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Post #200 Extravaganza - 100 More Music Websites!

Since I had done this for the 100th post back in March, and last week was A Future in Noise’s anniversary week after all, here I am going to bring you…

100 More Music Websites!
Recommend your personal favorites in the comments if you don’t see them here (or in the previous 100 sites post)- this is an elite selection, I hope you have fun browsing through it!
  • MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS AND LISTENING
Future Perfect Radio: Earning some bonus points for containing the word ‘future’, Future Perfect Radio approached our blog for partnership recently (look out for some recommendations from AFIN and other blog sites at FPR soon), for building a blogger-recommendations station. As it is, they have a load of stations to choose from, including Chamber Pop, Lo-Fi, and Noise Rock, as well as location-specific stations (‘Across the Pond’, ‘Nordic’, ‘L.A.’)- tune in now!

XWAVE: Post-punk, coldwave, minimal synth, and old-school industrial? Count me in!

Fairtilizer: Described as ‘The Do It Yourself Music Club’, Fairtilizer’s streamlined design and ease of use (particularly for embedding music) make it an option worth checking out- thanks to Ian France for suggesting this one!

We Are Hunted - The Online Music Chart: “The 99 most popular emerging songs in the world”, “A new Top of the Pops”- this is how Billboard would look right now if the people who were downloading and blogging about music were paying for it instead.

3VOOR12: A Dutch website with an excellent selection of music streams and videos. Cases in point: The Horrors (3VOOR12, Amsterdam, April 2nd, 2009) and Natural Snow Buildings (Dwars Festival, Amsterdam, September 28th, 2008).

nuTsie: If you disregard the cavalcade of banner and square advertisements, there are some pretty cool playlists by year (1949-present) and theme (such as ‘Americana Songs’, ‘Metal Guitar Riffs’, and ‘Underrated Rock Songs’) that can be fun to browse through.

Last.fm - Music Advice Center
: 4,000+ members strong, the Music Advice Center at Last.fm is described as a “virtual record store”, where you can get advice on what to listen to next by posting in themed Hotdesk topics (Genre & Style, Mood & Occasions, Album & Artist, Jazz, Indie Rock, and so on). It’s because of this very group that I first heard Suicide and the Gun Club.

WFMU: Wonderful podcast archives, including sets from guest DJs (Sonic Boom, for instance) and live streaming radio!

AccuRadio: I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of this until just the other day; explore, and be amazed!

FoxyTunes: “A personalized music aggregator. The website aggregates music videos, photos, news, bios and much more from the best music sites all over the Web into one convenient place.”
  • MUSIC BLOGS+NEWS
The Agit Reader
Ambient Collective
Analog Suicide
Anti-Gravity Bunny
Archived Music Press
Band Logos - Brand Upon the Brain
BowlingStone.com
Hakim Callier
ChordStrike’s Amazon Blog: I bet you didn’t know Amazon had a regularly updated music blog…
Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage
Captain Crawl: “Massic music blog search engine”- yes, indeed!
Crying All The Way To The Chip Shop
Danish Poet
Did it Leak: Find out before everyone else…
Drawer B
Drowned in Sound: Particularly their In Depth series- see also Beyond the Death of the Critic and How the ‘Albums Artist’ is Being Strangled.
hypebot
Idolator
j’s heaven
Lefsetz Letter
Look at Me, I Made a Blog
MAGNET
MATRIXSYNTH
MBV
Mp3 Blog Listing - MonkeyFilter Wiki
MusicBlogWiki
TheMusic.FM
Music Machinery
The Music Ninja
musicology
New Music Strategies
Pampelmoose: Dave Allen (Gang of Four) has a brilliany music blog!
Mark Prindle’s Record Reviews
SleepWalKing: Mark Zonda’s music blog- I’ve contributed here in the past and have some articles coming up!
Substix: WHERE EVERYTHING IS GRAND.
Trouser Press
Vinyl Destination
Weirdomusic.com
XChannel - Music Blog Aggregator
  • MUSIC TOOLS+RESOURCES
Streampad: It’s that little bar you see at the bottom of many music-oriented sites; it collects all the mp3s on your page and allows for one-click playback! It’s customizable by color and is available for install on Blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress, TypePad, and more.

Drop.io: Drop.io is gaining currency as an easy way to share files and collaborate amongst musicians with real-time features!

DonkDJ: Not so much a tool as a source of humor- just upload a song into it and see for yourself what it means by ‘putting a donk on it’.

7Zip: Trust me, you need this.

Bandcamp: On its way to become the premiere album downloading/listening destination for savvy artists.
Stereofame and YouBloom: More independent artist destinations- their potential still remains to be scene, though Stereofame’s ‘label’ concept is interesting (anyone can start one on the site, and recruit bands to join for you to promote) and YouBloom’s intent to “become a thriving global economy of artists and friends, inhabited by socially and environmentally conscious individuals and communities from all over the world”, with emphasis on increasing fan bases and opening up promotional opportunities.

ArtistData: Automation of artists’ “social network profiles, concert databases, Twitter, official news feeds…fan newsletters” and more.

Shoutcast: By far, the best platform for finding and hosting free streaming radio stations!

Popcuts: Odd concept involving buying DRM-free songs for 99 cents each, and then getting paid every time a song you’ve bought sells again (with earlier buyers getting more)…hmm…
Gimme Sound: Free downloads site that pays artists based on ad-revenue proceeds instead of fan purchases!
Insound.com
Other Music: The only digital music store that gives me a bit of the feel of an actual indie record store!

Odeo and Yahoo! Media Player: If you don’t have a Wordpress site (which is, admittedly, easier in regards to media players for audio files), try these to embed audio instead!
  • GENRE/LABEL-SPECIFIC
Dainty Records, Minimal Wave 1.0, Students of Decay, Glasgow Mods, Prog Archives, The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock, Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982
  • 10 INDEPENDENT ARTISTS YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW
Jakob Battick
Burnt Fur
Dead Times
Golau Glau
The Golden Sores
Henry’s Phonograph
Oh Ne
Panda steps in chocolate
Tiny Tide
The Watermarks
  • TUMBLR
(See more on Mashable’s list of 18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs, too!)

ANYWAY, ANYHOW, ANYWHERE (A Who-centric Tumblr; I actually run this one!)
Max Abelson’s Super Groovy Music Video Spectacular
Hipster Tracks
A Post Punk Tumblr
fyeahrock’n’roll
Graphic Lyrics
Ears of the Beholder
yvynyl
Cassette Tuesday
Daily Dose of Dylan
fyeahthebeatles
Grace Notes
Let’s Share Some Music
Yacht
Boys in the Band - The Libertines
friendP3
  • FUN / EVERYTHING ELSE
Popular | Freaky Trigger: “All the UK number ones since 1952, reviewed in order and rated by whim.”

Record Store Day: You should know about this…

ToneMatrix: Simple and fun song composer!
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