Cool Music Sites - Interesting Unusual Helpful
Gemm Music – The GEMM catalog has over 25 million Vinyl Records, LPs, 45s, 33s, CDs, Cassette Tapes and Memorabilia Items. Buy rare and collectible music online from over 20,000 record stores and independent record collections worldwide. Sell your records, cds, and music memorabilia online. The World's Largest Selection of Hard to Find Music Albums, Out of Print Music, Collectible Records, Imported Music, Used Records, Used CDs, Independent Albums, Rare Vinyl Records, Rare Vinyl LPs, Music CDs, and more.
• See Harlem Shake Music Videos! click → Harlem Shake Videos on YouTube
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Archive of MISHEARD LYRICS at KissThisGuy.com – 100,000 bungled song lyrics, see correct lyrics.
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Odd Music "is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments."
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Am i Right – "Making fun of music. One song at a time..."
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One Hit Wonder Central - catergorized lists, artist profiles, forums, more.
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Art of the Mix – submit or hear music mixes, take a
1990s lryics quiz, more.
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LOOPLABS – music mixer. mix beats online.
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Billboard - "most referred to" music charts, plus songs info.
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YouTube Music Videos – THE place to see and search for all types of music videos.
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Vinyl Record Day – August 12th every year.
• Record Store Day – third saturday every April. Annual celebration of the unique culture surrounding independently owned real, live, physical, indie record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. On website you can enter to win prizes plus find stores near you.
• Annual SXSW - Music – in early March, Annual South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) Austin Music Conference and Festival. This is HUGE, it showcases almost 2,000 music acts.
• Annual International Blues Challenge – The world's largest gathering of Blues bands!
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Annual Durango Songwriters Expo – listen to, hang around with, and write with songwriters.
Music Halls of Fame and Museums
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum – in Cleveland, Ohio.
Musicians Music Hall of Fame & Museum – in Nashville, Tennessee.
Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum – in Nashville, Tennessee.
Rockabilly Hall of Fame – in Nashville, Tennessee.
Blues Hall of Fame (Est. 1980). Blues Foundation (Blues.org) is the number one blues authority.
Blues Hall of Fame (Est. 1999). BluesHallofFame.org has little info and content.
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame & Museum – in Sharon, Pennsylvania.
American Classical Music Hall of Fame & Museum – in Cincinnati, Ohio.
GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame – in Nashville, TN.
International Gospel Music Hall of Fame & Museum – in Detroit, MI.
Christian Music Hall of Fame and Museum –
Christian Music Hall of Fame and Museum myspace
International Polka Music Hall of Fame and Awards
National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum – in Euclid, Ohio.
National Music Museum – in South Dakota.
Barbershop Hall of Fame & Museum – in Sharon, Pennsylvania. (Barber Shop Quartet Singing).
Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF Today) – administered by National Academy of Popular Music (NAPM).
Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Virtual Museum
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Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame – foundation is based in Carlsbad, California. "This remarkable resource contains a full history of jazz; biographies on over 2,000 legends with cross-reference search capabilities to ensure fast and effective results to keyword searches as well as category searches."
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The Reel Top 40 Radio Repository – also The Authentic Aircheck Museum of Classic Top 40 Radio
Updates on some of the others...
Reggae Hall of Fame no longer has a website. (former site: www.reggaehalloffame.com)
reggaeinternationalhalloffame.com - not a real hall of fame, just a reggae events and info site.
• Master of the Mix – DJ Competition Show on BET TV, info on
facebook +
youtube
American Idol TV Show – annual singing competition.
The X Factor (USA) – annual singing competition.
MTV Music
VH1
GAC (Great American Country) – cable tv station showing more country music videos than CMT.
CMT (Country Music Television) – cable tv station showing old tv shows & movies and some country music videos, website has news, online radio, more.
Nashville Star – former annual TV show & Country Music singing competition that aired on
NBC TV and
USA TV
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The Next Great American Band – music competition show in 2007 on Fox TV.
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Grammy Awards – recording industry's most prestigious award, 105 categories. Awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions.
American Music Awards – Annual.
ACMA / Academy of Country Music Awards – Annual.
CMA Awards / Country Music Awards – Annual.
CMT Music Awards – Annual. country music videos.
NAMA – Native American Music Awards (The Nammys) – Annual.
MTV Video Music Awards
Billboard Music Awards and events
W.C. Handy Blues Awards – Annually honors artists & nationally distributed recordings.
Christian Music Hall of Fame and Visionary Awards Show – annual, several music categories.
Music Awards – many types, listed in Yahoo! entertainment links directory
• What's The Download – site created by The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards). "a place for music fans, like you, to learn about the issues, to hear artists' views on downloading, and to create a dialogue between music makers and music fans to help shape an exciting digital music future. The Academy is the voice of more than 17,000 music makers, all of whom have very different viewpoints on issues affecting music. We wanted to make sure that those viewpoints -- and yours -- have an equal place in the current debate."
• musicunited.org – downloading/copying music – what's legal & what's not, the law ...
AllHipHop.com – features, news, music and more.
CausticTruths.com – an alterntative metal magazine and has metal radio, news.
SoulTracks.com – "Tracking The World's Greatest Soul Music". biographies, news, more.
MusicStation – list of today's and upcoming music on television.
allrecordlabels.com – a database of over 23,000 record label/netlabel web sites or Wikipedia links indexed by genre, format, and location.
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Lyrics to Christmas Carols
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Oldies Music – all about music from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Classical Music Broadcast.com – streaming music, info on Now Playing, plus blogs, more.
Classical Net – includes over 3,800 links to other classical sites.
Classical Music Archives
Smithsonian Jazz
America's Jazz Heritage
Jazz Police – news and reviews
Hawthorn's Antique Audio – vintage 78 rpm records, sheet music, antique wind-up phonographs.
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MP3.com – songs, music videos, news. CBS Interactive Music Group.
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All Music Guide (AMG) [All Media Guide] – entertainment content databases.
Ultimate Band List – music portal & search engine with database of more than 100,000 artists.
Local Band Network
Musicians Referral.net – title is self explanatory.
DigitalCity.com
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MusicStartsHere.org – "Nashville's community, city and industry sponsored initiative designed to help artists, songwriters, musicians, technicians and industry professionals ("Musers") simplify and streamline the craft and business of making music in and through Music City. To provide an ongoing, relevant and comprehensive resource portal for those looking to pursue their goals and dreams in music."
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Ambassador Charlie Ray – "Ambassador Charlie Ray's Music Management promotes all types of American music and artists all around the world."
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History of Rock Music – "A project to build the history of Rock music. This project aims at building the complete History of Rock Music, all the best rock groups and artist, all the best albums, with your participation."
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Motown Alumni Association find your favorite alumni and other helpful links.
OLDIES 106.9 FM - Artists Links - some are Official, some are Fan Club, some are Hobby sites.
The History of Rock 1954 - 1963
Alaska Jim's Music Charts Current U.S. & International Radio Station Charts and PLAYLISTS
Worldwide Charts by Country
MusicMoz (The Open Music Project) new music directory
GOOGLE's Catagorized Music Directory
Search The Web for Music over 100,000 categorized current music links
Yahoo! Categorized Directory of Music Links
Music Resources
Shareware Music Machine.com over 4000 Music Software Titles available for download
MusicSearch.com - obtains most of its links directly through site owners. Unlike 99% of the other search engines, a human being, not a computer (aka robots), views each addition request to MusicSearch.com and verifies each site's content for validity. Our method may decrease the amount of search results, but increases the validity of those results.
Music Business Website Directory
Bomp Records - We specialize in original '60s garage punk, '70s punk and contemporary garage and punk music, neo-garage, psychedelic, power pop, dreampop, etc. (including from Michigan)
Boogie Trax Entertainment
Urban Organic promotes music, products, events that represent soul in urban life.
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DOSADO.com everything that has to do with square dancing and round dancing, including:
Internet Resource List ,
square and round dance music index ,
square dance music & MP3
called square dance music ,
square and round dance music on CD