It’s weird. It’s funky. It’s ready to fill your heart with horrendous horror and rapturous rap music. It’s Cody Goodfellow’s all-new all-different BABY GOT BASS!
Music Video Release: SPIDORA! by the Slow Poisoner
Published on :The Slow Poisoner wishes for you to enter the wicked web of… SPIDORA!
The Slow Poisoner releases… Swamp Fist!
Published on :The Slow Poisoner, that one-man surrealistic rock and roll band, has released his latest album: SWAMP FIST! Individual tracks and the entire album can be purchased here. If you’ve ever heard The Slow Poisoner’s music or seen him play live, you know that this album is chock full of auditory […]
Beck’s New Video (starring COWdy Goodfellow)
Published on :That lovable pop star Beck has released a video for his latest single, “Wow,” and hidden among the surreal imagery, dancing girls, and all the pretty horses, there is bizarro author Cody Goodfellow, one bushy-faced cowboy standing tall in a sea of nothingness. That’s probably a good way to describe […]
Mind Widening Music #6: The Residents
Published on :by Lee Widener The Residents are one of the most enigmatic, long-lasting musical projects to exist on the fringes of modern music. Formed in Louisiana in the late 60s, and moving to California soon after, they have never appeared in public without disguises. Most often, though not always, they wear […]
Mind Widening Music #5: Spike Jones
Published on :by Lee Widener In this month’s column it is my great pleasure to present an artist I consider the grandfather of Bizarro music, Spike Jones. Spike Jones was a drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader mostly popular in the 40s and 50s, though he did release some recordings in the 1960s. […]
Mind Widening Music #4: The Slow Poisoner
Published on :by Lee Widener For this installment of Bizarro Music, I’d like to introduce you to Andrew Goldfarb, otherwise known as “The Slow Poisoner.” I’d like to, but most of you are probably already familiar with him. For those of you who are not: Andrew Goldfarb is Bizarro’s true Renaissance man. […]
Mind Widening Music #3: Vivian Stanshall
Published on :by Lee Widener For the third edition of Bizarro Music, we travel across the sea to jolly ol’ England, to profile Vivian Stanshall. “Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet, and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band…” – Wikipedia Like many other […]
Mind Widening Music #2: Dot Wiggin
Published on :by Lee Widener For the second edition of Bizarro Music, I’m going to talk about Dot Wiggin. But who is Dot Wiggin? You know who she is, you just don’t know you know. Yes, THAT Dot Wiggin – 1/3 of the Shaggs. Why am I singling her out? We’ll get […]
Mind Widening Music #1: Frank Zappa
Published on :by Lee Widener This is the first in a monthly series I will be writing about Bizarro Music. We all are familiar with Bizarro Fiction, but what is Bizarro Music? In this column, I will illustrate what I mean by Bizarro Music by using the same principles used to define […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Elvira’s 2 Big Pumpkins
Published on :by Tracy Vanity The Queen of Halloween just premiered a new music video for her purple vinyl 7″ single. “2 Big Pumpkins” is out today from Third Man Records. She’s hotter than ever! Elvira is performing at Knott’s Scary Farm and has a Halloween series on Hulu called “13 Nights of Elvira.” Cassandra Peterson […]
Meanwhile in Japan…
Published on :by Tracy Vanity
Royals
Published on :by Tracy Vanity I have a thing for clowns…
Unearthly Sounds Volume 7: Seven Deadly Questions with The Slow Poisoner
Published on :by J.W. Wargo “The Slow Poisoner (alias Andrew Goldfarb) is a one-man surrealistic rock and roll band who hails from San Francisco and has been playing the devil’s music to audiences across America since 1996.” –The Slow Poisoner Website I’ve had a fondness for multi-instrumentalists and one-man bands most of […]
Unearthly Sounds Volume 6: Interview with Flood Damage
Published on :By J. W. Wargo “Industrial rock with a black sense of humor, burlesque and machine rock fusion, experiments in sound and fury.” –Flood Damage Facebook Page (This edition of Unearthly Sounds highlights a writer from within the Bizarro Community who also happens to be a kick-ass noisemaker, Michael Allen Rose. […]