Thursday, July 10, 2003

68 REASONS WHY I LOVE THE INTERNET

No. 32 - Music web sites

Including, the highly amusing "Official" web site of Hoboken's finest ever band, Yo La Tengo, for one. The questions page is particularly entertaining and love the bit on "Nuclear War" charting at No.10.

And, Mogwai - it's about the third incarnation of the 'fee-shal site. There's a whole load of great pictures there, including some dodgy ones of drug-crazed members of the band. Also, completists should check out (but then you'd already know of its existence, so why am I telling you?), Brightlight (needs to be said with very high, child-like voice, preferably by loveable creature that starred in two 1980s blockbusters by that Spielberg bloke.

And, PostEverything - everything you need to know about independent record labels and the like.

And, for your shopping needs, there's Smallfish which is as it says on the label. It's a small fish: up in Old Street N1, close to Hoxton. They carry a fairly broad selection of indie, post-Rock, nu-jazz and other hard to get stuff. They even buy stuff direct from up and coming bands to sell to you.

Thousands more I know, but these stand out from the crowd. Unfortunately, there's shedloads of bad "official" artiste sites which just pump out corporate propaganda.

:: Posted by pete @ 12:49