OWL MusicBrainz - The Open Music Encyclopedia 25 of the Best Music Sites and Blogs for Discovering New Artists and Musicians and Streaming Free Music Your guide to discovering new beats that put you ahead of the game making personal playlists. In today’s music industry, there’s a lot to keep up with, and as much as we love them, Pandora, Spotify and your personal iTunes on shuffle just can’t do it all. That said, we pulled together a list of 25 of our favorite music sites, our go-to sources for finding new tunes, streaming our favorite mixes and above all, staying ahead on our playlists. Just keep in mind that if you’re tempted to spend half your day perusing new music, don’t blame it on us. A New Band A Day The name says it all. All Scandinavian If you know anything about the music world, you’ll know that there’s a lot of creativity coming out of Scandinavia right now. Aquarium Drunkard Based in Los Angeles, Aquarium Drunkard is an eclectic mix that “bridges the gap between contemporary indie with vintage garage, psych, folk, country, New Orleans funk, r&b, soul and everything that falls in between.” La Blogothèque The Chuckness DML.fm
Sound/list This is the main page for listing full length free content musical works available on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, with special emphasis on works that are (or should be) linked in Wikipedia articles. There are separate sub-pages for composer names that begin with the following letters of the alphabet: A Baa–Bac Bac–Baz Bba–Bee Bef–Bzz C D–E F–G H I–L M N–Q R S T–Z Smartphones like the iPhone can store and play music listed here, using various free apps such as Capriccio. See /playlist for a sampling of URLs to use with other music players. Pdproject[edit] A very active uploader of free music to Wikimedia Commons is User:Pdproject at Wikimedia Commons, which is an organization rather than a single individual. At first, Pdproject uploaded old ogg-files in single mono quality 16-bit/96 kHz at the beginning of their project. Pdproject does not make volume boosts with noise reductions, because they are an archive which produces original files in their original state. Noise filtering[edit]
List of online music databases Below is a table of online music databases that are largely free of charge. Note that many of the sites provide a specialized service or focus on a particular music genre. Some of these operate as an online music store or purchase referral service in some capacity. Among the sites that have information on the largest number of entities are those sites that focus on discographies of composing and performing artists. See also[edit] References[edit] The Music Ninja Ear Training WebSite The All New DaLinkz Web Directory - Your Rap And HipHop Start Page Welcome to the Mutopia Project Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America Welcome to Lesley Nelson-Burns' (aka the Contemplator)'s Folk Music Site.Folk and Traditional Music and Popular Songs, with Lyrics, Midi, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. Irish, British and American Folk Music including Francis J. Child Ballads and Sea Shanties. The background music is Spanish Ladies Sequenced by Lesley Nelson-Burns Please be aware that the midi controller will work in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, but it does not function in Internet Explorer or Edge. For those browsers, you will have to use the download link in order to play the file. If you wish to use any of these tunes in an archive or on a webpage READ THIS.If you have questions, please go to the Introduction. There is a Framed Version with all of the songs listed on the right frame by subject for easy browsing. Because of the many requests I receive for information on songbooks and other resources I have become an Amazon Associate (that's the book store type Amazon...)