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  Bands & Music Related Stuff

 • www.stompyjones.com - A San Francisco sextet renowned for their jumpin' rhythm, wailing improvisations, and relentless energy. They've been driving up the cultural temperature in California with their hip charm, retro style, and explosive stage show.

 • Carl 'Sonny' Leyland - LA based vintage piano player. His styles range from early 1900's blues, ragtime and stride piano, to 30's & 40's boogie woogie and rhythm & blues, to 50's pumping rock n roll.

 • www.pollstar.com - Artists tours, tours and more tours.

 • www.hickswithsticks.com - Your #1 Bay Area Hillbilly source! Complete SF Bay area Honky-Tonk/Rockabilly calendar.

 • www.barrycuda.com - Totally unique live piano player, entertainer, and music historian in Key West.

 • www.spo-dee-o-dee.notrix.de - Authentic 1950's rockabilly/western swing from Germany.

 • www.dekedickerson.com - Authentic 1950's rockabilly, western swing and surf.

 • www.esotericsound.com - Here's where you can find high performance audio equipment used for the reproduction of vintage recordings and in the restoration of such recordings. Each and every product is actual use tested after construction.

 • www.recordfinders.com - One of the oldest vintage record sellers. V-disc's, 78's, 45's, 33's........

 • www.jimrussellrecords.com - Located in New Orleans this store has over 1/2 a million plus vinyl records in stock! Rated the 10th best record store in the USA.

 • www.amoebamusic.com-  The largest indie record store in the country. Voted the bay area's best ........1991-2001!

 • www.hotclubofcowtown.com - Django Reinhardt meets Bob Wills! This trio out of Austin will blow you away. Personal fav.!

 • www.bigsandy.net - Long time national hillbilly boogie band.

 • www.boogiewoogie.just.nu - Tomas Oster, 30 years old. Lives in Sweden, and plays the boogie woogie piano. Nice boogie woogie Mp3's!!

 • www.boogiewoogie.net - Axel Zwingenberger has been playing this game for more than two decades. With his ardour for the boogie woogie, "the hottest music that was ever invented for the piano", he has engaged cultivation of this almost forgotten African-American folk music art and contributed decisively to the revival of a flourishing boogie piano scene in Central Europe.

 • www.apassion4jazz.net - History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring photo gallery, timeline, festivals, web-casts, piano chords, scales, online lessons and music teacher locator.

 • www.swingmusic.net - Swing music spanning seven decades of jazz history!

 • www.rockabillygirls.com - Dedicated to compiling the largest internet database hopelessly devoted to rockabilly, psycho-billy, western swing and swing female led bands. Great online stroll lesson too!

 • www.northbaymusic.com - Online guide to LIVE music in the SF bay area, especially the north bay!

 • www.halpeters.com - Finland based western swing band.

• http://django.samois.free.fr/ - Festival du Django Reinhardt Samois-sur-Seine, France

 • www.about-django.com - Great online clips of Django Reinhardt, and more!

 • www.oldhatrecords.com - Old Hat sponsors original field work and maintains an archive of sound recordings in various formats, with an emphasis on 78rpm records of the prewar era. Each collection is carefully re-mastered from original 78rpm recordings, and the music is supplemented by extensive historical notes, rare photographs, and vintage artwork.

 • www.oldtimeyrecords.com - Record to CD transfer service - 78rpm, 45rpm & 33rpm. Great sounds clips and upcoming sale items!

 • www.italian-music-school.com - Classical and jazz music summer courses in the Florence Music School "Il Trillo", with musicians and teachers of international fame.

 • www.woerecords.com - My cousins rap/hip hap record label!

  Magazines/Books

 • www.bluesuedenews.com - Blue Suede News covers the entire spectrum of American Roots Music, from '50 s Rock'n'Roll styles - Rockabilly and Rhythm & Blues to Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun & Zydeco, Swing and you-name-it hybrids.

 • www.mississippirag.com - Ragtime & traditional jazz publication.

 • www.bluesworld.com/78Q - The 78 Quarterly.

 • www.arcadiapublishing.com - Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz - amazing book loaded with impressive photos.

 • www.atomicmag.com - ATOMIC Magazine is the essential guide to retro culture. We report on the influence of mid-20th century style on modern trends in fashion, filmmaking, music and design. We have just one mission: to bring back the best of a bygone era—the music, the clothing, and the lifestyle—and remind our readers what it means to have fun!

  Radio Stations

 • www.riverwalk.org - Speakeasies, Flappers & Red Hot Jazz: Music of the Prohibition

 • www.kpfa.org - Radio 94.1 FM, Much of our programming is local, original and eclectic, with a well produced mix of news and in depth public affairs, an ongoing drama, literature and performance series, interviews, and reviews. Our music ranges from folk to hip hop, Bach, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, to Pan Handle Country and Blues.

 • www.kpoo.com - KPOO is the only African American owned and operated non-commercial radio station west of the Mississippi and the first Black station in the country to be on-line. KPOO specializes in jazz, reggae, salsa, blues, gospel, hip hop as well as prime time news and public affairs programs highlighting concerns of San Francisco's African American, Asian, Gay and poor communities.

 • www.kcea.org - KCEA 89.1 FM is the bay's only 24/7 Big Band/Swing station! Located in Atherton, CA.

 • www.kcsm.org - KCSM Jazz 91 also broadcasts 24 hours a day and has a growing audience that currently numbers more than 200,000. According to Arbitron, the station is among the top 35 "most listened to" non-commercial stations in the United States.

 • http://kalx.berkeley.edu/index.html - KALX 90.7 FM broadcasts freeform radio 24 hours a day to a large portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch all stripes of underground music accented with news and alternative informational programming. Check out Why Baby Why on Wed's.

 • www.cowboyjoesradio.com - Paul Aaron "Cowboy Joe" is the creator and DJ/personality of the unique, authentic Western music radio show, Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch.

  Clubs, Bars & Dining

 • www.broadwaystudios.com - Broadway Studios is located at 435 Broadway, San Francisco and offers one of the last large wooden ballroom style dance floors in San Francisco, a 40 ft. vaulted cast iron ceiling and a huge stage, lighting and sound system.

 • www.theeparkside.com - this place is one of the coolest, cheapest, most hospitable spots to catch garage, punk, and country-fried rock in town

 • www.elbo.com - club caters to a wide range of musical and cultural tastes. On any given night, live bands and DJs play jazz, funk, soul, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, rock, indie rock, or alternative music.

 • www.ivyroom.com - East Bay's major social hub: DJ's, live music, special events, shuffle board, pool table, full bar, authentic "dive" ambience

  Vintage Dance Stuffs

 • www.jitterbugs.info  - The San Francisco Jitterbugs 2002, a group that specializes in events/dancing the various swing dances of the 1920's to the 1950's.

 • www.sfjitterbugs.com - The original San Francisco Jitterbugs, Z-bugs in dogtown!

 • www.hollywoodhornets.com - Jitterbugs in the L.A. area.

 • www.art-deco.org - The Art Deco Society of California (ADSC) honors the aesthetic achievements of the first half of the 20th Century, especially the decades of the 1920s, '30s and '40s that are nowadays called the Art Deco period.

 • www.camphollywood.net - An event that specializes in bringing together people from all walks of life & all over the world to celebrate their love for terrific swing music, dancing, and competition. Learn some new steps, meet a new dance partner, or take home a national title! Camp Hollywood offers something for everyone and a fantastic weekend that memories are made of! >

 • www.jiveconnection.co.uk - Home of East Coast Swing Jive in the United Kingdom. Classes, events,insights into the history, background of the style...

 • www.swingdanceuk.com - Lindy hop in London since 1986 - London Swing Dance Society, UK's premier society for workshops, dances, performances and Lindy Hop Shop.

 • www.sanfranciscoswing.com - Swing and Lindy Hop Dancing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 • www.worldofswing.com - World traveling swing dance teachers.

 • http://geocities.com/dancefest - SF Bay Area dance listings and info. (all sorts of dancing!)

• www.bottomsupburlesque.com - the cutest booties in show business!