A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.
The ten most recent additions are available in a handy RSS format!
8 sites tagged with music. [Show all sites]
The Leonard Cohen Files
A remarkably comprehensive and long-lived fan site devoted to the life and works of everyone's favourite darkly romantic singer/songwriter, poet and novelist. Lyrics, photos, analysis, interviews and lots more.
date added: 2024-04-25
tags: music poetry fandom
UbuWeb
"Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts." The site is no longer updated as of 2024, but is being maintained as an archive.
date added: 2024-02-28
tags: art music surrealism poetry dance film writing
Ragged Entelechy
Horror lit, true crime, Patti Smith, Clark Ashton Smith, fragments of a journal, and sharks. Brought to you by Fiona Webster.
date added: 2023-10-08
tags: homepages horror music fish
The West Coast Foundation for Modern Art
Chronicles a group of beatnik/surrealist artists, musicians, and poets based in Vancouver BC, from their heyday in the 60s and early 70s up to modern times.
date added: 2022-07-09
tags: art painting music surrealism poetry
Sensitive Research (SR-IX)
Tom Jennings is an artist and the creator of FidoNet. This is his website. Lots of great tech, computing, and music history here.
date added: 2022-07-02
tags: technology computers history music electronics art
The Musical World of Rocky Horror
A rather extensive inventory of musical recordings relating to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Also includes reviews and photos. This is the old site, traverse the directory tree upwards to see its (somewhat) more modern incarnation.
date added: 2022-06-26
tags: music art fandom
https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/
Jamie Zawinski's mid-90s proto-blog
date added: 2022-04-1
tags: art music computers blog
Drop-D, Vancouver's Music Magazine
Vancouver's club music scene in the mid-late 1990s, preserved in aspic.
date added: 2022-01-10
tags: music art