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Frankie & the Witch Fingers/Band Shirt Day 2023 | Music News
Decoy Deloy joins artists like Blondie, Wilco, Portugal the Man, Sonic Youth, and more for #bandshirtday 2023—a holiday to celebrate our favorite kinda tees and raise money for worthy causes. Then, Decoy swings by Valley Bar to hang out with Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers to get the story about their… Read more..
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April 1968: Tiny Tim, Simon & Garfunkel, Moby Grape & More | Click Vortex
We’re hopping in the time machine and setting the controls for April 1968, to take a deep dive on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” the weird and unsettling world of Tiny Tim, and the format-bending sound of San Francisco’s Moby Grape—as well as the ultra-dedicated unofficial archivists like DustyGrooves69 and Vintage Recordings, who make sure we can access… Read more..
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Band Shirt Day is September 15 | WASTOIDS Highlighter
Band Shirt Day, Video Mixup, The Spindle drops the needle on Magazine’s Shot By Both Sides. It’s Jenny Nobody with this, that, and the other from WASTOIDS. Read more..
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Band Shirt Day Podcast with Bill Mooney (Kung Fu) & Steve DePace (Flipper)
To celebrate Band Shirt Day 2023, Dylan Gette-King links up to the WASTOIDS feed to share the history of the band shirt, and stories from the movers and shakers of underground music, figures like Bill Mooney of Kung Fu, who joins us to discuss how he got started making band merch on Redd Kross’ dirty laundry… Read more..
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Jeff Rosenstock vs Merch Cuts | WASTOIDS Music News, September 9, 2023
Decoy Deloy shares all the important music news—like Jeff Rosenstock’s bold stand against merch cuts—and some music news that just made him laugh: like the story about how Stephen King became obsessed with Lou Bega’s “Mambo #5.” Plus, an all-new Video Mixup feature, featuring videos from Ty Segall, Meat Puppets, Say She She, Shabazz Palaces,… Read more..
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Magazine “Shot by Both Sides” b/w “My Mind Ain’t So Open” | The Spindle
This time around, Marc and John delve into what may be the first true post-punk single: Magazine’s 1978 7-inch ““Shot By Both Sides” backed with “My Mind Ain’t So Open.” Led by Howard Devoto, the former Buzzcock who was already disillusioned with punk, Magazine truly ripped it up and started again, pulling the music of late 70s UK… Read more..
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Chris Farren, Skate Jazz, Freakout Fuzz | Highlighter
This week on WASTOIDS Highlighter, Jenny Nobody drops all the info you need about the latest fuzz-drenched episode of Click Vortex, the jazz meets skate vids sound of Joseph Shabason, and Chris Farren, taking your calls now via 1-877-WASTOIDS. Read more..
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Call Chris Farren at 1-877-WASTOIDS
🎶 Ring! Ring! 🎶 Grab your phone and dial 1-877-WASTOIDS to leave a message for Chris Farren, and look out for his answers on the next episode of Hotline. Known for his work with Floridian punks Fake Problems, Farren has returned with the “optimistic nihilism” of Doom Singer, a record inspired by sixties girl groups,… Read more..
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indieplaza: September 9, 2023 [Free Music Festival!]
indieplaza is once again coming to New York City on September 9th, presented by Rough Trade and Rockefeller Center in partnership with Dr. Martens. Members of the WASTOIDS crew will be hanging out at the official Band Shirt Day booth. Come say hello and check out music from Nation of Language, Narrow Head, Video Age,… Read more..
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Job for a Cowboy, Joseph Shabason, Marnie Stern, Walker Lukens | Music News September 1, 2023
Decoy Deloy returns with music news for September 1, 2023: up first, Arizona metal titans Job For a Cowboy return with the hallucinogenic “The Agony Seeping Storm” on Metal Blade Records; Joseph Shabason announces a vintage skateboarding/Toy Machine inspired new jazz album Welcome to Hell on Western Vinyl; shredder Marnie Stern returns with The Comeback… Read more..