03/28/2008
Awesome Video Alert! Mt. St. Helens, Vietnam Band "Homeostasis"
"Homeostasis," the PSA-on-crack promo video from Seattle's Mt. St. Helens, Vietnam Band features very little of the band's music (except at the very end), just some important words about embracing the future, very stylish drum moves, super-cool ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 03/28/2008 4:39 PM EST in WTF?, Indie-Rock | Permalink
03/17/2008
Get Pumped With The Governator
The year was 1984. It was the year Arnold Schwarzenegger would star in the action-packed, tough as nails, big screen blockbusters The Terminator and Conan The Destroyer. It was also the year he would release his Total Body Workout album and en ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/17/2008 5:21 PM EST in WTF? | Permalink
03/14/2008
RAPPER "RISKAY" WANTS TO SMELL YO D!#K
Nothing is worse when your man is creepin'. Florida rapper, Riskay AKA the DRAMA QUEEN has been raising eyebrows since her mans been coming home "5 in the morn"... So how does one find answers to the infidelity in question? Check for lipstic ...
Read MorePosted by Joe on 03/14/2008 10:08 AM EST in Hip-Hop, WTF? | Permalink
03/13/2008
Maskull: Music For Adult Contemporary Goths
Thankfullness to Lady Siltbreeze, Queen of the AM dial, for introducing me to Maskull, an example of outsider art at its best. This is easily the strangest record I have heard in a while, not to mention the fact that it's classified as an Adult ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/13/2008 11:55 AM EST in Experimental, WTF? | Permalink
03/12/2008
The Stooges Cover Madonna's "Ray Of Light"
Yeah, that's right. How frigging weird is this? To see The Stooges cover a late 90s Madonna song for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I suppose all is fair in rock and publicity. This performance was more strategic than a sheer press op ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 03/12/2008 10:48 AM EST in WTF?, YouTube, Power-Pop | Permalink
02/28/2008
Our Brother The Native, Dr. Dog and Peter, Bjorn and John Songs Set to a Creepy 1963 Bicycle Training Video!
Ok this is just bizarre. Pitchfork posted the strange Our Brother The Native video that adopts footage from a 1963 bicycle training video (watch the original.) Finding it rather fascinating, (the video, not the fact that Pitchfork posted it) I p ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 02/28/2008 9:11 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Experimental, WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
02/26/2008
Serge Gainsbourg, Whitney Houston and The Delicate, Drunken Language of Love
This Youtube video should have been a prophetic red flag for Whitney Houston, warning her about the perils of the music industry. It only goes to show how the longer one stays in the entertainment business, the better the chances one has of show ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 02/26/2008 4:21 PM EST in WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
Kim Jong Il's Communist Jams
In the spirit of recent cultural diplomacy, I thought a post dedicated to bridging the North Korean / American gap was in order. While Kim Jong Il did not attend last night's New York Philharmonic concert in Pyongyang, that doesn't mean "The Gr ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 02/26/2008 12:55 PM EST in WTF? | Permalink
02/21/2008
The World's Greatest Music Collection Sells for $3 Million?!
Really? That's it? Well, if you consider this particular collection to be, in fact, the greatest in the world, then I would assume it would have a much higher price tag. Granted, the collection was estimated at having a value of $50 million b ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 02/21/2008 2:07 PM EST in WTF?, Editorial | Permalink
02/19/2008
The Flaming Lips Re-Record "Free Radicals" in Simlish, The Language of The Sims Video game
And it is bizarre! We all know The Flaming Lips are an eccentric and progressive band to begin with, which is why we love them...but "Free Radicals (Simlish Version) recorded for EA's Sims 2 Pets Soundtrack takes their eccentricity to a whole ne ...
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