General Music Resources

The following sites offer something of general interest to musicians:

Advertising and Promotion

• esp-music.net. An audio sampler given away free with New Age Retailer magazine. Useful for musicians and record labels promoting world music and new age releases.

Artist "Support"

• 4 PS India. Photos and promotional materials for artists.
• Afternight.Com. Info about bands and music may be registered for free. Browse through hundreds of unsigned bands worldwide.
• ALLMusicianNews. Free newsletter and resource site for musicians, composers and songwriters.
• Arts-Online.Com. Celebrates the Net's global diversity, democracy, and freedom of expression, and champions its explosion of new opportunities for artists to promote their work themselves.
• The ARK. Large music site that promotes artists deserving greater recognition.
• AudioDreams. E-commerce site helps bands sell CDs online and store downloadable music files.
• Audio Recording Center:. Helpful articles, a well organized Links section, and other useful resources for the independent music maker.
• Bay Scene Magazine. Indy music resource for the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Bip! A place for new and independent music on the web. Created for the musician as a way to sell music directly to the public.
• Blizzard Records. Designed for people who wish to purchase new music from around the world and for all types of solo artists & bands who wish to market their CDs world wide.
• CollegeArtist.com. Free online promotion gallery for artists, actors, musicians and poets.
• Decidio.Com. Provides musicians with leads for weddings and parties. Ancient Future is a "Preferred vendor listed in the Kentfield, California Musicians section of Decidio.com."
• Doctor Demo. Resource for aspiring musicians, offering reports on demo material and free pages for bands and artists, plus full music venue guide.
• Edge Online. Top 100 voting lists for Album,Artist,Clubs,Concerts,Dance Songs,DJ's,Rap,Rock, and Top 40.
• Electronic Music Mall. Accepts advertisements for music.
• EvilTwinPromotions. UK based promotion agency.
• Get Fancy Magazine. Unsigned and independent musicians trade rag, Get Fancy caters to commercial radio and major record labels on behalf of indie music of all styles, worldwide.
• GetPlayed.com Free Music Commmunity. GetPlayed.com is a new online music community dedicated to providing amateur musicians a listening audience. Visitors submit songs into the category of their choice where they receive ratings and comments from visitors, as well as an individual Play Counter.
• Global Music Outlet (GMO). Electronic song distribution over the Internet.
• Globe Records Sound and Vision Cyberlounge. The unusual or hard to find featuring SF Bay Area artists.
• I Write the Music. A music resource site for composers.
• Infinitee Designs. Art sevices for musicians, 3D Graphics, 2D illustrations, Music sites, CD covers, Rock T-shirts & Posters, tutorials, full Web Design services, resources, sci-fi, fantasy, free wallpaper, & Photoshop art
• Kaleidospace. Site showcasing independent artists.
• Kongoi Productions. Online artists promotion, musicians management and publishing company based in Oslo, Norway. Promotes world music, art and crafts.
• KrTipsheet.Com. Music licensing and television/film music placement service.
• Loudsounds Online Musicians Promotion Resource. Free directory available for up and coming musicians and companies.
• Mixposure.com. Mixposure is a site is for bands to submit music, have it rated and reviewed, participate in contests.
• MuBiz.com. Provides radio promotion, media publicity, and business and career services to musicians.
• Musicians Making Money. Dedicated to helping musicians survive and thrive in the music business.
• Music & Revolution 3. A site promoting the idea that the capitalist music industry is obsolete and suggesting models for its replacement.
• Music Song Lyrics. Lyrics sorted by artists and albums.
• Musician's Spotlight. Lets bands on the net advertise for free.
• NOMA Music. Specializes in the direct promotion of worldwide bands, songwriters, and composers to major and indie record labels, along with the active licensing of music for use in TV and Film.
• pigFACTORY. An international Music Publishing and Producer Management company.
• Psyclops Productions. Assists in the presentation of audio material for independent musicians.
• Record Labels & Companies Guide. Info on the majors, independents, and everything in between.
• Rhythm Net. Music and entertainment for the world wide web offering a wide variety of services and music from various artists from around the world.
• Risingmusic.com. World music page of a site that allows fans to vote to rate bands through links like this one to Ancient Future.
• Singersong.com. Dedicated to linking unsigned and independent artists with the best singer and songwriter resources.
• Songrite.Com. Extensive information and advice on copyright and related issues.
• Songsearch. General music site with 170,000 title CD catalog, gathering places for musicians, etc.
• tap into MUSIC. The new online music store stocking independent music from small labels and artists all under one roof, with no setup fees charged to sellers.
• This Business of Dance and Music. A non-profit, artist's community website for dancers, writers and musicians.
• Taxi. Independent A&R company helping unsigned bands, artists and songwriters get record deals, publishing deals and placement in films and TV shows.
• U.K. Bassline. UKB hosts unsigned musicians from the Herts / Essex and London areas of the UK.
• Y2K-music. A comprehensive UK music service for bands including a digital jukebox, virtual fanclub, CD shop, job noticeboard, and marketplace.

Broadcast

• Blue Beam Radio. Blue Beam Radio is a website where musicians can upload their music.
• Groove Society. Internet broadcasting of live video and audio from nightclubs around the world.
• Virtual Radio. Collection of songs from local bands around the world. Create your own CD of bands you discover.

Distribution

• Iris Distribution. Iris gives independent labels protection of their legal rights, technical solutions, and assisting in the sell-through of music once online. Highly recommended for independent labels.

DJ

• DJ Link. A site linking various elements of the DJ scene.

Education

• Brave New Works. Dedicated to presenting, promoting and performing contemporary classical music for a broad audience without compromising artistic integrity.
• ClasSearch.Com. The Learning Directory is a database of recreational, personal, and professional enrichment learning resources around the globe.
• D3 Music Learning Network. Learn music online with video, sound and notation.
• Guitar Lessons from Ibanez Guitar Players. Free online guitar lessons and tabs: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Paul Gilbert.
• Guitar-Lesson-Online.Net. Site about guitar lessons for beginners.
• Jazclass. Outstanding jazz education site with regular music lessons.
• Keltech. Dark drum and bass music producer in the UK. Underground record production tips, links, and samples.
• Learn About Music. Hard to find instructional and songbooks.
• LucyScaleDevelopments. A rediscovered paradigm for musical tuning derived from pi. LucyTuning enables users to modulate and transpose infinitely and move between any imaginable tuning systems, whilst retaining harmonic precision.
  • FREE MP3. "Hurray For The Future" by Arc Angel (dance song LucyTuned).
• Mel Martin's Jazz and Sax Site. Words from jazz masters, links, sheet music, articles, etc.
• Multi-temperament music. Dedicated to multi temperament music
• Music 101. Interactive music education site.
• Music Education Madness. Whether you teach elementary music, band, choir, orchestra, preschool music, give private lessons, teach college music courses, or are a college student, this is the place to find new ideas and contribute ideas of your own!
• MusiKids.Com. Serving the Maryland area with children's music and movement education classes, child development, teaching early childhood music through singing, playing, exploring, listening and movement.
• The Music Education Resource Directory. Music Education Resource Directory provides an ever-growing source of listings of businesses, educational institutions, and merchants that cater to the music educators' special needs.
• Music Is and the Value of Music in Education. Discover the many benefits music gives us in education and our communities.
• Music Teacher International. Helps music educators source out important information for their lesson plans.
• The Odradek Institute. Information, discussion and other efforts towards a comprehensive and scientific musicology.
• Online Conservatory. Take live interactive music lessons from a teacher over the Internet.
• Piano on the Net. Piano education site.
• Piano-Lesson-Online.Com. Tammy Widjaja's piano site in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Piano Lessons by Quiescence Music. Learn to play in the new age style with these online lessons for beginning adults.
• Recording Connection. An established music industry school where students train to be professional recording engineers.
• Speed Riffs. A program designed to help advanced guitarists become super fast.
• StudyWeb. One of the Internet's premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Expert reviewers select only the finest sites to be included in StudyWeb's listing of educational links.
• Theory in Open Modality. A thesis on a possible new system in modality. Particulars are in symmetrical chords and roll around derivations.
• Workshop Live. Provides thousands of online music lessons.

Gear

• Digibid. Online auction of music gear and recording equipment. a great resource for musicians and project studios featuring an online auction of music gear and recording equipment.
• Musicgearmall.com. Liquidates music gear at prices below retail via online auctions.
• Music Go Round - Used Guitars, Drums & More. Music Go Round is the World's Largest Dealer of Used Musical Instruments!
• Portable MP3 Players. iPod - learn how it can solve everyday problems.
• ProMusicFind.Com. Worldwide marketplace for buying and selling all things musical.
• Stringed Instrument Division. Full service sales and repair shop specializing in vintage instruments by Gibson, Fender, Martin and others.

Gigs

• Gig SwaP International. An exchange program for artists and venues and promoters to further the exchange of musicial performance.
• Affairnet. Online guide that lists wedding bands among other great resources for planning parties and weddings.

Labels

• DreamSea Records. Independent jazz, pop, fusion, and new age music record label.

Links Pages

• Aardvark's Archive. A list of music links.
• Alamo. Maintains large list of general music industry links. Sells Western orchestral instruments made in China.
• All-Things-Piano.com. A piano-oriented, human-edited directory.
• Australian Music Links Online. A comprehensive directory of Australian bands and artists.
• Bandindex.com. Index of bands.
• Lyrics. Lyric search site.
• Jazz Services. Charity funded by the Arts Council of England providing information, touring, education, publishing and communications. Links to over 1500 jazz and jazz related web sites.
• Marin Music Links. Musicians and music related sites in Marin County, California.
• OnStageRegister Leading directory of performing artists.
• Only New Age Music. Links page for New Age music.
• Rock music. Home of the Internet's best rock music resources, find out everything you want to know about rock.
• Sites & Sound Links. Provides easy access to a large variety of high quality music resources and sites.
• Spaghetti Jazz. A rich site of good information on the jazz/rock fusion if you don't spoil the excellent international kitchen. In Italian.
• Surfer's Recreation Area. Links on education, music, fun, etc.
• theEAR Online. Music website directory that covers almost anything to do with music in Australia and internationally plus expert information in music psychology.
• The Jazz Fan Attic. Links of interest to jazz fans.

MP3 Sites

• 12zmp3. MP3 site for independent bands.
• Eatsleepmusic.com. Dedicated interactive music site offering free karaoke software and thousands of downloadable tunes including many having nothing to do with karaoke.
• The Audio Network. Searchable directory of downloadable music in many formats such as mp3, midi, wav, and much more.
• eMusic.com. EMusic has a huge legal catalog of world music in the MP3 format, contracts with reputable record labels like Music of the World and Ancient-Future.Com, and an artist friendly focus.
• Findmp3.org. Finds legal MP3 files by artist.
• Intomusic. Download site for Indie musicians that charges for downloads. Stop giving away your music for free!
• iTunes. Apple has done a lot to make all types of music widely available at their iTunes music shop.
• Mpeg3audio. Lots of MP3 files.
• MP4music.com. MP3 site with links to lots of other MP3 sites.
• Myspace.com. Networking site with support for bands and fans of bands. Lots of free MP3s to listen to and people to meet.
• Xenomusic.com. Xenomusic is your only source for Croatian surf music, Bulgarian Ska, and over 7000 other hard-to-find tracks from Eastern Europe, some of which are available to visitors at no charge. The website - where music fans can download MP3s from Berlin to the Bering Strait at $1 each, has signed digital distribution agreements with over 60 of the best indie record labels and unsigned artists in Central and Eastern Europe.

Musicians (See Artists Page for Musicians in the World Music Movement)

• Aragon. New Age music from Va Beach, VA. Includes links to MIDI files by various artists.
• David W. Solomons. English composer.
• Music with feelings. Meditation melodies.
• Pangaea World Orchestra. Duane Frybarger's site showcases MIDI files, music links, original synthesizer music, and more.
• Ricky Peterson. Keyboardist and singer who's able to go into the memory bank and constantly come up with new sounds from jazz to blues to rock.
• sonic slit. New age shamanic space music.
• Y.O.C. An international act of the tenor metal singer who named the project.

Net Magazines

• Abstractlogix.com. Jazz fusion website features musicians who have had a serious impact on music.
• Amazine. Cutting Edge E-zine, e-news, best music, mp3s, film reviews, book reviews, live band streaming, BC Film Industry, free short films, chat and more...
• Celebrity Cafe. Interviews with your favorite musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, artists, writers, cartoonists and more.
• The Djinsphere. The Djinnsphere reflects our search for the best in music, movies and books - our encounters with some of the talented individuals involved and their career histories in brief.
• Jazz Roots Rhythms, a multiple award-winning site, celebrates jazz and global music, including classic and contemporary jazz, blues, gospel, soul, Rhythm & Blues, and World Music.
• Jerry Jazz Musician. Jazz portal named named Jazz Web Site of the Month by National Public Radio.

Notation

• Free Score. Directory of free sheet music.
• Lookmusic.com. Sheet music catalogue of over 40,000 titles and from 190 publishers.
• Sunhawk Corporation. Music publisher delivering playable, printable sheet music via the Internet using their exclusive Solero TM technology which allows users to change page layout, tempo and instrumentation during the music's playback, and make engraving quality printouts.
• 800-SheetMusic. Huge selection of sheet music and songbooks at discount prices.

Recording Studios and Duplication

• Flamenco Recording Studio. Flamenco and fusion recording studio, Granada Spain, making music with local and international artists such as Enrique Morente, Emilio Maya, and Estrella Morente.
• Grove House. Groove House Records produces CDs and DVDs for the music, film, and software industry.
• Tonework Productions. Vince Rellman Studios.
• Mediatechnics.com. CD/DVD equipment, services and supplies.
• MonsterDemos.Com. Music producer and production services for all your demo needs.
• Sudeep Audio. Sound recording studio dedicated to Indian music. Audio cassette and CD replication services. Rare titles for sale. Regular features on Indian musicians, profiles, quizzes, etc.
• Tele Copy. Full service DVD, CD and Video duplication and replication company serving the USA.
• Wonderdisc. In addition to offering high quality, low cost CD replication, Wonderdisc provides an extensive collection of FREE online resources for indepedent musicians, bands, and record labels.

Related Arts

• A Gift of Poetry. Poetry written for special occasions such as weddings, birthdays and anniversaries. Wedding poems, anniversary poems and birthday poems a specialty.
• Art Gallery Worldwide. Artwork in different styles and media.
• Backstage Gourmet. P.J. Grimes site of recipes from musical celebrities.
• The Beyond Mind Healing Center Bookstore. Dedicated to the alleviation of suffering through the practice of self-acceptance. Maintains links to music and books they recommend.
• The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts. A monthly online journal for fiction, art, and music by contemporary artists working with mythic and traditional themes.
• Global Vision International. Cutting edge alternative information specialising in sacred geometry, ancient knowledge, alternative healing, personal growth, and the arts.
• Mind of Brian. Poetry, fiction, rants and music.
• Pilgrims New Age Link Directory. Includes links to new age and world music.

Software and Electronic Music

• Free Classical MIDI. Thousands of classical and jazz music files, the unique site which contains completely free download MIDI files, plus 5,000+ listed fugues, fugue theory and analyses, fugue tools, reviews. Inside J.S. Bach and Beethoven's special pages include large biographies, images and bibliographies. Sheet music, CDs and musical products may be ordered online here.
• MIDI City. A collection of original MIDI files from all over the world.
• Midiscape. Multimedia site that focuses on original MIDI music.
• The MOD Files. The music is out there...
• Music-stuff. German site with free samples, soundsets, software, tips, music-links and a lot of other music-stuff!
• Piano Wizard. Software that teaches people to read music using MIDI files.
• Sibelius. Music notation software.
• Slovenian Techno Site. All about techno culture in Slovenia.
• NSA Software. Software for guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele and dozens of other stringed instruments.
• Standard MIDI Files on the Net. A large collection of links to sequenced music, including MIDI rhythm tracks. All types of music, some of specific interest to world fusion musicians.
• Synth Zone. List of synthesizer related links.
• Tune1000.co.uk. Standard MIDI files with lyrics.
• The Tuck Shop. "Nu music portal" for global electronic music.

Stores

• Desi Boyz Records. Online music store, selling every type of music including foreign.
• Free Music CD. Offers free music CDs and top CDs at low prices.

Video Studios

• Gordyo Productions. Video studio in Fairfax, California, specializing in live music videos and band promotion.