incredibly strange Archive
04 Oct 2021
Permanent Residents: SF’s Notorious Avant Garde Collective Looks to the Future
Few in the early 1970s might have predicted that one of music’s strangest (and most original) acts would continue to tour and release new music well into the 21st century. […]
27 Feb 2021
Album Review: D-Town Brass — Demiurge
Much of what passes for avant garde music tends toward a kind of seriousness, a dour approach that screams, “this is art!” and all but insists that the listeners revel […]
14 Jan 2021
Bonus Interview: Kevin Godley on ‘Consequences’ and the Gizmotron
I recently spoke with Kevin Godley (10cc, Godley & Creme) about his new solo album – his first, in fact – titled Muscle Memory. But during our chat I also […]
10 Dec 2020
Album Review: Mrs. Miller – A Christmas Gift From Mrs. Miller & Other Stocking Stuffers
In the history of pop music, there are few tales stranger – and more inexplicable – than that of Elva Miller. In this postmodern era, the idea of so-bad-it’s-good has […]
06 Mar 2020
Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends at 50
Scattered among the history of pop and rock music are the occasional oddities: albums made by those whose circumstances or talents in a particular area might not quite have suited […]
16 Nov 2019
Album Review: Negativland — True False
Note: According to Wikipedia (one of very few even potentially reliable sources of information about Negativland), current and founding member Mark Hosler “may currently reside in or near Asheville, North […]
02 Sep 2019
Welcome to Cadillac Baby’s Show Lounge: The Bea & Baby Boxed Set
From the perspective of crate-diggers – amateur and professional music archivists alike – one of the great benefits of the digital age has been the rescuing of obscure recordings. Against […]
30 Mar 2019
EP Review: Patrick Ames – All I Do is Bleed
“I Want You” opens with a slightly mysterious-sounding acoustic guitar strum, quickly setting a mood. That mood s quickly shattered when Ames starts singing; his rush of words sounds more […]
31 Oct 2018
They Created a Monster: The Story of The Munsters’ 1964 LP
Though exploitation knows no era, the 1960s was truly the decade of the cash-in. Americans of a certain age recall that in the wake of the Beatles’ initial stateside success […]
17 Aug 2018
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Out-of-print 1990s Recordings Get a Reissue (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Several of the songs feature a female voice in the mix, engaging in a sort of vocal sparring with Jay. What’s the story on that? He […]