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...

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...

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...

PRAISE THE LORDS: 3 ALBUMS OF GERMAN BEAT/PSYCH

Recently we posted an album by " The Rattles ," a curious early German take on rock-n-roll. The Lords were another band from the ...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY SING-OFF

Remember the wildly popular "Golden Throats" collections of singing celeb records? 'Twas one of the few areas where the strang...

BAD BOB: "The Tunes They Are A-Changin'"

As if that "Better Than The Beatles" comp we recently posted wasn't enough to blow a baby-boomer's brain, now we've go...

4 Albums from Pat Smear: The Lost Years

I had a dream the other night that Elvis Presley was fronting a young, collegiate alt-rock trio called The Masters Of Logic. Elvis, in a whi...

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...

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...

Ahh...Outsider Music...

The George King/Joe Corney Space-Age Organ Sounds are back on-line. The first thing many Americans think when they hear the phrase "fo...

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...

Dan Knudsen Won't Hurt You

Another great outsider musician named Daniel, Dan Knudsen is just as sincere, child-like, likeable, odd and God-fearing as D. Johnston, min...

TOM WILSON - "GAY NAME GAME"

Back in 2008, I wrote: " One day in the early '90s, I was looking through one-dollar records in a thrift store when I came across...

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...

A STONER'S TRIBUTE TO CARL SAGAN (Milvia Son Records Sampler)

I've passed the 1000 posts mark. And boy are my fingers tired. On to 1001! Milvia Son Records from up in the Bay Area sent me a batch o...

That's Athientertainment!

If Christian and religious music is a niche market, the pro-science/atheist music scene is practically microscopic. I bought a few CDs recen...

COVER THE EARTH: Ukrainian Punk

As an addendum to the " Cover The Earth " post of bizarre international versions of your favorite oldies, here are various rock re...

FOLK SONGS FOR SPACE ALIENS

Two free albums that sound good played at the same time: Dr. SETI (aka Dr. H. Paul Shuch) sings songs about his namesake and day job, the S...