So as B-Naut and I were trawling through the Check the Cool Wax site, he came across this. My eyes jumped out of their sockets to their deaths. Direct link for the feedreaders.
Category - Music
The RIAA Would Like a Word With You
McSweeney's has published a "letter from the RIAA" basically outlining, in plain English, how they plan to pulverize you and use the dust of your bones as an additive for their next...
The Quarrymen: Meet the Proto-Beatles
I Am Fuel, You Are Friends has posted a nifty array of Quarrymen MP3s. For those unaware, The Quarrymen would eventually leave water, lose their gills, learn to live on land, kill a...
Listen. Get This: Ministry Motor Oil
Yes, you’re looking at a thing of motor oil that was used back in 1991 to promote Ministry’s classic, “Jesus Built My Hotrod.” It’s on eBay from WFMU. And...
Album Review: Josef K – Entomology
Label: Domino Records Josef K, named after a Kafka character, were a terrific Scottish band of the early 80s who wore their misery and angst on their sleeves. Their music is...
Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”:...
Aaaaoooo, indeed.
Peeping Tom Live on Conan O’Brien: Nice Hairnet, Mike
Missed this when it first hit, alas. Takes them about halfway in to catch the full groove of it, methinks, but once there it’s pretty nifty. Direct link for the feedreaders...
Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers: Come On, Boys...
An excellent snippet from Stormy Weather, which was released this year on DVD by Fox. Just damn, it’s good. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via VideoSift.
The Strangest Guitars Ever: Weird as Hell and Ready to Rawk
MusicGadgets.net has got a list of the Top 20 Strangest Guitars (well, 21–but who’s counting…you know, I mean, besides me). And no, that’s not Gandalf on that...
More Batman the Musical: A Souvenir of Death
Guess what? A vengeful cyberangel sent over links to two more songs from the Batman musical, which we’ve mentioned before. And holy shit, they are terrible. I mean really...