The recently-released website post-consumer.com is addressed to “anyone who has played or attended an indie rock show in Santa Cruz between 1999-2004.” We did! We were there! We remember the tall, handsome fellow with incongruous Ugg boots and a microphone on a stick who recorded shows in every bar, basement, living room and attic during the golden years of Santa Cruz indie rock!

And now you can be there, too – Nicholas Taplin’s hoard of live recordings (or half of it, anyway) is now available on the web (in streaming 128kbps mp3 format).

The archive includes not only Santa Cruz bands, but also touring bands (many from K Records) who played in Santa Cruz (our particular favorite is Victoria-based quartet Frog Eyes).

A particular highlight of post-consumer.com is the work of celebrated ukulelist and Big Bang! lo-fi music festival organizer Oliver Brown (shown here at a Joey Ramone tribute show at Santa Cruz's Rio Theater). Sadly absent, though, is the whiskey-soaked, train-hopping, punk-Americana of The Devil Makes Three--not to worry, though, the DM3 just released a re-mastered version of their 2002 debut CD, including 4 live and demo songs from the Santa Cruz era. You can pick it up at the two-night CD release party at the Independent, this Friday and Saturday night (doors 8:30, $15).

Many members of the Santa Cruz diaspora now call the Bay Area home. Our snapshots of them in the old days, after the jump.

Mollusk Surf Shop regular and sometime Balclutha skipper Jeffrey Manson’s early work is there in three forms: solo, as half of The Brothers Manswan (pictured at right at the Big Bang! in 2000), and as the bassist of The Hate Mail Express.
The celebrated Six Organs of Admittance (just featured in SFist’s New Tunes Tuesday and Comets on Fire are on post-consumer.com (at right, Comets Ethan and Noel at the Saturn Cafe).
So to is dark folk diva Emily Jane White’s old rock-n-roll band Hellafine (but not, alas, her short-lived monster-punk/swamp rock project The Veynz).

Former projects of members of San Francisco’s The Gibbs are on there (Sweat It Out, the Exploding Crustaceans, but not, sadly, The Gorehounds). Oakland’s recently hiatused Battleship has a Santa Cruz heritage, too (The Hate Mail Express, Las Muñecas, The Volunteers, and Mr. Peanut Is the Ultimate Dandy, to name a few).

A complete list of artists/bands now represented on post-consumer.com:
4 Track Mind
40 Acre
AMCIS
Amortifera
Arrington de Dionyso
The Automatones
The Barometers
Bitesize
The Bone Rangers
Boxleitner
The Brothers Manswan
Oliver Brown
Bunkbed
The Carnivores
The Catastrophes
The Ceramic Isles
The Comfy Chairs
The Curtains
Cuspidor
Dead and Gone
Dennis Driscoll
Estrella
Exploding Crustaceans
Frog Eyes
The Grief Counsel
Gross Gang
Get The Hell Out Of The Way Of The Volcano
Half Czar
Hate Mail Express
Hellafine
Jeff Manson
Josh + Hugh
Karl Blau
KIT
LAB
Lady Fingahs and Laura Lymes
Little Wings
Lost Kids
The Lowdown
Lylah Katz
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Melanie + Alessandra
Melting Igloo
The Microphones
Motor Over Motet
Mr California
Nervous and the Kid
The Others
Outhud
Pedestrian
Plug Spark Sanjay
The Prids
Rapatron
Roots of Orchis
Rosy Nolan
Run_Return
Sean Na Na
Sharp Dressed Man
The Shins
Shotgun Jeb
Sin In Space
Six Organs of Admittance
Skinny Lewinskis
The Snaps
SOC
Static Drive
The Sun
Sweat It Out
Sweet Nothing
Terror Tantrums
Texas Exs
Throw Em To The Lions
Tommy Lasorda
Tracy and the Plastics
Verstehen
The Virgin Marys
The Whip
Wolf Colonel
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