Home Recording Resources
* = sf.net recommends especially

Magazines
Sometimes they are hard to find, and Google doesn't show a lot of them when you search.

Mix Magazine  
TapeOp Look under the "bonus articles" link for good stuff.
Recording  
Sound on Sound British
Performing Songwriter  
American Songwriter  

 

Gear
Places online from which to buy music gear.

Musician's Friend Not the cheapest, but they pretty much have everything you'd want.
Zzounds Also with a large inventory, and they'll also price-match.
Sweetwater  

 

Forums
For songwriting, recording, playing, whatever.

Songfight.net The Song Fight Forums are the place to go to talk about many things, including home recording, songwriting, live performance, etc. Friendly-ish group, always willing to show off their knowledge.
Home Recording Extensive archives, pretty decent signal/noise ratio.
K - v - R's forums The big ol' software site's got some good forums on it. All about using software to make and record music.
musicianforums.com All things to all people. *shrug*

 

Artists
People who draw and paint real well and might help you out with album covers/t-shirt designs.

Pthree  

 

Musician Collectives
Groups of musicians that have banded together to form some kind of community.

Tapegerm  

 

Online Distributors
Places where you can sign up to sell MP3s and CDs.

* CDBaby They'll sell your cd's for a reasonable price, and get you on itunes and other digital distribution places too!

 

Promotional Sites
Web sites where you can set up a page for a band, with a bio and some mp3s. Mostly horrible slut sites.

Sonicbids
Soundclick
Broadjam
Garage Band

 

CD Duplication/Packaging
Companies that will make your CDs, jewel cases and booklets and such.

Sleeve City Jewel cases and sleeves. Decent prices, and they have stuff like slimline 3-CD cases for a decent price.
Disk Faktory Offer short runs, like 50 CDs, fairly cheap.

 

Merchandise
Businesses that can print up t-shirts, stickers, and other stuff with your logo.

* Contagious Graphics Check out the "garage sale" t-shirt special

 

Industry

Taxi Pay them to listen to your songs and send them on to A&R people, if they think the songs are good enough.
RIAA Pretty much the Devil right now to most of the public.

 

Miscellaneous
Links that kind of look useful but which we haven't examined thoroughly yet, or which were highly recommended to us by somebody of moderate trustworthiness.

Chord House Find out how to play any chord, on piano or guitar. Pretty nifty. You do need to know what chord you're looking for.
K - v - R An index of music-related software. Only lists stuff that either is a plugin or is capable of using plugins. But that's a lot. Stand-alone software, plugins, banks, patches you name it.
Rhymezone For finding words that end with the same letters.