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"Rumble" Riles Censors 1958-1959
A richly illustrated history of Link Wray's instrumental Rumble, the 1958 guitar track banned by radio stations for supp…
100 Years of Rock Visualized
An interactive visualization of the past century of rock music that lets you watch its genres and influences unfold over…
120 Years of Electronic Music
A chronological archive exploring the instruments that shaped electronic music, from the 1876 Musical Telegraph to moder…
88mph
An interactive archive of music charts from 20 countries spanning 1940 to 2025, showing what the world was actually list…
Acclaimed Music
A statistical aggregation of thousands of critics' lists ranking the most acclaimed albums and songs in popular music hi…
Ambrosia for Heads
A hip hop culture blog covering classic and current rap with essays, rare footage, and features on the genre's history.
Beatport's Definitive History of House Music
Joe Muggs traces house music from Chicago warehouses to deep, acid, French and tech house, with the key records and scen…
Boston Groupie News
Online home of Boston's original punk rock magazine, published 1975-1981, with archived issues, interviews, photos, 1970…
Cocaine & Rhinestones
Tyler Mahan Coe's deeply researched podcast on the history of 20th century country music, telling the wild stories behin…
Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
A veteran hip hop journalism site chronicling the culture's history, politics, and pioneers since the early days of the…
Dickie Goodman: We've Spotted the Shark Again
A detailed history of Dickie Goodman, the novelty artist whose 'break-in' records spliced pop song snippets into fake ne…
Drummerworld
A vast archive of drummer biographies, video clips, and discographies spanning jazz, rock, and world percussion traditio…
Earlyblues.org
A history site preserving the story of early blues and its British revival, curated as an archive for the UKBlues Federa…
Echobeach: History of Dub
A detailed history of dub reggae's roots in 1960s Jamaica, its studio innovators, and its global influence on production…
Electronic Sackbut
A playable virtual replica of the Electronic Sackbut, the pioneering 1940s Canadian synthesizer by Hugh Le Caine, from t…
Galaxy of Covers
An interactive galaxy of the 50 most covered songs of all time, where each original is a star orbited by its cover versi…
Garage Hangover
A site on 1960s garage bands that has been running since 2004, cataloguing the groups, records and stories of garage roc…
Hip Hop Family Tree
An interactive version of Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree chart: hover over pioneers like Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash a…
Hip Hop Golden Age
A hip hop site devoted to old school from the early 80s through the golden age of the late 80s and early 90s, with the o…
Hooghuys Organ Pages
A labor-of-love site about Belgian builder Louis Hooghuys and his mechanical fairground and dance organs played by punch…
ihavenotv: Music Documentaries
Music documentaries about Freddie Mercury, the Beatles in Liverpool, the K-pop machine, dance crazes and Max Richter's e…
Interlude
An online classical music magazine offering accessible articles on composers, works, and the stories behind famous perfo…
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
An extremely detailed, timelined guide to electronic music genres, tracing styles from ambient and house to techno and d…
J5 Collector
A collector's blog reconstructing the Jackson 5's career year by year, with rare clippings, concert dates, photos and me…
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