Links to bands
The Absentees amazing CD is out now on Artifix Records.
Adrenalin OD's website: they're coming soon on Grand Theft Audio CD...
Active Dog are preparing live tapes and perhaps a video: visit their new site!
Willie Alexander's website: more info at http://www.smasheasy.com/locodiscography.html
The GG Allin Index is a thorough (and frightening) guide to all things GG... Also check out Swedish Scum's fine oral history...
The Alter Boys are still active and have a new CD called Counter Intelligence...
ANTiSEEN.com will take you to some VERY interesting places...
Attack Under Attack is Jeff and Jane Hudson: they're still active: check out Jane's website.
Arthur's Dilemma became Peroxide became The Now became Alter Ego. Geoff Danielik's website is still intheworks, but the Now's live CD is available through Mixonic.com.
August Sons are still active, care of Pacifico Records.
The Jim Basnight Thing still walks the earth...and there's a fine bio at their site...
Benedict Arnold & the Traitors have their complete recorded works available through MP3.com
Glen Branca [Static / Theoretical Girls]: web-page
The Blisters' website includes a diary of their early days.
B-Lovers: see links for Nick Rudd
Broken Talent / Malcolm Tent / Bunnybrains information galore at Malcolm's Trash American Style site...
Bunnydrums.com music, pix, lots more coming...
The Carpettes have a new website c/o punkmodpop. We're hoping to have more on them come Bad Teeth #6 or so...
Paul Chastain and Ric Menck's lengthy careers (Nines & Reverbs on Teenline #3) are reissued in many places; these should at least get you started: Choo Choo Train and their other 80s material is on their Hey Wimpus! and The Ballad of Ric Menck CDs, on Action Musik: and their newest CD as Velvet Crush is available on Cooking Vinyl...
Paul Collins has a photo-filled fanclub site: everything you need to know... although it's a S-L-O-W Juno/Homestead free site.
Debris' legendary DIY/psych/proto-punk LP is handsomely reissued on Anopheles.
Detention's LP and 45 are now out on Grand Theft Audio CD. Website tba...
Don Fleming / Velvet Monkeys / Citizen 23 / Stroke Band and all his 90s stuff: visit Don's Instant Mayhem site
The Eat: http://www.mindspring.com/~wrcz/theeat/
The Edge: Throbbing Lobster veterans have their own website: ...they're now in Newport Gestapo:
Even Worse are now reissued on GTA.
Fast Cars: The legendary UK modpunkers haven't got any copies of their 45 left, but there's a cool website, and rumors of unreleased treats that might grace Bad Teeth #9 or so (if we get that far).
Funboy Five: famed one-off DIY stars (and ex-Anal Surgeons) have a website with lotsa history and plans for CD reissues.
Half Japanese (a/k/a XXOO) have a new site of their own, plus and excellent fanclub site with links to reissues and all your other Jad and David needs...
The Homosexuals are imminent.
Human Hands have a REALLY handsome CD restrospective on Grand Theft Audio. Web-links coming...
Here's a very thorough Husker Du discography
The Judy's: Texan arch-wave silliness that we'll try to figure out again in a couple years when Homework reaches the Js... But they've got a perfect website, loaded with RealAudio samples of EVERYTHING they ever did, plus favorite bands and buddies of theirs including the complete works of the Banks [Homework #2] and Z-Rocks [Teenline #3] (click on the Texas map).
L.A.F.M.S. The Los Angeles Free Music Society: has a 10-CD retrospective out on Cortical: discographies, history & other links, as well...
Legal Weapon website...
The Lewd's "Lewd Conduct in a Public Place" LP is out again on Subterranean. Also see "Kill Yourself...Again" at www.chuckieboy.com and their 45 on 702 Records from Reno.
Bill Lloyd, pop gawd nonpareil, has everything you need at his excellent website.
Dennis Loren: graphic designer for zillions of detroit and Ann Arbor bands (and Goldmine).
The Lothars. Three theremins and a guitar. We haven't heard them yet, but you should check them out, if for no other reason than that they've devised the one of the finest palindromes of the past century: "Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas." Most of which is the title of their most recent CD.
Lucky Pierre: Ohio DIY kings have a fan-site (and brother Brian McMahon [Electric Eels] has one too...)
New Orleans' Men in Black have re-formed (including a few members of Wayward Youth [H2D #32]). See their CD and website...
Minutemen / fireHose / Slivers etc. discography
The Nihilistics are at nihilistics.com
The Normals hava their own webpage and a retrospective CD, "Your Punk Heritage" on Airline 61.
The Now [the NYC powerpop band: see Arthur's Dilemma listing above] have a live CD available through Mixonic.com.
Pagans (not on H2D, but...): see Mike Hudson's Pagans bio...
The Panics [The Indiana punks on Gulcher] have a website, too.
Penetrators: the garage Kings of upstate New York have lotsa reissues and other stuff to flaunt at their website... Catch 'em on Rave-Up...
The Performing Ferret Band website offers terrific but [very] DIY reissues of their complete works...
The Products from San Diego have an amazing LP's worth of 1980 punk'n'roll out now on. Fans of the first two Saints LPs will especially love it (though there's no horns).The Products from San Diego have a GREAT punk'n'roll CD of 10 never-released tracks from 1980-81 called "Fast Music." Fans of the first two Saints LPs will especially love it (though there's no EdKuepper horns). It's on Cabeza de Tornado.
Puritan Guitars vox/gtr John Williams started out writing the After Hours fanzine in Cardiff, then did two mid-80s singles as Thomas the Voice after the PGs broke up. He's now an increasingly celebrated author, and two of his three most recent novels deal with the DIY scenes in London (Faithless), and Cardiff (Cardiff Dead: out soon in paperback in the US). He's married to Charlotte Grieg whose recent efforts have featured Phil Moxham (YMG) and Julian Hayman (Discount Chirfs).
Raves: almost everything's out on CD: visit their site!
Real Kids / Taxi Boys / John Felice: EVERYTHING's been reissued on Norton!
The Reactors [NJ] vinyl career is handsomely reissued on Rave Up Records
The Reactors' [Texas] set from the closing night of Raul's is available at MP3.com, as are leader Mike Runnels' alternative country efforts and the Kids CD that Mike wrote and produced.
Mike Rep runs Used Kids Record annex in Columbus, OH, and has a cool DIY band out now called Creeper, Ohio with Jeff Robertson.
Residents / Schwump page: as good a place as any to enter the strange and expensive world of Ralph oddities...
Responsible Teenagers recorded their 45 before Corey Loog Brennan joined [oops]. He's now teaching classics at the University of New Jersey (commonly known as Rutgers) and he's the managing editor of the American Jounal of Ancient History. Brush up your Pliny!
Of course they're not on H2D, but the world would be a pretty miserable place without a Rezilllos website...
RF7 now have TWO fine CDs out on GTA.
Rubber City Rebels website.
Nick Rudd (B-Lovers, Turning Curious on Teenline) has a new CD out: One Track Mind, on Action Musik).
The Saucers compilation CD is out now on GTA: "What We Did" (GTA053)
Scruffs are out on Northern Lights
The Scene is Now: bio and stuff for sale
Armand Schaubroeck has CDs and MP3s online: visit House of Guitars, too!
Screaming Urge --their magnificent "Impulse control" CD is now out on H2D (Homework #101), containing everything they ever put on vinyl in one tidy and extremely handsome 73-minute package: click on "other CDs" at our store site or "get CDs" on the left... Screaming Urge's website is up and running, and a World Tour is in-the-works: contact Mike Ravage at mdlravage@msn.com
Secrets of Loveliness secrets revealed: the Opprobrium article. See Homework #1 1/2 liner notes for more links...
17 Pygmies have a full-functioning website
The Sex Clark Five have all kindsa fun stuff on their fanclub pages... including a cool shockwave movie for "The Men Who Don't Know Ice" (as featured on Teenline #3).
Shivvers / Orbits have a comprehensive online history, several unreleased cuts on Scott Krueger's compilation of Wisconsin bands, History in 3 Chords, and Jill Kossoris' new CD, Invisible...
Shock broke up after their two great singles, though an entire LP's worth got left in the can (reissued soon on ____). Steve Reina went on to the L.A. Silencers (no relation to the Boardwalk pop band) with the folks who became Legal Weapon. There's a Silencers re-ish in the works as well...
Sic F*cks: most of them continue as the Young & Fabulous: Harry Viderci is back in the studio, too. More news soon.
Side Effex links: MP3 tracks are available from three ex-Effex bands: T-Roy, Nomadic Farmers and Big Methuselah. The 'Farmers and 'Methuselah have CDs out on RoboRecords. Ted Pearce has an MP3 personal mix station, too...
Sinatras: Gene's a world-famous fantasy-league baseballer: he's the author of the annual classic, Wise Guy Baseball. Reissues may be in the works for Sinatras and Fun No Fun (The other member of Fun No Fun was Steve Wishnia [Iron Prostate], whose False Profits are icely reissued on Alternative Tentacles...
Sinyx reissue is imminent
63 Monroe are playing reuniion[s] and planning a reissue: read their history and keep checking their website...
The Skunks have just released Earthquake Shake, an awesome CD of two live gigs from 1980. It's punkier and louder than any of their vinyl.
Snatch have a good fanclub site
Sneakers had almost all their material reissued on CD, but it's apparently out-of-print (but still sometimes available as a cut-out).
The Soft Boys: patron saints of H2D (even if they're not on any of our stuff). Visit the Robyn Hitchcock/Softboys Fegmania fansite. Goodies include clips from the late Positive Vibrations fanzine.
Sonic Youth (also not on H2D, but...): here's an incredibly detailed discography.
Space Negros still sell their wares at Arf Arf, where there's also a buncha 60's garage'n'psych for sale...
The Splatcats' Clarke Faust is now in Doombuggy, whose second full-length CD, "Blow Your Soul" is MAJESTIC... and newly released on Atom Smash. (If the first couple Soul Asylum LPs with Descendents-style vocal chops --plus some ace '78 pop-punk-- sounds at all like your idea of a high-calorie gtr-abuse treat, you'll dig this plenty...)
Spongetones CDs are available on the Shoes' Black Vinyl label, they're available to play at YOUR next birthday-party, and there's all kindsa other stuff cooking on the Spongetones' and Jamie Hoover's own website... We're listening a lot to their '00 CD, "Odd Fellows" on the Gadfly label. Newest releases are "Mersey Christmas" and "Beat! The Spongetones" on Not Lame.
The Squares' Wooldridge Brothers and the Yell Leaders [also ex-Squares]
Squirrel Bait's David Grubbs has mucho other material, most easily traced through Drag City
Squirrels from Hell still roam the earth: gigs & CDs are listed at their site...
Static: see Theoretical Girls: also glenbranca.com
Stevie Stiletto website is up!
Stickmen with Rayguns: (not on H2D, but chummy w/bands...) http://www.stickmenwithrayguns.com/
The Stiffs (Bad Teeth #3) did 4 singles altogether, an unreleased LP (and then some), plus at least four more singles on their Dork label as variants of the Idol Rich. One of them also contributed to BBC TV's Tip Top Radio. They have a reissue collection on Captain Oi, a live CD and a new CD of unreleased early tracks called Stiffology. Everything's available through their extremely cool website.
The Stiphnoyds been reissued on the History of Portland Punk vol. 1 and they've just launched their own website...
Story of Failure's Scott Foust is still running Swill Radio Mailorder: a multi-tentacled label/archive/mailorder org for music a good bit weirder/more seriously electronic than Homework.
Styrenes have stuff all over: Paul Marotta's Jilmar Music (remains of the Mustard label) remains off-line, but Drag City has a great discography.
Suburban Studs have almost everything available on CD from Anagram
Suicide Commandos website/bio/everything care of TwinTone...
Tazers LP is out again on Rave Up Records
The Tearaways early material is temporarily out of print (on Not Lame) but they're still playing and recording (on Pinch Hit: http://www.pinchhit.com/bc/index.htm); see the Tearaways website.
Television Personalities' fanclub site is called The Strangely Beautiful Website. Most of the TVPs stuff usedta be on Overground* label... See also Jukka and Tommy Ujo's useful bio at PunkNet '77.
Terraplanes / Animals & Men [Messthetics #2 & #5] have quite an entertaining history and some pix at their brand-new website.
The Testors had an LP retrospective on Rave Up but it's sold-out.
Theoretical Girls have a full-length reissue or two in the works on Acute [http://www.geocities.com/danselzer/catalog.html]: There were also 4 tracks on Glen Branca's oldies CD on Atavistic. See glenbranca.com
They Must Be Russians were helmed by Mike Clarke, who now runs the excellent Inflammable Materials mailorder site. H2D stuff available there soon...
Tom & Marty Band's reunion gig at Plan 9 is available on CD. There's a video clip online, too. Marty McCavitt is still active in Richmond and playing with Dream Factory, Stag or Drag, and others...
The Toms amazing first LP will be re-re-issued on CD (on Not Lame) in mid-2001
Tommy Dog is older and wiser and still living in public at tommydog.com.
Toxin III: everything's now available on CD from leader Chris Cart in REALLY handsome sound (Hyped to Death spent a day cleaning up the tapes). Also a full CD by his later band, Bubba Daddy.
The Trend have a bio at breakmyface.com and a reissue of the LP and 45 on Rave Up.
Trip Shakespeare have a nice fanclub page:
http://www.tmn.com/Community/paula/trip.htm
Tru Fax & the Insaniax have a cool website :http://www.trufax.com/trufaxmem.html They did a reunion gig with the Slickees on New Year's Day, 2000, and are rumored to have a CD reissue in the works. Diana Quinn is in the Fabulettes/Honky Tonk Confidential.
True Believers: see Mike Rep
The Tuff Darts' Tommy Frenzy has a new CD out: check out his web-page...
Turning Curious: see Nick Rudd
TV21: Edinburgh DIY-poppers have a new website.
Twinkeyz website: everythings on CD and maybe /MP3, too.
The 2x4s' John Hovorka is still recording and has an incrediby thorough discography/history at his website.
Unnatural Axe's complete studio output now appears on their CD: "Unnatural Axe...Is Gonnna Kick Your Ass" Order from E.Law / P.O. Box 689 / Hingham, Ma 02043-0689, or get it from Underground Medicine and many of H2D's other fine distributors.
U.X.B.'s site has tons of info old and new (and reunion news).
Gary Valentine is back with Blondie
Vast Majority have a nice bio at breakmyface.com [http://www.breakmyface.com/bands/vastmajority.html]
Vectors have their 12" and much more available on Rave Up
Velvet Monkeys are care of Instant Mayhem
The Vertebrats have two great CDs of their early studio material (Thousand Day Dream) and live performances (Continuous Shows) out on Parasol Records.
Victims of Society: several members are now in True Rumors: there are some cool pix of V.o.S. on their pre-history page...
Video NUR guitarist Bob Deal changed his name to Mick Mars and...formed Motley Crüe. See the liner notes for Teenline #5 for more info...
Vomit Pigs have a new CD out...
The Wayfarers' Dave Mandl has an online radio show at WFMU...
Wayward Youth --some of them-- hooked up with fellow Big Easy punx Men In Black a few years back, assuming the more commercial MiB band-name... Men in Black have a CD on a revived 'Lectric Eye label and a website, detailing, among other things, both bands' reunion/performance schedules...
Wednesday Week's homepage
The White Animals' homepage
White Flag have a CD coming out on Artifix Records of 1982 studio sessions & live.
Windbreakers: Tim Lee's Windbreakers home-page
Wipers / Greg Sage / Zeno Studios homepage
The Wishniaks' Andrew Chalfen is now in Trolleyvox. others are in Matt Pond PA
Wombats have a page at ClePunk.com
The Xpozez CD is finally out on GTA: GTA047 "Back On The Streets"CD
Y Pants' thrilling career has been recaptured in its musical entirety on Periodic Records: for now try the FE link: http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/periodic.document.html
The Yankees' Jon Tiven's extensive production credits and bio are online and his most recent solo recordings appear as Jon Tiven's Ego Trip.
Young Canadians got their stuff reissued on Zulu CD: but it's now [?] out of print
Young Marble Giants demos are handsomely reissued on the Vinyl Japan label. The CD's called Salad Days, There's also a cool fan-club site.
The Zero Boys amazing first LP has been reissued (again) on Zulu Records CD; apparently with both of the previously-unreleased gems heard on H2D #31.
Zoom: look up their extensive bio at Jam! Music
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. Good sale lists and lotsa other 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...
Brighton 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.
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 (a label in progress: they're working on a Theoretical Girls reissue...) http://www.geocities.com/danselzer/catalog.html
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 sand 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:
WARNING: Many of these sites are so called "Free" web-pages, which means that, while the bands or fans don't have to pay anything, YOU get dozens of unwelcome cookies snooping on you, slowing down your browser, and clogging up your hard-drive. Juno's "Homestead" (for example) sets as many as 20 cookies before you reach the first screen, and 3 to 10 more every time you click onto a new page. And your complete web-habits belong to anyone Juno wants to sell them to... GeoCities, Citeweb and many others are just as bad...
You can maintain a clean site with no ad banners, no power-hogging applets, no cookies, and no pop-up "remora window" interruptions for your URL for as little as $7.95 a month. And then the only person who can slow your site to a crawl with stupid graphics and animations is yourself... It's easy, it's cheap, go and do it.
