Music Inspiration

Rolling Stone Top 500 (songs and albums): www.rollingstone.com, search “500”

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll): www.rockhall.com/exhibitions/permanent. asp?id=658

Experience Music Project (Punk Chronology, Hip-hop Timeline, and more) see Features: www.emplive.org CDNOW Amazon’s musical alliance: www.cdnow.com

Pazz & Jop Village Voice national critics poll: www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop

Metacrictic year-end best-of list: www.metacritic.com

Folk Music misc. historical compilations: www.folkways.si.edu/index.html

NPR (Jazz Basics, History of Hip-hop, Open Mic, All Songs Considered, Most Important Works of 20th Century): search at www.npr.org

Top 100 Soundtracks www.filmsite.org/100soundtracks.html

Southern Rock http://allsouthernrock.com/index.php (go to database)

Bollywood Indian movie soundtracks: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~dboyk/bollywood

Worst Songs Ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_Magazine’s_50_Worst_Songs_Ever!

Free downloads
www.real.com

www.download.com

www.insound.com

www.radiomixtape.com/music/index.jsp

www.download-mixtapes.net/

www.insound.com/mp3/mp3s.php

www.pitchforkmedia.com/mp3

Music for sale
www.apple.com/itunes

www.music.msn.com