Vernon Fitch's Pink Floyd Archives began as a physical collecting project in the 1970s and became a web reference in 1996, documenting releases, pressings, concerts, books, posters, tapes, radio shows, and obscure variants in extreme detail.
Music in the Afghan North publishes Mark Slobin's Afghanistan fieldwork in layers, combining summaries, excerpts, a complete 1976 book, photographs, film clips, and audio from research conducted between 1967 and 1972.
Ceolas is a 1994-era Celtic music archive covering artists, discographies, instruments, tunes, festivals, regional live-music guides, reviews, sound samples, mailing lists, and early Internet resources from the Usenet and FTP era.
Lesley Nelson's Contemplator site, established in 1996, combines folk-song lyrics, MIDI files, tune histories, ballad research, maritime material, and short historical essays into a durable pre-streaming music reference.
Bill Thompson's personal site accumulated Delius research, Houston baseball history, old radio and music material, conference ephemera, and other things that later researchers began citing back.
The Muzio Clementi Society's old piano page has become a useful case study in citation persistence: the original is unreliable, but technicians, writers, and researchers kept linking to it for years.
History-of-Rock.com is a hand-built music-history site that refuses to start the story with Elvis, instead tracing rock and roll through blues, rhythm records, country music, race relations, technology, and the music business.
Mick Cooper's personal website wanders from Atari sequencing and MIDI files into family history, Portsmouth football, local music, old venues, and the kind of community memory that rarely fits neatly into a modern platform.
Disco-Disco.com's Studio 54 page mixes club history, DJ details, memorabilia hunting and interviews with people who actually worked inside the legendary New York disco.