Links to poetry, music and
other websites

Last updated: 15th April 2008.

The page has been divided into sub-sections for easier reading, but remember that these divisions are far from watertight . . .

Online poetry magazines & reviews | Online anthologies, including sound archives
Individual poets' websites and weblogs | Poetry publishers
Resources & information for poets | Other art and literature sites
Music-related sites | Other links

Online poetry magazines & reviews

Acton - a magazine of contemporary poetry and art in Scotland, edited by Nicky Melville and John Robertson.
The Alterran Poetry Assemblage - an online magazine edited by David Dowker.
Angel Exhaust magazine - archive of several back issues. See also editor Andrew Duncan's main site www.pinko.org
The Argotist Online - poetry journal edited by Jeffrey Side.
Arras - an electronic journal edited by Brian Kim Stefans.
Beehive - Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal, edited by Talan Memmott.
Big Bridge - a webzine of poetry and other work, edited by Michael Rothenberg.
The Brooklyn Rail - critical perspectives on arts, politics and culture.
cauldron & net - a journal of the arts and new media.
Cento Magazine - excellent magazine of fiction and poetry, including an Ed Dorn archive.
A Chide's Alphabet - webzine edited by David Bircumshaw.
Coconut - really beautifully-made poetry journal, edited by Bruce Covey.
CrossConnect - magazine associated with the Kelly Writers House, edited by David E. Deifer.
Dusie - Based in Switzerland, publishing modern poetry and poetics.
The East Village - edited from Japan by Jack Kimball & Mark DuCharme.
Electronic Poetry Review - a journal of poetry, articles and interviews, edited by Katherine Swiggart and D. A. Powell.
EOAGH - a journal of the arts, edited by Tim Peterson.
Flashpoint - "a multidisciplinary magazine in the arts and politics", edited by Joe Brennan and Carlo Parcelli.
Free Verse - a bi-annual journal of contemporary poetry and poetics, edited by Jon Thompson.
Great Works - a site for innovative writing: modernist, postmodernist, archaic; edited by Peter Philpott.
Green Integer Review - Edited by Douglas Messerli.
HOW2 - online journal edited by Kate Fagan and Redell Olsen, exploring non-traditional directions in poetry and scholarship by women.
Intercapillary Space - A Collective Poetry Blogzine of multiple formed matters.
Jacket - a quarterly magazine of new writing, edited by John Tranter.
Laika Poetry Review - a magazine of poetry and fiction edited by Darran Anderson.
The Little Magazine - edited by Michael Peters from the University at Albany. Lots of visual poetry.
LVNG - download .pdf files of this Chicago-based little magazine, edited by Joel Felix, Michael O'Leary, & Peter O'Leary.
Masthead - a literary arts magazine edited from Australia by Alison Croggon.
Moria - a poetry journal, edited by William Allegrezza.
nthposition - online magazine/ezine with politics & opinion, travel writing, fiction & poetry, reviews & interviews.
Octopus Magazine - an online poetry magazine named after a sea creature that is intelligent, lives in dens, and uses ink as a defense mechanism. Edited by Zachary Schomburg.
onedit - new online magazine edited by Tim Atkins and Thomas Evans.
Openned - a web magazine, blog and London-based reading series, edited by Alex Davies and Steve Willey.
Oyster Boy Review - a magazine of poetry, reviews and fiction, edited by Damon Sauve.
Pages - a blogzine of investigative, exploratory, avant-garde, innovative poetry and poetics, edited by Robert Sheppard.
Poetry Review - a website for the print-based journal of the Poetry Society.
PORES - an avant-gardist journal of poetics research, edited from Birkbeck College, London by Will Rowe.
The Possum Pouch - an irregular publication of essays, notes and reviews.
QUID - some .pdf files of back issues of the excellent little magazine, edited by Keston Sutherland.
Rain Taxi - online edition of the print-based review, edited from Minneapolis.
Readme - an online journal of poetics, edited by Gary Sullivan. Many author links.
RECONFIGURATIONS - A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, edited by Scott Howard.
Riding the Meridian - magazine of web-art, visual poetry & "Lit [art] ure", edited by Jennifer Ley.
Shadow Train - a journal of new poetry, edited by Ian Seed.
Sidereality - a journal of speculative and experimental poetry, edited by Clayton A. Couch.
Slope - a magazine of new writing, edited by Ethan Paquin.
Stride Magazine - new online version of the former print journal, edited by Rupert M. Loydell.
Sugar Mule - a literary magazine with eccentric Buddhist leanings, edited by M.L. Weber.
Terrible Work - reviews, news, listings, critique & comment on new poetry, word-art & creative texts. Edited by Tim Allen.
Vert - an online magazine edited by Andrew Felsinger.
W - literary magazine edited from the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver.
WORD/for word - a journal of new writing, edited by Jonathan Minton.
xStream - an experimental poetry magazine, edited by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen. Each issue is published in both a regular and a computer-generated version.
Ygdrasil - a journal of the poetic arts, edited by Klaus Gerken.
zafusy - a contemporary poetry journal, edited by Jody Porter.

Online anthologies, including sound archives

The Archive of the Now - a brilliant site featuring full-length readings in mp3 format by more than 60 UK poets. Hosted by Brunel University.
Concrete poetry - a useful page of links to specific examples of concrete poetry on the web. Maintained by Mike Garofalo.
Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry - an ongoing anthology of contemporary poetry. Includes complete out of print books, sub-sites for authors, genres, issues & exchanges. Much visual and collaborative work, much recommended.
The Naropa Audio Archives - remarkable collection of lectures and readings from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, including Barbara Guest, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Lyn Hejinian, Harry Smith, Anne Waldman, and many others, including Clark Coolidge's lectures on Bop Prosody and Jazz. Hosted by The Internet Archive.
PENNsound - incredible sound archive from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Poetry Archive - an online anthology with useful author links.
Raunchland - online anthology edited by John Mingay, also pages for Mingay's Raunchland Press.
Slought Networks' RealAudio versions of Fred Wah's recordings of the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, as well as select readings and lectures (1961-67) from Wah's collection. The poets include Margaret Avison, Basil Bunting, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Gerry Gilbert, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, George Oppen, Gael Turnbull, John Wieners, Philip Whalen. An astonishing resource.
Sound Eye . . . Irish Poetry and the Universe of Writing.
S P I D E R T A N G L E : the_book - an online anthology of visual poetry.
UbuWeb - "visual, concrete and sound poetry." A vital source of contemporary and historical work, including an ethnopoetics section, curated by Jerome Rothenberg, and an mp3 archive.

Individual poets' websites and weblogs

Vispo ~ langu(im)age - Jim Andrews' visual/web poetry, plus links and some useful downloads.
John M. Bennett - website for the visual, verbal and soundtext poet and editor of Lost and Found Times and Luna Bisonte Prods.
Jaap Blonk - the sound poet's site includes the genuinely frightening user-controlled Blonk-Organ (requires Macromedia Flash).
abandonedbuildings - poet Sean Bonney's blog.
David Caddy - a blog from the poet, critic and editor of Tears in the Fence magazine.
Shadoof - John Cayley's site for Cybertextual experiment, translations from the Chinese, and poetry links.
Clark Coolidge - a newly-updated, and stunning, Coolidge author page from the Electronic Poetry Center. See also the archive of downloadable Coolidge books at the Eclipse website, and Coolidge's lectures on Bop Prosody and Jazz at the Internet Archive.
debris - generative & web poetry by Steve Duffy.
Kenward Elmslie - poems & songs, some set to excellent Flash animations, by one of the New York School's finest.
Peter Finch's website. Poetry, visual poetry and links both to and from the finest innovative poet in Wales.
Allen Fisher's website.
Kenneth Goldsmith's homepage. Links to Goldsmith's own work (see especially Fidget and Soliloquy) as well as his writings on music.
Thompson's Bank of Communicable Desire - poet Chris Goode's blog.
Sentences - web implementation of Robert Grenier's modern classic, originally published as a box of 500 index cards. Requires a recent browser - follow the appropriate link on the Whale Cloth Press homepage.
Bill Griffiths' website. Bibliography, bio, links and more from the poet and Anglo-Saxonist.
ContinualeSong - The website of Michael Haslam, poet of Foster Clough.
www.orium.org - mixed-media and web works by Kai-Fierle Hedrick.
dbqp: visualizing poetics - a kaleidoscopic review of visual poetry and related forms of art, maintained by Geof Huth.
Elizabeth James - web-based and collaborative poetry, plus links to audio work made in collaboration with Jane Draycott.
Homad - Pierre Joris's site, incorporating The Nomad Manifesto and an Eric Mottram homepage.
David Kinloch - new site from the excellent Glasgow-based poet.
Leevi Lehto - the Finnish poet and programmer's site is home to the remarkable Google poem engine.
Tom Leonard's site - information on the Glasgow-based poet's work, plus links to the work of James Kelman, Alasdair Gray and Janice Galloway.
Jow Lindsay's blog. See also Yogh and Skoda.
Gerry Loose - website of the Glasgow-based poet, editor and gardener. See also An Ardnamurchan Journal.
Tony Lopez - new site for the English poet and critic.
Drew Milne's website - poetry and information from the poet and editor/publisher of Parataxis magazine and Parataxis Editions.
Edwin Morgan - strange but well-intentioned German site devoted to the Glasgow Laureate.
Jeff Nuttall - website about the poet, artist, actor, musician... (1933-2004).
Maggie O'Sullivan - Maggie's own website, with online work, bibliography and links.
Ron Padgett - a website about the American poet.
fait accompli - Nick Piombino's weblog.
hydrohotel.net - a Richard Price webspace. Poems and information about the London-based Scottish poet.
Tom Raworth's homepage - archive of verbal and visual work, plus links. Check out the doodles.
April Eye - the website of the poet Peter Riley.
Stephen Rodefer - Website of the American poet and visual artist, based in Paris.
Hazel Smith's website, with links to the Sydney (Australia)-based English poet's hypertext and multimedia work. Part of the austraLYSIS new sound and intermedia arts site.
Silliman's Blog - Ron Silliman's weblog, focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Brian Kim Stefans' homepage - poetry and internet poems, articles, interviews and more by BKS. Home to the best text-animations I've ever seen.
Fiona Templeton - website of the Scottish poet, playwright, director and performer. The text of her play Recognition is available at Performing Arts Journal.
Lawrence Upton's website. See also Lawrence's page at MySpace.
Stephen Vincent's Blog - Pix & Texts, Poetry, Commentary, Politics, etc. from the San Francisco based poet and walker.
Barrett Watten - online writing.
Butter the Sides - text and image by Aaron Wells.

Poetry publishers

Ahadada Books - Print and online publisher.
Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers - UK press publishing books of poetry, books on music and CDs.
Bad Press - small press edited by Jow Lindsay, Marianne Morris, & Jonathan Stevenson.
Barque Press - books, magazines and CDRs available from this Cambridge-based little press, edited by Andrea Brady and Keston Sutherland.
Beard of Bees - Chicago-based publisher of free e-books of poetry, in .pdf format, including computer-generated work. Edited by Jon Trowbridge and Eric Elshtain.
Coach House Books - Toronto-based publisher of poetry books and e-books.
default publishing - a Cork-based publishing initiative for contemporary poetry, including back issues of Default magazine.
Duration Press - California-based publisher whose webspace also hosts sites for a large number of North American alternative presses, as well as an archive of work in Adobe Acrobat format (including selections from the ethnopoetics magazine Alcheringa).
etruscan books - publishing poetry by Tom Leonard, Maggie O'Sullivan, Bob Cobbing and many others, based in Devon and edited by Nicholas Johnson.
Flood Editions - Chicago-based publisher.
if p then q - a UK-based little press publishing books and magazines of experimental poetry.
The Jargon Society - Jonathan Williams' celebrated literary press.
Kater Murr's Press - London-based little press, run by David Miller.
Object Permanence - a pamphlet series edited by Peter Manson and Robin Purves.
pocketbooks - brilliant series of innovative paperbacks from Scotland.
Reality Street Editions - prestigious UK press publishing innovative poetry.
Roof Books - publishers of contemporary innovative poetry, based in New York.
Salt Publishing - based in Perth, Australia and Cambridge, England, publishing new poetry/fiction/drama/criticism, as well as reissues. Many links.
Shearsman Books - publisher of contemporary poetry in mostly late-modernist styles, based in Exeter, England.
Spanner - books and magazines edited by the poet Allen Fisher.
Stem Recordings - new CD label, whose first four releases are recordings by the poets Maggie O'Sullivan, Allen Fisher, Peter Manson and Leslie Scalapino.
Stride Publications - UK press publishing poetry, criticism, fiction and beyond.
West House Books - run by the poet Alan Halsey; also sells books by other little presses, including a substantial second-hand list.
Wild Honey Press - excellent small press run by Randolph Healy from Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

Resources & information for poets

Alienated.net - a site for the discussion of contemporary poetry and poetics, with a special focus on the poetics of online culture, run by Darren Wershler-Henry of Coach House Books.
The British Electronic Poetry Centre - a reference guide to the work of contemporary British poets from the parallel tradition.
british-irish-poets mailing list: a discussion group focusing on UK and Irish innovative poetries.
cambridgepoetry.org - a site hosting information about the annual Cambridge Poetry Summit as well as other reading series and small presses based in Cambridge, UK.
COMPREPOETICA - A Poetry Data Collection Center, maintained by Bob Grumman.
Nate Dorward's homepage, including information on his magazine The Gig, a bibliography of J.H. Prynne, music reviews and links.
The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY, Buffalo - one of the starting points for any seach for innovative poetry on the web.
Here Comes Everybody - poets answer questions about their writing.
LLPP (Lollipop) - List of Little Press Publications. Up-to-date listings of publications from an ever-increasing number of UK little presses.
The Little Magazines Project at Nottingham Trent University - an ongoing project to provide bibliographies & indexes for a vast range of magazines published since 1945.
M E S H W O R K S - The Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance.
The Morden Tower - a website for the world-famous poetry venue in the city walls of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The Eric Mottram Collection at King's College London.
NACIP - The North American Center for Interdisciplinary Poetics. A web-based forum for free exchange on matters pertaining to interdisciplinary creativity and making, directed by the poet Steve McCaffery.
On Company Time: Reading Exercises for the Management Class - a forum for anonymous reviews, edited by Keston Sutherland and jUStin!KatKO.
PhillyTalks
www.pinko.org - Andrew Duncan's brilliantly contentious writings about modern British poetry. The site also hosts some of Duncan's poetry and an archive of work from Angel Exhaust magazine.
The Poetry Kit, an extensive online resource for poets.
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York NY.
Readings - response & reactions to poetries, edited by Aodhan McCardle, Stephen Mooney and Piers Hugill.
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry - searchable online catalogue of the Florida-based archive, probably the largest such collection anywhere.
Spencer Selby's list of experimental poetry/art magazines.
Small Press Distribution - the US distributor for more than 500 independent publishers.
St. Mungo's Mirrorball - a network for Glasgow poets and poetry lovers.
Text Festival - challenging the boundaries between art and poetry. A nine-month programme of events held in Bury, Lancashire throughout 2005, featuring exhibitions, public art commissions, publications and performances by internationally recognised practitioners and newcomers.
trAce Online Writing Centre - an international organisation dedicated to promoting the development of internet-based writing and creativity.
Web Del Sol, a Literary Arts Community. Portal to a large number of print and web-based publications, including selections from Sulfur magazine, and much information besides.

Other art and literature sites

Abebooks - search the stock of hundreds of new and used book dealers worldwide (UK customers can use www.abebooks.co.uk).
The Academy of American Poets - hundreds of author bios (not just of American poets), texts (including audio) and useful links.
Alternative Books Online - excellent new UK source for independent press books.
Atlas Press - specialising in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the present day.
Bartleby.com - large, freely-accessible archive of literature and reference works.
The Samuel Beckett Endpage - very little here at the moment, but the links are helpful. See also the sprawling but excellent Samuel Beckett On-line Resources and Links page. Versions of the radio plays Cascando and Words and Music, and an audio version of Krapp's Last Tape, are downloadable from UbuWeb. Back issues of the Journal of Beckett Studies can be downloaded here.
The William Blake Archive - awe-inspiring web-based archive of Blake's illuminated books, paintings and manuscripts.
Joe Brainard - excellent site of artwork and writing by and about Joe Brainard, 1942-1994.
BrinDin Press - very useful archive of literary translations from many languages, by many hands.
Sir Thomas Browne - excellent archive of texts by the 17thc essayist and physician.
Calder Publications - veteran literary publisher, running the gamut from Artaud to Beckett (their bookshop at 51 The Cut, London SE1 is well worth a visit).
Collyrium - You are brought to these views by...
The Cremaster Cycle - official site for Matthew Barney's overwhelming cycle of art films.
DaDa Online - information on European Dadaism.
Dispatx Art Collective - includes, among much else, Andrea Brady's extraordinary Tracking Wildfire.
Eclipse - an archive of books by Bruce Andrews, Clark Coolidge, Rae Armantrout, P. Inman, David Melnick and others, plus the collaborative text LEGEND and the complete runs of the magazines L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and This. The texts are presented as page-scans of the original books, so a broadband connection is helpful.
English Online Resources from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center. Some of this is password-protected, but much, including British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive and The Modern English Collection (AD1500-present) is freely accessible.
Exact Change - publishing books of experimental literature with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other nineteenth and twentieth century avant-garde art movements.
Finnegans Web - a webified version of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A RealAudio file of Joyce reading from the Wake is available at UbuWeb. See also Hypermedia Joyce Studies and IQ Infinity: the Unknown James Joyce.
Fluxus Online - this excellent site seems to be defunct, but I've linked to a version cached by The Internet Archive.
The Thomas Gray Archive - an interactive hypermedia repository of work by and about the 18th century poet.
imagists.org - excellent website about the poets H.D. and Richard Aldington.
B.S. Johnson (1933-1973) - new site devoted to the English novelist and poet.
The Labyrinth - resources for medieval studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC, including a complete corpus of Old English poetry.
The Luminarium - online anthology of mediaeval, Renaissance and 17thc. literature.
Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé - an e-text. See also the archive of texts and articles at mallarme.net.
Francis McKee - essays, art projects and links from the Glasgow-based writer and curator.
Militant Esthetix - Ben Watson & Esther Leslie's site: "all the criticism that's fit or not to publish".
Modern American Poetry - companion site to an OUP-published anthology, this has a useful range of articles on 161 modern American poets, from Ai to Zukofsky.
Old English Dictionary - HTML version of the standard dictionary by Bosworth and Toller. Page scans of a Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary are available on the same site.
One Zero Zero - An archive of English-language small-press books published in Canada since 1945. Of particular interest is a .pdf file of the complete text (over 400 pages) of Robert Duncan's otherwise unobtainable The H.D. Book.
Georges Perec's wonderful spoof article, Experimental demonstration of the tomatotopic organization in the Soprano (Cantatrix sopranica L.).
Paris Review interviews - a growing archive of pdf files of interviews with writers, from the 1950s to the present.
Tom Phillips - the English artist's official website. See also A Humument Home Page, devoted to Phillips' cut-up masterpiece, with essays and bibliography.
KYBERNEKYIA - "A hypervortext of Ezra Pound's Canto XXXI". A RealAudio file of Pound reading Canto I is available at The Academy of American Poets. The BBC website hosts a 1958 talk by Pound.
Project Gutenberg - plain vanilla ASCII e-texts of thousands of out-of-copyright books.
Cent mille milliards de poèmes - a webpage implementing Raymond Queneau's permutational poem(s).
READINGS - responses and reactions to poetries. Editors: Piers Hugill, Aodhán McCardle, & Stephen Mooney.
www.textz.com - "we are the & in copy & paste." Plain ASCII texts from Adorno to Zola.
The Themerson Archive - a website about Stefan and Franciszka Themerson and their publishing company, Gaberbocchus Press.
Things Not Worth Keeping - an ongoing collaboration between Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek.
Z-site: a Companion to the Works of Louis Zukofsky. A fast-growing site edited by Jeff Twitchell-Waas.

Music-related sites

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - website of the fantastically good Japanese psych-rock collective. Here's former synth player and vocalist Cotton Casino's homepage too.
austraLYSIS and SOMA ARTS - new sound and intermedia arts in performance and publication.
The Syd Barrett Archives - discography, lyrics etc. See also Dolly Rocker, the Syd Barrett Homepage, particularly for information on the "Have You Got It Yet?" collection of unreleased material. Other unofficial releases are covered by the Pink Floyd RoIO Database Homepage.
Blastitude - excellent independent music review.
The Boredoms - UK fan site for the splendid, euphoric Japanese group. See also The Boredoms' eYe, Ear, Nose and Throat Page. Here's a page of album reviews and a page of Boredoms links.
Calyx - biographies and discographies of bands and artists associated with the Canterbury Scene (Caravan, Henry Cow, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt etc). See also COLLAPSO - The Canterbury Music Family Tree.
The Official CAN/Spoon Records website - label of the legendary German group and its members' solo projects.
The Captain Beefheart Radar Station.
Cornelius Cardew - information on the English avant-garde composer, whose book Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is now available as a .pdf download from Ubuweb.
Lawrence Casserley's homepage - tour dates, discography and much else from the composer, computer musician and performer.
Clicks and Klangs - music e-zine covering music from hip-hop to Krautrock, free-jazz to drum and bass, post-rock to psychedelic punk, country blues to electronica.
Bobby Conn - official website of Chicago's finest singer/songwriter.
Corporeal Meadows - the official Harry Partch website. Information on the American microtonal composer.
Creating Music - site created by Morton Subotnick to allow children to "draw" music onscreen and play back the results. Works much better since I downloaded the free Crescendo MIDI player...
Current 93 - website for David Michael's apocalyptic folk project. See also the website for the Durtro label.
Chris Cutler - website of the former Henry Cow percussionist.
Holger Czukay - excellent site run by the former Can bass-player.
adriandenning.co.uk - Adrian Denning's record reviews, and much else.
Delia Derbyshire - website about the pioneering electronic composer and member of the BBC Radiophonics Workshop. Includes interviews, discography and downloads.
Document Records - one of the best sources in the UK for vintage Blues, Jazz, Boogie-woogie, Gospel and Country music. Most CDs cost £10 or less.
Double Leopards - rather good Brooklyn-based four-piece drone improv group...
Emanem Discs - Martin Davidson's prolific and valuable improvised music label.
enoweb - all you ever wanted to know about Brian Eno, and more. See also this 1995 interview from The Wire. Go to sseyo.com to download the Koan plugin and play some Generative Music on your browser.
The European Free Improvisation Pages - vast archive of information about improvised music.
fakejazz.com - excellent independent music review & discussion site.
The Fall - unofficial site for Mark E. Smith's group, with lyrics, news, discography etc. See also Stephen Bending's The Fall Multimedia Project and the archive of Graham Coleman's defunct-but-seminal fanzine The Biggest Library Yet.
Faust - news & information about the German group. See also the homepage of percussionist Zappi Diermeier.
Morton Feldman Page - discography, texts, interviews & links.
Fenland Hi-Brow Recordings ...Free improvisation / Musique Concrete / Disastrous Ephemera...
Henry Flynt Philosophy - writings by the Fluxus artist and avant-garde hillbilly and blues musician.
Forced Exposure - online record store with a vast and eclectic stock of alternative and experimental music. Recommended.
Christopher Fox - website of the English composer.
Fred Frith - website of the former Henry Cow guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Fursaxa - website of Tara Burke's haunting lo-fi psych-folk project.
An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website - beautifully-designed site devoted to the Japanese performer, his group Fushitsusha, and other projects. See also these 1996 interviews with Haino from halana magazine and The Wire.
Hardbop Blues and Boogie Woogie - Jim Redfarn's piano blues website.
Head Heritage - Julian Cope's site, opening onto a generous sampling of unsung music.
The High Llamas - unofficial website for Sean O'Hagan's group.
Huun-Huur-Tu - website of the Tuvan throat-singing group. See also this article on throat-singing from Scientific American magazine.
Incus Records - UK label specialising in improvised music.
Indeterminacy - writings by John Cage. See also Writings on John Cage by James Pritchett and Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds, by John Cage.
Improvised Music from Japan - artist profiles, discographies and concert schedules.
The Internet Archive - several important audio archives are stored here, including a live music archive (downloadable files of complete concerts by hundreds of artists) plus many mp3s taken from early 78rpm records and wax cylinders.
Juneberry78s.com - Early American roots music. Many mp3 files, and extensive information for collectors.
The Just Intonation Network - promoting music in Just Intonation, also produces CDs by Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, La Monte Young and many others.
Kill Your Timid Notion - annual festival of experimental music and film, based in Dundee, Scotland.
The Klinker - upcoming events at the improvised music and performance venue in London.
Knitting Factory - New York and Los Angeles-based performance venue & record label, includes live webcasts.
The London Musicians Collective - promoting improvised and experimental music.
Masonna - a website for Yamazaki Maso's implosively violent noise-art persona, and such gentler side-projects as Space Machine and Christine 23 Onna. Select the "English" link from the bottom of the navigation bar on the left, as I can't work out how to link directly to the English version of the site...
Matchless Recordings - UK record label devoted to the improvisation group AMM, members' side projects and related music.
Melt-Banana - Webernian Japanese punk, incredible live.
Merzbow - official site for Masami Akita's vast noise project. See also The Digital Merzbow Page and the Merzbow page at Noiseweb.
The Monks - official site covering the band's 1960s work and their 1999 reunion.
The Nihilist Spasm Band - eccentric Canadian improv since 1965.
Paris Transatlantic Magazine - Global Coverage of New, Classical, and Avant-Garde Music, Film and Dance.
Pauline Oliveros Foundation - website of the American composer and performer.
Pere Ubu - the other Ubu Web: Pere Ubu's Avant Garage Online. See also the Ubu Projex Web Site for the latest on the band and David Thomas's other projects.
Perfect Sound Forever - online music magazine. The Staff favourites section includes artist features on The Fall and Captain Beefheart, with reviews of every album . . .
Plunderphonics/Oswaldian Space - the home of John Oswald's Plunderphonics projects, with complete albums available for download.
Mark Prindle's Record Reviews. Psychotically inclusive.
P.S.F. Records - New English-language site for the Japanese label releasing CDs by Acid Mothers Temple, Keiji Haino, Kazuki Tomokawa and many others. Now accepts PayPal...
Psychedelic Noise from Japan and New Zealand.
The Ptolemaic Terrascope - web presence for the psychedelic music 'zine.
A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music - articles, reviews and links from WFMU DJ Kenny G[oldsmith]. See also Kenny G's homepage, above.
Les Rallizes Denudes - unofficial website (mostly in Japanese) for the legendary Japanese band fronted by Mizutani Takashi.
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje - website of the Norwegian composer and performer, with information on her stunning solo CD Voice and her work with the group Spunk.
Red Lick Records - mail-order record store, based in Wales and specialising in new and second-hand Blues recordings. Their stock is comprehensive, their prices as cheap as you'll find (check out the boxed sets from JSP records in particular). Highly recommended.
Hans Reichel - the extraordinary, hypnotic website of the German guitarist, composer, inventor and designer. Requires Macromedia Flash and a soundcard.
ReR Recommended - independent record label and distribution service.
Resonance FM - the UK's first radio art station, broadcasting on 104.4 FM in London and worldwide via the web. A project of the London Musician's Collective, and highly recommended.
Rough Trade - excellent UK record shop & mail-order source of imports you won't find anywhere else.
Ruins - discography and tour dates for the Japanese duo.
Silver Apples - a site devoted to the 1960s drum'n'oscillator duo, with information on Simeon's current projects. Here's an interview.
The Harry Smith Archives - information about the filmmaker, occultist and compiler of the Anthology of American Folk Music.
Sonore - "Japan music ressource, record label, mp3 and CD online music shop".
Sound 323 - London-based source for experimental and improvised music. Their shop, at 323 Archway Road, Highgate, is well worth a visit (and also hosts regular concerts).
Stereolab unofficial homepage, with news, discography and media files. Click here for the Guardian obituary of vocalist and guitarist Mary Hansen (1966-2002).
The Karlheinz Stockhausen Homepage - official site.
Sun City Girls - official site, with news, mp3s, pictures, merchandise, links and as complete a discography as you'll get. See also Scott Colburn's interim discography at Gravelvoice, this fan site and the article and interview at Perfect Sound Forever. Or the feature, gig review and conversation between Dylan Nyoukis and Alan Bishop in Blastitude magazine. Or this article from Seattle Weekly. Or this feature, originally published in The Wire. Or the e-mail list at Yahoo! Groups. Or this machine translation of a page of Sun City Girls reviews written in Italian. Or this page of reviews at Mark Prindle's site. Alan Bishop of SCG runs the CD and DVD label Sublime Frequencies. Here's the unofficial Lyrics Archive. And here's Sir Richard Bishop's new website.
Damo Suzuki's Network - touring band of the former Can vocalist.
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
Tinfoil.com - dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds. MP3 and RealAudio files of many early wax cylinder recordings, plus the world's oldest playable sound recording. See also the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, The Cylinder Archive, this archive of early Edison recordings and the sound archive at Michigan State University. The BBC website hosts a recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1890. Christer Hamp's Phonograph Makers' Pages are also well worth a look, and check out the sites on the Phonograph Webring.
Kazuki Tomokawa - Japanese language website for the brilliant singer-songwriter. Here's a version translated by Altavista...
The David Tudor Pages - devoted to the pioneering American pianist and electronic composer, with biography, discography, articles, interviews etc.
Volcanic Tongue - a Glasgow-based mailorder for underground music & associated cultural ephemera. Highly recommended.
The Wire - many useful articles, interviews and artist links on the website of the UK print-based music magazine. See also The Unofficial Wire Audio Companion - maintained by Vincent Kargatis, linking to .mp3 and RealAudio files of tracks featured in the magazine. A very useful searchable index of articles published since issue 100 of the magazine is maintained by arb at the University of Dundee.
Robert Wyatt - devoted to the brilliant singer-songwriter and founder member of The Soft Machine.
Yat-Kha - website of the excellent Tuvan band.
La Monte Young - homepage for the MELA Foundation, focusing on the work of Young, Marian Zazeela and associated artists.

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