*** 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 mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu 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: rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl 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 ' 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! !!! --- 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 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 mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu 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. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 *** 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 rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl. 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 mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu 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 -- mwilkenf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sid's Music Server) Music Man (also mwilkenf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) 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". -- used-music-server@cs.ucsb.edu (Used CD Server) angst@cs.ucsb.edu 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". -- netjam-request@xcf.berkeley.edu (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 -- recmusic@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Rec.music.info Moderator) Finger this address for information about the moderator's whereabouts and his favourite albums of the moment. -- buckmr@rpi.edu (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. -- funga@ecf.toronto.edu (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 -- 088940@doluni1.bitnet (Robert Steinberger) Disaster Area Industrial, Noise, strange, experimenta and Punk. -- dante!mason@uunet.UU.NET (Mason Jones) Charnel House Productions Noisy, percussive and experimental. -- ranjit@netcom.com (Ranjit Padmanabhan) Ranjit Padmanabhan Specializes in import CDs pertaining to Progressive Rock and Electronic music. -- spikep@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (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 "sridhar@enuxha.eas.asu.edu" :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 (sridhar@enuxha.eas.asu.edu) ) (: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 "datta@cs.uwp.edu" :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 datta@cs.uwp.edu. 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 "billy@unt.edu" :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. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 *** 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 rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl. 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 mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu 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 (datta@cs.uwp.edu) 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 (rush-mgr@syrinx.umd.edu) 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!dschuetz@is-next.umd.edu) 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. (jamesb@nevada.edu) 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 (bass-request@uwplatt.edu) 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 (clements@bbn.com) 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 (fobs-request@netcom.com) 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 (bungi@u.washington.edu) Vincent Clarke / Erasure archive. discographies, lyrics, mailing list logs. Directory: /pub/lullaby Maintainer: Tim Wood (bungi@u.washington.edu) 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 (gabriel-request@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) Peter Gabriel archive. Lyrics, GIFs, digests. Directory: /pub/crowded-house Maintainer: Marck Bailey (marck@nwu.edu) Crowded House archive. Lyrics, transcriptions, digests. Directory: /pub/acoustic-guitar Maintainer: Joe Germuska (j-germuska@nwu.edu) "Acoustic" Guitar Bulletin archive. Alt.guitar stuff, transcriptions. Directory: /pub/flatfields Maintainer: Joe Germuska (j-germuska@nwu.edu) 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 (abbott@ms.uky.edu) Jimi Hendrix archive. Mailing list logs, FAQ, reviews. Directory: /pub/misc/janes-addiction Maintainer: Joel Abbott (abbott@ms.uky.edu) Jane's Addiction archive. Mailing list logs, discographies, FAQ. Directory: /pub/misc/tears4-fears Maintainer: Joel Abbott (abbott@ms.uky.edu) Tears For Fears archive. Mailing list logs, discographies, lyrics. --- remus.rutgers.edu (128.6.13.3) Directory: /JethroTull Maintainer: steiner@remus.rutgers.edu Jethro Tull archive. Mailing list logs, lyrics, discographies, GIFs --- glia.biostr.washington.edu (128.95.10.115) Directory: /pub/queensryche Maintainer: Dan 'Shag' Birchall (queensryche-owner@pilot.njin.net) Queensryche archive. "Screaming In Digital" digest back issues, lyrics, JPEG/GIFs, sounds. --- hardees.rutgers.edu (128.6.18.2) Directory: /pub/hr Maintainer: jessica@hardees.rutgers.edu Happy Rhodes archives. Artciles, FAQ, lyrics, digests, reviews. --- quartz.rutgers.edu (128.6.60.6) Directory: /pub/journals/Strangeways Maintainer: pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu The Smiths / Morrisey archive. Digest back issues, lyrics, discographies. --- turbo.bio.net(134.172.2.69): Directory: /chalkhills Maintainer: John M. Relph (relph@presto.ig.com) XTC "Chalkhills" archive. Digests, lyrics, FAQ, discographies. Directory: /jitr Maintainer: Michael C. Berch (jitr-request@presto.ig.com) 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 (micah@hardy.u.washington.edu) They Might Be Giants mailing list archive. Lyrics, reviews, GIFS, sounds, discography, etc. --- gdead.berkeley.edu (129.49.21.110) Directory: /pub/gdead Maintainer: kraitch@cs.berkeley.edu 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". 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� *** 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 rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl. 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 mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu 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 (stewarte@sco.com) -- 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 (love-hounds-request@eddie.mit.edu) -- rec.music.info [FAQ] This group. Moderator: Leo Breebaart (rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl) --- 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! !!!