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!
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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.
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Formed in 1977, X has been called legendary and iconic for their contribution to the Los Angeles punk scene. Alphabetland (2020) is their 8th studio album and the first since the late 1990s, and it finds them in fine form with 11 breakneck songs clocking in under a half hour. On display is lead singer Exene Cervanka and lead guitarist John Doe’s sing-song sneer. The last time I saw X, a show at the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland, Ohio in what might as well have been another lifetime ago, my date leaned over and commented, “It must be so depressing to be singing the same songs with your ex-husband about the death of your sister and falling in love as teenagers.” This album is a big fat “Touche!” to that observation. “I wish I were someone else. Someone I don’t know,” Cervanka sings in “Angels in the Road” about a time “long and cold ago.” X has always reveled in their own and other’s polished disasters, and they do this on the title track “Alphabetland” -- about an ex-friend, lover or acquaintance who is so wrecked and pouring gasoline to erase the mere smell of their presence. There is an obligatory “you hurt my sister” reference in “Free." Alphabetland, like the best of X’s early 1980s output, feels like a joyride sing-along with a group of hot-rodding juvenile delinquents. - Jami (Downtown)
Formed in 1977, X has been called legendary and iconic for their contribution to the Los Angeles punk scene. Alphabetland (2020) is their 8th studio album and the first since the late 1990s, and it finds them in fine form with 11 breakneck songs clocking in under a half hour. On display is lead singer Exene Cervanka and lead guitarist John Doe’s sing-song sneer. The last time I saw X, a show at the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland, Ohio in what might as well have been another lifetime ago, my date leaned over and commented, “It must be so depressing to be singing the same songs with your ex-husband about the death of your sister and falling in love as teenagers.” This album is a big fat “Touche!” to that observation. “I wish I were someone else. Someone I don’t know,” Cervanka sings in “Angels in the Road” about a time “long and cold ago.” X has always reveled in their own and other’s polished disasters, and they do this on the title track “Alphabetland” -- about an ex-friend, lover or acquaintance who is so wrecked and pouring gasoline to erase the mere smell of their presence. There is an obligatory “you hurt my sister” reference in “Free." Alphabetland, like the best of X’s early 1980s output, feels like a joyride sing-along with a group of hot-rodding juvenile delinquents. - Jami (Downtown)