Interesting Music Sites
MUSIC / ARTISTS
The Daily Chorus
One of the best indie music sites. “TDC is completely dedicated to independent bands and unsigned bands. The staff of TDC do things for the right reasons. We do it because we truly love music and love helping bands.”
Casa Valdez Studios
David Valdez’ Jazz forum- Jazz resources, musician features, Jazz harmony and improvisation lessons, streaming Jazz videos, Jazz links, Jazz interviews, Jazz saxophone articles, Bebop masters, esoteric music philosophy, and David Valdez’ upcoming gigs.
Jazz Quotes
Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs thousands of sites around the world. His website is an excellent WordPress resource, naturally, but as a jazz musician he has included an index of quotes by jazz artists.
PD Sounds
With recording devices and microphones, pdsounds volunteers acoustically discover the beauty of the world. From the million sounds of things to the pure waves of sinus. Their goal is to record it all and make it available for free.
Smithsonian Global Sound
An international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media. Download and learn about traditional music from all around the world.
Sound and Mind
A site about music cognition, providing links to articles in journals and blogs on music and cognitive science, commentary on those articles, and a forum for discussion of these articles and other topics of interest amongst cognitive musicologists.
What Is That Sound?
A weblog concerning music as an art — from rock to indie, from classical baroque to grunge. An excellent resource to all musicians.
INSTRUMENTS
x8drums
Congas, Djembes, drumming techniques, drum circles, drums for purchase
The Guitar Resource
Free online resource dedicated to making you a better guitar player. Learn new guitar techniques that range from basic to advanced. See amazing guitar videos. Read interesting guitar articles.
Oddmusic
Oddmusic is home to unique, odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources. Look, listen, and explore music and musical instruments that aren’t part of the mainstream. Showcasing unusual musical creations and sounds of unique artists and artisans from around the globe.
MUSICIAN RESOURCES
Free Muse
An independent international organization which advocates freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.
The Freesound Project
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of sounds licensed under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License: audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps…
Internet Music Marketing
Free tips, tricks and techniques for musicians to promote their music online.
New Music Strategies
Devoted to helping small-medium music businesses and independent artists use new online technologies and strategies in order to make money and thrive in the new environment. Also provides a Newswire service that delivers daily links to articles about the latest developments in the music industry.
Ninjam
NINJAM is a cross-platform program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking.
