03/17/2008
God Less America
Bluegrass may not be Michael's thing, but Rock and Roll certainly isn't for the Hi-Fi Guys. Their Louvin Brothers styled "Rock and Roll Killed My Mother," doesn't lend itself to roadtrippin' music but it will get one thinking about the deconstr ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/17/2008 12:15 PM EST in Experimental, Country | Permalink
03/15/2008
Where The Wild Beasts Are
If I didn't know any better I would guess that Hayden Thorpe, lead singer of the UK's Wild Beasts, was possessed. As Matt Fluxblog so eloquently put it, "Thorpe's voice wavers between masculine and feminine extremes like an old-timey hobo co ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 03/15/2008 7:09 PM EST in Experimental, YouTube, Indie-Rock | Permalink
03/13/2008
Van Morrison's Bang Records Contractual Obligation Session
What is the quickest way for a musician can get out of a loathsome record label contract? Ask Van Morrison. In 1967 he went into the studio and improvised about 30 songs to satisfy contractual obligations to Bang Records, his record label at t ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/13/2008 4:14 PM EST in 60's Pop, Experimental | Permalink
Maskull: Music For Adult Contemporary Goths
Thankfullness to Lady Siltbreeze, Queen of the AM dial, for introducing me to Maskull, an example of outsider art at its best. This is easily the strangest record I have heard in a while, not to mention the fact that it's classified as an Adult ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/13/2008 11:55 AM EST in Experimental, WTF? | Permalink
03/12/2008
I Suffer For My Music, Now It's Your Turn - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Doing a bit of research on the Legendary Stardust Cowboy brought me to his Wikipedia page. The introductory sentence for his entry is so perfect, I couldn't have said it better myself. "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, born Norman Carl Odam on O ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/12/2008 1:32 PM EST in Experimental, YouTube, Country | Permalink
03/03/2008
A Faulty Chromosome's Tiny Kaleidoscopes of Melodic Noise
Equal parts Caribou and Suicide, Austin's A Faulty Chromosome create minimal electronic music that, if they were physical objects, would fit comfortably in your pocket. "Jackie-O" and "Them Pleasures Of The Flesh" from their self-released As An ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 03/03/2008 4:01 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Experimental, YouTube | Permalink
02/28/2008
Our Brother The Native, Dr. Dog and Peter, Bjorn and John Songs Set to a Creepy 1963 Bicycle Training Video!
Ok this is just bizarre. Pitchfork posted the strange Our Brother The Native video that adopts footage from a 1963 bicycle training video (watch the original.) Finding it rather fascinating, (the video, not the fact that Pitchfork posted it) I p ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 02/28/2008 9:11 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Experimental, WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
40 Years Later, "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore," A Never Before Heard Velvet Underground Song, Rings True
What a wonderful way to start the day! A new Velvet Underground song? It can't be! Hoooray, but it is! Velvet fans everywhere will be thrilled to hear "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore" from Gymnasium, the rare bootleg recording of a 1967 perform ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 02/28/2008 11:42 AM EST in Experimental, Rock, 60's Psych, Lo-Fi, Highly Recommended | Permalink
Former Dirty Projector Nat Baldwin's "Lake Erie" Floats My Boat
Just this morning, I became aware that the amazing Nat Baldwin, former Dirty Projectors bassist, is putting out a new solo album this Spring. Most Valuable Player will be released at the end of April on Broken Sparrow Records. Baldwin's haunt ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 02/28/2008 11:22 AM EST in Experimental, Folk, Jazz | Permalink
02/19/2008
The Flaming Lips Re-Record "Free Radicals" in Simlish, The Language of The Sims Video game
And it is bizarre! We all know The Flaming Lips are an eccentric and progressive band to begin with, which is why we love them...but "Free Radicals (Simlish Version) recorded for EA's Sims 2 Pets Soundtrack takes their eccentricity to a whole ne ...
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