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BNR Metal Pages

http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bruss/Metal/Metal.html

"The Internet encyclopedia of information and opinions of over 500 metal bands, ranging from the 70's to the 90's." The entries, which can be browsed alphabetically, include discography and listing of band members.

Author: Brian Russ (bnr@connectnet.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Keywords: Heavy Metal

Electric Guitar

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/guitars/index.htm

"This exhibit features instruments that illustrate how innovative makers and players combined the guitar with a pickup (sensor) and amplifier to create a new instrument and a new sound that profoundly changed popular music--blues, country, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll--in the 20th century."

Author: National Museum of American History

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Audio Equipment & Technology

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Rock music

A History of Banned Music

http://ericnuzum.com/banned/

"A selective on-line chronicle of popular music that has been censored, banned or altered in the name of community standards and morals." Site includes decade-by-decade timeline of censorship events beginning in the 1950s as well as links within the text to relevant topics.

Author: Eric Nuzum (eric@ericnuzum)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Hyperreal

http://www.hyperreal.org/

"Welcome to Hyperreal, a collaborative publishing effort by over one hundred volunteers. Our mission is to give a home to alternative culture, music and expression." There's information on electronic music, rave culture, recreational drugs, and a small "library of sound tools, video tools, and eye candy."

Author: Mike Brown and Brian Behlendorf

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Keywords: Raves; Techno; Ambient; Calendar; Drugs; Alternative

Insound

http://www.insound.com/

While primarily an online music store for independent label music, Insound also provides articles and essays, reviews, band photographs, and audio clips for a wide range of bands, and information on independent film. Strives to be a "central resource for fans of all kinds of indie culture."

Author: Insound (help@insound.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Punk & Hardcore

Keywords: Indie

popscene.com

http://www.popscene.com/

Indiepop site. "Within this site you'll find downloadable audio files, loads of links, and tons of great records."

Author: Dan PopScene (popscene@popscene.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Punk & Hardcore

Keywords: Indiepop; Indie

Punk Chronology

http://www.emplive.com/explore/punk_chron/index.asp

The Experience Music Project's Punk Chronology is an examination of punk from its American roots with the MC5, The Stooges and Velvet Underground to its more contemporary incarnations. Includes essays, images, and sound clips.

Author: Experience Music Project (experience@emplive.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Punk & Hardcore

Riot Grrrl Retrospective

http://www.emplive.com/explore/riot_grrrl/index.asp

The Experience Music Project's Riot Grrrl Retrospective "is an in-depth online exhibit that seeks to document and offer new insight into this important musical phenomenon." Includes an essays, photos, audio clips, and links related to the Riot Grrrl movement, primarily all female independent rock and punk bands from the Pacific Northwest.

Author: Experience Music Project (experience@emplive.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Punk & Hardcore

Keywords: Riot grrrl; Women musicians

RockNews.Com

http://www.rocknews.com/

"Serves up daily alternative music news in headline summary format with links to full coverage, plus daily website picks and weekly features."

Author: MJI Interactive

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Keywords: News

The Space Age Pop Standards Page

http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/

A guide to space age pop and exotica, with information on performers, songwriters, albums and songs.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Keywords: Exotica

TweeNet

http://www.twee.net/

Includes a comprehensive database of information on indiepop bands, record labels, zines, and other resources. Also provides a link to the archives of the Indiepop listserv.

Author: Peter Hahndorf

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Punk & Hardcore

Keywords: Indiepop; Indie

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