Kevin
Timothy.

Before there was a network, there was a kid with a stack of price guides, a tape deck, and the conviction that the good stuff never gets played on the big stations.

I got my start in 1996 in affiliate-style broadcasting and underground scene culture — alternative, hard, and industrial rock, learned from the inside, not from a textbook. Around the same time I was publishing collector reference handbooks under What It Is! Publishing: price guides and parts catalogs indexed by hand, priced from real sales, compiled and tracked on computer back when that was worth putting on the cover.

Those two habits — index everything, verify everything — never left. In December 1999 they became the U-Rock® Network. The founder's version of that story lives at johnkevintimothy.com. This site is the other side of it: the songwriter, the collector, the guy who still grades condition before he grades hype.

Songs first, paperwork always. Every credit below rides with its play log — writers, master owner, ISRC — the same standard the network asks of every artist who submits.

Through the 1990s I wrote and compiled collector reference handbooks — H.O. scale slot car price guides and parts catalogs. Real pricing from real sales, indexed by hand, spiral-bound, pocket-sized. These are my own shelf copies.

Everything above feeds one machine. Pick a lane:

Write me: kevin@kevintimothy.net

Music business goes through the artist portal or the label. Everything else — collector questions, old handbook corrections, tape trades — comes here.