Mayo Thompson (of Red Krayola) Red Krayola (formerly The Red Crayola) was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Frederick Barthelme (brother of novelist Donald Barthelme) and Steve Cunningham. Their work prefigured punk and the no wave scene in 1980s New York City. They made noise rock, psychedelia and occasionally folk/country songs and instrumentals in a DIY fashion, [...]
Originally posted 19 March 2007 OUTPUT NOTHING TO DECLARE ABRAXAS Wolfgang Dauner Output ECM : 1970 WD, piano, ring modulator, clavinet; Eberhard Weber, bass, cello, guitar; Fred Braceful, percussion, voice. Wolfgang Dauner - not exactly a household name. So here are some [...]
A band's name is often one of its most important and identifying characteristics. The name might represent the roots of the group such as the Rolling Stones, a tribute to Muddy Waters; anarchy against the establishment with monikers like the Sex Pistols or Dead Kennedys; a place of origin – Boston, Kansas, Chicago; or the boringly obvious band name being that of the frontman, i.e. Dave Matthews Band (at least J. Geils was the guitar player in his band!). Despite how great, accurate, or brazenly outrageous a band's name might be, there is one thing that it may not be – [...]
Singer and guitarist Mayo Thompson formed the Red Crayola (or Krayola) in Houston, Texas in 1966 with Frederick Barthelme and Steve Cunningham, and has continued to lead the group up to the present day with an ever-changing cast of musicians. This complete interview by Oliver Hall.
Smoke, Shellac, Red Krayola: Former Atlanta music writer left a secret legacy
A mysterious window to the supernatural in mid-America has been the scene of many bizarre, unexplained UFO and Bigfoot events for more than 100 years. So strange and bewildering are the events in the area of southwest Michigan that before the white man came, the native Indians called one body of water Magician Lake. "There are too many reports from this small area over a long period of time to simply dismiss them as unrelated incidents—or the ravings of crackpots," says David Fideler, a scholar who has devoted years to the study of the [...]
Of all the posts that have shown up on the proliferous Cargo Culte blog, the one I have gone back to quite often is I Hate Art, Can't Stand It , which provides a nice companion soundtrack to Simon Reynolds' book Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. With the permission of the Demagogues of the Cargo Culte, I have compiled 15 more hits from Art Punk's formative years. Some of the bands are mentioned in Reynolds' book; others are [...]
Yellow roses weren't the only flowers sprouting in Texas in the sixties. Psychedelic music found a hospitable home in the state's fertile soil.
In an time where Cage and Zorn are old news and experimental pop like the Animal Collective has a recognized following, The Red Krayola are hardly out there today and this record is not to be feared. Sued by Crayola for naming rights, this is the band's first album under their new 'Krayola' moniker, a stripped down follow up to their debut record, the freaked...
for a while there, the red krayola were an exceedingly hip band to like. this is the only release of theirs i have, and despite the involvement of jim o'rourke and david grubbs i still haven't got it... released by drag city in 1993. it's a telescope.
This is Pete Kember's (aka Sonic Boom, founding member of Spacemen 3) compilation of some of his favorite songs and influences, which he originally aired during a DJ set on UK radio, but has since compiled into a CD and double LP set. The package comes with liner notes describing the selections and why they were so inspiring. For example, Kember says of The Staples Singers' tune "This May Be The Last Time," "This Gospel gem, I believe written by Bobby Womack, is obviously the root of the Stones hit from '65. Pop Staples remains for me the greatest unsung [...]
The Sound of Indie has posted an mp3 from Dean & Britta's Galaxie 500 set at the Zipper Factpry a couple of weeks back. This show featured ten (!!!) Galaxy 500 tunes. Needless to say, the show was sublime. Imagine sitting is a small theater listening to [the] set performed perfectly [...] It was good enough to make a grown man cry. I am sure many did. Dean & Britta - Victory Garden - The Sound of Indie
Good tidings on this first Friday of June, Internet travelers. Is the weather nice where you live? Has that neighborhood swimming pool opened yet? Can you hear the sweet, lilting song of the ice cream truck as is barrels down your street at break-neck speeds, barely escaping a collision with the doughy face of a six-year-old who "just wanted a Spiderman Popsicle"? Are the birds and bees graciously eating one another's assholes, or doing whatever it is they do to give us that birds-and-bees expression? I'll tell you one thing that's not happening: I'm not going to see [...]
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