FreeBaseMusic & MusicPortl - Open Shared Artist & Music Info Databases

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Freebase is a cousin to Wikipedia - a group of fine folks are attempting to create a database of the world's knowledge. FreeBase Music covers many categories, including artist information, albums, genres, musician types, etc.

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MusicPortl provides you with about almost every known artists biography by featuring wikipedia articles, links to recent blog posts mentioning the artist you are investigating, shows you photos that have been tagged with the artists name, would it be live shots, portraits or even new works of art influenced by an artists work, let's you see music videos related to the artist, informs you about available releases by an artist, equips you with genre names you can peg the artist into in every pro-founded musical discussion and even suggests you some artists that made comparable pieces of music, creating a great overall starting point for your musical research that gives you an overview of an artist and provides you with links to further information on the web.