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...

The Note-Ables: Worst Lounge Band Ever?

Back up by request: " Halloween Stomp ." The recent post re: Banda Plástica De Tepetlixpa Mex. reminded me of another wonderful e...

The Gospel Accordion To Frank

And lo! the Lord appeared to Father Frank Perkovich, saying unto him: go amongst the Catholics of the American Midwest, and playeth polka mu...

AN ALBUM CALLED "DISCO POLKA" THAT HAS DISCO VERSIONS OF POLKA SONGS AND POLKA VERSIONS OF DISCO SONGS AND...

...so help me, I did it. *hangs head in shame*  I recorded the entire Myron Floren "Disco Polka" album, and *chokes* am releasi...

Bandcamp Is Still The New Cassette Culture

Like I was saying ...Listen for free, buy if you like. This batch is loosely associated by a shared fascination with the surreal and fantast...

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...

Old Friends in the Zither Sound

Yeah, yeah, I know: everybody plays air-zither along with their favorite 'zither heroes,' they even play the Zither Hero video game,...

The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra

It took me a while to track down some albums by this very obscure group, but it was worth it - The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra is as won...

AJNA: A Giant, Strange Mechanical-Music Contraption

From Sweden comes some fantastic new videos of AJNA, a large musical robot that looks like Dr. Who's police box tricked out with drums, ...

SIX ACCORDIONISTS GO RIDING ON A CAROUSEL...

...No, that's not a joke set-up. It really happened on the Santa Monica Pier in 2010. Daniel Corral and his group the Free Reed Conspir...

I'm Pretty Sure This Blog Posts More Zither Music Than Most...

Gene M., one of our super-swell readers who contributed the lost files of Ruth Welcome's "Zither Magic" album recently, has gi...

HI-FI ZITHER!

" Zombie Jamboree " has been re-upped, by request. And speaking of requests: I hate to keep asking, but does anyone have the Ruth...

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 ...

One Of The Most Famous Songs in History is Marxist Propaganda That Involves Raping A Minor: The Story of "Mack The Knife"

"Oh, the shark bites With his teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white..." Yeah, you know it, "Mack The Knife", #3 on ...

The FLYING DUTCHMAN - ONE-MAN BAND SHOW

How's THAT for an album cover?  I think you can see why I picked up this private-press piece of vintage vinyl recently - it truly is a s...

ALBUM DU JOUR #6: The Toy-Pop Sounds of Carton Sonore

The French invasion of wonderful naive/toy-pop continues with the loveable Carton Sonore (Sound Card). The three all-too-brief " Petit ...

Cz-, Cz-, Czech It Out: The Prague-Rock of Už Jsme Doma

Už Jsme Doma (that's easy for you to say) is the greatest Czech band that I know. Granted, they're just about the only Czech band...

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

There are lots of foreign-language covers out there, but what really intruiges me is when non-Anglo/Americans approach the material from the...