In these heady days of social networking, you could probably argue that an old-fashioned Links page isn't all that important. Nevertheless, here comes a selection of friends and fellow conspirators, suggestions for further reading, and assorted sources of erudition and propaganda. Click the banners and tell 'em I sent you...

If you'd like to link to Nemesis To Go, here's a handy banner you can use. Copy it and paste it into your page (You don't need me to give you the code, do you...?) This is the standard 400 x 60 banner size: point the link at http://www.nemesis.to. If you want a bigger (or smaller, or different) banner, email me and I'll do you a bespoke version to your specifications. How's that for customer service?

London Gigs, the website that does what it says on the tin. A gig guide with the crap taken out. A healthy bias towards new bands, small venues, the underground and the interesting - plus the pick of the big stuff. I'm a contributor to the site along with assorted other zines and music biz outsiders. Look out for my heads-ups in the red text. By all means send in gig info (to them, not to me) if you know about events that are happening but are not yet listed.

Ms Kitten Painting's witty and charming indie webzine - originally a website similar to this one, now relaunched in trendy blog format. Essential reading for anyone who secretly thought Bobby Gillespie was rather dishy (before he went all Dadrock on us, obviously), or if you ever had a Jesus & Mary Chain poster on your bedroom wall.

The Organ - home of the many-headed Organart collective. Record label, radio show, and a long-running zine that's appeared in a variety of formats over the years, always with a maverick spirit of independence. Here's the latest incarnation on the web.

Louderthanwar (apparently you've got to write it like that, presumably so nobody gets confused with the Manic Street Preachers' DVD of that name) is a webzine devoted to the righteous cause of rock 'n' roll. Reviews, interviews and blogs, notably by Goldblade frontman and all-round punk pundit John Robb. If it's loud and snotty, they cover it.

Online base of Mick Mercer, former Melody Maker journalist, now Britain's unofficial champion of all things goth - a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. Mick produces a PDF-format fanzine which you can read on screen or print out and make into a traditional paper fanzine. You can also buy revised 'Author editions' of Mick's books, and some new photo collections from his extensive punk-to-Britpop archive.

Between 2002 and 2005, I wrote for, and contributed photographs to, the US-based webzine StarVox. As of November 2011 the StarVox site is down, although it seems the domain is paid for the time being. I'll keep this link here for now, just in case the site comes back up. If it doesn't, you'll just have to take my word for it that my stuff was brilliant.

Coilhouse is an art 'n' other stuff magazine that exists - impressively - in print, and in relatively minimalist blog-ish format on the web. Based in NYC and not widely distributed elsewhere, but worth tracking down. It describes itself thus: 'We cover art, fashion, technology, music and film to create an alternative culture that we would like to live in, as opposed to the one that’s being sold or handed down to us.' Well, I'll buy that. Or at least I would, if they did mail-order to the UK.

A newspaper-format freebie music zine, put together by some of the people who were involved with the now-defunct post-punky posterzine The Pix. Snappier than its inky contemporaries (below), Beat serves up new bands and cool bands (Comanechi, Bo Ningen, Grinderman), and also devotes entire page-spreads to photo-essays and art, which work better than you'd expect on newsprint. Between hard-copy issues, the Beat goes on in blog format.

A counter-intuitive throwback to the days of 'inky' music papers, The Stool Pigeon is a leading light in the new wave of newspaper-format music mags. Originally presented as a vaguely steampunkish faux-Victorian broadsheet - interestingly, the NME copped a few of the Stool Pigeon's style tricks in its last relaunch. Maybe that's why the Pigeon has now rowed back on the Victoriana and gone tabloid. Wordy and occasionally worthy, but a fine antidote to the mainstream's relentless coverage of landfill-indie. Worth it for the 'Charlie Parker - Handyman' comic strip alone.

More proof of the inky revival? Loud And Quiet is yet another newspaper-format music mag. While its music coverage might not be quite as radical as they'd like us to think (c'mon, we know  about The Horrors and Bat For Lashes now) it's still good for breezy coverage of much new stuff.

Sometimes Artrocker magazine annoys me, with its clunky writing and know-nothing contributors. I still cringe at the S.C.U.M piece in which the lead singer supposedly mentioned 'Christian Cosey' of Throbbing Gristle. Obviously, he actually said Chris and Cosey, but nobody at Artrocker was clueful enough to twig. Still, if you want an NME-beating insight into the new-wavey end of the current indie scene, here it is. This link goes to the website of the hard-copy magazine. Confusingly, there's another Artrocker site whch operates more or less as a stand-alone webzine.

Old school punk webzine, concentrating on the 1977 - 1979 era. Archives and survivors: interviews, resources and untold stories - essental reading for anyone who's interested in the first wave of punk.

Panda Eyes is a miniature fanzine produced by Alyssa Thralls. Tell her where you live, and she'll send you one for free, in the name of ART. Visit Alyssa's website for her podcasts, video interviews with rock stars, photo-blog and the Panda Eyes videocast, a video compilation of interesting music and interviews - highly recommended as a kind of DIY counter-culture riposte to MTV, live from Alyssa's living room.

Dave Allen, of Gang Of Four and Shriekback fame, now has a whole new career in online marketing - and he also runs a blog site in which you can read his thoughts on music, technology, and matters arising. Always interesting, always willing to poke the music biz with a sharpened stick. Read it and join in via the comments. And nope, I don't know why it's called Pampelmoose, either.

        

Jason Pitzl-Waters writes with intelligence and perception (and an impressive amount of research) about dark music, in all its forms and varieties, on this blog. If you're of the Pagan persuasion, you might like to read his stuff at The Wild Hunt, too.

If you'd like a link here, let me know and we'll see what we can do. Note that I don't put links to bands on this page: there are hundreds of band links on every other page of this webzine. This page is for Other Stuff.

I revise the links here at irregular intervals. From time to time new links are added, and a few old ones are quietly disposed of. Life is a state of flux, isn't it? Come back a bit later, and see what's new...