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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. 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. 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. General
Tools
Local Resources
Miscellaneous
Radio
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 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.
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.
Miscellaneous Who Does
that Song
This site allows you to search by title or artist to find information
about a certain song.
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
DeRogati 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
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