Saturday, October 31, 2009

Print Ephemera #2: WFMU's "Crackpots & Visionaries" Trading Cards

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...Or, WFMU Record Fair Finds Part II: Crackpots & Visionaries trading cards. Pictured here is Volume I, from 1992. Ya get 36 cards with...

WFMU Record Fair Finds

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Last weekend brought the big annual WFMU Record Fair back to New York City. I slogged through the rain and the thick crowd of fellow record ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Greased Griddles & Poodle Dogs: The Raunchy Rock 'n' Roll of Johnny Buckett, Roy "The Hound" Hall, and Others

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“I’m a Griddle Greasing Daddy”... “Let Me Play With Your Poodle,”... “I call her my Eager Beaver Baby,”... Yessir, sometimes singers said a ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Marlon Brando, Preston Epps, and Other Bongo Beatin' Beatniks

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The late 50s and early 60s were rife with bongo beaters--with all the bongo-rific riffery seeming to reach some sort peak around 1959. What ...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Introducing the Weekly BOMP!

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Pet project of uber-fan Greg Shaw, BOMP! Records evolved from the early-70s magazine Who Put the Bomp --prototype for all Rock fanzines to f...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Soma Records Roundup

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Soma: Ancient Hindus used this word to describe a magical beverage, drink of the gods, or more accurately, the Drink-as-God. In B ra ve New ...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Soul City, et al.

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Went to the Millennium Film Project in New York City last night to catch screenings of "Blank Generation" " Punking Out...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

"I Got To Be Drivin' Off Into the Sunset" - Henry Gibson RIP

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Henry Gibson, cast member on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In who also played country star Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman's 1975 film...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Pop Surf Culture: Moondoggie's Short, Glorious Ride

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A somewhat depressing theme begins to emerge from the heaps of great documentary books appearing these days, namely, that ALL THE COOL STUFF...