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Rock music

      Titles Descriptions
  1. About.com: 80s Music
  2. About.com: Alternative Music
  3. About.com: Classic Rock
  4. About.com: Guitar
  5. About.com: Heavy Metal
  6. Bo Diddley
  7. British Beat Boom 1963-66
  8. Experience Hendrix Interactive
  9. Gracenote: Search CDDB
  10. House of the Rising Punk
  11. Lycos MP3 Search
  12. MP3
  13. Music at UCC: Web Resources - Jazz and Popular Music
  14. Rockmine
  15. SkreemR Mp3 search
  16. Sony Music International
  17. Topica: Music
  18. Ultimate Band List

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About.com: 80s Music
Offers original articles and features about music from the 1980s, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists and lyrics.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.64
     Resource type: forum, index, news
About.com: Alternative Music
Offers original articles and features about alternative rock music, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: forum, index, news
About.com: Classic Rock
Offers original articles and features about classic rock music, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources sites, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists' sites.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: forum, index, news
About.com: Guitar
Offers original articles and features about acoustic and electric guitars, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to instruction pages. Emphasis on rock rather than classical guitar music.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: guitars, rock music, stringed instruments
     DeweyClass: 787.87
     Resource type: forum, index, news
About.com: Heavy Metal
Offers annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to bands.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: forum, index, news
Bo Diddley
Presents information on the life and works of Bo Diddley, credited as one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll music. Notes milestones in his career, provides a discography, lists TV and radio guest appearances, and identifies musicians who have played in Diddley's band from the 1940s to the present day.
     Author: Blakey, David
     Subjects: blues music, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.64
     Resource type: biography
British Beat Boom 1963-66
Directory of information examining the British music era commonly referred to as the beat boom. Features information about artists and groups arranged alphabetically, weekly British chart hits of the time, the annual poll results from the Mersey Beat newspaper, and a listing of former musicians' current occupations.
     Author: Bonner, Alex
     Subjects: contemporary music, popular music, rock music, twentieth century music
     DeweyClass: 781.64
     Resource type: documents
Experience Hendrix Interactive
Provides details of a Jimi Hendrix memorial project led by his family, with information and a discography of Hendrix's work. A selection of material including Purple Haze, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower, Stone Free, Foxy Lady, and Star Spangled Banner is available for download.
     Author: Experience Hendrix
     Subjects: musicians, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: documents, sounds
Gracenote: Search CDDB
Large CD database holding details of artists, titles and tracks. Searches can be conducted by entering a song, artist or album, which return discographies and full track listings.
     Author: Gracenote
     Subjects: music news, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: discography, reference data
House of the Rising Punk
Information about old and new bands, labels, stores, festivals, and people of the punk era. Also includes a selection of newsgroups and magazines.
     Author: McBrady, Robert
     Subjects: rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: index
Lycos MP3 Search
Index to thousands of MP3 clips, searchable by track title or artist name.
     Author: Lycos, Carnegie Mellon University
     Subjects: popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 780.285
     Resource type: sound collection index
MP3
Collection of free high-quality music in MP3 format, as well as spoken word, and audiobooks. Genres covered include blues, classical, country, folk, dance, electronic, experimental, hip hop, rap, jazz, swing, pop, reggae, ska, punk, rock, and heavy metal. MP3 is a file format which stores audio files on computer so that the file size is relatively small but the sound quality is near perfect. Typically 1 Mb is equal to one minute of music.
     Author: MP3
     Subjects: blues music, classical music links, folk music, music collections, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: sound collection
Music at UCC: Web Resources - Jazz and Popular Music
Selected links to resources on jazz and popular music.
     Author: Everett, Paul
     Subjects: jazz music, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.65
     Resource type: index
Rockmine
An archive of rock music containing news items, articles, and audio and video materials for major artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Doors. Includes footage of the musicians' work, stories written about significant events in their lives, and details of tours, public and film appearances, instruments, video recordings and press conferences. An email alerting service is available to publicise recently added information.
     Author: Rockmine
     Subjects: rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: documents, images, sounds
SkreemR Mp3 search
Search engine indexing over 5 million digital music resources in Mp3 format, searchable by title, artist, genre, bitrate and duration. Also includes an FAQ section and allows users to make suggestions for Mp3s to be added to the site.
     Author: SkreemR Search Inc.
     Subjects: folk music, music, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.6
     Resource type: sound collection index
Sony Music International
Details and links to the company's various divisions, labels and mostly mainstream artists based in Europe, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, the United States and elsewhere. Current tourdates of Sony's major artists are also provided. Some of the sites feature soundclips, videos and community sections.
     Author: Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
     Subjects: musicians, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: news, sound collection
Topica: Music
An automated catalogue of numerous mailing lists relevant to music, with descriptions and subscription details.
     Author: Topica
     Subjects: popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 780
     Resource type: mailinglist index
Ultimate Band List
Index of sites relatings to a wide range of musicians and bands. Includes lyric archives, links to mailings lists, and links to digitised versions of songs. Indexed alphabetically, by genre and by resource type.
     Author: Maverick Recordings
     Subjects: musicians, popular music, rock music
     DeweyClass: 781.66
     Resource type: index