Chats and Forums

Bandchat.com
Online bulletin board for airing your views on breaking stories in the music industry.
http://www.bandname.com/bandchat/index.asp

Bandlink
Discuss popular artists with individual sections for each artist.
http://www.bandlink.net/forum/

Blue Comet
Message board for unsigned bands.
http://pub46.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=3894254355&cpv=1

Connected Musicians
Offers forums, member blogs, news, and tools to find instructors, musicians and tablature.
http://www.connectedmusicians.com/

Consumers Against the RIAA
A website and public forum for the rights of music fans and artistes who're been ripped off my the music industry.
http://www.geocities.com/riaasucks/index.html

Digitally Imported
Forum with sections on different dance music, events, sound systems and DJ`ing.
http://www.digitallyimported.net/forums/

Endemoniada's Warboard
From Endemoniada zine, dedicated to covering women of the extreme underground scene.
http://p095.ezboard.com/bendemoniadaswarboard

The Flutists' Forum
A message board for flute players to ask questions, get answers, and chat about music.
http://p211.ezboard.com/btheflutistsforum

Futureproducers.com
This site enables the music people to meet, and mix music online, read articles, and interviews.
http://www.futureproducers.com/forums/

Global Band Promotion
Discussions revolving around music promotion of new bands and artists.
http://austintexas.proboards20.com/

HDR Orphanz
Forum for users of the now discontinued Vestax Hard Disc Recorders (HDR6, HDR8, HDR V8). Portable digital recording studios, tips, tricks, mods, and techniques.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HDR_Orphanz

Home Recording dot com BBS and Forums
Many active discussion topics on recording, mixing, and making your own music CDs, MP3s, and tapes.
http://homerecording.com/ubb-cgi/Ultimate.cgi

House of Shred
A message board for discussing the world's top guitar wizards, and traditional guitar-oriented rock music in general.
http://forums.houseofshred.com

Ima Robot
Ima Robot fan site and forum, registration required to view board.
http://www.imarobot.net/forum/index.php

iMusic Artist Direct Community
Community containing over 35,000 bulletin boards broken down by style, artist and news.
http://imusic.artistdirect.com/

i80s.com - Forum
An 80's forum on the Internet.
http://p208.ezboard.com/b1980s

Jazz and Orchestral Musicians
Discussion forum for players and listeners of woodwind, brass and strings in jazz and orchestral music.
http://p066.ezboard.com/bjazzandorchestralmusiciansforum

J.C.'s Teen Music Chat
This is a chat room to talk about your favorite artists on any music genre.
http://www.homestead.com/josesite/chat.html

JT3 Music Workshop
General music production forum, with forums on playing various instruments.
http://www.avartists.com/forums/

Lyrics Forum
Forum with many genre based sections.
http://www.lyrics.com/forum/

Lyrics Land
A chat room for a fans of Rap and Rhythm and Blues music. Advice and information about artists.
http://network54.com/Hide/Chat/51575

Matrix Maze
A forum dedicated to music and music related topics.
http://www.matrixmaze.com

Metal Tabs
Large forum on guitars, with a metal music section.
http://metaltabs.com/forum/

Modern Things
Composition forum hosted by a collective of young contemporary composers from all styles. Sections on compositional process and theory.
http://www.modernthings.net/forum

Music Banter
A general music discussion forum with sections for many genres.
http://www.musicbanter.com

Music Fanatics
Music fanatics chat is general music discussion forum with focus on latin and hip hop
http://www.music-fanatics.com

The Music Files
Forums about Jason Donovan, Raf Van Brussel, Jordan Knight and Popular Music.
http://p080.ezboard.com/bthemusicfiles

Music Is My Life
A lil message board for you to chat about all sorts of music, be it pop, soul, hip-hop, rock, jazz or classical.
http://p210.ezboard.com/bmusicismylife

Music of the Soul
Describe music that has expressed the depths of your soul. Usually, it's connected with a significant relationship, life event, crisis, or time of change.
http://www.musicofthesoul.com

Music Postings
Catalogue of recent comments on music from newsgroups involving close to hundred different topics.
http://www.music-postings.com

Music Scores.com
Forum for music composers, including student and sheet music sections.
http://www.music-scores.com/discus/

Music Unbound
Devoted to the proposition that commercial/professional music is stuck in rigid concepts of style, genre and format, and needs to be freed of these categories, in order to flourish.
http://www.munb.com/

Musician War
A music forum allowing guitarists, bass and synth players, vocalists, and songwriters to test their skills against each other, in competition.
http://www.guitarwar.com/

MyMP3Board
Forum for international artists and fans. Other than music, sections include collaboration, songwriters and artist page design.
http://p210.ezboard.com/bmymp3board

National Anthems Online Forum
Online community for discussion of national anthems. Also features audio downloads, history, lyrics, and sheet music.
http://www.nationalanthems.us/forum/YaBB.pl

Obsessed With Music
General music forum with various genre sections.
http://www.obsessed-with-music.com/forum

Pet de Kat Krewe Litter Box
Message board for Pet de Kat Krewe. Discussions about music festivals, upcoming events and travel plans. Also offers music reviews, parties and recipes.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/petdekat/

PetShopGirls
For fans of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, and Chris Lowe.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/petshopsluts/

Phishhook
Large community about legal live concert recording.
http://forums.phishhook.com/

Planet Musician
Community for musicians and the industry. Includes forums, guitar tabs and an archive.
http://www.planet-musician.com/

PlayingItLoud.com
A forum for music lovers to gather to talk about music of all genres and anything else that springs to mind.
http://www.playingitloud.com

PudgyGirl Networks
An interactive chat network based around the love of music. Includes chats, message boards, weekly quizzes, and pictures of regular members.
http://pudgygirl.tripod.com

Pulse Music Board
Large general music message board.
http://pulsemusic.proboards48.com/

Radio Free World - Chat Room
General discussion with music listeners and weekly chat sessions with notable musicians and artists.
http://www.radiofreeworld.com/page13.html

Radio Mute
General music forum, including sections on rock, electronic, stringed instruments and synthesizers.
http://www.radiomute.com

The Recording Website
Forums are for musicians who want to talk about making and recording their music.
http://www.recordingwebsite.com/forum/

80's Message Forum
Active message forum for eighties fans.
http://server5.ezboard.com/b80sxchange.html

Serious Sounds
A music production community with a forum and articles.
http://www.serious-sounds.net/forums/

Songwriting Lounge
Join us for songwriting discussions every Monday night from 9pm Eastern onward. Guest speakers are frequent.
http://www.musesmuse.com/songdisc.html

Sputnikmusic
Large message board with sections dealing a variety of genres and instruments.
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/

Synth Zone BBS
Large syntheziser forum that includes sections on MIDI, analog synths, samples, studio equipment and other sections dedicated to spedific soft- and hard synthesizer brands.
http://www.synthzone.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Synthvox
Discussing remixing, and producing music with computers and synthesizers.
http://www.synthvox.com

Talkmusic.org
A music community for both English and Chinese speakers. Also hosts official forums for bands.
http://talkmusic.org

UKMIX
The forum section of the e-zine, with topics on pop culture and genres.
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/

Woodstock 99 Forum
A message board devoted to Woodstock 99 discussion. What went wrong? Should there be another Woodstock? Locate friends you met at Woodstock 99.
http://members.aol.com/Mary1NYS/Forum.html