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Muppet Christ Superstar
Finally! "Jesus Christ Superstar" the way it was meant to be done: with Muppets. Not "real" Muppets. But mock-Muppets are better than none at all, no? Muppet Christ SuperstarAnd it's a free Bandcamp...
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CLIFFIE STONE "COOL COWBOY"
("Better Than The Beatles" is back on-line)As a companion piece to the "How The West Was Swung" album by Vegas crooner Pete Brady that we posted here a few days ago, here's another unlikely...
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Stolen Sounds pt1
New on-line releases that make music out of other peoples' music:- People Like Us' newest album "Don't Think Right, It's All Twice" continues the prolific audio-collage queen's string of super-swell...
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STOLEN SOUNDS pt 2
More music made out of other peoples' music:Was very happy to see that Martinibomb's oldies from 1998-2004 are now collected onto one big name-your-price album. All kinds of lovely snippets of groovy...
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The Big Beat A-Go-Go Sound of DYMAXION
This intensely obscure band recorded these songs between 1995-1998 using methods I cannot quite figure. Clearly, there's a mixture here of sampled sounds, low-tech electro beats, and live...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo
¡Hola, amigos! Let's celebrate today by re-upping (is "re-upping" even a real word?) this collection of strange new takes on trad Mexican musics:PunkmMariachiand an album of Chicano parodies of punk...
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THE GREAT CELEBRITY SING-OFF
Remember the wildly popular "Golden Throats" collections of singing celeb records? 'Twas one of the few areas where the strange-music world and the mainstream met. Those comps, the gods' gift to...
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PRAISE THE LORDS: 3 ALBUMS OF GERMAN BEAT/PSYCH
Recently we posted an album by "The Rattles," a curious early German take on rock-n-roll. The Lords were another band from the '60s pre-Krautrock era, very famous and successful in their homeland, but...
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Happy 80th Birthday, Bob: MOOG BREAKBEATS 2014
Tomorrow, May 23rd, would have been Robert Moog's 80th birthday. When Mr. Synthesizer died in 2005, I quickly went thru my '60s/'70s Moog-sploitation vinyl and started slapping platters on the...
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Brain In A Box: 5 Disks of Science Fiction Sounds!
You don't get the beautiful 3D hologram packaging that originally enclosed this stupendous set, but hey, it's out of print, so better to have lots of good listening than nuthin', eh? And I've been too...
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Delete your copy of "The Great Celebrity Sing Off"! Its compiler Mad Jon has sent us a new superior version, with the missing Burt Reynolds track restored, and higher quality copies of some of the more...
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Les Dauphins: Just Another French/Algerian '60s Rock Band
One of the first French-language rock groups was this intensely obscure band with a near-unsearcheable name. Look up "Les Dauphins" and you'll get lots of French sites about actual dolphins. I did...
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By request, now back on-line:The Flying Dutchman One Man Band ShowClassic Schlock: A Kitsch-Ass Rock MixThe Toilet-Bowl CleanersBrown-Skinned Mormons A-Go-GoOh, and when I wrote the other day about...
View ArticleLet's Go In A Cave And Watch Weird Videos
More odds 'n' ends today. First of all, radio dj Mister X is requesting help from the maniacs community. He's looking for "...a song from the early/mid 60's, a truckers song, one of the earliest...
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The Unusual Electric Shocks of Roger Ruskin Spear
In this blog's world, The Great British Band Of The Sixties isn't those loveable mop-tops from Liverpool (good as they were), but of course, the Bonzo Dog Band. Tho comparing them to the Beatles isn't...
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ADIOS A LOS BEATLES
There is no more glorious sound for jaded ears than this rural Mexican brass band blowing berserk, off-key, highly enthusiastic instrumental versions of Beatles songs. Even the dreaded "Ob-La-Di,...
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The Note-Ables: Worst Lounge Band Ever?
Back up by request: "Halloween Stomp."The recent post re: Banda Plástica De Tepetlixpa Mex. reminded me of another wonderful exercise in musical incompetence, the most hapless lounge band I've ever...
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Negativland Live - "Helter Stupid Tour" 1989
At the time this excellent board tape was made, multi-media collage/ performance art/ prankster legends Negativland had been around since the early '80s, releasing several albums that served as...
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The Psychedelic Exotica of The Orient Express
Namaste! I was interviewed recently by the very nice DJ Jess at BreakThruRadio. And our pal Count Otto is back: "The Orient Express took the hippy trope of bunging sitars on your albums willy-nilly...
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Bandcamp Is The New Cassette Culture pt.3
More indie album wonderfulness courtesy of sites like Bandcamp (and remember, you can always listen for free) from geniuses that would otherwise go unheard because no label in their right mind would...
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