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Best Music of the Year
Internet Sites
Online Music Tools
New Music Titles
Top Ten at the Library
Top Ten CDs at the Library
Most requested CDs at the Oak Park Public Library this week:
6/21/2010
- Broken Bells
- Gorillaz, Plastic Beach AND Glee Volume One : The Music
(TIE)
- MGMT, Congratulations
- Glee Volume Three : The Music
- Glee Volume Two : The Music
- Sade, Soldier of Love
- MGMT, Time to Pretend
- (500) Days of Summer
- The XX AND National, High Violet (TIE)
- Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
Top 20 of 2009
gathered from The
Village Voice Pazz N Jop Critics' Poll
- Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!
- Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
- Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
- The xx, xx
- The Flaming Lips, Embryonic
- Girls, Album
- Mos Def, The Ecstatic
- St. Vincent, Actor
- Maxwell, BLACKsummers'night
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Mastodon, Crack the Skye
- Sonic Youth, The Eternal
- Wilco, (The Album)
- Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You
- Bat for Lashes, Two Suns
- Miranda Lambert, Revolution
- Antony and the Johnsons, The Crying Light
Online Music Tools
African
American Song
Listen to 50,000 tracks documenting the history of African
American music. Includes jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms
of African American musical expression. Identify the music and
performances you want to hear, then click to listen through
speakers or headphones.
American
Song
Hear and feel the music from America's past.
Classical
Music Library
Listen to tens of thousands of distinguished classical recordings.
Includes symphonies, choral works, operas, Medieval, contemporary,
and the avant-garde. Multiple versions of works enable comparative
listening. Identify the music and performances you want to hear,
then click to listen through speakers or headphones.
Contemporary
World Music
Listen to contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional,
world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing
and jazz, and more.
Music
Online
Listen to music online. Browse music by album, artist,
labels, instruments, and more. Search by genre or type of music.
Create your own playlists.
Smithsonian
Global Sound
Listen to over 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural
and human-made sounds. Identify the music and performances you
want to hear, then click to listen through speakers or headphones.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries includes the published
recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
label.
Internet Sites
These Internet sites are not connected with the Oak Park Public
Library but are recommended by Adult
and Teen Services as useful in finding music of interest.
Awards
General Tools
iPhone Music Apps
Listen Online
Local Resources
Radio
Awards
Grammy
The world's most prestigious music awards.
Village Voice
Pazz and Jop Poll
The top albums of the year, pulled from several hundred reviews,
weighted, and compiled on this great poll.
Country Music Awards
Classical Music
Awards
General Tools
All Music
All Music is the all-inclusive, one-stop online resource for
anything music related, including extensive biographies and
discographies for even the most obscure artists.
Amazon
Check to see if something really exists - search until you
find the right artist, title, or recording. And then search
for it in the Library's catalog; or if we don't have it,
request it.
Billboard
Check out who is at the top of the charts, read reviews, and
find new releases in Billboard online.
Entertainment
Weekly
Entertainment Weekly's online music page includes reviews,
news, and their own list of music links.
Who Does that Song
This site allows you to search by title or artist to find
information about a certain song.
Free iPhone Music Apps
Shazam
Identify whatever is playing, wherever you are.
Pandora
Last.fm
iheart
radio
Delivers over 300 of America’s favorite radio stations
right to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Tune
Wiki
Hunderds of live radio stations with lyrics.
AOL
Radio
Over 200 stations that span more than 25 genres of music plus
150+ CBS RADIO stations from across the United States.
Listen Online
Pandora
Personalized Internet radio, helps you find music based on
your taste.
Last.fm
Largest online music catalog with free streaming music and
videos, easy to customize to your taste.
WDCB
Local jazz station.
WLUW
Chicagoland's finest local indie rock station
Chicago Independent
Radio Project
CHIRP hosts a mix of local indie music from an array of genres.
WFMU
New York independent free-form station.
KEXP
Seattle college radio station.
Local Resources
Chicago
Reader Guide
The Chicago Reader Guide online is an excellent comprehensive
resource for the most up-to-date listings of shows all over
Chicago.
Fitzgerald's
Access Fitzgerald's monthly calendar of bands from their site.
Old Town School of
Folk Music
Check out the extensive list of classes in dance, theater,
and music as well as Old Town's concert calendar.
Radio
NPR
Trying to remember the name of the artist you heard on NPR?
Check out their site for great music suggestions for all audiences.
Sound Opinions
Home of the world's only rock and roll talk show with hosts
Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago
Tribune's Greg Kot. Features a great selection of reviews
as well as audio archives of recent shows.
Styles
Classical - Gramophone
Gramophone is a UK site that offers news, features, reviews
and a vast list of links to helpful classical sites.
Indie -Pitchfork
Updated daily, this Chicago based music news and review
site is the self-proclaimed "home of the gratuitously
in-depth record review."
Jazz and Blues - Downbeat
Downbeat online offers the latest reviews, access to their
expanding archives, and one of the most comprehensive databases
of jazz and blues musicians.
Metal - The
Metal Observer
The most comprehensive online resource for metal. Highlights
include extensive lists of reviews and information about
thousands of bands from all over the world, tablatures,
and interviews.
Rock - Rolling Stone
The online companion to the magazine offers access to a
few of the top articles in the most recent magazine, as
well as an archive of thousands of reviews from present
and past issues.
World - Rootsworld
A great site for finding the latest reviews in World music.
Also offers some articles and interviews with artists.
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