Allmusic.com - Release Dates, Reviews, Track Listings and Discographies. Billboard Online - Trade magazine of the music industry featuring several internationally recognized record charts. Fact Magazine - UK based independent music review site with lots of great interviews and features. NPR Music - A staff favorite, with a plethora of well-written reviews, interviews, podcasts, and more. Tunefind - An index of music and songs appearing in popular TV shows and movies. Not comprehensive, but certainly accurate.
Discover New Music
Every Noise at Once - A one-page map of playable audio samples for more than 1500 music genres, from dance pop to bossa nova to black metal to Turkish new wave to swamp blues to deep opera. Prepare to kill an hour or more with this exhaustive and comprehensive interactive site. Gnoosic- A search engine for music, featuring a mapping system to locate music that is closely (or remotely) related to the artists you love. Music Ninja - A unique music review website, that has dozens of playlists covering all genres and moods. Noon Pacific - A playlist of music from hundreds of music blogs, hand-picked and delivered to your e-mail inbox every week.
Music in Film
Music makes a pretty compelling subject for a film, and our streaming movie database Kanopy has hundreds of music-related features for you to enjoy. Whether it’s a cradle-to-grave story biopic about a famous musician, or an enlightening documentary about a specific music scene, or simply a film with a killer soundtrack, Kanopy has you covered. You can access Kanopy through a variety of devices and platforms, and you get 10 play credits per month. Click here to peruse the music films available and stream (and listen to) a great movie today!
Listen to Music Online
Pandora - Free, personalized music that plays music according to what you love. Bandcamp - Discover amazing new music and directly support the artists who make it. Spotify - Free music, for tablets, smart phones, or computers. Slacker Radio - Hundreds of stations, adapted to your personal taste.
Freegal Pick of the Month
Are you using Freegal? How can you call yourself a music fan and not be using this excellent service that gives you five songs per week – absolutely free that you can keep forever. There are thousands of songs from popular artists and tons of new & upcoming bands and musicians to enjoy. You can also get a brief preview of each song before you use one of your weekly downloads – just log in with your library card and PIN numbers, then click the song's icon. Whatever your taste, Freegal is perfect for any music fan.
British singer Kate Bush is perhaps best known for her 1985 hit "Running Up That Hill," but this album from a few years later is a strong showing, perfect for an 80s throwback mood and still listenable. The opening and title track is Bush's response to the famously punctuation-free final chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses, which might add a layer of appreciation for literature buffs, but its sultry and mellow tone is enjoyable even without knowing the reference. "Love and Anger" raises the tempo with a percussion-driven anthem before lowering it again with the atmospheric "The Fog." "Reaching Out" is a more wistful track that showcases Bush's vocal skill against a deeply varied instrumentation. "Heads We're Dancing" is a song that tells a story – a charming man makes a bet with a woman who's reluctant to dance with him at a 1930s ball, and only later does she discover who the man was. Still in the storytelling vein, "Deeper Understanding" follows a lonely character who turns to her computer for companionship, an eerily accurate prediction for today's world. "Between a Man and a Woman" continues with a similar sound as "Reaching Out" but adds a minor key and the darker theme of a fighting couple. "Never Be Mine" is the culmination of these different musical elements and easily my favorite track on the album, with its wide vocal range, variety of styles in the instrumental accompaniment and a touching depiction of unrequited love. "Rocket's Tail" is a fanciful overture to the closing track, the powerful "This Woman's Work," which builds from slow and quiet to bold and emotional. This collection is evocative of its time, yet universal in its feeling. – Michelle (Sunset)
