Music

Provides timely coverage of jazz with media, information and opinions.

An essential starting point for information and insight into all genres and artists - possibly the biggest music encyclopedia on the web.

Relaxed, friendly and accessible.

A recommended place to start browsing classical music on the net – or even to start listening to it.

Clickmusic is as good a foundation for a great music website as you're likely to find.

For long-term fans or casual browsers, Country scores the full five for design and depth.

There aren't many decent country music websites based in the UK, but this one provides a fine guide to the clubs and artists who are, indeed, keeping it country on this side of the Atlantic.

Everything you need to get you started on your jazz odyssey...

A comprehensive and rich source of audio and all the latest news and views from the UK Drum & Bass scene, with dispatches from around the world.

A fine site, also featuring news and a guide to the best of the classical web. You have to pay for some of the MP3s, but they are cheap.

It's not Glastonbury, but the spirit is there even if the mud isn't.

Everything here from the legendary Johnny Cash to Ying Yang Twins

Opera lovers come this way.

House of Blues present and promote bands at some of the coolest US clubs, and their website covers several genres

Claims to be the 'world's first commerical interactive network devoted to jazz'.

A great way to discover new music.

Two decades on and still as good as ever.

The site loads up with a snazzy sci-fi design, though, once you're inside, it's clearly not a case of style over content.

Since débuting on the internet in 1996, the trance/techno/house behemoth of the British dance music movement has built up an impressive dance lifestyle site, covering festivals, Ibiza, tunes, reviews and where it thinks it’s at across nine channels.

Mojo sells itself on an avoidance of soundbite culture in favour of detailed, insightful features on musicians who matter

The place to start doing your downloading, and vital for cheapskate pop and rock fans, more prosaically, you can pick up greetings cards and the like here, too.

Ten minutes browsing this and you'll realise why NME has lasted while others have fallen by the wayside.

Sheer size makes this online database essential for online opera lovers.

Q4Music pretty much continues the good work done by the Emap magazine.

Never miss another gig.

Millions of tracks at the click of a mouse.

Aged 18 - 25, get an interest free loan to buy a musical instrument.

A huge search engine, great if you're looking for that unsigned or obscure band. It could do with speeding up a bit, but useful things will come to those prepared to wait the few extra seconds.