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, Beyoncé's latest Homecoming, the soundtrack to her live 2018 Coachella performance is on Freegal, as well as the new EP from Lil Nas X featuring the ubiquitous "Old Town Road". There's also the 147 track release from Bob Dylan highlighting his Rolling Thunder Revue, a lot of which is featured in the new Netflix film of the same name. Whatever your taste, Freegal is perfect for any music fan.
This week's pick: Khruangbin – Hasta El Cielo The Texas trio Khruangbin has been linked to a number of different genres so far during their short career: funk, neo-psychedelia, world beat, jazz, soul, surf, and of course, rock. Their latest LP Hasta El Cielo finds them revisiting their breakout 2018 release Con Todo El Mundo by dabbling in yet another genre – dub – a sound that’s not too far outside of their orbit, but an intriguing addition to their already diverse palette of musical styles. One of the coolest aspects about the record is the focus on drummer Donald DJ Johnson and his interplay with bassist Laura Lee; while guitarist Mark Speer is left to craft atmospheric sounds on the periphery, Johnson and Lee function as the focal point with their ability to lock into hypnotic grooves. All of this is nothing new to fans of dub music, and it’s certainly not new to Khruangbin, but it allows tracks like “Mary Always” and “Order of Operations” to really flourish, giving their spaced out funk a little more, well, space to move around. Other highlights on this captivating album include the mesmerizing “Sisters & Brothers”, which flirts with Krautrock precision, and the narcotic title track, which sounds like King Tubby playing a gig in an underwater grotto. Hasta El Cielo is a fantastic addition to the band’s catalog while we wait to see what their next move is. –Mark, Downtown
