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Weird of the Day: Los Doggies, “Pari Passu”
Los Doggies are an “indie prog” band from Upstate New York who make music that’s simultaneously poppy and full of music-nerd plays on harmonic theory and whatnot. (I say “whatnot” because I know next...
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Weird of the Day: “Wayfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles” collects...
Some music scenes never quite produced any one band talented enough or weird enough to make it onto our Weird List—but taken collectively, they deserve a shout-out nonetheless. Such a scene was the...
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Weird of the Day: Jacula, “Absolution”
Let’s wrap up the week with a little vintage Italian mystic/esoteric prog/psych/horror soundtrack rock. Jacula was a band active in the late ’60s and early ’70s, made up of rock guitarist Antonio...
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Weird of the Day: Tera Melos, “Bite”
We don’t post much math rock on this blog, for the very simple reason that most of it isn’t actually that weird. Technically impressive, sure, but weird? Not so much. Go to any large band practice...
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Tera Melos
This week’s band is usually described as “math rock,” a style Jake and I have bagged on in the past, partially out of sheer ignorance (back in 2010, we tagged Little Women as a math rock band…um, no),...
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Weird of the Day: Doris Norton, “Psychic Research”
We first learned about the pioneering synthesizer work of Doris Norton when we did a post last month about the Italian esoteric prog-rock band Jacula, for whom she played keyboards in the early ’70s....
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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
In some alternate universe, British singer Arthur Brown is more famous than Alice Cooper, one of the many theatrical rockers obviously indebted to him. But like so many weirdos before and since, the...
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Už jsme doma
Until today, we had only included one band from the Czech Republic on The Weird List, a spazzy duo called Harmony Bay, whom we described as “like a cross between Naked City, Pryapisme and Mr. Bungle.”...
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První hoře
One of my favorite things about doing this blog is how much it exposes me to music from far-flung corners of the world that we folks here in the sheltered, self-absorbed and increasingly...
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Weird of the Day: Laktating Yak, “Tsak of the Yak”
Happy 2019, Weirdlings! Did you enjoy your holidays? Drink lots of eggnog? Well, if you did, turns out you were doing it wrong. You should have been drinking yak milk. So say Houston...
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