The Ultimate Band List: Despite having recently gone *ugh* commercial with yet another on-line store nobody needs, the UBL is still a great resource.  It's sort of the IMDB for music.

They Might Be Giants: The greatest rock and roll band of all time.  Just ask them.

The News site: (ir)regularly updated by John Flansburgh himself.

The official site.  Good band bios, sound bites, etc.

The unofficial site. Guitar tab! Also a giant links page.

MG's They Might Be Giants Page O' Fun A truly beautifully done site, featuring live photos of the band.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra:  A side project of Savatage that's a combination of prog-rock, metal, and classical music. They mix metal edge, full choral pieces, and strings with beautiful, heart-felt lyrics and wonderful stories.  Their first two albums are Christmas-themed, but the next is entitled "Beethoven's Last Night," and I have extremely high hopes for it.

Cake: Funny, wry, and intelligent, with the driest wit this side of John Lennon.  Their music is a fusion of styles ranging from roots rock to country to latin to ska.
 

The Dave Matthews Band: Excellent instrumentation and thought-provoking lyrics set these guys a cut above average.   The large archive I was linking to has disappeared, so here's the official site.

The Beatles:

The Internet Beatles Album: This is the most compleat site I've seen, with a great interface.

The Obvious Moose Beatles Site: Rare audio clips and inside info combined with an offbeat sense of humor make this a great site.

The Talking Heads: Original, goofy, wildly influential, with lyrics ranging from biting social commentary to navel-contemplation, The Talking Heads will never be duplicated. This site is the best of the best, simply enormous.

The Ramones: These guys were as influential to the punk scene as their angrier counterparts The Sex Pistols, but have a stronger musical sensibility and a better idea of how to just have fun. The guy that runs this site is personally acquainted with ex-members of the late, great, band, so the site should just keep getting better.

Kraftwerk:  The ground-breaking godfathers of techno.  They made electronic music way back in the seventies, and gave it a warmer, more vibrant feel than the robotic techno nowadays.  This is the site for the Kraftwerk webring, as I couldn't find a single good site to link to.

The Sisters of Mercy:  It's beat poetry you can dance to.  It's armageddon with a kicking bass line.  It's heavy metal and goth and dance and 17th-century-madigral all in one.   It's The Sisters of Mercy, and you will be impressed.
 
 Spacehog:  Listening to a Spacehog album is like attending a rock&roll history class in fast forward.  On their most recent disc, The Chinese Album, they reference everyone from The Rolling Stones to Queen to Johnny Cash, holding the whole mix together with a signature sound. 

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