Typically, I leave the wacky, zany 50s/60s-style rock 'n' roll nostalgia to my colleagues on and off the air, but this LP, which originally belonged to my Mom, has had a substantial impact on my life and the lives of those I've shared it with.  Terry Folger in particular was obsess...

Almost exactly one year ago, in what I believe was my first regularly scheduled post here (after being part of the 365 days project), I wrote about a beloved 45 RPM from my collection, "Beggar or a Clown" b/w "I Am a Loser" by Pinky Pinkston and the Dixie Drifters. This pos...

Here are both sides of a grimly disturbing 45 made by Dexter Gardner, a deeply troubled teenaged (and self-identified) LSD addict from Kearns, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. As the record label indicates, the audio was "reproduced from (a) tape recorded message just before death by suicide.&...

I wish I had discovered this tape in time to post it last week, but I only listened to it for the first time within the past three or four days. I know nothing about it, except that it is from a reel to reel tape which I bought at least a year ago (it can take me awhile to get through things....), a...

Mac (of the Antique Phonograph Music Program) checks in with another great blog topic: Earlier this month, Michael Feldheim forwarded an article about discovery of home recordings done on cylinders from the teens of the last century… (MP3 of cylinder recording here) Being a collector of disc and c...

There've been a lot of Kennedys in the news lately, what with the Triborough Bridge being renamed for RFK, Teddy's ill health and now Caroline's gambit for Hillary's Senate seat. I know the bracing winds of change are all a-swirl, but the Hyannis Port horde sure do know how to hog the spotlight. Ano...

Ah, so I just learned how Mike Patton performed "Inconsolable Widows in Search of Distraction" from the Adult Themes For Voice album (stream). It's so easy, he just taps his Adam's apple! It's more difficult but still possible to do a similar, more extreme thing without touching your throat. Or at l...

Bob Dylan has recently been championing a pair Jerry Lee Lewis tracks on his Theme Time Radio Hour with infectious enthusiasm, ending one recent spin with the comment, "You know, if anybody ever asks me why I do this radio show, I could just play them that - Jerry Lee Lewis singing Shakespeare....

Recently Mac brought up a topic on WFMU's e-mail list that spawned a flurry of great responses: Did you ever find anything unusual in a used record you bought? Here are some stories from WFMU DJs, please share yours in the comments section. Mac: I was just putting away some records and ya never know...

Several weeks back, while preparing for my contribution to WFMU's week-long celebration of the 7" known as Singles Going Steady, I rifled through the comps & splits 7" drawer and found the most frustratingly unknowable pair of records. They were clear flexis, seemingly torn from a maga...