Music
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
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