For those not familiar with the world of new music, this very compelling journal may be just the place to start. The journal is edited by Mark Alburger, "an eclectic American composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities." Since the journal's inception in January 2000, Alburger and his colleagues have drawn on a wide range of experts to craft their publication. In each issue,...

The AMG All Music Guide website is designed to complement a line of books that provide extensive reviews of thousands of music recordings, organized by genre, such as blues, jazz, rock, and so on. This website is particularly helpful as it provides all of this material at no cost, and is relatively easy to navigate as well. Using the search box at the top of the screen visitors can look for...

Starting a research project on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach can be a bit like attempting to take a drink from a fire hydrant. You could get overwhelmed immediately, or alternately, you could browse on over to the very fine Bach Bibliography website. This prodigious online database is complied and maintained by Yo Tomita of the School of Music at Queen's University in Belfast. First-time...

The Electronic Urban Report (EUR), a service of Rabercom, presents "factual, online infotainment" daily. It presents African American entertainment news, along with an EUR Web site of the day. The report is also available via e-mail.

In the past few years more academic journals have been moving online, and some have been established to be solely available via the Internet. Edited by Thomas Koozin (a professor of music theory at the University of Houston), Music Theory Online has been online since 1993. Each issue usually contains several full-length scholarly articles, commentaries on previous works, and other like...