Links:
Film Score Monthly: Online home of the excellent film music periodical. Great exclusive CDs for sale too.
SoundtrackNet: Another good place to read everything about music for film.
Dusty Groove America: Cyberspace's most interesting CD store. Their Chicago brick and mortar shop is great fun too.
Hamara CD: Great resource for Indian music.
Basic Hip and Basic Hip Digital Gold: Phenomenal places to discover strange and wonderful music from the mid-to-late 20th Century.
Musicaltaste.com: Recommend and discover great songs.
Tumbao Cuban Classics: Wonderful catalog of vintage Cuban music.
Class Act: Database of songs, singers, and composers from great movie musicals.
Dave Ratzlow: A frequent collaborator of mine. Look for his CD "Silly Love Songs," out now!
Swingingest Big Band Ensembles of the '40s: My list of favorites on Amazon.
Basta: Dutch record label always offering interesting music.
Contrabass Mania: For those of us who love the lower registers.
TapeOp: Good resource for recording from an indie angle.
The Musical Saw And Theremin Page: Ooooo-weeeeee-oooooooo.
Optigan: The secret of my success.
The Slack Album & The Black & Blue Album: Mashup madness; Jay-Z vs Pavement and Weezer, respectively.
honestpartisan: An intellectually stimulating political blog.
Sugar Pictures: Fascinating documentaries covering a wide variety of topics.
Burlyman Entertainment: For the finest in comics.
LTHForum: Great place to discuss and read about food in Chicago.
Internet Anagram Server: A fun way to waste an hour or two. Surprise your loved ones with 56,000 anagrams of their names.
Demetri Martin: A really funny writer and comic.
Spineless Books: Just when you thought the literary world was getting boring.
The Gad Foundation: Dedicated to finding a cure for leukemia.