User:DanTD/Music resources

On-line album reviews

 * All Music Guide (Most comprehensive site around, folk and world music coverage is spotty)
 * BBC Artists, Albums and Guides, (blues, soul and reggae, folk & country, world music)
 * BluesWax (requires free membership)
 * Robert Christgau/Consumers Guide (good rock critic, seems to hate most folk music)
 * Country Standard Time
 * Fish Records (singer-songwriter, folk and acoustic reviews from the UK)
 * Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange (Album reviews index)
 * FolkWax (requires free membership)
 * Freight Train Boogie
 * George Graham's Weekly Album Reviews, Public Radio host/producer/programmer "Triple-A (album post-childhood alternative)"
 * Jam!
 * The Onion A.V. Club
 * Kevin's Celtic & Folk Music CD Reviews, Kevin McCarthy, published folk music fan
 * Minor 7th (Reviewing the best in non-mainstream acoustic guitar music)
 * The Music Box "Exploring the World of Music"
 * Music Matters Review, "Folk/Singer-songwriter (and what doesn't fit anywhere else!)"
 * metacritic (draws on various sources/not much folk music)
 * National Public Radio
 * Pitchfork Media (indie rock, not much folk)
 * PopMatters (music reviews)
 * Puremusic.com, "singer songwriters and music for grownups"
 * Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine
 * Richie Unterberger (lots of vintage folk and rock, not much contemporary folk)

Magazines

 * Acoustic Guitar, back issues, google site
 * American Songwriter, back issues, google site
 * Americana Rhythm Music Magazine, google site
 * Bluegrass Now, back issues, google site
 * Bluegrass Unlimited, search archives, by date, google site
 * Blues Revue, back issues, google site
 * Dirty Linen, back issues, google site
 * fRoots, features index, reviews index, cover features index, google site
 * Global Rhythm, back issues, google site
 * Living Blues, back issues, google site
 * Mandolin Magazine, back issues, google site
 * Mandolin World News (back issues only), google site
 * Maverick, back issues (American country music magazine from the UK), google site
 * No Depression, back issues,google site
 * The Old Time Herald, archive, google site
 * Paste, artists, google magazine site, google store site
 * Performing Songwriter, back issues, google site
 * Sing Out!, back issues, google site
 * Songlines, archive features, google site

Charts

 * FolkDJ-L / Folk Radio Airplay Dhart (archives to January 1998, annual summaries of top song, album, artist) Monthly reports ~ 150 DJs, Annual ~ 190, participants in FolkDJ-L listserve (copy from Richard Gillman's site)
 * Americana Music Association (current top 40 with some data from past 2 weeks, archives?) >350 DJs
 * 3rd Coast Music Magazine / Freeform American Roots Chart (archives to August 1999, annual summaries) ~130 DJs
 * Americana Roots Radio ?
 * Roots Music Report Folk & other categories, archives?) claims > 1000 stations & > 300 reporters
 * Billboard genre charts (Top Blues album, Top world album, etc.)

Major newspapers
Search pages:
 * Boston Globe
 * Chicago Tribune
 * Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News
 * Houston Chronicle
 * L.A. Times
 * New York Daily News
 * New York Times
 * Philadelphia Inquirer
 * Washington Post
 * U.S.A. Today

On-line libraries
(most require some sort of subsciption)
 * The International Index to Music Periodicals
 * Highbeam Research
 * Find Articles/LookSmart

More folk music journalism

 * Scott Alarik
 * Matt Watroba