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 Week
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 (AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash) and tons of new & upcoming bands and musicians to enjoy. Speaking of new stuff, Miranda Lambert's playful new LP Wildcardis here, as well as Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars, the soundtrack to the new biopic about him, and of course, the new EP from Lil Nas X featuring the ubiquitous "Old Town Road". Whatever your taste, Freegal is perfect for any music fan.
This week's pick: Bremer/McCoy – Utopia I hate to say it, but the holidays are bearing down upon us, and of course, all of the stress and anxiety that comes with them. If you’re like me and are always stressed out at this time of the year, you’d be hard pressed to find a more ideal listen than Utopia, the latest from the Danish instrumental duo Bremer/McCoy - a perfect album to unwind, soothe your nerves, and get lost in a meditative bliss. Clocking in at just a little over 40 minutes, this tight, compact album is warm and inviting, even while the songs themselves suggest moments of quiet reflection and contemplation. Their sound is difficult to pin down into one genre, but there are elements of ambient, dub, new age, classical, and jazz, and each track on the album flows into one another, playing off the previous track and setting the mood for the next. The interaction between Jonathan Bremer (acoustic bass) and Morton McCoy (piano/keys, tape effects) is fantastic, each one complimenting the other so seamlessly, it’s as if they’re of one mind - together they create a soft tonal palette that draws you deep into their evocative sound. There are a lot of albums that almost beg to be listened to in one sitting, and Utopia fits that bill perfectly; a meditative, nocturnal, dreamy record that wraps itself around you, keeping you safe from the stress of the holidays and the cloying treacle left in its wake. –Mark, Downtown
