COVER THE EARTH Vol. 5

When will it end?!  Still more bizarre international ethnic versions of Western pop hits. And by 'ethnic' I also mean American and E...

ADIOS A LOS BEATLES

There is no more glorious sound for jaded ears than this rural Mexican brass band blowing berserk, off-key, highly enthusiastic instrumental...

Vote For Hyemen & Metalfunkel!

WFMU is hosting a battle-of-the-bands right now thru Feb. 4, and of the three finalists, I really like the hilarious Hyemen & Metalfunk...

Louis Farrakhan is Quite The Charmer

By request: Ray Schmitt's music for tree-huggers is back up. Before Louis Farrakhan was the hate-mongering nut-job running The Nation ...

Bandcamp Is The New Cassette Culture...

...tho compared to the '80s/'90s tape underground: - the sound quality of indie music sites like Bandcamp is usually a lot better th...

TOTALLY NUDE EXOTICA

By request, the Irish folk mashup collection " Straight Outta Ireland " is back up. When my unbelieving eyes saw that parts of th...

One Of The Most WTF-iest Songs You Will Ever Hear

Words fail me...a warning to the men-folk from a thoroughly eccentric (just take a look at these song titles ), highly  prolific Nigerian/A...

STRANGE/OUTSIDER/NOVELTY JFK SONGS

John F. Kennedy inspired a lot of music. This is some of the weirdest. Song-poems! A Frank Zappa composed/produced surf record!  A singing p...

BeerBottle Percussion, NewWave Music-Boxes, Avant-Catholic Masses

Last year's assortment of experimental/alt-classical/unclassifiably weird new releases received a succinct two-word comment from reader ...

COVER THE EARTH 4

UPDATE 8/10/13: File is back up.  I'm a little worried that it disappeared as I haven't had any trouble with zippyshare...yet... Yet...

JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 3

I'll be guest dj-ing once again this Sunday, 8pm PST on Spacebrother Greg's " Radio Misterioso ," bringing up another batc...

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT ANNETTE FUNICELLO

You may have heard that The Queen of the Beach, Annette Funicello, recently died at age 70. And, yes, she was a Mouseketeer on "the Mic...

AVANT-POLKA

Following on the heels of our last post, which featured The Mighty Accordion Band ... Well, why not avant-polka?  Who says classical, jazz, ...

The Mighty Accordion Band - They Said It Couldnt Be Done!

Apart from having one of the all-time great album covers (pretty obvious why I snatched this one up for a mere 99 cents at my local charity ...

Particle Man, Particle Man...

So what's the big deal about scientists claiming that they think they've found the Higgs boson particle? It was the missing piece of...

Rodney On The ROQ vol. 5

When I created and posted " Rodney on the ROQ Vol 4 ", a reader commented: "This is one of the greatest compilations ever cre...

Tribute To Neil Armstrong

The greatest song ever about the recently departed Neil Armstrong was this '80s college rock hit by Angst , which you can listen to/down...

SAVAGE Exotica!!

This collection of '50s-'70s sultry, steamy, jungle moods taken from 45s or otherwise-non-exotic albums is all I feel like listening...

COVER THE EARTH 3: More Bizarro Versions of Your Favorite Oldies From Across the World Wide Weird

The first " Cover The Earth " collection we posted here a couple of weeks ago has been quite the success - twice as many downloads...