100 Copies of The Beatles' White Album Playing At The Same Time

Artist  Rutherford Chang says: "I collect first-pressings of  The White Album  and currently own  1,034  copies." As part of his ...

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...

The Big Beat A-Go-Go Sound of DYMAXION

This intensely obscure band recorded these songs between 1995-1998 using methods I cannot quite figure. Clearly, there's a mixture here ...

STOLEN SOUNDS pt 2

More music made out of other peoples' music: Was very happy to see that Martinibomb's oldies from 1998-2004 are now collected onto o...

Stolen Sounds pt1

New on-line releases that make music out of other peoples' music: - People Like Us' newest album " Don't Think Right, It...

Barnyard Beat: Livestock Rock And Jungle Jams

Musique concrete for pre-schoolers: this 1995 release on the Kid Rhino label takes played-out wedding-dj oldies, and thru the Space-Age mir...

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...

MERRY CHRISMASH (AND A SOUND COLLAGE-Y NEW YEAR)

Word has it that some of you Maniacs have been looking for Wayne Butane's hilariously profane kooky kristmas kut-up in the handy popular...

The Strangest Album Ever Made?!

"Trout Mask Replica"..."Eskimo"...The Shaggs...any such list is now incomplete without a mention of   Five Starcle Men...

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...

FREE LUNCH DINER

("Halloween Stomp" is back on-line) They say there's no such thing as a free lunch. Yeah, well, "they" say all kinds...

SUPERSHRINK!

Alen Robin, a comic with a droll, very nasal voice, took the Buchanan & Goodman "Flying Saucer" concept - intercutting fou...

PLEASE ACCEPT THIS FREE GIFT

Aren't ALL gifts 'free'? Isn't that what makes it a gift? Hey, if the advertisers and marketers of the world say it, then it...

SUNDAY MORNING SOUND COLLAGE

For a maniac's Easter morning... The history of sampling the sounds of preachers is pretty much the history of sampling in general, as m...

A Simple Sample-Music Sampler

Making music out of music is common currency now (not so much back when this blog was founded and mashups were regularly featured), so sound...

ALBUM DU JOUR #8: ...To The Ridiculous

There's just no way you can dismiss today's music scene as not being as good as that of some mythical golden-age. I have so many new...

ALBUM DU JOUR #4: POLLUTING THE MAINSTREAM

The Eagles!  Fleetwood Mac!  Styx! Marie Osmond! That's the kind of stuff I listen to now.  All that weird, experimental stuff - what wa...