Welcome Music Buffs

All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com)  - Probably the most concise site on music you will find on the internet. The site includes artist discographies, album reviews and biographical information. The biography section includes chart position and awards since 1986 as well as an overview including the style of music the artist played musicians that influenced them and artists that they influenced, The site also provides music and video samples.

Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/) – A site that gives a critical consensus of album reviews. The site also gives consensus reviews of movies, tv shows, books, and video games.

Rolling Stone Magazine (www.rollingstone.com) - The website of the famous magazine. The site includes a large collection of album reviews, best of lists, and clips from articles.

Canoe Music (http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/) - The Canadian Online Explorer (CANOE) music portal is a good location for articles, concert, and album, reviews. The site also has an alphabetical archives sorted by artist.

New Music Express (http://www.nme.com) – The preeminent music magazine from the UK. The website features article from the magazine, concert/album reviews, and band/musician pages featuring an archives of material from NME.

Local Stations with online feeds

630 CHED - http://www.630ched.com/
CBC Radio 1 – http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/
Sonic 102.9 - http://www.radiosonic.fm/
Magic 99 - http://www.magic99.ca/
CFMG (Easy Rock) – http://www.ezrock1049.com/
CJCA – http://www.cjca.ca/cms/
CISN – http://www.cisnfm.com/
K-Rock 97.3 - http://www.k-rock973.com
Cool 880 – http://www.cool880.com/
91.7 The Bounce – http://www.thebounce.ca/
Team 1260 – http://www.cfrn.com/
CFBR (The Bear) - http://www.thebearrocks.com/
CKUA – http://www.ckua.org/
CJSR - http://www.cjsr.ualberta.ca/

Podcasts/Media streams

Coverville (http://www.coverville.com/) – A podcast that celebrates covers (artists doing other people’s songs) a really good collection of sometimes familiar songs with a twist.

All Songs Considered (http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/) – A great music podcast from NPR (the American version of CBC) that profiles and all genres of music and sometimes features full concerts.

CBC Radio 3 R3-30 (http://radio3.cbc.ca/) – Features the week’s best new music according to CBC Radio 3.