Sonic Youth Official
i stand corrected; this site is excellent. it has mp3s of all the rare or out of print b-sides and eps available for download; actually this is probably the best, content wise, artist website i've seen.
Geffen
the label's official site; click on bands then choose from the list. you'll find sonic youth just under s club 7... the world has gone mad...
Saucerlike.com
this is really the best sonic youth fan site
Evol.org
it looks like shit and hasn't been updated since the dark ages, but this is still the biggest SY site after Saucerlike (and it has the best address!)
USSA.net
this site seems to be a mixture of sonic youth and, er, star wars. whatever turns you on, I s'pose
Unofficial Sonic Youth Page
old as the hills and just as ugly, but still a lot of stuff here
Sonic Truth
a really interesting site, also stuff about cat power and sleater-kinney among others
The Perfect Noise
a self-effacing site which basically tells you to have your own opinions
The Strip
this site seems to crash my browser, but I know it has worked before...
Sascha's Sonic Youth Page
a good site, with a few extras
Kill Yr Idols
this site looks like shit, but it's got a really interesting equipment list. well, I found it interesting, anyway.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Official
actually I think this is run by the band. Looks amazing, like a cross between Monty Python and Salvador Dali in India; also a weird sort of window into the Texan music community.
Break Stuff
this site has a very amusing interview with one of Trail of Dead (Conrad, I think), in which, when asked what his favourite Sonic Youth album is, he replies 'I don't think I've heard of them... do they rap at all?'.... a Confusing and brilliant AYWKUBTTOD fanzine.
Trail of Dead Tabs
Yes, real actual tabs, as corrected by Conrad Keeley! You can tell they're right because they're in fucked-up tunings. AAAGAE anyone?
Radiohead Official
this is a great site, although not exactly designed for ease of access. persevere and you'll find diaries by the band, and some links to anti-capitalist and direct action sites and everything else
Green Plastic
The best Radiohead fan sitem.
Follow Me Around
Radiohead fan site
ShopRadiohead.com
Buy things to feed your pathetic consumerist soul. Just about everything you could want, even if it is all in bloody US dollars.
Chemikal Underground
this has the official delgados page, with some pictures and music press reviews (although only the good ones, I've noticed)
YoLaTengo.net
The best YLT site I've found so far.
YLT Homepage
I'm not sure what's happened to this... last time I looked it weren't there. Think it may now be yolatengo.net
Matador Records Page
when it works, this page is great. has a section with all the people who've suffered onstage with ylt somewhere
Jens Kutilek's YLT Page
interesting and original page with an interview
Urusei Yatsura Fan Page
Guitar tabs, image gallery and the usual stuff.
AphexTwin.nu
My favourite Aphex site. Up-to-the-minute news, complete discography. Everything, basically.
Aphex Start
Excellent and reasonably up-do-date Aphex site.
Aphex Twin Discography
All his records, even the obscure ones.
Joyrex: The Aphex Twin Information Datebase
A great news site, but nothing else seems to be working.
#GUITAR#
Contemporary
Folk Tunings
Folk
might often be dull as shit, but they have a very interesting approach
to music. This is a collection of some very weird, and some less weird,
tunings.
Guitarists.net
Alt. Tunings
A
mixed bag of good, bad and obvious tunings.
Mary
McCalslin
Good
old Mary, whoever she is, has posted some very handy chord charts for the
more commonly used alternate tunings.
Strummer
Online
May the resurrection of
Christ Jesus transform your life! No, really. Nowt to do with Joe Strummer,
like many alternate tuning sites this is based around acoustic guitar.
Chords and tips for Low C, Open G and many other nice tunings.
Guitarists.net
A surprisingly non-corporate
site, with tab, reviews and alternative tunings and so on.
Guitar
Geek
I refuse to be labelled
a 'guitar geek' by anyone, but this site doesn't seem to mind! An archive
of musician's gear setups. They didn't have Thurston Moore, last time I
looked, but they've got lots of noise rock stuff like Melt Banana and Mogwai.
GEO
Lots of interesting stuff
about effects, including how to build your own.
Stephen
Malkmus.com
S.M.'s new website, for
his band the Jicks, features a noise section.
Noise.html
Pretty out of date, this
seems to concentrate rather heavily on cock-rock. Oh well.
Harmony
Central
The best place to start
when you're searching for anything guitary.
The
Online Guitar Archive
They were recently 'done',
like Mp3.com was, and thus have taken down most of their tab. It's of very
variable quality anyway, so don't necessarily believe what you read.
Tabology.com
Nice UK-centric guitar tab
site, has stuff for all kinds of dodgy indie bands like Coldplay and Travis
to impress your friends with.
Guitar
Chord Name Finder
A great program with working
out the names of chords, which can cope with alternate tunings.
OGRE
Chord Finder
Does the reverse, but finding
chords from their names. Want to find out how to play F#dim? Go here.
#CREATIVE
STUFF#
Misson
CREEP
A site which is big with
the weird, it has articles written by, like, proper actual well-known writers
as well as painting (by proper actual well-known painters) and poetry by,
you guessed it, poets.
Superkaylo
Charlie Brooker's site.
Crank calls, fictional adverts, cartoons (obviously) and utterly brilliant
writing.
Second
Thought Records
A kind of online record
label collections the work of several varied bands and artists.
Veenvop
A great collection of artwork
and animations by Kirk Millet - he does the 'Nylon Futura' flash toons,
but he also does some amazing oil paintings.
Stephen Giovannini
An interesting portfolio of this NYC-based photographers - some photos of Kim Gordon.
Cookd and Bombd
Superb Chris Morris site, with a downloads of his more obscure stuff, a messageboard and all that Christ.
Squeal
News Pig
Their news is harder than your news. Satirical anti-news of excellent quality. We gonna make you squeal boy, until you give us your news!
Glebe's Thrift Funnel
Go here if you admire the work of deeply disturbed but brilliant comedian and media terrorizer Chris Morris. Otherwise, stay away in fear.
Mr Spoon
What do you get when you combine an obsession in Eighties kiddies TV and the style of Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker? This, in fact. Visit this site and SHOUT VALIDITY into your words, don't be shy.
Unamerican.com
Originally a maker of unamerican bumper-stickers (such as 'PRISONS CAUSE CRIME', 'YODA LOVES ME', and mugs with 'FUCK DECAF' on them). But this is now a website dedicated to the expression of all forms of American angst.
The
Onion
These people probably don't need any more publicity, but this is still a great site, if it's getting a bit too commercialized these days.
Wobble like Jelly
And why not? In the same vein as TV Go Home, Superkaylo and NKT, this site boasts mp3s, religious instruction/destruction and an unhealthy interest in household pets.
NTK.net
A kind of online news thing, only not. Very amusing. You Need to Know.
TV
Go Home
A fake TV listings which apes the style of the TV Times and their ilk very well. Lots of swearing. Written by Charlie Brooker, but much indebted to Chris Morris.
#ZINES,
REVIEWS OR OPINIONS#
No
Ripcord
Reviews,
interviews, singles and videos - all kinds of stuff.
Acid
Logic
I've read probably every
article on this website, and if that isn't recommendation enough, I don't
know what it is! Pop culture, humour. some people with very interesting
names.
The
Brain Tuba
An embryonic repository
of creative writing; poetry, novels, short stories, scripts.
Vanguard
Online
Reviews, articles. Very
entertaining. They seem to be refusing to give me a link, though, so their
star is withheld.
Infinite
Monkey
Although it's a band site,
this is also a collection of stuff, including fanzines, photos, gig dates
and other undergroundy musical things.
Frog
of Destiny
Another site to get linked
to mostly because of the title. A good fanzine with reviews (live, demos,
cds) of bands I've really never heard of like Lollipop Train, Mogul and
Westlife. No, wait. I think I've heard of them. Aren't they an ambient-noise
four piece out of Missouri?
Let's
Go!
And why not. Slightly trippy
homepage with a focus on Trail of Dead and the Wannadies, as well as a
non-existent band called Sleepel.
The
Other Expressway to yr Skull
This site really freaked
me out when I first saw it; it's nearly exactly the same as this site in
terms of style, content and unnecessary use of the word 'yr'. But I promise
you I have no hand in this, 'tis a work of chance, milud, I never touched
'im.
Addicted
to Noise
An online zine type thing
dedicated to mostly American indie and lots of bands I've never even heard
of. Massive archive with interesting Sonic Youth stuff amongst others.
Inkblot
Magazine
In my entirely unhumble
opinion the best-written online 'zine. It basically covers anything
good in music.
Rancid
Amoeba
A site about underground
music, mostly punk, with some interesting articles by the likes of Steve
Albini.
deathrockStar
Collections of 'Zine type
sites with increasingly brilliant design.
End
Bowling
Formerly Sheffield-based
music and film reviews site. Specializes in really obscure B-movies and
foreign film with names like 'Thirteen Backwards Flower'. Actually I made
that up.
Disktant
A load of great UK fanzines,
and a list of links to other similar sites. Now on a new server.
Nail Will Burn
Kind of odd fanzine.
#OTHER#
Dice News
Alternative views and other useful stuff links collection
Silver Rocket
Czech record label specialising in guitar noise.
Sound
Collage - Alternative Music Radio
Here's what they say about
themselves - Playing the influential and experimential in Alternative music.
Featuring artists like Radiohead, P J Harvey, Bjork, Aphex Twin and more.
Our web site also features a new page covering the artists we play and
our own message board so you can speak your mind.
Plug
In
A great (if kinda grey-looking)
site. "Plug In focuses on unsigned, independent, up and coming, and current
popular bands, mostly in the alternative and indie scenes. The goal is
to get the word out about lesser known bands."
Taxi.com
A truly independent A&R
company working on the internet, and well worth a visit if you're in band.
World
of Free Games
Lots and lots of old PC
games, as well as new freeware stuff. All of which are free. Which explains
the 'free' part. Includes about a million South Park games.
Bad-Candy.com
This site is hysterical,
and is probably enough to put you off ever eating food in America.
Andrew
Green Homepage
The homepage of a very good
friend of mine, Mr Green.
Rolling
Stone
Spit! Evil and heavily commercial
music rag. And the site's slow, too.
New
Musical Express
Not nearly as evil, but
the site is a lot more annoying than the actual paper. Really trashy and
tabloidy, while the paper itself does have (or rather had) at least some
intelligent comment. They also plug bands till they're dead from plugging.
BBC
Radio 1
The only good music radio
we get in the UK- and it's
still mostly shite! Listen in on the
live real audio to John Peel, the Breezeblock (Mary-Anne Hobbs), or the
Evening Session with Steve Lamaqc, but avoid anything else except maybe
Mark & Lard (mostly crap music, but good DJs).
US
Naval Observatory Master Clock time
Want to know what time it
really is in Southern California or anywhere else in the world? Actually
bloody useful.
Currency
Converter
Convert any currency into
US$ online.
The
Woodshed
Hosted by 'Stefan Grossman's
Guitar Workshop', this is a messageboard site I came across by accident,
devoted to fingerpicking and acoustic guitar. I like visiting it and posting
messages proclaiming Thurston Moore to be the greatest fingerpicker of
all time. I suggest you do so too. Although not too often, as they're very
nice people. Also a
very useful resources for technical guitar stuff.
My
Genealogy Site
Actually this link is mostly
here so I don't forget it. But if you really want to know about my family
tree, have a look. I know next to nothing about it myself. Doh.
