VISIT:

Gifted Children Records: Penny-Ante's new neighbor. Independent label launching June 26, 2007. Artists include Silver Apples, Women & Children, The Moon Upstairs, The Space Lady, and more to come. (Fancy Website coming soon)

Psyche Van Het Folk: Belgium-based radio show, website includes reviews and more

Terrascope: Fanzine for experimental and psychedelic music

Dream Magazine: Past feaForeground Colortures have included Mayo Thompson of The Red Crayola, Bevis Frond, Vashti Bunyan, Piano Magic, Ghost, Pearls Before Swine, Bert Jansch, Josephine Foster, Six Organs of Admittance, Bridget St. John, The Moon Upstairs, CAN members, Townes Van Zandt, Gorky's Zygotic Mynchi, The Left Banke, Tomorrow, and it doesn't stop there. Please pick one up. Very cheap for such a quality magazine.

Tiny Creatures: Los Angeles art gallery, books and music for sale, plus live music and films

DIY Gallery: Los Angeles art gallery, live music

20 Jazz Funk Greats: Reviews, discoveries, mp3 blog

L.A. Record: Weekly LA-based music zine

Clear Cut Press: Founded and run by Richard Jensen, a former executive of Sub Pop Records (Nirvana, Mudhoney) and co-founder of Up Records (Modest Mouse, Built to Spill), and Matthew Stadler, a novelist (Allan Stein) and literary editor of Nest magazine. As a business and artistic venture, Clear Cut is inspired by early 20th-century subscription presses Hours Press and Contact Editions, and by the midcentury paperbacks of New Directions and City Lights. Good books, good authors, good people. Check it out.

"We're Gonna Be Timeless": (DJs Josh Mancell & Sharif Dumani from The Moon Upstairs)
Good internet broadcast,  themes have included everything from the Paisly Underground to Dub, to tributes to Peter Parrett of The Only Ones, Death In June, to Fela Kuti, spotlights on Sarah, Stiff, and 2 Tone Records, guests ranging from Z'ev to Jennifer Herrerma of RTX & Royal Trux.

*Tuesdays, 6-8 PST on www.littleradio.com

Part Time Punks: Every Sunday at The Echo (Los Angeles), brings underground music of all kinds to the stage

Melted Mailbox: A mailorder project out of New York, comes in installments.
Includes: Dino Felipe, sunroof!, Ariel Pink, Arrington de Dionyso, ooo, and more.

The Smell: Los Angeles music venue & art gallery

Jungle Rush Gallery: Los Angeles art gallery with live music performance

Create:Fixate: An organization dedicated to elevating the importance and accessibility of art and music through education and providing opportunities for emerging artists to create, perform, and sell their work through mixed medium exhibitions.

The Echo: Los Angeles venue

Amoeba Records: The world's largest independently owned record store

Club Spaceland: Los Angeles venue

Chief Magazine: International Internet magazine, covering everything from music to film to amateur female Jello wrestling. Past band features include The Sugarcubes and Show me The Pink. Excellent profiles/interviews on artists, directors, tattoo artists... and wrestlers and more people you should know about. Just check it out.

She Comes In Colours: Los Angeles Psyche Radio program. Hosted by Dr. Frederick Phases and The Minister Alvin X. Great playlists. Past guests have included Sean Bonniwell of The Music Machine, Peter Daltry of Kaleidoscope & Fairfield Parlour.
*Mondays, Midnight to 2am. KXLU 88.9 FM, or listen over the Internet: www.KXLU.com.
*Downloads of shows available by Podcast.

The Stork Club: Oakland venue

Cakewalk: Semi-annual magazine, international coverage of art, music, and film. Each issue is filled with interviews, criticisms, drawings, reviews, and more.

(((Folk Yeah!!!))): Bringing bands together in Big Sur, CA.

Narrow Books: Independent publishing house located in Los Angeles. Coming projects: Artist, Travis Millard (FUDGE) new book, Hey Fudge.

Freak Beat Records: Great little record shop located in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Salzer's Records: Located in Ventura (CA). In stores, used and new CDs, vinyl and more.



Please check out each Book's page, for links to our contributors.
Learn about them, listen to their music, buy their records, art, and books.
Go to their shows, buy tickets, purchase, purchase. Support your artists. Help keep them fed.



NONPROFITS:

Write Girl: a nonprofit organization for high school girls centered on the craft of creative writing and empowerment through self-expression. Through one-on-one mentoring and monthly workshops, girls are given techniques, insights and hot tips for great writing in all genres from professional women writers.

The Animal League Defense Fund: leading the fight to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.

Compass Community Services: provides housing, education and employment services to San Francisco’s homeless and at-risk families. The agency’s four programs support more than 3,000 parents and children each year in their efforts to achieve stability and self-sufficiency.

Bonneville Enviornmental Foundation: dedicated to increasing the supply and use of new renewable energy by developing and marketing innovative green power products for consumers who care about global climate change.

The Tree Of Life Gallery: a unique non profit art gallery conceived to provide support and a helping hand to Africa's AIDS Orphans.


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