On Music

To Buy Music

• and - Find the music you want.
• CD Baby - Artist-friendly independent on-line record store.
• - More than 280,000 items available for worldwide delivery. Its catalog features domestic and import CDs, cassette tapes, videos, DVDs and laser discs.
• Earth Tones Studios - On-line Pagan music store. Bright and blessed.
• - Catalog of independent releases in all genres.
• - Here you can order releases from your favorite indie bands.
• - Your source for underground music on the 'net.
• Serpentine Music Productions - Extensive listings of Pagan music in all genres.
• YOURSOUND.COM - Presenting independent Boston music to the world.

Against Censorship

• - Massachusetts Music Industry Coalition. A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting freedom of musical expression in Massachusetts.

Distributors

• - The leading supplier of independent music on the Internet.

Genres And Styles

• The Dutch Progressive Rock Page - Progressive rock news and reviews.
• Femmusic.com - The place for emerging women in music.
• Ghostland - Progressive music website includes links to bands, dealers, radio and more.
• - Cuz chicks rock!
• The Progressive Rock Web Site - Links to progressive rock vendors/labels, radio shows and publications.
• Rock and a Hard Place - Hard rock and metal. Initially this was a pre-recorded radio program. Now it's grown into a larger project dedicated to informing music fans about independent and imported music.
• Rock Online - The Web's first interactive music community, dedicated to rock 'n' roll.

For Independent Musicians

• Above a Star - Provides informational and promotional services and support for Pagan, Wiccan and Earth Spirituality musicians.
• AMP3.com - Your inside track to the music scene.
• Anderson Council - A BBS for talking about music.
• Applause - So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star? Tips, tricks, and secrets that will launch your show business career.
• ArtistForum.com - Where artists and the world unite.
• BandRadio.com - The unsigned band resource.
• The Bass Player Garage - This website was created out of love for the bass! Includes extensive bass-related links, instruction, books, polls, software and more.
• The Boston Phoenix Band Guide - A comprehensive listing of bands, recording studios, disc jockeys and booking agents in the New England music scene.
• Four Front Media & Music - Helping musicians help themselves with the business of music.
• GetSigned.com - Welcome to the only magazine devoted to getting you signed.
• GigAmerica.com - Discounts on music-related merchandise and services, on-line distribution and huge databases of contacts for touring, recording and promotion.
• IndieGroup - Resources and marketing tools for independent musicians.
• Indie-Music.com - General music information for the indie artist, links to record labels, recording studios and bands.
• Just Plain Folks - A group of over 13,000 songwriters, recording artists, music publishers, record labels, performing arts societies, educational institutions, recording studios and engineers, producers, legal professionals, publicists and journalists, publications, music manufacturers and retailers and about every other type of member of the music industry.
• - We make a living helping bands make a living!
• - theLocalScene: the best indie band database.
• Marketing Your Music - Ideas on marketing your music.
• massmusician.com - A community site and on-line resource for Boston-area musicians.
• - Musician's Online Database Exchange.
• The Music Review - Music information quick search on all aspects of the music industry.
• MusicBootCamp.com - A repository of knowledge concerning the music business.  Also offers CD and cassette manufacturing and graphic and website design.
• Musician's Lobby - This site serves as an activist center for legislation, legal matters and issues that affect independent ("indie") musicians.  
• Musicmedia Network - Radio promotion across Canada, USA and Europe.
• MusicThoughts - A place to think about music.
• musictourbus.com - A free site designed as a service to assist in networking with other bands across the country to help book successful tours.
• The Night Guide - Your source for music and live entertainment.  Includes resources for independent musicians.
• North American Band Name Registry - Register your band name for free.
• RainMusic.com - Taking music on the Internet by storm!
• ReviewYou.com - Your CD reviewed by a legitimate music writer - guaranteed!
• Rhythmically Correct Productions - Promotes various alternative music and arts projects in Massachusetts.
• Stompinground.com - An independent music-oriented website featuring independent/unsigned bands, indie band listings, music news and record label listings.
• Triple Goddess Music - A Pagan run music promotions company for bands and artists who either follow or have an interest in the ancient paths of our ancestors.
• Wormtown.org - A place for Worcester rockers new and old to stay in touch with each other and share information and advice on the promotion of music and other not-so traditional cultural activities in the Worcester MA area.

Musical Instruments And Equipment

• Cassette House - DAT tape, blank cassettes, blank CDs and recording supplies.
• Gordon LaSalle Music - New and used musical instruments and equipment.

No Sympathy For The Music Industry

• "Beautiful People - I'm Your Biggest-Paid Fan" - How well-known rock stars like Mick Jagger use talent agencies to hire and pay "fans" to attend their shows and act enthusiastic.  Article from the LA Times.
• "Facing the Music" - In terms of size and profit margins the music business is becoming the book business (minus the literacy). Article from NewYorkMetro.com.
• "Fighting Pay-for-Play" - Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola.  Article from Salon.com.
• "Four Little Words" - How the record industry used a tiny legislative amendment to try to steal recording copyrights from artists -- forever.  Article from Salon.com.
• "The Incredible Shrinking Local Music Scene" - Why the music scene is dead in Worcester MA.  Article from Worcester Magazine.
• "Limp Bizkit Guitarist Search: A Behind-the-Scenes Account" - Does Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit steal guitar riffs from indie musicians auditioning for his band?  Article from Blistering.com, the on-line home of Revolver Magazine.
• The One and Only Anti-Music Industry Website - This site was created to bring awareness of the reality of the music industry.
• "Pay for Play" - Why does radio suck? Because most stations play only the songs the record companies pay them to. And things are going to get worse. Article from Salon.com.
  
• "A Peek into Fleeting Rock Stardom" - A review of Jacob Slichter's So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life. Article from The Journal Gazette.

“Pop Singer Fails To Strike a Chord Despite the Millions Spent By MCA” - A story of economic dysfunction in the music industry. Article from The Wall Street Journal.
• "The Problem With Music" - Producer Steve Albini's scathing critique of how business is done in the modern rock inustry.  A must-read for all indie musicians.
• "Radio's Big Bully" - Dirty tricks and crappy programming: Welcome to the world of Clear Channel, the biggest station owner in America. Article from Salon.com.
• Songshark - Your source for scams and ripoffs in the music industry.
• "The Suit: An Anonymous Executive Talks" - Interview from the Los Angeles Weekly with an anonymous major-label president concerning the problems in the modern music industry.  Another must read.
• "Tom Petty is Pissed: And He's Got Plenty of Good Reasons" - Interview from Rolling Stone on the deplorable state of the music industry, and the banning of Petty's "The Last DJ" at major radio stations.
• "Tough Company" - Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting employee suits alleging everything from broken contracts to sexual harassment. Article from Salon.com.

Performance Rights Organizations

• ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
• BMI - Broadcast Music Incorporated.
• SESAC - SESAC, Inc.

Performance Schedules, Finding And Listing

• Band Web - A place to list band homepages and gigs.
• Musi-cal - Easy access to up-to-date concert information.
• North American Progressive Gigs - Listing of progressive rock shows throughout North America.
• WormtownNightlife.com - Bringing you all of the best and most up-to-date information on the night scene in Wormtown (Worcester MA).

Publications And On-line Reviews

• Boundaries Unlimited - Progressive rock newspaper.
• Carpe Noctem Wormtown - Worcester MA music scene webzine.
• The Celebrity Café - On-line interviews with musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, artists, writers, cartoonists and more.
• Chaotic Critiques - Underground music 'zine.
• Exposé - Focusing on the progressive and experimental hinterlands where rock meets jazz, classical meets folk and electronic meets avant-garde.
• - Music Industry News Network is a newswire service for music professionals featuring band and record label announcements, tour and event dates, digital music news as well as new releases.
• Music Connection - Los Angeles-based music industry magazine.
• - The award-winning and authoritative music industry magazine showcasing cutting-edge artists and labels, insiders from our industry experts, tips to help your career, CD reviews and in-depth news and analysis.
• Music Street Journal - Progressive rock reviews and news.
• thephoenix.com - Your source for news and features, arts and entertainment, and calendar listings from the weekly alternative papers of Portland Maine, Boston Massachusetts and Providence Rhode Island.  
• Progression - The world's foremost authority on art rock and all other sub-genres of progressive music.
• RollingStone.com - Rolling Stone Magazine on line.
• Stormbringer - Webzine devoted to metal, rock and progressive rock.
• VAMPYRUM -The site of musical insanity of summarized digitized pontification on the DC-MD-VA extreme scene.
• Zoltan's Progressive Rock Page - Reviews of progressive rock releases from all over the world.

Radio Shows And Stations

• "The Black Cauldron" on KUCI 88.9 FM, Irvine CA - Pagan radio show on University of California - Irvine radio. Voted best radio station in Orange County.
• Wabbit Wadio Radio: The Indie Song Exchange, Amherst MA - Quirky, fun Internet radio show and station sponsored by the quirky progressive pop duo, TagYerit.
• WCHC 88.1 FM, Worcester MA - College of the Holy Cross radio station.
• WCUW 91.3 FM, Worcester MA - Non-commercial community radio station.
• WDOA, Worcester MA - Free-form community-oriented radio. Formerly at 89.3 FM. Now broadcast on the Internet.
• IN PERPETUAL MOTION, Madison Heights MI - Gothic industrial electronic Internet radio.
• "Gagliarchives" on WBZC 88.9 FM, Pemberton NJ - The Delaware Valley's link to the progressive rock movement, broadcast by Burlington County College's radio station.
• WHJY 94.1 FM, Providence RI - The home of rock 'n' roll.
• CKLU 96.7 FM, Sudbury Ontario, Canada - Laurentian University radio station.
• Radio Free Quebec, Hudson Quebec, Canada - World-wide center for Canadian independent music and home to the radio freedom fighters.
• "Psyche van het Folk" on Radio Centraal, 103.9 FM, Antwerp Belgium - Progressive rock and folk, fusion, Goth, Wiccan and Pagan rock, music and literature.
• - On Radio H, 106.1FM, Etalle Belgium.
• "Dakka Dakka" on Radio Scorpio, 106 FM, Leuven Belgium - Hard music radio show.

Record Labels

• - Trip the dark fantastic.
• Black Widow Records - Progressive rock with fantasy, horror, and science fiction themes.
• Directory of Record Labels - Directory of record labels.
• - An independent label producing and promoting unique and original music and artists.
• Morrigan Records - Bringing Pagan music to the world.

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