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bands

Aarktica -- ambient atmospheric guitarscapes by Jon DeRosa

Alien Sex Fiend -- i don't know how to describe them, they're a band & you can dance to them

Attrition -- a european electronic band varying from dance to ambient drones

black tape for a blue girl -- a goth/ethereal band

burMonter -- a bliss pop band with female vocals that i'm secretly involved with

dead leaves rising -- dark acoustic guitar based songs by Jon DeRosa

Faith & Disease -- ethereal shoegazer with an "&"

the Germs -- probably the best punk band ever

Godflesh -- the best industrial band

Polly Jean Harvey -- i like her stuff

Hefner -- they make jangle pop about getting mail & stuff

Jarboe -- you know her from her days in Swans

Legendary Pink Dots -- they do a lot of styles, i guess they're the trance music equivalent to the Beatles

lovesliescrushing -- atmospheric noise guitar a step above most music

Low -- slow drawn out pop songs pretty enough to hurt, some people call them minimalists

Lycia -- an atmospheric band that is amazing, probably the most official QRD band

Origami Republika -- cool things are in the Norwegian scene, noise & art as a lifestyle

Pineal Ventana -- orchestrated noise rock & some of their songs are about zombies

Iggy Pop -- one of the greatest visionaries of music

Radiohead -- the official web-site of a band

Ring -- Filip Andersen's band, dark folk & noise from norway

Soul Whirling Somewhere -- heartfelt semi-acoustic moody pop by Michael Plaster

Spahn Ranch -- an innovative electro-industrial dance band

Stromkern -- Ned Kirby's electro-beat band

Swans -- probably the single most important band to me ever, i can't explain them

Tara Vanflower -- Tara from Lycia's own website, simple colorful & cool

Trance to the Sun -- a post alternative version of ethereal space rock (old site)

The Unquiet Void -- an atmospheric band, recently involved with horror movie film scores

Zeta -- a band combining analog synths & acoustic instruments
 

record labels

AdAstra -- an ambient record label

Bedazzled -- a moody pop oriented record label

Beggars Banquet -- they've recently taken a lot of independent labels under their wings....

Bizarre Depictions -- Ian Stewart of Autoreverse fame's record label featuring crazy theme comps.

BlueSanct Musak -- a cool underground indie label with links to Low & lovesliescrushing

brighter records -- Jon DeRosa of Dead Leaves Rising's independent record label (old site)

Cleopatra -- they release everything these days from electronic dance to punk to glam rock

Evil World Records -- Darren of Hefner runs a small label

Glitter Music -- a little tape label from north carolina

GMC -- an underground industrial label from new jersey with lots of sound files to hear

Hour of God -- record label run by members of burMonter

Irregular Records -- a new record label from dA Sebasstian of KSK

Ivy Records -- Faith & Disease's label

Krank Records -- a norwegian noise record label

Kranky -- Low's current record label

Lifelike Records -- new progressive label from atlanta releasing a Pixies tribute

Null Spenn Records -- more underground noise from norway

Projekt -- an ethereal gothic record label

Random Radio -- from Duluth, MN they have out a good compilation

Silber Records -- isn't it cute that i have a little label

Somnimage --  a new label releasing a tribute to Franz Kafka that includes Remora & Attrition

Too Pure -- usually they deal with moody pop

Unit Circle -- an underground label from seattle, now featuring Pineal Ventana
 

resources

AB-CD -- this is a good record store

Audiolab -- Chris Perry's recording studio with mastering capabilities

Blue Mountain Arts -- send e-mail cards to your friends for free

Daddy's Junky Music -- the place to go to buy used musical equipment

Digital Music Zone -- learn how to make your own effects

The Indie Contact Bible -- find out about independent labels & musicians

Ed Klein's music database -- if you want to find out about underground bands, go here

National Recording Supplies -- a place to buy blank tapes in bulk

stinkweeds -- maybe america's best record store.  located in tempe, arizona

Trouser Press -- you know them, they make those music history books

United States Postal Service -- everyone loves the post office
 

zines

Aural Innovations -- a space rock zine, maybe the space rock zine

Autoreverse -- a zine about home recording & related cool stuff

EraserHead Press -- they make noir lit zines

Grave Concerns -- goth & industrial interview oriented zine

Greenfly zine -- a norwegian noise e-zine

Godsend -- this was one of the best zines around, now it's a great e-zine

Industrial Nation -- this is a really cool zine about hmmm... i forget what kind of music

Morbid Outlook -- good design & some cool stuff, it's gothie

Object A -- here's a cool music zine, they found me before i found them

Outburn -- a zine of subversive music

Outsight -- a zine of zines

Straight Edge -- hungary's awesome underground zine

Vendetta -- finally a website to america's favorite moody pop zine

whirlpool -- a very influential zine to me....

internet radio

Alternative Internet Radio -- the name says it all

Internet Radio Free Kansas -- prog rock & post alternative

Popgenerator -- Norway's internet jukebox

Radio Shanghai International -- independent music played in China

Sounds of Tomorrow -- internet radio specializing in drone style music

WUNC -- my local classical & NPR station

WXDU -- Duke's college station, good stuff.

WXYC -- from UNC-Chapel Hill, where else can you hear Huddie Ledbetter & Glenn Branca in a row?

other stuff

Alt X -- an interactive literary site by Mark Amerika

Batman Beyond -- the best action oriented cartoon since the Maxx

Douglas Coupland -- the guy who wrote Generation X & a lot of other good books

Dwellers of the Outback -- this Maxx site has a lot of interviews with Sam Keith

Eraserhead Press -- mini-publisher of avant & horror including zombie stuff

Lisa Frank -- what great pictures she does

E. Katie Holm -- a good photographer & a nice girl

Franz Kafka -- what an incredible visionary, what he's famous for isn't even his best stuff

Dr. Katz -- if you haven't seen the show yet, you should

D.F. Lewis -- one of the most prolific horror writers that still likes zines

Maxx's cardboard box -- a cool site about the Maxx comic book

The Maxx Home Page (unofficial) -- this is out of date, but it is Maxx

Peter Milligan web page by KadyMae -- Peter Milligan writes cool comic books

Music Explorium -- there's a cool music store vaguely near where i live

Nathanam -- live show tape trades & some interviews to read

Oddmusic -- find out about strange, cool, & recently invented musical instruments

Red Dwarf -- a british sci-fi sitcom

San Francisco Suicide Prevention -- it scares me that i find this site so enthralling

The Simpsons -- the official site of the best cartoon ever

Ben Stein -- he's not just a gameshow host & comedian, he's a great writer.  read his book Dreemz

Kimberlee Traub -- she's a great artist, she does the covers for zombie kisses

Melissa Williams -- the co-developer of this web-site, check it out

WNCW -- this is a great radio station, but they don't have a webcast yet

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