Rock music and R Guide - Resources and Review

Offers original articles and features about music from the 1980s, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists and lyrics.
 
Index to thousands of current digital music resources, mainly in MP3 format, searchable and browsable by artist, letter or genre.
 
Guide to rock music, reviewing the careers and recordings of bands and artists.
 
Offers annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to bands.
 
Offers original articles and features about classic rock music, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources sites, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists' sites.
 
Geographical index to individual artists, and organisations associated with them.
 
Directory of information examining the British music era commonly referred to as the beat boom. Features information about artists and groups arranged alphabetically, weekly British chart hits of the time, the annual poll results from the Mersey Beat newspaper, and a listing of former musicians' current occupations.
 
An automated catalogue of numerous mailing lists relevant to music, with descriptions and subscription details.
 
Offers original articles and features about alternative rock music, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists.
 
Information about old and new bands, labels, stores, festivals, and people of the punk era. Also includes a selection of newsgroups and magazines.
 
An archive of rock music containing news items, articles, and audio and video materials for major artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Doors. Includes footage of the musicians' work, stories written about significant events in their lives, and details of tours, public and film appearances, instruments, video recordings and press conferences. An email alerting service is available to publicise recently added information.
 
Collection of free high
quality music in MP3 format, as well as spoken word, and audiobooks. Genres covered include blues, classical, country, folk, dance, electronic, experimental, hip hop, rap, jazz, swing, pop, reggae, ska, punk, rock, and heavy metal. MP3 is a file format which stores audio files on computer so that the file size is relatively small but the sound quality is near perfect. Typically 1 Mb is equal to one minute of music.
 
Index of sites relatings to a wide range of musicians and bands. Includes lyric archives, links to mailings lists, and links to digitised versions of songs. Indexed alphabetically, by genre and by resource type.
 
Includes a gig guide and an artist browser with the current status, samples, and news on more than 100 European music artists.
 
Provides details of a Jimi Hendrix memorial project led by his family, with information and a discography of Hendrix's work. A selection of material including Purple Haze, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower, Stone Free, Foxy Lady, and Star Spangled Banner is available for download.
 
Index to thousands of CD
quality sound clips, stored in MP3 format, searchable by track title or artist name. MP3 is becoming a standard method for compressing audio files for Internet retrieval. Its high compression, high quality capabilities typically produce files less than 10% of the size of .wav files.
 
Presents information on the life and works of Bo Diddley, credited as one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll music. Notes milestones in his career, provides a discography, lists TV and radio guest appearances, and identifies musicians who have played in Diddley's band from the 1940s to the present day.
 
Large CD database holding details of artists, titles and tracks. Searches can be conducted by entering a song, artist or album, which return discographies and full track listings.
 
Selected links to resources on jazz and popular music.
 
Database of composer bibliographies and other information, indexed by topic or subject. Includes headings such as Gospel music, musical theatre, ragtime, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, John and Alan Lomax and Stephen Sondheim.
 
Offers original articles and features about acoustic and electric guitars, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to instruction pages. Emphasis on rock rather than classical guitar music.
 
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