FAVE ARTISTS
Rock/Pop/Indie



Pet Shop Boys Still campy after all these years.
Saint Etienne The rulers of Pop Heaven.
Beth Orton The Comedown Queen.



Blondie Always touched by their presence, dear.
Small Faces It's all too beautiful.
Charlie Rich "Elvis for introverts."
Dusty Springfield You have to say you love her.



Club 8 The blonde and beautiful Europopsters.
Frank Sinatra It's his internet, we just surf on it.
Edwyn Collins Daft as a brush and still brilliant.



Roxy Music Archive of the bands history by none other than Mr. Phil Manzanera.
David Bowie Take your protein pill and put your helmet on.



Elvis Costello Huge fan site for old four eyes.
Paul Weller His ever changing moods.
Broadcast Official site of the gloomy radiophonic funsters.



Madonna Hey Mrs. Ritchie, put a record on.
Kraftwerk Zey are zee robots.
Everything But The Girl Ben and Tracey's place.
The Smiths The sun shines out of their behinds.
Antonio Carlos Jobim The boy from Ipanema.

Soul/Funk/Dance



Sam Cooke Bring it on home to this fan site.
Otis Redding Try a little tenderness right here.
James Brown It's gaht tu be funhky. Yeah.
Stevie Wonder Stevie, keep on wonderin'
Earth, Wind and Fire Yowww.
Erykah Badu What is your, er, izm?



Prince Click un2 the website fantastic.
Sly & The Family Stone It's a family affair.
Curtis Mayfield We gotta have peace.
Lewis Taylor Brit maverick soul genius.
The Isley Brothers Make me feel fine.
Gil Scott-Heron What's the word?

GENERAL MUSIC SITES
Rock/Pop/Indie


Mod Culture Music, movies, mohair suits.
Wilson and Alroy's Record Reviews They listen to the lousy records so you don't have to.
Yeh-Yeh Girls Francois Hardy and other 60s gallic pop delights.
Twee Net News of the Indie World.
Glam Rock A velvet goldmine of info.
Spectropop Covering Phil Spector, the Brill Building and 60s girl groups.
Ad's Indie Pop Links More links than you can shake a pointed stick at
Ready Steady Go! Fab gear mod pop site.
Show and Tell Kitschy collection of vintage album sleeves.
World of Trip Hop Everything moody and downbeat here.

Soul/Funk/Dance



Soul Walking Absolutely massive classic soul site.
Stax Records Do you like good music? Yeah yeah.
The Rythmn and Blues Primer Everything you ever wanted to know about soul music but were afraid to ask.



Classic Motown The world's greatest record label. Wonderful site.
Meta Soul The history of club music and DJ culture.



Blaxploitation It's a stone groovy thing.
Deep Disco Classic dance music. Tons o' stuff.
Anthems Loaded with sound files to shake your booty to.
Disco-Disco Burn baby burn.



Deep House What's happening in the Deep end of dance music.

READING MATERIAL
E-Zines



Playlouder Spunky news and reviews site.
Freaky Trigger Smart and sharp music writing.
Pop Child In Spanish but it looks pretty.
Soulful Kinda Music Northern Soul zine.
Pop Matters "The magazine of global culture."
Tangents "The Home of Un-Popular Culture"
Stylus Magazine Some excellent essays.

Weblogs
Blogs with a generally musical bent
Popism
Popjustice
No Rock & Roll Fun
The Parallax View
Close Your Eyes

Print Rags
NME They seemed to have turned into Smash Hits in their old age.



Blues and Soul Venerable and great British soul mag.
Q Your older brother's Pop Heaven.
Mojo Your dad's Pop Heaven.

MAIL ORDER
Indie
Darla Nice people, nice site, nice selection. Nice!



InSound The Amazon of the Indie world. CDs, fanzines, vinyl.
Parasol Lots of Indie exclusives. Elephant 6, Shinsanken and more.



Future Pop Shop Online store run by March Records. Cute.
Other Music Painfully hip New York record store.
Aquarius Records Enormous store full of the weird and wonderful.

Soul, Funk, Dance



Dusty Groove If it's funky, if it's jazzy, if it groove, they have it. Massive.
Soul Music Store Tons of vintage and obscure soul. Pricey though.



Groovetech Everything the modern groover could want.

LABELS
Soul, Funk, Dance



Naked Music The sexiest new Deep House music.
Hed Kandi Groovalicious compilations.



Eighteenth Street Lounge Luxury home of Thievery Corporation and other well-dressed acts.
Astralwerks Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers play their big beats here.
Soul Jazz Records Putting out some wicked compilations.
Luka Bop David Byrne's global groove label.
Blue Note The finest in you know what.



Goldmine Soul Supply Fab Northern Soul label.
Unbiquity Fine purveyors of Funk, Jazz and Latin beats.



Giant Step More than a label, one big groovy house of club music.

Indie

Labrador Vee are from Sveden and vee make the nice pop music, ja?
Shelflife Lots of bright and breezy music.
Siesta Classy and fun Spanish label.
Elefant More pop goodies from España.
Emporer Norton Ladytron and other bouncy stuff.