LibGuides: MU 104 History of Rock Music: Websites and Databases

Websites

American Archive of Public Broadcasting The Rock & Roll Special Collection features 166 raw interviews from the 10-part series of the same name, also known in the UK as Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History. The series, which focused on the progression of rock music from its beginnings in the 1950s to its contemporary forms in the 1990s, was co-produced by WGBH and the BBC.
Billboard Official website of the magazine. You can search the Billboard Hot 100 going back decades.
Chess Records AN overview of the history of the Chicago blues record label that had a major impact on the development of rock 'n' roll.
Consequence of Sound Website covering contemporary music, film, TV, and pop culture.
Dave Marsh Rolling Stone archive Online archive of writings by longtime rock writer Dave Marsh. Includes album reviews and features.
Electronic Musician magazine Magazine aimed at musicians playing electronic instruments. Includes features and interviews.
Grateful Dead shows on archive.org A collection of fan-made live recordings of various Grateful Dead shows, from 1965 to 1995. All shows are free to listen to.
Greil Marcus Blog showcasing some of the archived writings of critic Greil Marcus, with his assistance, pulled from as many sources as possible.
Guitar Afficionado Blog featuring interviews, reviews and more.
Guitar Player Magazine that features news, interviews, and lessons, with coverage across a broad range of popular music but with emphasis on rock and its subgenres.
Guitar World Magazine with lessons, interviews, and features, but with greater emphasis on rock, metal, and alternative.
Hip-hop archive Site features essays about classic albums and key artists of the genre.
The History of Rock 'n' Roll This site attempts to explore the roots of rock in such a way as to illuminate the natural progression of musical styles.
Kerrang! Official website of a magazine covering rock, metal and punk. Includes news, videos, and features.
KEXP 90.3 FM - Where the Music Matters Website of listener-supported radio station from Seattle. Site includes archived performances, music news focused on new and independent music, podcasts, interviews, and more.
Keyboard Magazine aimed at keyboard players that features interviews, news, and features.
Lester Bangs Rolling Stone archive Thirty-three reviews of classic albums by one of the preeminent rock critics.
MSN Music Coverage of contemporary pop, rock, hip-hop and country.
New York Punk and Hardcore Archive An online collection of New York City punk, indie, and garage rock fliers, photos and posters.
NPR Music National Public Radio's coverage of contemporary music.
Punk News Website featuring news, interviews and album reviews of punk, pop-punk and indie music.
Robert Christgau Official website of one of the earliest and most prominent rock writers/critics. Site includes record reviews and selected essays.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Site includes biographies of the 317 inductees, from performers to managers, in rock, r&b, soul and hip-hop.
The Rocket Online searchable archive of The Rocket, a Seattle-based weekly newspaper that covered local and regional music, including the grunge explosion while it was happening.
Rock Scene Magazine A free digital archive of Rock Scene Magazine, which was published from 1973-1982. Coverage includes mainstream rock and punk.
Society of Rock News and video clips on a site covering classic rock, metal, and blues rock.
Songfacts Features song meanings, lyrics and trivia.
Stereogum Excellent coverage of contemporary music.
That Metal Station Online radio station devoted to metal music. Site includes album reviews of contemporary metal bands.
Todd in the Shadows YouTube channel of online music critic. His series include "Trainwreckords," about disastrous albums; and "One Hit Wonderland" about one-hit wonders. He also has a series of pop song reviews dealing with pop hits of the last decade.
Ultimate Classic Rock Features current news and rock history.
Using the Moog Synthesizer From the University of California, Santa Cruz, this page details using an analog Moog Synthesizer.
Vintage Cassettes Internet database about cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes, with images. Includes a history of the format.
Yahoo Music Coverage of contemporary pop, rock, hip-hop and country music.

Databases

If accessing these databases from off-campus, you will need to log in using a username and password. (NOTE: Both are your last name and last four digits of your student ID, example: smith1234 or clinton-dix1234.)

Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Academic Search Complete
Covers most areas of academic study, this scholarly, multi-disciplinary database contains more than 6,100 full-text periodicals. This database has full-text for Rolling Stone magazine from 1990 to the present. Other full-text periodicals available through this database include Popular Music History, Popular Music & Society; and Popular Music: The Key Concepts.
ARTstor
This database has punk fliers from the 1970s to the 1990s. The fliers shared many of the qualities of the music they promoted—a DIY aesthetic, an embrace of cheap and accessible technology, plus a healthy dose of humor. View a collection of 2,000 of them from the collection of the Cornell University Library. From the home page, type "Cornell punk flyers" in the search box to locate the collection.
EBSCO EBook Collection
Provides access to over 1360 purchased eBooks as well as the public domain (i.e., free) collection of over 3800 titles.
Films on Demand Music and Dance Collection
Direct link to the collection, which consists of approximately 900 streaming videos. These videos can be viewed in their entirety or in segments.
Humanities Source
Humanities Source offers full text for many of the most important academic sources in the humanities. This database provides feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries and more pertaining to popular music and film. Full-text from journals such as Popular Music & Society. This database also includes the ebook "John Lennon: In His Own Words."
JSTOR
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. HINT: Be sure to put your search term(s) in quotation marks.
Social Sciences Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals. It includes full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences dating back to 1972.
SocINDEX with full text
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, violence and many others.

Newspaper Databases

If accessing these links from off-campus, you will need to log in using your username and password, which is your last name and last four digits of your student ID (smith1234 or clinton-dix5678)

Activate Your Free Wall Street Journal Digital Subscription
C-GCC students can click on the link above and learn how to activate their free digital subscription to The Wall Street Journal.
Activate Your Free New York Times digital subscription
Instructions on how current C-GCC students can activate a free digital subscription to The New York Times.
Flipster - Read Magazines on your Mobile Device
Students can read popular magazines covering a variety of subjects via an easy-to-use app.
Gale Newsstand
More than 33.5 million full-text articles from more than 1,100 newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, The Financial Times (London), The New York Times, The Times (London), USA Today and many others.
Newspaper Source Plus
Includes 1,570 full-text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. Newspaper Source Plus contains comprehensive full text for major national (U.S.) and international newspapers, and features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos and podcasts.