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Even More Very Good Music Facts
Another long list of bite-size, surprising and very good music facts about bands and songs from indie, punk and pop hist…
Flypaper
Soundfly's free online magazine exploring music theory, production techniques, and the creative habits of working musici…
Folk Alley
A public radio project dedicated to folk and Americana music, offering news, session videos, and artist features.
Francis Preve
The blog of veteran synth programmer Francis Preve, offering sound design tutorials, patch walkthroughs, and gear master…
Free Jazz Blog
A collective blog of critics reviewing free jazz and improvised music releases, championing an often overlooked corner o…
Gearnews
An independent news site tracking new instruments, synthesizers, and studio gear with hands-on first looks and analysis.
Gearspace
A long-running forum where audio engineers and producers trade advice on studio gear, mixing techniques, and recording c…
Generative-Space Word Clouds
Mark J. Nelson's notes characterizing a generative music system, using word clouds to map the space of possible outputs…
Genius | Song Lyrics & Knowledge
A crowd-annotated database of song lyrics with line-by-line explanations, artist commentary, and music news.
George Harrison Interview, 1969
A transcript of George Harrison's 1969 interview with Ritchie Yorke, talking candidly about the Beatles, Apple, songwrit…
Guild of American Luthiers
A nonprofit educational guild sharing articles, FAQs, and resources about the art and craft of building stringed instrum…
Guild of Carillonneurs in North America
A guild devoted to the carillon, the tower bell instrument played from a keyboard, documenting its music, players, and t…
Harp Column
A magazine for harpists covering repertoire, technique, and interviews spanning classical, folk, and pedal harp traditio…
Head-Fi
One of the oldest and largest headphone communities online, with forums covering headphones, DACs, amps, and personal au…
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Headphone and Amp Impedance
An engineer's clear explanation of why the same headphones can sound different on different players, and how output impe…
Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing
A data scientist scrapes thousands of heavy metal lyrics to find the most metal and least metal words in English, with c…
Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
A profile of painter Hiroshi Nagai, whose bright pool-and-palm-tree Americana artwork became the visual backdrop of Japa…
His Software Sang the Words of God
A long read on Thomas Buchler, creator of the beloved Torah chanting program TropeTrainer, and the effort to revive his…
How Distortion Works in Music
An explainer on guitar distortion with animated waveform plots and playable audio clips, showing how clipping a clean si…
How Does Shazam Work?
A clear walk-through of audio fingerprinting, from spectrograms to peak hashing, culminating in a small working song-rec…
How to Get Better at Guitar
A practical essay on a simple practice method from guitar teacher Justin Sandercoe that the author says changed his play…
How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove
An illustrated explainer of how one vinyl groove carries two channels, comparing vertical and horizontal modulation and…
I Built a Synth for My Daughter
A parent designs and builds a custom hardware synthesizer for his young daughter, from circuit and enclosure to the firm…
Interlude
An online classical music magazine offering accessible articles on composers, works, and the stories behind famous perfo…
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