| THE KIPPER KIDS
One of the best performance art acts ever to rearrange your face, bar none. Absolutely hilarious, disgusting, disquieting, entertaining, mean-spirited, ugly, burlesque, scatological, sublime, and a straight blow of bad wind to the id with no holds barred. You will laugh out loud as they cut off your nipples! You must know about this, or you're a feeble dolt! The only link I know of between Herman Nitsch and Bozo The Clown. In a word: Brilliant. This is where Karen Finley got her yams, though in this case they are NOT peeled.
- M.Gira
ARTHUR
An excellent new magazine, free nationwide
(80,000 copies). It's called ARTHUR. It features
intelligent writing/articles ranging from
music, to art, to topical essays/memoirs.
It's really high caliber stuff indeed.
Fat
Possum Records
Renowned home of living, breathing, seething
blues. A must!
A rtists include: Bob Log III, Mississippi
Fred McDowell and Johnny
Woods, Robert Belfour, T-Model Ford, Junior
Kimbrough, Solomon Burke, R.L.
Burnside, Hasil Adkins and more...
The
Living Jarboe
Website of the longtime singer/keyboardist/contributor
to SWANS. An idiosyncratic and eclectic original.
Toby
Dammit
The original redneck psychedelic hillbilly Toby
Dammit freaks out with firecracker grooves and
sci-fi FX. Candy-coated, funhouse, primal thumps
abound. The album is Top Dollar. The Man is a
carnival barker and the messiah.
Jerry
Blue
This is a glorious place to visit. The provocative
thoughts herein are the most profound since
Shakespeare, or Plato, or Oprah Winfrey, or
Sid Vicious.
Nicole
Boitos
insound
Noise essentials.
les hommes sauvages
Kristof Hahn. Long time friend of M.Gira and long time collaborator in Swans and Angels of Light.
Permanent Fatal Error
A new band from Olivier (Ulan Bator).
runegrammofon.com
Record company releasing innovative Norwegian
music by such greats as composer Arne Nordheim,
Helge Sten (Deathprod., Supersilent), Lasse Marhaug
(Jazzkammer, Rishaug/Marhaug, etc.), techno-ambient
legend Biosphere, a. o.
bizarremag.com
Probably the only magazine (other than Wire, of
course) worth a subscription.
alien8recordings.com
Canadian avant label with divers catalog featuring
Loren Mazzacane Connors, Keiji Heino, Merzbow,
Aube, and others.
alternativetentacles.com
Mr. Jello Biafra's label and website. Jello is
a political, artistic,musical, and antimusical,
saint of the sardonic incision, a man of punk
without the usual attendant leaden baggage. AT
released "drainland" by m.gira.
Tin Lustre Mobile
SuicideGirls.com
invisiblerecords.com
Mighty drummer of PIL, Ministry, Killing Joke,
Pigface etc etc, now a master entrepeneur with
onslaught of diverse music on label.
atavistic.com
Seminal Chicago out-there label with Branca,
Lunch, Brotzman, E.A.R., and millions more.
peterchoyce.com
A world famous website of major geopolitical
and social importance.
noreasterzine.com
48 Cameras
"A European band known as a musical project of variable geometry. On its sixth album (2002), DJ Olive, Michael Gira
& Gerard Malanga appear as 'guests'. As with the dominoes theory, frequent modifications of line-up
& various collaborations proceed of fortuitous accidents & in the long term create links that are multiplying."
brainwashed.com
Revolver
USA
The best independent distributor in the USA. Last
bastion of no bull, no hype, AND, they have integrity
and are honest. They distribute a huge catalog
of interesting music.
thewire.co.uk
The Wire is the best source magazine for diverse
music from avant rock, to jazz, to experimental,
to classical, to hip hop, to electronic. Excellent
editorial content, in-depth articles, and a multitude
of reviews. Highly reccommended.
neubauten.freibank.com
Absolute innovators of sound-as-raw-disfigured-emotion.
crucial and eternal. this site is under construction
but keep checking.
blixa-bargeld.com
not only a refined gourmet and chef, but also
one of the most intensely individual performers
ever in the world of rock-related music. Abeauty.
2
13 61
Website of henry rollins, book publisher, and
punk rock prometheus, whose company published
m.gira's collection of short stories, "The
Consumer."
thirstyear.com
Diverse releases include The Birthday Party, Biosphere,
Robert Wyatt, Pere Ubu, Neubauten, Foetus and
more.
localbandsnyc.com
A directory of local NY bands giving a one minute
sound bite of each band and a link to their site.
”Hear the bands before you pay the cover
charge!”
despair.com
A wonderful place to put your happiness behind
you.
Tonic
The best venue for forward-looking live music
in NYC. Good sound, comfortable, unpretentious
environment, reasonably priced, and most of all
consistently interesting music.
Kranky
A great forward-looking, resolutely non-industry
label with groups such as Low, Godspeed you Black
Emperor, and much more.
lydialunch.org
The indominatble force of nature, and Queen of
NYC, no matter where she lives.
foetus.org
A heartthrob, a god, a devil genius of musical
terror and the sublime.
glennbranca.com
Composer of absolutely, overwhelmingly transcendent
music.
beeandflower.com
Dana Schechter, bass player in Angels, also has
her own smart and sensual group called Bee and
Flower.
Origami Republika
Origami Republika are veteran hand made sonic
innovators, have made some extremely interesting
recordings, played concerts with Swans in Norway
(where they're based), and contributed sound sources
to Body Lovers.
bbgun.org
Magazine of Bob Bert, NYC Superstar (Knoxville
Girls, Pussy Galore, Sonic Youth) with music,
art, writing.
disassociative.org
smellslikerecords.com
Label of Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), also includes
SYR and Ecstatic Peace, and diverse artists including
Cat Power, Lee Hazlewood, SY, The Raincoats and
much more.
tableoftheelements.com
The last word in beautifully packaged experimental/minimal/seminal
music with Tony Conrad, Faust, Captain Beefheart,
John Cale, John Fahey and much more.
secondsmagazine.com
Wildly diverse content from Bobby Beausoleil to
Terry Riley and LaMonte Young to Joe Coleman to
Holly Woodlawn.
bigtakover.com
Jack Rabid's omnivorous enthusiasm for music never
dies.
wfmu.org
The best radio station in America, period.
kdvs.org
wrek.org
and wras.org
Two of the best radio stations in the Southeast.
Wrek offers live MP3 on the net, and also an ARCHIVE
of the past weeks shows.
Ciao Bella
feralhouse.com
Compendium of culture as it was meant to be in
a just God's mind.
fringecore.com
A compendium of off culture and severed roots.
pitchforkmedia.com
earpollution.com
allmusic.com
genesisp-orridge.com
One of the most important visual and sonic artists
of the last 30 years.
richardkern.com
Premier erotic photographer and seminal nyc filmmaker.
His girls are the cream.
chairkickers.com
Low | True inheritors of the American soul.
choler.com
An Interesting source of the underland.
toolband.com
Tool | A good example of a forward looking pop
group with roots deep in undercurrents you'd never
expect.
steveseverin.com
Bass player and collaborator in Siouxsie and the
Banshees. A high minded literary figure and connoisseur
of the sublime.
sonicyouth.com
Sonic Youth had a seminal connection to Swans
in the early days; gone on to dazzle the paparazzi.
tonesanddrones.com
PanSonic | Electronic professors of sonic attrition,
contributed to body lovers and toured with swans
on final tour.
firstworldmusic.com
William Rieflin | Drummer for Ministry and Swans.
A master musician and gentleman of excellence
par extraordinaire, now with his own record label.
soundandchaos.com
Underbelly sound source in Alabama
neurosis.com
The uber-heavy band, made even more effective
by their use of atmospherics/ambience, and sonic
experimentation. Vikings in outer space.
extravaganza.cl
All around music source/spanish language
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