BLOGS WE FREQUENT
Deniz Tek
Ex-Radio Birdman, Soul Movers guitarist and solo artist
Ken Shimamoto
Ken blogs, you read.
The Houndblog
Via WMFU and the Lakeside Lounge ingood ol' NYC
Sons of the Dolls
Sons of the Dolls have impeccable taste in music
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is a good place to be
Retrokimmer
Kimmer is an Ann Arbor girl
Next Biig Thing
Next Big Thing with Lindsay Hutton
MGT
Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson’s home on the web
Michael Davis
Ex-MC5 bassist
Garageland
Garageland likes the real sounds
Garage Punk 66
Garage Punk 66 sometimes gets a little contemporary
Punxrukus
Roya has her finger on the pulse of contemporary punk
Last Tram Home
TJ Honeysuckle keeps watch in Melbourne
MAILING
LISTS/FORUMS
Davie
Allan
Mailing list for the King of the Fuzz Surf Guitar.
Alternative
Top 40
A novel idea. Like an undeground Big Brother, you listen to the MP3s
on this mailing list and vote off the ones you don't like.
The
Big Takeover
Great magazine, fair to middling list noteworthy for its musical diversity.
Bomp List
Mega community of trash culture/60s punk-minded people.
Detroit
Music Trading
Exactly what it says - for live or commercially unavailable music.
Died Pretty
Discussion about one of Oz's great bands, now past tense.
Divine Rites
Australian punk, garage and pop inspired by the world's best label, Citadel.
Dom
Mariani
Australia's powerpop godfather (ex-DM3, Stems.)
Flamin' Groovies
Mostly Cyril-orientated (latter day) list for Groovies fans.
Garage-Psych
Brian Boes' diverse list of psych-garage inspired origins.
Garage
Punk Forums
Kopper has launched this resource and if they served Crown Lager it'd
be even more like home. Forums for every relevant musical sub-set, including
Aussie rock.
Penny
Ikinger
Mailing
list for the Melbourne singer-guitarist.
MC5
The MC5-1967 mailing list. Kick 'em out!
Scott
Morgan
Ex-Rationals and Sonics Rendezvous Band member, now leading Powertrane.
No Fun
All things Stooges and Ig-related.
Please Kill
Me
Inspired by the scandalous NY punk book of the same name.
Poison Pen
Slavishly devoted and fun-loving Hoodoo Gurus fans.
Pop on Top
Alerts for updates to Neal McCabe's excellent Australian-based Garage
and Pop site.
Psych
Garage Trade
What it says it is.
Rock Like
Fuck With The Dragons
Small group of fans of San Diego's wonderful Dragons.
Sonics
Rendezvous Band
Blistering Michigan rock and roll.
Subway Train
Glam-trash, Thunderesque punk rock, hosted by Bro Col of Vicious Kitten
records.
Texas Psych
Keeping the legacy of Roky Erickson alive with an extensive trading
tree.
Louis
Tillett
Sydney's enduring and engagingly dark singer-pianist has his own mailing
list.
The Waldos
Fans of ex-Heartbreakers guitarist Walter "Waldo" Lure.
BANDS
Aampirellas
Bitter-sweet Rock Action from Brisvegas. Watch these guys - they should
be huge.
The
Accidents
Interesting sounding up-and-coming Sydney pop-rock band. Check out their
MP3s.
Davie
Allan and the Arrows
Fuzz surf guitar exponent and veteran of a thousand soundtracks
Ron Asheton
You need to ask?
The
Atlantics
Aussie surf-beat legends return.
Babeez/News
Great fan site outlining the histories of these Melbourne punk bands.
Backsliders
Raw garage rock from France, featuring Francois (ex Fixed up)
B-Movie Rats
Chuck Berry meets the Stooges. Amped-up Rock Action from the Midwest.
Bored!
Geelong wah-wah kings. Get their double best-of.
Blood Idols
Brisbane punk-rockabilly stuff.
Blue Oyster Cult
The official site, with merch and all...
Bossbeat and the Rayguns
Quirky garage stuff from Sydney.
Brother
Brick
Stew Cunningham's late but inspired band. Who else could make a song
about socks sound so great?
Captain
Beefheart
Sure 'nuff, n' yes, I do.
Michael Carpenter
Sublime Sydney powerpop
Celibate
Rifles
Beyond respect.
Simon Chainsaw
Site for the one-man musical industry that is Simon Drew Vanilla Chainsaws,
Greg Brady Overdrive, Chainsaw Men, Bad Ass Roadshow.)
Cheetah
Chrome
Dead Boy not running scared.
Cosmic
Psychos
Raise your glasses to Yob Rock.
Crank
Sydneysiders who've been around since 1994. Think of Snuff or
Leatherface with a bit of Bodyjar and Greenday and you'll get the idea.
The Cynics
Gregg Kostelich (of Get Hip) plays in this great band.
The D4
Heartbreakers-inspired rawk from New Zealand.
Jeff Dahl
Punk glam to kick your arse.
The
Danger Men
Lo-fi search-and-destroy garage punks from Brisvegas.
The Dead
Set
Rob Younger-produced album from this Wollongong band.
The Dictators
The Next Big Thing. They WILL save rock and roll.
Died Pretty
Going ahead in leaps and bounds, now it's reactivated.
DKT-MC5
Back playing live, tentatively planning a studio album.
Dollsquad
Maybe the best girl-garage band in Australia.
Donovan's
Brain
Great psychedelic collective from Bozeman, Montana, driven by a true
gentleman in Bay Area veteran, Ron Sanchez.
The Dragons
Truly great Heartbreakers/Stones-styled rock out of San Diego.
The
Dry Retch
Anglo-Australian band playing Stooges/Birdman-inspired rock outta ..um...Liverpool.
England.
The
Electric Eels
True to the spirit of this seminal Cleveland band.
Mick Farren
You can't keep a good Deviant down...
Flamin'
Groovies
Shake Some Action!
Flamin' Groovies
Cyril Jordan's own site.
Flaming
Sideburns
More demented garage rock from near the Arctic circle. Time to testify,
kids!
Frog Hollow
Garage psych and related to the Mutated Noddies.
Fuzztones
You know Vox guitars and fuzz pedals are a perfect match. New album
on the way.
Giants
of Science
Brisbane's up-and-coming exponents of guitar groove.
God
R.I.P. Great Australian noise from rock prodigies who have gone on to
Bored, the Powder Monkeys and the Yes Men.
Gluecifier
Self-crowned Kings of Rock.
Guddling
Girlie pop from Sydney. Who's that ugly bastard on drums?
Gun Crazy
Updated site for this Texan band with all the right influences.
Hard
Ons
Official site for Sydney's enduring and undeniably great Hard Ons.
Hellacopters
Official home of more guitar solos than you can poke a tuning fork at.
Richard
Hell
He belonged to the Blank Generation.
Holy Curse
New site and still the best rock out of France in many a year.
Hoodoo
Gurus
Great site for the late, great Sydney band (pity about the pop-ups)
The Hydromatics
Euro-punks meet Detroit legend Scott Morgan. R.I.P.
Penny Ikinger
Edgy, seductive
and dark music from this Aussie chanteuse, formerly of the Wet Taxis
but now solo.
Incredible
Mohawk Brothers
Cult Detroit band from the '80s.
Intercontinental Playboys
Roky Erickson meets the Cramps at Dean Martin's penthouse. Cool Sydney
garage.
Intercooler
Brisbane four-piece powerpop band on Rhythm Ace Records.
The Jack
Saints
Cool punk action out of San Francisco.
Jerry Spider Gang
Funny name, fine band. Punk from France.
Kevin
K
Former Road Vulture, now transplanted from NYC to LA. Vicious Kitten
and 13th Street Records artist.
King
Felix
Dark blues from Sydney.
Wayne Kramer
MC5 guitarist.
Ed Kuepper
Newish and excellent website for iconic guitarist and solo artist.
Lime
Spiders
Back up and running after a year in limbo.
Simon
Li
I-94 Bar writer and troubadour.
The
Litter
Inspiration for many a Sydney fuzz band in the '80s.
Latin Dogs
Oldschool punk from Detroit. Free MP3s.
The Loose
Updated: From Italy, via Detroit and Sydney and they kick out
serious jams. Get MP3s here.
Loose
Stooges tribute band from the UK, not to be confused with The Loose
from Italy.
Psychotic
Turnbuckles
Green-haired monsters of Sydney wrestling rock and roll
Robert
Quine
Great site focussing on the career of an even greater guitarist and
gentleman to boot.
Richard
Lloyd
Television man. Beautiful site.
Freddie
Lynxx
Thunders/Stones raunch with a Parisian twist.
Mazinga
Ann Arbor punk rock with surf, psych and sci-fi leanings.
M16s
Perth's most high-octane, hard-rocking, Sonics Rendezvous-influenced
band.
Mach Pelican
You thought the Ramones were American? These guys are from Melbourne,
via Japan.
Danny
McDonald
Ex-P76 and Jericho mainman goes solo.
Little
Green Fairy
In your face like only French punk-psych can be.
Mutated Noddies
Seminal South Coast punk from Wollongong (south of Sydney)
Magnolia
Rock Action from Hamburg, Germany. Say Guten Tag to Thomas Zink, Oz
music enthusiast and true gentleman.
The
Masters Apprentices
Turn Up Your Radio!
MC5
Best site for the Five we've seen. It's outta France.
MC5/Future Now Films
Future Now Films are putting out a movie. Time to testify. Buy the T-shirt,
finance the release.
The Monarchs
R.I.P. Great Sydney band.
The Monks
Garage gods. The anti-Beatles. They hate you.
The
Monstrous Blues
Big guitar groove rock sound from Wollongong.
Mooney Suzuki
Tough rocking garage pop from Greater NYC.
Scott
Morgan
Official site for the Powertrane and Solution and ex Sonic's Rendezvous
Band, Hydroimatics and Rationals member.
The
Mutants
Not the veteran Detroit punk combo, but from Scandinavia
Mutated Noddys
Seminal Wollongong rockers, kicking it out since 1983.
Naked
Eye
Superior rock from Melbourne with an ear-catching pop edge in the mould
of the Sunnyboys.
New
York Dolls
Back room of the Johnny Thunders Cyber Lounge where it's too much, too
soon.
Niagara
Artist, performance artist. Ex-Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival.
Nitwitz
Totalitarian rock and roll from Amsterdam.
The Nomads
Original Kings of Scandi garage rock.
The
Onyas
Brisbane's finest now drinking Melbourne dry.
Pink
Fairies
Larry Wallis' home on the Net.
Pere
Ubu
Cleveland's seminal art-punkers' web presence.
Powertrane
featuring Scott Morgan
Preview the forthcoming album, keep up with the news.
Question
Mark and the Mysterians
Official site.
Iggy
Pop
Nice fan page.
Iggy
Pop
World's forgotten boy.
Iggy
Pop
Lotsa pix.
Iggy
Pop and the Stooges
Definite place for all your Ig needs.
Powder
Monkeys
Hard rockin' shit out of the Geelong school.
Psychopunch
Like it sounds.
Pyramdiacs
Pop with panache. Sydney's gift to Spain.
Radio Birdman
Official band site.
Rick Rivets
Original New York Dolls guitarist.
Joey Ramone
R.I.P.
Dee Dee Ramone
Sadly, deceased.
The Ramones
Top of the pile. Jim Peoples runs the best resource around.
The Ramones
The Official Ramones Web Site run by their artist Arturo Vega
The Ramones
Jari-Pekka's massive Ramones site.
The Ramones
Some great pix.
The
Ramones
Ramones 4-Ever is a new site.
The Ramones
One of the granddaddies. Lifestyles of The Ramones.
The
Ramones
Great title, great site: The Band That Ate My Brain.
The Ramones
Carbona Corner is another well-established site.
The Ramones
Lyrics and guitar chords to almost every song.
Marky Ramone and the Intruders.
The Official website.
Gary
Rasmussen
Detroit rock elder statesman and ex-Sonics Rendezvous Band member.
The
Rationals
Drummer Bill Figg's site, charting the history of this great garage/blue-eyes
soul band from Michigan.
Reckless
Bastards
Reckless punk from some garage in Seattle. Hassle 'em for a demo!
Red Shift
Rockin' Melbourne outfit.
Lou Reed
Rock and Roll Animal site. Updated more often than Lou's.
Lou
Reed
Moribund official home of Lou Reed.
Ian
Rilen
Mr Rock 'n' Roll. R.I.P.
Rockafella
The latest from the High Beam Music stable. Young Turks fromt
he Gong.
Roll Cage
Rocking garage punk-pop from Sydney. Grab their album "A Summer
Full of Pussy" on Head Miles.
Rose
Tattoo
New album out in Europe now.
The Saints/Chris
Bailey
Everybody knows this monkey.
The Saints
Great fan page on the "original" Saints, with assistance from
Ed Kuepper.
Sonic's Rendezvous Band
Only official, band-sanctioned website for the illustrious Michigan supergroup.
Sour Jazz
Damn fine rock and roll from NYC that swings and kicks and all that.
The
Specimens
Melbourne band The Specimens - influenced by bands like The Lime Spiders,
The Onyas, The Powder Monkeys, Bored and the Spoilers.
The
Stabilsers
Very cool garage snarl from England, featuring ex-Prisoner/Headcoat
Alan Crockford.
Stooges
Rather cool site from France
Streetwalkin' Cheetahs
Your favourite well-mannered boys?
Sweatmaster
Ultra-cool Finish garage rock action.
Swig
Energetic Detroit rock band, containing two ex-Junk Monkeys
The Thermals
Australia's best undiscovered band. Sadly, no more...Nik Rieth (Deniz
Tek Group, ex-Celibate Rifles, ex-New Christs) and two talented guitarists
in Leigh Ivin and John Freckleton.
Deniz Tek
Former Radio Birdman mainman and Citadel solo artist.
Deniz
Tek
Interview by the Diktator.
Deniz Tek
Great interview in Perfect Sound Forever, which links to a piece
comparing his work to that of Artaud.
Television
and Tom Verlaine
Santadog's wide-ranging resource.
Television
and Tom Verlaine
The Wonder of things that come out of the UK.
Television
and Tom Verlaine
Lean and mean. Just the facts.
Tennessee
Beats
Beats us how they get a name like that in Scandinavia, but they cover
the Hitmen's "Tell Tale Heart".
The Soundtrack
of Our Lives
Neo-psych whatever. Defies pigeonholing.
Thirteenth
Floor Elevators
The drummer Danny Thomas' site.
Michael Thimren
Former Johnny Thunders sideman, now making his own way.
Johnny
Thunders Cyber Lounge
Victim of his own legend. Amazing resource but sadly about as active
as JT these days.
Louis Tillett
Moody and rich music from one of Australia's best kept secrets.
Turbonegro
Norway's finest exponents of out-of-the-closet deathpunk and darkness.
Union
Carbide Productions
Wanna know where Sweden'scurrent wave of noisemakers took their lead?
Try here and the Nomads' site.
Vanilla
Chainsaws
Fan page for this underrated Sydney band
Velvet
Underground
And more.
Sonny
Vincent
Get acquainted with Pure Rock Action.
Voodoo Monkeys
Hard rockin' Crampsian psychobilly up-and-comers from Sydney
The Wonderfools
Stephanie Stewart's unofficial resource.
Neil
Young
The ultimate resource. Land of the Rusties.
X
Twenty-five years of off-and-on sublime rock from these Sydney vets.
Fan site. Long overdue.