ODD-STRALIA pt 1: Ice Cold

By request, Scott Johnson's " Rock Paper Scissors " is back up.  You may have seen that "viral" (as the kids say) se...

THE BLACK SWEDEN: Heavy-Metal Versions of ABBA Hits

As one-joke album concepts go, "Gold" by the one-off Black Sweden works better than most.  Don't know how many ABBA songs one ...

The Acapella Death-Metal of EyeSea

What's more ridiculous than death metal? Howzabout acapella death-metal? EyeSea's " blue ten " is an entire album of Cook...

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...

ROBOTS PLAY EXOTICA

- You got robots in my gamelan! - You got gamelan in my robots! Two great tastes that go great together: Gamelan Galak Tika (pronounced ...

HELLSONGS

Hellsongs are a Swedish band who have gotten amazing mileage out of the strategy of covering classic heavy metal songs in an EZ style remin...

HAPPY NEW WEIRD

Oh, my overflowing in-box! Now that I'm back from vacation, I simply MUST tell you about: - Yrs truly, Mr Fab, will once again be spinni...

Before They Were Stars!!

A 14-year-old Björk! Billy Joel goes heavy metal ! Tori Amos goes big hair '80s! Debbie Harry of Blondie in a '60s hippie band that ...

Stairway to Gilligan's Island

To celebrate the legacy of the recently deceased Sherwood Schwartz , creator of a favorite childhood TV show of mine, "Gilligan's I...

KUMBIA QUEERS

Kumbia Queers are an all-lesbian Latin American band that cover punk, New Wave, heavy metal, and pop classics in the style of Columbia'...

TEENAGE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY METAL MESSIAH

"Based in Turners Falls, MA, Flaming Dragons Of Middle Earth are the brainchild of visionary wheelchair-bound ‘band shaman’ Danny Cruz...

DRACULA SINGS!

No, not Bela Lugosi. But how great would that have been? "Bela Does Broadway"..."Doin' The Twist With Bela Lugosi"....

HEAVY METAL + MARIACHI =

Metalachi . Yep, metal classics (Ozzy, Iron Maiden, etc) played in a Mexican folk style, from this L.A. combo who not only came up with this...

VULCAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Doesn't get much goofier then this: an entire album of grungy rock instrumentals with "vocals" courtesy of "Star Trek...

Your Fourth of July/Summer Holiday Musical Needs SORTED

Lately, we've been hittin' you all with black , kiddie Christian , and even Portuguese surf-y beach party action, as well as a stra...