music people:

Cesar Alvarez...dumb hair, dumb blog, awesome songs, awesome boy
The Baby Skins...girlscout terrorists with vocal chords of silk
Backwards Alphabet...Sara's kid brother -- CBA all the way!
The Bloodsugars...rock and roll all night, part of every day
Crayon Rosary...our sonic soulmates
Creaky Boards...two skinny boys full of pure happy
Dan's Solo Myspace Page...dan is very busy
Dream Bitches...your idealization of the early 90s assumes flesh. hot flesh.
Jessica Delfino...international drug smuggler, menstruater
Toby Goodshank...poop and pee and beauty
Dibson T. Hoffweiler...young dibson becomes a man
Casey Holford...one of the smoothest singer/songwriters -- he makes it seem so easy
Yoko Kikuchi...haunting songwriter, bitchin photographer
Phoebe Kreutz...funniest songs this side of John Ashcroft
Lach...who's yr daddy?
Jeffrey Lewis...nicest boy in new york, smartest songs on the planet
Lippe...photos from a good, good man
Makeshift...West Philly's answer to En Vogue
Michael Nace Band...1 member of C.o.B. + 2 members of Side of Fries = rawk!
Shiragirl...a vengence, a vagina and a hunger for apples
Sustaining Simple...makes the term "college rock" seem less insidious
Soce, the Elemental Wizard...the world's foremost white, gay, Jewish rapper
Helen Stratford... performance art genius hero standard-setter person
Justin Tranter...best underground queer rock fashionista ever
Nan Turner's Diary...virgos like structure
Gina Young...she thinks she killed her bikini, and i got news for you: she did

music things:

Antifolk...the community of wacko songwriters from NYC's Sidewalk Cafe
Olive Juice Music...home to brilliant acts like Schwervon! & Prewar Yardsale
Luv a Lot Records...sweet label, sweet boy
Metric Promotions...super-nice Randy spreads the C.o.B. gospel from scary Texas
Unicorn Sounds...home of the Tri-Lambs and all bands thereof
WQHS...rockin radio station lookin for love and freedom


potpourri!


Monkey Drive... peerless screenprinters
Inner Triangle...we don't quite understand what this is, but it's cool
JJ Titziou...greatest photographer on the planet
Kelly Writers House...the last best hope for soulful academics