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Rip It Up, Issue 243, 1 November 1997, Page 9

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WRITING SERIALS Adding a touch of menace to your personal correspondence is easy with these excellent fonts of serial killer handwriting! John Dillinger, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charlie Manson — their psycho scrawls are available here. Download one for free from www.klllerfonts.coTn STONES ON THE ROAD While the Rolling Stones are on the Bridges to Babylon Tour, one song from each show (chosen from votes on the site) will be cybercast at their brand new site. So, even if they don’t make it this far south, you may hear a complete set. There’s also some nice graphics of lions and stuff. www.tho-rolllng-stones.coTn OH HENRY Recent visitor Henry Rollins’ well-presented site contains exhaustive information on his publishing company, record label, and the Rollins Band. Good catalogue too, with some items on the mail order service unavailable elsewhere. www.twothlrteenslxtyone.com GITAL HARD CORE WARS A Real Audio file of Atari Teenage Riot’s Alec Empire Vs. DJ Spooky, captured live at New York City’s Soundlab, can be accessed via the Mille Plateau Tour Link. www.lCF.de/2005.5 • • . . ■ ■ ' . . ■ ® ■ low loiiiß DOTMUSIC tp;!? sgf The latest music industry news from the UK in a weekly online mag, from the publishers of Music Week. Recently, they’ve linked with Microsoft bringing up-to-date music stories to users of Internet Explorer Version 4.0 on the active desktop channel. See it all at www.dotmusic.com ■ OZ ONLINE RETAILER LOGS OFF CD-Online, an Australian venture into internet music retailing, has folded after six months in operation. The independent retailer had been selling CDs at slightly below Oz market prices, and has given up after, "exhausting time and resources on the project.”

QCKER ROCK- MATE What began as an exhibition of five decades of Australian rock music is now available on the K Real Wild Child CD-ROM. Covering 250 artists, with 200 songs and 100 video clips, the interface is illustrated by artist/musician Reg Mombassa. You can get an idea of the content from the Real Wild Child exhibition at www.realwildchild.com.au EPITAPH ANTI~WEB The visually stunning (shades of Ed "Big Daddy” Roth) Epitaph site, with unreleased audio, pics and all the info you need about the bands on the Epitaph and Epitone labels is on the Anti-Web, www.epitaph.COTn., including current tourists Ten Foot Pole, who you can contact directly at www.Unfootpole.coTn FROM SCRATCH World-renowned, locally-based avant-garde rhythm collective From Scratch — find out more at www.elamAuckland.ac.nz/from_scratch/from_ scratch.html SHOOT WONDER WOMAN This site features Linda Carter as Wonder Woman in her 70s (pre-infomercial) glory, and the idea is to fire at her without having your bullets deflected by her mighty bracelets. Quite funny, but impossible. www.lo.org/~wonder/ww/bullets.htm QUITE BIG. THEN Ex-Crowded House drummer Paul Hester has a new outfit, the Largest Living Things. For their ongoing tour diary and selected audio check out www.frenz.com/LLT/ BIG BLUE BLANKET You can seek out Big Blue Blanket, Hawkes Bay ska/punk types now resident in Wellington, at their site which includes sound from their debut album Everytime You Smile, photos, info, and "stuff about chaos and being pissed.” www.r6action.co.nz/blgblueblanket E-mail: rlpitupadear.net.nz