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One Of The Most WTF-iest Songs You Will Ever Hear
Words fail me...a warning to the men-folk from a thoroughly eccentric (just take a look at these song titles), highly prolific Nigerian/American outsider recording artist. Not safe for work, radio...
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Old Friends in the Zither Sound
Yeah, yeah, I know: everybody plays air-zither along with their favorite 'zither heroes,' they even play the Zither Hero video game, the zither-bass-drum lineup has been the standard for decades, and...
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The Stangest Album Ever Made?!
"Trout Mask Replica"..."Eskimo"...The Shaggs...any such list is now incomplete without a mention of Five Starcle Men's "Gomba Reject Ward Japan." Coherent biographical info on this band is hard to...
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Behold! The Wheelharp
I love the creepy, creaky sound of the Wheelharp, a newly invented instrument developed and sold thru L.A.'s Antiquity Music company. But rummaging thru the sofa cushions for spare change will probably...
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MERRY CHRISMASH (AND A SOUND COLLAGE-Y NEW YEAR)
Word has it that some of you Maniacs have been looking for Wayne Butane's hilariously profane kooky kristmas kut-up in the handy popular mp3 format in all it's 12-minute glory. I figgured, well, if I'm...
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Jaymz Bee & The Royal Jelly Orchestra - "A Christmas Cocktail"
I had a request for the Ridiculous Trio Plays the Stooges album, but I can't find a couple of songs: "Scene Of The Crime/Death Trip" and "We Will Fall." Anyone, anyone? Thanks!re: the"Merry Chrismash"...
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We Wish You A Wild Xmas
I'm probably outta here 'til sometime in January. Thanks to all my wonderful readers and contributors. You-all make it happen. Reader Eric writes to us to requesting what sounds like a pretty amazing...
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CRISWELL PREDICTS YOUR INCREDIBLE FUTURE
Now back up by request: one of the first posts ever in this blog's history:Polka Rap; and the happy yodeling of Arthur Brogli. Still working on your other requests.Our Man in The UK, Count Otto Black,...
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In With The Old, In With The New...
2013 was a good musical year for me: I saw the Residents, saw "Einstein on the Beach" (more on that later), this blog continues to get more popular (the Eno and Lou Reed posts in particular really blew...
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TOTALLY NUDE EXOTICA
By request, the Irish folk mashup collection "Straight Outta Ireland" is back up.When my unbelieving eyes saw that parts of the US were going to be below -50 F (factoring in wind chill), my mission was...
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The Ethel Merman Disco Album
You asked for it! Perhaps inevitably, the subject of this album, the music gods' gift to drag queens everywhere, came up in discussing the "Disco Sellout" collection recently posted here of mainstream...
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Bandcamp Is The New Cassette Culture...
...tho compared to the '80s/'90s tape underground: - the sound quality of indie music sites like Bandcamp is usually a lot better than those hissy tapes - even if you don't buy you can listen for free...
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Louis Farrakhan is Quite The Charmer
By request: Ray Schmitt's music for tree-huggers is back up. Before Louis Farrakhan was the hate-mongering nut-job running The Nation of Islam, he wasn't even Louis Farrakhan. He was Louis "The...
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The Space-Age Surf Lounge Sounds of KAI WINDING
"More" (or is it called "Soul Surfin'"?) by Denmark's trombone-toting bandleader Kai Winding is a fave thrift-store find of mine, a thoroughly unique mixture of EZ orchestra rockin' to a surf beat, and...
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Vote For Hyemen & Metalfunkel!
WFMU is hosting a battle-of-the-bands right now thru Feb. 4, and of the three finalists, I really like the hilarious Hyemen & Metalfunkel, who do spot-on parodies of heavy-metal classics as...
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Bandcamp Is Still The New Cassette Culture
Like I was saying...Listen for free, buy if you like.This batch is loosely associated by a shared fascination with the surreal and fantastic, injecting a little much-needed magic into our world. -...
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AN ALBUM CALLED "DISCO POLKA" THAT HAS DISCO VERSIONS OF POLKA SONGS AND...
...so help me, I did it. *hangs head in shame* I recorded the entire Myron Floren "Disco Polka" album, and *chokes* am releasing it from my laboratory to an unsuspecting public. Have mercy on my...
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4 Albums from Pat Smear: The Lost Years
I had a dream the other night that Elvis Presley was fronting a young, collegiate alt-rock trio called The Masters Of Logic. Elvis, in a white jumpsuit, appeared to be in his '70s Vegas era, and...
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TWINK The Toy Piano Band: "Happy Houses"
Confounding the naysayers who don't consider the toy piano a "real" instrument, Boston's master of toy-tronica Twink, has just released yet another album, his eighth one I believe. It is appropriately...
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The Acapella Death-Metal of EyeSea
What's more ridiculous than death metal? Howzabout acapella death-metal? EyeSea's "blue ten" is an entire album of Cookie Monster vocals going 'rowr rowr rowr', screams, and silences. And they don't...
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