Bluetooth Cassette Player

From Ninm Lab comes a new music player that combines the inconvenience of a cassette player with the convenience of wireless headphones:


Apparently the idea of this appeals to a lot of people, because the Kickstarter for this device was easily funded.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 15, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Technology

I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (in a Pink Cadillac)

Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 15, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Humor, Music, Politics, 1960s, Russia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

Sebastian Cabot’s “Like A Rolling Stone”

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 11, 2019 - Comments (0)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

The Rockin’ Ramrods, “Don’t Fool With Fu Manchu”

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 07, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Literature, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Music, 1960s

Hot Dog Boogie

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 19, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Dogs, 1950s

Cowboy Throat Singing

In Mongolia, there's an ancient tradition of "throat singing." Wikipedia defines this as: "a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody... This resonant tuning allows singers to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while actually generating only a single fundamental frequency with their vocal folds."

Somehow, back in the 1920s, the cowboy singer Arthur Miles independently hit upon this technique and integrated it into several songs.

You can hear it in the song below at around the 0:50, 2:50, 4, and 5 min marks.



via Bifurcated Rivets

Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 18, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Music

RIP Leon Redbone (1949-2019)

A truly odd, enigmatic musician. As noted by his obit in the Independent:


For a long time, almost no biographical info was known about him. Many suspected he wasn't even a real person. Perhaps someone such as Frank Zappa or Bob Dylan was posing as Redbone. But no, Redbone was real. He died on May 30.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 15, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Obituaries

Skin Tight, Pin Striped, Purple Pedal Pushers

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 15, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Fashion, Music, Public Indecency, 1960s

I Was a Teenage Brain Surgeon

Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 03, 2019 - Comments (0)
Category: Humor, Music, Surgery, Teenagers, 1950s, Brain

Mystery gadget 76

What is the name of this musical instrument?

Answer is here.

Or after the jump.

More in extended >>

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 30, 2019 - Comments (4)
Category: Music, 1920s