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Popular Musicians and Bands

How to research popular musicians and bands, including rock, hip hop, rap, country, classic rock, 50's, etc.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Covers scholarly literature, but also conference papers and essays, dissertations, and music articles in non-music journals. There is no access to the text of articles in RILM, but the UC-Elinksbutton will occasionally lead you to it.

Music Index. No articles online here, but it covers a lot of older journals and magazines you might not find elsewhere. The UC-Elinks button will sometimes lead you to the online article.