Clik here to view.
ROBERT WILLIAMS "Late One Night"
Former drummer for Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Robert Williams, followed up his debut solo EP with this 1982 full-length. He's still joined by some Zappa/Beefheart sidemen, (e.g.: Bruce Fowler's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lowbrow Vol.7: Devil Dance
Reposts! By request: Pierre Bastien's marvelous mechanical musics and Snoopy's Beatles Classics on Toys. I won't be re-upping any Twink The Toy Piano Band, as he has put all of his stuff on Bandcamp,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MADRIGALS FOR MANIACS
We've been following Frenchman Cartone Sonore's curious career for some time now, most of it concerned with obscure and toy instruments. But his new album is created solely with his voice. Yep, no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BINGO GAZINGO
Whilst perusing the roughly 5,372 albums R. Stevie Moore has put up on his Bandcamp page, I was delighted to see that the Bingo Gazingo album is now available for your free listening/low-cost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE WORLD'S TALLEST MUSIC: Joseph Bertolozzi's "Tower Music"
An entire album made solely from the sounds of someone banging on the Eiffel Tower?! Now that is the kind of thing to warm the cockles of a Maniac's heart, and to thoroughly confuse, if not annoy,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
COVER THE EARTH Vol. 6
I had not planned on compiling another selection of odd ethnic covers of Western hits, thinking that I had exhausted that particular well, butour pals over at the Growing Bored For A Living blog hit us...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CASSIUS CLAY: "I Am The Greatest"
When great men die, of course, we should remember them by their weird novelty records.To note the passing of the former Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, let's listen to The Lip From Louisville's early '60s...
View Article"The Best Things In Life Are Free...But You Can Leave Them To The Birds and...
I have not had a full-time job since Feb. 2015, and it's getting serious. So you will forgive me for putting ads on this site. It's so fun to click on things. Click, click, click! Very relaxing. Some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HIPPIE NOISE IN A LAUNDROMAT
The self-titled 1971 album "The Roots Of Madness" is a truly historic avant/outsider artifact. Incredibly, the recordings of this, well, madness date back as far as 1969. That beats The Residents, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I CUT PEOPLE: "I Quit"
27 tracks of lightning-fast audio edits whizzing by in 24 minutes? It can only mean another release from I Cut People and their ever-improving m.o. of wicked social satire thru a dense collage of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo: "Forbidden Zone"
Back in the days of Los Angeles' wild-n-whooly pre-punk "Freak Scene", The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo were filling large theaters with their outrageous performances. And if you think that name...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The GTO's "Permanent Damage"
I (and my family) now own the Frank Zappa family cat. Said cat was given to us by the queen of the groupies, Pamela Des Barres. No, I'm not making this up.Frank Zappa died over 20 years ago, his wife...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Dissection And Reconstruction Of Music From The Past As Performed By The...
Why, lookee here, it's our super-swell pals from the Growing Bored For A Living Blog. You know, the ones who slipped us those nutty "Sesame Street Disco"albums. Let's find out what those crazy kids up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BEHOLD! THE ANARCHESTRA
Alex Ferris is quite obviously a genius, a 62-year-old inventor/composer who lives in the desert with his large array of giant, weird, hand-built musical instruments tuned to microtonal scales. It all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BETTY BOOP "Boop-Boop-Be-Doop!"
Yes, I'm alive and well! This blog ain't dead yet. I've just been spending my free time on other pursuits.You don't need me to tell you who Betty Boop is. But there's more to this perennially popular...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I'm Still Bringing Weirdness Back...
Last year, I reported on the latest sightings of sicko songsters in our society. Not only are they still at it, but some serious competition has joined them. Maniacs rejoice!Bretts Milk "Daddy's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lloyd Marcus - American Tea Paaaaaar-TAY!
My fellow Americans! Not too crazy about any presidential candidate this year? Here's someone more entertaining then all of them put together: an ultra-conservative black man! Who can sing like a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ROCKING STOCKING STUFFERS
To make up for my absence from blog-land*, here's about five bajillion hours of weird Christmas music. There's even a new blog called WeirdChristmas.com that has two swell podcasts so far, featuring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ANOTHER WEIRD-ASS CHRISTMAS
Our pal Cat A. Waller has assembled another great batch of oddities, novelties, and cheese with a yule-time spin and I'd love to break it down for you, but Cat fears the copyright nazis, and would...
View ArticleNew Leaders of the Eldritch Cult
If H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Christmas carols just aren't, you know, dark enough for you, dig: It's an excellent new album from The UK's Will "Seesar" Conner and his large contingent of daemonic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ZOOGZ TOOSDAY: Son Of Puke
It's the (slight) return of Zoogz Toozday!Like a cross between cartoon soundtracks and free jazz, side 1 of this 1987 cassette-only release is a sprawling smorgasbord of countless samples and snippets...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Liebe Hart & Chip The Black Boy gets Chopped & Screwed
One of LA/s outsider music heroes David Liebe Hart and his ventriloquist dummy Chip (who he treats as his son) has a new (just released yesterday) all-too-brief 5-song EP that takes his usual flying...
View ArticleAND NOW, THE NEWS...
Good evening. Here's what's happening in the world of outsider music. Our top story today:- Florence Foster Jenkins, "The World's Worst Opera Singer," is not only the subject of the recent Meryl Streep...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WFMU's SHEENA'S JUNGLE ROOM internet radio
Now screaming, er, streaming via the world's greatest radio station: https://wfmujungleroom.blogspot.com/or via WFMU's home page (under "Listen"): https://wfmu.org/All lowbrow all the time...uncensored...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jungle Room Records
Ungawa! I'm unleasing obscure oddities from 35 years of record collecting that (hopefully) have not appeared on other compilations of wild, weird Mid-century vinyl fun. Some of these tracks appeared...
View Article