the residents Archive
20 Mar 2023
Interview Roundup: The Residents
People sometimes like to joke about The Residents. “Play their records to get your overstaying guests to leave” and such. They’re willfully weird, tauntingly transgressive, aggressively amelodic. Or so goes […]
14 Dec 2022
Musoscribe’s Best of 2022: Books
2022 has been a stellar year for music-related books. For much of the pandemic era( and a good chunk of this year) it looked as if the well had, if […]
03 Jun 2022
The Residents: The Eyes Have It (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… That meeting in late 2020 was the first time Tanner and Flynn had met, but the groundwork for the project was already laid. “Since we started […]
02 Jun 2022
The Residents: The Eyes Have It (Part One)
Inscrutable art/music collective celebrates its 50th anniversary with the first in a series of books chronicling its history Surveying the landscape of 20th and 21st century music, one is unlikely […]
06 Oct 2021
A Conversation with The Residents’ Spokesman Homer Flynn (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: The Residents’ Ralph Records was launched in ’72, and the label always existed well outside of what could be considered the ‘commercial sphere.’ In […]
05 Oct 2021
A Conversation with The Residents’ Spokesman Homer Flynn (Part 1 of 2)
I recently interviewed Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corporation, discussing the Residents, the anonymous avant garde group of which Flynn may or may not be a founding member. The conversation […]
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. […]