Weblinks
General
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music: http://www.iaspm.net
An invaluable resource is the collaborative Fondazione Giorgio Cini – IASPM online data base: http://iismc.cini.it/
Music industry; recording industry
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries: www.ifpi.org
The Recording Industry Association of America: www.riaa.com
The British Phonographic Industry: www.bpi.co.uk
The Australian Recording Industry Association: www.aria.com.au
The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA): www.cria.ca
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ): www.rianz.org.nz
The American Association of Independent Music: www.a2im.org
Live Nation: www.livenation.com
Performing rights; copyright organizations
ASCAP: www.ascap.com
Broadcast Music Inc: www.bmi.com
Australasian Performing Rights Association: www.apraamcos.com.au
Performing Rights Society (United Kingdom): www.prsformusic.com
Copyright Society of the USA: www.csusa.org
Record production
www.artofrecordproduction.com/
This is an association devoted, as its name suggests, to the study of record production; it organizes regular seminars/conferences and publishes JARP: Journal on the Art of Record Production (www.arpjournal.com). Its web site includes interviews with prominent producers, sound engineers, etc.
Musical texts
Album cover art: www.albumartexchange.com
“Dedicated to collecting and sharing album cover art”
Song lyrics: www.lyricsondemand.com
Arguably the best of a number of such sites.
Music and pictures
MTV: www.mtv.com
YouTube (for music videos): www.youtube.com/music
American Idol: www.americanidol.com
The music press
Billboard: www.billboard.com
Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com
Spin: www.spin.com
NME: www.nme.com
Pitchfork: www.pitchfork.com
The Source: www.thesource.com
Metal Hammer: metalhammer.teamrock.com
No Depression (The roots music authority): www.nodepression.com
Politics
Free Muse: www.freemuse.org
Rock museums; music heritage
British Music Experience: www.britishmusicexperience.com
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com
Delta Blues Museum: www.deltabluesmuseum.org
Experience Music Project: www.empmuseum.org
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: www.countrymusichalloffame.org/
Graceland: www.graceland.com
Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum: www.memphisrocknsoulmuseum.org/
Journals
IASPM@Journal: The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music: http://www.iaspm.net/journal-of-popular-music-studies
MSMI: Music, Sound, and the Moving Image: www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/mmi.htmPerfect Beat: www.equinoxpub.com/PB
Popular Music: This journal is included in the Cambridge Journals Online service at http://journals.cambridge.org
Popular Music and Society: www.tandf.co.uk/rpms
Popular Musicology Online: www.popular-musicology-online.com
Volume! The French journal of popular music studies (established 2002) http://volume.revues.org/