Blueswamp Southern are a band I play bass in - there are other members of my family in it too.

Sons Of Itto was a band I played bass in between 2005-2010.

Oneida are my new favourite band. so are Pontiak,, Guitar Wolf and Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat

Junior Kimbrough has no official website that i can find

Les Rallizes Denudes this site is in japanese. i don't remotely understand it. i love them in a big way, though.

Julian Cope. has moved on a bit from 'world shut your mouth'.

Kevin Hewick Leicester legend and very nice guy. talks for aaaages between songs, but then plays great songs. you go see.

Charlie Parr i bloody love this guy.

Noir Desir my languages are bloody awful, and i don't even really understand french (typically bloody englisher), but i bloody love their music

Creech Holler made the best album i heard in 2009

Young Gods Records is my attempt at linking to Angels of Light/Swans, as its the best place to find out about them, as well as their myspazz

Nate Pilgrim and the Magnificatz Any attempt to describe them does not them justice do. wonderful live act and excellent people. seemingly Nate is off travelling from them at the moment - i bet they're still worth catching though.

The Heads probably the most dysfunctional psych band around...

Current 93 blows my mind on a regular basis - if you're a devout uber reductionist, and you're still here, well definitely avoid this guy. unless you really do have an open mind (in which case you wouldn't be an uber reductionist...)

Acid Mothers Temple as if you needed me to point these to you

The Rainmakers Those of you who are shameless 80's revivalists should need no excuse. Those of you who, like me, remember how gopping the 80's actually were should note that these were one of the good bands.

Dischord Home to the wonderful Lungfish and many more excellent artists besides.

Dubdotcom If you like dub vibes, then here is a place to go. They do nice dubcasts.

Burning Babylon. More dub of a most crucial variety.

Henry Flynt Philosopher, musician and else besides. all worth attending to.

Mr Plow Was a regular host on our old Itto Thursday nights. also writes fabulous songs, and is a very nice bloke too.

Indian Jewelry i like in a much way, and i think aren't a million miles from the one dog view of music

The Ebb and Flow are not even remotely linked to the frankly rubbish children's TV program, instead being a very good band.

Pissed Jeans have a brilliant name

Frodus Defunct. So what? rocked mightily.

and in the absence of official sites, i'll have to link to myspace sites, so, check out The Smears, Old Time Relijun, Vent, David Thomas Broughton and more when i get round to it.

more fabulous musician types who you need in your life will soon appear when i have relevant urls to hand (this is not a netbot) but if you can be arsed to google - Parson Sound, The Boredoms, Crow Tongue, Sleater Kinney, Yellow Swans, Boris, Shy Child, White Hills, Gram Rabbit, Magic Lantern, Polvo, Cha Cha Cohen, Sailboats Are White, sunn O))), Linton Kwesi Johnson, Burning Star Core, 50 Foot Wave, Black Lips, Dalek, No Age, The Field, Les Savy Fav, Zoviet France, Valet, Zomes, Group Bombino, Kate Rusby, James Blackshaw, Goldfrapp, Mr Airplane Man, Harvey Milk, Ramesses, Black Math Horsemen, and frankly so many my poor little brain can't cope. and if you can ever find anything by Floid Matrix, snap it up. they were wonderful.

Frankly it blows my mind that any of the above actually need attention drawing to, but there you go. I bet you all know who Beyonce is, though, don't you?

and on the not known for music side of the fence, there's Alan Moore (who actually does do music as well), Laurens van der Post, Carl Jung, Bill viola, Hundertwasser, Canadian Psychedoolia,Harry Harrison, Alfred Bester, Phil K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Theodore Sturgeon and the list will go on

And, as the times get more interesting, you may want to look at things that you won't see on the BBc here otherwise known as the tannoy for the gangsters in charge.

and for random looking at stuff, i usually find Wikipedia is good. you really shouldn't need me to make you aware of it, and i'm sure you don't, but given the vested interests that comprise everything 'official', i find it a bit laughable that the place is derided for being unreliable. Of course it's unreliable! that's what humans do with their perceptions, they distort and subjectify them. there's no such thing as objective truth - reality really is what you make it. get used to it! and with that in mind, i like a good random browse.

and the situationist international is worth looking at, if you don't know about situationism. if you do, put it into practice. Detourne normality.

you may find educate-yourself interesting, if you have a jones for it.

i really should put a more wide range of stuff on here. maybe i will, but not now... but if you feel like googling some mind numbing ideas, try orgone, abiotic oil, plasma universe... they should keep you busy and disbelieving.

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