Both Kinds Of Music

It has been a while since my last post, partly due to the usual stuff (work, laziness, alien abductions), but also because I started writing for WFMU’s esteemed Beware Of The Blog. This is definite...

You may know composer and multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter as the crazy guy behind the Flying Luttenbachers, formed in 1991 in Chicago as a trio with free jazz legend Hal Russell and Chad Organ....

In 1991 the Dutch band Dull Schicksal (”Schicksal” is German for “fate”) released an album called “They Saved Hitler’s Brain”, a musical mixture between Hanns Eisler, brass ensemble punk, prog-rock...

The history of my encounter with Hiroshi Hashimoto, aka Contagious Orgasm, has its roots in the culture wars currently raging on American college campuses. The University of Michigan is fairly typi...

Why would anyone in their right mind make songs longer than two minutes? OK, I admit that there might be valid reasons, but the short format has undeniable advantages. For one, you can fit at least...

This post is brought to you by the department of historical corrections in the history of surf music.
Jimi Hendrix once said “You will never hear surf music again”, and this grew into the popular ...

Since you read this post, you must have made it to 2006 alive. If you need an excuse to celebrate and get wasted, there you have it. Unfortunately, Derek Bailey cannot share the fun anymore, the fr...

I am sure that many of you, at least in the USA, have read about the heroic struggle of the oppressed Christian minority in America to save their religion from total extinction. One of the heroes i...

While I really enjoy being back in Berlin, the big city and everything, I am suffering under a lack of good internet access. The Germans don’t really believe in free wireless, and the only two plac...

Daniel Johnston will always be one of my favorite artists, and the cassette he holds in his hand in the photograph to your left, Yip/Jump Music, is one of my all-time favorite recordings. True, he ...