Party Like It's Only $19.99

What better way to note the shockingly sudden passing of Prince then with this 1999 release by mashup pioneers the Evolution Control Committ...

HAPPY (BAND)CAMPERS: WEIRD EDITION

"American Folk Music" is the most boring possible name for an album, but fear not! The latest release from veteran North Carolina ...

OUTER SPACE MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE!

Who or what is/are Ko Transmissions ? I don't know, but the lengthy letter that accompanied the cassette release featured here tells a l...

Behold, the Daxophone! The FUNNIEST Instrument Ever?!?

The late, great Hans Reichel gets a lot of props in the modern jazz world for his guitar playing, which is all well and good, but Maniacs sh...

"Night Of The Living Dead" soundtrack

I think this speaks for itself, doesn't it? The internets sez: " Since their meager budget did not allow for an original music scor...

Oh Come On, MORE Experimental Psychedelic Bagpipe Music?!

Count 'em Yeah, I know, but this one's really great. Julia Wolfe, of New York's Bang On A Can posse, released this a few years a...

Music for Homemade Instruments - A Decade of Debris (1988)

Like the band featured in this blog's previous post, The Hoosier Hot Shots , this group also performs on homemade instruments. However, ...

"Another Goddam DEATH Dedication"

R.I.P. Don Joyce of Negativland .  The legendary sound collagist/radio mastermind/culture-jammer has joined Snuggles . If you didn't dow...

Ross Bolleter's Music For Ruined Pianos

A reader left a comment today: " How does one download from Google on a Mac? I cannot figure it out..." I'm not a Mac-intologi...

I'm Bringing Weirdness Back...

If you feel like genuine musical weirdness died with Sun Ra and Captain Beefheart, take heed! We have some  stone-cold freakazoids in our m...

The Psample-delic Psounds of Carl Stone's "Four Pieces"

If you think sampling in music means MC Hammer looping "Super Freak," you gotta another think coming: Los Angeles legend Carl Ston...

THE CLASSICS PLAYED ON 57 WINE GLASSES

I am quite delighted to announce that the crucial WFMU show  "Bodega Pop " will devote all three hours of its weekly programming t...

UnPop Music - A MusicForManiacs Sampler

All music that isn't classical, jazz or ethnic/folk is 'pop', meaning 'popular.' Except when it isn't. Here are some...

Ambient-Abstract-Noise

For those moments when you need to get away from the idea of music as, y'know, tunes , what with all those distracting rhythms, melodies...

Christian Marclay ‎– "More Encores"

I don't recall hearing the word "turntablism" back in 1989 when this album was released, but that's what this is. Needless...

Negativland Live - "Helter Stupid Tour" 1989

At the time this excellent board tape was made, multi-media collage/ performance art/ prankster legends Negativland had been around since th...

Brain In A Box: 5 Disks of Science Fiction Sounds!

You don't get the beautiful 3D hologram packaging that originally enclosed this stupendous set, but hey, it's out of print, so bett...