Arbitrary “Wednesday” VIII

Armageddon Gigolo

If you do not know whoSpiritual Front are, I don’t want to know you. Truly these are finest songs to listen to as we commit suicide on the Las Vegas strip.

Personal Favorite: Jesus Died in Las Vegas

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25 September

Arbitrary Wednesday VII

'Musical sensation or possibly just weird German people.

Is it November yet? No? Fuck you and go listen to November Novelet anyway.

Favorite: I’m rather partial to Sacred Man, I must say.

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18 September

Arbitrary Wednesday VI

We'll always have Paris?

Has your cabaret-dancing paramour contracted a deadly case of Algiers Vapors? Have the Germans killed a lot of men in your family, lately? Maybe you’d like a little Babx. Just little, okay now? We don’t want you jumping off the Eiffel tower in all your glorious Gallic ennui.

Favorite pick: Favorites are such a bourgeois… oh, very well, listen to “Kamikaze”, if you must.

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10 September

Arbitrary Wednesday V

Pumpkins?

Today we take a look a band from my old stomping grounds, none other than the Minotaur-obsessed fitness enthusiasts of Benchpress 3000. Loud, fast, and sweaty, they were dressing in absurd late 70’s/early 80’s fitness garb long before it (once again) became fashionable.

Personal favorite: There is No Pain in Weight Gain, a rallying cry against muscle-building supplements. Put down that shake, eat a fucking steak, indeed.

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27 August

Arbitrary Wednesday IV

The man has sung in Bangkok.

Bain Wolfkind! What can be said about him? Due to my complete lack of research for this article, I’m going to say: He’s from Australia. Also, his music just happens to be fairly awesome, in a violence-laced blues/lounge sort of way. So go listen to it.

Personal favorite: Sailor’s Blood, a high-distortion blues tune of lust gone wrong and murder gone right.

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20 August

Arbitrary Wednesday III

My what a sexy little mullet you have there.

Do you have a taste for electronic music that isn’t all beep-boop-beep-(is the amyl nitrate kicking in yet)-boop? Are you intrigued by the idea of a hot Mexican chica with a voice reminiscent of Nico? Want to know what it would be like to be sung to by a despondently sultry, hispanic computer?

Then turn your ear-holes to Veneno Para Las Hadas. (That’s “Poison for the Fairies”, for you monolinguistic readers.)

Personal favorite: “Jetlag”, a perfect little ditty for keeping yourself loose and limber as you drive way too fast down empty highways in the dead of night, itching for a fatal accident. As an added bonus, it’s in English!

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13 August

Arbitrary Wednesday I

Get thee to a nunnery.

I have arbitrarily decided that Wednesdays will be the days I post obscure and possibly very bad music by bands found on Myspace.

Today’s little gem is a man from Switzerland calling himself Reverend Beat-Man.

Personal favorite: Jesus Christ Twist

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30 July