Sites and Soundbytes

Sometimes Google surprises me with services that I never knew were available.  This morning I was happily surprised to find that if I put in a musician or band and then the word "discography" without the quotes, the top result on the search engine leads me to Google Music. 

Click on it and you find a list of the person's music sorted by popularity.  You can also change it to sort by release date.  Every album listed contains the tracks as well as where online it is available for purchase.  Nicely, on the left-hand menu you can also choose to view their websites, the latest news on the artist, photos or participate in a discussion about the artist. 

Very nicely and cleanly presented, this makes finding information on musical artists a real breeze.  Point patrons in this direction or use it to answer questions about songs and musicians at the reference desk.