A great find today on TheHoundBlog , a blog run by ex-WFMU DJ The Hound : A cassette by Hasil Adkins from the mid-90s, finally digitized to MP3 and available for everyone with an Internet connection. Here is what The Hounds writes [direct link to the post with downloads ]:It was around 1994 or 5 that Hasil Adkins gave this 90 minute cassette to Norton Records' honcho Billy Miller to give to m...
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Tesco Vee's Guide to Agnetha Fältskog sadly never got the book deal it deserved, but great to see this bit of TV history exhumed.
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Listener Erik recently discovered the blog, and graciously sent some audio gems to share with y'all. Here's what he says: It's been about 32 years since National Public Radio launched the news program, All Things Considered . Makes me feel old. I still enjoy listening to Susan Stamberg and other long-timers on a frequent basis.Dink... dink... dink... dink... Ah! It must be time for the news. T...
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In honor of Patrick McGoohan , who died last Tuesday, this is a repost of a video which Hatch put up here two years ago. McGoohan created the psychedelic TV cult classic The Prisoner , in which he also starred as the main character, Number 6. And here it is, The Times with the song "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape". [YouTube link ] And for all of you who haven't seen the original series or who...
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Equally adept at community building, sonic exploration and art making, Lucky Dragons brought all sides for a live set recorded just before the holidays for the Long Rally . It's one long track of computer gamelan, echoed out flutes, and tiny percussion. Take a listen or download away. Thanks to Jason Sigal for engineering. And for all LD all the time, hit up the website, Hawks and Sparrows ....
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1. Hold on Tight (2:37)2. Goin' Out of My Head (2:51) 3. Secret Love (3:07) 4. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (2:26) 5. What the World Needs Now (2:42) 6. The Inch Worm (2:50) 7. You've Got Your Troubles (2:31) 8. Sweetness Is My Love (2:37) 9. What Now My Love (2:12) 10. Dear Heart (2:20) 11. Who Am I? (2:31) 12. Sleep Away (2:00)The final commerical album by Jamie and the J. Silvia Sing...
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The year that passed was, for me, a quest, a journey atop a coal-black riding animal, under dark skies, across fields of smoldering embers. I had long prepared for my mission, watching hair metal videos on YouTube with the knowledge deep in my heart that somewhere out there there was something. Something real. Something true. Something dark. A black hole borne of an electric vortex. Alone I t...
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Mac (of the Antique Phonograph Music Program ) checks in with another great blog topic:Earlier this month, Michael Feldheim forwarded an article about discovery of home recordings done on cylinders from the teens of the last century… (MP3 of cylinder recording here ) Being a collector of disc and cylinders that are more than 100 years old, I know that these recordings are fantastic to find and.
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WFMU was featured today in an article that raves about the last record fair. Written by Egon (Stones Throw records), you can listen to some of the West African LPs he found at the fair.Thanks Egon! And thank you to everyone who visited us last year at the fair. We hope to see you again this year and we especially hope you find and discover music you've been looking for... or happen to stumb...
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Remember 2008? I know I do. Here are the ALBUMS that have stood the test of time for me: *Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher) // listen to Space Forklift mp3*Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino) // listen to "Orphaned " in real audio *Lazy Magnet - He Sought For That Magic By Which All The Glory And Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine - or - Is Music Even Good? (Corleone Record...
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Burger King® Flame™ , introduced last month just in time for Christmas, is a new meat-scented body spray. It was only sold in NYC at that paragon of good taste, Ricky's . Gothamist interviewed a Ricky's employee who reports that Flame actually smells "Nice and spicy... kind of like Axe body spray"*. While it is easy to assume that Burger King has merely lost its freaking mind, the Flame ad ca
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This bizarre 1966 album was the first attempt by Mae West for a showbiz comeback. Despite being an extremely talented playwright and acerbic comedic actress, Mae West's final attempt at showbiz triumph was not to be. This album featured West covering The Beatles, Percy Sledge and The Guess Who (to get technical, it is a cover of Chad Allen and The Expressions... to get more technical, it is r...
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Merry New Year! Bet that last bottle of Asti Spumanti there won't be any merry new years ahead for the Campbell kiddies of Holland Township, NJ when they hit third or fourth grade. All are still too young to understand why some kid is repeatedly using their stomachs as field goal tees on the playground at the ages they are now because he learned the sources of these childrens' names earlier in...
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Selections from UbuWebJanuary 2009 Selected by James Hoff 1. Sjollander/Weck: Extracts from Monument 2. Ron Rice: A Brief History of Anti-Records and Conceptual Records 3. Alan Sondheim: Run by Me 4. Ulay: Action in 14 Predetermined Sequences 5. Joseph Nechvatal: viral symphOny (28'09") 6. Henry Chopin Performance: Undated 7. CoLab: All Color News Sampler 8. John Cage / Wim Mertens "So ...
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Best New Releases (listen = real audio) Dan Friel - Ghost Town (listen ) - ecstatic electronic blitzPonytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (listen ) - best spastic screeching lady of the yearTimes New Viking - Rip It Off (listen ) - irresistibly damaged 2 min pop songsMonotonix - Body Language (listen ) - that's spelled r-a-w-k Sic Alps - US EZ (listen ) - lo-fi catchy tunesTeeth Mountain - Self Tit...
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(In Alphabetical order)New New Releases Terry Adams - Love Letter To Andromeda (Clang/nrbq.com ) Awake, my Soul - Documentary Soundtrack (Awake Productions) Fern Knight - Fern Knight (Vhf Records) Inara George w/ Van Dyke Parks - An Invitation (Everloving) Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - One Dance Alone (Songlines Recordings) Make A Rising - Infinite Ellipse And Head With Open ...
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1. Grandpa's Arrest (:56) 2. Patch of Blue (:57) 3. Company Time (:56) 4. Pac-Man Wrist (:58) 5. Team Spirit (:29) 6. A Fitt Date (:28) 7. Trump Card (:28) 8. Executive Privilege (:29) 9. Phil 'Er Up (:28)If you're like millions of Americans (myself included), then weight loss tops your list of New Year's Resolutions. Here's a little motivation, courtesy of the President's Council for Physic...
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Just a brief word acknowledging the brilliant and beloved master percussionist Kofi Ghanaba (Guy Warren) , who died last week at the age of 85. Born Kpakpo Akwei in Accra, Ghana, in May 1923, his family was fascinated by America and his name was changed to Warren Gamaliel Akwei (in homage, one imagines, to U.S. president Warren Gamaliel Harding, who died suddenly two months after Akwei was bo...
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This past summer, Japanese noise artist/turntablist and Ground Zero founding member Otomo Yoshihide collaborated with a group of installation artists at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media for an exhibit called Ensembles (here's an interview with Yoshihide about the show). One of the grooviest pieces in the exhibit was "without records", which filled a room with 100 portable record players ...
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