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Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection
A private collection of historic tubas catalogued instrument by instrument, with photos and notes on makers, keys and va…
Six Degrees of Hip-Hop
An interactive map of 435 hip-hop artists, producers, and labels that shows beefs, collaborations, and the shortest path…
SixtyEight2OhFive
Essays and playlists on popular music year by year from 1968 to 2005, digging into albums, songs and scenes with a fan's…
Strange Weather, by Marianne Faithfull
A long essay on Marianne Faithfull's 1987 album Strange Weather, how producer Hal Willner helped her rebuild after addic…
Synthmania: Famous Sounds
A deep reference to the classic synthesizer sounds everyone has heard, from Jump brass to the Lately Bass, explaining wh…
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Telharmonium
An illustrated history of Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium, the 1897 electric organ weighing about 200 tons that piped mus…
The Heat Warps
A blog revisiting every Miles Davis live tape from 1969 to 1975 in chronological order, with listening notes on the elec…
The Hip Hop Billboard Time Machine
An interactive data story from Polygraph that plays back the Billboard Hot Rap Songs top 10 week by week from 1989 to 20…
The Hippies Now Wear Black
A research site on British anarcho-punk from 1977 to 1984, collecting writing on the movement's history, culture, politi…
The Influence of Chuck Berry on the Beatles
A Beatles scholar traces how Chuck Berry shaped the young Beatles, from the songs they covered to his lyrics, guitar lic…
The Music Museum of New England
An online museum of New England's musical heritage, with stories about local artists, legendary clubs and venues, radio,…
The Search for Salvage
A fifteen-year hunt for Salvage, an indie rock band that charted once and disappeared, told as a personal music detectiv…
The Space Age Pop Music Page
A vintage encyclopedia of space age pop, exotica and lounge music, with musician biographies, liner notes, song historie…
The Victor-Victrola Page
A long-running guide to phonographs of the Victor Talking Machine Company, with models, history and collecting informati…
The Yamaha DX7 Keyboard
A nostalgic, well-told history of the Yamaha DX7, the digital FM synthesizer that defined the sound of 1980s pop, and wh…
Triadex Muse in JavaScript
A playable recreation of the 1972 Triadex Muse, an early algorithmic music machine from MIT: flip its sliders to rewire…
u2-3.com
A fan-built archive documenting the famous 1,000 numbered copies of U2's first 12-inch release, with owners, stories and…
Who Asked the Little Fluffy Clouds Question?
A music detective story that tracks down the interviewer whose question to Rickie Lee Jones about childhood skies was sa…
Women Composers World Map
An interactive world map of more than 1,300 women composers from across music history, searchable by name, place and dat…
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