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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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New 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...

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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...

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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...

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AND 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...

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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...

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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...

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