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Tiny Tim: Concert In Fairyland
Annoying Animal Sounds Christmas Novelties , "Muppet Christ Superstar," my vote for the strangest musical instrument ever, and "Cool Cowboy" are back up - by request, strangely enough.When legendary...
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Over Sexteen Vol. 2: Prudes Won't Think It Funny!
By a very wide margin, one of our "Lowbrow" collections of mid-century sleazy-listening sounds is the most popular post of the year, and several other lowbrow posts aren't far behind. Which is great,...
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BANDCAMP IS THE NEW CASSETTE CULTURE: Dark Ambient Edition
It's fall, Halloween is around the corner, so let's get moody with these FREE! listening/download contemporary internet releases of a decidedly strange and obscure nature. If Lovecraft's Miskatonic...
View ArticleCalvin B. Rhone: "He Came On Me"
I'm just gonna stick with the facts on this one. No comment necessary. Calvin B. Rhone is a still-active Los Angeles gospel singer who recorded this private-press sanctified soul album in 1983. Some...
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Ultimate Xanadu 22
Don-O is the very busy culture-vulture who slipped us "Ultimate Ultimate Xanadu" last year, a sampling of the numerous cover versions of songs from the 1980 musical film "Xanadu". A film I still have...
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Oh Come On, MORE Experimental Psychedelic Bagpipe Music?!
Count 'emYeah, I know, but this one's really great. Julia Wolfe, of New York's Bang On A Can posse, released this a few years ago, and is performing it for the first time in Los Angeles this week - on...
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"Night Of The Living Dead" soundtrack
I think this speaks for itself, doesn't it?The internets sez: "Since their meager budget did not allow for an original music score, producer Karl Hardman selected cues from the Capitol Hi-Q production...
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HI-FI SCI-FI: Vintage Monster/Space/Horror/Futurism Audio Oddities
Now up for your downloading pleasure, six (and counting) volumes of monstrous mix-tapes, perfect for these Halloween-y times we're living in. And what might their contents be? Compiler Cat A. Waller...
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The EZ-Listening Gangsta Rap of DJ NoNo
By request, the marching-band versions of Stooges classics is back up."Planned 10 years ago, the Ballroom EP (now album) has been a long time coming…Mixing ballroom music – big band, jazz, bossa nova,...
View ArticleThe Complete EVERYDAY FILM...
...is available for free, supposedly for today only. Dig the horrific electronics:https://theeverydayfilm.bandcamp.com/By request, "Music For Weirdos Vol 5" is back up.Right, back to my sick bed....
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Thelonious Moog - "American Standard"
Thelonious Moog' debut was, as you might expect, jazz cats playing Mr. Monk on vintage synths. Their 2007 follow-up, "American Standard," ditched the music of their namesake for an unpredictable,...
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Behold, the Daxophone! The FUNNIEST Instrument Ever?!?
The late, great Hans Reichel gets a lot of props in the modern jazz world for his guitar playing, which is all well and good, but Maniacs should proceed directly to the few recordings he made...
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MUSIC MADE FROM SOUND EFFECTS 2
A year we ago we wrote about artists such as The Fruiting Body who make music out of everyday sounds. I am happy to say that this trend is continuing. People of Earth! Your musical instruments...
View ArticleWEIRD-ASS CHRISTMAS
Maniacs! Do any of you have the "Trekkies 2" soundtrack? I've been getting lots of requests lately to re-up oldies, and that ones' file has gone missing. But lots more old posts are back up, cuz you...
View Article"All I Want For Christmas Is A Goat"
The Worst Christmas Record Ever is back on-line. As well it should be.And I thought that my beloved pot-bellied pigs Christmas album was the nuttiest sampled- animal- sound-fx Christmas album, a...
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ANOTHER WILD XMAS
'Tis the season for yet another installment of that beloved yuletide tradition, Bomarr's 'wild xmas' compilations of "...the best of the best, and the worst of the worst holiday music out there."And a...
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WEIRDER-ASS CHIRSTMAS
As promised by compiler Cat A. Waller, "Weird Ass Chirstmas" is now up. Any Scrooge would have his head turned around by this: Esquivel, Mel Blanc, a guy singing like a frog, a track from the infamous...
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OUTER SPACE MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE!
Who or what is/are Ko Transmissions? I don't know, but the lengthy letter that accompanied the cassette release featured here tells a long, involved story of musical messages sent to planet Earth by...
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HAPPY (BAND)CAMPERS: CHILL EDITION
I don't even know how to deal with the death of David Bowie, at least so far as this blog is concerned. He was such a monumental figure in my musical upbringing that I wouldn't know where to begin. Ah...
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HAPPY (BAND)CAMPERS: WEIRD EDITION
"American Folk Music" is the most boring possible name for an album, but fear not! The latest release from veteran North Carolina wackos the Moolah Temple $tringband is anything but dull. They take...
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