Sunday, September 13, 2020

Net.Weirdness: Music to my gears, er pipes ..?

We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams.


IUMA, 1996

Chaos Control: Electronic Music E-zine
"Really cool e-zine about the latest in electronic music (industrial, techno, ambient). Runs the gamut."
FTP
Still online? No longer a Well-hosted FTP resource, the Chaos Control Digizine lives on!

Delta Snake Blues News
"Down and dirty, lost and lonely. Blue news you can use."
Still online? No, but here's an archive from two decades ago.
Still remembered? Yes, helpfully included in this [dated] list of Blues Links.

Girl Band Guide
E-mail
"Grrrrrllll bands galore. The latest scoop on your fave female bands."
Still online? No, the email address is lost to time, beyond the handbook. Fortunately, the internet is a pretty big place. And depending on what type or style of girl/ grrl band you want to know about, there's probably a website or forum for them. Wikipedia has a few starting points, on girl groups and riot grrls, for starters. And another snapshot in time, Billboard's 20 All-Female Bands You Need To Know from 2015.

HardC.O.R.E. Rap/Hip-Hop List
Mailing List
"Down with dwarner at the HardC.O.R.E hip hop list. Send a message and ask to subscribe."
Still online? No, but ...
Still remembered? Yes, in A blast from the past: HardC.O.R.E. 1994, a Google Groups mirror or archive of a lengthy post in 1998.

Punk-rock!
Mailing List
"Arrghhhhh! Punk's Not Dead! (it's only an animated corpse). Anyway, angst and anger are still spoken here and you can be sure that this list isn't gonna be coopted by the media, you arsehole!"
Still online? No.
Still remembered? Yes, briefly on this messy GEN Wiki page, which notes that there were "crosspostings from there on anarchy-list." It's also mentioned a few times in Maximum Rocknroll No. 140 from 1995. Update: MRR ceased its print publications in 2019, but lives on as a web-only publication, now explicitly fighting white supremacy in punk, because it's 2020 and this is the present fight we face.

Internet Underground Music Archive
Web
"A new darling of the media and a really cool way to wow your unwired friends, the Internet Underground Music Archive features audio clips bios, and pictures from about a zillion underground bands. Keep close to the edge."
Still online? Not the way it used to be, but thanks to a few partnered archiving efforts, IUMA is back online.

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