• Antique Electronic Supply
  A great place to get vacuum tubes and vacuum tube accessories. Also find vintage grill cloth, knobs... electronic components, too. Fix or build your own.
• Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum
  Amazing archive of synth dinosaurs... many great pictures and audio clips as well as virtual interaction with old synthesizers, drum machines, and oddball keyboards of the past. Your eBay searches will NEVER be the same!
• Booji Boy's Basement
  General Boy's little guy is at it again! Here is a band sanctioned 'DEVOlved archive' where you can get and trade Devo videos, rarities, and live recordings. Booji Boy, your struggle is our gain! Duty now for the archives!
• Carol Kaye
  She played bass on 'Pet Sounds', with Sam Cooke, Love, Joe Cocker, the Monkees, even Buffalo Springfield.... She played on Nilsson's "the Point"... When Motown moved to LA, she filled James Jamerson's shoes! Read more about the First Lady of the Bass.
• Combo Organ Heaven
  If you begin to salivate from hearing words like Acetone, Rheem, Elka, Vox, Cordovox, and Farfisa.... well hold on tight before visiting THIS site!
• Died Young, Stayed Pretty
  Canadian filmmaker Eileen Yaghoobian's full-length documentary film is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. It examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. Soundtrack music by Mayfair's Mark Greenberg.
• Ffffound
  Need visual inspiration? Tap into this addictive site where visual artists and designers post and link and post and link (then they post and link again).
• FIGHT THE SMEARS!!
  Don't be a sucker! Don't believe the lies and ugly tactics of anonymous haters. Educate yourself and arm yourself with the truth. THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE! (Vote Obama '09!)
• Flight of the Conchords
  This show that makes me laugh until I wet my pants every time. Visit their HBO page and see clips of the show and read Mel's (played by the adorably sexy Kristen Schaal) blog.
• Forget the Film...Watch the Titles
  A great collection of motion picture opening credits old and new.... certainly an art-form in itself. I do look forward to a TV show opening credits counterpart. Thanks to Coudal Partners for the link.
• Georgia & August Greenberg
  Get an early glimps of two future Mayfair Workshop composers... download this free long player released in 2003 from Georgia (six years old) and her little brother August (four years old). They sing songs they made up for you and me.
• Harry Partch
  Harry Partch was an American hobo/composer who not only invented and developed his own instruments for his orchestras, he invented his own musical scales, too. This site lets you 'virtually' interact with some of his instruments and creations.
• Helvetica, the Movie
  Filmmaker Gary Hustwit (prod. "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" movie, prod. "Moog" movie, SST guy, Salon.com guy, Plexifilms guy, etc) new documentary about the Helvetica typeface. Seems like there should be a movie about him.
• Home of DEVO
  Duty now for the Future! Come and see all things relating to DEVO. The guys in the band even run the site! The merchandising never ends…Don’t you need a DEVO logo license plate holder? Well, you are in luck. Get a surprise for your baby…
• Hot Doug's
  Forget about everything you THINK you know about weiners, red hots, and dawgs. Behold Hot Doug's! Chicago's Encased Meat Emporium! Don't miss the duck fat fries!
• Icelandic band Amiina
  Four Icelandic women and a bus-load of small musical trinkets.... Who knew such beautiful music could be made this way?
• Idents and Break Bumpers
  Here Dave Jeffery uses Flash to re-create TV logos, IDs, and break bumbers from the past. There are so many great ones!
• Inner Sleeve Art
  Some people call them 'record envelopes' or 'paper sleeves'... Whatever you call them, here is a great collection of their artwork throughout the ages.
• Itailian Vintage Guitars
  Sure, of course 60's Itialian guitars were all beautiful. Those guys were accordian makers! Check out the lovely and also the wacky.... guitars so beautiful to look at... and few that played well too!
• Jamaican Label Art
  Here is a fantastic site that explores the many great, odd, and downright crappy takes on artwork for older Jamaican record labels. FOR REFERENCE ONLY!
• Jews In Rock
  The Knack? 100%! Mountain's Leslie West? Yup. The Silver Jews?!! Well sure... So many greats to brag about (Marc Bolan, Ira Kaplan, the Specials' Terry Hall, Jonathan Richman) and a few... well, not so much (David Lee Roth, Gene Simmons, Geddy Lee).
• Jim Flora
  Mostly known for his genre defining jazz record cover illustrations for Columbia and RCA in the 40's and 50's, this lovingly created website shows the many side of this amazing illustrator and artist.
• Ken's HP Test Equipment Museum
  I just... I literally... I have no... there are just no words to... I... I ... I mean, come on... look... it's just... I mean how can we sit by when... oh Ken! Your collection leaves me speachless. (link from our friends at Coudal)
• Kiddie Rekord King
  The Kiddie Rekord King (AKA Peter Muldavin) is the (self described) world's leading expert on vintage 78 rpm children's records. Flip thru his collection of great soundclips and reproduced art.
• Lampo Experimental Music
  Lampo is a nonprofit presenter of experimental music and intermedia events in Chicago. They promote and supports artists working in electronic and electroacoustic music, free improvisation, sound art and other new forms.
• LEMUR
  The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. The have created a body of work consisting of robotic musical instruments that play themselves. Hot!
• Liam Hayes & Plush
  Chicago's own musical genius/hermit/freak. His music has been released in drips and drops over the past two decades but EVERY drop is worth hearing over and over again.
• Logos of Banks
  Logos... we love logos... that's why we start bands and companies, right? To make logos for them! Check out this great collection of bank logos... guess which one I am having tattooed on my butt.... (from the always inspiring Coudal Partners' MoOM)
• Max Crook’s Website
  Max Crook is most famous for playing the searing lead line on Del Shannon’s “Runaway” on his own adapted invention the Musitron. Read more about this musician and inventor.
• Micro Frets Guitars
  This 60's/70's company made the ugliest guitars to ever come out of the state of Maryland... maybe the whole USA... still, somehow all the poor aesthetic decisions seems to work when all added together. I hear they may be making these again.
• Mini Organ
  Another site that brings out our love of all things cheap, plastic, chromatic, and battery operated. This shows a very nice collection of crappy toy keyboards of the past. Sound clips too!
• Musee Mechanique
  Open to the public this San Francisco collector of orchestrions, coin operated pianos, antique slot machines, and animations lets you interact with these beauties of the past. Don't miss Neil Young's Old Laughing Lady!
• Museum of Online Museums
  Created by the clever folks at Coudal Partners, this is a never ending source of inspiration, visual and otherwise. From airline spoons to restroom hand dryers... and all things in beween.
• Musurgia Rare Instruments
  Just came across this website that features an extensive searchable database of fine & rare musical instruments and collectables for sale on the internet... an ever changing collection!
• Mystery Circuits
  Circuit bending mostly ends up sounding like a cross between R2D2 and a turd but here is someone that rises above the bleeping and sputtering crowd. Check out his Melloman!
• Nardwuar the Human Serviette
  I once saw Nardwaur play a Goblins show opening up for his other band the Evaporators. I have never in my life seen so many people bent over in pain, wetting their pants laughing at a rock show. Doot Doota Doot Doo .. Doot Doo!
• Noon Solar Powered Bags
  These great folks are creating handmade bags with solar panels so you can cleanly recharge your phone or iPod (or whatever other small battery powered item you may be carrying) as you take a sunny stroll.
• Oddmusic
  Oddmusic is home to unique, odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources. My new favorite is the Bubble Organ. Damn! I want one!
• Official Brian Wilson Site
  Get the latest news about legendary writer, producer, arranger, performer, musical genius, and Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson.
• PAMS Famous Jingles
  We all grew up listening to PAMS' jingles and radio IDs whether we knew it or not. Look though their site at the great work they did from the '50's thru the '70's. "WLS Music Radio 89" will forever be on the tip of my brain because of PAMS.
• Peluso Microphone Lab
  When John and Mary Peluso aren't tending to the sheep and lamas on their Virgina farm, they are making handmade ribbon and tube mics fashioned after the classic recording microphones of the past. Inspiring!
• Pencil Brand Archive
  All pencils? All brands? Check out all the great fonts, designs, and aesthetic decisions made by these companies. Empire makes a nice "Mayfair".
• Phil Spector's Notes to George Harrison
  Isn't the Internet great?! Here we get to read a private letter from Phil Spector to George Harrison detailing the producer's thoughts and concerns about the songs that would make up Harrison's seminal "All Things Must Pass" LP set.
• Piano Soundboard Decal Art
  Check this site out! Not only can you stroll thru all these great old piano logo and decal designs... you can buy them for restoration, too! This is where words like "Durophonic" and "Acrosonic" come from.
• Presspop Gallery
  Come see the amazing items Japanese company Presspop has created with such artists as Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, Daniel Johnston, Jim Woodring, Julie Doucet, Peter Bagge, Archer Prewitt, Dame Darcy, Sam Prekop, and more!
• Raymond Scott Archives
  This site celebrates one of the greatest American composer/inventors Raymond Scott. From his start in the 40's and 50's using a quintet playing decidedly novelty jazz to leading music into the realm of electronics and synthesized sounds.
• Recording the Beatles
  What a year or two for Beatles fanatics! In addition to Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick's book recounting his time behind the board, there is this book (previewed at the website) completely cataloguing the equipment used to record the Beatles. AWESOME!
• Soft Focus
  Here Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War) does his best 'Dick Cavett' as he rents out the Guggenheim to interview interesting characters in music (Will Oldham, Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins) and the not so interesting (Andrew WK).
• Songwriter Daniel Knox
  Just met and heard this very interesting guy who writes and sings songs very much in the same vein as Scott Walker, Jacques Brel, and Leonard Cohen. Great stuff!
• Specimen Products
  Check out Ian Schneller's amazing luthiered instruments, hand-built amplifiers, spinning horns, electric tiples.... and just look at the beautiful new Luddite guitar!
• Spudnik Press, Chicago
  We have a soft spot in our hearts for printmakers... especially adorable ones who open up a studio in their apartment and charge $5 an hour to anyone who wants to use it. DIY at its best! Go Spudnik!
• Starshaped Press
  Jen Farrell runs a tight ship. She makes beautiful, well printed letterpress goods in her amazingly clean North Chicago studio.
• TapeOp
  This website (along with the actual monthly printed magazine) is full of great ideas and inspirations for recordists at all levels... your gateway drug into the world of recording.
• The Duplex Planet
  Step into the nutty yet uniquely touching world of David Greenberger's Duplex Planet. His website is the logical extension of the home made zine he started in 1979 way before there was the word 'zine'. Has human decline always been this entertaining?
• The Guitar-Zither Clearinghouse
  You like zithers? Of course you do. Who doesn't? Check out this site... it follows the zither as it was reformed, rethought, and remade in all shapes and sizes with bells, whistles, and other things.
• The Mayfair Workshop YouTube Page
  Come visit the Workshop's new YouTube page. See more demos, spots, composer projects, and all the stuff that won't fit on the Workshop's website.
• The Monks
  Loud primal caveman beats from American GI's in Germany in the mid sixties. They were perhaps the first to present distorted banjo to the world.
• The Nudie Suit
  Ukrainian born Nudie Cohn gained his fame from bringing the worlds of rhinestones and western-ware together. Taylor to the stars, he clothed everyone from Elvis to Gram Parsons... Porter Wagoner to Glenn Campbell.
• The Trautonium
  Learn all you can about Oskar Sala and the many different forms he made from Dr. Friedrich Trautwein's 1930 electronic musical instrument, the Trautonium.
• The Troggs Swearing at Each Other
  Empty your bladder before you listen to this excerpt (yes, there is much more somewhere)... Spinal Tap borrowed from this hilarious practice recording... but they sprinkled some fairy dust on it...
• Tortoise
  Chicago instrumental band Tortoise's official site. See videos, get tour dates, find out all the details about all the details.
• Webmasters Also-Online
  We love our web designers!!! Go see their site and check out their other work! Hire them! Take them out to lunch!
• Website for Busy Beaver Buttons
  Have you ever made a button? I mean actually working the machine and pressing it out and all? So fun! Order from Busy Beaver and they MAY let you help... if you behave.
• WFMU "Beware of the Blog"
  One of New Jersey’s best bragging rights (besides the Feelies), WFMU is community radio like no other! Fittingly, their blog has no equal.