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***A PERSONAL FAVE:***
BUSH WATCH
Half the rock musicians I record are brighter than this guy (sigh). No, wait... that's a huge insult to the other half... and 100% of them can pronounce "Nuclear"!
Here's another:
ANTIWAR.COM, just in case my sympathies are not crystal clear. Where else will you find Pat Buchanan and Noam Chomsky saying the same things? But beware the Serbian guy who writes for them sometimes, he practically foams at the mouth. Great external news links though.
And another, aimed at open-source geeks, but with broad interest:
GROKLAW, which is hard for me to even explain, but I am addicted to it.
***LINKS To Other Freelance Producer/Engineers!***
Alex Newport's website.
Steve Fisk's website.
Kip Beelman's website.
Johnny Sangster's website.
Tim Kerr's website.
Alex Kostelnik's website.
Scott Colburn's website.
Solar Marquardt's website.
Greg Sage's website (Wipers guitarist).
Eddie Ciletti's website.
Tony Visconti's website.
Bob Clearmountain's Website.
Kevin Shirley's website.
Barry Rudolph's website, even more sprawling than mine!
And here's a specific section of Barry's site you may find interesting... he has collected a huge amount of outboard gear recall sheets and made them available as downloadable PDF files, an excellent use of the Web. Check it out.
And I am most pleased to have swapped links with Moses Avalon, the pseudonymous author of "Confessions of a Record Producer." Check out his "Online Royalty Calculator."
Here's some other interesting links that just didn't fit elsewhere on my site.
Charles Peterson, ace photographer, finally has his own site!
ZINKY AMPLIFIERS The shit. One of my favorite guitar amps in the whole world (and I've got a pretty big pile of 'em). You can ask many of my clients who've ended up using it in the studio in the last year and a half.
Bob Katz's Digital Domain An extraordinarily GREAT site with massive amounts of technical info from a well-known mastering engineer. Bob's book "Mastering Audio" (see website) is also highly recommended!!!
Tape Op Magazine, "the creative music recording magazine". This is the only 'indy-rock' recording magazine! It rules!
Official Titãs English-Language Website Here's info about that Brazilian band I've done 4 records for, now in a form accessible to us gringos. Titãs is the biggest rock band in Brazil. (No, they are not a thrash metal band.)
Fast Horse Recordings My friend Barrett Martin (ex-drummer from Skin Yard, Endino's Earthworm, Screaming Trees, Mad Season) and his percussionist pal Joe Cripps have started a label to release their new Tuatara record as well as other related projects like their new band the Wayward Shamans.
The Melvins. Here they are. Deal with it.
Emerald City Guitars, a cool music store in Seattle with a cool site.
The Trading Musician, the biggest used musical instrument store in Seattle. Seems like half my friends used to work there. (I used to live next door, which was a dangerous thing.)
Jim Blanchard's website... twisted and perverse comic artist and a friend of mine.
Metro Music, one of my favorite places for obscure, rare, collectible and imported CDs.
OSXAudio.com... even though I'm still using Mac OS9 most of the time.
"Recording Connection: a music industry school with 5,000 students worldwide who train on-site at major recording studios, record labels, radio and TV stations, film studios and video production companies." (JE sez: I can't speak first-hand about their program but the "hands-on" emphasis makes tremendous sense and the website is pretty informative.) Basically you pay them money and they get you in as an unpaid intern at a studio somewhere near you that participates in their program, and I think you have to complete some lessons and log your hours etc. Whether it results in any thing concrete (like a diploma or certification) other than just the raw studio experience, I'm not sure, but I suppose the experience is what counts.
"TAXI: The Independent A&R Vehicle connecting unsigned artists,
bands and songwriters with major record labels, publishers, and film
& TV music supervisors." (JE sez: Seems like a pretty legit operation. Not an approach that would work for many of my clients, but it might work for you, and the website is very informative.) Basically you pay them money and they give you critical feedback on your music... and if they like it a lot, they MAY bring it to the attention of some A+R folks.
Crypt Kicker Five Here's a new website for a band I was in back in the late 80s. Our guitarist/singer Rhonda made this site. (She now has a band called Mighty Shiny. The other guitarist Chip has a surf band now called Mercury Four.) At the same time I played guitar in Skin Yard ('86-'92), I played drums for Crypt Kicker Five, one of Seattle's strangest bands (yes, the name is a reference to Bobby "Boris" Pickett). We were sort of Mediterranean Garage Techno-Surf, if that helps any. We were 1 Mosrite + 1 Tele + 1 Fretless bass + 1 '67 Ludwig Kit + 2 Female vocals. Our only output was a single and two comp tracks, but I recently (Feb 2002) finished mastering all our studio recordings, 17 songs in all... might do a limited-run CD of this stuff. Stay tuned.
RecordStoreReview.com, a new continent-wide database of indy record stores.
Future of Music Coalition This is a great site.
TAPCO REPAIR Jory Fink is the only certified repairman for Tapco products. Seattle-based Tapco was a company started by Greg Mackie back in the 70s. They made mixers, power amps, lots of pro audio gear. I still have one of their mixers and a stereo spring reverb unit. Jory was the very last employee of the company after E-V bought them and eventually closed them down. He was the last repair tech and ended up with all the parts, schematics, etc, and still does Tapco repair work. Tell him Jack Endino sent you... he fixed something for me about 12 years ago...
Modern Recording website Big site with tons of info. Recommended.
The Fez Guys Lots of audio stuff and links.
Bandradio.com This is a good site dedicated to the "indy" musician, with lists of college stations, magazines, etc.
CDBaby A Portland, Oregon-based online CD store catering exclusively to indie bands. If I ever release a CD myself, this is where I will sell it. They are privately owned, and so have bypassed the dotcom bust completely.
The American Tinnitus Association. "My ears are ringing, and I can't answer 'em!" Non-profit organization funding tinnitus research. 35 bucks per year membership gets you their magazine, Tinnitus Today, with regular news about new research, the search for a cure, etc. ATA is the most up-to-date source of tinnitus info anywhere.
EMedia Magazine Website One of those industry mags, excellent for reading about developing technical standards, new products, and what the corporations are doing to each other.
ArtistPro.Com Tries to be the ultimate recording-related site. Huge and bloated and very slow to load, however. Publishers of the Recording Industry Sourcebook. Now owner of Mix Books, EM Books, more. Registration required.
Starpolish Another all-things-to-all-people site about the entertainment industry. News and lots of info. Good resources and advice.
Indiegroup.com A gateway site to five other sites devoted to helping the ambitious indy musician. I was skeptical (the opening graphics are kind of cheesy) but there's TONS and TONS of good info here if you follow the links.
Seattle Metal Online These bands never go away, and god bless 'em.
Scott Holderman's Studio Maintenance Page. Scott is a freelance studio tech. The links section of his site is excellent.
The Fully-Informed Jury Association. Concerned about people being thrown in jail for victimless crimes? Browse this site.
DEFENDYOURPRIVACY.COM Useful info.
The official Pere Ubu website. See the way in which one band does business.
Billboard Magazine Online All the weekly pop music charts you could ever possibly want.
C/Z Records A Seattle label that was there before Sub Pop. The official website! Be sure and tell Daniel I sent ya...
Electronic Frontier Foundation Standing up for a free internet.
Ptolemaic Terrascope Magazine (UK) A way-cool "illustrated occasional."
American Civil Liberties Union Standing up for the Bill of Rights. See for yourself.
Nolo Press A noted legal self-help publisher. Lots of great books and info.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State I feel pretty strongly about this, and anyone with more than a complete idiot's grasp of human history should be able to figure out why.
Hawkwind Seriously, they're just not going to go away no matter what anyone thinks. The official site for a band that has been around since 1969 and spawned entire genres of imitators and offshoots. Their discography might be bigger than mine.
Music Books Plus Online bookstore, taking up where Mix Bookshelf recently left off.
Disinformation What I affectionately refer to as "wacko" news, great for conspiracy buffs... but with a serious undercurrent beneath the superficial appearance of farce.
Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters. Essential.