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Punk Newsgroups and Mailing Lists


If you want to interact with your fellow net-punksters, Newsgroups and mailing lists give you a pretty decent way of posting and reading all kinds of rants. If you're looking for band-specific mailing lists, those can be found in the Bands listing. Please note that some mailing lists will QUICKLY fill your email box, and that not all newsgroups are carried by all news servers.

*Mailing Lists*

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The Asian Man Records Mailing List
"Bands such as Tuesday, Broadways, Slapstick, MU330, Lets Go Bowling, Unsteady, Bruce Leigh Band, Potshot, etc, etc" Send an email to subscribe.

Calgary show listings-CowPunk!
"CowPunk! is a monthy flyer zine (well i guess it's an e-zine on the net [cringe]) that lists upcoming punk and ska shows in Calgary. Also reviews records 'n'shite. to subscribe mail me with "sign me up you bloody wanker" in the body."

Dance Hall Crashers Mailing List
"Mailing list for the Dance Hall Crashers run by http://dhc.vfive.com"

The Doctor Strange Records Mailing List
"Bands such as Rhythm Collision , Zoinks, Man Dingo, Skankin' Pickle, Peter And The Test Tube Babies, and more." Send an email to subscribe.

The Lookout Records Mailing List
Discussion of Lookuout Records' bands. Send an email to subscribe.

Northwest Punk List
Punk listserver for the Northwest USA. Light traffic, mostly discussion of of shows and events in NW USA. To subscribe, send a message to "listproc@u.washington.edu" with "SUBSCRIBE NWPUNK user@provider.com" in the message BODY.

The Punk List
Punk Rock Listserver, sometimes 100+ messages/day. Send E-mail with "subscribe punk-list your@email.address" in the BODY of the message. Be sure to check out the Photo Album..

Punk 77
"This list is devoted to the discussion of punk music and bands of the mid 1970's to around 1980. Bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Buzzcocks, and assorted others are examples of the bands discussed." For subscription info, please follow the link to the Punk77 Home Page.

Queer Punk
Like the name suggests, this is for queer-punk topics. Check the web page for more info.

Straight-Edge List
Discussion of all things that are "Straight-Edge". For info about the list, write to: LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU with the word "INFO" in the BODY of your message. To Subscribe, put "SUBSCRIBE SXE-L" in the body of the message.

Vegan Straight-Edge
Another straight-edge mailing list. This one deals with alot more FNB and Animal Rights stuff. To subscribe, send a message to: majordomo@crash.nildram.co.uk with "subscribe VSE" in the message BODY.


*Newsgroups*

Here are some punk (and some not-so-punk) newsgroups. You must have access to a news server that carries these to use them.

alt.binaries.sounds.music - Lots of punk music soundfiles posted here on a regular basis.
alt.fan.devo - Admit it...you like Devo too!
alt.fan.gg-allin - Discussion of the sickest of all "punks".
alt.fan.iggy-pop - Iggy is the Godfather of punk from his days as the Stooges singer.
alt.fan.jello-biafra - Jello, Dead Kennedys, Lard....it's all here!
alt.music.alternative - OK, well, you can find some punk stuff here too.
alt.music.bad-religion - Discussion of early SoCal melodic hardcore punkers Bad Religion.
alt.music.butholesurfers - The name says it all...
alt.music.clash - London Calling to this faraway newsgroup!
alt.music.danzig - Danzig, and I guess Misfits stuff too.
alt.music.dead-kennedys - A newsgroup dedicated to one of the BEST political hardcore punk bands ever!
alt.music.dead-milkmen - Silly punk rock. Very silly.
alt.music.green-day - Top 40 pop-punkers discussion.
alt.music.green-day.sucks - Green Day? Isn't that a football team?
alt.music.hardcore - Where the hardcores come to play.
alt.music.nomeansno - Discussion of one of Canada's finest!
alt.music.offspring - Offspring newsgroup. These guys are even more punk than Green Day.
alt.music.plasmatics - Discussion about the Plasmatics.
alt.music.ramones - Bop 'Til You Drop with these Pinheads!
alt.music.shonen-knife - Ikko O Ikko O Everybody Let's Go!
alt.music.ska - All about Ska music.
alt.music.ska-core - For all the crossover ska-punk, ska-core, etc...
alt.punk - Put up your mohawk and read this newsgroup!
alt.punk.europe - Punk stuff in Europe!
alt.punk.seventy-seven - Discussion about the finest period in punk rock history.
alt.punk.straight-edge - XStraight-edge newsgroupX


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