Pop Music Videos, YouTube Videos & Live Streaming Video

To search for YouTube videos in any YouTube player, mouseover the 'up arrow' in the
lower right corner, and click on the menu icon above it. Results appear on this page.

Pop Music Search: MTV.com fields a comprehensive, searchable, pop music megasite to match their television dominance:

Pop Music Search: The All Music Guide is an excellent, comprehensive reference guide to popular music and musicians. You can search the guide by artist, album, song, style, or label.

Pop and Rock Music Search: The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to the Rock category, Alternative, Classic, Heavy Metal, Progressive, or Punk Rock, Pop Music, Internet Radio, or search all Music links.

At Billboard, check out the charts, including pop albums, pop singles, and home videos, as well as music genre subcharts.

BBC Music features music news and the excellent BBC online radio player.

Y! & DL Showbiz
Photo Galleries

The Ultimate Band List, now Artist Direct, has long been a popular website for keeping track of pop music performers and the websites about them.

Natalie Merchant: a well-done website covers the gamut of Natalie Merchant's career before and after the 10,000 maniacs, with current news, bio data, a discography, a large photo gallery, and links to other Natalie websites.

Alanis Morissette: another good looking web site, with Alanis chat, forums, news, tour dates, lyrics, and a large photo gallery.

An Overview of Absolute Pitch includes a list of links to info about absolute pitch, a trait said to be posessed by about 1 in 1200 people, or about 15% of musicians.

Music Web Resources are lightly annotated links to a wide variety of music resources, historic and contemporary. From the National University of Ireland.

Piano on the Net provides beginning piano lessons, online, free.

Guitar.net is an online magazine of everything guitar, with lessons, tablature, the chord of the week, guitar links, and more.

Napster was the first major system for finding MP3 music downloads. The result of a court challenge by Metallica made access to unlimited free MP3s is no longer possible, but music lovers who subscribe to the new Napster get unlimited streaming and unlimited downloading. Subscribers can burn all favorite tracks to discs and transfer music to portable music players. Choose from thousands of artists from their catalog of over 500,000 tracks. Download the software for free, the regular subscription price is only $9.95/month. Napster is now owned by Roxio, makers of Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 and other media software.

Shoutcast generates streaming audio from online "freelance" DJ's, and you can see how many people are listening to each stream.

VTuner.com is a browsable directory of broadcast radio stations which also provide streaming audio online.

Yahoo! Music (formerly Launchcast) online radio offers access to over 250 online radio stations in many genres via their own player interface.

Other Music Websites KQRS Classic Rock - Hard Radio
Blues Boy Music - KBLX Rhythm and Blues - Sonic Net

Google Usenet Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll - alt.rock-n-roll.hard

TIME Magazine, June 18, 1956, p. 54:

In Boston Roman Catholic leaders urged that the offensive music be boycotted... In Minneapolis a theater manager withdrew a film featuring the music after a gang of youngsters left the theater, snake-danced around town, and smashed windows. In Birmingham champions of white supremacy decried it as part of a Negro plot against the whites...

The object of all this attention is a musical style known as "rock 'n' roll," which has captivated U.S. adolescents as swing captivated prewar teen-agers and ragtime vibrated those of the '20s...

Rock 'n' roll is based on Negro blues, but in a self-conscious style which underlines the primitive qualities of the blues with malice aforethought...

The fad began to flame a couple of years ago, when pop music was so languid and soupy that kids could no longer dance to it-- and jazz headed farther out... It caught on with the small record companies, e.g., Dot, King, Sun, that flourish in the Southern, Central, and Western states, and soon it grew too big for the majors to ignore...

If one of the current heroes is announced-- groups such as Bill Haley and his Comets or The Platters, or a soloist such as Elvis Presley-- the shrieks become deafening. The tumult completely drowns out the sound of the spastically gyrating performers despite fully powered amplification...

Psychologists feel that rock 'n' roll's deepest appeal is to the teener's need to belong; the results bear passing resemblence to Hitler mass meetings...

Pop record maker Mitch Miller, no rock 'n' roller, sums up for the defense: "You can't call any music immoral. If anything is wrong with rock 'n' roll, it is that it makes a virtue out of monotony."

Finetune streaming music
player popup:

Choose from 18 playlists with 45+ full tracks each, over 1300 tracks total, or choose "Artist Radio," shown at right, and now also available in the popup player.

Free music, with no registration and no gimmicks.

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