Links page

The following are Links to websites of musicians, painters, poets, media sites and other stuff that I visit often and find to be a useful resource.


Music and Performance sites:

Local:
Akeake Theatre A Wellington based experimental theatre company.
Longdivision Longdivision, a mp3 site compiled by GFrenzy. A host of fantastic, genuine, underground gems from NZ .
The Audio Foundation A networking and resource database hub for the representation, facilitation, support and promotion of innovative and experimental artistic development in NZ Audio Culture.
Punkas.com NZ Punk community web forum/ discussion board
Dragstrips NZ Music Links A huge directory of NZ bands with websites.
Pseudoarcana: The Swagger Jack empire and much, much, much more. Pure DIY independent brilliance.
David Edwards 3 albums by this Wellington musican-come- surrealist.
Te Kupu Homepage of this rap artist, poet, musician, DJ and filmmaker, with details of his rap group Upper Hutt Posse.
Celebrate psi phenomenon: Home of Birchville Cat motel, loads of available releases.
Magdalena Aotearoa Womens performance theatre.
Root Don Lonie for Cash: Home of CJA, Armpit et al.

International
CESTA Cultural Exchange Station in Tabour Czech Republic/USA Home of the organisation CESTA and the group Sabot.
Ten-Zen-Men Australian label that focuses on the ecentric, extreme end of the musical spectrum.
Limited Express (has gone?) Japan Web home of the excellent Japanese neo-pop meets angular rock band.
Les Pages Noires Canada Norman Nawrocki, musician, recording artist, sex activist, author, poet, all round good guy anarchist!
Go Genre Everything Australia OZ rock duo of guitar and drums.
Vialka France
The Artist Network of Refuse and Resist 'Artist's' doing what 'Artist's' should..speaking out!
Dan Vallor-Lathe cut universe An incredible list of NZ independant, DIY, releases that have been made at King Records in the South Island. A phenomenal archive.
The first church of Chumbawamba Who knows what you think about their music, but their website is excellent.
Culture Jamming 101 Reclaiming public space etc etc..
Bob Brozman Hawaii
The Puzzling Music Archive:Heaps of mp3's loads of interesting bands , like Deerhoof et al.
rtMark.com Cyberpranksters (Check this out!), some very funny, funny stuff going on in here.
The church of stop shopping-Reverend Billy Hellelujah!!! im a believer
Free Dimension Czech based ladel, home of the great Deverova Chyba and C.


Kids:
The Aunties Wicked performance group from Auckland. I love 'em.

Media Links:
Radical Youth Site from Aotearoa/NZ
Aotearoa indymedia centre Aotearoa/NZ volunteer activist non-coporate site. Dont hate the media, become the media.
Global indymedia centre Ditto
Scoop Brilliant NZ news, runs rings around other corporate sites. Deserves massive support.
Wikipedia The online encycopedia. A great resource inwhic we all can contribute.
Yellow Times.org Aternative news and views.
infoshop.org @ news service
Zmag
PRWatch What are you being sold? And by who?.
Alternet
Aotearoa alive Maori News wire.
Rabble
Guerrilla Network News
One World
Converge Directory Directory of NZ NGO sites, includes-CAFCA, Peace Movement Aotearoa & GE-Free NZ

Interesting Weblogs
Last Straw The Weblog of Christiaan Briggs, ex-pat kiwi writes well from abroad
Beautiful Monsters a weblog written by one who goes by the name ecoqueer, a good Aotearoa blog
Turning the tide Noam Chomsky Weblog
Raed in the Middle Live in Iraq
Riverbend blog Baghdad Burning

Anti-War sites:
WTI The independent World Tribunal on Iraq, a major body of work and effort high-lighting and bring attention to the total illegality and immoral war being bludgeoned upon Iraq.
Strike-free.net

Poetry:
NZ Electronic Poetry Centre Prominent NZ poet's
Poets against the war Massive site with over 8000 poems against war.
Poetry in Revolt Poetry from an anarchist pespective
100 poets against the war PDF of booklet with...100 poets from around the globe against Bush & Blair's war

Anarchism:
Anarchism.org.nz Aotearoa/NZ anarchist website
Imminent Rebelion New Aotearoa anarchist zine, comes out regularly, available for download here.
Class War Class War in Auckland, Aotearoa.
Thrall A fabulous zine (now defunct unfortunatly) capturing anarchism in Aotearoa/NZ in the late 90's, early 2000's.
Znet Anarcy watch
Nothingness.org Great resource, includes links to the brilliant Montreal based group Rhythm Activism.
Anarchist people of Colour Web site with heaps of great articles about racism, colonisation, and activism. Great find.
Infoshop.org Killer resource for everything anarchist!
A-infos Anarchist news service

Visual artists:
City of Tales Oh the beautiful minds that create this, oh salivate
Carnival of Chaos Series of anti-war collages by Michael Dickinson.May take a while to come on screen, lots of collage cut-ups with political commentary.
James Robinson Dunedin painter of wild talent.
Rick Mackin Funny as fuck guy who has the best fun writing letter to various companies. Inspiring. Great Links page too.
Fergus Collinson Wonderful Newtown Painter.
Subvertise Culture Jamming.

Sex:
Goofy Foot Press Home of the site that put out the amazing 'Goofy Foot guide to getting it on', a sex boot that should be a school text book, the world would be a better place.
ScarleteenSafe sex and sex education aimed at 18 and under that isn't patronising, talking down or parental.