(sections have been alphabetized for the user's convenience, even if it doesn't look like it at first glance)

(note: more Paper Bag related links can be found at the Paper Bag Home Page

MUSIC: GENERAL: online magazines, information sources, radio (broadcast & internet, etc.) and the musicians that sometimes run them:

• Adventures In Plasticland: travel through the cosmos on waves of music, with your host Spaceman Stan! Broadcast out of Ontario, with a web simulcast.
• Aural Innovations: One of the most complete and best sites around that covers space rock, progressive, psych, and everything in between, old and new. Features reviews, news, articles & interviews, webcasting, etc.
• Cassette Culture : a forum space/information central for the phenomenon of the home taping/recording musician/composer. This is as genuinely independent as music gets.
• Don Campau/Lonely Whistle/No Pigeonholes: home for this very cool guitarist/improvisor/composer, his independent music catalog Lonely Whistle, and his long-running radio show, No Pigeonholes, which features independent artists. (He was giving airplay to unsigned PB and my solo stuff back in the '80s.)
• Dreams Wide Awake : prog radio show covering the whole range, from the lesser known to the classics. Broadcast and web simulcast.
• Drug Music : internet radio covering a wide range- kosmiche to punk and beyond.
• Experimental Musical Instruments : things you never thought of, sounds you never imagined, and the people that create them, are what you will find here. This is not only of general interest, there's plenty of resources for those interested in making their own instruments, including how to wire just about anything with a pickup. (And if you'd rather just buy pickups for unusual instruments from them, you can do that too!)
• Expose': great magazine covering prog, fusion, and related genres. Reviews, interviews, articles & news.
• Gagliarchives: long running prog show serving south New Jersey, Philadelphia, also features streaming audio.
• Ghostland.com: great progressive site, with very useful links.
• Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock: a massive undertaking, ongoing and growing monthly; seeks to cover all progressive bands worldwide, past and present, and is doing a damned good job of it.
• Hellride : formerly known as Custom Heavy, this is a great site covering the underground heavy music scene. If you like your sounds hard, dark, and heavy go here!
• The Improvisor: "The international website on free improvisation, dedicated to the music of the moment... A resource for musicians and composers of free improvisation..."
• Lord Litter: DJ, musician, promoter, and Internet Radio host. Supports a wide variety of music.
• Nature Abhors A Vacuum : prog radio with progressively wide boundaries- Zoogz Rift and John Cage aren't off limit, for instance- prepare to be challenged while having fun. Broadcast with web simulcast.
• Nucleus: cool Argentinian prog website, in English and Spanish. The guys who run it also do a few different radio shows.
• Obscured By Clouds: radio/webcast Fridays 10 PM EST, host Ken Rostkowski. "Free Form Radio for your Friday night. The focus is on the music…you’ll hear Badly Drawn Boy, Be Bop Deluxe, Eno, The Flaming Lips, Man or Astro Man?, Oddbox, Roxy Music, Spirit, Supergrass, Tangerine Dream, The Who, XTC, and more!....From the archives to the new releases, “Obscured by Clouds” is more modern than classic rock, more classic than modern rock."
• Perfect Sound Forever: a great magazine and a great resource for anyone interested in non-mainstream music old and new. 
• pOoTer's pSycheDelic shAcK : Self described: "“A dark corner of the void dedicated to....Psychedelia, Acid Rock, Progressive Rock, Garage Bands, 60’s Punk, Freakbeat, wig-lifting rarities, books, posters, lightshows and other STRANGE items related to pSycheDelic music.........” Lots of reviews, and they accept reviews from outside writers on psych (and psych related) albums! The main page is probably the most convincing black light look I've seen anywhere on the web.
• Progression Magazine: superb magazine covering progressive music and related areas.
• Progressiveworld.net: large and very active progressive site, with detailed reviews, news, interviews and more.
• ProgressoR: in Russian and English, this site covers all aspects of prog from an impassioned and often unique viewpoint. Features detailed reviews and overviews of albums/bands/musicians.
• The Prog-Rock Diner : radio/webcast, Sundays Noon-2pm EST, host Debbie Sears. Features early as well as current progressive rock rock imports, some classic rock and "sometimes something completely different to spice things up". Also features interviews with artists or people involved in the Prog field.
• Psyche Van Het Folk : Belgian site covering folk with an outside edge- anything pushing the boundaries, often well beyond any traditional definition.
• Screamin' Streamin Audio : very happening internet radio! Wide taste range, excellent programming choices, check it out!
• Stone Premonitions: label featuring artists like The Rabbit's Hat, Census Of Hallucinations, and Krom Lek; also a rallying point and co-op opportunity for like minded artists.
• stonerrockchick.com: covers current and classic hard, psych, "stoner" rock- reviews, interviews.
• The Taped Crusaders: reviews of the independent, the odd, the outside, and so forth. Good stuff.
• Taped Rugs/Charles Rice Goff III: home of the inimitable CRGIII himself, as well as for projects Turkey Makes Me Sleepy and The Magic Potty Babies. If good music and surreal humor can harmoniously coexist in your universe, this is for you.
• Trigon Records: indie record label run by the ever experimental Marc Mylar. Find herein info about their releases, current activities of its artists, and more.
• Unfretted: a site devoted to the fretless guitar. If you play one, or are interested in the instrument, this site is a must. And if you're just generally interested in people venturing into uncharted areas of music, the same recommendation stands. I learned things the first time I did a quick scan of the main page.
• Weirdsville: very cool Internet music site. Uses RA files and a random generator to give you 10 tracks when you open up their player. Expect to find everything from surf to psych to Sun Ra to Metal Machine Music popping up. Currently has over 2000 tracks on tap.
• Zzaj Productions: run by improvisational musician/supporter Rotcod ZZaj, this site has reviews, music and a catalog of available releases. It's also a first rate source of information for independent artists.

MUSIC: SPECIFIC ARTISTS:

• Vincent Crane's Atomic Rooster- A History of- by Jean Cheesman: run by Vincent's widow Jean, this is a terrific site, with very rare photos, interviews, an Atomic Rooster links page, etc. The personal aspect makes this a very special site.
• The Official Arthur Brown Home Page: Holy Smokes, does it get any cooler than Arthur? Nope. Still going strong.
• Bill Bruford Home Page: drummers don't really get any better than this and if you're here you probably know his work well. If you didn't know he had a home page...well, now you do. Check it out, it's very cool and will keep you up to date on his activities. And if you think you don't know who he is- nonsense, you do. You just didn't know it. Are we clear?
• Colosseum: text intensive, no frills page about this great band. In addition to band history and extensive notes on official releases, there is also info on known bootlegs. Also check out Alex's Colosseum page- full of pictures, info and cool links.
• Tom Shannon memorial site My friend of many years, founder of Death And Taxe$. In his lifetime, a tireless, trailblazing genius. An innovator of progressive metal, he and his work will not be forgotten.
• Strange Magic: Australian site for ELO and related bands like The Move and The Idle Race. The section for the Idle Race is, to my knowledge, the only site dedicated to that very fine band, and it's well done, full of text and graphics.
• La Fantastica Home Page Dei Goblin: a really terrific page on Goblin, the Italian group who specialized in soundtracks for horror films (such as Suspiria and Dawn of the Dead), but who actually had a very diverse sound and released several excellent non-soundtrack albums.
• Hal McGee: A prime mover in the underground home taping and electronic scene, Hal continues to turn out fascinating/dreamlike/sometimes sense-assaultive releases, and does a lot of great collaborative work in this vein as well.
• Bret Hart: prolific improviser, builder of unique instruments, and CEO of a small label specializing in unusual music. Also runs the GuitArt webzine.
• Hawkwind: Welcome to the Future: the official Hawkwind site. A good site, but beware: the index page can hijack your browser. You may have to double click repeatedly to get back here (or wherever you came from, if you bookmark it).
• Elephant Talk: The best source of information for King Crimson fans.
• George Radai, flash-fingered bassist for Paper Bag, Cold Sky, Bag Theory, Ritual, etc., has his own site. The links page is like the Smithsonian, in that you may need many visits to even begin to reap the full benefits of what's stored there.
• Rutles: official website for the band who built a legend that was to last a lunchtime. Stig is in the exact position of a dying Yeti.
• Small Faces- Room For Ravers: great site for one of the coolest bands ever. They influenced more people than is generally acknowledged. ]
• Neal Smith : site of the drummer with the original Alice Cooper group. Neal hasn't been standing still and has been releasing new material on Kachina records, including work with ACG alumni Dennis Dunaway and BOC's Joe Bouchard (and that's in one band!).
• Uriah Heep: the official site, with input from band members and links to their sites. Full of info and graphics.
• World Record- Van Der Graaf Generator tribute site: very nicely done.
• Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator: though the site's author claims it's personal and not a comprehensive VDGG site, the number of pictures and articles reproduced here make this site a must for any fan.
• Eric Wallack: you may know him from "Asleep Or Somewhere Else", but you should definitely hear his other stuff, if you haven't already- inventive multi-instrumental work, highlighted by some of amazing acoustic guitar playing.
• Hypertext Who: Killer unofficial Who site, which probably covers more territory than any official site ever will, unless somebody's on the ball.
• Roy Wood Home Page: the official home page for the genius behind The Move and Wizzard; updates on his latest work and great archival stuff, including images.

MOVIES, T.V., etc. (not alphabetized) :

• the Shill Pages: this site specializes in photographs of actresses, mostly from the silent and early sound era. The section on Fay Wray is enormous and actually functions as her official site.
• Horror-wood.com: killer e-zine covering classic horror movies. Great writing- reviews, articles and interviews.
• Eccentric Cinema: top-notch site covering cult movies.

GENERALLY COOL STUFF:

• Inconduit: this site covers the photography of a guy who calls himself Hool. I found his work by chance on the Internet, looking for something else, and was completely blown away by the quality of it. He seems to live with and through his camera. Great stuff.

FRIENDS:

• MsGeek.com: Michelle Klein Hass' work appears all over this site and the Paper Bag site. Here is a guide to Michelle's professional work, including pages dedicated to her photography and web design.
• Mutating Echoes: The site for the artwork of Bryan Davis. Bryan's art veers towards the surreal, grotesque and fantastic; fans of '50s-'60s paperback horror cover art should find this enjoyable. (I do.)

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