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*** Welcome to rec.music.info! ***


Welcome to rec.music.info, a group that aims to provide a noise-free source
of information and news for the entire rec.music hierarchy.

Two introductory articles about rec.music.info are posted to the group
and to news.answers/rec.answers each month. You are now reading the
first article, which explains what rec.music.info is, and answers some
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's). The second article is titled
"Submission Guidelines", and you only need to read it if you want to
submit an article to rec.music.info.

By the way: many periodic or FAQ articles, including this one, are
available for anonymous ftp on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]
in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears is the one that appears in the 'Archive-name' line at the
top of the article. The FAQ you are now reading is archived as
music/rec-music-info/welcome.

If you can't do or don't know about ftp: there's also a mail server on that
machine. Just send a e-mail message to [e-mail]
containing the word "help" in the body of the message.


 --- What is the purpose of rec.music.info?

The purpose or charter of r.m.info is to provide the Usenet community with
a resource for information, news, and facts about any and all things
musical.

All the other rec.music groups are intended for discussions and general
chit chat about music.  Rec.music.info will contain informational, factual
articles only. Followups are redirected to an appropriate other group, and
further discussion (if any) will not take place in r.m.info.

In order to ensure that r.m.info contains only appropriate articles, it was
decided to create the group as a moderated newsgroup.


 --- Eh, what is a 'followup', and what does 'moderated' mean?

If you are new to Usenet and are not familiar with the terminology, you
might want to read the general introductory articles found in the newsgroup
news.announce.newusers. Doing so will make your life on the net much
easier, and will probably save you from making silly beginner's mistakes.

If you think that at this moment you are reading an echo, a conference, or
a bboard, I'd also strongly suggest a trip over to news.announce.newusers.

For the rest of this article, I will assume you have a basic knowledge of
Usenet terminology and mechanics.


 --- OK, so now I know what 'moderated' means. Tell me more.

Rec.music.info is a moderated newsgroup, which means that all articles
submitted to the group will have to be approved by the moderator first.

The current moderator of the group (and the author of this article) is Leo
Breebaart. Submissions to r.m.info as well as comments, criticisms,
suggestions or questions about the group can either be directly posted to
rec.music.info, or e-mailed to:

 [e-mail]

But before you do so, please be sure to check out the "Submission
Guidelines" article.

The influence of the moderator is minimal and of an administrative nature,
consisting chiefly of weeding out obviously inappropriate articles, while
making sure correct headers etc. are used for the appropriate ones.


 --- Why does every article subject start with a capitalized word?

The subject of every article posted to r.m.info starts with a special
keyword. This will enable people to automatically select or kill entire
categories of information that they are/are not interested in. Because of
the keyword scheme we do not need separate newsgroups for e.g. chart
listings, or for concert dates, or for discographies.


 --- What are the keywords, and what do they mean?

At the moment there are 9 broad categories of rec.music.info articles. New
keywords will be added whenever necessary.

ADMIN: Words of wisdom from the moderator. Used for newsgroup-related
information and administratrivia only. For messages that get crossposted to
other groups (like the one you are reading right now), I will use the less
confusing REC.MUSIC.INFO: keyword.

CHART: 'Top <n>' lists from all over the world, usually posted
periodically. Considered worthless trivia by many folks, charts are
nonetheless hugely popular with even more people, so they make up a
significant amount of r.m.info contents.

DISCOGRAPHY:  Discographies for recording artists in any genre.

CONCERT:  Tour schedules, special appearances, festival line-ups,
this season's list of Boston Philharmonic performances -- you get the
picture.

RELEASE:  Announcements of new music releases.

NEWS:  "Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, died this weekend."

MAILINGLIST: Announcements and information pertaining to any of the
existing musical mailing lists.

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions articles.

INFO: Catch-all category for information that is useful but does not fit
any of the above categories. Examples: "List of good classical record shops
in Amsterdam", "Ftp site for Michael Jackson-related material established".


 --- Why don't you use genre related keywords like CLASSICAL or ROCK?

1] Because I want to refrain from making things needlessly complex, both
for myself and for the readers.

2] Because the categories in rec.music.info are ideally supposed to
transcend the separation of the individual newsgroups. I have no desire to
mirror the subdivision of the rec.music hierarchy in rec.music.info.


 --- What type of material is considered inappropriate?

There are three broad categories of articles which will be rejected by the
moderator:

1] Requests for information: rec.music.info is strictly a one-way street.
You people send me information; I then post it to r.m.info. Requests for
specific information belong in the normal newsgroups. If your request gets
answered, you might consider passing the answer on to r.m.info, though.

2] Reviews: there already is a dedicated, moderated newsgroup for musical
reviews: rec.music.reviews. All reviews should go there.

3] Commercial stuff: this is a vague category. "Me and my buddies have just
released our first CD" would probably still be accepted, but "We are
looking for a guitarist" would be rejected.  Rec.music.marketplace is the
best place for "things/persons wanted" and "things/persons offered"
articles.


 --- Will the material appearing in rec.music.info be archived somewhere?

Yes. David Datta has generously donated space on his music FTP archive site
for a rec.music.info archive.

You can reach the archive by ftp'ing to cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4), and going
to the directory /pub/music/info.

Effectively this means that anything you post to rec.music.info will be
permanently stored, so your work will not be lost.


 --- Will rec.music.info be just another rock/pop oriented group?

I have only one answer to this: "not if I can help it". Unfortunately, that
*is* more or less happening to e.g. rec.music.reviews -- very few classical
or country or new age reviews appear there.

Regular readers from all the music groups on Usenet are hereby invited to
[a] give me ideas and feedback on how to make r.m.info interesting and
valuable to them as well (e.g. new keywords I did not think of); to [b]
scan their newsgroups for appropriate material and point the authors to the
direction of rec.music.info, and to [c] submit interesting articles
themselves.

--
Leo Breebaart -- Moderator rec.music.info
Submissions & other mail to: rec-music-info @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl
!!! Requests for information do *not* belong in r.m.info! !!!
---
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    Subject: REC.MUSIC.INFO: Submission Guidelines for rec.music.info

Archive-name: music/rec-music-info/guidelines
Last-modified: 1993/02/08 22:38:03
Version: 1.12


*** rec.music.info - Submission Guidelines and Etiquette ***


Two introductory articles about rec.music.info are posted to this group and
to news.answers each month. You are now reading the second article, which
explains how to submit something to rec.music.info, and which answers some
Frequently Asked Questions about the submission process. The first article
is titled "Welcome to rec.music.info", and it might be a good idea to check
it out as well.

By the way: many periodic or FAQ articles, including this one, are
available for anonymous ftp on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]
in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears is the one that appears in the 'Archive-name' line at the
top of the article. The FAQ you are now reading is archived as
music/rec-music-info/guidelines.

If you can't do or don't know about ftp: there's also a mail server on that
machine. Just send a e-mail message to [e-mail]
containing the word "help" in the body of the message.


 --- How do I submit something to rec.music.info?

Two possibilities. You can use your newsreading software to just post the
article to rec.music.info, as you would do with any other newsgroup. The
difference is that the software recognizes the special status of r.m.info
as a moderated group, and will e-mail your article to me, the moderator,
instead of posting it to the group.

Alternatively, you can mail your article directly to me at the following
address:

rec-music-info @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl

Mailing me directly is probably (a wee bit) faster, but using the
transparency offered by the newsreading software is probably more
convenient.


 --- How soon will I see my article appear?

It depends on how busy I am. Your article reaches me as mail, I have to
read it first, possibly edit it, give it the stamp of approval, and finally
send it on to the group.

I try to check and process the rec-music-info mailbox at least twice a day.
Since my site is in the Netherlands, the turnaround time between submitting
something from, say, the USA and seeing it appear in rec.music.info on your
site might be a bit longer than with groups moderated from within States.


 --- Should my article be in a specific format?

No. If it is not totally illegible, I will accept it, and if it does not
have a correct subject-line I will correct it -- that's what a moderator is
for.

However.

You could do me a big favour by making sure your article confirms to these
simple requirements:

[1] A good, descriptive Subject line, with the appropriate keyword already
included (see the first article for the set of keywords). See also the
next section.

[2] Include some background information to your article. One paragraph or
even one sentence can be enough. Just don't forget that r.m.info is read by
people who do not know all the context that your usual audience over in
rec.music.whatever takes for granted.

[3] Always mention what source you got the information from.

[4] Don't forget to include a Followup-To header, at least if you don't
want further discussion to automatically be forwarded to rec.music.misc,
which is the default.

As I said: if your article is appropriate I will post it even if you don't
follow these guidelines, but then don't blame me for not processing it
immediately. 'Perfect' articles I can send on with just two keystrokes.
Stuff that needs editing is going to have to wait until I have time to do
so.


 --- Anything else about Subject lines?

Yes. If you are submitting a CONCERT article, please put the geographic
location of those concerts in square brackets at the end of the Subject,
like so:
        CONCERT: Trafassi Tour Dates [UK + Japan]

If you are submitting a chart, please include the period the chart is valid
for, e.g:

        CHART: Zimbabwe Top 40, 24/08/92


 --- What about crossposting?

If you send something to rec.music.info, just name any group you'd like to
crosspost to in the Newsgroups field. Then, when I approve the article for
rec.music.info it will get automatically crossposted to any other groups
mentioned.

Ideally, everyone subscribing to a rec.music group will also read
rec.music.info, so crossposting would be unnecessary and redundant.

On the other hand: crossposts do not take up extra space; modern
newsreaders can be configured to show you crossposted articles only once
anyway; not everybody reads rec.music.info; and rec.music.info was never
meant to reduce the volume of the regular newsgroups.

You decide.


 --- And Follow-ups?

If the only newsgroup you have specified is rec.music.info, then the
Followup-To: field will always be set to rec.music.misc. If you do not want
this, you must supply a Followup-To line of your own, and I will honor that
one.

If you specify newsgroups to crosspost to, then the Followup-To field will
be set to include all the crossposted groups, excepting rec.music.info
itself. Again, if you do not wish this behaviour, supply your own
Followup-To line.


 --- Other Header lines?

This is where things get a bit technical. For my moderation purposes I use
a shell script to process the submissions I get. This shell script
automatically extracts the following set of 'standard' header lines (if
present): From, Subject, Newsgroups, Summary, Keywords, Organization,
Reply-To, and Followup-To.

All other header lines are discarded. If you have any special header lines
that you want included in your article as it will appear in rec.music.info,
you can do this by separating them from the other header lines in your
article by one blank line. That way, they are regarded by my script as part
of the message instead of the headers, and will be passed along.

If you have no such special wishes, or if you did not quite follow the
above two paragraphs, you can forget about them completely; you don't have
to bother with *any* of the header lines. Just send me your submission.


 --- Why have I received no reply from you?

I never reject anything in silence, and I make a point of it to answer all
my mail. However, e-mail can and does get lost, every now and again.

So, if you send me something, and you don't see it appear it
rec.music.info, and you still have not heard from me in reply after say,
one week, you can be pretty sure that either your mail never reached me, or
that my asnwer has never reached you. In that case, please try again.
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*** rec.music.info - List of Internet Musical Resources ***

This forthnightly posted list of resources is maintained by the current
rec.music.info moderator, Leo Breebaart, who can be reached at
[e-mail].

All comments, updates, new additions, etc. are more than welcome -- I rely
entirely on reader feedback to keep this list up-to-date.

If you are not familiar with some of the concepts mentioned below (e.g.
mailing lists, finger), check out the introductory articles found in
news.announce.newusers and news.answers, or ask somebody more experienced
to help you.

By the way: many periodic or FAQ articles, including this one, are
available for anonymous ftp on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]
in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears is the one that appears in the 'Archive-name' line at the
top of the article. The FAQ you are now reading is archived as
music/resources.

If you can't do or don't know about ftp: there's also a mail server on that
machine. Just send a e-mail message to [e-mail]
containing the word "help" in the body of the message.


INTERNET MUSICAL RESOURCES

*** Mailing Lists

At the moment of writing there are over 165 mailing lists one can subscribe
to for in-depth discussions about specific artists or specific musical
genres.

Jason Kraley and John Rowland from the Cleveland Free-Net Music SIG are
maintainers of a canonical list of information about these mailing lists,
including the addresses to write to if you want to subscribe.

This list is called the Musical List of Lists (or mlol), and is itself
appropriately distributed through a mailing list. The latest version
of the list can always be found in the Music FTP Archive (for ftp site
information see the accompanying "List of Internet Musical FTP Sites"
article), in /pub/music/misc/mail.lists.music, and is also regularly
posted to rec.music.info.


*** Mail Servers

-- [e-mail] (Sid's Music Server)

Music Man (also [e-mail]) maintains this server and
database for "rare live recordings and unreleased demos". For more
information, send e-mail to the server's address with a subject of
"boothelp".

-- [e-mail] (Used CD Server)

[e-mail] maintains this database of CD's, cassettes, and (gasp)
LP's for sale or trade.  For more information, send e-mail to the server's
address with a subject of "HELP".

-- [e-mail] (The NetJam server)

The NetJam server provides email access to the NetJam archive, and
also performs all NetJam services, such as subscription and
software/documentation serving.

To receive the document describing the NetJam server and NetJam at
length email netjam-request@xcf, with the subject line "request for
info".


*** Finger Daemons

-- [e-mail] (Rec.music.info Moderator)

Finger this address for information about the moderator's whereabouts and
his favourite albums of the moment.

-- [e-mail] (Rondel K. Buckmire)

Finger this address for the most recent Billboard Top 10 charts. These
charts are also posted to r.m.info each week.

-- [e-mail] (FUNG Alexander Yok-Wai)

Finger this address for the most recent Radio & Records Top 40 chart. This
chart is also posted to r.m.info each week.


*** Buying stuff through e-mail

-- [e-mail] (Robert Steinberger)

Disaster Area
Industrial, Noise, strange, experimenta and Punk.


-- dante![e-mail] (Mason Jones)

Charnel House Productions
Noisy, percussive and experimental.


-- [e-mail] (Ranjit Padmanabhan)

Ranjit Padmanabhan
Specializes in import CDs pertaining to Progressive Rock and Electronic
music.


-- [e-mail] (Spike Pierson)

CD's We Bee
Sells all kinds of CD's, pop & classical.


-- DISCLAIMER

I suppose it's necessary to make this explicit: these addresses are
provided as is, and I accept no responsibility for what these people may or
may not do with your precious money. All risks are yours.

There are other e-mail addresses around. I have included above only those
people who replied when I e-mailed them


*** Gopher links

-- gopher.micro.umn.edu (University of Minnesota)

The directory 'Fun & Games/Music' contains a number of interesting
services, including heavy metal information, discographies, lyrics and a
gopher link to cs.uwp.edu (see next entry).

-- cs.uwp.edu (University of Wisconsin-Parkside)

The directory '(dir) Files available for public access/(dir) Music FTP
archives' contains the gopher version of Dave Datta's Music FTP Archives
(see the "Internet FTP Sites" article).


*** WAIS Sources

There are a few WAIS music-related databases. So far, they are few enough
so that I can include the entire WAIS source description here. This may
change as the list grows larger.

(:source
   :ip-name "enuxva.eas.asu.edu"
   :tcp-port 8000
   :database-name "music"
   :cost 0.00
   :cost-unit :free
   :maintainer "[e-mail]"
   :description "

   Database of CDs of Indian Classical Music.
   You can search using keywords containing Ragas or Musician's name
   or anything that is present as a word in the database.

   Try Ali or Khan or Ravi or Shankar or Krishnan  as a
   first search and see what format the database is in. Perhaps you
   might get an idea on what to search for.

   At present, this database contains mainly CDs of Hindustani
   Musicians. But please be patient. This database is still in
   development.

   This database eventually would be a collection of all Hindustani
   and Karnatic (or Carnatic) CDs available.

   Your feedback and input is highly valued and is appreciated.

   Sridhar ([e-mail])

)

(:source
   :version  3
   :ip-address "131.210.1.4"
   :ip-name "cs.uwp.edu"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "lyrics"
   :cost 0.00
   :cost-unit :free

   :maintainer "[e-mail]"
   :subjects "liberal arts music lyrics songs singers"
   :description "Server for the Lyrics archives.

The lyrics archives consists of complete lyrics to over 3000 songs made
up of over 500 artists. All lyrics are gracefully donated by USENET
readers and archive users. Please send any contributions or questions
to [e-mail]. If you would like to get lyrics by artist instead
of via wais searches, you can ftp cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4) and look in
the /pub/music/lyrics directory for an Index file. I will also service
e-mail requests.

Search for the word 'index' to get the index file.


)

(:source
   :version  3
   :ip-address "129.120.1.42"
   :ip-name "sol.acs.unt.edu"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "/usr/local/data/wais/midi"
   :cost 0.00
   :cost-unit :free
   :maintainer "[e-mail]"
   :subjects "liberals arts music computers MIDI musicial instrument digital "
   :description "MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) documents
It is commonly used to connect keyboards and sometimes computer together.

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*** rec.music.info - List of Internet Musical FTP Sites ***

This forthnightly posted list of ftp sites is maintained by the current
rec.music.info moderator, Leo Breebaart, who can be reached at
[e-mail].

All comments, updates, new additions, etc. are more than welcome -- I rely
entirely on reader feedback to keep this list up-to-date.

If you do not know what ftp is or how to use it, check out the introductory
articles found in news.announce.newusers and news.answers, or ask somebody
more experienced to help you.

By the way: many periodic or FAQ articles, including this one, are
available for anonymous ftp on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]
in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears is the one that appears in the 'Archive-name' line at the
top of the article. The FAQ you are now reading is archived as
music/rec-music-info/ftp-sites.

If you can't do or don't know about ftp: there's also a mail server on that
machine. Just send a e-mail message to [e-mail]
containing the word "help" in the body of the message.


INTERNET MUSICAL FTP SITES

 ---  ftp.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)

Directory: /pub/music
Maintainer: David Datta ([e-mail])

This is the Music FTP Archive, a place that every music lover on the net
should be familiar with. Many interesting things are stored here, in
particular:

    - Classical music buying guide
    - Discographies for over 350 artists
    - Lyrics to over 15000 songs by over 1100 artists
    - Rec.music.info archives
    - Sounds & Pictures

This archive is also available as a Gopher service (see the "Internet
Resources" article for details).

 ---  ftp.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)

Directory: /pub/music/lists

Yup, this is the same ftp-site as the previous one, but I think a second
entry is necessary for mentioning that this specific directory contains
mailing list logs for the following Usenet mailing lists:

Alice Cooper, Art of Noise, Billboard Charts, Debbie Gibson, Chameleons
[UK], Vangelis, Dutch Charts, Eclectic Music, Electronic Dreams, Enya,
Robin Hitchcock, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Progressive Rock, Grunge Rock,
Innocence Mission, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kingsx, The Kinks, Kiss,
KLF/ORB/Timelords/JAMS, Steve Vai, 1000 Maniacs, Temple of the Dog &
related, Men Without Hats, Olivia Newton John, Prince, Punk, Tori Amos,
Bruce Springsteen, Sugarcubes, Sundays, Tangereine Dream, Dutch music
newsletter, The Who, Wilson Phillips, Yello and Yes.


 --- syrinx.umd.edu (128.8.2.114)

Directory: /rush
Maintainer: David Arnold ([e-mail])

Rush archives. Contains lyrics to all the songs, guitar & bass
transcriptions, sounds & pictures and back issues of the Rush mailing list
"National Midnight Star".

Directory: /floyd
Maintainer: David Schuetz (valinor![e-mail])

Contains lyrics to all Pink Floyd songs.  Also interviews, articles,
discographies, reviews, and the Echoes mailing list FAQ."


 --- ftp.nevada.edu (131.216.1.11)

Directory: /pub/guitar
Maintainer: James B. ([e-mail])

Archive site for guitar tablature music transcriptions. These files are
also available from the Music FTP Archive, and updates to the archive are
regularly posted to rec.music.info.


 --- kappa.rice.edu (128.42.4.7)

Directory: /pub/bass
Maintainer: Kevin Tipple ([e-mail])

Archive site for "The Bottom Line", the Bass Players' Digest. Contains back
issues and bass tabulature files.


 --- bobcat.bbn.com (128.89.2.103)

Directory: /beatles
Maintainer: Bob Clements ([e-mail])

Beatles archive. Notes and FAQs from rec.music.beatles, "Paul Is Dead"
hints, GIFs.


 --- netcom.com (192.100.81.100)

Directory: /pub/fobs/*
Maintainer: Eric Thompson ([e-mail])

Friends of the Bobs archive.  Mailing list logs, hotline transcriptions,
concert dates.  [Subscribe to list at above request address.]


 --- first.cac.washington.edu (140.142.113.104)

Directory: /pub/vincent-clarke
Maintainer: Tim Wood ([e-mail])

Vincent Clarke / Erasure archive. discographies, lyrics, mailing
list logs.

Directory: /pub/lullaby
Maintainer: Tim Wood ([e-mail])

Book of Love archive. Mailing list logs.

Directory: /pub/introspective
Maintainer:  [*** UNKNOWN ***]

Pet Shop Boys archive. Mailing list logs, lyrics.


 --- casbah.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.52)

Directory: /pub/gabriel
Maintainer: Joe Germuska ([e-mail])

Peter Gabriel archive. Lyrics, GIFs, digests.

Directory: /pub/crowded-house
Maintainer: Marck Bailey ([e-mail])

Crowded House archive. Lyrics, transcriptions, digests.

Directory: /pub/acoustic-guitar
Maintainer: Joe Germuska ([e-mail])

"Acoustic" Guitar Bulletin archive. Alt.guitar stuff, transcriptions.

Directory: /pub/flatfields
Maintainer: Joe Germuska ([e-mail])

Flat-Fields archive (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Peter Murphy). Lyrics,
discographies, liner notes.


 --- ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3)

Directory: /pub/gdeadstuff
Maintainer: [*** UNKNOWN ***]

Grateful Dead archives. Discographies, lyrics, setlists.


 --- gdead.src.umd.edu (128.8.111.121)

Directory: /pub/dylan
Maintainer: [*** UNKNOWN ***]

Bob Dylan archives. Lyrics, setlists.


 --- cs.bu.edu (128.197.2.1)

Directory: /pub/ronbo
Maintainer: [*** UNKNOWN ***]

Grunge archives. Mailing lists logs, lyrics.


 --- ftp.ms.uky.edu (128.163.128.6)


Directory: /pub/misc/hey-joe
Maintainer: Joel Abbott ([e-mail])

Jimi Hendrix archive. Mailing list logs, FAQ, reviews.

Directory: /pub/misc/janes-addiction
Maintainer: Joel Abbott ([e-mail])

Jane's Addiction archive. Mailing list logs, discographies, FAQ.

Directory: /pub/misc/tears4-fears
Maintainer: Joel Abbott ([e-mail])

Tears For Fears archive. Mailing list logs, discographies, lyrics.


 --- remus.rutgers.edu (128.6.13.3)

Directory: /JethroTull
Maintainer: [e-mail]

Jethro Tull archive. Mailing list logs, lyrics, discographies, GIFs


 --- glia.biostr.washington.edu (128.95.10.115)

Directory: /pub/queensryche
Maintainer: Dan 'Shag' Birchall ([e-mail])

Queensryche archive. "Screaming In Digital" digest back issues,
lyrics, JPEG/GIFs, sounds.


 --- hardees.rutgers.edu (128.6.18.2)

Directory: /pub/hr
Maintainer: [e-mail]

Happy Rhodes archives. Artciles, FAQ, lyrics, digests, reviews.


 --- quartz.rutgers.edu (128.6.60.6)

Directory: /pub/journals/Strangeways
Maintainer: [e-mail]

The Smiths / Morrisey archive. Digest back issues, lyrics, discographies.


 --- turbo.bio.net(134.172.2.69):

Directory: /chalkhills
Maintainer: John M. Relph ([e-mail])

XTC "Chalkhills" archive. Digests, lyrics, FAQ, discographies.

Directory: /jitr
Maintainer: Michael C. Berch ([e-mail])

Sinead O'Connor "Jump In The River" archive. Digests, discographies,
lyrics, GIFs.


 --- ftp.uu.net

Directory: /usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb
Maintainer: [*** UNKNOWN ***]

Kate Bush stuff.


 --- insti.physics.sunysb.edu (129.49.21.110)

Directory: /pub/tmbg
Maintainer: Micah Anderson ([e-mail])

They Might Be Giants mailing list archive. Lyrics, reviews, GIFS,
sounds, discography, etc.


 --- gdead.berkeley.edu (129.49.21.110)

Directory: /pub/gdead
Maintainer: [e-mail]

Grateful Dead archives. Discographies, lyrics, music, setlists, much more.


 --- xcf.berkeley.edu (128.32.138.1)

Directory: misc/netjam
Maintainer: Craig Latta

The NetJam archives. Holds all the submissions, participant info, software,
and documentation for the NetJam project, as well as related documents,
including the extensive NetJam Electronic and Computer Music
Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) document.

To receive the document describing NetJam at length email
netjam-request@xcf, with the subject line "request for info".

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*** rec.music.info - List of Usenet Musical Newsgroups

This fortnightly posted list of newsgroups is maintained by the current
rec.music.info moderator, Leo Breebaart, who can be reached at
[e-mail].

All comments, updates, new additions, etc. are more than welcome.

If you do not know what newsgroups are, or how to read them, check out the
introductory articles found in news.announce.newusers and news.answers, or
ask somebody more experienced to help you.

By the way: many periodic or FAQ articles, including this one, are
available for anonymous ftp on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]
in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears is the one that appears in the 'Archive-name' line at the
top of the article. The FAQ you are now reading is archived as
music/newsgroups.

If you can't do or don't know about ftp: there's also a mail server on that
machine. Just send a e-mail message to [e-mail]
containing the word "help" in the body of the message.

USENET MUSICAL NEWSGROUPS

At the moment there are over 30 newsgroups on Usenet that deal with some
genre, or artist, or aspect of music. These groups can be divided into four
categories: moderated rec.music groups, unmoderated rec.music groups, alt
groups and 'other' groups. Groups in the 'alt' hierarchy are 'unofficial'
in that they are not created by standard Usenet voting procedures.
Therefore, some sites prefer not to carry (all) of the alt newsgroups.
'Other' groups are those groups that do not reside in the rec.music or alt
hierarchy, but which nevertheless might be of interest, musically.

Here follows a brief description of each of these newsgroups. An '[FAQ]'
behind the group name means that for this group a so-called Frequently
Asked Questions article is maintained, which you really should read before
attempting to post to the group in question.


 --- Moderated Groups

-- rec.music.reviews
Reviews of albums, singles, movies, books, concerts -- anything as long
as it has to do with music. Moderator: Stewart Evans ([e-mail])

-- rec.music.gaffa
Kate Bush, Kate Bush, Kate Bush, some other women performers, let's not
forget about Kate Bush, some other 'arty' performers, and did we mention
Kate Bush yet? Moderator: Bill Wisner ([e-mail])

-- rec.music.info [FAQ]
This group. Moderator: Leo Breebaart ([e-mail])


 --- Unmoderated Groups:

-- rec.music.afro-latin
Latin American music (Salsa, Merengue, etc) in general, with sidesteps to
other forms of World music.

-- rec.music.beatles
Beatles' music.

-- rec.music.bluenote [FAQ]
The newsgroup for Blues and Jazz.

-- rec.music.cd
Discussions of the *music* should go elsewhere, but all other aspects
of CD's, including non-(technical/hardware) ones, are discussed here.

-- rec.music.christian
Christian music, both traditional and contemporary.

-- rec.music.classical [FAQ]
Classical music.

-- rec.music.country.western
Country & Western music.

-- rec.music.dementia
Weird, strange, twisted, demented music (as in comedy & novelty). Ah-aaah!

-- rec.music.dylan
Bob Dylan's music.

-- rec.music.early
Early music, as in *before* classical.

-- rec.music.folk
Folk music, from sea shanties to singer-songwriters.

-- rec.music.funky
Dance, rap, funk and other 'black' music forms.

-- rec.music.gdead
The Grateful Dead's music

-- rec.music.indian.classical
Classical Indian (as in Asian) music.

-- rec.music.indian.misc
Other Indian (still as in Asian) music.

-- rec.music.industrial [FAQ]
Industrial, 'techno' music.

-- rec.music.makers.*
A hierarchy of newsgroups for people who make music instead of just
listen to it.

-- rec.music.marketplace
Got something for sale? Looking to buy something? This is the place.

-- rec.music.misc
Main musical discussion group. Musical omnivores read and post here.

-- rec.music.newage
New Age music.

-- rec.music.phish
Cult group Phish's music.

-- rec.music.video
Video clips and music video's.


 --- Alt Groups:

-- alt.emusic
Music about things that start with an 'e' (as in electronic, exotic, ethnic,
etc.) No joke...

-- alt.exotic-music
World music, mostly Asian-oriented.

-- alt.fan.enya
Enya's (as in 'Orinoco Flow') music.


-- alt.fan.frank-zappa
Frank Zappa's music.

-- alt.fan.jimmy-buffett
Jimmy Buffett's music and tour information.

-- alt.fan.peter-hamill
Peter Hamill's music.

-- alt.music.alternative
Alternative or indie music. Generally defined as That Which Is Not Top 40.

-- alt.music.category-freak
Currently an empty group, probably created as a joke.

-- alt.music.enya
Enya's (as in 'Orinoco Flow') music. Don't ask me about the difference
between this group and alt.fan.enya...

-- alt.music.filk
Folk music, with usually funny or parody lyrics, often having to do with
Science Fiction.

-- alt.music.karaoke
Currently an empty group.

-- alt.music.machines.of.loving.grace

-- alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself
Currently an empty group.

-- alt.music.progressive
Progressive Rock, as it was defined in the 70's (i.e. what non-experts might
call 'symphonic'): groups like Yes, Gentle Gint and Genesis. Don't confuse
'progressive' with 'alternative'!

-- alt.music.rush [FAQ]
Rush's music.


-- alt.music.the.police
The Police's music.

-- alt.music.the.police.ctl
This group was created by error, and should not be used.

-- alt.rap
Rap music.

-- alt.rap-gdead
For fans of both rap music and the Grateful Dead. Really.

-- alt.rave
Rave music, parties, and the whole associated scene.

-- alt.rock-n-roll
Rock music, of the 'soft' or 'classic' kind.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.acdc [FAQ]
AC/DC's music.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.hard
Rock music, of the classic 'hard' kind, e.g. Guns 'n Roses,
Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.classic
Classic rock music.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Heavy Metal music, as in *real* metal (Slayer, Venom, Motorhead).
Definitely *not* for Classic Rock or for Def Leppard.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy
Death metal and other REAL metal, even realer than that discussed in
a.r.metal.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Progressive metal. They tell me groups like Queensryche, Fates Warning
and Crimson Glory belong here.

-- alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica
Metallica's music.

-- alt.thrash
Hardcore, alternative (metal) thrash music.


 --- Other Groups

-- bit.listserv.emusic-l
Technical discussion of electronic music.

-- bit.listserv.allmusic
Discussion of all forms of music.

-- comp.music
Applications of computers in music research.

-- rec.folk-dancing
A group not only about folk-dancing, but also about the dance music itself.

-- rec.games.trivia
This group often has lyrics or other musical quizzes.

[ I'm looking for folks to give me some good, reliable info on some of
the other 'other' groups, most notably the .radio and the .makers
groups. Anybody? ]


 --- Local Groups

Your site may carry local newsgroups (as in: local to your site, your area,
your country, your continent -- anything that does not have world-wide
distribution) that may very well be about music. Check with your news
administrator for more info on those groups.

--
Leo Breebaart -- Moderator rec.music.info
Submissions & other mail to: rec-music-info @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl
!!! Requests for information do *not* belong in r.m.info! !!!