ALBUM DU JOUR #4: POLLUTING THE MAINSTREAM

The Eagles!  Fleetwood Mac!  Styx! Marie Osmond! That's the kind of stuff I listen to now.  All that weird, experimental stuff - what wa...

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The Dubuque Strange Music Society

The excellent Neon Lushell album that I wrote about recently was my first clue that strange things are afoot in Iowa. Turns out that it was...

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Farwell to GYBO, The CBGBs Of The Internet...

Was quite surprised to read the announcement earlier this week that GYBO is going off-line, after 10-and-a-half years of being the internet...

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"Stairway To Heaven" Stretched To 77 Minutes

Buttress O'Kneel is the Australian madwomen who won our " M4M Idol " contest last year, and "Avant Retro: Post​-​Tardcore...

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Modern Purveyors Of Filth And Degradation: A New Music Roundup

So, so many albums out there! And some of them are even good!  Wish I had time to dedicate one post to each one, but due to the usual time c...

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THE SCREWY CARTOON SAMPLING OF DAVID SHEA

This 1995 album, the second by American experimental composer David Shea, is constructed entirely out of samples played live.  Yep, no compu...

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Ergo Phizmiz's Nose Points In Different Directions

Tho I've written about Ergo Phizmiz numerous times in the past, I can't even begin to fully immerse myself in the brilliant Brit...

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Scott Johnson - Rock Paper Scissors

There's a lot of sampling music out there, but very few composers work it like Scott Johnson - he takes snippets of human speech, and, ...

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