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Current issues of these popular music magazines and journals are in Bixler Library. Find reviews and articles on musicians and topics by using Colby Libraries' OneSearch, or one of the databases listed to the right.
SPIN cover's current trends and the most significant artists in hip-hop, alternative, pop, and indie music, and often includes interviews with artists, and well as criticism. See the Spin website as well, for more info.
This is a peer reviewed journal, published three times a year, with articles on rock music and its numerous subgenres. International in scope, Rock Music Studies looks at rock's interaction with other styles, with a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches.
Music Research Databases
For a more precise method of researching a topic, use one of the research databases to find articles in academic journals, books, essays / chapters appearing books, music reviews, or dissertations.
News sources from the US, Canada, and the rest of the world, 1980 - the present. Includes newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Provides full-text.
hiphoparchive.org provides information about all of our activities and projects and serves as a resource for those interested in knowing, developing, building, maintaining and representing Hiphop.
Trace the history of pop music songs using music industry chart data from the 1950s to the present. Search by song or date, and Billboard and global pop music charts online!
...is the most important music research database on classical, pop, folk, and jazz music, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music. Abstracts and citations are drawn from journal articles, books, essays and chapters in books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, dissertations, etc.
"The ultimate archive of music journalism...over 20,000 CLASSIC ARTICLES on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, on all genres from rockabilly to hip hop, by the finest music writers of the last 50 years."