Music: Audio Streams and Podcasts

The Web-based station includes recordings by historic vocalists such as Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Leontyne Price and Roland Hayes and composers William Grant Still and Margaret Bonds, plus contemporary musicians from performers Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and Denyce Graves to composers George Walker and Leslie Adams.

* Leslie Adams
* Adele Addison
* Betty Allen
* Odekhiren Amaize
* Marian Anderson
* Martina Arroyo
* Carmen Balthrop
* Kathleen Battle
* Jules Bledsoe
* Edward Boatner
* Margaret Bonds
* Carol Brice
* Anne Brown
* Grace Bumbry
* H. T. Burleigh
* Valerie Capers
* John Carter
* Florence Cole-Talbot
* Ellabelle Davis
* R. Nathaniel Dett
* Mattiwilda Dobbs
* Todd Duncan
* Simon Estes
* Ruby Elzy
* Denyce Graves
* Reri Grist
* Roland Hayes
* Barbara Hendricks
* Charles Holland
* Scott Joplin
* Dorothy Maynor
* Robert McFerrin
* Jessye Norman
* Willis Patterson
* Leontyne Price
* Florence Quivar
* Paul Robeson
* George Shirley
* William Grant Still
* Howard Swanson
* Darryl Taylor
* Louise Toppin
* Videmus
* William Warfield
* Wendell Whalum
* Olly Wilson
* Lawrence Winters
* John W. Work, Jr.

The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.

Free classical music
Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 4800 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work.
How to navigate this site
1. Select a composer
2. Select a work 3. Go to the mp3 section
4. Click a button
After clicking the button you are transported to the page of the musician(s) where you can download the music.

The recordings, which range from the late 1930s to recent times, are especially strong in the areas of fiddle, banjo, harmonica, and dulcimer tunes; secular ballads and songs; gospel songs, and the unaccompanied lined-out and shape note singing styles. Included as well are such relative unknowns as the mouth bow with origins in Africa, Cherokee singing and dance music, Swiss-American singing and yodeling, Hungarian-American cymbalum playing , and the jug band sound from the early 1900s comprised of a loose rural-urban mix of blues, hillbilly, and jazz. In many instances the repertoire and playing styles documented in these recordings date well back into the 1800s. Among the music's readily detectable influences are musical expressions arising from slavery, minstrel stage music, Civil War military music, and the dance music of Britain, Ireland and, in some instances, France and Germany.

ÉlectrO-CD

The term “ÉlectrO-CD” was first coined by Christian Zanési of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM, Paris, France) to name a series of meetings and concerts centred around the production of CDs of electroacoustic music (an idea of François Bayle, at the time, director of GRM) which took place on December 1993 at the Maison de la Radio (Paris, France). At the same time, Annette Vande Gorne, of Musiques & Recherches (Ohain, Belgium), was compiling a repertory of electroacoustic works recorded on compact disc titled Répertoire ÉlectrO-CD. The first edition of that catalog was launched during the ÉlectrO-CD event in December 1993 at La Maison de la Radio (Paris, France).

The GMA’s primary mission is to provide access to sound recordings and images of indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas. Founded in 2003 by Gregory Barz, Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology) at Vanderbilt University and the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library, the GMA recently launched its first database in a series of databases, the Digital Collection of East African Recordings which consists of over 2,000 discrete musical performances recorded by an East African ethnomusicologist, Centurio Balikoowa.

Welcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

Last.fm offers customised "radio stations" consisting of uninterrupted audio streams of individual tracks selected from the music files in the music library.

Live Streams, Studio Sessions, Live Concerts, Interviews

With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.

Other Minds (based in San Francisco) welcomes you to radiOM[ray-dee-om].org — the website that brings you the sounds of revelationary new music and the voices of the revelationists themselves.

Our offerings include interviews with some of the most influential composers of our time including Lou Harrison, Brian Eno, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, György Ligeti, and Anthony Braxton.

We also offer concerts, sound poetry performances, lectures and documentaries in classical music, jazz, experimental music and other forms.

The material you will find here is gleaned from thousands of hours of audio recordings from KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995), and concerts and talks produced by Other Minds in San Francisco (1993-2005).

We urge you to search our site often as new programs are added each month. Use of this site is free, but for unlimited access to the material registration is required.

Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar, Folk, Piano, Guitar, Rock, Vocals
Beats/Instrumentals
HipHop and Electronica Beats and Loops...
Classical
Mozart and Schubert, Chamber Music, Symphonic, Choral...
Country
Alternative Country, Christian, Bluegrass, Country Rock...
Hip Hop
Freestyle, New School, Spoken Word, Battles/Disses
Latin
Flamenco, Merengue, Cuban, Pop/Balada, Salsa...
Pop
AAA, Euro Pop, Power Pop, Pop Rock, J-Pop...
Talk & Poetry
Audio Blogs, Political, Sports, Religious...
World
Reggae, Traditional, World Fusion, New Age...

Alternative
Indie, Experimental, Grunge, Punk, Ska...
Blues
Straight Ahead Blues, Jump Blues, Blues Rock...
Comedy
Adult Humor, Political Humor, Prank Calls...
Electronica
Acid, Ambient, Drum n Bass, IDM, Mellow, Industrial...
Jazz
Smooth Jazz, Free Jazz, Fusion, Bebop, Swing...
Metal
Rap Metal, Goth, Heavy Metal, Death/Black Metal..
Rock
Classic, Unplugged, Surf, Rock En Espagnol, Punk...
Urban/R&B
Soul, Funk

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. Lots of music interviews, music performance videos, and other musical items of interest.

Enjoy fine tunes by artists featured in this week's music section. Radio Express is your chance to hear the bands covered in this local free newspaper.

All Folk. All The Time. Folk Alley

Harmonia is a weekly program of early music produced at WFIU Public Media. In the podcast edition, our staff brings you featured new releases from the exciting world of early music. The Harmonia Early Music Podcast is a production of WFIU Public Media from Indiana University

From the Jazz masters of past and present to emerging new artists performing hard bop jazz and fusion. A weekly Jazz radio show that airs on WHUS FM, Storrs CT. No smooth jazz here!

Hosted by Nancy Wilson.

Sunday Baroque Host Suzanne Bona talks with musicians and music enthusiasts.

The Blues File from WXPN, a weekly Blues profile on the genre's most important artists new and old.

Each Monday, World Cafe host David Dye features independent and emerging artists who are making exciting, innovative music. From WXPN in Philadelphia.