Sites for reference

Fanzines, labels and folks we like

 

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Sites for reference:
[many of these links are quite old - sorry! We'll try to update and expand someday soon.]

Powerpop:

Bubblegum the Punk: a one-stop links-fest for North American powerpop, 1975-1982, run by pop-meister Pierre Gurdjos.

Mod 79 A unique and invaluable discography for powerpop and mod bands. Includes info on band-members, appearances on compilations (bootleg and otherwise) and links to reissues. Ignore the français and just hit "enter."

Punk:

Killed by Hype Paul Routenburg's (nicely opinionated and extremely helpful) guide to collectible punk, plus track-listings and reviews of virtually EVERY punk compilation to date.

Low-Down Kids is a virtual bootleg series: hear great punk "LPs" online that change and update frequently. LDK has launched a lathe-cut singles label and they've got amazing sale lists and world punk/DIY/powerpop info, too.

Henry Weld and Paul Routenburg's guide to Texas Punk (and lots of great links) from Aussie collector/scholar extraordinaire and the ears behind the daunting Killed by Hype site (q.v.).

Killedbydeath.com: e-deejay Scott Bass is building a first-rate collection of links to bands, sites, discographies, etc. This site has NOTHING to do with the ever-more wretched "series" of vinyl bootlegs. Check out the kbd newsgroup, too...

www.collectorscum.com has lots, too.

George Gimarc's impressive punk chronologies --pre-punk and postpunk, too-- provide an invaluable historical timeline

Break My Face: a promising punk-rarities site-in-progress from Ryan Richardson, the most avid of the punk-hunters: many of the bands he's tracked down have excellent bios at his site. For an example of Ryan's methods, click on Peer Pressure when you get there...

PunkInformation.com... A new lists-and-links site: plenty of energy and lotsa of basic info on late 80s and 90s punk, but I'd say they're still looking for a niche...

PunkNet '77: Jukka's essential network of band-pages, though it's mostly the bigger bands...

Women in Punk pages: an energetic and surprisingly thorough catalog of women in punk and new wave bands: especially good for tracing family trees...

The International HC Records Bible is hoping to carry on where B.George's Volume left off: still somewhat under construction...

Labels of Punk is pretty rudimentary so far, but they should eventually be an invaluable resource for label-by-label discographies...

Homework bands/ U.S. New Wave:

Drag City has excellent discographies of Half Japanese, Styrenes, Squirrel Bait/Bastro/etc.,... but unless you can get there directly they have an unbelievably slow and cluttered homepage. Their bands page is not much better, but after you've peed and warmed up a cup of coffee it'll be loaded and you're just a click away from the essentials on dozens of bands.

U.K. (and other) DIY

Paul Platypus of the Reflections [Messthetics #1] & 12 Cubic Feet [Mess. #3] wrote an essay, "Technology and anarchy in the UK music industry" for Twenty-First Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas for a New Millennium. London: Cassell. 1997. Maybe the best sociological take on U.K. DIY so far, though Paul's hard at work on a book-length expansion...

Dave Henderson (yes, it's THAT Dave Henderson) published an extensive overview of UK experimental/out/postpunk bands and outlets (mostly toward and beyond the artier side of Messthetics gestalt) in Sounds, July 5, 1983. Nevermind the addresses...

The London Musicians Collective [and website] promotes experimental music well to the "out" side of Messthetics (and to the well-tailored side, too --i.e. classical). Worth exploring...

The Impossible Discographies. Getting more useful and obscure all the time...

A nice Australian postpunk resource.

Other music:

Lexicon Magazine: true believers in commercial new-wave: they're completely unashamed to fawn over rediscovered treats from Missing Persons or the Vapors. Not a speck of irony.

Similarly, synthpunk.org are unabashed fans of electropunk and ALL that cool/wimpy/hummable keyboard stuff that's pure poison to the guitars-only KBD crowd.

TweeNet. Now THIS is handsome. Because they're working a different era from H2D there's not much overlap in terms of bands, but Peter Hahndorf's HUGE index is a must for fans of powerpop and DIY-twee...

Photos and general:

CBGB has an elegant website with lotsa cool photos and info: visit their 'Shrine" page!

Audities has some useful bios on more popular bands...

Photographer Robert Barry's archives have a variety of innaresting photos...

Fuller Up: the Dead Musicians site: elaborate news and views of the notoriously dead...
http://elvispelvis.com/fullerup.htm

Blurred Visions: the real names of pop stars, tho' they're no help yet on all the English gits named Gob and Gaz and Baz, etc...

Local scene resources:

Atlanta's scene is well-chronicled at David Mock's fine discography site.

The Boston new wave scene (and everything after that) is extremely well-served by Dirty Water: the Boston Rock'n'Roll Museum: bios, history, everything... and Joe Harvard's Boston Rock Storybook (http://www.rockinboston.com/bosrock1.htm)

Canada: Jam! Music: a huge and thorough database of info and links on 12,000 Canadian bands. Fortunately they have a good search engine, so you can wade through all the c[anadian content].

Colorado Punk Rock/New Wave is a thoroughly professional-looking site that'll leave you REALLY disappointed that so few mountain state bands ever got their stuff on vinyl...

Florida: Don't miss Bob Suren[?]'s illegible and magnificent Ultimate Collectors' Guide for Florida Punk and Hardcore Records...

Indiana / Gulcher Records: Bob Cook's excellent and lengthy article includes a v. worthwhile where-a-re-they-now sidebar.

Los Angeles: Billy Eye and Judy Zee's Music Appreciation fanzine has been trancribed on-line with choice b&w and color pics +++

Milwaukee's punk & pop scene of the late 70s/early 80s is fabulously well-documented on "History in 3 Chords" a double CD featuring EVERYONE from the Haskels to the Shivvers to the Lubricants to a pre-vinyl Violent Femmes track. 43 bands, 51 tracks. E-mail Scott Krueger to purchase one...

The Minneapolis Scene pages: also TCPunk.com for more on the Twin Cities scene.

Montreal: the much-maligned Quebecois-punk and hardcore scene has a fabulous new website (merci, Francis), called You Are the Scene.

New Jersey: the Earwax Retro-Fanzine Directory features a terrific discography of NJ punk.

New York: Punk Magazine's site should be terrific... Try this link, too...

No Wave Superstars [New York]: a lengthy essay by Mark Ridlen (that we haven't gotten all the way through). Needs more non-superstars...

Ohio: CLEPunk: bios, pix, audio, etc. on EVERYTHING Cleveland. Rapidly growing and extremely handsome... Then there's Akron Sound: a growing database of info and pix from the Northeast Ohio new wave scene... and the newest entrant is the Ohio Hystairical Musick Society.

Portland: Portland Plus: a fledgling discography/links site for Portand (OR) bands. Also coming soon is Greg Sage's ever-expanding History of Portland Punk at the Zeno Records site.

Sacramento: A Discography of the Sacramento Underground

The St. Louis Punk pages: absolutely everything there is to know (about not very much). But really well done, with great comments... Head in a Milk Bottle's fanzine site is also worth checking...

San Diego: Black Market Magazine has cool flyers from the San Diego scene from1978-to-present.

The Seattle Musical Family Tree.

Texas Austin: Idle Time is (in their own words): "Punk rock (new wave) photo archive and junk museum from the days of Raul's, Duke's Royal Coach Inn, Club Foot, Studio 29, Soap Creek Saloon, and Voltaire's d'Basement (early '80's), Austin, Texas." Photos galore, all the stars, plus touring bands and other rarely-seen Texans: Bang Gang, Sluts, Recipients, NCM...

Erin (a/k/a Lois Lane) from Superman's Girlfriend has launched Texas Punk Junk: it's especially strong on the Dallas scene, but there's a little of everything there...

British Isles:

Belfast: The Undertones and Punk in Derry. Much of Good Vibrations' stuff is reissued on Anagram...

Bristol features TWO sites: one from Heartbeat and one from Sugar Shack (=Fried Egg)

Coventry: Rex Brough's Coventry scene site

Norwich: SOFA Presents the A-Z of Norwich bands.

Liverpool Then: mostly bigger bands, but plenty of info.

Factory Records' fansite unfortunately does not have an entry for Stockholm Monsters, but there's tons of other stuff... (Factory's own website is still under construction, but give it a try: http://www.factoryrecords.com )

Yorkshire: a terrific overview of the northern fanzine scene: AYUP! "DIY'ing in the Bedroom - Yorkshire's Fanzines."

Ireland: the Punk in Derry website.

France: the www.45toursderockfrancais.net has full-color sleeve-art and MP3 excerpts for just about everyone in French punk and many other genres as well.

Sweden Bosse Sound is an .MP3 site featuring full-length tracks by scores of 1980s Swedish punk, oi and Sven-ska bands who recorded at the B-Sound studio: (all with the bands' permission)


Fanzines / Labels / Radio Shows / Oddities:

Acute Records

Artifix Records: Absentees, White Flag, Kaos...and counting!

Black Vinyl Records: Yes, the Shoes own label is now 26 years old... They carry most Shoes material on CD, plus the complete Spongetones catalog and many others...

Anagram and Cherry Red have AMAZING CD reissues of UK mod and punk material, including much of the Good Vibrations and Raw catalogues, plus 6 voulumes of the rarest and most popular English Mod bands...

Dionysus Records. Longtime purveyors of ace garagepunk are getting into the classicpunk reissue biz.

Giftwrapped Crap: Scott Bass' radio show streams weekly on Antenna Radio and piggybacks other playlists, programs, news and reviews. He's also hard at work/looking for help with killedbydeath.com (see above). Why do we REALLY love these guys? H2D s #1 on their year-end top ten for 2000.

Grand Theft Audio records has some trouble with other musical folks sharing the same name, but they've done a TON of great punk & postpunk reissues, focusing on California punk. White Cross, Red Scare, RF7, AOD, Rattus, Human Hands, Lost Generation, Circle One... They're not online themselves, but Bomp mailorder and Dave Hill Distribution sell almost all their stuff.

Grunnenrocks: http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/

Hate Records, Rome: e-mail them for an up-to-date catalog

Irwin Chusid, deejay and archivist... Is Homework WAY too tame for you? Out, way out, and outsider music galore on Irwin's website: Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, and his radio show, The Incorrect Music Hour at http://www.incorrectmusic.com... Many more links from there...

Mike Virus... and his screamingsneakers.com started off life as the world's first H2D bootleg bootleg MP3 site. There's a bunch more stuff there, too, now.

A Mutha Records site is under construction: http://www.cbe.com/
Also the site of the long-rumored International HC Records Bible: http://www.cbe.com/IHCRB/IHCRB.html

Old Punks Webzine. Lotsa content, new and old...

Overground Records. John's a great guy from way back and he's [re]released a TON of essential '77-82 UK stuff, but the label went on an extended hiatus. They're back up and running again and s-l-o-w-l-y getting their back-catalog back into print. In the meantime, any Overground vinyl you see is well worth grabbing.

Perfect Sound Forever online fanzine, home of Jason Gross who wrote the Village Voice piece on Homework.

Rave Up Records Italy: great limited edition reissues of mostly-unreleased original punk. Full LPs from the NYC/NJ Reactors, Tazers, Village Pistols, Vectors, Testors, Penetrators [NY], Tazers [sold-out, unfortunately], and many more [Skunks, Tokyos...] coming.

Scene of the Crime: Ann and Jason Rerun's RealAudio radio show, links, etc. etc.

Shredding Paper: Mel C.'s vision of what MRR should have grown up into. Always hundreds of reviews and the excellent Shreds CD series (Their pick for the top 25 or so singles of the year, starting in 1993). Also 2002 winner of the "Best use of plain brown wrapper" award for their "Bush & Bin-Ladin: Separated at Birth?" issue.

Subterranean If you HAVE to own vinyl compilations like KBD, Bloodstains or Powerpearls (ugh) or thousands of more legitimate punk, pop and experimental items, they've got it all...

UK82: as you might guess it's solid oi --rants, raves and videos

WFMU: the grandaddy of REALLY free-form radio: fulla pages and links galore...

Carbon 14 zine:

 

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