Deadly Prey (1988)

Awe-inspiring ineptitude. The best 'beating a guy around the face with his own arm' scene ever committed to celluloid. SUCK THIS!!!!

Wax Stag - And How (2008)

Been playing this guy a lot recently. It's Rob Lee from the Friendly Fires 80's synth-junk solo project bizarrely named Wax Stag. It may be knowingly retro but anything that provides me with warm images of playing Outrun in some dingy arcade in the mid 80's has my seal of approval.

Ducktails - Parasailing (2009)

Simply adore this.

Helado Negro - Dahum (2009 Asthmatic Kitty)

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This guy's quite interesting for me, lots of nice elements going on there.

William Shatner - It Hasn't Happened Yet

Tough times when you look to Shatner for help but help me he did. He rocks hard.

When Good Trees Go Bad...

Silly and ultimately worthless indie horror short but I found it pretty amusing in some ways.

Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue

Gets me everytime

Yeah I know but....

People have been banging on about this guy like he's the new Burial or something. Anyway, yeah I like it but let's keep our heads shall we?

Loner Moves

Been enjoying the music of Dave Bixby lately. Something penetrating and unpleasantly haunting about it. Definitely one of the finest outsider/loner folk albums I've ever heard. It's just been reissued on CD and 180g vinyl over at Guerssen Records

Here's the blurb from the label:

"Since its discovery in the late 90s, Dave Bixby's legendary $2000 private press album from 1969 is considered by all serious record collectors as the king in the loner/ downer folk genre.

After being involved in 60s Michigan folk and garage- rock bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, Bixby started playing acoustic guitar and experimenting with LSD. After a year of drug abuse he felt broken. Starting a soul- searching, spiritual journey, he wrote '' Ode to Quetzalcoatl'' and most of the material for his second album, Harbinger's '' Second Coming'' in just one month and a half.

Assisted by fellow musician Brian MacInness, who played some guitar parts on the album, Dave recorded '' Quetzalcoatl'' using a echo- laden four track machine in a flat's living room. The sound is lo- fi and sparse: just acoustic guitars and some occasional harmonica & flute, added to Bixby's haunting, emotional vocals, spiritual lyrics and solid songwriting. The opening cut, the eerie and painful '' Drug Song'' sets the mood perfectly for the rest of the album which contains more tormented titles like '' 666'' , '' Lonely faces'' , Open Doors'' , '' Secret forest'' …Never an acoustic folk album sounded so intense as this.

Reissued for the first time under license from Dave Bixby. Carefully remastered sound from vinyl (no master tapes exists) done at Shadoks Music Studios, booklet with extensive and detailed liner notes by Matvei Procak - the guy who found Bixby in 2006 - plus some rare pictures."

Universe City - Can You Get Down (1976)

Best Disco track I've heard in a long while with its intricate and complex arrangement..

Fart FM

There are no words to describe how much I hate this. Literally no words in our current language. Perhaps an approximation may lie in the kind of words used to summon unpeakable demons from Lovecraft's 'Necronomicon' or perhaps in the fictional tongue of Mordor. Something ancient and unholy stirs, a primordial howl of anguish. Despair.

Crosby & Nash - Traction In The Rain

Perfect for this heat. So simple yet powerfully engaging.

Llama Rock

The boy only gets better, love the way the llama tries to get away from him at the the end. Kinda ruins the cool but kinda makes it cooler.