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!
Magazines
Browse our collection of magazines on RBdigital! Music-related magazines are available to download with your Chandler Library card to your tablet or phone, or read in PDF or HTML formats on your computer. If you have any trouble, contact us. For more information, view our tutorial!
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. Whether you want to download "Sicko Mode" off Travis Scott's newest tour-de-force Astroworld, or listen to Elle King's celebratory new album Shake the Spirit, or hear Tim McGraw's latest single "Gravity", Freegal is perfect for any music fan.
This week's pick: Bob Dylan – More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits was my first introduction to the music of Robert Zimmerman; a serviceable LP chock full of the songs that everyone knows, yet it was a fragmented avenue for truly understanding where he was coming from. However, my next purchase was a home run - 1975’s Blood on the Tracks – often seen as Dylan’s best record in a career already littered with great works, from Freewheelin’ to Highway 61 to Blonde on Blonde to, well, you name it. Just in time for the holidays, the Bootleg series continues with an exhaustive peek into the making of Blood on the Tracks– 87 tracks including multiple versions of songs, outtakes, false starts, abrupt finishes, hiccups, anything and everything – an intimate glimpse into Dylan’s artistic process during the creation of what many consider his highest achievement. While there’s numerous takes of the same songs, the repetition doesn’t make for a tedious listen. Rather, the way in which Dylan changes his mind, alters a phrase, rearranges lyrics, modifies the rhythm, or entirely revamps a song is utterly captivating. It’s difficult to pinpoint any highlights on this all-encompassing set, but this would make a great case for having more than one library card so that you could download more than 5 tracks per week. For example, you could focus on the standout cut “Idiot Wind” (there are 7 takes before the final version) and explore the rawness of the earlier sessions and compare them to the grandiosity of the end result. Or you could dive into the numerous renditions of “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” (12 takes) and look at the way he changes lyrics, constantly revising and bettering himself each time. A masterpiece in the truest sense and an absolute must for any Dylan fan. –Mark, Downtown
