HardMusicBase.cz is exclusively an informative web, based on the database of groups and performers from the hard & heavy music scene. The goal is to provide quality and reliable information to people who are mostly interested in metal and rock music including its various offshoots. The content of the website is made up of our own creative work as well as materials from publicly accessible sources such as YouTube, Bandcamp, Facebook social networks, Twitter etc.
Online portal about non-comercial music which is looking for new ways of art expressing. It is also focused on composition, improvisation - jazz, ambient, noise etc.
Mission
The Czech Music Information Centre provides information about Czech musical project and events, and promotes contemporary Czech music both at home and abroad.
Activities
The Czech Music Information Centre gathers documentation pertaining to Czech contemporary composers, musicians and events, maintains an archive of sheet music and recordings, mediates information about Czech musical life, holds lectures and classes, organises concerts, sells CDs and issues publications (see below).
Financing sources
The Czech Music Information Centre provides its services owing to grants from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague, the Czech Music Fund and other public sources.
Publications
1. Czech Music Quarterly – a quarterly in English.
2. HIS Voice – a bimonthly in Czech, since 2015 only in an online version.
3. Composer Portraits – a series of CDs with Czech composers profiles.
Documentation and archive
The Czech Music Information Centre’s public archive possesses the largest collection of scores of works by Czech composers, most of them dating from 1945 up to the present time. It also contains CDs, LPs and audio tapes with music by contemporary Czech composers, books, magazines and copies of articles. The Centre is in close contact with libraries, publishers and festival organisers in the Czech Republic, and provides comprehensive information about Czech classical music. It cultivates a multimedia online database of Czech composers at the address www.musicbase.cz. The Czech Music Information Centre website also encompasses lists of the deaths of composers, a summary of anniversaries, a digest of competitions and training courses, news and other information.
It is indeed an honor for us to introduce an exceptional project to you today. It is an internet jazz portal dubbed „Jazzport“. Based on the paradigm of world renowned jazz servers (downbeat.com, allaboutjazz.com) we constructed a working model for this project, which would be the largest of its kind in the Czech Republic, facilitating access to jazz related material to the many jazz enthusiasts.
We are Kids and Heroes. We love the world of rock’n’roll, punk, hardcore, Oi !, indie, psychobilly, rockabilly, ska, folk and other genres. We have been operating on the web as a music magazine since 2003.
We are mainly music fans. And even though we are based on traditional hardcore punk fanzines, we don't let ourselves be bound by boxes and we write about any music that we enjoy. Most members of the editorial staff live in Prague, but you can also come across some of us in Liberec, Brno, Pilsen or Slovakia.
Our monthly traffic is around 25 thousand.