"The Hype Machine is a MP3 blog aggregator with slick tools to listen and read about music. It gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner. It lets you easily listen to the new music that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers."

Anytime I want to find some music by a lesser known band, or I just want to hear the latest single from one, this is where I come - it couldn't be simpler.

This is a huge listing of at least 1,500 music videos from the 80s. All the goodies are here, waiting to be streamed across the internets.

An interesting list from The Observer discussing the 50 albums that changed music.

Number 1? The Velvet Underground. Can't say I've listened to that one all the way through, but it must be good.

A great thread on Ask MetaFilter about instrumental music to "think to."

Simply another example of why AskMeFi rocks.

A very cool project which charts the "branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map[.]"

The don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it link to download the map is underneath the picture.

A great project that aims to preserve and digitize all those old wax cylinders that play on those Edison players.

This is on the MAKE blog, and contains a link to the NYT article about the project, as well as the official website of the project.

My parents have a lot of these, and it's great to see someone attempting to preserve them.

This is a fascinating blog post that discusses how Pandora and Last.fm are both similar and different in their own rights, using the "nature versus nurture" argument to illustrate them.

A good read.

"TuneFind contains an index of music and songs appearing in popular television shows and movies. Find a song, or see where an artist's music has been featured."

I find myself often wondering who sang a song I saw in a movie or TV show. Sometimes it's easy to figure it out, other times it's not. This site seems like it'd help.

A great plugin for Wordpress, which takes any mp3 you post in an entry and allows it to be played right there in the browser.

Easy to use, and very useful.