Carpark Records
Acute Records parent label. Sometimes they even let us stay out after dark.
Paw-Tracks
Acute Records sister label, representing friends and family of the Animal Collective, the most interesting music-makers these days.
Caroline Distribution
How Acute Records get from our house to yours.
What's Your Rupture?
The hippest label of now.
Cherry Red Records
Pillows and prayers, seeds and burning ambitions...
LTM
Initially focussing on releasing material related to the Factory and Crepuscule catalogs, LTM has branched out to all kinds of awesome stuff.
Renascent
Home of great CD reissues of the Comsat Angels, the Sound and the Wild Swans. They call themselves the planet's coolest re-issue label.
Caroline True Records
Our UK brethren, released the long-awaited Manicured Noise CD.
Hyped2Death
Record dealer Chuck Warner has been the major source of records and information for fans of post-punk/DIY/punk and his Homework and Messthethics compilations are why I don't have to buy expensive 7"s any more. And lest we forget the essential Homosexuals compilation.
Overground Records
Great punk/anarcho-punk reissues.
Siltbreeze Records
When I was in college, this and Table of the Elements were the coolest record labels in the world. Essential releases from the Dead C, the Shadow Ring, Jim Shephard and the Pin Group reissue compilation. Now back in action, bringing us the awesome first Times New Viking record.
Topplers Records
Jowe Head, Cult Figures and the Desperate Bicycles/Thomas Leer covering Nomen. What more could you want?
Invisible Generation
Our business practices owe heavily to the DIY and punk aesthetic. I n v i s i b l e G e n e r a t i o n deals in artifacts of the 21st century underground.
Rough Trade Records
Another oldie but goodie back in action...this is the new label run by Geoff Travis. We're big fans of the Long Blondes and Lavender Diamond.
Ze Records
You can't keep a great label down! Some great historical comps, the Lizzy Mercier Descloux discography and some cool new stuff from Michael Dracula.
Environ Records
Novelty dance music.
The Social Registry
Modern Music. Antiquated Ideals
Troubleman Unlimited
Do italians do it better?
Jungle Records
London based label, punk reissues.
Kranky Records
"Ambient Isolationism" and krautrock-shoegaze. The guy who started Kranky was staying at a friend's house in Oberlin, sleeping, when said friend took a tape cobbled together of my 4-track wankery and threw it at his head. That's the closest I ever got to being signed.
Tiger Sushi
French site devoted to the places where no wave and disco meet.
Gomma
German site devoted to the places where krautrock and techno meet.
Happy Squid Records
Home of the Urinals/100 Flowers
Warning Label Records
Reissues of Urinals/100 Flowers and the highly anticipated forthcoming re-release from Monitor.
Morphius Records
New stuff, old stuff, distribution, manufacturing.
Twisted Village
Home to legendarily heavy psyche bands, label and store that comprise their empire.
Crammed Discs
Avant/World music, Aqsak Maboul and the Honeymoon Killers.
Man Recordings
Home of Nao Wave, the Brazil Post-punk comp, and some Baile Funk stuff.
This is Not an Exit
Record Label, new mixes, blog.
Poptones
Where did you go, questions of doom?
The Unofficial John Bender Homepage
Old website dedicated to Cincinatti Ohio's most wonderful obscure minimal synth artist.
Scritti Crush Connection
Gallery, links, discography (not up to date though)
Waterden
The Waterden label holds a specially curated collection of works by musicians active in the so-called UK DIY movement that flourished in the late 1970s’Äìearly 1980s. Home of the Instant Automatons Archive
The Durutti Column
The one, the only, one of my faves.
Del Shannon
The greatest.
Ode to Bobbie Gentry: A Tribute
The sexiest voice of all time.
Dolly Rocker
A Syd Barrett website
The Syd Barrett Archives
Another Syd Barrett website. RIP Syd.
Fred Neil
Why did Dylan make it and not Fred or Phil?
No Night Sweats: Slapp Happy
Australian post-punker Phil Turnbul on the greatest band of all time
The official VOLT homepage
French heirs to the Metal Urbain throne.
pragVEC
Unofficial page of post-punk band pragVEC.
Snatch
Really old page about Snatch, Patti Palladin and Judy Nylon.
Funboy Five
DIY at it's finest.
This Heat-Camberwell Now-Charles Hayward
Discographies
Thomas Leer - Future Historic
Homepage of DIY new wave originator and synth-pop hero.
Cabaret Voltaire
Discography of industrial/electro/new wave/post-punk/techno innovators, and keep up with the 30 records Richard Kirk released last week.
Une discographie de Robert Wyatt
An extensive discography of Robert Wyatt. In French.
23 Skidoo
Unofficial page
Nervous Gender
Official page of notorious SF synth punks
Torch Song Online
William Orbit and Laurie Mayer's 80s synth dance outfit, later joined by Rico from the Lines.
Win
post Fire Engines new pop delight
Sarah Gregory
A discography of Sarah Gregory, member of Repetition, Marine, Allez Allez, wife if Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17, collaborator of Carl Craig.
Alexander Robotnik
Official site. The one and only. Finding and old copy of Fuzz Dance EP was such a huge revelation to me, when I realized italian disco producers were making the best new wave of the 80s.
The Unofficial Homosexuals Discography Page
Sorting through the messy discography of the Homosexuals and related projects, with pictures.
Graham Massey Interview
Extensive interview with Danny and the Dressmakers, Biting Tounges and 808 State mastermind Graham Massey. From DIY to Factory to Acid House to Techno.
Bing Selfish
Home of the crown prince of avant-garde pop, the dapper crooning dean martin of the disaffected and disenfranchised.
Jayne Casey
Interview from the Caught in Flux zine.
Group XEX
Article by Mike Appelstein about the wonderful (and odd) New Jersey synth act.
Iggy Pop in Creem
Lester Bangs and Iggy Pop
Genesis P-Orridge
Unedited transcript of Alan Licht's Invisible Jukebox with Genesis.
Cardiffians: The Young Marble Giants Web archive
Mike Appelstein's Young Marble Giants website.
Flaming Tunes
Information page on the These Records site for Garet Williams post-This Heat cassette released collaboration with Mary Currie. Incorrectly traded for years as "After the Heat, post-Deceit Demos", Flaming Tunes is a wonderful collection of songs exploring the outermost pop, dub and minimal reaches of This Heat.
Street Level
Home of the UK DIY recording studio Street Level. Discography, links etc.
The Crepuscule and Factory Pages
Histories, discographies and all things Factory and Crepuscule.
Object Music Discography
Unofficial discography of Manchester's less well-known, yet equally fascinating, record label.
Heroic Leisure
Awesome unofficial discography of the Fast Records, Pop Aural and New Hormones labels.
If You don't know Fast Product...
Blog post from the man behind the Heroic Leisure site, with more in-depth background.
Bob Last
Interview with the man behind the curtain, Fast, Pop Aural, Human League, Mekons, Gang of Four, Fire Engines etc.
Dangerhouse Records
From Ryan Richardson's excellent punk site, Break My Face
Wake Ooloo/Feelies Interview
Great interview from Perfect Sound Forever
The Night of the Living Feelies
The Feelies homepage.
Jim Shephard.org
Jim Shephard archive, formerly V3web.
Adult.
Interviewed by a 6 year old. Absolutely hilarious.
Mayo Thompson Interview
Richie Unterberger interviews Mayo Thompson in 1996.
Alan Licht
An interview by Dan Warburton at Paristransatlantic.com
Ron Johnson Records
Fan discography.
Crawling Chaos
Post Punk Alternative music from the North-East of England.
Alice Bag
She don't need the English. Great stuff on the LA punk scene.
trakMARX
Highly recommended punk,pre-punk, post-punk etcwebzine.
Discopia
Fantastic online disco magazine with issues devoted to post-punk disco, italo, the Loft, Environ Records, etc.
Dusted Magazine
Coolest web zine.
Terminal Boredom
Record Reviewers are Pretentious Assholes
Plan B Magazine
Careless talk does apparently cost lives.
Stylus Magazine
Music and culture magazine.
Pitchfork Media
Highly influential music reviews, news and Dominque Leone's This Month in Out Music.
Tangents
Blog, articles, etc. Great stuff from John Carney and Kevin Pearce's articles about the Prefects and Manicure Noise...long after anybody cared, and long before anybody cared again.
Viva Radio
Fantastic flash-based online radio station with playlists from some of the hippest music lovers on the planet, myself included.
Pyjamarama
My show on Viva Radio.
WFMU
The world's number 1 radio station.
Choking on Cufflinks
Michael Goodstein's WFMU show archives and playlists. Amazing selections, and guests both excellent and questionable.
Jon Allen
An eclectic section of some seriously cool stuff.
East Village Radio
Awesome DJs, awesome DJ booth. I actually DJ'd when it was upstairs and they were actually broadcasting...none of this "web-only" nonsense. Many great shows.
Optimo
Scottish party of the highest order. Very eclectic DJs.
Part Time Punks
LA post-punk party.
Resonance
London radio station associated with the LMC. Cutting edge radio.
9 Beet Stretch
Artist Leif Inge used new time-stretching technology to make Beethoven's 9th symphony last 24 hours, and created the most beautiful piece of ambient music ever. For fans of Eno and Gavin Bryars. This is a link to the radio stream.
WNYU
NYU's radio station. Tuesdays feature the New Afternoon Show at 4 with Jacqueline and Tim Sweeney's legendary Beats In Space at 10:30.
One Faint Deluded Smile
No Night Sweats Blog
Woebot
Archives of the supremely influential and informative Woebot blog.
Woebot TV
Now a video blog.
Agony Shorthand
Archive of a most awesome blog, detailing Jay Hinman's journeys through rock, punk, post-punk, DIY, garage and other sounds.
Detailed Twang
Jay's new home, with a slightly wider focus.
Lost Bands of the New Wave Era
New wave, power-pop, synth-pop and punk profiles and samples.
Simon Reynold's Blissblog
Home of journalist and Rip It Up and Start Again author Simon Reynolds.
Clap Clap
Cantankerous Blog.
Gutter Breakz
Current UK electronic sounds with occasional forays into the past.
The Original Soundtrack
Home of writer Geeta Dayal.
Hot Out Herre
Mike Appelstein's blog. Ask him about Young Marble Giants...go ahead.
'Buked & Scorned
Blog care of Mike Mcgonical of Yeti and Chemical Imbalance fame.
Did You See Jupiter?
Blog of writer Andy Battaglia
Ye Wei Blog aka Wild Taste
Personal thoughts of Perfect Sound Forever editor Jason Gross.
The Simple Mission
Scenester...Scenemaker...Elliot Aronow.
Voltage
New York electro/synth-pop.
Four Four
Gossip, reality TV, slasher films and italo-disco. What more could you want?
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
World's best radio station = world's best blog?
Banana Nutrament
Music, culture, art, academia, political discourse, funny youtube videos.
Italians Do It Better
Blog for Mike from Troubleman's new dancier imprint. I posted about Renegade Soundwave there. It won a pulitzer for best writing, 2006.
Strange Reaction
Online punk zine with samples, reviews, forums, etc.
33/45
Another good blog
Jolyon Green
All things Balearic
Bedazzled
Excellent blog of vintage video/film clips and other delights. Like hanging out at O'Connors in Park Slope in the late 90s but without the obnoxious indie-rockers.
Little Hits
Great mp3 blog with a bit of a focus on college rock.
20 Jazz Funk Greats
The bleeding edge electronic dance revivals and the new underground.
Siltblog
Tom Lax of Siltbreeze's Blog
Shallow Rewards
Cataloging big eBay auctions.
Daughters of Invention
West coast disco revival
Bumrocks
Hip daily musical selections
Lovefingers
More hip daily musical selections
Blog to Comm
Blackto.com
Something I Learned Today
Punk blog.
Waxidermy
Excellent blog devoted to "unusual" records.
Post-Punk Junk
Post-Punk funk maybe, post-punk/new wave and their followers, no Junk.
Mein Walkman Ist Kaput
NDW, post-punk, DIY.
Low Down Kids Blog
Power-pop and DIY oddities.
Killed By Death Records
Punk/Powerpop/Mod/Hardcore blog.
Dorfdisco Braunsfeld
Mostly post-punk and related blog.
Crud Crud
Cheap yet awesome records.
Electro-Lights
San Fran post-punk disco revival.
Are Friends Electric
Another interesting blog.
Mended Records
Rock in Opposition
Different Waters
And...another interesting blog. More on the avant-garde/classical tip.
The Thing on the Doorstep
More in a classic industrial vein.
Industrial::Music::Library
Industrial:Music:Blog
An American Punk in Suburbia
Punk blog.
7 Inch Punk
Another punk blog.
Alain Finkielkrautrock
Cosmic, italo, Moondog and other good sounds.
Pop Surgery
Not sure yet.
Tropical Computer System
Cosmic disco, krautrock artrock, movie night and Dazzle Ships.
Jahsonic
One of the most interesting sites on the internet. A huge collection of writings compiled by one man about his interests. Everything fully linked in proper "hypertext" style. Very early online source for some obscure disco and Arthur Russell information.
John Mccready
Collected music journalism by John Mccready. Great articles about the Hacienda, Detroit Techno, Punk-Funk, Patrick Adams, etc.
Minimal Wave
Excellent web-site/label/forum covering all things Minimal Synth/Coldwave.
Pataphysics Research Laboratory
I'm not sure how this thing works.
Dream Chimney
Music discussion, tracks of the day, heavy on the Krautrock/Cosmic axis with a bit of everything else.
Burnlab
Architecture, design, techno.
The Nurse With Wound List
The first NWW record came with a list of influences, mostly obscure european progressive and experimental artists, post-punkers and other weirdos. Little did they know what effect this would have on eBay several decades later.
Airstructures
A fun japanese site with a variety of subjects, including "New Wave Diva" and Slapp Happy, the greatest band of all time.
70s Invasion
Really strange 70s rock, glam and pre-punk site
Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage
Cope and friends going on about cool music.
Cult Heroes
From the people behind Hong Kong Counterfeit, a site dedicated to italo-disco and new romantic music and fashion.
Collector Scum
For the serious punk collectors, including hosting of Henry Weld's Volume 3 Discography of American Punk. Essential.
Break My Face
KBD-style punk rock biographies.
Synthysteria!
6 mini-sites dedicated to the finest in late 70s/early 80s American synth-punk. The Units, Voice Farm, Screamers, Nervous Gender, Our Daughter's Wedding and Tone Set.
No More Time for Spectating
Richard Mason's influential article about Scritti Politi and the Desperate Bicycles, from Perfect Sound Forever
Rhythm of Cruelty
Jess Harvell on Howard Devoto and post-punk
WWWhatsup
Online pinstand and punkcast. Get your Acute Records pin there!.
The Memoirs of Richard Strange, excerpts
Some great stories, especially regarding Cristina and Ze Records
Technology and anarchy in the UK music industry
An academic article...it even has footnotes.
The Mod Pop Punk Archives
Great French punk/power-pop site with discographies, interviews and tons of songs in the "sounds" section.
Trunk Records Online
Basil Kirchens reissues, dirty pictures and god knows what else.
Wild Planet!
1983 article by Dave Henderson (of Fire Engines? Disco Zombies? another?), incredible list of avant/prog/experimental stuff, along the lines of the NWW list and more (then) recent industrial type artists.
Radio Crew Story
Site dedicated to the 1983 documentary film "Breakin and Entering"
Taking Tiger Mountain
The lyrics to Brian Eno's masterpiece, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Namlos Normal Sida
Old No Wave site.
The Problem With Music
Steve Albini's infamous article about the crappy music biz, hosted by Negativland.
Paul's Boutique
A list of all the samples and referances that appear on the Beastie Boy's classic 1989 album Paul's Boutique.
Independents Day
Full version of Simon Reynold's article about post-punk from Uncut magazine.
New Wave Photos
Amazing collection of photos taken b Philippe Carly. Who had the best haircuts?
PunkNet '77
Punk rock links, discographies, biographies etc.
Mital-U
Swiss Punk-Wave.
Yacht Rock
The internet TV show with the behind the scenes look at the favorite artists of your parents...and Williamsburg hipsters.
Birth of the Uncool
2006 article about DIY from the Guardian.
Post Punk Graphics
Academic article on Post-Punk Graphics.
The People's Choice Music
Dave Soldier and artists Komar & Melamid create both the most wanted song ever and the most unwanted song, based on a survey of listeners.
Monsters of Myspace
Helping you sort through bands on myspace.
Dissensus
Music discussion
ILX
Music discussion
KBD
Killed By Death yahoogroup for punk rock discussion.
Up-Tight
Posts of good music links and occasional discussion of all the good stuff.
Typical Girls
Fantastic mailing list for the discussion of women in punk/post-punk/pre-punk, influences and followers. Ideally focuses on pre-riot grrrl female innovators in music circa 1975-80s
DJ History
Dance music history discussions, often on disco, cosmic and other good sounds.
New Wave Outpost
New Wave message board and forum.
Other Music
The best little CD store in the world?
Low Down Kids
Power-pop, punk, new wave, post-punk for sale.
Ecstatic Yod
Byron Coley and Thurston Moore sell you records and books.
Forced Exposure
Distributor, retailer and occasional record label.
Rough Trade
The shop, now with mp3 sales.
DJ Friendly Records
Great website for classic dance 12"s
Rund um den Watzmann
The place to go for minimal synth and noisy records.
Post Everything
UK store/distributor
VJS productions
Serious collection of vintage disco and club tapes.
Deep House Page
Lots of great music
Cybernetic Broadcasting System
Electro-funk, italo-disco, hi-nrg, radio station, forums and mixes.
mp3mixes
Japanese portal to countless online dance mixes.
Disco Patrick
Great discography of old bootleg mixes and edits.
The FunHouse
Remembering legendary NYC club the FunHouse.
Disconet
Great disconet resource on a deep dutch disco site. Check out the original flyers that came with all the old disconet volumes.
Sueno Martino
Another great disco site with mixes and links.
Red Bull Music Academy
Amazing interviews with producers/djs/musicians.
Italo Disco.net
Beautifully designed italo site.
Global Darkness
Home of neo-electro.
WBMX Mix Archive
WMBX was the Chicago radio station that gave birth to the Hot Mix 5 and other influential DJs who mixed disco, italo, electro, new wave, pop and the emerging house and techno records in the mid to late 80s.
The Loft
Official site of the legendary NY disco club. This is the ideal, where it all began.
Electrochoc
Playlists from Laurent Garnier's Book, music divided by historical club scene.
Music Thing
Enjoyable music technology blog/
Synapse Magazine
Late 70s electronic music magazine scans.
Vintage Synth
Vintage Synths. I'm an Arp 2600 man, myself.
Fairlight CMI Users Group
The only members are Trevor Horn and Thomas Leer. Nick Rhodes's is just for show.
Combo Organ Heaven
I bought my Farfisa because of Stereolab and Cabaret Voltaire. It's been broken for 4 years.
Farfisa.org
Farfisa organ fansite.
Miniorgan
A directory of toy organs. The Mego Muson Synthesizer was my first ever synth.
Tinfoil
Collection of early sound recordings.
Albini on food
An interview with Steve Albini about food. I happen to love cucumbers on sandwhiches though.
Mudd & Pravda
Scene photos from the Mudd Club.
Filler archives at Suck
The most insightful and funny stuff ever found on the internet.
Vice Magazine
I know you hate it, its still ok to read it, and the Dos and Don'ts are still great.
Mcsweeney's Lists
Always the best part of Mcsweeneys.
The REAL Gothic FAQ
Tips for teens.
Engrish.com
Foreigners are so funny when they mess up our language!
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Legendary 1971 article in Esquire Magazine about the birth of phone phreaking.
LJ Images
The Last 40 images posted to Live Journal
Kids in the Hall
The funniest and smartest sketch comedy ever.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure
Java version of the old text based game. I loved text-based games.
The Space Behind
A list of online profiles of people who've passed away.
Not Fooling Anybody
A chronicle of bad conversions and storefronts past.
Business Reply
What to do with your junk BREs (Business Reply Envelopes, duh.)
Oblique Strategies
How Brian Eno does it.
Whitney Music Box
The coolest thing on the web
Yugop
Crazy web experiments.
Sharpeworld
America's No. 1 Website, including scans of Wet Magazine.