- Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO – website of the Japanese psych-rock collective.
- Amen Dunes – tour dates and information about Damon McMahon’s project. See also his Bandcamp page.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lawrence Casserley‘s homepage – tour dates, discography and much else from the composer, computer musician and performer.
- Circuit des Yeux – Haley Fohr’s excellent project. See also her Bandcamp page.
- 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.
- 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.
- Earth – official website of the great drone metal band.
- Emanem Discs – Martin Davidson’s prolific and valuable improvised music label.
- enoweb – all you ever wanted to know about Brian Eno, and more.
- The European Free Improvisation Pages – vast archive of information about improvised music.
- The Fall – unofficial site for Mark E. Smith’s group, with lyrics, news, discography etc. See also the archive of Graham Coleman’s defunct-but-seminal fanzine The Biggest Library Yet and the excellent The Annotated Fall.
- Faust – news & information about the German group. See also the homepage of percussionist Zappi Diermeier.
- Morton Feldman Page – discography, texts, interviews & links.
- FMP/Free Music Production – a German label releasing CDs of free-improvised music.
- 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.
- An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website – beautifully-designed site devoted to the Japanese performer, his group Fushitsusha, and other projects. See also this 1996 interviews with Haino from halana magazine.
- 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 Hijokaidan Story – the inside story of Japan’s longest-running noise group (follow the pdf link).
- Holly Herndon – website of the American composer and musician. See also her Soundcloud page.
- Incus Records – UK label specialising in improvised music.
- Indeterminacy – writings by John Cage. See also 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.
- Matchless Recordings – UK record label devoted to the improvisation group AMM, members’ side projects and related music.
- The Monks – official site covering the band’s 1960s work and their 1999 reunion.
- Marissa Nadler – website of the excellent Boston-based singer-songwriter. See also her Soundcloud and Bandcamp pages.
- The Nihilist Spasm Band – eccentric Canadian improv since 1965.
- Noveller – solo project of the Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist, Sarah Lipstate.
- Paris Transatlantic Magazine – Global Coverage of New, Classical, and Avant-Garde Music, Film and Dance.
- Ashley Paul – website of the Brooklyn-based composer and performer. See also her Soundcloud page.
- 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.
- P.S.F. Records – English-language site for the Japanese label releasing CDs by Acid Mothers Temple, Keiji Haino, Kazuki Tomokawa and many others. Now accepts PayPal…
- A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music – articles, reviews and links from WFMU DJ Kenny Goldsmith. See also Kenny G’s homepage, above.
- 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 late German guitarist, composer, inventor and designer.
- ReR Recommended – independent record label and distribution service.
- Resonance FM – the UK’s first radio art station, broadcasting on FM in London and worldwide via the web.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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 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 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.
- 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 and The Cylinder Archive. 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.
- 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. 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.
- La Monte Young – homepage for the MELA Foundation, focusing on the work of Young, Marian Zazeela and associated artists.
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