OUR FAVORITE THINGS

Bands We Like

• Be sure to visit the official page of the Fleshtones, Hitsburg USA.
• Visit our buddy Tom's website: The Official Tom Clark & the High Action Boys Site
• Check out the official website of Sweden's Nomads.
• Read about the Mighty Ions, the Intercontinental Champs of Rassle-Rock.
• The Blood Drained Cows feature Gregg Turner, an old friend and ex-Angry Samoan (and Andy produced their new CD).

Music Sites We Like

• Check out the new website of the legendary Trouser Press. An updated bio of the Dictators can be found here.
• PUNK magazine is alive and well -- and online.
• The Orgie Newsletter's Jeroen Vedder has merged his Captain's Log with Lindsay Hutton's Next Big Thing log to bring you all the Dictators news that's fit to print, plus news and views on a variety of cool stuff.
• The I-94 Bar - devoted to Aussie, NYC and Detroit rock'n'roll
• Gearhead Magazine
• CBGB Online
• The Rock Explosion webzine (in English and Italiano)

Food, Folks & Fun

• Awful Plastic Surgery -- "the good, bad, and ugly of celebrity plastic surgery"
• The Catalog of Cool is now available online, daddy-o.
• Great wrasslin' sites: 1Wrestling.com and The Sheik.
• The Sopranos - Unofficial Fan Site
• Sopranoland - The Sopranos Fan Mega Site
• The Official Website of the New York Yankees
• What you crave: White Castle.

MORE ABOUT US

• Manitobas.com has relaunched with all-new look.

Bios & Discographies

• Jeroen Vedder includes a Dics page in his work-in-progress Dutch Punk and New Wave Discography 1975-1979.
• An updated bio can be found at TrouserPress.com.
• The All-Music Guide lets you rate the records.
• Find a discography at Hiljaiset Levyt: PUNKNET 77.
• Check out the Dictators' entry on the ARTISTdirect Network.

Friends & Family

• "Dyehard" Dics fans get their look from Tish & Snooky's Manic Panic.
• Andy is working on writing an intro for author Clifford Lawrence Meth's upcoming short-story collection from Aardwolf Publishing.
• Read Dictators lore and simultaneously groove to "I Stand Tall" at Little Steven's website. Little Steven also mentions the band and the bar in an online essay.
• If you've seen the Dictators on the road in the U.S. the past couple of years, you've seen our road manager, CJ Scioscia. CJ runs his own studio -- Le Chateau BowWow Recording.
• GeneSuttle.com features an interesting theory on the cause of the Great Blackout of 2003, plus the Hillbilly Dictators Jihad tribute pages.
• This site stockpiles links to Richard Meltzer's contributions to high culture.
• New York City Search includes a write-up and photo of HDM's bar, Manitoba's (99 Ave. B, between 6th and 7th).
• Be sure to download the promo reel from the official site of the film Final Rinse, which features the Dictators.
• Take some courting tips from HDM at Perfect Date.

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