Music

freelance researcher and musicologist - pages mainly about Scottish traditional music

"Exotic, energetic, melodic" music combining guitar and sax with instruments from around the world.

An online electronic music magazine focusing on the Australian scene including news, tour dates, reviews.

Flash site of Belgium based electro performance project with DJing, live voice and special effects. Innovative futuristic style. Audio and visual available for download.

Contains IDM related information, including biographies of artists, record labels, sound files (MP3 and RealAudio format) and a directory of links.

An independent record label based in Central Florida, dedicated to the release and distribution of uncommon and experimental electronic music.

I.D.M. duo, 'The Dark Poets', official home page. News, MP3s, and information can be found on this site.

Daily updated journal devoted to news from I.D.M. world.

Most famous for the "Ambience for the Masses" ambient music informational archive - the largest of its kind on the web.

Listing of live concerts featuring ambient, electronic and spacemusic artists. With show dates, news, compilation information, and links.

Subscription information and text-based/GNU-zipped message archives from October 1994 through the present.

Monthly E-zine covers new music worldwide with features, interviews and reviews. Reviews experimental music avant-garde, electronic music, post-classical, free and free jazz, improv, opera, performance art, and some sculpture, dance, and film.

Online home for the infrequently printed fanzine. Includes interviews from out of print editions.

Play their own variety of Swedish folk music. Contains news, images, videos and mp3s, discography and tour information.

Traditional music from Appenzell, Switzerland. Official site describing the band and their music. [German, English]

Searchable index of recordings and some printed material for folk songs, singers and bands, and record labels.

An independently produced free monthly publication which keeps people informed about the folk scene in Brisbane, Queensland, and interstate.

News about folk, collected from various sources on the web.

Australia's oldest folk club, collecting, preserving and promoting Australian music and dance. Information about events and workshops.

Works to develop folk music and dance in North America. Includes a history, membership information, details of their annual International Conference, and links to regional branches.

Folk, traditional, Celtic, and world music with 24-hour streaming from 89.7 WKSU, Kent State University. Includes information on featured artists.

The official discussion forum for Long Beach rapper Crooked I.

The best hip hop & rap battle community on the face of the earth

Daily hip hop news, audio, and exclusive interviews.

A hip hop news, and media resource blog.

Daily Hip-Hop news and information related to the Hip-Hop culture.

Artist profiles, countdown, album reviews and previews and news.

Philosophical writings and cultural commentary regarding hip hop.

Source for hip-hop and entertainment. New music and videos uploaded daily.

Selection of streaming audio files.

US-based jazz and electronica composer, saxophonist and keyboardist, an online session musician via the Rocket Network.

This site is dedicated to the study of jazz improvisation. The site features original content discussing various aspects of jazz improvisation, theory, licks, chords and practice tips.

Annual winter jazz & ragtime festival in Kecskemét, Hungary. Programme, performer info, gallery & videos, news & ticket information.

A history of jazz before 1930 offering RealAudio files, biographies, discographies, and filmography.

Fan site profiling Cab Calloway, Blanche Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Fats Waller, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and Lil Johnson.

This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz

Photos of jazz events with bulletin board for jazz fans in Goa, India.

This webring is for sites devoted to early jazz and blues.

Searchable database of arias, 177 operas, 65 composers, 389 translations, 1027 aria texts and 223 MIDIs. No longer being updated.

Coverage of opera in Japan; includes monthly schedules, reviews, interviews, international reports, and multimedia files.

All about the award-winning opera, based on the first modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896. Opera and libretto by Luca Belcastro.

A new lyrical grand opera by Gene Tyburn, adapted from Shakespeare.

Includes membership information, history, events, links to other societies worldwide, how to buy tickets to events, and an inventory of library recordings, books and CDs.

A non-profit corporation whose mission is to promote, instruct, create and develop opera and musical theater for Americans. Includes performance dates, production schedules, singers listings, festivals and membership information.

Professor Emeritus at The London Institute, scenographer, director, writer, educator, exhibition curator and international producer creating theatre events in several countries and languages.

Florence, Italy-based competition reserved exclusively for non-Italian singers.

A biennial fund raising concert in Dundee, Scotland to inspire young people by giving them the opportunity to perform with professional musicians.

Purveyors of '60s garage/psych, incredibly strange music, and radically fresh sounds.

Provides an evolving resource about British groups of the 1960s. Extensive list of bands with links to related sites, CD and book reviews, news and a quiz.

Pop music news and information, charts, special artist features and interactive music chat.