Memorial Day, a day to reflect on the nature of man, the nature of war, the nature of sacrifice and what the cost of freedom really means. In this modern era where every thing about an individual is ...
I was 16, in 1976, when I first discovered the availability of bootlegs. After written requests to addresses in the back of a magazine, a few different catalogs arrived in the mail, and I stocked up ...
From the land that brought you St. Olav and Hornorkesteret came the oxymoronic competition to place the images of Famous Norwegians on the tails of airplanes belonging to the national airline. When I...
"And you made me happier / Than Dolly Parton's guitar" (Lee Hazlewood) "Malaguena will get you in every time." (Keth Richards) Lately about our home here in the 'Holler ...
by Kristen Bialik Movie - La Belle Verte / The Green Beautiful (1996) What's on Network Awesome today? “But people like that can’t get hold of weapons now, and they’re easy to swim away from. Ev...
Charles Wuorinen has been a powerful voice in American music for over four decades, and his early piece "Time's Encomium" representing one of his most famous works. With "Time...
This post is exactly what it says it is. American noise performance artist Crank Sturgeon, a legend of ecstatic absurdity, playing a set while ostensibly taking a dump. I caught Crank this past weeke...
Earcandy for your eyes Last weekend the second annual Ende Tymes Festival took place in Brooklyn and Queens. Below is a selection of genuinely challenging performances from Friday and Saturday night ...
The Black and Blue Bowl at Webster Hall annually features a variety of hardcore bands. Considering my hardcore roots, I thought I would know more people at the show, but the bill was mostly mid-perio...
(photo by Doug Seymour) In 1984, Lloyd Cole and his band the Commotions released Rattlesnakes, an album that for many could stand as one of the best debut albums of the era. With references to Jules ...
Give the Drummer Some'sFavorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Under almost any circumstances and conditions, radio is to be exalted—except when some imbecile driver plows into your wife on ...
Bristle: this quartet, started up by reedman Randy McKean, acts more like a co-operative, with composing duties shared by the founder with fellow reedist Cory Wright, violin/oboist Murray Campbell, a...
What is metal, or rock for that matter? While others scramble for last-minute sub-subgenrefication, I am happy just to watch those umbrellas widen, and the envelope swell and burst. Occultation are s...
A while ago my brother's awesome dog was near death's door, internal bleeding, a week on the floor, not looking good, vet unable to figure out what was going on with her. Poor girl. Then, a...
Heres an impressively masterful recording from NY avant-guitarist Alan Licht entitled "The Old Victrola" which features a recording of the musician improvising an ethereal guitar drone over l...
Suicide may have lit the torch in the mid-'70s, but one could argue that by decade's end, its carriers lived on the other side of the country -- in San Francisco. Sure, L.A. had the Screame...
The first time you hear Mission Man, it’s hard not to be reminded of the Shaggs. Though the Ohio-based rapper works within the general realm of hip-hop and the Shaggs traded in bizarro-world '60...
Tony Coulter here, eager to share a long-treasured cassette: a 1986 demo from the New York City band Songs from a Random House. Formed in 1985 by Steven Swartz and Alan Drogin, Songs from a Random Ho...
Thanks to a generous donation from glitch-pop superstar Max Tundra, WFMU has the original album artwork for his fantastic 2002 release "Mastered by Guy at the Exchange"... and we're au...
Merci, Gaspare Balducci.
Give the Drummer Some'sFavorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere For this soultacular edition of the Motherlode, your miner has unearthed a quintet of rarities, classics, favorites and long-ag...
Kudos to East Village Radio's Jeff Conklin for pointing this one out to me, a high quality recording of synth whiz Keith Fullerton Whitman playing Brooklyn's 285 Kent last Friday. In Keith&...
Don McNeill was a radio legend, host of The Breakfast Club, heard on WLS in Chicago and nationwide on the Blue Network (and later ABC) for over 35 years. At the height of his run on the show (and sho...
By the sixth number the band were settling into the cavernous, drafty, boomy Russian Center and were pressing ahead louder and louder, with more and more echoing tsunami-like basslines and gut-twisti...
by Gabriella Arrigoni Vampires of Geona & The Masters of Geona (Gennady Tishchenko) What's on Network Awesome today? The Red Star (1908) is a Russian science-fiction novel describing the com...
The Beastie Boys werent my introduction to hip-hop (I like to credit A Tribe Called Quest and their 1993 album Midnight Marauders, which I picked up on tape in fourth grade, for really getting me obs...
Earcandy for your eyes Old Man Gloom live at Club Europa in Brooklyn on May 08, 2012. After the page break... Psychic Limbs ripping performance from the same night Psychic Limb live at Club Europa in...
Give the Drummer Some'sFavorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Don't sleep on the stellar selections in this all-African edition of Mining the Audio Motherlode. I was all set to lead of...
Venues: Central New Jersey has had it's abundance of home venues/ house shows/locations for some time, changing from address to address in a moment's notice, but a fairly active scene. We r...
To say the least, I could be in a worse office situation - when I explained to my boss, the freaky bug-fixated musician Irene Moon, that FMU blog needed a post for today, she told me to take a bit of...
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