Man Man

Man Man is an experimental band that incorporates Eastern European and circus-esque styles in their music. In other words: they are fucking awesome. The band is comprised of incredibly talented characters, as well. The members (Honus Honus, Sergei Sogay, Pow Pow, Critter Crat, and Chang Wang) are known for their multiple instrument playing all centered around a usually honky tonk style piano. They're also known for synchronizing outfits and warpaint as well as (can you guess?) using pseudonyms instead of their real names.

Among the use of the piano, the band is made up of: a clavinet, microKORG, sousaphone, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, flute, drum set, euphonium, fender jazz bass, Danelectro guitar, xylophone, marimba, melodica and various percussive instruments including pots and pans and toy noise makers and horns.

Are you intrigued yet?

Honus Honus is planning to make an album in the future with Nicholas Thorburn (Islands, The Unicorns) in which they will be creating a new sub-genre called "Doom Wop" which is esentially "Low frequency, and extremely slowed down music atop traditional doo wop harmonies. Or something."

I have heard from multiple folks that the members of Man Man actually used to be carnies but were "too weird for the circus" and got kicked out. So they ended up creating a band. I do not actually know if this is true, I haven't been able to find any valid information explaining this, but either way, I hope it's true, because folks who get kicked out of a circus for being too weird.... well... that's just wonderful. And mind boggling.

Anyway, here's two of their albums. I don't have their oldest one, but here's the two newest ones.

Six Demon Bag (2006)


http://www.mediafire.com/?07ti1wsiyj9c7fc




Rabbit Habits (2008)


http://www.mediafire.com/?sbl4u4b8p8terk3

Dracula Boots, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

This album is ridiculous. It's ridiculous and wonderful. I have this on vinyl just for the time being while my friend Jason remains out of town for a few months, and I'm pretty stoked about it. Someone cut out a clipping and taped it to the album cover before Jason bought it, which is a way better description of this music than I can give, so here you go:

"The legendary KID CONGO POWERS returns to the psychedelic jungle with a stripped-down, no-frills set of volcanic songs. The premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy, swampy bands like GUN CLUB, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, and THE CRAMPS, Powers is a restless aesthete whose earlier solo efforts are explored and mixed genres. With Dracula Boots, he comes back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him-the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. Includes covers of songs by Thee Midniters and Bo Diddleym and the original songs on Dracula Boots go from loud, fuzzy biker rock to greasy rump-shaker groove; from a scary movie soundtrack to The Meters having an acid flashback."

See? How can you read that and NOT want to listen to this immediately? You may not know this about me but I FUCKING. LOVE. THE CRAMPS! Also a huge fan of Nick Cave, and well, yeah, every other band they mentioned in that paragraph. Good album.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zttyhudgzyd

Psycho, Eddie Noack

Bahaha. Seriously, this song is awesome. Really fucked up old school country song. Gotta love it.

Medway Wheelers, The Buff Medways

Wild Billy Childish is an awesome human being. He is a painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He's often described as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene." He writes a lot about his strange love life and his childhood sexual abuse, but don't let that scare you away, he truly is fantastic.

He was also a co-founder with Charles Thomson of a pretty cool international art movement called Stuckism. It was founded in 1999 and it's main goal is to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. Started with 2 guys, then to 13 different groups of British artists, and is now up to 209 groups in 48 countries as of May 2010.

He has gone through so many bands: The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, The Mighty Caesars, The Del Monas, Wild Billy Childish & The Blackhands, Wild Billy Childish & The Natural Born Lovers, Thee Headcoats, Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways, and has made albums with at least 10 different artists. He has written over 100 books (poetry, fiction and nonfiction), and made 6 different films. This guy really has his shit together.

Something else I find pretty funny though, is Billy Childish's longstanding battle with Jack White. Jack White loved Billy Childish and for some reason or another Billy Childish hates Jack White and has actually written songs about how stupid he is!

Anyway, check it out. My FAVORITE song on the album is called "Dustbin Mod." I rarely use this word, but that song is seriously just so. fucking. tough.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnozmwoj2lf

The Spooks

FINALLY an update! Sorry kids, I'm throwin' a few of 'em up here right now. First one is this band The Spooks. They're a really rad garage/surf rock band from Philly. I absolutely LOVE his voice. Kinda raspy, kinda creepy, just great all around.

Unfortunately I don't live in Philly and I'm pretty sure that's the only way to get their album. However here is their MYSPACE PAGE with all of their songs on it. So it's basically like having an album.

Check 'em out!