Tag: Music

Dipleidoscopic Hot Links

May I, Bill Deal & The Rhondels (1968) Blue-eyed soul band from Portsmouth, Virginia, formed in 1959 and had a 24 year run until Bill Deal left the group in 1983.

OE.

Foiled.

Subway.

Jar World.

Derthalina.

Joel’s song.

Lighthouse.

Duck Radio.

Little boxes.

Snip ‘n’ Smell.

Sleeping seals.

Pretty & pissed.

Robert the Useful.

The Ides of March.

The Evening News.

Soup Proper Good.

How to save a drunk.

Make lots of tiny circles.

On Y2k, booze & Skeezer.

He’ll save you some time.

March 16 – Saint Urho’s Day.

Any time is a good time to panic.

What happened to Star Wars Kid.

Pole Lickers [via Memo Of The Air].

Three short illegal dumping stories.

Rickles’ & Adams’ Midnight Cowboy.

Sitting on top of the plug [via Thompson, blog].

Charged with murder, then won primary for Sheriff.

500 cardboard portraits in pencil [via Everlasting Blört].

“Dynamite ain’t like what you see on TV.“ [via Bustednuckles].

[Top image: original source unknown, dates to 2013; recently reposted by Club Cranium on FB.]

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Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Eliza Stark & The Dappers, Missioned Souls & Bad Manners

Tom Waits being Tom Waits. Video from 2012 is reminiscent of the digital animation template showcased here.

Eliza Stark & The Dappers:
“The only rockabilly band based in Montenegro. A classic trio of guitar, drums and hot chick slapping double bass and regular guests of national TV and festivals, they also well-known for their true and original music far beyond the borders of Montenegro.” – ES & The D Facebook Page

In 2024, Filipino family band Missioned Souls covered Bad Manners‘ 1980 ska cover of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs‘ 1965 classic.

One of the top ska bands of the UK, Bad Manners are still performing (and celebrating their 50th year). It appears that frontman Buster Bloodvessel chose to sit this one out.

I got the porch if you got the time. Be there or be an equilateral rhomboid.

Rubiginous Hot Links

Blues de Bernadette, Lost Bayou Ramblers (2012)Formed in 1999 in Pilette, Louisiana, LBR plays an eclectic mix of Cajun / creole / country swamp rock with an ear for traditional music preservation.

Rock.

Op Ed.

Crane.

Drove-In.

Think dirt.

Dirty Shari.

Sushi belt cam.

Cakes of the pan.

Hose style toons.

The speed of poop.

Stretchy ceramics.

Felines of the ancients.

WWII Russian POW story.

Around the Webb Bridge.

The Psyops of Revolution.

Clerk’s got a dinosaur shirt.

Electric Pac-Man [h/t Jaime G.].

Papaoutai [via Memo Of The Air].

Iceman Fred [via Thompson, blog].

1st Female Pilot [via Everlasting Blört].

Army Surplus mobile machine shop for sale [via Bustednuckles].

[Top image: The meme dates to at least 2015. Photo of Slavic(?) family dates to early 1900s, first appeared online around 2007.
h/t Sol R. L. via FB.]

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Glumiferous Hot Links

Right Now, Jeff Beck (2016) The song features the vocals of Rosie Bones.

Same.
Same.

Tunnel.

The Bug.

Eat smart.

The Watcher.

Loony Toons.

Art in the Box.

“Look. It’s a lion.”

Road to Inishowen.

Song of the Nostrils.

Goodbye Weaver D’s.

Abandoned mansions.

7,000 bots [h/t Paul Y.]

“These are my parents…“

She’s got it, now he does.

Honey under a microscope.

Spilled pepper [h/t Pam M.].

Rudiments and paradiddles.

James Paterson’s machines.

The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979).

Vamos a La Playa [via Sloth Unleashed].

How the birdies go [via Everlasting Blört].

Amazing r/c planes [via Memo Of The Air].

The worlds oldest buttprint [via Thompson, blog].

2 hours of instrumental stoner space rock [via The Feral Irishman].

[Top image: Australian skyline, long exposure photograph
by Leanne Cole 2026.]

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Fucivorous Hot Links

Emotional Weather Report, Tom Waits (1975)

Cat Paw.

Noisy walls.

Duck Radio.

Lucky Allen.

Coen Circles.

Tabulating farts.

2008 Idiotmobile.

Fun Fact No. 5793.

Cocoa gets the blues.

A new telephone poll.

Making the Honda Cog.

A desiccated carrot flower.

Non-Essential Commentary.

Truancy, wilding, Kroger & ICE.

Termite Town [via Thompson, blog].

Slinky Heaven [via Everlasting Blört].

This is not a cup [via Memo Of The Air].

The Elephant Stables of Hampi [via Miss Cellania].

[Top image: Somewhere, photo by Brett Beaudry (ca. 2025) found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Eric Johnson (w/ Kyle Brock & Tommy Taylor), Ana Popović, and The Sonics

Eric Johnson with Kyle Brock and Tommy Taylor in 1988. Lot of technique packed into a pretty instrumental.

Born in Serbia and now residing in the US, Ana Popović has earned seven Blues Music Award nominations and performed as the only female guitarist of the 2014 -2018 all-star Experience Hendrix lineup, a nationwide tour celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix.

In 2015, The Sonics  performed at the KEXP studio to record a set of their proto-punk garage band classics (along with some covers). Four of the five original members were there: Gerry Roslie / vocals, keyboard; Larry Parypa / Guitar; Andy Parypa / Bass; and Rob Lind / Saxophone. The entire session can be heard here and it’s pure awesome.

We had some actual weather this past week, with high winds, thunder and lightning, sheets of rain, avalanches, starvation, disease, pestilance. Now I hear that there are extra terrestrials on the way so we’ll have a surplus if we don’t waste them. I think there’s room in the shed.
See you porchtime-ish.

Heureux Mardi Gras!

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Panomphaean Hot Links

Short, Fat and Ugly, Lucy Malheur (2021) Lucy Malheur is a German singer/songwriter/producer who, with very few exceptions, only publishes her own songs.

Freebird.

Party girl.

A mall flat.

Jersey Dog.

Human press.

O(ffs) Canada.

Comfy stoves.

Circles in B&W.

Ignorant fools.

Read the Plaque.

How to romance.

Medical panic porn.

Smooth OpeRATTor.

Mystery Pickle Jar; story here.

Moonstone [via Memo Of The Air].

Water & sewer bills: $20K [Scroll up].

Quitting flipbook [via Everlasting Blört].

Making famous faces [via Miss Cellania].

Little Miss Foamface [via Thompson, blog].

The trouble with radiators and heater cores.

How to uglify a house and become famous anyway.

IMO the Bourbon Street live webcams get better after midnight.

[Top image: Nordic sphere retreat found here, via This Isn’t Happiness.]

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Saturday Matinee Pre-Mardi Gras Edition – Tuba Skinny, Dr. John, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Trad jazz band Tuba Skinny features bandleader Shaye Cohn on cornet. Performing and recording for over a decade, they’re branching out into jug band music, spirituals, country blues, string band music, ragtime, and New Orleans R&B.

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., aka Dr. John (1941-2019), was known for his mix of jazz, blues, R&B and soul flavored with New Orleans Mardi Gras, swamp rock and a pinch of voodoo. Gitcha gris gris gumbo ya ya.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band formed in New Orleans in 1977, playing traditional jazz mixed with bebop, funk, R&B and soul, and resurrected classic Second Line rhythms.

New Orleans’ famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded by Pennsylvanian Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s as a dixieland revival group, aimed at reviving the careers of the early jazz greats and preserving traditional jazz.

Nope, I didn’t forget. Here’s a story of Valentine’s Day in 1933.
While the missus is knocking down the remaining little heart-shaped confections tomorrow, I’ll be knocking back you know where.
Porch Time commences at porch time.

Tautochronous Hot Links


Moonlight Shuffle, Les Elgart & His Orchestra (1959)
After successful runs with several big bands of the 1940s, Les Elgart and his brother Larry formed their own orchestra with a distinctive brass-heavy sound. Their most recognizable recording, Bandstand Boogie, became the theme song to Dick Clark’s American Bandstand television show.

Ice.

Hi, fly.

Not funny.

Snow taffy.

Spud storm.

Infinity cube.

The sad truth.

Going down slow.

The blizzard of ’78.

Mean Joe & the kid.

Antique brass band.

Early indoctrination.

Afro-Caribbean vibes.

Masudaya Gemini X-5.

Rubber Chicken Museum.

The polar bears are doing just fine.

Bruce Lee vs. a Navy Seal instructor.

Ideal Astrobase [via Everlasting Blört].

The art of the hole [via Memo Of The Air].

New Hampshire and Maine prepare for war.

Calve’s Head dressed Turtle Fashion & other recipes
[via Thompson, blog].

Postcards of the Russo-Japan War [via Nag on the Lake].

[Top image: flipped Waffle found here.]

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