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some other websites that might be interesting to KALX listeners

The List - THE awesome free listing of local shows and gigs. The xeroxed, 6-point type edition is distributed to strategically-located cultural venues throughout the Bay Area; the online version is right here.

Nine-Up, organizer and host of the local Noise Pop festival, has a big old honking website devoted to some of the Bay Area's lesser known bands. You can really poke around this one for a while! So, when's the next show?

New local country-roots records are reviewed on the Local Yokels page.

RoJaRo - a database/list of music-related zines and magazines worldwide. A barebones, text-only layout, but it includes contact information and web URLs whenever available. Pretty cool & covers a wide range of genres.

Laughing Squid - So, hey, what is "underground art," anyway? Will I know it when I like it? Will it hurt me? Who knows? Nonetheless, this site will point you in the direction of the path less taken, keeping tabs on independent filmmakers, robot builders, pranksters and general troublemakers.

Speaking of which, here's the home page for Survival Research Laboratories - those wacky machine building/destroying jet-fuel-burning, postmodern-primitive-types. It's like "Mad Max," but with way better character development.

The Internet Movie DataBase

Here's a list of Non-Commercial Radio Stations that you might want to check out. Some of our favorite fellow broadcasters in the Bay Area include the ever-amazing KFJC (Santa Clara), KZSU (Stanford) and KUSF, in San Francisco. For those of you back in the Big Apple, Jersey City's WFMU

One cool online site is Spank Radio -- one of the more interesting internet broadcasters, with a wider and hipper palette than most.

AdBusters - These people are nuts! They want you to stop watching TV, quit buying so much STUFF and start thing about other things besides watching TV and buying lots of STUFF. What'll they think of next? Not driving a car? Hoo, boy! Some really cool subversive art (parodies of print ads, etc) and ideas for how to avoid the consumerist rut. Situationists of the world unite! You have nothing to lose except your credit cards!

In a similar vein, the Billboard Liberation Front are a bunch of troublemaking smartypants vandals. Plus, they're hella funny. Log on for a look back at 20+ years of anarchistic advertisement adjustments. TIA-hee-hee.

Aquarius Records in San Francisco is hip as hip can be, with special interests in black metal, tropicalia, New Zealand and international pop, electronica and all sorts of oddball music. They also have a killer "new arrivals" e-mail list -- so check it out!

Amoeba Music is one of the world's largest new/used independent record stores, with a special interest in difficult/experimental music.

Down Home Music has been the Bay Area's wellspring of roots country, jazz, blues and international music for over twenty years. These folks know their stuff!

Craigs List (also known as the Foundation List) provides housing listings, a monster job board (which you can have e-mailed to you), and bulletin boards for exchanging services and goods. This is THE awesome, helpful nonprofit good samaritan site.

The Dead Milkmen's Punk Rock Girl Paper Doll site is pretty funny, if you can get your browser to read it right.

8 Track Heaven - Do you have some weirdo friend who collects 8-track tapes, but they can't find anything cool in the thrift stores anymore? Send 'em here -- the ideal spot for those folks who don't realize that Atari sets are the true cool obsolete technology.

CyberSmell - The Greatest Invention Since The Spray-On Condom.

The Surrealist Compliment Generator - It's like having William S. Burroughs as your own personal Cyrano -- just the thing to make your day a little bit weirder.

Patrick's $95,093.35 Check - This story is REALLY LONG, but really funny.

Long before Dilbert became a lame TV show, there was the Random Corporate Speak generator ....aiggh!!!!! (The truth hurts!)

Joe Sixpack's SLIPCUE.COM - A frighteningly large, refreshingly friendly, commercial-free guide to Brazilian, Cuban and country music. Plus a cool obituary section and other goodies.

Mike Burma's browbeat used to come out about once every three or four years, and was a guide to irritating industrial, difficult and noise music.

Pink Frankenstein is the Bay Area's number one champion of French pop music. If it's French, it's Pink.

If you have suggestions for other websites that you think might fit in to this section, please feel free to and make suggestions.
Please send the site's complete URL (ie: "http://www.blahblahblah.bla"), so that we can take a look. Plus, please be aware that everyone at KALX is a volunteer, so we probably won't be able to respond personally to your suggestion, and it may take us a while to consider it as well. Thanks!

Links on these pages to commercial sites do not represent endorsement by the University of California or its affiliates.