Artist: The Outsiders

Not too long ago, more and more individuals have been installing some speakers out of their dwellings. Speakers can be an essential element to play music throughout a celebration that you have outdoors. Lots of individuals take the loudspeakers back inside the house following an event such as a celebration is completed. Yet, if you put in loudspeakers only for the short term then you might face one serious problem. You are going to have to run loudspeaker wire to the speakers each and every time you install them. Hence, wireless loudspeakers are a fantastic solution for short-term installations mainly [...]

Here's an electropop bedroom project to love. Seesaw is the first song released by Outsides. I'm pretty sure that I account for at least 50 listens on this track and I wanted to share so that you can listen to it 50 times as well. I'm ready for summer at this point and I keep listening to Seesaw hoping the driving beat beckons summer to come quicker. Outsides is Tim Ellis. He's been involved with Chicago bands and now resides in Kansas City. Outsides was originally named Clock People and [...]

• Outsides - Seesaw

Red Wine by Tonetta The Internet's most NSFW outsider musician has a new album release out with the good people at Woozy Tribe. The title: Red Wine , which is aptly covered in a somewhat disturbing image of Tonetta himself adorn in a strangely fitting red dress. Like his past releases, Red Wine seems to be built out of songs from across the Tonetta catalog. There's even a second version of the song " Drugs Drugs Drugs " on here. A few oddly alluring ballads make it onto this release-specifically [...]

The recent news about the wack-job Elvis (and others) impersonator sending politicians envelopes laced with deadly ricin reminded me of the pioneer of this genre, Robert Alberg. When we wrote about him some years ago, he was being sentenced to five years' probation, mental-health treatment and a residential placement in a group home, and his album was no longer available, so I posted it. Incredibly, he's back, selling both his original collection, and a new one. And he sounds even worse (as you can [...]

Baseball season has officially begun, so let's pay tribute to America's Pastime the MusicForManiacs way: Deranged Umpire - " Umpire's Call " Deranged is right: a free download of some guy in a Cookie Monster growl exclaiming nonsensically about how happy he is to be at a baseball game, even enthusing about the food ( "Clap for the food court /clap, clap...The foods and the beverages/clap, clap") over a low-rent synth that [...]

Over the cheapest possible drum machine, Mr. Lynn Rockwell, from parts unknown, plays and sings everything on this private press wonder from 1970. An instro version of the James Brown classic "Night Train" kicks things off with plenty of swingin' horns, followed by the sweet clarinet blowing of "Blue Prelude," which also introduces Lynn's somewhat homely but lovable vocals. Wilbert Harrison's proto-rocker "Kansas City" is remade as a finger-snappin' jazzy lounge tune. Roller-rink organ joins the fun on such songs as "String of Pearls," originally by Glen Miller's big band, now rendered here by a very, very little band. [...]

What a wonderful time we had, swimming in happiness and marvelous music of the Kitsuné Le Pool Party at the Freehand Miami hotel on March 22th! A super thank to Poolside, Amtrac, Alison Valentine, The Dolls (Mia Moretti & Caitlin Moe), ColeCo, Corzo and all the pleasant people present at this afternoon party, who enjoyed the djs, swimming-pool and Corzo drinks! It was a [...]

Following his 2010 debut Inland , Montreal singer/songwriter Leif Vollebekk decided he wanted to make one of those classic "new/old" albums, filled with timeless songs that he said could "hold up in a storm." The songs, it turned out, came pretty easy. Everything else didn't. The arrangements and production -- the sound in his mind -- proved elusive. "All this time," Vollebekk says, "trying to get one take." He and his rhythm section crisscrossed from Montreal to New York to France and then back to Montreal. He even met up with legendary [...]

• Leif Vollebekk - Read My Mind

I went to see a free performance by Llyn Foulkes last week (a day after I saw The Residents - can this year get any weirder?) and even tho I was a half-hour early, there was a shockingly long line around the UCLA Hammer Museum courtyard, and I couldn't get in to the show - I had to watch it on video in another room. Gol darn it! I'd seen him twice before and there was a crowd of maybe...30? What are all these people doing here at a show by a 78-year-old eccentric singing about old L.A. whilst [...]

At first listen, "reality" show star Farrah Abraham's album " My Teenage Dream Ended " is striking in it's ineptitude: lyrics possessing neither rhythm nor rhymes, one-guy-on-GarageBand music, and hideous abuse of Autotune on tune-less "melodies." It's really quite awful! But this is no talentless bimbo's attempt to be a "diva" - it's a soul-searching autobiographical concept album. Like any genuine outsider artist, she seems to be incapable of putting on the masks and personas of show-biz pros, and uses the album like any [...]

Bashful Hips is a solo electro band from Colorado whose free download album "Divorce" consists of song after sound-alike song of mid-tempo slightly-distorted synth tunes, all sung in a woeful one-note drone. Tho there's some nice musical touches here and there, e.g. the popping percussion on "Color Me Blue," I can't really say it's a genuinely good album - the songwriting seems more like diary entries than lyrics, with scant attention paid to things like rhythm or rhymes. But it certainly seems heartfelt, packed as it is with excruciating details like "mornings are now so confusing/now that I don't [...]

Wooden Wand is the brainchild of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth. Mixing dusty psychedelia, folksy ballads and conversational acousticana, WW recently released a new album, Blood Oaths of the New Blues on Fire Records. Toth is an incredibly prolific artist, having released dozens of albums, homemade recordings on cassettes and CD-R's, vinyl, side projects and contributions ... Continue reading �

• Wooden Wand - Outsider Blues

How's THAT for an album cover? I think you can see why I picked up this private-press piece of vintage vinyl recently - it truly is a slice of authentic Americana, a peek into un-hip rural backroads (in this case, Pennsylvania Dutch country) where Ma & Pa go out on a Saturday night to the local tavern and dance to the kind of music left out of the history books, performed by the sort of performer usually considered to be not worthy of critical consideration. [...]

Ten episodes in: broken noses, broken hearts and shattered egos. We are not the men we were when we started this journey and I fear we shall never be again. TheAllSeeingI, BaddBob and sixtwentysix each present a playlist to the masses for judgment and stultification. We scramble for shreds of respects knowing full well those [...]

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William Shatner! Theremins! Daleks! Annoying child singers! Truly, this is what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown. If we must be subjected to Christmas music every year, at least let's make it bad/strange futuristic-y sci-fi songs. Space travel and Christmas - two things that have nothing to do with each other . So why are there so many songs about both? Maybe cuz kids love 'em both. Or because Santa's reindeer routine was a wormhole-like traveling thru space/time? Or cuz everyone gets sick of "White Christmas" after a [...]

Still trying to post an album a day, to keep you-all fully loaded for when I take my holiday break. The Iron Man of Blogging continues! Today's album pretty much does what it says on the tin - unlike the stripped-down Tiny Tim album I posted last week, this is a big-budget, fully orchestrated work (except for one solo uke tune) that suggests that some nut thought that a modern Tiny Tim album might actually have commercial potential. This album certainly starts off as normal anything Tiny ever did, [...]

A conversation with artist/musician Jad Fair.

Pneumershonic is a crazy old guy named Paul and his pal Matt. These New Hampshire-ites recorded an album in 1997 called "Frequencies of the Beast," a very entertaining collection of Paul's improvised singing/rants like "Hippie Freakout" and "Martian Girlfriend" over Matt's music. Matt wrote to me asking to link to an article written about them on WFMU's Beware of the Blog, but I wasn't going to do that cuz, well, it's already on Beware of the Blog, so why bother? But the article is 6 years old, it's [...]

Tim from Radio Clash asked me if I had the Tiny Tim/Bruce Haack album "Zoot Zoot Zoot Here Comes Santa In His New Space Suit." Alas, I don't - do any of you out there have this true meeting of outsider musical minds? It's as rare as a complete dinosaur skeleton, and about as expensive. But the query did send me poking thru the Tiny Tim things that I do have, such as this extraordinary tape of some anonymous person recording what is apparently a concert for one in Tiny's apartment [...]