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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 Fiction
and Audiovisual 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 and interviews with artists.
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