MineZone Wiki

Austin Music Scene

• SXSW Music Festival -- Austin's world-class music festival

Austin Radio

• KVRX -- UT student radio station
• KOOP -- community run radio station
• KUT -- National Public Radio affiliate
• PublicRadioFan -- listings for public radio stations around the world
• RadioTime -- a program guide for radio
• Radio-Locator -- searchable database of radio stations
• SurfMusic.de -- another online radio station index

Radio Shows

• Fresh Air -- interview show
• The Connection -- interview show
• This American Life -- original radio stories (fiction and non-fiction)
• Morning Becomes Eclectic -- truly eclectic music and interviews

RealAudio

• RealNetworks -- makers of RealAudio
• Broadcast.Com -- lots of RealAudio content
• RealGuide -- a guide to RealAudio programming
• vTuner -- categorized index of Internet radio stations

MP3s

• MP3.Com -- comprehensive listing of MP3 software
• MP3tunes.com -- DRM-free MP3s

Miscellaneous Music/Audio Sites

• GEMM -- a great resource for tracking down hard-to-find music
• Audioscrobbler -- music recommendations via collaborative filtering
• GenieLab -- music recommendation system, XML/community features
• MusicStrands -- another music recommendation system
• liveplasma -- find artists similar to ones that you already like
• Gnoosic -- discover new music
• UpTo11.net -- music recommendations and information
• Audioscrobbler Browser -- combines the Audioscrobbler database with a visualization tool similar to musicplasma
• Musicmobs -- another music collaborative filtering site
• The Ultimate Band List -- comprehensive database of artists on the web
• Music City -- collaborative artists and music DB
• All-Music Guide -- comprehensive artist and album database
• Musi-Cal -- nationwide live music listings
• Pollstar -- worldwide live music listings
• CDDB Server -- huge database of CD track listings
• Second Spin -- used music and movie store
• Tapetrading.Com -- trade concert tapes
• Tape Trader Network -- more tape traders
• Klezmer Shack -- all about klezmer music
• NPR -- national public radio
• Covers Project -- a database of cover songs
• PeerCast -- free peer-to-peer broadcasting software
• Disc-Cover Online -- create CD covers online
• Ukulelia -- a blog all about ukuleles
• RootsWorld -- a great site devoted to world music
• digital audio player review -- in-depth reviews of MP3 players
• Hydrogenaudio Forums -- bulletin board about digital audio
• FestivalFinder.com -- music festival information
• Magnatune -- MP3 music with open minded licensing
• Classic Cat -- free classical music directory

Ska Pages

• alt.music.ska -- Usenet newgroup devoted to ska
• Ska-T-Boy Discs -- source for lots of ska CDs (though quite out of date as of 04/03)
• Jump Up! Records -- a great source of ska, still going strong
• Texas ska

Ska Bands

• Adjusters -- soul ska
• Bim Skala Bim
• Cherry Poppin' Daddies
• Dance Hall Crashers
• Deal's Gone Bad
• Eastern Standard Time
• Let's Go Bowling
• Los Fabulosos Cadillacs -- Argentinian ska
• Maroon Town
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Monkey -- this band definitly deserves more recognition
• No Doubt
• Pilfers
• Save Ferris
• Secret Cajun Band
• Skatalites
• Slackers
• Stubborn All-Stars
• The Toasters
• Voodoo Glow Skulls

Other Music

• 17 Hippies -- huge German band playing world music
• Austin Lounge Lizards -- humorgrass
• Asylum Street Spankers -- vaudeville house band
• Babaloo -- punk mambo
• Bad Livers -- bluegrass with attitude
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- horn driven swing
• Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys -- western swing and rockabilly
• Brave Combo -- nuclear polka
• Junior Brown -- rockin' country guit-steel
• Manu Chao -- energetic world music
• Dirty Dozen -- New Orleans brass band, formerly The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
• El Orbits -- mellow lounge sounds
• El Vez -- the Mexican Elvis
• Gomez
• The Gourds
• Hamell On Trial -- speed driven accoustic guitar rock
• Hypnotic Clambake -- folk/humor/rock
• Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks -- acoustic neo-cabaret from Denton, Texas
• Los Lobos -- multi-talented band from East Los Angeles
• Lyle Lovett -- excellent singer/songwriter from Texas
• Macumba -- scottish pipes with Brazilian samba rhythms
• The Mollys -- Irish and Mexican influenced folk-rock
• Moxy Fruvous -- folk-rock band from Toronto
• Nuclear Whales -- saxophone orchestra
• Public Enemy -- rap with style
• Rebirth Brass Band -- ball-o'-energy New Orleans brass band
• Reverend Horton Heat -- psychobilly from Dallas
• Royal Crown Revue -- rough and tough California swing band
• Rubinchik's Orkestyr -- klezmer band from Austin
• Rusted Root -- lively hippie rock
• Raymond Scott -- frenetic 30's jazz composer you'll recognize from cartoons
• Southern Culture on the Skids -- funky southern rock
• Squirrel Nut Zippers -- retro swing jazz
• Those Darn Accordians -- music for the accordian fanatic in everyone
• Tito & Tarantula -- moody guitar rock
• Trout Fishing in America -- folk/rock guitar/bass duo
• YoungBlood Brass Band -- New Orleans-style brass band meets hip hop