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muzak | emote | lomography | linksuh | Blog Entertainment | Toronto | Radio | Magazines | Labels and Bands | Other Bands | Canadiana Bands the shit No Media Kings... if you can make a zine, you can make a book... your best indie writing guidelines on-line The CAP Reports are Christian left wing (or is it right wing, I never get those straight) fundamentalists with a big bothersome carrot up their arse who hate films. Dark Horizons is the only movie rumour site worth its salt every day (F@*& Aint-It-Cool) DVD File has both great articles and coverage of all the up-and-coming news. DVD Angle has much the same info that DVD File has, but is more intimatley reader friendly, and they're always giving shit away. Roger Ebert is the only reviewer whose words deserve respect (despite Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). These are Marks' bookmarks. More cool diznit than you can shake a dookie log at. (Why you'd want to try...) Bruce Lee will hitchew with his cungfu grip, so watchout. Brian Bolland can learn your ass every which way but aloof. The Onion: pee while lauging Comic Book Resources: a good online journal for the world of comics... Slush Factory: another comics site with good interviews and some great editorials Hill City Comics is the best comics store on earth located, for some reason, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The View Askew-niverse... what can I say, I love those stupid bastards... toronto The Eye is Toronto's weekly freebie newspaper, with regularly good articles (if not brief), and the better organized of Toronto's club and concert listings. Now is Toronto's weekly freebie newspaper, with more stuff than Eye but really shitty listings. But the personals are hilarious. The World Famous Horseshoe Tavern Lee's Palace music
mags Buddyhead for your amerindie music world dish Exclaim Magazine is the best (and only) Canadian cross-country freebie newspaper worth reading radio Kohina will hook you up with the best commodore six-tee-four muzak there is. The Radio Station Guide will find you many internet radiostations... sure. WFMU archives has many realaudio archives at 3hours apiece. CBC Radio 3, the dig for New Music Canada, Just Concerts, 120Seconds.com and the ol' Radio 2 lineup (Radiosonic, RadioOn, and Brave New Waves) Bands and Labels Warp Records, Richard James of Aphex Twin's label, has a keenly interlaced website and some streaming mixes. Also home of Autechre and Plaid. Ninja Tune's website is as broad as the music they distribute, with links to their sub-labels (including Roots Manuva's Big Dada (brit-underground hiphop) and the Quannum artists (DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Latyrx)). Ninja Tune is home to Funky Porcini, Amon Tobin, Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Food, DJ Vadim, and Kid Koala. Aaand, there's archives to Ninja Tune's Solid Steel Radio Broadcast archive. Emperor Norton, the home of Ladytron, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Olivia Tremor Control, Sunshine Fix, Senor Coconut, and Takako Minekawa. Mint Records, brings to you Canada's indie best, including the New Pornographers, Duotang, I Am Spoonbender, Huevos Rancheros, and more great stuff (including, once upon a time, Cub and Maow). Merge holds Stephen Merritt's numerous "groups" (the 6ths, Magnetic Fields, Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes), as well as the many others great bands they've got (...and you will know us by our trail of dead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Rock*A*Teens, Versus). Matador Records is the launchpad for many a great band, like Arab Strap, Cornelius, Belle & Sebastian, Solex, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and Pizzicato 5. the 75 Ark provides the world with Dan the Automator's projects like Handsome Boy Modelling School (with Prince Paul), Lovage, and Deltron 3030 (Gorillaz are somewhere else). Also on the Ark is the Coup and Anti-pop Consortium. Kitty-yo Beggars Banquet, purveyer of many labels, including:
Rephlex is home to tonnes of groundbreaking electronica including Ovuca Calm and Collective the Elephant 6 Collective, Athens,GA's unbelievably diverse group of musical talent, including Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, the Gerbils, Dressy Bessy and Beulah. More Bootay MC Chris -- he's Hesh from Sealab 2021, and a damn good pop-cult-hip-hop artist. Massive Attack Bjork Underworld -- like emerson, lake and palmer, but without emerson (or lake and palmer...) in fact nothing at all like them. Tenacious D -- JB and KG rock your sox off secks supreme! Beta Band De La Soul -- the greatest of all DJ Spooky: That Subliminal Kid Orbital Radiohead Mr. Mixel Pixel the beauty of brash Clinic For Stars Tristeza Atom and His Package is too weird for words. Canadesque Sloan Hayden The Local Rabbits The Planet Smashers -- the galactic kings of ska-punk-rawk The Flashing Lights Atomic 7 -- (ex Shadowy Man, ex Heatseeker, and current Boyfriend of Neko Case) Brian Connelly's new rockabilly/surf band More Plastic White Star Line Hidden Cameras -- my new fav band, their live shows are astounding Raising the Fawn Mean Red Spiders the ewoks, the fuzzy little bears rock the world, organ/drumstyle the Organ droon-tones your space rawkus the Dears Test Tone Channel Les Sequelles mp3 hotspots Epitonic has free music, what else needs to be said. Audiogalaxy © exploding head movie 2002 |