Favourites

• Cat Power – discover the highly personal vision of wondrous singer Chan Marshall. Unlimited by genre, modern and traditional, and highly original. A free spirit.
  
  
• Bob Dylan – official site covering his entire career. Good Real Audio including rare, plus tons of lyrics, etc.
  
  
• Gemma Hayes – the talented Irish singer who is making waves with her unique vision. Optimistic melancholy, quiet and loud, sensitive, perceptive and inspiring . . .
  
  
• The Waterboys – a great site, elegantly designed, with loads to read and see.
  

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Music – help yourself

• SongwriterUniverse – find out about publishing
• greatmusicsites.com – online music promotions
• localmusicbands.com – get your band info and music placed on the site
• Rare Pleasures – UK music promoter
• Alternative Route – a music and media based umbrella site, promoting unsigned/signed bands
  

Other web resources

• abisti – an online alternative culture magazine made in London by George Berger, featuring news, reviews, debates, interviews with Penny Rimbaud (Crass), Simon Price (Manics biographer) & Martin Newell, & much more.
  
  
• Peace Channel – a peace initiative centred on music, ideas and information. International radio station.
  
  

‘The Art and Design directory for all artists and associated organisations’

Bands & Artists

• Gemma Hayes Making Waves – a comprehensive fan site, with lots of interviews, audio and video
• Chords and Tabs for Kinks songs
• Ben Paley and Tab Hunter – Old-Time, Irish, Swedish, Klezmer, Bluegrass: Red Hot Traditional Fiddle & Guitar
• The June Brides – Indie-pop’s finest
• Garbage
• !1969 Woodstock Festival – Musicians
• The Small Faces
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Jam Guitar Tabs

Bob Dylan

• BobDylan.com – the official site covering his entire career – good Real Audio inc. rare & lyrics, etc
• Bob Dylan – Bob Links
• Bob Dylan: Chords
• Telegraph Home Page

Classical

• Classical MIDI Archives – J.S.Bach
• Mad about Beethoven

Music: search

• Guitar Tabs
• Internet Underground Music Archive
• Josh’s Mega Midi Archive
• Lyrics
• m u s i c b a s e c o n t r o l
• m u s i c b a s e l a b e l s
• OLGA Home Page
• POLLSTAR Tour Database Search
• Tabulatury Poland
• Tabulatury USA
• The Greg Scheer Memorial Music Archives
• Welcome to The Ultimate Band List
• Yahoo! – Business and Economy:Companies:Music:Labels
• Yahoo! – Entertainment:Music
  
  
  

Record labels

• PeaceWork Music Net – 21st Century music store, a new face for the music business
• Rough Trade Records – home to Eileen Rose
• Matador Records – home to Cat Power
• Source Records – home to Gemma Hayes & French ambient band Air

Organisations

• The Performing Right Society
• MCPS
• The Band Register – Links To Other Sites

Technical / recording links

• Steinberg – home of Cubase VST
• Native Instruments – for excellent Battery drum machine VST plugin & B4 Organ
• Waves – makers of superb VST plugins for processing audio
• Shareware Music Machine
• Digital Village – UK's Largest Studio Recording Retailer Online
• Drumtrax – Midi file drum patterns

Media & miscellaneous

• Sir George Martin – words of wisdom from the great producer
• Sound On Sound – Hi-tech Music Recording Magazine
• café music network
• Guitar strings and accessories – buy famous brands online at cheap prices