01/09/2008
Mayo Thompson's Troubadour Psychedelia
In 1969 Mayo Thompson released his first solo record, Corky's Debt To His Father. Departing from his avant-garde psychedelic band, Red Krayola, Thompson created a record that evokes the spirit of Alexander Skip Spence, but makes things a littl ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/09/2008 5:06 PM EST in Experimental, 60's Psych | Permalink
01/02/2008
Who Gives a F*ck about Walter Cronkite When We've Got Steinski!
Many younger people don't know this but the person primarily responsible for what the kids are calling "mash-ups" these days, is a middle-aged Jewish man from New York known as Steinski. One thing is for sure, Steinski is not Girl Talk. He i ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 01/02/2008 5:09 PM EST in Experimental, Hip-Hop | Permalink
My Name is Joe Meek, And "I Hear a New World"
Hi, my name is Joe Meek, and back in the late 50's, I discovered a way to travel into the future. I visited many periods (including your curent year, 2008) and saw so many interesting things, but when I went to tell people about them, they took ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 01/02/2008 12:17 PM EST in Experimental | Permalink
Colleen: Music for Diving Bells and Butterflies
Over the holidays I saw the best contemporary film I have seen in years, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Oh my God, this movie is phenomenal. On the walk back from the theater I listened to the French instrumentalist Colleen's album, The Go ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/02/2008 11:35 AM EST in Experimental, Folk | Permalink
12/29/2007
If You Want to Clear Out a Party, Just Put On Some DNA...and Turn it Up!
In the brief, but very influential and wild late-70's New York movement, known as No-Wave, most bands had a general distaste for previously recorded popular music, including punk. They wanted to create something totally new and expressive. Somet ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/29/2007 3:41 PM EST in Experimental, YouTube, No-Wave | Permalink
12/27/2007
Drum Circles Go Punk! Kickin' It With Foot Village
Tired of hearing guitars in rock music? Want a more stripped down sound? How about abandoning chords and notes altogether!? What's left? Drums. Hollywood's Foot Village is a group playing nothing but drums. This idea might not work in theory, ...
Read MorePosted by Joe on 12/27/2007 10:34 AM EST in Experimental, WTF?, Punk | Permalink
12/26/2007
Philly Artists Determined to Cross Over Into the Surrealistic Mummer Dimension
If you live in Philadelphia and have ever hung around on Broad Street on New Year's Day, well you may have noticed all the colorful, eye-popping brigades trotting and dancing down the street in glorious celebration. Of course, I'm referring to t ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/26/2007 12:46 PM EST in Experimental, WTF?, Local Music, Events | Permalink
12/24/2007
Exclusive Interview With Philadelphia's Pop Astronauts, GANG!
Philadelphia definitely has its share of weird and interesting bands. The hip-hop meets electro meets opera meets space disco group known as GANG, may be one of the most interesting. Made up of four friends; Amanda (vocals), Jaclyn (Glockenspiel ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/24/2007 2:43 PM EST in Electronic, Experimental, Interview, Local Music | Permalink
12/20/2007
Top 10 Albums Of 2007: No. 2, Liars - Liars
The only consistent thing in The Liars' discography is change. The band has mutated it's sound with every new album since their 2001 post-punk revival debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top. Three years later, they hopp ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/20/2007 12:41 PM EST in Experimental, Neo-Psychedelic, Top 10 Albums Of 2007 | Permalink
12/19/2007
Top 10 Albums Of 2007: No. 5, Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
When I caught Dan Deacon's show at the Starlight Ballroom in Philly, the whole place pulsated with joy and excitement. See, Dan didn't just perform he conducted. Fans of the future-shock electro-pop wizard joined him on stage as he proceeded to ...
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