Supersphere claims to be "like finding a penny at the bottom of a 300ft well", and while there isn't much you can do with a penny when you're stuck down a well, there is plenty to do at Supersphere.

A million things more than a music zine, Supersphere covers every side of alternative culture from the human rights and environmental direct action movements through film shorts and independent publications to pirate radio and club culture.

Being the cultural unifier that it is, music is featured very heavily at Supersphere - most impressive is their live concert streaming video archive which features over 500 shows by underground musicians such as Mouse On Mars, Giant Sand, God Speed You Black Emperor and Sam Prekop - hours and hours of live entertainment from underground musicians which you won't find anywhere else.

Starting out in July 1999, Supersphere was initially a local underground events diary for Chicago, but very rapidly broadened its content to attract a world-wide audience. Cayce at Supersphere told me:

"We now focus on media outside of the mainstream, material that larger websites neglect. One of our many goals is to present underground culture to those interested in the underground, to build, maintain and create awareness of the unpoplular community - the subculture niche."

Coming up soon will be films from the current Republican Convention, documenting anti-government action and demonstrations, and news from the Kent Creek Occupation, featuring videos and interviews of the court case on preventing Winnebago County bulldozers from plowing the lands of thirty-year resident Tom Ditzler, a blind U.S. military veteran, for a proposed four-lane highway project.

The website is very tightly organised and beautifully designed, with weekly quality features from a range of alternative print media that would probably go unnoticed by the majority of us without Supersphere to draw our attention to it.

Visit www.supersphere.com