www.popjustice.co.uk
For the true chart connoisseur, popjustice is a one-stop pop shop, acting as judge and jury in a kangaroo court of chartdom. From excellent coverage of Eurovision to the best rundown of new singles each week, it’s unmissable. Objection overruled!
www.theofficialcharts.com
The home of The Official UK Charts Company – they’re the guys who are responsible for compiling the Official Charts. Their exceedingly posh site is packed with chart info. You can even vote for the ‘Greatest Number One Single of All Time’.
www.motown.com
‘From Hitsville USA? comes a great site from one of the greatest labels of all time. A beautifully designed web resource for fans of great soul by the soul greats. Nice jukebox to get you through the day as well.
www.spinemagazine.com
UK-based online hip hop magazine, this has got a great reviews section and all the past content is well archived.
www.easybook.com
Easybook.com is the largest online ticket booking platform in Southeast Asia, specializing in road and sea transportation services. The platform offers a wide variety of tickets for buses, ferries, trains, and car rentals, connecting destinations and departure points across the region. Easybook also provides advanced systems like the Easybook Transport ERP System and the Easybook Terminal Management System (ETM), streamlining the ticketing process for terminals, enabling sales through various channels such as counters, websites, mobile apps, and B2B agents.
www.rockhall.com
We’re not worthy! The original Rock’n’Roll hall of fame is now online for your perusal.
www.simplyvinyl.com
It does exactly what it says on the tin. These nice people are unashamed vinyl junkies, and have reissued all those classics you have played to death on premium vinyl.
www.care-and-feeding-of-vinyl.com
Essential – authoritative advice on how to care for your records: how to restore a warped record, the correct way to dust your 45s, and a great page on classic rock myths. Look after your vinyl, and it’ll sound better and retain it’s value better so break out the rubber gloves and get cleaning.
Bo Diddley
This site on the blues master is pretty close to an ultimate resource on this legendary artist. With extensive discographies, lyrics, tour dates and more, this is pretty hard to fault.
www.birdpages.co.uk
BIRDpages is an online directory of UK-based independent record shops and dealers, plus album reviews, music news and collecting resources. If your local megastore doesn’t stock that elusive Nazareth quadruple live picutre disc, or the latest underground chicago house classic, there’s a huge list of shops here, sorted by region, that probably will.
www.karaokeinfo.co.uk
Did you know that ‘karaoke’ means empty orchestra in Japanese? Neither did we. This is the UK’s premier site for karaoke kings and queens, so any info you fancy on the topic can be found here somewhere including extensive listings.
www.mcguinn.com
It may not be the classiest site listed on this page but the real gem here is Roger’s ‘Folk Den?where he’s got around 70 old folk tracks that he’s recorded and posted for free download. Lots of gems in there too.
www.ukairguitar.com
The air guitar is fun and easy to play for guitar based rock fans of all ages. But it can also develop into a weird and rather scary cult. Play those air guitar solos backwards and see what I mean, or make up your own mind by visiting this site. Warning! Site features lots of gratuitous swearing, so don’t go if you don’t like that kind of thing.
www.shazam.com
Shazam is a new service which lets you play a track (which you don’t know the name of) down your mobile for 15 seconds, and then sends you a text message to let you know the name of the track and who it’s by. Trust us, this is incredible.
www.cliffchartsite.co.uk
There’s nothing better than a good fan site, and this Cliff Richard site is a classic of the genre. It’s seems to be a pretty definitive resource of Cliff facts and figures with photos, updated news and trivia on the Peter Pan of Pop.
www.musicmania.uk.com
It may not boast the most beautiful web design of the year, but Music Mania is a great repository of news and facts about the charts, with an incredibly up to the minute news section, a Eurovision page and a Save the Single campaign which you should all sign up for. Music Mania, we salute you.