40 websites every music lover should know
Music websites for listening, discovering and making. You can tune into a radio station on the other side of the planet, wander a map of every genre, or build a beat in a browser tab.
Updated · 40 sites · hand-checked
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1. Radio Garden
Spin a globe and listen to live local radio from anywhere on earth. The best map on the internet.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- radio.garden
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2. Every Noise at Once
An algorithmically generated scatter plot of every musical genre Spotify knows, each one playable.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- everynoise.com
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3. Chrome Music Lab
Thirteen tiny experiments that teach rhythm, harmony and spectrograms by letting you poke at them.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
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4. Incredibox
Drag sounds onto beatboxers to build a track. Somehow both a toy and a real instrument.
- Music & Audio
- Freemium
- incredibox.com
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5. Patatap
Every key on your keyboard triggers a sound and an animation. Instant synaesthesia.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- patatap.com
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6. NTS Radio
Two live channels out of London plus a decade of archived shows, hosted by people with unreasonably deep record collections and no algorithm anywhere near it.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- nts.live
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7. Poolsuite FM
An endless summer radio station wrapped in a System 7 interface, with VHS holiday footage playing in a little window. Formerly Poolside FM, still ridiculously good fun.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- poolsuite.net
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8. musicForProgramming();
A long-running series of mixes selected specifically for staying in flow. No talking, no ads.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- musicforprogramming.net
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9. Music-Map
Type a band and it floats in a cloud of similar artists, the closest ones nearest. A simple, surprisingly good way to find your next favourite.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- music-map.com
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10. Radiooooo
Pick a country and a decade and hear what was playing there. A time machine with a taste level.
- Music & Audio
- Freemium
- radiooooo.com
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11. 10k Drum Machines
A directory of drum machines and beat makers that run in a browser tab, from faithful 808 clones to strange experiments.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- 10kdrummachines.com
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12. Ableton Learning Music
Make a track in your browser while learning what beats, chords and basslines actually do.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- learningmusic.ableton.com
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13. SomaFM
Listener-supported internet radio out of San Francisco: forty-odd hand-curated channels, no adverts, running since 2000. Groove Salad has outlasted most streaming services.
- Music & Audio
- Donation
- somafm.com
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14. MTV REWIND
The classic MTV experience, back and streaming 24/7. No reality shows, no ads, just music.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- wantmymtv.org
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15. Drive & Listen
Ride along a real dashcam drive through a city of your choice while its local radio stations play.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- driveandlisten.app
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16. Vocal Remover
Drop in a song and get the vocals and the instrumental as separate tracks. Also has pitch, tempo and key tools for karaoke and practice.
- Music & Audio
- Freemium
- vocalremover.org
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17. Hooktheory
See the chords and melody of thousands of pop songs laid out on a timeline, and learn why progressions work the way they do.
- Learn
- Freemium
- hooktheory.com
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18. Playback.fm
The top songs of every year since 1900, with charts and videos. Pick your birth year and listen.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- playback.fm
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19. Drumhaus
A good-looking eight-voice drum machine and sequencer in the browser, with sound shaping, master effects and WAV export.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- drumha.us
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20. incompetech
Kevin MacLeod's huge library of royalty-free music you've already heard in a thousand videos, plus generators for every kind of graph paper.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- incompetech.com
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22. Tabletopy
A soundboard for tabletop game nights: tap for tavern chatter, dragon roars, creaking gates or a crackling torch, and layer ambience and combat music under your session.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- tabletopy.com
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23. TYPEBEAT
Every key on your keyboard triggers a drum sound and the words you type become the beat.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- alexanderchen.github.io
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24. Famelack
Live TV channels, radio and webcams from around the world, browsable by country. Formerly TV Garden. No account, no ads.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- famelack.com
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25. Globe TV
Spin a globe and tune into live TV, webcams, news and radio from wherever you land.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- globetv.app
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26. I Have No TV
Hundreds of full-length documentaries on science, nature, history and art, free to stream with no account.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- ihavenotv.com
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27. Kosmi
Make a room, share the link and watch videos, play retro games or chat together in the browser, no install.
- Music & Audio
- Freemium
- kosmi.io
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29. There's nothing to watch
Tens of thousands of films laid out as a zoomable map of posters, grouped by similarity. Wander until something catches your eye.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- nothing-to-watch.port80.ch
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30. Playphrase.me
Type any phrase and watch a montage of film scenes where someone says it. Great for language learners and settling quote arguments.
- Music & Audio
- Freemium
- playphrase.me
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31. TasteDive
Name a band, film, book or game you love and get a list of similar things across all of them.
- Read & Archive
- Free
- tastedive.com
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32. Yarn
Search a quote and get the exact clip from films, shows and music videos, ready to share as a link or GIF.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- getyarn.io
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33. YOUDJ
A two-deck DJ mixer in the browser that plays tracks straight from YouTube and SoundCloud, with crossfader, loops and effects.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- youdj.online
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34. Drive From Home
Pick a city and ride along on a real drive through its streets while local FM radio plays. Armchair travel through a thousand cities.
- Maps & Earth
- Free
- drivefromhome.com
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35. Learning Synths
Ableton's playful course on synthesizers. Each lesson changes one knob on a synth in your browser, so you hear what oscillators, envelopes and filters do.
- Learn
- Free
- learningsynths.ableton.com
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36. musictheory.net
Short, clear lessons on notes, scales and chords, plus drills and ear trainers. The site music teachers have pointed students to for twenty years.
- Learn
- Free
- musictheory.net
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37. My90sTV
Flip through channels on a chunky old TV playing nineties shows, ads and music videos. Channel surfing without the cable bill.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- 90s.myretrotvs.com
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38. Typatone
Every letter you type plays a note, so writing a sentence turns into a small melody. From the makers of Patatap.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- typatone.com
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39. play_music_theory
A visual instrument. Draw, and it plays.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- playmusictheory.net
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40. Freesound
A twenty-year community archive of field recordings, foley and loops, every one of them Creative Commons licensed and searchable by tag, length or sample rate.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- freesound.org
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How can I listen to radio from other countries?
Radio Garden puts thousands of live stations on a spinning globe, and Drive & Listen pairs them with a drive through the city they come from.
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