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 comes out about once every three or four years, and is the coolest guide to irritating industrial, difficult and noise music ever.
Pink Frankenstein is the Bay Area's number one champion of French pop music. If it's French, it's Pink.
Aunt Mary's Independent Listings - A listing of local Bay Area indie music info which was maintained from 1995 to 1998. Includes links to record labels, artist pages, zines and (thank you!) radio stations.
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.
bunnyhop - A great zine started by UC Berkeley students (and who says the youth of today show no promise?). Website features snide humor and summaries of the back issues currently available..
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.
HK in SF has calendar listings for all the theatres which regularly feature those wacky Hong Kong films, as well as posting reviews of upcoming features. Particularly cool is their page which explores the connection between HK films and "Xena, Warrior Princess"!
And, hey, if you're looking to expand your xenocultural kitsch palette beyond just the HK thing, Kent Johnson's San Francisco Asian Movie Watch keeps tabs on Indian filmi, Japanese movies and the Iron Chef, to boot!
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.
And finally, who says the mainstream media has nothing to offer us? The SF Examiner's Bondage File collects oddball news stories... some are quite amusing and risque (though some only try to be...)
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.
Desert Bang - These are people who blow things up and take pretty pictures to load on the internet. Don't try this at home.
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.
Magic 8-Ball -- well, gee, you figure it out!
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.
Hwy 17 Page of Shame aka"Jerque of the Day". One person's lonely fight against road rage, as they post a picture every day taken on one of the most hellish morning commutes in the Bay Area. A warning shot to all the spaced-out, self-absorbed, obnoxious, SUV-driving, cell phone-blabbing, right-of-way breaking, lame-o drivers and Cal-Trans workers of the world. Of course, all the jerks from Santa Cruz to Milpitas can now breathe a sigh of relief: the site's author now has a job that does not require them to commute on this mountainous route. Still pretty funny, though.
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!)
If you have suggestions for other webpages
that you think might fit in to this section,
please feel free to write our webmaster, 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!