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When Queens-based 4-piece Twin Stumps came by WFMU for a live set on Talk's Cheap back in August, they'd been playing constantly, digging deeper into the sludge-sunken depths with each live
performance. Take a listen to one of those live tracks below, or preview the album here : Just over ...
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Mike Patton
WFMU
Genesis
Out of the strange magic world that seems to be the Ridgewood/Glen Rock area of New Jersey (think VivGrrlz , Titus Andronicus , Real Estate , Liquor Store , Ducktails , Fluffy Lumbers , and Frat Dad ), comes a newish project that is really making me just go coconut-cuckoo clocks-crazy ...
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Big Boi
Jersey
A randomly timed visit to Odyssey and Oracle records in Portsmouth, NH, led to my meeting with the one-man musical über-project that is Enslaved by Owls. Here's how it went.... My friend Claudia herded me to the shop, a bit off Portsmouth's beaten path. O and O is a small store, with a lot of ...
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Enslaved
Owls
It's December 1 -- time for the annual celebrations, people! Let's start by raising a glass to the unification of Transylvania , birthplace of Sylvania televisions . And transsexuals, duh. It's also time to find out how the greater metropolitan blog world celebrates some of the other December ...
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Here's a sweet album I picked up years ago. It's called "Musical Memories of Chalk Hills Camp", and the insert that came with it dates it to 1961, and places its recording in the Appleton vicinity, although the camp itself was just over the border into Upper Michigan.
Having ...
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A Camp
Bob Dylan
This 1998 video installation was directed by Iranian-American visual artist and director Shirin Neshat . The singers are played by Shoja Azari (though the voice is that of Shahram Nazeri ) and the amazing vocalist and composer Sussan Deyhim . If you want to watch the same video on YouTube, ...
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Get ready for round three of Whacked Out Hillbilly Night on Music To Spazz By. Listener Greg G will be stopping by our Jersey City studios this Thursday to bring you more of the hillbilly hangovers, rubber room wig outs, hippies from Mississippi, fuzzed out ...
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Debbie Gibson
Jersey
Growing up mainly in the small Missouri town of Warrensburg , one couldn't help but become acquainted with the town's famous canine 'mascot' Old Drum . Over the years I've heard many incarnations of and references to the eulogy written about him in 1870 by George Graham Vest . The ...
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...because they don't speak English and are too punk to honor conventional holidays anyway. Shit, they definitely don't care that we once dined with the people from whom we eventually stole land and then slaughtered mercilessly...whoops...sorry for being ...
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Mark you calendar. My wife Janet and I will be filling in for Shut Up, Weirdo (Fridays, 6 PM) on the following dates:
Friday, Nov. 27 (Black Friday) : Crappy Crafts & Penny-Pinching Parties
Did you ever wish you could turn a lowly coffee can into a beautiful piggy bank via some ...
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WFMU
Give the Drummer Some's 6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere It's your pre-Turkey Day edition of Mining the Audio Motherlode and this week's platters are piping hot. Please help yourself to each course, then pass them on to the next set of hungry ears. As the universe of ...
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It's a chore enough these days for any kind of overseas band to land a U.S. tour on any scale, so its was nothing less than a pleasant surprise when we learned that New Zealand's Axemen had a pretty extensive one lined up with Columbus, Ohio's Times New Viking this fall. The Axemen started in ...
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Wow, is NYC lucky! A few weeks back, San Francisco's finest purveyors of angsty punk slash girl-group harmonies Grass Widow flew across the frickin' continent just to play a few New York shows. Now wasn't that nice of them?
Sandwiched in between concerts with Vivian Girls, ...
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Grass
Vivian Girls
Even bros chilling in Ireland were stoked on jamming Home Blitz during their first go round, and for good reason.
Daniel DiMaggio, totally hunky Jersey-guy from Princeton started Home Blitz in 2006 and went on to record an awesome album and play sick shows from then until August 2008.
After ...
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Jersey
WFMU
Larrikin Love
What words would you use to describe 1960s French pop sensation Gigi Gaston? With a growing cult discovering her through the dozens of photos, periodicals, songs and videos assembled by Josh Gosfield, some adjectives describing the chanteuse nicknamed the "Black ...
Indie Music
What words would you use to describe 1960s French pop sensation Gigi Gaston? With a growing cult discovering her through the dozens of photos, periodicals, songs and videos assembled by Josh Gosfield, some adjectives describing the chanteuse nicknamed the "Black ...
