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AbsolutePunk.net

AbsolutePunk.net is a website, online community, and alternative music news source founded by Jason Tate (the current CEO). The website mainly focuses on artists who are relatively unknown to mainstream audiences, but it has been known to feature artists who eventually cross over into the mainstream, including Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, Relient K and My Chemical Romance. Its main genres of musical focus include punk, emo, hardcore, indie, and ska.

All Access Music Group

The All Access Music Group (All Access) is a website devoted to the broadcasting and music industries. All Access launched in 1995. In addition to "net news", a collection of the latest broadcast and music news, it also has music and career tools as well as other industry features. It is affiliated with mediabase, which tracks airplay of singles from all of the current radio formats.

Allmusic

Allmusic (previously the All Music Guide) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. Allmusic was founded in 1991 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine and mathematician Vladimir Bogdanov, Ph.D., as a guide for consumers. Its first reference book was published the next year. AMG predates the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site.

Am I Right

AmIRight is a popular music Web site created by Charles R. Grosvenor Jr. (born July 7, 1972, known as Chucky G). Visitors can view sections based on such topics as song parodies, misheard lyrics (mondegreens), and album cover parodies, and can submit their own without registering. The site was first launched March 23, 2000 [1] and has since grown considerably.

Amie Street

Amie Street is an indie online music store and social network service created in 2006 by Brown University seniors Elliott Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch, in Providence, Rhode Island. They have since graduated and moved the company to Long Island City in Queens, New York. Their vision for Amie Street is to become "the most fun way to discover and buy music online", keep music social, and support the artists.

Anywhere.FM

Anywhere.FM, is an online radio network created by a team of MIT and UPenn graduates who previously worked at XBOX, Amazon.com, and Microsoft. This website allows users to upload music. The music then becomes available in a personal radio that anyone can listen to. Though this network is still in its early BETA stages millions of songs have been uploaded and many new features are being added weekly. 13,200,000+ songs have been uploaded by more than 76,600 users (updated 31/03/2008).

Artistdirect

Founded in 1994, Artistdirect, Inc. is an online digital media entertainment company. It owns several websites including Artistdirect.com, UBL.com, Loserkids.com and the Artistdirect Network. These websites are a group of affiliate websites offering multimedia content, music news and information, communities organized around shared music interests, music-related specialty commerce and digital music services.

Audiojunkies

Audiojunkies, occasionally shortened to AJ, is a UK based Internet publication devoted to new music commentary, artist interviews, music related comics and humour. Its central focus lies with up and coming bands from around the world.

Australian Music Online

Australian Music Online is a website that indexes information related to Australian music. Launched in March 2003 as an Australian Federal Government initiative, and originally proposed in 1998, the website was actively updated until 31 April 2007, at which point its role transferred to that of an archive. It has been noted that there are plans to restructure the website.

Bach Cantatas Website

The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW), is an online resource specialising in the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. BCW contains discussions, commentary, text and translations, scores, music samples, articles, and discographies, references and biographies of people and groups associated with the cantatas.

CD Freaks.com

CD Freaks.com is a CD and DVD recordable information site that publishes reviews on CD and DVD burner, burning software and blank media. The website offers daily news updates and background articles. The website clearly focuses on the optical storage niche and attracts many users that disagree with copyright legislation. The visitors are able to respond to news stories which usually ends up in blaming authorities to be too harsh on home copiers. Stories are usually also submitted by these readers and are written in the blog style.

ccMixter.org

ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works. Visitors are able to listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in a variety of ways including the download and use of tracks and samples in their own remixes. Most sampling or mash-up web sites on the Internet stipulate that users forgo their rights to the new song once it is created. By contrast, the material on ccMixter.org is generally licensed to be used in any arena, not just the ccMixter site or a specific contest. The ccMixter site contains over 10,000 samples from a wide range of recording artists, including high profile artists such as Beastie Boys and David Byrne.

ChristianRock.Net

ChristianRock.Net is an internet only Christian rock radio station based in Springfield, Missouri, United States. It started in 1998, and is one of three 24/7 Christian rock stations in the country. The site plays numerous singles from Christian rock artists, posting a weekly top 30 and an annual top 100. The site often announced upcoming album releases, and has a database of all Christian radio singles by every band they play. They also announce concerts and put up lyrics from various songs.

Classical Archives

Classical Archives is a large classical music commercial website on the Internet. It has, as of December 10, 2006, 40,055 full-length classical music files by 2,093 composers. People must register to listen to the music on the site. Non - paying users are allowed to access or download 5 MIDI or Free Play files a day. Suscribers pay a fee of 25 dollars a year for unlimited access. They are allowed to access or download 1,000 files per month or 100 files per day of any kind.

Critical Metrics

Critical Metrics is a B2B (business-to-business) entertainment media recommendation and discovery service, offering the aggregated opinions of thousands of professional reviewers from around the world, in the form of editorial picks, celebrity reviews, best-ever lists, industry awards and notably positive reviews from periodicals, blogs, radio and other electronic and print sources.

DJ Magazine

DJ Magazine is, as of January 31 2008, a monthly magazine dedicated to Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and DJs.

Database of Recorded American Music

The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a continually growing, online resource providing on-demand, high-quality streaming access to nearly 9,000 essential musical works from 15 record labels, along with their liner notes, album art, and other related materials. Designed primarily for use in an academic environment, all materials are keyword-searchable using any number of criteria, including composer, performer, date of publication, Library of Congress classification and label of origin. DRAM currently facilitates the use of music in research for students and faculty across 90 campuses and gives scholarship philosophical priority in its approach to both collection development and intellectual property.

Daytrotter

Daytrotter is a website for the recording studio Futureappletree Studio 1, which hosts recording sessions with many popular and upcoming indie music (typically) acts, although it works with local bands in the Illinois area as well. The sessions can be compared to that of a radio station's lounge recordings, where musicians passing through the town can do a semi-live song. Due to their tendency to offer an eclectic sampling of music, and their production style (see Studio section below) the sessions have been compared to that of the legendary Peel Sessions.

DialIdol

DialIdol is both the name of a computer program for Microsoft Windows and its associated website that tracks voting trends for American Idol contestants. The program allows users to automatically vote for the American Idol contestants of their choice using their PC's modem. The program then reports back to the main website, which keeps track of the results based on the percentage of calls for each contestant that result in a busy signal. DialIdol assumes that more busy signals means more callers are attempting to vote for that contestant. DialIdol was created during the fourth season of American Idol and was released to the public at the start of the fifth season.

DMusic.com

DMusic.com is a social community for musicians on the internet. It allows artists to share their music and promote themselves through interaction. Anyone can listen, download, send, and comment on songs for free. The community can also set up profiles with pictures, journals (blogs), personal info, and more. DMusic differentiates between an artist and a user. Each user is able to share an artist account with other members of their band. The user is then able to interact on a personal level as well as on a more professional level. DMusic is also a source for digital music news, reviews, information.

Dogmazic

Dogmazic in one of the main free music download manager in France. Dogmazic has been created in december 2004 by the Association Musique libre!, based in Bordeaux, which is the main actor of the free music movement in France.

Drowned in Sound

DrownedinSound.com or DiS is a UK based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway (who manage Mick Hucknall and Brett Anderson). The site is an editorial independent music website.

Drum and Bass Arena

Drum and Bass Arena is the world's largest drum and bass website, established in 1996. It offers up to date information on the worldwide drum and bass scene, has an online shop and a large forum with almost 50,000 members.

eSpew

eSpew is a Free Online Audio MP3 Music Search Engine and download service. eSpew maintains that it is the largest online Audio MP3 Music Search Engine in the world indexing over 8 billion websites for media stream-on-demand files. According to WebArchive.org Online Archives, in Jan 2005, eSpew.com released a revolutionary mp3 audio music site. Soon after it's initial release, eSpew.net MP3 Search Engine became known as the "Google" for MP3 Music.

eGigs

The website was created in 2004 by Neil Greenway, and is the sister site of eFestivals. eGigs specialises in live music reviews, interviews, news, photos, tickets and features from around the UK. On Monday 15th May 2006 eGigs published a live review of a Desmond Dekker concert. It turned out to be the reggae stars last ever performance. Since May 2006 eGigs was edited by Scott Johnson, and then in 2008 Scott Williams took up the reins and the site contains reviews and photographs from around 30 different contributors.

etree

etree, or electronic tree, is a music community created in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live concerts. etree pioneered the standards for distributing lossless audio on the net and only permits its users to distribute the music of artists that allow the free taping and trading of their music.

FREE!MUSIC

FREE!MUSIC is a free music non-profit organization based in Russia since 2004 which's aim is "popularization and a direct embodiment of idea of free distribution of music in commercial and non-commercial purposes".

February Album Writing Month

February Album Writing Month or FAWM is an annual songwriting challenge. The challenge is to compose 14 original songs in the 28 days of February.

GarageBand.com

GarageBand.com is a large online community of independent musicians and music fans. Founded in 1999, the site is used by musicians who seek greater exposure and critical insight provided by an audience of their peers. The site is also used by music fans to discover new independent artists in the site's vast collection. Some is Creative Commons-licensed music content.

Gigwise.com

Gigwise.com is an online music magazine. "Starting life as a humble listings guide for Merseyside, United Kingdom in 2001, Gigwise has since developed into a comprehensive music website, incorporating reviews, listings, interviews, band biographies and news" ~ Music Week. The site is run by Simon Perlaki and Andy Day, with Scott Colothan serving as Editor and Dan Melia as Assistant Editor.

GoMusic

GoMusic is a Russian music download site. The site offers a variety of music, including special collections, as well as audiobooks in both Russian and English. Songs are priced per song, with prices averaging 15 cents; audiobooks range from around $2.95 through $5.00 USD.

God Is In The TV Zine

God Is In The TV Zine, or GIITV, is an independent music and cultural webzine based in the UK. Launched in 2003 by Bill Cummings and Alex Worsnip, it now covers a wide range of music including unsigned, independent and major releases. God Is In The TV Zine is staffed by a range of professional and amateur music journalists, students and music lovers, and edited by Bill Cummings. In 2005 GIIITV put on an event in London's Pleasure compilation CD, it included bands like Luxembourg, The Art Goblins and 1984 (who went on to become Reverend and the Makers).

Groovera

Groovera (aka. Groovera Chilled Web Radio) is an independent, multi-channel, commercial-free, and listener-supported Internet-only radio station dedicated to the loosely-typed genres of music "smooth electronica", "soft techno" and most commonly "chill-out music". Specifically, Groovera features mixes of downtempo, future lounge, nu-jazz (aka. "future jazz"), ambient pop, trip hop, psybient and neo-soul, as well as other related and contributing genres. Groovera is regarded as the first multiple-channel web radio station dedicated solely to the emerging genre of chill-out music.