History of Rock and R&B

Music Industry

• All Music Guide (Comprehensive discographies, reviews, chart info)
• RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America: gold and platinum record database)
• Grammy categories (their history, nominees, winners); restructured listing of categories (2012, 213)
• IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)
• Billboard magazine(Weekly chart listings)
  • Billboard chart achievements
• Rolling Stone magazine
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum (Cleveland)
• Music Industry on Wikipedia
• MusicBizBuzz (Major clearinghouse for music industry links)
• Discographies (discogs.com)

Online radio/streaming sites

• albumlinernotes.com

• Radio
  • Pandora
    • Spotify has the bad business model, not Pandora
  • last.fm
• Streaming
  • Spotify
    • 1 million US paid subscribers (Dec. 2012)
    • Spotify and artist payments (Dec. 6, 2012)
    • Guardian (UK) articles about Spotify
    • Spotify is a certified Pandora killer
  • Rdio

Online Articles about Music

• Rock’s Backpages (An online library of rock and roll)
• Nostalgia Central
• RockCritic’s.com (Rock critics talking to, about, and with each other)
• Black Grooves (music review site of AAAMC at Indiana University)
• Pitchfork
• Carol Cooper
• Jimmy Page’s Dubious Recording Legacy (blues originals covered by the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin.)
• Report on Altamont Murder (Times-UK online investigative report on the murder of Meredith Hunter at Altamont.)

Lyrics

• Leo’s Lyrics (Complete song lyrics)
• Luckymojo.com (southern US African American folklore. Many song references.)
• Blues Lyrics (Blues lyrics, dictionary, and more.)
• Always on the Run (Complete Velvet Underground)

Historical and Population Statistics

• Civil Rights Timeline (1954-2003)
• Civil Rights Timeline (Martin Luther King Institute, Stanford U)
• Vietnam War Timeline
• Vietnam War Casualties
• AIDS Timeline
• African American census statistics, 1950, 2000
• African American and Latino demographics, 1950-2000
• List of Economic Recessions in the USA

Drugs

• Opium Throughout History (Frontline/PBS timeline)
• “Growth in Heroin Use Ending as City Users Turn to Crack” (NY Times, 1986)
• “How Bad Was Crack Cocaine?”

Record Covers

• Album cover art gallery
• 45-sleeves.com

Music Videos

• Funkytown
• YouTube
• One-take lip-dubs: Canadian college students (UQAM); The Today Show (read the comments)
• Unsung (documentaries)
  • The O’Jays
  • George Clinton

Dictionaries

• Rap Dictionary
• Urban Dictionary
• NetLingo.com (internet dictionary)

Instruments

• Experience Music Project Guitar/Bass Timeline
• The evolution of rock drum kits and the drummers who play them
• Organ in progressive rock
• The banjo

Geography

• San Francisco rock (1965-69)
• Texas musicians
• British Pop chronology (through 1970)

Venues

• Irving Plaza Keeps its Maiden Name
• Abbey Road Studios (and live webcam)

Other

• History of Rock.com (Timelines, style surveys, biographies, discographies and more)
• Wolfgang’s Vault (archive of live recordings)
• Pandora Internet Radio (Music Genome Project)
• US Economy: length of recessions; economic recessions; economic expansions
• FCC regulations on obscene, indecent, and profane broadcasts
• jamglue (for remixes)
• Backmasking
• Sheep Beats
• Second Hand Songs (Database of covers and samples)
• Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 songs and albums
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Muxtape (platform for launching bands), New Yorker interview with the founder
• Wesleyan stereotypes
• Saints lineman mans up
• Airplane:  June Cleaver speaks jive talk, courtroom scene,  the making of jive talk, Barbara Billingsley interview
• Elaine and race; full episode (19:00)
• Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld (:50)
• Country music and its audience (ch. 2, 19:10)
• Charles Barkley/Chris Rock quote
• Chunk Dirty with RZA
• Elway, the band
• Plagiarism
• Cellphones in class: Thailand; Brazil/Portugal?
• Brilliant project comments (Wesleying)
• How not to finish 1; How not to finish 2; How to finish

News

• Review of VH1 documentary Soundtrack to War
• Rick Rubin’s track record as head of Columbia Records
• Towards a Theory of NPR’s Taste in Black Music (slate.com)
• UK record companies released 31,291 albums in 2005
• The Record Industry’s Decline, Part 1, Part 2 (Rolling Stone mag, 7/28/07)
• “A Change of Tune: Faced with Shrinking Profits, Record Labels Try a New Approach” (The Economist, 2007)
• Digital sales surpass CDs at Atlantic Records (11/26/08)
• Can He Save Rock ‘n’ Roll? (merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation) (Wall St. Journal, 2/21/09)
• Filesharing mom hit with $1.5 million fine; request to put it to the Supreme Court
• “The Real Death of the Music Industry” (US record sales)
• Top ten youtube videos of all time (May 2012)
• People still buy albums (March 2013)
• 40 Years of Music Industry History in Less Than a Minute (Time Tech)
• “Virtual Gold: Recording Association Adds Streams in Handing Out Awards” (NY Times 5/10/13)

WGBH/BBC History of Rock ‘n’ Roll documentary series (BBC version, called Dancing in the Street, w/British narrator)

• current.org article reviewing the series

• 1. Renegades (part 1 of 6)
• 2. In the Groove (part 1 of 6)
• 3. Shakespeares in the Alley (complete)
• 4. Respect (part 1 of 6)
• 5. Crossroads (part 1 of 6)
• 6. Blues in Technicolor (complete)
• 7. The Wild Side (part 1 of 6)
• 8. Make it Funky (complete)
• 9. Punk (part 1 of 6)
• 10. The Perfect Beat (part 1 of 6)