Making the nature scene, 1981. Posted via Big Fat Satanist.

Gigi Gaston Je Suis Perdue What words would you use to describe 1960s French pop sensation Gigi Gaston? With a growing cult discovering her through the dozens of photos, periodicals, songs and videos assembled by Josh Gosfield, some adjectives describing the chanteuse nicknamed the "Black Flower" include ...

Billy Jam says: New Jersey explorer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, welder, artist, skateboarder, avid Passaic River canoe traveler, graffiti lover, urban anthropologist, prankster, high school dropout, WFMU listener, Weird NJ contributor, and as he calls himself "run of the mill trespasser" are all ...

Unknown_package   Unknown_disc   Unknown_map It's been requested that my blog posts for WFMU, from this moment on, pertain specifically to music. It was a lot of fun sharing weird off-beat stories with you, but I guess now is the time to get serious and write about things other than softball, beer, ...

Here are the crib notes to what's been happenin on the Free Music Archive (if you haven't been keeping up on the Free Music Archive via twitter, facebook, RSS, or the regular ol' home page. Feel free to chime in with more FMA rec's in the comments! :: The FMA's Anti-Pop Consortium Remix Contest kicked ...

Miner Give the Drummer Some's 6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere CASH FOR SPELUNKERS EDITION We here at Mining the Audio Motherlode know a little something about economic hard times. Why, your very own Miner has gone eight long months without a paycheck ever since getting laid off back in ...

Radiobear WFMU's 24-Hour Marathon began last night at 7pm and runs until 7pm tonight! We've set aside our pride to interrupt programming this Fall for our first, and hopefully last, 24-hour Marathon. Our coffers are empty thanks to the combined evil forces of the recession and WFMU falling short of ...

Here are several radio spots promoting the 1962 observance of National Country Music Week.  I must admit I was a bit surprised to see that they found room for Connie Francis and the Kingston Trio, performers not generally associated with country music, alongside old stalwarts like Faron Young and Roy ...

Tony Coulter recently brought this rowdy video to the attention of WFMU staffers, Victoria Vein and the Thunderpunks performing "Other Things".  VV would go on to greater fame under the Debris moniker.  Tony got word of the video from Karl Ikola, proprietor of Anopheles Records, who reissued the Victoria ...

Ghost_Moth_post2 When you're already in a dance with noise and free improvisation, the Kosmische is less than one membranous step away. And so it was with Ghost Moth, the duo of suitcase electronicist Todd Pendu and multi brass/woodwind blower Daniel Carter. This was Ghost Moth's third set as a duo ...