Arthur Goldstuck : Web Feet
Don’t you folks like South African music? No sooner do I guide you in the direction of the best and the coolest when you start demanding that weird foreign stuff.
Oh well, your wish is my command, so without further ado, herewith a complete listing of all 2340 record labels and 37 439 artists on the Web. Err, let me rephrase that. Here is a complete listing of my own tiny selection from the vast repositories of musical resources on the Web.
First, the major record labels:
* Arista Records: http://www. aristarec.com/
* BMG Entertainment: http:// www.bmg.com/
* Capitol Records: http://www. hollywoodandvine.com/
* Columbia Records: http:// www.columbiarecords.com/
* Island Records: http://www. island.co.uk/
* Polygram: http://www.polygram.com/
* RCA Victor: http://www.rcavictor.com/
* Sony: http://www.music.sony. com/
* Virgin Records http: //www.virginrecords.com/
* http://www.music.warnerbros.com/ includes Warner Bros, Elektra, Atlantic and Reprise, DC Comics, Warner Studio Stores.
These are some of the key sites for finding out more about the overall industry and the indies
* Record Labels on the Web with more than 2300 links http://www.arancidamoeba.com/labels.html
* World Records: http://www.worldrecords.com/ (Search engine coupled to a database of music information)
* The Ultimate Band list: http://www.ubl.com/
* Indie Labels on the Web: http://kathoderay.org/music/labels.html
* The Partial Guide: http://www3.sympatico.ca/
partialguide/indie.html
* Indieweb: http://www.indieweb.com/
* The Deadbeat Label List: http://www.islandnet.com/~moron/deterrent/d
emo.html (Labels that mess musicians around)
Here are four superb alternative resources to help get you going:
* Firefly: http://www.ffly.com (Intelligent agent that correlates your musical likes with those of thousands of others and tells you what else you might like)
* MusicRoom: http://www.musicroom.com/ (A comprehensive music site for just about everyone – music lovers, musicians, and industry professionals, and includes discussion forum)
* alt.music.independent (The indie music newsgroup, with bulletin board discussions)
These sites are listed, along with a more extensive band listing, at the online version of this column at http://www.mg.co.za/mg/pc/pcreview.htm