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or go straight to their list of artists (massive).
Alternatively, MusicBase have hundreds of bands on their (searchable) pages, as well as record labels, festivals and stuff, and The Ultimate Band List is, well, just what you'd expect.
The Beastie Boys' Grand Royal home page is one of the best record label home pages I've seen.
Sub-Pop:They brought you Nirvana, The Afghan Whigs et al, now they are home to Eric's Trip, The Grifters, Supersuckers, and many others.
Sony Music and Geffen/DGC
home pages. Yeah, yeah, they're corporate rock giants, but they have some
cool bands nonetheless.
Flavatown - hip-hop label, with info on Mad Skillz, Danja Mowf and others.
Polydor
have a pretty nice site featuring Silversun, Monaco, Audioweb, a link to the
Boyzone fan club and Cast.
NQuit Records are trying to promote a new genre of music - EclectiHop - which is based in, but branching away from hip hop. Sounds worth a listen, dontcha think?
Site and Sound is the official Polygram TV website.
If you like your techno and your drum 'n' bass to be as unforgiving and as sick as possible, then Force Inc. Music Works, home to Mille Plateaux, Chrome and Riot Beats records, is for you.
AM:PM
is the dance division of A&M records. Check it out for Diffusion, East 57th Street and The
Absolute.
If big beat is your thing visit Skint Records. Home of Bentley Rhythm Ace, The Lo-Fi Allstars, Fatboy Slim and Midfield General.
New Zealand music isn't all Crowded House singing about the weather, you know - Marital Recordings have a site that proves it. Quite graphics-heavy, but be patient.
Aniseed Records have a couple of releases under their belt which you can order from this site. You can also check out the latest edition of Aniseed magazine.
The Wonderstuff may have split up, but you can
still find sites about them if you look hard enough.
The Smashing Pumpkins Collection - shitloads about the Pumpkins.
The Exploding Cargo Doors. Pardon?
Spinal Tap online- the sights, the sounds, the smells
of the funniest rock band in the world.
A most psychedelic Flaming Lips page can be found here, maintained by arguably the group's biggest fan in the whole wide world wide web.
The Shrew have a cool idea- they jam on a Tuesday
night, record it and stick the resulting music on the Web the following
day. Requires Real Audio.
The Gain are an LA punk outfit, who apparently
sound like the noise you get if you tap the exposed spinal chord of a brutally
tortured piece of modern-day rock (?!).
Full Blown Kirk are an experimental electronic music group. They are very strange. Apparently they are the future. Oh yeah?
BRA Sounds is not a site for people with lingerie fetishes. Its actually devoted to Bentley Rhythm Ace.
RoundWound contains loads of info on music shops, venues, resources and the like in the Midlands, as well as the Midlands bit of the RetroActive Baggage Gig Guide.
This is a really good West Midlands gig guide and musician's resources page.
IUMA is the Internet Underground Music Archive- "the one stop for all your Internet music needs", apparently.
If you have a very big computer with all the necessary software, then you might like to try listening to Pseudo Online Radio, broadcasting hip-hop, alternative, rock and the whole caboodle.
Possibly one of the most original ideas I've seen on the Web, Mr Neff's Mambo Karaoke Steakhouse is a virtual
karaoke bar.
If you don't want to fork out for it every week, you can read NME online.
And for those of you who understand French, top frog rock rag Les Inrockuptibles is on the Web too!
The Last Resort is updated weekly and all the best bits are printed in an A5 fanzine which you can also order from here. Be warned - get on his mailing list and he will e mail you every issue he does (huge attachments! oo-er!)
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Degrees from the Norm is an ezine specialising in 'new music',
whatever that is, and has several databases containing all sorts of music
industry addresses.
Soundz is an online magazine with interviews, soundbites, news, reviews and an immense (reviewed) links list.
Also on an industrial tip, Chaos Control is a nicely put together 'zine that's worth checking out.
212.net is another online magazine thing, complete with competitions and loads of links, including one to (ahem) Kama Sutra online. Whatever turns you on,
I s'pose.
Technozine 2000 is, unsurprising, an ezine about Techno. Vaguely user-unfriendly, but stick with it.
If, like me, you have a secret Scandinavian fetish, then Benno magazine contains articles and interviews with mainly, but not exclusively, Swedish
bands.
And if you like the Baggage, you might want to check out our Scottish soul brothers Curious Goods.
If you're interested in UK indie from an Australian perspective Chester is the place to go.
Webnoize is
an ezine featuring..well..all sorts of music stuff.
Xposed is an ezine. Its small and young but nice and alternative.
The Musicosm is a "virtual world based on the lives of attractive fictional characters in the L.A. recording industry". Its actually quite good. The "attractive" bit is a lie though.
Dr. Wax Used Records & CDs asked nicely for a link.
Modified, a UK-based new media group, has launched Modified Online, a state-of-the-art World Wide Web site bringing live four-track audio mixing to the Internet. Woo.
TEN is a UK-based online music store, with over 120,000 searchable CDs.
Mass Music is another electronic music store, with CDs, accessories, software and probably the virtual kitchen sink too.
No CDs or records for sale at Nordic DMS, just loads of dowloadable music. No record company, no distributor, no big high street chains - the future of music sales? If only.
If, like me, you still have a secret vinyl fetish, then the people at Vinyl Revival can help you get the most out of your turntable.
Strictly Urban Entertainment has the phattest selection of sounds this side of town. Man.
Big Fish Audio is a catalogue of Japanese Indie Labels. Its a bit like the rest of the world's indie music only cheaper and better.
Regent Guitars live in the same hometown as the Baggage, and provide a mail order service from their website. You can order guitar tab books from their website, too.
There are are loads of guitar sites on the 'net. The OAGL
should point you in the right direction. Also has a massive tab archive.
The FastTracker Resource page
has everything you need to start making music on your computer.
Alternatively take a wander down to The midifarm
You can run up a huge credit card bill at the Fender and Gibson sites.
Alternatively just drool over the pictures.
Fancy making music from pictures? Take a look this Fractal Music
Software page.
Hotz sell "the hottest music software in the world".
Mixman - interactive DJ-type mixing experience for your PC.
Scans of cats.
The ULTIMATE Macintosh has loads of Mac-related links.
Visiting Italy at Tradenet. Don't ask me WHY someone e-mailed us asking for a link to an information database about Italy, but they did. So here
it is.
Sweet Seductions sell the nicest sweets in Leamington Spa, and you can buy anything from Jelly Belly to Belgian chocolates via this whizz electronics thing.
Empire Online is the 'Net version of the film magazine, obviously.
If you're interested - Offbeat are a
Warwick University indie music society.
You can find the complete lyrics to 'My Lovely Horse' at this Father Ted site.
IMPACT Press "cover issues the way the media should" - news, current affairs, some reviews- a website with a conscience.
An apple a day showcases things about Apples (computers not fruit).
Wow! its a teletubbies site. Bloody students eh?.
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