Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
A bit late in the day, but if you're at a loose end in London on Thursday (8th January) and you like a bit of 60s beat and psych, you might want to check out The Flipside Presents... New York...
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Our friend Wood Ingham just released MSG™, a RPG that is getting fine reviews. Like this one, excerpted on his blog. It defies many of the characteristics we normally ascribe to a tabletop RPG — in the context of a very cynical, and very cool, cyberpunky future where even the minimal constraints on corporate action that [...]
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
I love the Holy Modal Rounders more than I can say and as such would like to take the opportunity to: (a) share this deranged gem http://www.mediafire.com/?fd5mo2jfj94 (b) humbly request one of you good people post any or all of the following: 1. (w/The Fugs): Fugs Four, Rounders Score 2. Good Taste Is Timeless 3. Alleged In Their Own Time 4. Have Moicy! Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREEwilliamsburg (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
img via flickr 'The House of Yes' is back in business (officially') in their new location, on Maujer St. just off Morgan Ave.. BushwickBK hung out at their new digs, watching two of the girls hang out on the...
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Time for The Fugs: Crystal Liason
WPKN Today (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
11:00p.m.- Steve di Costanzo, Radio Base Camp Radio Base Camp interviews Peter Stampfel , a founder of the Holy Modal Rounders and one-time member of The Fugs. The Holy Modal Rounders blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a cult-like following from the late 60s into the 70s. The interview comes on the heels of a new DVD release of the '06 documentary The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Todd Snider, the wisecracking master of the talking folk song, will bring some of his newly political material to the Carnegie in Covington tonight.
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
KEXP is proud to sponsor the screening of Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback at the Northwest Film Forum starting Friday, November 7, to Thursday, November 13. We’re giving away free tickets to the first five people who email with the subject line “Monks movie.” review by Chris Estey For fans of 60’s garage rock-inspired proto-punk, few bands are [...]
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
Chameleon In Winter I’m a Buddhist In Summer, I’m a nudist In Jerusalem, Talmudist With Hell Fire Club, the crudest Chameleon, chameleon - The Fugs What Lieberman clearly doesn’t understand is that to be effective, a chameleon must change colors when no one is looking. Also, to be effective politically, a chameleon’s color must always match the newly dominant trend, not oppose [...]
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Go see Burn After Reading. George Clooney and Brad Pitt star in the Coen Brothers movie about CIA-themed madness and violence. It’s crazed, darkly funny, violent. Hey, it’s a Coen Brothers movie! Special bonus: As the credits rolled, the soundtrack was “CIA Man” first recorded in about 1965 by the Fugs, and sung now (I recognized [...]
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
'Coca-Cola douches' scoop Ig Nobel prize - sex - 03 October 2008 - New Scientist Tests of whether sodas such as Coke and Pepsi could be used as spermicides were among the many offbeat ideas celebrated at the 2008 Ig Nobel awards on Thursday. Lap dancers' tips and armadillos' uncanny ability to wreak havoc at archaeological sites were also the subjects of prize-winning studies. *Big love to mojonaut...
psychedelicatessen (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
My nomination for The Great, Lost Proto-Punk Classic: The Fugs - Kill For Peace Even John McCain would have to love a song with a line like "The only gook an American can trust/Is a gook what's got his yella haid bust!" I like this because it's sort of a bridge between punks and hippies. This is from 1966, around the time the Mothers released Freak Out! and the Velvets were recording their first album....
Slog (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The view from my window:
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Yeah, that’ll really help progressive causes… I think someone needs a double dose of the chill pill. As abhorrent as Malkin’s politics are to many of us, no one, including her, needs or deserves to have “kill” chanted at them when they, in fact, are not killers. From People’s Press Collective (who have lots of videos) Michelle Malkin [...]
News Dissector Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Just a Blog Let: A short report from Washington | Ray McGovern Briefs The Rest Of Us | Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs
