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Links - Classical Music Radio Stations & Broadcasters

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This page is for web links to classical music stations, both online and traditional broadcast. Many of these stations are NPR and/or APR affiliates. Many stations are also Internet broadcasters. Use your browser's search capabilities to find specific stations or locations. Also check the Networks section for links to regional radio networks in the U.S. Internet broadcasters are designated by the speaker icon:

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One star indicates that this site carries a better than average amount of classical programming every day
Two stars indicates that this site carries mostly classical music and news, day and night.

Western United States

KACU - Abilene, Texas
KAMU - College Station, Texas (Texas A&M University)
KBAQ - Phoenix, Arizona
KBIA - Columbia, Missouri (University of Missouri, Columbia)
KBPS - Portland, Oregon
KBYU - Provo, Utah (Brigham Young University)
KCBX - San Luis Obispo, California
KCCU - Lawton, Oklahoma (Cameron University)
KCHO/KFPR - Chico, California (California State University, Chico)
KCME - Colorado Springs, Colorado
KCNV - Las Vegas, Nevada
KCSC - University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond, OK)
KDB - Santa Barbara, California
KDFC - San Francisco, California
KENW - Portales, New Mexico (Eastern New Mexico University)
KFUO - St. Louis, Missouri
KHKE - Cedar Falls, Iowa
KING - Seattle, Washington
KIOS - Omaha, Nebraska
KLRE - Little Rock, Arkansas (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
KMFA - Austin, Texas
KMST - Rolla, Missouri
KNPR - Las Vegas, Nevada
KOSU - Stillwater, Oklahoma
KPBX - Spokane, Washington
KRPS - Pittsburg, Kansas (Pittsburg State University)
KRWG - Las Cruces, New Mexico (New Mexico State University)
KSMU - Springfield, Missouri (Southwest Missouri State University)
KSUI - University of Iowa
KTEP - El Paso, Texas (University of Texas, El Paso)
KUAF - Fayetteville, Arkansas (University of Arkansas)
KUAT - Tucson, Arizona (University of Arizona)
KUHF - Houston, Texas (University of Houston)
KUSC - Los Angeles, California (University of Southern California)
KVLU - Beaumont, Texas
KVNO - University of Nebraska at Omaha
KVOD - Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore City Community College)
KVPR - Fresno / Bakersfield, California (Valley Public Radio)
KWGS - Tulsa, Oklahoma (University of Tulsa)
KXMS - Joplin, Missouri
KXPR/KXSR - Sacramento, California
KXTR - Kansas City, Missouri

Eastern United States

WABE - Atlanta, Georgia
WBAA - West Lafayette, Indiana (Purdue University)
WBACH - Maine's Classical Network
WBHM - Birmingham, Alabama (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
WBJC - Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore City Community College)
WBNI/WBOI - Fort Wayne, Indiana
WCBU - Peoria, Illinois (Bradley University)
WCLV - Cleveland, Ohio
WCMU - Central Michigan University Public Radio
WCQS - Asheville, North Carolina
WCNY - Syracuse, New York
WCPE Radio - Rolesville, NC
WCRB - Boston, Massachusetts
WCVE - Richmond, Virginia
WCVT - Radio Vermont
WDAV - Davidson, North Carolina
WDIY - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
WEKU - Richmond, Kentucky (Eastern Kentucky University)
WETA - Washington, DC
WFCC - Cape Cod, Massachusetts
WFCR - Amherst, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts)
WFDD - Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Wake Forest University)
WFIU - Bloomington, Indiana
WFMT - Chicago, Illinois
WFSL/WFSQ/WFSU/WFSW - Florida Pan Handle (Florida State University)
WFWM - Frostburg, Maryland (Frostburg State University)
WFYI - Indianapolis, Indiana
WGBE/WGLE/WGTE - Northwest Ohio & Southeast Michigan
WGBH - Boston, Massachusetts, Cape & Islands
WGCU - Ft. Myers, Florida (Florida GulfCoast University)
WGUC - Cincinnati, Ohio
WHPW - Staten Island, New York
WHQR - Wilmington, North Carolina
WHRB - Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard University)
WHRO - Hampton Roads, Virginia
WICR - Indianapolis, Indiana (University of Indianapolis)
WILL - Urbana, Illinois (University of Illinois)
WITF - Central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg)
WIPA/WUIS - Pittsfield, Illinois (University of Illinois, Springfield)
WIUM/WIUW - Macomb, Illinois (Western Illinois University)
WJFF - Jeffersonville, New York
WKAR - East Lansing, Michigan (Michigan State University )
WKCP - Classical South Florida
WKCR - New York, NY (Columbia University)
WKNO - Memphis, Tennessee
WKSU - Kent, Ohio (Kent State University)
WKYU - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Western Kentucky University)
WLRH - Huntsille, Alabama (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
WMRA - Harrisonburg, Virginia
WMUK - Kalamazoo, Michigan (Western Michigan University)
WNYC - New York, NY
WOSU - Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University)
WPLN/WHRS - Nashville, Tennessee
WPRB - Princeton, New Jersey (Princeton University)
WPSU - State College, Pennsylvania (Penn State University)
WQED - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
WQLN - Erie, Pennsylvania
WQUB - Quincy, Illinois (Quincy University)
WQXR - New York, NY
WRCJ - Detroit, Michigan
WRKF - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WRR - Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
WRTI - Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WSHU - Southern Connecticut & Long Island, New York
WSIU - Carbondale, Illinois (Southern Illinois University)
WSKG - Binghamton, New York
WSMC - Chattanooga, Tennessee
WTEB - New Bern, North Carolina
WTMI - Hartford, Connecticut
WTSU/WRWA/WTJB - Alabama (Troy State University)
WUFT/WJUF - Gainesville, Florida (University of Florida)
WUGA - Athens, Georgia (University of Georgia)
WUOL - Louisville, Kentucky (University of Louisville)
WUOT - Knoxville, Tennessee (University of Tennessee)
WVIA - Pittston/Scranton, Pennsylvania
WVIK - Rock Island, Illinois (Augustana College)
WVTF - Roanoke, Virginia
WWFM - Central New Jersey (Mercer County Community College)
WWNO - New Orleans, Louisiana (University of New Orleans)
WXEL - West Palm Beach, Florida
WXXI - Rochester, New York
WYSU - Youngstown, Ohio (Youngstown State University)

Networks

APR - Alabama Public Radio (University of Alabama)
Beethoven.com
Classical Music America
Classical Music Broadcast
ClassicalTexas.com
CPR - Capital Public Radio (California State University, Sacramento)
CPRN Classical Public Radio Network
CPR - Colorado Public Radio
DPR - Dayton Public Radio
ETV Radio - South Carolina
GPR - Georgia Public Radio
HPPR - High Plains Public Radio
IPR - Indiana Public Radio (Ball State University)
IPR - Interlochen Public Radio
K-Mozart
KPR - Kansas Public Radio
MLEN - Classical Radio Network
MPB - Mississippi Public Broadcasting
MPR - Maine Public Radio
MPR - Minnesota Public Radio
MPR - Montana Public Radio
NDPR - North Dakota Public Radio
NET - Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
NHPR - New Hampshire Public Radio
NPR - National Public Radio
NPR - Nevada Public Radio
NWPR - Northwest Public Radio (Washington)
PBS - Public Broadcasting System
PPR - Prairie Public Radio
PRI - Public Radio International
RK - Radio Kansas
RRRN - Red River Radio Network (Louisiana, Texas & Arkansas)
SEPR - Southeast Public Radio
SDPR - South Dakota Public Radio
TPR - Texas Public Radio
UPR - Utah Public Radio (Utah State University)
WOI - Ames/Des Moines, Iowa (Iowa State University)
WPR - Wisconsin Public Radio (University of Wisconsin)
WPR - Wyoming Public Radio (University of Wyoming)

Programs

International

2MBS - Sydney, Australia
3MBS FM - Victoria, Australia
5UV - Adelaide, Australia (University of Adelaide)
ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Accent4 - Strasbourg, France
Amadeus - Buenos Aires, Argentina
AvroKlassiek Webradio - Netherlands
Bavarian Radio - Germany (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
BBC Radio 3 - United Kingdom (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Radio Beethoven - Santiago, Chile
Catalunya Música - Barcelona, Spain
CBC Radio 2 - Canada
CFMX - Toronto, Ottawa & Eastern Canada
Classic FM - United Kingdom
Classic FM - Netherlands
classicLive - Live or On-Demand Concerts, Opera & Ballet (Subscription)
Concertzender - Dutch Radio
Klassik Radio Live - Germany
Kol haMusica - Israel Broadcasting Authority
Greek Classical Station III
NDR - North German Radio
Radio 390
Radio Prague
Radio Crazy - Switzerland
SDR - Southwest German Radio
RTÉ Lyric fm - Ireland
Swiss Classical Radio
Symphony 92.4 - Singapore
Vincent na Middernacht - Dutch Radio 4
WDR - West German Radio
XHUG - Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico (Universidad de Guadalajara)
XLNC1 - Tijuana, Mexico

3 Ways To Promote Your Affiliate Link Without Blog or Website

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Music video links

2009-05-21T00:30:00.000-07:00

Greene, Wendell

ESSENTIAL RESOURCES

Music Video Production Association

Music Video Wire - mvwire.com

SPPAM (French 'guild' of music video professionals)

Video Static - music video news

videoville.org (music video Wikipedia)

videos.antville.org

AWARDS

Clio Awards (has a music video category)
Dove Awards (Christian music awards with a music video category)
Grammy Awards (has a music video category)
International Music Video Festival
Latin Grammy Awards
Latin Grammy Awards (has a music video category)
MTV Video Music Awards - 2001
MTV Video Music Awards - 2003
Premio Videoclip Italiano
Victoires de la Musique
MTV Video Music Awards Archive

COMPANIES (PRODUCTION)

(h) films
1171 Production Group
Current directors include: Abdul Malik Abbott, Doug Pray and Cousin Mike.
3000films
48media, Inc.
5th Dimension
7Retros Film Arts
A Band Apart
Current directors include: Nigel Dick, Wayne Isham, Andy Morahan, McG, Mike Lipscombe and Chris Applebaum.
A Common Thread
A Go Go Films
Academy Films
Addict Films
ADN Factory
Adrenaline Films
Aestheticom
Aisle Five Studios
Alarming Pictures
Alchemy Films
Amino Films
AMVF Productions
angelsmith
anonymous content
Anosi
Aoki
Arkadia Pictures
Artists Company (the)
AV Squad
AVA Studios
Avenue B Pictures
Babyfoot Productions
Bad Co.
Bandits
Baranga Film (Swedish company)
Base Films (la)
Battlecruiser
Current directors include: Philippe André, Tony Kaye, Jake Nava, Simon West and Dayton-Faris.
Believe Media
Current directors include: Floria Sigismondi, Nick Brandt, Anthea Benton and Erick Ifergan.
Big Fish Filmproduktion
Big Productions
Bikini Films
Bill Young Productions
Black Dog Films
Blast Films
Blink Pictures
Blow Film
Blue Juice Films
Blue Marlyn Production
Blunt Films
Bob Industries
Current directors include: Peter Care, Dayton-Faris and Mark Kohr.
Bobby Works (Swedish company)
Bodhisattva Films
Bohème Films (la)
BoltPIX:Barnard Productions
Bonanza Films
Bonne Pioche
Boy Going Solo
BR Films
Buck Productions, Inc.
Bullring
C4
Calderon Films
Canaille Prod.
Chelsea Pictures
Cherry Blossom Films
Chris Horton Films
Chrome Productions
Cinélande & Associés
Circle Productions
City Lights Productions
Current directors include: Ernie Fritz, Guy Guillet, Minchael Lindsay-Hogg and Chris Rogers.
Clark Media
Clever Films
Current directors include: Terry Heller, Fat Cats and Glen Bennett.
Clip Television / Filmmaster
Coldcuts Productions
Colibri Films
Collaboration Factory
Collision Films
Colonel Blimp
Commondeer Productions
Compagnie des Indes
Cool Cat
Cops and Robbers
Corporate Sucker Films
Corrino Music Videos
Cosa (French company)
Cowboy Films
Craig Miller Productions
Crea Filmi
Cyclope Films
D Squared Picture Company
D/K Films
Dak Tirak Productions
Deaton Flanigen Productions
Decode Productions
Decon
Deddac
Department of Film
Current directors include: Nick Quested and Adolfo Doring.
DeVaux Films
Directors Bureau
Current directors include: Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Melodie McDaniel and Mike Mills.
Dirty Pictures
Distrito Films
DNA, Inc.
Current directors include: Francis Lawrence, Liz Friedlander, Rocky Schenck, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Big TV! and Diane Martel.
Doom, Inc.
DoRo Media, Inc. (German company)
Dragonslayer (Australian company)
Draw Pictures
Dreamchaser Productions (Irish company)
Dye Vers Productions
Eleven Media (New Zealand company)
Entropie Films (French company)
Epicenter (previously known as This Thing Of Ours)
Epoch Films
erste liebe film
Eskimoon Productionz
Ethos Film
Exit Films (Australian company)
Exposure Films (HSI London)
Factory Features
Factory Films
Fallout Entertainment
Famous Kids
Film Syndicate
Film Ylem
filmblanc
Filmitalli (Finnish company)
FilmMaster Clip
Filmtempel (der)
Fink
Fish N' Clips (New Zealand)
Flashframe Films
Current directors include: John Dahl and Marius Penczner.
Flehner Films
Flicker Films
flickerFACTORY
Flying Fish (New Zealand company)
FM Rocks
Current directors include: Antti J, Fred Durst, Scott Kalvert and Rob Zombie.
Fokal Productions (French company, specialized in rap promos)
Food Chain Films
Forest of Black
Form
Franklin Films
Fred Films
Free the Dragon
Fruitlounge
Gainsbury & Whiting
Ganga
Gato, Inc.
GearHead Entertainment
Geechee Girls Multimedia
Geronimo Films
Ghost Robot
Godman
Gold Star Productions
Good Boy! Creative (Finnish company)
Gorgeous
Gorilla Flix
GPA
Graying & Balding (Jim Gable's company)
Greencard Pictures
Grey Sky Films
Half Element
Half-White Productions
Happy Design
Harder/Fuller Films
Heliumboy
Herzliya Films
HighRoller Studios
Hilo Films
HKDB
HKM Productions
HLA
Honeygun Labs
Hood Productions
Hornet Inc.
HSI London
HSI Productions
Current directors include: Paul Hunter, Joseph Kahn, Little X, Chris Robinson and Josh Taft.
I Factory
Ice Films
Image Dynamic Pictures
Imagen Films
Immigrant Film
IncMedia Films
Independent
Influential Films
Instinct Productions
Intro
IronBeatz Entertainment
Itch Film
ivisualeyes films
JEFFDtv
Joyrider Films
Kagan Production
Kahn, Joseph
KanDoKid
Kangaroo Alliance
Katapult
Kekemenis, Costa
KillSwitch Productions
Kourtrajmé (French company)
Kree 8 Productions
Krypton
Portuguese production company
Legacy Films
Current directors include: Mike Maloy and Bernard Gourley.
Lélia Films
Lightborne
Limelight Films
Lionheart Production House
Lithium Productions
Little Minx @ RSA
Current directors include: Malik Sayeed and Mark Seliger.
LIZ
LN Prod
Lodge Pictures
Logan
Logic Entertainment
Lotus Filmworks
Love
lowlifemedia
Lucid Vision Entertainment
Mabam! Entertainment
Mad Angel
Maguffin
Master Cylinder
Matador Films (small independent French company)
Maverick Films
mediacampus (Germany company)
Mekano Baby (Swedish production company)
Merge Films
Current directors include: Nancy Bardawil, David Mallet, Mark Pellington and Brandon Dickerson.
Method Films
Metronomic Productions
Milk Elementary Resources
Mimetic Productions
Mine LLC
MJZ (head of music videos)
Mocha
Modivation Films
Money Shot (the)
Motion Pictures Worldwide
Movida
MTV Mastiff
Mutiny
MyGoodEye
NAO
neon
Neon Productions
New Scotland Pictures
Newtime / Square Prod.
Nexus Productions
Nico Corp.
Niroomand Works
No Performance
No Returns Films
Nobody
Notorious 24:7
Notorious Films [UK]
Notorious Pictures [USA]
Noughte
NúFilms
Oil Factory
Current directors include: Dom & Nic, John Hillcoat, Sophie Muller, Pedro Romhanyi, Giuseppe Capotondi, Wiz and Philip Stolzl.
Oktanfilm
One More Production
One Small Step
Optic Nerve
Orsen & Brett
Otaku-House
Otis Productions
OZ Media Group
P-Loche Production (French company)
Pac (la)
Pacemaker Filmproduktion (Swedish company)
Pagan
Palm Production
Parlay Film Productions
Partizan Entertainment
Passion Pictures
Patou Films
Perry Films
Person Films
Peter Nydrle Productions
Phaelon
Picture Vision Pictures
Play Film
Playtime Films
Pogofilm
Pop @ Paul Weiland
Pop Art Film Factory
Popcore Film (small Swedish company)
Pravda
Norwegian company.
Prism
Pro Deo
Producers (the)
Production les Télécréateurs
Program 33
Propaganda Producciones
Propeller Productions
Pure Productions
Pusher Media
Qd Limited
QFilmproduktion
Quad Productions
R.A.F.
Current directors include: Jonas Akerlund and Johan Renck.
Radical Media
Radio Film Company
Raging Nation Films
RaNdoM DeVelOPmeNts
RAW Progressive Films
Reconnaissance Entertainment Inc.
Redline Films
Refrigerator Art Productions
REFUSED.TV
Current directors include: Adam Berg, Joakim Ahlund, StyleWar and Charles Mehling.
rev-o-lution pictures
Current directors include: Jeffrey Phillips and Steven L. Weaver.
Revolver Film Company (Canada)
Current directors include: Noble Jones, Andrew MacNaughtan and Floria Sigismondi.
Revolver Film Company AB
Patric Ullaeus' company -- located in Sweden
RHB
Riedweg Produccions
Robotfilmz
Rock Fight
Rockhard Films
RSA USA
Current directors include: Samuel Bayer, Chris Cunningham, Hype Williams, Jake Scott, David Slade and the Malloys.
Ruckus Film
RumbleVision
Run Multimedia
Rush Push Cash Pictures
Salamander Films
Samsara Arts
Satellite (mon amour)
Scrambled
SEP, Inc.
Serious Pictures
Set It Off! Productions
Sherbet
Shuriken
Sitcomsoldiers
SjB Imperial Film and Television
Smuggler
So What Now (French company)
Sofa Film
Soft Citizen
Soixan7e Quin5e (75)
Solar Films
Solid Entertainment
Solo por las Ninas
Soma Productions
soup.film GmbH
Speedway Films
Spiral Films
Spitler Productions
Splinter Films
Spy Entertainment
Starcircle Productions
State (the)
Static Films
Stefanino Productions
Stink Ltd.
Stone Core Films
Straightwire Music Promos
Strato Films
Streetgang Films
Subconscient (French company)
sumoJACK
Sundog Films (Canadian company)
Supercollider
Supercollider Films
Swat Films
Syndrum Productions
Taillight TV
Tchimbe Raid
Tebwa Entertainment
Ten Pence Limited
tengrandfilms
Timecode Entertainment
Titans Lounge Pictures
Toaster in the Tub
Tobago Films
Tocrok Productions
Tomato Films
Too Much Too Soon
Tous des K
trainwreck 20/20 (Australian production company)
Tre Film Ab
Tremendous Films
Triple Horse Entertainment
Triton Films
Trobbel Film
Truckstop Media
Twothreefivefilms
U-Man Films
Ultrameena Films
Underground Planet
Underground Planet
Universal Productions
Utopia Films (USA / Brazil)
Vanguard Pictures (Australian company)
Vendetta Films
Veneno Inc.
Venus Entertainment
Venus Productions (French company)
Village (le) (French company)
Villains
Current directors include: Brett Ratner, Phil Joanou and Ken Fox.
Vintage Flick
Vision Unltd.
Visual Abuse
Walker-Fitzgibbon
Wanda Productions
Waverly Films
WHAC
WHANG! Production
White House Pictures
Winch & Pulley
Windmill Lane
Woodpecker Film (Finnish company)
Work Films
WV Entertainment
Xilam Animation
Yanké Productions
Yellowhouse Film Production
YYZ Pictures
Zabriskie Films
Zeal Pictures
Zink
Zone 5 Production (French company)
Zooma Zooma Corporation
Zoomari Films
Zoomslide Media
Film Magica Oy
Therapy Films

COMPANIES (POST)

310 Studios
Base 2 Studios
bitMAX
blue
Cake
Cartel Post
Chrome
Clear
Company 3
Condor Post
Duckling (Danish post-production company)
Easy Film
Final Cut
Generator Post
Ghostmilk Studios
GLpipa (French special effects / post-production / telecine company)
Guava
Koppmedia GmbH
Liquid Entertainment
Machine Molle
Medialab Technology
MFX AB (Swedish company)
Mill (the)
Mill NY (the)
Pumpkin Post (Danish company)
R!OT Manhattan (editing and special effects)
Red Car, Inc. (editing and post-production)
Review Post (Danish company)
Rhythm & Hues Studios
Rushes (UK post-production and special effects company)
Smoke & Mirrors (editing and post-production)
Sonne Postproduction (Danish company)
Specimen Post-Production
Splice Here
Sunset Edit
Syndicate
Vendetta Post
VTR
Walking Man Productions

COMPANIES (EDITING)

COMPANIES (VISUAL EFFECTS)

20twenty vfx
A52
Ark VFX
BMJFX
Brainchild, Inc.
BUF
Chimney Pot
Swedish company
Dyg.dk (Danish company)
Fiftyeight (German company)
Giant Steps
Glassworks
Hydraulx
KromA
Mac Guff Ligne
Maison (la)
Method Studios
Moving Picture
No Brain (French collective)
Sea Level
Steele, Inc.
Topix - Mad Dog (Canadian special effects company)
Toxic Design Studio AS
Visualpark

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Richardson, Terry
Rolston, Matthew
Romanek, Mark
Ronjon, Seb
Rudavsky, Ondrej
Rybczynski, Zbigniew
Saline Project (the)
Sandström, Mattias
Schenck, Rocky
Schles, Ken
Scott, Bradley
Scott, Jake (at egads.com)
Sednaoui, Stéphane
Sehr, Kai
Sexton, Robert
Shynola
Sigismondi, Floria
Sigthorsson, Borkur
Sinatti, Claudio
Sinlechuga
Slide
Sloat, Mike
Smith, Brian
Smith, Martin
Stanley
Stardust
Stelly, Dale
Stolzl, Philipp
Strauss-Schulson, Todd
StyleWar
Suk & Koch
Terrero, Jessy
Thorgerson, Storm
Tommassini, Luca
Trunk
Twodirectors
Type2error
Ullaeus, Patric
Vignolo, Lorenzo
Warren, Marcus
Warwick, Vanessa
Watkins, Jolyon
Webb, Marc
Weintrob, Scott
Werner, Constantin
White, Chel
White, Roman
wormseye
Wrake, Run
XDOANEX (aka Darren Doane)
Zavadil, Peter
<<< UNOFFICIAL SITES >>>
Cox, Nathan "Karma"
Cunningham, Chris (at director-file.com)
Glazer, Jonathan (at egads.com)
Gondry, Michel (at egads.com)
Gondry, Michel (at director-file.com)
Hunter, Paul
Igreco fansite
Jonze, Spike (at egads.com)
Lee, Spike (biography and jointography)
Little X
Ritts, Herb
Ritts, Herb (the Herb Ritts Foundation)
Romanek, Mark (at egads.com)
Williams, Hype (at egads.com)
Williams, Hype

PEOPLE (PRODUCERS)

PEOPLE (CINEMATOGRAPHERS)

PEOPLE (EDITORS)

PEOPLE (MAKE-UP ARTISTS)

PEOPLE (SPECIAL EFFECTS)

PEOPLE (DESIGNERS)

SPECIALIZED PRESS

CVC Report
Music Video Insider
RES
Source Maythenyi (the)
A commercials and music video database for professionals. It's a paying service, although it offers free -- and interesting -- monthly online newsletters about the business.

SHOWS

Athens Music Video
JBTV (alternative music video program in Chicago)
Let it Rock! (a Los Angeles-based rock show)
Pop-Up Video

STREAMING VIDEOS

SPECIALIZED NETWORKS

MISCELLANEOUS

All Info About Music Videos
Angela Thor's music video resource listings -- previously at about.com.
Awe Goblin
Gina H. Below's website. Gina is a freelance video commissioner in Canada.
Classic Film and Television
Includes an extensive list of music video directors from the 1980's.
eCreative Search
Password protected site where directors, production and post-production companies can post their reels for advertising agencies and record labels.
Home Video and DVD @ about.com (has a music video section)
Music Video Database (the)
Doesn't the name ring a bell? And hey, look at that, the webmaster's name is Alex! But no, really, it's not me. It's an interesting and ambitious site, though, with tons of video stills. Good place to go looking for release dates, too.
Music Video Directing

Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

2009-05-20T23:55:00.000-07:00

Enjoy free music without getting in trouble by downloading the legal MP3s many musicians provide as a way to promote themselves.

By Hunny

You don't need to worry about getting sued by the Recording Industry Assocation of America or arrested by the FBI if you download legal music. Many independent and unsigned musicians offer downloads of their music in hopes of attracting more fans. Here's some music from my friends Oliver Brown and Rick Walker's Loop.pooL as well as my own piano compositions.

If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating copyright with the file sharing programs, we would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start buying CDs directly from the artists and seeing their shows instead of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the labels have chosen for us to listen to. The RIAA would also have no cause to complain - these music downloads do not infringe copyright because the artists give you permission to download them.

What They're Saying About This Article

Who can refuse a link to a metric boatload of free and legal music links (and a really great article on filesharing, too)?
-- Slashdot's ichimunki on his homepage.

It should be mandatory reading for anyone commenting on the future of music.
-- Hal C. F. Astell

Why You Should Download Legal Music Instead

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Hunny
seshu.hunny@gmail.com
February 2, 2007

I've been a happy customer of the Seagull Networks web hosting service since 1997.

I decided to write this article after a friend told me in all sincerity that the money she paid to purchase Kazaa went to compensate the artists whose music she downloaded. She had no idea she was violating anyone's copyright.

I figure that most peer-to-peer file traders, while probably aware they are violating copyrights, aren't much more clued in than my friend. While I have your attention I feel I should also explain some of the legal and historical issues around copyright, and suggest steps you can take to make file sharing legal.

If you don't think that violating copyright by downloading music with filesharing programs like Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, Madster, eDonkey, Direct Connect, OpenNap, iMesh, or Gnutella could get you in serious trouble, then you need to read RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers and House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony.

The RIAA is using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to force internet service providers to turn over the names of file traders. They can determine your internet protocol address by connecting with your peer-to-peer client over the Internet. Using your IP address and the time you were connected, the ISP can determine your name. If the RIAA finds you this way, they will sue you.

When you are the defendant in a civil lawsuit, you don't have the protection against self-incrimination that the U.S. Constitution grants criminal defendants. You will be required to give a deposition, in which the party suing you will be able to ask you anything they want, while you will be required to give truthful answers under oath. In addition, your friends may be subpoenaed and compelled to testify as witnesses against you.

In civil lawsuits, there is a process called "discovery" that allows the party suing you to use the force of law to require you to turn over any evidence they ask for. In particular, they can seize your computer and forensically examine your hard drive (so that they might even recover files you've deleted), read any logs of email you've saved, obtain your telephone records from your phone company and obtain the log files from your ISP as well as the log files from any Web sites you've ever visited.

The RIAA has had limited success at suing the publishers of file sharing software. Some systems, like Gnutella, are so decentralized that there is little hope of finding anyone to sue. So now they are coming after the individual file traders - meaning you. The article above says the RIAA has already obtained subpoenas against 871 file traders, and will likely have obtained many more by the time you read this. They are asking for $150,000 in damages from each file trader for each song whose copyright they have violated. What will they use the money for? Suing more file traders, of course.

If you lose one of these lawsuits, the only recourse you will have will be to declare bankruptcy. If you're a juvenile, your parents will have to declare bankruptcy.

While simple copyright infringement is a civil offense where the copyright holder's only recourse is to sue you, especially egregious offenses are already criminal violations for which the law enforcement authorities will arrest, prosecute and imprison you. Remember the FBI warning you always see at the beginning of movie videos? It is common for large-scale software pirates to be arrested. File traders are next in line.

You can avoid all of these problems by enjoying music from the tens of thousands of talented musicians who offer legal downloads of their music. And you can tell the RIAA to kiss your ass.

How Will Artists Earn Money?

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You may ask how musicians are able to earn money if they offer free music downloads. The simple answer is that they will make money as they always have, by selling recordings, playing live concerts, and selling such merchandise as T-shirts.

While one might be satisfied by listening to downloaded music, many people report that they often purchase a band's CD after hearing their downloads. I can easily tell that compact disc recordings sound better than most MP3 files, and it's nice to have a labeled CD, package and liner notes.

There are some who advocate that all music ought to be freely available and sharable, and suggest that musicians be supported through tips. Only a small fraction of those who download a given song need to contribute for most artists to make a comfortable living. The Street Performer Protocol is one method proposed for paying for many kinds of works, not just music. The non-profit organization musiclink collects tips from fans and distributes it to musicians with very little overhead.

The Problem of Finding the Best Music

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It's difficult to find music that's actually worth listening to. Although many bands offer music on their websites, there's no real way to tell if it's any good without actually downloading it. The labels do serve the (somewhat) legitimate purpose of picking out the good from the bad. But we can do that ourselves with legal downloads by using collaborative filtering, for example by downloading our music with iRATE radio, which you'll find at http://irate.sourceforge.net/:

iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other peoples to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from Web sites which allow free downloads of their music.

As of July 2003, the iRATE server has 46,000 tracks registered.

The way iRATE works is that it downloads a few tracks at random at first. It downloads them directly from the artists' Web sites after finding them in its database. (The author of iRATE is careful to register only legal downloads.) After you listen to and rate the tracks, your ratings are sent back to the server where it uses statistical analysis to correllate your ratings with the ratings given by other users. If you like the same kind of music I do, then iRATE will send you all the same music I like. Conversely, if you hate my music, iRATE won't send you the music I like.

One nice thing about iRATE is that you can set it to download continuously while playing, so you always have fresh music without having to go hunt for it. You just have to click a button from time to time to rate new songs.

iRATE radio is a cross-platform program, with natively compiled clients presently available for Windows and Linux. There is a Java WebStart client that works on Mac OS X and likely on other platforms that support Java.

The music iRATE downloads to your hard drive will sound better and better the longer you use it. iRATE's statistical analysis is more effective when more people use it, so be sure to tell all your friends.

iRATE radio is a young project which welcomes contributions from java developers. Anyone at all can help out significantly by testing the development snapshots and reporting bugs. Graphically talented people may enjoy submitting mockups for iRATE's upcoming user interface redesign.

Online Music Download Reviews

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Another way to find music downloads worth listening to is to let others do the work by reading the music reviews several web sites offer. One such site is Fingertips, which calls itself "An intelligent guide to free and legal music on the web".

Each week Fingertips reviews several free music downloads. Rather than trying to be an exhaustive source of music downloads, Fingertips tries to select a few of the very best.

In the email with which Fingertips author Jeremy Schlosberg introduced me to his site, he said:

At Fingertips, my emphasis is on quality music, and whatever trouble I may have with the record industry at large, I also have a whole lot of trouble with the idea that anyone with an instrument who wants to upload music to the web is worth listening to.

Another music review site is Gods of Music: "Music Reviews for the Independent Music Scene". There are many reviews on the site: their Hall of Fame lists the very best, and their Dungeon lists the worst.

Gods of Music accepts requests from artists who wish to be reviewed. In return, the artist is asked to place Gods of Music banner on their page. The artist must agree to certain terms to get a review. One is that the artist must be willing to live with whatever review is written, even if it is bad. On the other hand, a good review can be good publicity.

There's more at the site than just reviews, so it's well worth your time to check it out.

Here are some other web sites that provide reviews of music downloads:

GigaTracks - Free Tracks, Albums and More
The Houston Chronicle - Reviews of local bands with MP3 downloads
Pitchfork - independent music reviews, news and features
Free Trance - Psychedelic Trance, Full-on, Dark, Goa, Progressive

(I'll be posting a couple other review sites here soon. Send any suggestions you may have to legaldownloads@gmail.com)

Web Sites for Free Music

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There are many legal music hosting services that allow one to find a lot of free music all in one place. Be aware that the fact that a website offers free music does not imply the files are licensed for sharing - many sites forbid sharing in their terms of service.

At one time the largest free music repository was MP3.com. Thousands of independent artists hosted their music there for free download. But when Vivendi sold MP3.com to CNet, the largest music library in the history of humanity was taken offline. While it was compared by many to the burning of the ancient Library of Alexandria, most of the work was not lost to civilization. It just became harder to find. MP3.com now offers only paid music downloads, but many free music sites sprang up in its wake.

The Open Directory Project has Bands and Artists and Styles indices. Not all the artists offer downloads, but the site says they list 43,000 artists and I imagine many of them offer free music.

The Narcopop Independent Musicians Directory lists the websites for many artists and provides preview samples for many of them.

You can download free music from many sites. Some of them allow you to buy the band's CD from the same page as the MP3 download. Among them are:

New Melodies - set the music free
NovemberStar Entertainment - Supporting Indie Music
Far Out Productions - DJ Recording Remixing and Dance Production
SpiralFrog - Free Music Downloads
Oriental Tunes - Top Oriental Music
AmbientMusicGarden.com - The ambient relaxation & meditation mp3 download music from independent artists
thesixtyone - a musical adventure
Misantrof Antirecords - free music for everyone to download and share
Lydparken.com - Din side for musikk av usignerte artister (Norwegian Site)
Brandenburg Concertos - Brought to you by Czech Radio
ElectroBel - your spot on the web for the underground electronic music community
Asthmatic Kitty Records
w00tw0t0 Records - Independent Electronic Music for Independent Electronic People
Metronomicon Audio - a little CD label that has gone straight against the massive commercialism of the music industry
south by southwest festivals + conferences - Collossal BitTorrent downloads of the 2007, 2006 and 2005 festivals
nugs.net - free mp3 stash
Opsound - free love, free music
Versionist - Riddim Reggae Community
triple j - free music: mp3 downloads
Mikseri.net - Ilmaista suomalaista mp3-musiikkia - the biggest Finnish free music website
Ektoplazm Psychedelic Trance - Free Music Downloads in MP3 and Wav, Event Listings, Articles, and More!
Overclocked Remix - Unofficial Game Music Arrangement Community
Honc if you love music!
David Beard Music Production - TV and Film Music by David Beard
ArtistServer.com - Free music, mp3 downloads, blogs and more - join the community
Free Kids Music.com - Free MP3 Downloads of Kids Songs
Free iTunes Downloads List - Links to weekly free downloads on the iTunes Music Store
Last.fm - the social music revolution (not all songs are available for free download, but some are)
Revolution Sound Records - French site devoted to Free Music
Jamendo - Open Your Ears
Ogg Frog Free Music Torrents - Bit Torrent downloads of Creative Commons-licensed music.
Trotch - Music is Timeless. The Music Business is Not.
Asian Classical Music in MP3 Format
Public Domain 4U - Best in Public Domain MP3s
kahvi collective - sound has the power to make the world a better place
micromusic - (I'm not sure how to describe it -- Mike)
Unsigned Band Web - We are a music portal featuring artists from all genres and all nations!
IC-Musicmedia.com - The Interconnected Artist Community
Motagator Music - Cajun, Zydeco, Folk, Roots and Blues music
ACIDplanet - your world of music
Artist Label - Artist Label offers Music Artists and Bands a Free website and mp3, wma uploads for fans to stream.
On Classical - OnLine Classical Music Collections in MP3 and OGG Vorbis formats
Kunst der Fuge / On Classical - The biggest Site of *FREE* Classical Music in MIDI files
A Singular Christmas
Piano Society - Free MP3 Recordings of Classical Music Masterpieces
MONSTAAR Records - 75¢ song downloads from noise, experimental, darkwave etc. bands. Free samples.
Digital Prophets
betterPropaganda - brings you the very best of new, cutting edge music
altsounds.com - alternative online music community
Free Music!
Loca Records
Artistopia - The Ultimate Artist Development Resource
Download.com Music - Free music downloads
AudioStreet.net - Free Music Downloads, Free Music Hosting, Free MP3 Downloads, Home For Independent Artists.
purevolume - we're listening to you.
FreeMP3Mail.com - Free music download links straight to your inbox.
A Meeting Place for Electronic Artists
UKBassline - Drum 'n' Bass, House and Garage music by unsigned artists.
Amazon.com - Free Music Downloads
Glide Magazine - Free Music Downloads
SoundShelf - You are the Music Industry
Would You Like Some Free Software?

Agnula Libre Music - It's Free as in Freedom
ArtistGigs.com - Free MP3 Music Downloads featuring Independent and Unsigned Artists.
Ampcast - free mp3 downloads, music and CDs of musical artists
Tokyo Dawn Records - soul'n'skills.
peoplesound - listen to new music - find and download free mp3s
Out of Obscure - free electronic mp3 music download and community
GarageBand - Discovering the Best Independent Music
etree.org - the leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the internet
Fair for Share - All authorized by the artist. The RIAA has no jurisdiction over this music.
Ogg Frog

Why Can't I Play
the CDs That I Burn?

by Rippit the Ogg Frog

www.oggfrog.com

MP3 4U - Where MP3 Lunatics Run the Asylum!
MP3 Jackpot - One Winner A Day!
DMusic.com - Your Digital Music Oasis
The Internet Underground Music Archives - discover unsigned artists, independent bands, local talent
CDBaby - a little CD store with the best new independent music
Epitonic.com - your source for cutting edge music
Lulu - Digital Recording, Collaboration, Hardware, Software, News
SoundClick - Free MP3 music download and much, much more
Matador Records
insound - indie emo garage punk noise electronic + essentials
monotonik - online mp3 electronica label
The Live Music Archive
Scene.org - also see the file browser
8 bit recording company
Kikapu
octagone.net - this is a label for chosen music we call deconstructed.
The Free Music Archive

If you know other sites I should list here, please let me know by emailing legaldownloads@gmail.com. I offer reciprocal links to individual artists' Web sites at the end of this article - if you offer downloads of your own music, I will link to your site if you link this article in return.

If you prefer the higher quality, quicker to download and patent-free Ogg Vorbis files you can find several download sites here. From the Ogg Vorbis General FAQ:

Ogg Vorbis is a new audio compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented.

(The Ogg Vorbis format was created because the owners of the MP3 patent forbid the free creation and distribution of Open Source MP3 encoders.)

Ogg Vorbis players are available for many platforms - WinAmp will play them on Windows. VLC Media Player is a cross-platform player that works on Windows, Linux, BeOS, BSD, QNX, Solaris and Mac OS X. iTunes on Mac OS X supports Ogg now. There are open source Linux ogg players and encoders, even an open source fixed-point decoder called Tremor for embedded applications. Also for embedded applications, there is also an electronic design for a low power Ogg Vorbis decoder chip, so that we are sure to soon have inexpensive portable Ogg Vorbis players.

There are also peer-to-peer applications for distributing legal music. In some cases they use digital signatures to ensure the legitimacy of the files. See Furthur Network and konspire[2b]. Monotonik provides BitTorrents: zip files containing 60 to 100 MP3s apiece, available here. You will need to install the BitTorrent client to download them.

Unfortunately, musicians are often not very good Web site designers, so poor usability is a significant obstacle to getting music directly from artists' Web sites. If you're a musician, and you'd like to know how you can improve your site design so more people will download your music, please read my article If Indie Musicians Wanted Their Music Heard....

Paid Subscription Services

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At first I was reluctant to even mention paid music subscription services, not so much because I object to paying for music, but because of the problem of digital rights management, or copy protection. I consider DRM a nuisance best to be avoided, and didn't want to contribute to the problem by urging anyone to take advantage of the services that use DRM.

However, there are paid subscription services that don't use DRM, and there are those for which the DRM is not onerous. The advantage of these services is that one can obtain music from artists who don't offer it for free, so you're likely to find music from more well-known bands than by taking advantage of the completely free downloads.

A reader named Hal C. F. Astell who reviewed my drafts urged me to mention EMusic. The files EMusic provides are standard MP3 files, free of any copy protection. You can copy them to any computer or MP3 player, burn them to any CD and back them up without fear of losing any kind of authorization key.

EMusic also has a very active message board. I understand it is a nice community to be part of.

If you use a subscription service that employs digital rights management, you should choose one that offers you these capabilities at a minimum:

The ability to play your downloads on your home CD player and in your car
The ability to back up your downloads and authorization key to secure secondary storage
The ability to play your downloads on a portable player that takes compressed files
The ability to play your music on a computer running any operating system you want
Continued access to your music in the event the subscription service goes out of business or the vendor decides to stop supporting it

One should have all of these capabilities simultanously; many digital rights management systems transfer the authorization key as one moves the music files from one device to another. For example, one could not play one's music on one's computer and portable player simultaneously.

The only DRM-based subscription service I know of that satisfies a significant number of these criteria is Apple's iTunes Music Store.

While it is presently available only for U.S. residents who use Macintosh computers, it is expected that eventually it will be offerred more widely, and may be available for Windows as well.

The digital rights management that iTunes uses is sometimes referred to as "soft DRM" to indicate that most users don't find it objectionable. One can play the music on up to three computers as well as an Apple iPod portable player, and burn standard audio CDs.

The iTunes Music Store has done well so far. Users praise it, and a large number of downloads have been purchased in the short time since it went online. The AAC audio file format used by iTunes is more compact and sounds better than MP3. The iTunes Music Store is likely to be a long term success.

However, iTunes doesn't solve the problem that artists receive very little of the money from the sale of their music.

Competing services that rely on much stricter copy protection have not been so successful. The launch of BuyMusic was a disaster largely due to the way the DRM prevented anyone from actually being able to listen to their music unimpeded.

While the major record labels have been criticized for failing to take advantage of the potent marketing opportunity presented by the Internet and the MP3 audio format, it is now taking small steps towards selling the music downloads that fans want. The labels should be applauded for doing so.

While the labels are rightly criticized for requiring copy protection of their content, we should take heart from the history of the early personal computer software industry.

At one time the copy protection for many PC programs was quite severe, employing such strategies as floppy disks pierced with laser holes or applications that could only be run from boot disks provided by the publisher. But eventually software copy protection subsided in importance because software purchasers simply purchased competing, non-protected products rather than deal with copy protection. The compromise for many products has been to just require a simple serial number.

The soft DRM employed by the iTunes Music Store is a similar compromise. We can expect the labels to experiment with subscription services that employ a variety of copy protection techniques until one is found that is profitable to the recording industry while being unobjectionable to the purchaser.

Other paid download services include:

Klicktrack Music Store - DRM-Free MP3s, also some free music
MixtapeMP3.com - Mixtapes, Albums and Singles for Instant Download
easy-listen.com - Music to soothe the soul
IntoMusic.co.uk - selected music downloads and reviews from the independent music scene.
Magnatune - We Are Not Evil
DestraMusic.com - experience music online
Tranzfusion Digital Music Service
Download Music Mart - Download Music Store featuring Legal Music Downloads from Independent Artists and Labels
Calabash Music - World Music Downloads
eClassical - the world's largest classical music download shop
Audio Lunchbox - Largest indie-only ala carte digital music store with No DRM offering 192 VBR MP3 and Ogg Vorbis
Royalty Free Music & Background Music - from Award Winning Music
1001 massivetracks - Royalty free Music and Gemafreie Musik
The Music Tracks Library - Royalty free music for multimedia projects
Gemafreie-Welten.de - Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects - Gemafreie Musik und Geräusche (in German - here is Google's translation)
Soundtaxi - Royalty Free Music
Beatport - the leader in online digital dance music
Legaldownload
Amie Street - Music Lives Here - Independent Music Download Website
Anytist - Your independent world of music
Pond Life Studios - some of the best acts from the UK festival scene - also many free downloads
Burning Shed - Specialist online music label and shop
Production Music - Urban & Hip-Hop - Superior Quality Urban & Hip Hop Production Music Library for Film, Television, Radio, Multimedia and Artists.

Repeal the Copyright Act!

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Let's Keep File Sharing Safe and Legal.

Sixty million Americans use peer-to-peer applications to trade files. That's more people than voted for George Bush. If we work together, we can shake up the government so profoundly that sharing music - anyone's music - is no longer illegal.

Many, many millions more people share music around the world - if your country is democratic, you can change your laws too. If your country is not democratic, I can certainly appreciate the difficulty you're in. But if you have courage, political change is still possible, although more costly, but worthwhile for reasons a lot more significant than making it legal to swap music.

If you don't think this can happen, consider Slashdot user Quizo69's comment Illegal becomes legal if YOU change it, in which he points out that that although it was once illegal to be homosexual throughout the United States, the gay community worked together to fight sodomy laws. Through their efforts, state after state repealed their laws until the Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled the last sodomy laws unconstitutional.

Spread the Word!
Encourage others to read this article by linking to it from your website, your weblog, or message boards.

If the gay community can fight millenia of hatred until they can live without fear of criminal prosecution, you can overturn the copyright laws. If you don't think you have the political power, consider that there aren't as many homosexual people in the U.S. as there are file traders.

In the United States, copyright is not a Constitutional right, like freedom of speech. The Constitution grants Congress the power to create copyright, but doesn't require it to do so. From Article I, Section 8 of The Constitution of the United States of America:

The Congress shall have power to... promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

No form of "intellectual property", also including patents, trade secrets and trademarks are a "natural right". The concept of intellectual property has not existed for very long in history at all. (While trade secrets have existed throughout history, it is only recently that they have enjoyed any sort of legal protection.)

QuestionCopyright.org

... was founded to spread awareness of how today's copyright system hurts artists and audiences alike, and shackles the Internet to a distribution model designed around the limitations of the printing press.

Our founding fathers didn't grant Congress permission to make copyright legal because they felt is was any sort of natural right. They did it because they thought it would be a useful thing to do to stimulate the economy of a young nation: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts". Copyright and patents encourage authors, artists or inventors to openly publish their works by giving them a temporary monopoly. In return for this grant of monopoly, the work is supposed to eventually go into the public domain, so all may benefit from copying it. Let me make it explicit:

The purpose of both copyright and patents is to make it worthwhile for authors and inventors to release their writing, music and inventions to the public domain, rather than keeping them secret.

But that's not the situation today. Because the copyright on Mickey Mouse was due to expire in 2004, Walt Disney lobbied Congress (with the aid of prodigous campaign "donations") to pass the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, extending the copyright term to ninety-five years, not just for new works, but for works that were copyrighted before the act was passed. The law applied even to work about to pass into the public domain, so Congress rode to Disney's rescue to keep Steamboat Willie safe.

(If any of Mickey Mouse's cartoons ever entered the public domain, it would not have diluted Disney's trademark on the character, but it would have made it possible for others to use Mickey Mouse in ways that did not dilute the trademark.)

With the current ninety-five year copyright term, you cannot expect that you will live to see a copyrighted work created today ever go into the public domain. The creators of copyrighted works are not keeping up their end of the bargain that the framers of the Constitution offerred them. Because the copyright term was extended even for works whose copyrights were about to expire, no reasonable person can consider that the requirement that copyright be granted for "limited times" has been obeyed by Congress.

A brilliant young law professor named Lawrence Lessig, who has an understanding of technology issues quite unusual for an attorney, led a lawsuit to overturn the Sonny Bono Act. The closely watched Eldred v. Ashcroft case quickly reached the Supreme Court. Yet in an astonishing rejection of Constitutional principles, the Court ruled against Lessig. Read the Court's opinion. (Supreme Court opinions are often surprisingly readable for legal documents - it's worth your while to take a look.)

Sucks, don't it? What can you do about it? Well, let me tell you:

Speak Out
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The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

If there's something going on that you don't think is right, you ought to say something about it. Say it to anyone who will listen, and wherever anyone will let you speak or write. Do your very best to say it as well and as convincingly as you can. It helps to speak your mind repeatedly, honing your message with each try.

Practice, practice, practice: The ancient Greek statesman Demosthenes had a speech impediment so he was not able to speak convincingly. To overcome this, he went down to the beach, put stones in his mouth and shouted his speeches at the roaring waves until he could make himself understood.

Do you think I wrote this article well? You don't think I just sat down and wrote it, do you? No, I put time and effort into it. At first my message evolved from a series of Slashdot and weblog comments, and after the idea began to gel in my mind, I sat down to write the first draft, posted it on my website, then asked for help. After revising it, I asked for help again. It took time, a lot of work, and many revisions to write this article as well as I have. That's what you need to do if you want to speak or write convincingly.

You may find helpful discussion points among the winners of the WIPOUT intellectual property counter-essay contest, which was held in response to a World Intellectual Property Organization student essay contest which asked the question "What does intellectual Property mean to you in your daily life?" The WIPOUT winners page states:

the competitive aspect of our contest was always secondary to the purpose of giving a platform to the voices who disagree with the constant expansion of Intellectual Property protection: these voices are very rarely given the opportunity to speak.

Check out Robert Nagle's piece on why music can be shared. It comes with some tips on how to share music.

There may be times you find that your speech is unwelcome, that you are ashamed of what you have to say, or you face unpleasant consequences for saying it. To give you courage, I ask you to read these words to live by: John J. Chapman's speech Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations. His words ring out as powerfully today as they did one hundred three years ago.

Vote
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If you are so convinced that your vote doesn't count that you don't even vote, then you have already lost. The only way your vote doesn't count is if you don't cast it. You should be aware that a strategy candidates frequently use it to convince their opponent's supporters that their votes are pointless, so that they don't bother to go to the polls at all. Keeping voters at home is one of the objectives of negative campaign ads.

If I'm not able to convince you to vote, you might ask Al Gore why he thinks your vote counts.

Of course you must be of legal age to vote. However, anyone can do the other things in this list.

Write to Your Elected Representatives
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Your legislators do pay attention to the letters they receive. I'm sure if all sixty million American file traders wrote a letter to each of their Senators, their House Representative and the President, and pointed out that their vote hinged on the action they took regarding file sharing and copyright, substantial action would be taken.

Don't bother emailing them. They all get so much spam they have long since stopped paying attention to email. If you don't want to write them, you can call them on the telephone or send a fax, but because of the investment in time it takes a constituent to write a letter, politicians pay more attention to snail mail.

U.S. residents can find the addresses of their representatives at Congress.org.

During election seasons, also write to each of the candidates who are running to represent you to explain to them how they can win your vote.

Donate Money to Political Campaigns
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Politicians who are opposed to entrenched corporate interests have a hard time raising money to pay for the advertising and travel expenses required to tell voters their message. While you may not have the money to give that, say, Disney does, there are far more of you than there are big corporations. If all sixty million American file traders each donated the price of a compact disc to a politician, and included a cover letter explaining why you were donating the money, Congress might become considerably less responsive to the corporations.

Support Campaign Finance Reform

After you're done writing your letters to your congresscritters about file sharing, write another letter urging them to support campaign finance reform.

The reason Congress is in the pockets of those entrenched corporate interests I mentioned above is because the big corporations bribe the politicians. Let me be blunt - there is no other word for what they do but bribery, and don't let your representatives claim they're not on the take if they accept corporate campaign donations. As evidence of this, consider that many corporations donate comparable amounts of money to both the Republican and Democratic parties. Businesses don't do that to affect the outcome of elections. They do that to ensure that both parties, regardless of who wins any elections, represent the interests of the business.

Personally, I find it unfathomable that corporations are allowed to make campaign donations at all. No one but an individual, natural person ought to be allowed to do that.

The root of this problem lies in some established legal precedent which makes a corporation the legal equivalent of a person, so that corporations, and not just the people who work for or invest in them, are now granted the same Constitutional rights as living human beings. I think that the threat corporations pose to our fragile democracy could be eliminated by adding an amendment something like the following to our Constitution:

A corporation is not a person. No one but a natural person may donate money to a political candidate, political party or elected official.

The solutions to many of the difficult problems our country faces would be solved by eliminating the political influence of corporations. If the power of corporations is allowed to continue to grow unchecked, the threat to our nation will one day be as great as it was in the days of the Civil War.

Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The EFF is the nation's premier technology law civil rights organization. They have been at the forefront of legal battles to declare the Digital Millenium Copyright Act unconstitutional, to have computer program source code declared constitutionally protected free speech, and to preserve the right to be anonymous. They were instrumental in the legalization of export of cryptographic software to other countries from the U.S.A.

They are also working to defend both the publishers and users of peer-to-peer filesharing software from the RIAA lawsuits, as you can see from their Let the Music Play campaign. For example, they successfully defended Streamcast from the RIAA's lawsuit against them for publishing Morpheus.

If you do nothing else, join the EFF. It costs a lot of money to fight a lawsuit. They need your support to do it.

I assert that it's worth your while to join EFF even if you don't live in the United States, for the simple reason that it will help to stop the United States from pressuring other countries to adopt ill-advised laws like extensions of copyright terms, software patents or adoption of their own versions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

Practice Civil Disobedience
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In his Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King said:

one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

King practiced civil disobedience to give such civil rights as the right to vote to black Americans. Mahatma Gandhi practiced civil disobedience to free his country from British colonial rule and found the modern nation of India.

Civil disobedience means the nonviolent refusal to obey the law. While both King and Gandhi succeeded in fomenting revolution, they did it without firing a shot. King said, "Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation."

Civil disobedience serves several purposes:

Because any protests are nonviolent, the ferocity of the backlash of the state and the corporations against the peaceful protesters will eventually shame the oppressors into giving in to the protesters demands. Thus it is important for protestors to have unquestionably upright moral standing.

Civil disobedience is especially important in the United States (and countries with similar legal systems) because the Supreme Court does not give advisory opinions. That is, you cannot simply ask the Court to strike down an unjust law. Instead, you must actually violate the law, get arrested or sued for your crime, then defend yourself in court until your appeals reach the Supreme Court. If you can convince the Court that the law is unconstitutional, the law will be struck down.

It's a risky strategy - you might lose, and spend years in jail. You will unquestionably spend years fighting expensive and exhausting legal battles. But the payoff is quite valuable - neither Congress nor the President can overrule the Supreme Court. The Court can reverse itself, but this is very rare.

Another purpose civil disobedience serves is to make society so ungovernable that the authorities must give in to restore order. That was the case with the Vietnam War, where such acts of civil disobedience as burning draft cards and massive street protests so galvanized public opposition to the war that the United States Government was finally forced to withdraw.

I'm not saying that if you think the law sucks, you should use p2p so you can get yourself some free tunes. I'm saying that if you feel the law is so unjust that you're willing to risk your freedom to change it, then share files and be prepared to carry on your fight by facing the consequences. Invite the RIAA to your door.

Individual acts of civil disobedience don't have to be violations of the law that spend years winding their way through the courts. Simple street protests will do. For example, you could email ten thousand of your closest friends and ask them to meet you at the headquarters of a major record label. Or you could ask a million of your buddies to march on Washington with you, or the capital of another country.

When the police arrest you for blocking traffic, or gathering without a permit, don't fight back - that would be violent. Instead, resist nonviolently, by letting your body go limp, so they have to drag you off like a sack of potatoes. Ten thousand limp protestors being dragged away by the police are sure to get attention to their cause, or at least make their city ungovernable for the day.

Particularly helpful would be to install an unsecured 802.11 Wireless Access Point on your network so anyone in your neighborhood can share files with complete anonymity.

Some have suggested that it's inappropriate of me to invoke Martin Luther King's memory in defense of peer to peer file sharing. They make the reasonable argument that one cannot compare a life-and-death struggle for basic human rights to an effort to get music without having to pay for it.

My purpose is not simply to enable people to listen for free, but to enlist the aid of a group of people who have so far been inactive politically, yet who are potentially very powerful because of their considerable numbers. I feel that politically empowering the file traders will solve other, more significant problems as well.

As I said previously, I feel that the awesome political power possessed by the large corporations is the greatest challenge my nation faces. I think it is fair to say the United States is no longer a democracy, at least not effectively so. The ability of the corporations and the fabulously wealthy to purchase the favors of the politicians, and the politicians' abilities to mold public opinion with advertisements paid for by those donations concentrates my nation's political power in the hands of a very few people - a very few unelected, mostly obscure people.

In addition, the news media in the United States is owned primarily by a few large corporations who have so far demonstrated little pretense of unbiased reporting. Reports of any events are cast in a light that is favorable to the corporations, while news that doesn't support the corporate interest is not reported at all.

Reforming or even eliminating copyright is an effective first step to take towards returning power to the hands of the average voter. How much political power would AOL Time Warner or Disney have if there were no longer any legal foundation for intellectual property?

In Renegade Networks - The Grapevine Manifesto, Stephen Blackheath makes the case that the power of today's corporations stems not from their ability to manufacture useful products but from their intellectual property:

When you boil it all down, what they basically own is a large pile of intellectual property, and stack of cash up to the ceiling to defend it with. Cash + ownership of brand name + ownership of technology = Power.

The fact that people aren't already dying in the streets in the struggle against the corporations and their intellectual property is not because the struggle is not one worth dying for, but because most people have not yet awakened to the problem.

To practice civil disobedience is not a choice to be made lightly. It carries tremendous risks. Tremendous rewards too: it's the sort of thing that gets you into history books. But while King and Gandhi will forever be revered as champions of peace and justice, they both met the same awful fate: assassination.

Should Copyright Even Exist?

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There are many people, notably the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman, who feel that the chief benefit of computers is that they enable digital information to be copied completely faithfully and without significant cost. They feel that such copying, which was not possible before computers were invented, is of such great potential benefit to society that it outweighs any benefit that might arise from our founding father's legalization of copyright to "promote the useful arts and sciences".

Stallman (or RMS as he prefers to be called) is a masterful computer programmer, and began his effort to eliminate copyright by turning copyright on its head with the creation of "copyleft" - software licenses that not only allow copying, but require it. The most well-known such copyleft license is the GNU General Public License. The GPL is the license used for the Linux operating system kernel and many of the programs that run on it.

Stallman calls copylefted computer software Free Software. "Free" is meant as in "freedom", not "without monetary charge". An unfortunate problem with the English language is that we use the word "free" to represent two distinctly different concepts. Spanish doesn't have this problem, where "Free Software" is translated as "Software Libre" rather than "software gratis".

There are "Free Documentation" licenses for writing as well, for example, the GNU Free Documentation License.

Stallman was a lone voice crying in the wilderness when he published The GNU Manifesto in 1985. The Free Software movement has grown to the point that there are now over fifteen thousand programs that are licensed with the GNU GPL listed at Freshmeat. Microsoft, the world's largest software company, and whose Windows operating system runs on 90% of the world's desktop computers, has named Linux as its number two risk (second only to the ailing economy).

To understand why Stallman's philosophy is relevant to this discussion, apply his software ideas to digital music. It is easy to argue that the primary value of digital music is that it can be copied completely faithfully, and without cost, by computers. One could even say that the benefit to society of the computer's ability to copy music this way far outweighs any benefit to society of giving creators the temporary benefit of copyright.

There are, in fact, "Free Music" licenses, such as the EFF Open Audio License. You can find music licensed under the OAL at the Open Music Registry. The Creative Commons licenses can also be used for music. You can find some at Creative Commons' Get Content page.

Lest you think that musicians would stop creating without copyright, consider that making and hearing music is a basic human need. Many musicians could no more give up playing or singing than they could breathing. Music has existed in human culture for tens of thousands of years, as long as we've been able to sing or play primitive drums. Nearly all of the great classical composers devoted their lifetimes to their art without benefit of copyright. I see no reason to believe that any less music would be played if copyright were repealed entirely.

I discuss this in more detail in my article Modern Technology and the Death of Copyright.

While copyright in its current form has outlived its usefulness to society, I don't think it ought to be eliminated entirely. I think the copyright term of fourteen years provided by the United States' first Copyright Act is about right. That would allow artists and writers to profit from their work, while the shorter term would allow you to legally share music from your favorite bands of your younger days while you are still able to enjoy them.

What You Can Do To Help

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If you feel as I do that what I have to say here is important for others to understand, then I ask you to please help get the word out. You can do that by linking to this article from your weblog or website, posting the URL to online community message boards, and emailing the URL - http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html - to anyone else who you feel might benefit from reading it.

It is my objective for this article to noticably affect the outcome of the next United States federal election. I want each of the sixty million American file traders to read this article by November 2008. While many people have read it so far, and are reading it in increasing numbers, not enough people are reading it yet for it to influence the election. To get each American file trader to read this article in the two years until the election, I would need about 86,000 people to read it each day. Presently the article has about 500 readers per day, so I have a lot of work left to do.

Copying this article to your own site or community websites will encourage people to read it who might not follow a link. Posting it at web communities will also encourage followup discussion, which I'm not presently able to provide from my own site.

I would also like for every file trader in the world to read this article eventually, but most people around the world don't read English. If you are fluent in another language, you can help out your countrymen who don't read English by translating this article. I feel that my discussion of U.S. history and law are relevant even to people in other countries because of the global reach of the RIAA as well as the pressure that the United States puts on other countries to harmonize their laws with misguided U.S. ones.

The article has already been translated to Romanian.

The Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs license I have chosen for this work doesn't permit derivative works. Unfortunately a translation is a derivative work. I chose the NoDerivs option because so much of this article is an expression of my deeply held personal opinions. However, if you contact me at legaldownloads@gmail.com I can grant you a separate license to do a translation.

Conclusion

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You are probably able to tell that, while I recommend against sharing copyrighted music, I have no love for the Recording Industry Association of America. I feel that way not just because of their legal harrassment of those who publish and use file sharing software, but because the major record labels who make up the RIAA rip off the musicians who are signed with them. They're ripping you off too, every time you buy a CD.

When compact discs first appeared, they were much more expensive than vinyl LPs because there were only a couple of factories in the world that could manufacture them. The equipment to make CDs was very expensive, and the factories' production was very limited, so the cost was justified. But years later, although the cost of pressing a "glass master" compact disc has dropped to a few cents, the retail price of CDs has not dropped at all.

The RIAA sheds crocodile tears over the way the file traders rip off the musicians, but you should pay no heed to this. The musicians don't get as much money from compact disc sales as the RIAA would have you believe. In no case does the musician make significant money this way - on the average, musicians make 41 cents per CD, but do not get to keep even that until they have paid back their advance, as well as the marketing and promotion of their album. Someone just starting out may make nothing at all. The record stores only earn a couple dollars per CD. Instead, the record labels reap enormous profits.

The chief benefit of signing with a label is that the resulting publicity enables attracting more fans to live performances. Even big-name bands aren't able to just sit back and collect royalties from compact disc sales. They make their living the same way garage bands do, by living on the road - a hard, lonely life - and playing live concerts. That's why a number of top artists have announced their support for file sharing. Offerring music downloads is at least as effective at attracting fans to concerts as compact disc sales, quite possibly more so. Many top artists would love to make legal downloads of their music available on their Web sites. The reason they don't is that their record labels won't allow them to.

Allowing musicians to sell their music directly to fans, via direct sales of compact discs that the bands pay to have manufactured themselves, as well as live performances advertised through file downloads, is the greatest threat to the record labels' continued existence. They don't fear the loss of revenue that results from people downloading MP3s instead of buying compact discs. They fear the loss of their control. They fear being cut out of the picture entirely. And personally, I think we would all be better off if the major record labels were eliminated.

If we all downloaded legal music, we would no longer have to deal with the menace of the RIAA and the tedium of ClearChannel. There would be greater hope for the legions of unsigned musicians, many of whom are hardworking, talented people who live on the fringe economically, sometimes desperately so, so they can devote themselves to their music.

Our lives would also be richer for it.

Links to Individual Artists

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See below for how to get your band's website listed.

Note: February 2, 2007 - Did you submit your link only to find I didn't list your band? I had some problems with my old email - I get boatloads of spam. If I missed your request, please send it again to my new email address legaldownloads@gmail.com. I'll make sure I post your link right away.
-- Mike

My link goes first 'cause I wrote the page. So there.

Michael David Crawford - Compositions for the piano
Julie Ann Bertram - Alternative Folk
Rick Walker's Loop.pooL - A leading figure in the emerging international live looping movement
Oliver Brown - leading ukelele theorist
Alt-folk songwriter Mark Beihoffer (a.k.a. dragonfly_blue): songs for the broken-hearted masses
Downomight -- Hand-tooled beats and acoustic songs by Markie P
My Life Is On The Line -- Pictures, show dates, and downloadables in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats.
Moto - electro terror noise pop. Full album and other songs available in Ogg Vorbis format.
Dave Dean - electronic breaks, a dash of trance and two cups of bass
And So Forth
milo fungus - One-man pop/rock/alternative band.
the bittersweet way plays rock music.
Swedish alternative rock act Machinae Supremacy
Mister Orange - All-acoustic singer/songwriter with an alternative edge
Danger Collie Music - Blues, reggae, rock and samba
UnKindness Of Ravens - Musical scribble, grooved and exposed.
Zoë Blade - Various styles of electronic music
Andrew Vavrek - progressive and inspired pop music
the john francis - Mid-fi epic circus western american rock
Dulcie Younger and the Silencers - Rockabilly tigress backed by a hot rockin' trio.
Werebunny - Solo artist producing Funk, Rock, Jazz, Trip-Hop and everything in-between!
One Field - Texas Acoustic & Vocals
Renku Corporation - rhythmic electronics
ozone333 - Electronic music
Lisa DeBenedictis - ethereal, shimmering textural pop.
Fitehouse - Embracing a creative, organic and RIAA-free musical future.
The Subterraneans - a roots/rock oriented band from Wales
East Bay Exile - Hardcore band from the Oakland area, Northern California.
Dendriet.nl - Dutch network for electronic improvisation music. Check out the log too.
Archer - Good Straight Forward Hard Rock
dilvie - Free electronic music downloads. Royalty free license.
Tim Ruki - one man band, solo entertainer
Lunatic Fringe - trombone and tuba - idealism with TEETH
Pimpinella is a punk rock girl and guy drum and guitar duo from Toronto, Canada.
Poor Blue Lucy - Acoustic Guitar Instrumental Music by Lloyd Eddie
The Woodsmen
Plankton - Female fronted trio playing an Indie Alt/Jazz/Punk amalgamation.
Otherwise Orange - An alternative-rock duo that is bright, quirky, bizarre, twisted, and dark
Sassure is a pop/rock/dance/rap singer-songwriter from the Boston area.
Recently Vacated Graves - True Zombie Metal
C 'Quence - ...the Next Level...
Paul Needs - Welsh musician, singer and songwriter.
Remergence - An electronica artist from the UK, featuring downloadable MP3s, Radio and more.
10-67 P.D.O.A. - An independent metal band offering a FREE demo CD!
The Appetizers - Live Music for Any Event
Jay Pounders - independent singer/songwriter
Battle Scarred - We are a British three piece punk band playing modern punk rock
Binärpilot - Free music from the sentient program known as Binärpilot. Help fight the popollution.
CrystalCake - Pop/Punk Rock Music.
Afterthem - Offbeat garage funk with experimental tendencies.
Stagger Lee Shedden - Old-time folk music done up as rock and roll.
Synthovan - New and innovative electronic music with a flair of nostalgia.
Shivaya - French band playing Alternative Rock
toxic flammable gas mixture - Funky comedy rock with free downloads!
Thomas Becker - electronic music in many forms, from tranquil to powerful
Australian rock musician Seamus 'Moose' Ennis - Muso, Writer, Tripper!
Embrace Meditation Soundtracks - Ambient electronic soundscapes for meditating or just chillin' out.
Electric Sister Of Mankind - We play melodic rock/punkrock
Tané - an eclectic blend of rich vocals and soaring instrumentals
Ghost Notes - Royalty Free Impressionistic Improvisational Piano Music
Typhoon Ferri - Acoustic rock with a blues/funk aftertaste
Revolution Void - Electronic Breakbeat Jazz
Paul G Huffman - FREE masterful guitar solos that rekindle the magic in our lives.
Tony Marino's Latin Jazz Sounds - Original Latin composition available as downloads & ringtones
Dave DeMonki - Cool tunes performed on guitar and electric 6-string violin.
Majella Murphy - Solo female singer songwriter
J. Evans Band - Classy performers and producers of original classic Anglo-American style rock.
thebluemask.com Soundtracks and film score music from Simon Wilkinson
GoodChimes.com - Instrumental electronic music (Christian and Secular) by Theodore D. Kuik
Bell X-1 is a french musical duet
throwingmusic - Creative Commons music by Kristin Hersh
UrDJUret - Unusual music!
Ruff Bong - THE home of conscious underground reggae on the net
Naked in Black - Energetic young UK rock band
Echoik - Pacific Northwest Music Real Hip-Hop FREE! 100% Free music downloads and ringtones
Xihilisk - an experimental take on indie/electronica
THE ASCENDENTS - frequently updated website with free music videos and newly recorded studio mp3s for download!
Nusic Sound - Original Electronic Music
NathansPianoMusic.com - Listen to Nathan's Original Piano Music!
Palocsay Lester - Sex music for slaves to passion
Dejunair - Instrumental music of many genres and styles combine into Dejunair's music.
Don't Download This Song
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Demented music, and a personal favorite of mine
Bob Ostertag - author of The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician
Breck Stewart
Si Nicholson & Lex Pearce - trip hop ambient psychedelic
The Crimea - Download their album Secrets of the Witching Hour free!
Cold Warning - Dark Ambient Experimental Music
Pyrodice - over 80 free electronica music tracks
blackbird RAUM - Roots Music / Concrete / Folk
DJ Cassis - Solo artist. Electronic music for the soul and the body : techno, drum&bass [full-length tracks @ 192kbps]
Kaross - This is the official website for the swedish band Kaross, there are 3 mp3 to download, merchandise, pictures and videos
Palocsay Lester - avant electronics
The Dejunair Project - Mainly instrumental music with jazz, rock, blues, fusion, funk, and country influences.
Jonathan Coulton - Creative Commons music in MP3, FLAC and Karaoke formats
MC Plus+ and the Empty Set - Combined constructs of hip hop and computer science
Binary Beats - Ambient Music
fripSide - a Japanese artist
aRDy Music - all songs available for download in the superior ogg format
LiveMetallica.com - Download Live MP3 and FLAC Shows
Chad Rycenga - Free MP3 Original Music Recordings
Posamist
the station
drew Roberts
Foxtunes.com - Free music downloads from Tom Fox
Echo Root - Music for B Movies
11 Free Legal Music Downloads by Steven Cravis
Jeff Nowmos, Composer and Musician - transcends stylistic boundaries by incorporating classical, jazz and rock
Adel Karanov - electronic music for contemporary dance companies and different modern style films
Studio Zodiak
The Notochords Sing! Funny, educational science by Dr. Chordate
Pete Vyler - French Punk Rock Band - Groupe de rock français - Hardcore
Paul Clinton - hypnotic and meditational music for relaxing and various remedies
Function Band - is a highly professional and experienced wedding function band in the UK
Jeff Cliff - Low budget, piano discord loops and whatnot from Saskatchewan
Eniko Magyar is increasingly recognized as the most promising young violist to have emerged from Hungary in recent years

Music Links

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My favorite music sites

Including Ragtime, Dixieland, Blues, Bluegrass, Christian, Classical, Country, Folk, Jazz, Zydeco, Sheet Music, Pianos, Midi, Midi Powered Sites, CD/CDROM Mastering, Radio & Broadcast, Production, Audio Stores, Software, Hardware, E-zines & Publications, Musicians, Community Bands, Record Labels, and Other cool sites.

New

Doctor Jazz, Mike Meddings Ragtime, Blues, & Hot Piano
Boogie Woogie, Axel Zwingenberger, boogie specialist

Ragtime, Oldtime, and Stride

All American Ragtime
American Rag
American Ragtime Company featuring Richard Zimmerman
American Variety Stage Vaudeville and Entertainment 1870-1920; Library of Congress
Colin D. MacDonald's Ragtime - March - Waltz Web Site
Doctor Jazz, Mike Meddings Ragtime, Blues, & Hot Piano
Grant Simpson's Ragtime and Stride Piano Site
Greenfield Bowie Piano Music
Hamish Davidson, ragtime composer, Victoria, Australia
Irwin Schwartz, ragtime, stride, swing and novelty piano MIDIs
James Reese Europe Songs Brought Back from the Battlefield
Jazz by Mail featuring early jazz and ragtime
Jean-claude Boudrant, Pianiste à Disneyland-Paris depuis 1992
Jeff Barnhart
John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library
Keeper's long-lost MIDI files
Mississippi Rag
Northern Virginia Ragtime Society
Old Time Music Homepage
Old Town Music Hall, El Segundo, CA
Oleg Mezjuev's Swedish Ragtime Home Page
Perfessor Bill Edwards
Ragtime Centennial Show, hosted by Richard Cromie
Ragtime Extravaganza
Ragtime français, Ragtime in France
Rose Leaf Ragtime Club, Pasadena, CA
Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation
Terre Verde Corner
Thompsons' Ragtime Gallery
Primeline Chemical Systems... better living through Ragtime?
Warren Trachtman's Ragtime MIDI Page
West Coast Ragtime Society
World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest, Peoria, Illinois (formerly, Decatur)

Dixieland and Jazz

Charlie Miller New Orleans Trumpet
Clevedon Jazz Club, from the Land of UK
Divine Music
Doctor Jazz, Mike Meddings Ragtime, Blues, & Hot Piano
Harrogate International Festival, England
Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band
James Reese Europe Songs Brought Back from the Battlefield
Jazz by Mail featuring early jazz and ragtime
«Jazz-Quadrat» direct from Minsk, Belarus
Jazz Review
Landing Jazz Club Jim Cullum Jazz Band
Mississippi Rag
Music Kingdom
New Orleans Music Page
Park Stickney The Harp in Jazz
Potomac River Jazz Club
Paul Cheneour
Ray Charles's Official Website
Rich Szabo Jazz Orchestra
Ricky Naul's Jazz Park
Riverwalk, Live From the Landing Public Radio International
Scullers Jazz Club
Steve Cox's Jazz Fantasies
The Blue Pages Guide to 78 R.P.M. Party Records
The Jazz Store
The Jazz Discography CD-ROM assembled by Tom Lord
WWOZ-FM

Blues

Blues List, web interface to blues listerv
Blues World articles, photos, reviews, 78's, & more!
Diamond Cut Productions
Boogie Woogie, Axel Zwingenberger, boogie specialist
Doctor Jazz, Mike Meddings Ragtime, Blues, & Hot Piano
Downchild Blues Band
Secrets of Learning to Play Blues & Boogie Piano
VJM’s Jazz and Blues Mart, Jazz & Blues Trading Magazine

Country

Folk

Raven Boy Music Folk Music for the Current Middle Ages
Woodpecker

Zydeco

Sheet Music

19th Century California Sheet Music, UC Berkley, 2,000 pieces
Historic American Sheet Music Project, Duke, over 3,000 digital images
Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection, MIT, 75 pieces
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, John Hopkins, over 29,000 pieces of music
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, Library of Congress 47,000 pieces
Sheet Music Company

Pianos

Amadeus Piano Co
Baldwin
Bluthner
Bosendorfer
Dong Bei Pianos, China's premier piano manufacturer
Estonia
Fazioli
Kawai
Nordiska
Petrof
Piano Exchange
Piano Technitions Guild Pianos and Registered Piano Technicians
Schimmel
Steinway & Sons
Story & Clark
Young Chang

Midi

Classical Midi Archives
Crescendo! Netscape 2 Midi plugins for MAC and PC
Goodren's Midi Haven
Han de Bruijn's MIDI site direct from the Netherlands
Internet Piano Page
Irwin Schwartz, ragtime, stride, swing and novelty piano MIDIs
Kmel MIDI Music
ManyMIDI Products Synthesizer sound libraries
Microsoft Internet Explorer Sites with background midi music
Midi Farm
Midi Gate browser Midi player for the PC
Music of Jeff Harrington
Ontario Emperor
Phil Townley's Midi Originals Jukebox
Piet van Oostrum's Midi Page
Standard MIDI Files on the Net
Syntax MIDI Software Laboratory

Midi Powered Sites

These sites make use of the and/or

elements to automatically play cool background music on their pages!

ArtByMath Gallery Fractal Art
Current Software, Inc. keep your fleet humming
Gray Cell Dynamics head food

CD/CDROM Mastering & Recording Studios

DiscMakers
DRT
REO Studios, Cape Cod, MA
Walters-Storyk Studio Design

Production

GrooveTech-Music, production software distributor, Queensland, Australia
Jump City Productions Bay City live productions: Earl Oliver & Friends
Juniper Music Productions

Audio Stores & Distributers

CD+Plus / Penny Lane, CA
Encore Music & Video, TX
Ethnic Musical Instruments, FL
Folk Mote Music Home Page, CA
Freeport Music, NY
Globe Records Eclectic Music Catalog, CA
Garage A' Records, IN
Grandma's Music & Sound, NM
Hawaiian Music Island, Kauai, HI
Hot Platters, CA
Lentine's Music, OH
Mini Gifts, FL
Musician's Friend, OR
Online Music Auction, NYC
Podium Music, MN
Pro Rec, NY
Ranger Audio Enterprises, Calgary, CANADA
RockHouse Nieuwkoop, Holland
Songsearch, CA
Sound Production's Sound Center, TX
Starsound Audio, NV
Stomp Off Records, PA
Surround Sound Discography, AZ
SweetDisc Mollerussa, SPAIN
Sweetwater Sound, IN
The Jazz Store, NYC
Tropical Disc Music Store, Maui, HI
Worldwide Home of Australasian Music (WHAMMO), Australia

Music Software

Bliss Paint (mac)
Cakewalk Music Software
CD Looper
Corel CD creator
Jammer
Microworks Camps (mac)
Midi Autoscore
Music Lessons
Musitek makers of Smartscore
OpCode (mac)
SAW - Innovative Quality Software
Sony Sound Forge
Sunhawk's SOLERO Sheet Music Viewer
Tascam, (formerly Nemesys) makers of Gigastudio
True Audio Speaker Design
Turtle Beach Users Group

Music Hardware

Ambiance Acoustics loudspeakers
Build a Hammered Dulcimer
Bryston amplifiers
Creative Labs Soundblaster
DCM loudspeakers
Eastern Acoustic Works loudspeakers
Eventide DSP
Kurzweil samplers, sound modules, keyboards
Kyma audio workstations
Ranger Audio Enterprises hardware repair
TDK audio tape
Turtle Beach / Voyetra hardware & software

E-zines & Publications

Canadian Musician Magazine
Celebrity Cafe
Computer Music Journal
dotmusic Official UK Charts, music news, features
Green Book Of Songs By Subject
Jazz Review
Keyboard Magazine
Localize It! Arizona Rock e-zine
Music Books Plus
Pittsburgh Quarterly on-line literary magazine
Professional Sound Magazine

Radio & Broadcast

BRS Radio Directory
Riverwalk, Live From the Landing Public Radio International
WCLT Radio
WWOZ-FM

Community Bands & Orchestras

Concord Band
OrchestraNET Association of British Orchestras
Tulare County Symphony Orchestra

Musician & Band Sites

ISUN Music for harmonious living Choral compositions by Kurt Van Sickle
Jimmy Webb songwriter
Megalomaniacs A Cappella
Sweet Sweet Mariah
What It Is

Independent Record Labels

Biograph Jazz, Blues & Ragtime Compact Discs
Creative Musicians Coalition Dedicated to the advancement of independent music
Goldband Records Cajun, Zydeco
HVR Ragtime Compact Discs
J-Bird Records
Ladyslipper Music
OZMOZ Records
Picklehead Music
Rounder
Sonic Images
Topaz Productions featuring blues artist Hawkeye Herman
Woodpecker

Other Sites

All-Music Guide
American Music Center
Audio Engineering Society
BornToSing.com Source for singing products & services
Central NY Music Page
Fame Management
Fantasma Concert promotions
Just Plain Folks, Music Industry and Songwriting Organization
le Guide des BPM from France to all the dj's in the world
Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua Bayfield, WI
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Musicians National Referral Now going international
Musicians WebSearch Classifieds
National Association of Music Merchants
New Mexico's Musicians
OrchestraNET Association of British Orchestras
The Blue Pages Guide to 78 R.P.M. Party Records
Worldwide Music Resources on the Internet

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