Beta Lounge: Hear the Web
The Beta Lounge is a hybrid form of
Web-based entertainment that brings live electronic music, video, and chat to a worldwide
audience. Each Thursday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. PDT, the Beta Lounge artists mix
experimental electronic music and broadcast it live, integrating RealAudio tracks with
live video feed. Real-time chat and a call-in 800 number let visitors interact with
internationally famous musicians and each other.
Acid Jazz Server
The Acid Jazz Server reeks of some way
funkdoobie vibes. This site knows its stuff and provides just what the acid jazz
aficionado needs - an ever-growing listing of acid jazz labels, magazines, clubs, and
more.
Addicted to Noise
As Colin Berry wrote about this site in
"Addicted
to Noise" in Wired 3.12: "ATN wraps eye-catching graphics
around in-depth journalism, daily news dispatches, and a dollop of strong opinion,
covering artists from Guided By Voices to REM with equal aplomb."
All-Music Guide
Look for even the most obscure records
with their search engine. Who knows, you might finally complete that Power Station
collection after all.
Allstar
A daily magazine that covers music from
guitar rock to trip hop, powered by hotshot online music publisher N2K. News comes in by
the hour, and a gossip column snakes down the right side of the page. The design is sharp,
but download-intensive. Bonus points for using comic-book artist Adrian Tomine's work as a
design element. Search for full text of the 900 record reviews and back news stories in
their archive.
Arts Wire
Arts Wire includes a weekly digest of arts
news and Web Base, a self-service database of cultural resources on the Web.
BMG Classics
Search for the BMG-branded recordings of
your fave classical music composers and performers.
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Chick Rock
Chick Rock ain't just an online valentine
to drummergrrrls and pop vixens. It's a unique guide to women in rock, sprinkled with
links, interviews, and even a recommended-reading list.
Classical Net
Scrawled on an ivory e-parchment
background, the Classical Net homepage is the resource for aural highbrows. Resources
include a basic repertoire of how to find and explore music, a CD buying guide, composer
data, newsgroups, and related Web links. Be sure to visit the composer "Death Day
List" - a delightfully morbid trivia zone. Check here for help on
search rules and a description of the output from the search process.
CultureFinder
Offers artist profiles, theater news, and
a searchable index of complete season schedules for orchestra, opera, and dance companies
in the United States and Canada.
Disco Web
Take cover, the home-grown Disco Web
wields a 470K MPEG virtual disco ball, as well as links to info on disco history, a
discography, suggested CDs, and the international Leisure Suite Convention.
Epsilon
Epsilon provides a resourceful ambient
info archive with lists of recommended albums, artist bios, reviews, label info, related
links, and an exhaustingly deferential Brian Eno e-shrine, christened "EnoWeb."
Home Recording Rights Coalition
The HRRC houses information and original
source documents on legislative and lobbyist attempts to restrict the American consumer's
access and use of new home-recording technology.
IUMA
The Internet Underground Music Archive,
aka IUMA ("I-yoo-MAH"), is an online corporate jukebox basking in too many ad
banners and an overly affected '50s kitsch motif. That aside, it's out to show off the
indies - that is, the indies that have somehow managed to be featured in their slick
search index.
Jazz Online
Jazz Online isn't really searchable, but
you can wade through the generous modern jazz coverage without risking a migraine.
Latin Music Online
Latin Music Online forgoes Julio Iglesias
idolatry and opts for a fresh, consistently updated guide to real Latino rock, salsa,
jazz, and merengue. The site is enriched with intelligent artist interviews, news flashes,
concert dates, reviews, and a weekly RealAudio sermon by Latin music personality Luis
Manuel. Best of all, Latin Music Online is 100 percent Gerardo-free.
Music Boulevard
Big online music store, run by digital
music publisher N2K or "Need to Know." You can pre-order CDs here and get them
as soon as they come out.
nineup
An innovative and highly entertaining site
that spews live audio and video feeds from a San Francisco rehearsal studio every other
Saturday afternoon from 4 to 8 p.m. Pacific time. Local San Francisco bands jam in an
informal, high-energy atmosphere. Says nineup co-founder and San Francisco music scene
heavyweight Greg "Stringy" Bertens, "It's God's will that people like us
are able to broadcast fucking great music over the free Net."
Operabase
Operabase is a searchable database of info
on opera houses, festivals, performance schedules, and timelines of opera history. Search
for an opera below, or go to the site
to narrow your search.
RadioTower
A handy listing of online music links for
RealAudio listening, divided into Church, Rock, Alt, and Other Music. What other types are
there? Get to Net-only broadcasters here that you won't find on the radio.
SonicNet
One of the largest producers of live
Web-only music broadcasts. Look for the schedule on the site; catch the shows later. The Alt.access section lets you
search their guide to alternative music on the Web.
Strangeways
Strangeways - "The definitive Web
guide to UK Indie Music."
SubSpace
A protein-packed rave resource, SubSpace
showcases music and club reviews, quality rave-related links, and even software samplers
for mixing.
The Industrial Techno Playground
The Industrial Techno Playground is cut
and dried, swing-set-free territory with a lot o' links to industrial magazines, labels,
mailing lists, etc. The site is not often updated.
Wilma
Worldwide Internet Live Music Archive.
"The Internet's only full-service live music information resource."
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