MUS 715 Rock 'n' Roll Seminar: Online Resources and Collections

Billboard.com features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video, and more.

Chicago-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on independent music, especially indie rock.

Includes reviews spanning genres.

Album of the Year compiles music reviews and information from across sources.

All Music includes album reviews spanning genres.

National Public Radio includes news and reviews of music and other cultural events.

Web site for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Its mission is to educate visitors, fans, and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music.

UCLA Library Special Collections created its Punk Archive, consisting of collections related to punk music and punk culture, to document punk as it has developed and been expressed in Los Angeles both within and outside of the traditional LA/Hollywood punk narrative.

The Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi acquires and preserves blues and blues-related materials in a variety of formats for scholars and blues fans alike. With over 70,000 sound recordings in most audio formats; over 60,000 photographs; more than 1,000 videos; over 34,000 books, periodicals and newsletters; and numerous manuscripts and ephemera, the Blues Archive houses one of the largest collections of blues recordings, publications, and memorabilia in the world. Important collections include B. B. King’s personal record collection, the Jim O’Neal and Amy van Singel / Living Blues Collection, the Trumpet Records Collection, the Sheldon Harris Collection, the John Richbourg Collection, and the Percy Mayfield collection.

The special collections at the AAAMC contain unique materials documenting a wide range of topics and musical genres.

The Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO) is a socially constructed collection comprised of over 45,000 digitized items drawn from the UCSC Library's extensive Grateful Dead Archive (GDA) and from digital content submitted by the community and global network of Grateful Dead fans. Digitized content -including concert hotline recordings, decorated fan envelopes, fanzines, photographs, posters, radio interviews, tickets, T-shirts, and videos, - can be found here, as well as web resources such as David Dodd's "The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics" website and the fan recordings of concerts archived by the Internet Archive.

Online access to manuscripts and print materials held at numerous music archives.

Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress.

This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists. With a burgeoning number of digital resources available, remembering titles of sites and pathways to them can be difficult. Digital Resources in Musicology (DRM) is organized topically and provides a rapid search tool for specialties within heterogeneous collections. Neither the links nor their descriptions are exhaustive.

Browse or search an open-source bibliography of specialized digital resources and born-digital scholarship in music. Here you may tour the world of digital humanities in music, loosely interpreted. The entries in this directory were compiled over a period of three years: 2018-2021.