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Veronica Bergsten
Teaching & Research Librarian
Concordia University
https://www.concordia.ca/content/concordia/en/library/guides/music.html
You may also want to consult the databases at Concordia with music content, including streaming media or unfold the next tab for freely available streaming resources on the open web.
"Listen for free to thousands of archival recordings by Canadian composers. Search by genre or instrument."
Free streaming music from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Stream concerts on demand as well as web radio in many different genres. Includes artists pages on thousands of independent artists.
"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet."
At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.
Last.fm recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to.
Deezer is a free music streaming service based in France.
SoundCloud is a streaming music service that allows artists, record labels & other music professionals to send, receive, and distribute music.
UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.
SONUS is a digital music library of electroacoustic works, created and managed by the CEC for the benefit of the greater Electroacoustic / Computer Music / Sound Art community.
A music blog aggregator that tracks hundreds of music blogs and makes songs available for streaming.
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.
PLAY.FM is the most comprehensive audio database for DJ and club culture on the internet. More than 12.000 DJ sets, live recordings and radio sessions can be streamed free of charge and on-demand.
"Squidco sells improvised, composed & unusual music from around the globe. Particular interests are in Free Jazz, Downtown NY Improv Scene, Musique Actuelle, R.I.O. (Rock In Opposition), Avant-Rock & Folk, Unusual Vocal Improv, Avant-Garde and modern compositional music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Experimental, EA-Improv, lower case, Sound & Noise, Field Recordings, World Musics, Historic Recordings, and a great deal inbetween."
"Our product extends to cover the most underground forms of Electronic music, Hip Hop, Post-Folk, Alt.Country, IDM, Electro, Acoustica, Post-Rock, Ambient, Micro House, Detroit Techno, Mentalism, Electropop, Indiepop, Grime, Free Jazz, Modern Composition, Cologne Techno, Future Disco, Drone, Sublow, Soundtracks, Noise and out and out post-generic objects of wonder."
"Unique among recording labels in Canada because it features only works by Canadian composers"
"...offers the largest selection ... of electroacoustic music recordings in North America"
"We are an independent record label, combining a love of music with a passion for quality. We cover everything, from award-winning classical and jazz recordings, to the latest rock, pop and electronica."
"Juno Records is the world's largest dance music store."
Online music store that specializes in selling high quality, lossless sound files and album liner notes from a wide variety of genres and record labels.
"Discogs is a user-built database containing information on artists, labels, and their recordings. Discogs also incorporates a Marketplace where you can buy and sell the recordings. Discogs is constantly growing as users submit releases to the database."
Digital music and audiobook site.
Beatport is an American online music store specializing in electronic dance music and culture.
iTunes is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple.
Online music store specializing in electronic house music.
An online retailer of classical music, in CD, DVD, SACD, and BluRay formats. Source for hard to find and reissue recordings.
A division of ArkivMusic specializing in jazz.
Concordia Library's CD collection consists of nearly 4,000 titles in most genres of music, including classical, jazz, blues, electroacoustic, world, folk, and popular.
You can search the CD collection through Sofia, Concordia's library catalogue.
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Teaching & Research Librarian
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514-848-2424 ext. 7758 |
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Veronica.Bergsten@concordia.ca |
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