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, World Music Days uses the universal language of music to spread a message of hope and unity across cultural divides

The Year the Music Died

The Year the Music Died (which was 1972) is packed with information, stories, trivia, and photos relating to the "golden era" of pop music between 1964 and 1972. Author Dwight Rounds covers the Beatles and their music in depth, including a separate chapter devoted to John Lennon. Subsequent chapters covering the Rolling Stones, Byrds, Doors and CSNY, are followed by sections on all the other influential groups of the era. Rounds also discusses the major music festivals of the time (Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and the Isle of Wight), followed by history and commentary of the social movements of the time

Rapture TV

Rapture TV mix quality music across all tastes and trends, also covering sports, comedy and different film genres

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows - Amy Lee, the singer and song writer for the rock group Evanescence, represents and raises money for this campaign and fund for epilepsy research and awareness

Naija Jams

Naija Jams - Nigerian music blog featuring news, photo galleries, concert information, and discussion about afrobeat, hip hop, soul, juju, reggae, and highlife

Harptallica

Harptallica - Official site of Harptallica, the Metallica tribute duo of two female harpists playing old and recent Metallica classics. Site includes audio samples and their CD

musicOMH.com

musicOMH.com is a diverse and completely independent reviews and features publication, covering music, films and theatre in London, the UK and beyond. Editorially it occupies a space somewhere between newspapers and specialist music magazines

60's & 70's Asian Pop Record Covers Photo Gallery

60's & 70's Asian Pop Record Covers Photo Gallery - Gallery of rare Asian pop singles from the 1960s and '70s

Amazonmp3

Amazonmp3 - official site of Amazonmp3, offering MP3 downloads of popular and classical music, new releases, and more, in a format suited to any media player

Kompoz

Kompoz - A social workspace and music collaboration tool for musicians. Use it to compose new music with other artists around the world. Whenever you got an idea for a song, record a track, upload it, then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else to it

2007 MOBO Awards

The Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards 2007 will be held on 19 September

LastGraph

LastGraph - a web-based system for making pretty wavegraphs of your Last.fm musical profile. The charts have time along the horizontal axis, and number of plays on the vertical; think of it as sort of a stacked line graph, but centered, smoothed, and generally nicer

WeBot

WeBot - Stream your songs from more than one machine at a time. Is your music scattered across disparate PCs? Are you never sure which computer you'll be in front of next? Download the client software on each machine, select the directories where your music hides, and you can stream your songs from any web interface

Artist Management Resource

Artist Management Resource - Artist Management Resource from the Indie Managers Association provides music industry information and resources for artist managers and self-managed artists

The Mersey Beatles

The Mersey Beatles - Tribute band from Liverpool, U.K. Site features band info, reviews, show details, and photo gallery

Led Zeppelin reunite for Ertegun tribute

Led Zeppelin will perform a one-time comeback concert in memory of Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records. The band will perform together for the first time in 19 years on Nov. 26, at London's The O2 venue, on the banks of the River Thames. Promoters said the concert would pay tribute to Ertegun - the label boss who popularized Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin - who died in December at age 83

Musigy

Musigy - Our technology makes it possible for people to make live music together over the Internet. Just plug in your guitar, keyboard, microphone or whatever you've got, and make music with other members of the Musigy community. It's as if you're in the same room! You see each other on a video screen and play in synch. Musigy Maker offers high-quality sound and ultra-low delays. And best of all, it's free!

Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti dies at 71

World renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in the northern Italian city of Modena. The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, was 71. His charismatic performances - particularly alongside fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras - helped bring a new audience to opera. Pavarotti had cancer surgery in July 2006 in New York, five months after his last performance. He had not made any public appearances since then

Soundcrank

Soundcrank - Rediscover the digital music experience with this new community. Voice your opinions, find people and information to connect with, and get recommendations from your peers

Music Arsenal

"Music Arsenal is a music industry business management tool. Our web application helps record labels, booking agents, managers, promoters and anyone else in the music industry manage their companies in an easy way"

Mubito

"Mubito gives musicians and independent record labels the tools to create and manage official music sites, and their online promotion and distribution. Mubito is so simple and powerful that you’ll never need a webmaster again"

SkreemR

"SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. We don't actually host any files - we index what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. Our goal is to make this content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible"