WFMU's Beware of the Blog Blog - Bands on tour

• House on the Rock

  I realize that Alex Jordan's House on the Rock, in Spring Green, Wisconsin, has been covered thoroughly on the pages of this very blog before. But, while rummaging though dusty old photographs in my hard drive I remembered that Jim and I visited the place several years ago, and I...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
• Archie Club News #21 - The Poems

  Throughout the nineteen sixties, seventies and eighties, most issues of Archie Comics featured a two-page spread titled Archie Club News. The banner at the top of the page announced, "ARCHIE CLUB MEMBERS send in your reports and be eligible to win cash prizes in the Archie Series Magazines." The results...(read full post)

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  • You ON TOUR (US/UK)
• A Wedding of Motley Crue, Animotion, Jobraith, 3puen, Last Exit and Carcass

  Is how one might describe 1999-era To Live and Shave in LA with the Tom Smith/Weasel Walter/Misty Martinez/Rat Bastard/Nondor Nevai lineup (excerpted in this Weasel-posted video clip). Though Motley Crue seem to be taking things in a whole new direction tonight....(read full post)

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  • Motley Crue ON TOUR (US)
• U S Air Force Radio Spots (MP3s)

  "Take A Stand (60 sec)" - 1.18 Mb MP3"Planes (30 sec)" - 618 Kb MP3 "I'm only a woman ... so what do *I* know about planes?" The US Air Force has the answer to that question in these old radio spots (previously featured on Gender Bias). I won't spoil...(read full post)

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  • Hey
• In total 4,002,146 officially fell, still setting the new record for the world's longest domino toppling.

  You think that's impressive?  That's nothing.  I've got bottles of wine older than that.  Just kidding, I'm actually straight edge.  World record for most bizarre musician I've come across in a little while goes to Anthropophogous Rex, the "one man band of noise death and falling down stairs."  How weird...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
  • The World
  • Worm
• MP3 Truffles: If You Want My Potty

  Before we get to this month's MP3 finds, I need to tell you all about something terrible that is happening in Colorado right now: Cross dressers are invading the public restrooms!!! Protect the children!!! Well, at least, that's exactly what Focus on the Family suggests in their newest PSA. Seriously,...(read full post)

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  • The Animals
• Mudboy and Pumice live at WFMU, +Psicklops +FreeMatter4theBlind (MP3s)

  This week's episode of Talk's Cheap featured solo sets and an improvised duet from Mudboy and Pumice. Mudboy (aka Raphael Lyon, pictured at left) hails from Providence, RI. He plays the Mudboy Mini, a custom-built air organ/Yamaha FM mod synth hybrid. Details are here, and he'll make one for you...(read full post)

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  • Blow
  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
  • Ms
• The World in His Mail Box: Eulogy for Tony Schwartz

  Recorded sound had no greater friend than Tony Schwartz, the audio documentarian, advertising guru, media consultant, and exalted citizen of the aural universe, who passed away Saturday a few months shy of his 85th birthday. He'll be forever linked to his best-known work—the infamous "Daisy" ad from Lyndon Johnson's 1964...(read full post)

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  • New
• Hey Cecil!, Blog Edition, Part 3: All the Notes

  Alas, I think Hey Cecil! radio edition will be on hiatus for a bit, as the new WFMU schedule, and particularly my new slot at 11pm-2am on Wednesdays is for some reason a less appropriate venue for weekly 40+ minutes of piano bashing.  So today, check out this pretty amazing...(read full post)

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  • Cecil
  • Cecil Taylor
• Magic Eye Paintings Are the Magic Eye Paintings of Magic Eye Paintings

  I am so rarely in on the joke that it makes me sad.  I'm almost always on the periphery, wondering at the secret whisperings of others.  "What happened to Bill?  Oh, he put on weight; his wife is cute though."  No metaphor illustrates this unfortunate social marginalization better than that...(read full post)

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  • You ON TOUR (US/UK)
• Free Cat Butt Joke with Option for Timely Godheadsilo Reference

  Please pardon all the nostalgia I've been posting here this week. I know I'm supposed to be the guy who hates that sort of thing, but since I just had a birthday, you might say that the lure of rear-view mirror cultural detritus is seasonably appropriate... The Sub Pop Records...(read full post)

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  • Fluid ON TOUR (US)
  • Here ON TOUR (UK)