Some of L/L's favorite people and places:

Downtown Music Gallery -- Record store on NYC's Bowery for music on the edge: Underground & Avant Jazz, Art Rock/Pop, Contemporary Classical, and the completely uncategorizable.

Other Music -- Manhattan-based record store specializing in amazing sounds, past, present, and future.

SquidCo -- Squidco sells music CDs and related items from independent artists and labels, focusing on improvised and unusual compositional styles, and a great deal inbetween. Also check out Radio SquidCo.

Cowboy Technical Services -- Informal workshop style analog/digital recording studio. These guys are studio veterans and they have the gear and production credits to prove it.

Seaside Lounge -- A recording studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn. These guys have superb ears, amazing gear, and a beautiful space.

Suliven Recordings -- Label owned and operated by Daniel Patrick Quinn. Have a look and listen to some of Mr. Quinn's wonderful music.

free103point9 -- A nonprofit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Art. Check out free103point9 online radio, the gallery in Brooklyn, and the farm in Upstate New York.

Reverse Shot -- A quarterly, independently published film journal with refreshingly intelligent reviews and symposiums on directors from around the world.

StoryCorps -- An oral history project that travels the country in Airstream trailers recording the stories of everyday people.

Other artists:

Berkoy
Birdbrain
Bunnybrains
Crass
The Dust Dive
Bob Hoffnar
Love Action
The Occasion
Oxford Collapse
Phoria
Noriaki Wantanabe
Nick Yulman