Surf these sites: All-Music Guide -- Comprehensive guide to the best music recordings in every genre. Cross-indexed source of reviews, essays, and ratings, all available online. Uses submissions from readers. Gramophone Good CD Guides -- Guidebooks to classical, jazz, film music, musicals and opera. Only a limited sample of reviews online, but does have basic library listings for jazz and classical. Hot Wacks Press -- Publisher of guides to bootleg records and CDs. Information about the books, and three articles about bootlegs (recordings of live music of questionable legality). Joel Whitburn''s Record Research Books -- Get right to the bottom of Billboard magazine''s major charts with complete chart data on every recording ever charted. Short descriptions and sample pages from this large line of books. Krause Publications -- A listing of record/CD collecting related books, including several price guides, available from the publisher of Goldmine magazine. Muze -- Longtime publisher (over 50 years) of directories of recorded music for retail stores; now their database is available online, along with other features. Osborne Enterprises and Jellyroll Productions -- World''s oldest and largest producer of price guides (in the "Official Price Guide" series) and reference books for music collectibles. General descriptions of each volume. Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide -- The introduction and some sample entries from the latest edition. Rough Guides -- Music guidebook titles on rock, reggae, world music, jazz, classical and opera. The Rough Guide to Rock is available online in its entirety; highlights are available from the other volumes. Visible Ink Press: MusicHound -- The publisher of the VideoHound and MusicHound books: a full line of guidebooks, but only short descriptions of each volume.
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