What Have They Put in my Porto? The Underground Music of Portugal - Weird Bones Various – Anthology of Electro-Acoustic Music from Portugal – Unexplained Sounds Group Raffaele Pezzella‘ s odyssey around the

There's weird stuff happening in Portugal
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What is a Ghoul? - Weird Bones Since the late 1960s, zombies have become one of the most referenced monsters in popular culture, whether it

Ghouls - what are they? They're not zombies... they're much grimmer than that. The bottom feeders of the monster world. Read up here:

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The Musical Happenings of Anton Lavey - Weird Bones It seems fitting that music was one of the few constants in Anton LaVey’s life. As a child,

The music of Anton LaVey - moody, inspired glimpses of fiery melody glinting in the infernal light...or mostly a load of old toss?
Hmm...

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The Life and Death of David Rappaport - Weird Bones David Rappaport was unquestionably one of Britain’s greatest actors of the 70s and 80s. Intelligent, witty, debonair and

David Rappaport - a fantastic actor and entertainer, and from the outside, despite the size fate afforded him, a happy man skilled in making people happy.
But that's depression for you. It's a monster. I'm proud of this one.

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Alessandro Moreschi, The Last Castrato - Weird Bones In 1984, The New York Times reported on the release of a set of recordings which by any

After centuries of the perverse and bizarre practice of castrating boys to preserve their "angelic" voices, Alessandro Moreschi became the last of his kind. Incredibly, recordings of his voice exist. Read more within.
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Thomas Wedders - Owner of the World's Largest Nose - Weird Bones Thomas Wedders – likely born Thomas Wadhouse – was born in Yorkshire around 1730. Exact details about his

The remarkable schnoz of Thomas Wedders.

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What's It All About? The TV and Film Music of Swinging London - Weird Bones Various Artists: ‘What’s It All About? The TV and Film Music of Swinging London’ – Strawberry/Cherry Red There

Excellent new box set that doesn't pretend British music from the 60s for TV and film started and ended with Bond.
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It Came From the ZX Spectrum - 8-Bit Movie Horror - Weird Bones Keep repeating, “It’s only a ZX Spectrum game, it’s only…” As a rule, if a game was released

Manic Miner? Jet Set Willy? Unleash the horror!
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Angelo Rossitto - a mighty, uncompromising actor, his fingerprints are across pop culture, sometimes in unexpected places.

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It Came From the ZX Spectrum - 8-Bit Movie Horror - Weird Bones Keep repeating, “It’s only a ZX Spectrum game, it’s only…” As a rule, if a game was released

A Bank Holiday repost of a waltz through horror movie adaptations on the ZX Spectrum.
Spoiler, many weren't very good.

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Pity the film score composer who poured his soul into his work, only to find some other Johnny-come-lately came and stole their gig.

Here are the stories behind some of the genre films with more than one soundtrack.

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Shadows of the Season - Looking Back at Sweet Oblivion with Gary Lee Conner - Weird Bones Some 27 years since its original release, Screaming Trees’ most successful album is given the reissue treatment courtesy

A chat I had with Gary Lee Conner from a few years ago weirdbones.co.uk/shadows-of-t...
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The Other Brian May - Australia's Greatest Film Music Composer - Weird Bones There will be a great number of people in the world who think Brian May, the guitarist from

The other Brian May.

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Wild Billy Childish vs UFOs in the Desert and Phantoms Down the Docks - Weird bones Wild Billy Childish & CTMF ‘House on Fire’ / ‘Keep Mojave Weird’ EP – Damaged Goods Three years on from Failure Not Success, CTMF return sounding anything but rested. ‘House on Fire’ is exactly what t...

Confirming that Billy Childish is still wild

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Music Boxes, Dead Crows, and Damp Mattresses - Weird bones RhaD – ‘Ghost Music Library’ – Unexplained Sounds RhaD has always been the place where Raffaele Pezzella lets the wires show. Under his Sonologyst name, he’s meticulous, almost architectural in how he...

Professor Plum, in the library, being beheaded.

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Me, Myself and AI - Answering Music's Most Pressing Questions: Hip Hop Edition - Weird bones The terror surrounding AI remains unwavering. How will YouTubers ever be able to make a living unboxing things with computers taking over our minds? How long can we expect to be able to select the req...

I asked AI to solve some of music's most enigmatic questions. Mixed results.
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Just Bought the Farm? The Residents' 'Animal Lover' Reissued - Weird bones The Residents – ‘Animal Lover’ – Cherry Red Animal Lover has always carried a strange reputation. Some listeners treat it like a puzzle that demands explanation and a map, a late‑period curio that sit...

Eyeballs, Alex De Renzy pig films, meditations on the human condition by chickens. Obviously, it's my latest Residents review weirdbones.co.uk/just-bought-...
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This Can't Be Today - A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground - Weird bones Various – ‘This Can’t Be Today – A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground’ – Cherry Red There’s a particular kind of compilation that arrives already carrying its own mythology, and ‘This Can’t B...

New boxset covering the Paisley Underground, the second wave of psychedelia. More misses than hits, but still intriguing.
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Poster for the 1991 album release of TAD's "8-Way Santa".

On this day, 35 years ago in 1991, TAD's 8-Way Santa was released on @subpop.bsky.social records.

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The Electric Dead Speak! - Weird bones Various – ‘Electric Dead Speak – Music for Electric Voice Phenomenon’ – Eighth Tower Records When I was little, I remember very clearly that my sister, Tracy, had a flexi-disc featuring not hits of th...

When I was little, my sister had a flexi-disc of dead voices captured within the grooves. It all came rushing back listening to this.

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Music for Ghosts - The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures - Weird bones The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures might not be the go-to group on Spotify right now, I really couldn’t say. However, it would give humanity as a whole a tremendous boost if everyone were to run out i...

It's what all the kids are listening to. I think.
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CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 - Weird bones Various – CBGB – A New York City Soundtrack CBGB mythology tends to calcify around the same five names – Television, Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads – the pantheon that debuted within fif...

If you were there, you don't remember it. I wasn't there, so listened to this new box set.
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Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 - Weird bones Various – Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 Rock ’n’ roll was still a toddler when the kids on ‘Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965’ started treating it like a battlefield....

New review is up - back to the garage

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Analog 2025 and the Case for Wobble - Weird bones Various – ‘Analog 2025’ – Unexplained Sounds Group ‘Analog 2025’ arrives with tape flutter, slow pitch wobble, spring reverb that sounds like a corridor, and the soft, humanised clipping that turns a ...

Mark my words, all the cool kids will be listening to wobble this year
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It Came from Beyond the Channel - So High I've Been - Weird bones Various – So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967–1973 3CD Set – Cherry Red For decades, the story of rock music has been told as if it were a transatlantic conversation between Britain and ...

It came from beyond The Channel. Sonic madness from the continent reviewed: weirdbones.co.uk/so-high-ive-...

IX TAB: Ropes, Rituals, and Inescapable Dread - Weird bones Capricorni Peneumatici – ‘Ix Tab’, Eighth Tower Records I don’t often start reviews like this, but I think the accompanying text with this release speaks (in tongues) for itself: Ix Tab is an album de...

Completely obsessed with this at the moment - unsettling and then some. Hugely recommended.
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Beyond Telstar - The Horror and Western Themes of Joe Meek - Weird bones Various – Joe Meek – A Curious Mind Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!. Cherry Red Joe Meek, astronaut extraordinaire (in his Holloway flat), was the launchpad for some of British...

Joe Meek's bearing gifts.
New review of a new box set covering some of Joe Meek's excursions into death, horror and cowboys

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Dinner Party Godzilla and the Truth Behind Horror Top Trumps - Weird bones Little evokes as eye-watering a Proustian rush as images of Waddington’s Horror Top Trumps. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to ascertain the artist of the two packs of cards released in ...

Giving this another airing as it's suddenly attracted lots of hits.
The last word on Horror Top Trumps (nearly)
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Musical Differences - The Tribulations of Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Weird bones Like most bands, The Electric Mayhem has experienced more than a few ups and downs nearly 50 years since its inception. That they are all still alive to tell the tale says much. But what skeletons lur...

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In Feedback Everything is Fine - Revisiting the Score to Eraserhead - Weird bones VA – The Eraserhead – Music Inspired by the Film of David Lynch – Unexplained Sounds Group In the cult cosmos of David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’, silence drips like oil, and the industrial groan of existen...

There are even more things in the radiator

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