"More than, I think, really, than the sound, what gets me going is... just making, you know, the process of making the sounds, you know running around in circles, jumping up and down, hitting on a guitar really hard and hearing this thing explode behind you is just -- it's so much more exciting than just sitting there, quietly listening to it. I can't imagine why everyone in the world isn't in a rock band."Steve Albini"Give the finger to the rock and roll singer as he's dancing upon your paycheck."Beck

Here's an assortment of music-related web sites:

Mike Watt

  • New! Mike Watt's Hoot Page. Watt's presence online.
  • Moik has a wonderful page devoted to Mike Watt, the minutemen and fIREHOSE The picture of Watt that I modified for the background of this page came from Moik's site.
  • watt's web world Sony's promotional pages for Ballhog or Tugboat. There are a lot of images and these pages can be very slow to load.
  • For laughs, the How Bad Mike Watt Could Kick Steve Miller's Ass Page. This may not exist any more. Pity about that.
  • The Mike Watt Homeboy page.
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    Pages for other bands/musicians

  • R.E.M.
  • Neil Young
  • Fred "Sonic" Smith and the MC5
  • Subbacultcha WWW page (the Pixies, Breeders, Frank Black, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh etc.)
  • Curtis Malasky's Wonder Stuff page
  • Talking Heads
  • The Golden Palominos
  • Killing Joke discography, lyrics, pictures and trivia.
  • Bob Mould Pictures, interviews, lyrics and guitar tabs for Husker Du, Sugar and Bob's solo stuff.
  • Moik has also set up an excellent Sonic Youth page.
  • Sonic Hearts, Sonic Minds Just can't get enough of Sonic Youth.
  • Negativland Interviews The Edge and asks him about censorship, record companies suing the ass off small bands and can he lend them a few bob because a certain lawsuit has left them a bit broke.
  • St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage "That's right, the secret word for tonight is `mudshark'"
  • homepagereplica Fast and bulbous.
  • UbuWeb The story of Pere Ubu.
  • a patti smith babelogue Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
  • Yo La Tengo There comes a time when your life is full of meaning, that's a time that I'm looking forward to.
  • Antietam Record label page, mainly to advertise Rope-a-dope. better than nothing I suppose.
  • But wait, my own Antietam homepage has finally seen the light of day. Check it out.
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    Hip-hop

  • Hip-hop CD suggestions
  • Hip-hop reviews
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    Jazz

  • Eric Dolphy Discography
  • Charles Mingus Home Page
  • WNUR-FM JazzWeb
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    Lists, indices and record labels

  • Musical Web Connections A comprehensive list of sites. Highly recommended.
  • Axiom Home Page
  • Matador Records' wonderful home page
  • The Ultimate Band List. If you can't find a band here, it probably isn't on the Internet. Now full of advertising banners. Bleah!
  • Chainsaw Records Home to Team Dresch and other fine bands. Run by Donna Dresch. No advertising banners, just cool records. Try out their chat thing.
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    New Music Recommendations

  • Firefly is an interesting idea. You supply ratings for albums or artists you like. It then recommends new music to you based on those ratings.
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    Down with the bass...

  • The Bass Tab Archive
  • Bass Lessons
  • "A Jazz Improvisation Primer" by Marc Sabatella
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