Tag: The Residents
The Residents’ New Novel, ‘The Brickeaters’ Would Make For a Great Game
OnThe Residents’ first original novel, ‘The Brickeaters,’ tells a noir-tinged story about a bizarre crime spree, a paramilitary nut and an alcoholic writer.
R.I.P. Hardy Fox, a.k.a Charles Bobuck, Composer for The Residents
OnEarlier this week, Hardy Fox, the longtime composer for the Residents passed away from brain cancer; he was 73 years old, and survived by his husband
Any Day Now
OnEdward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
Review: Coochie Brake
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
The Residents Project Supplemental Edition: Talking Light: Bimbo’s DVD
OnI’m glad to report that the era of terrible Residents live videos is OVER! I think I’ve talked about it before, but for the longest time, it seemed that we were doomed to not have a good document of a Residents’ live…
Review: Utility Music
OnUtility Music is Gyratory System’s third album (out today!), and I feel a bit silly for having not known them until now. It’s a combination of all sorts of things I like — electronica with live instruments in the mix, krautrock influences,…
A Stupid Dream: Smelly Tongues
OnI had a dream last night — it wasn’t a terribly good dream, but I’m going to share it anyway! Because I thought it was at least marginally interesting and in defiance of that old saw that there is nothing less interesting…
Review: Lonely Teenager
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
An Introduction to the Legendary Pink Dots Project!
OnI discovered The Legendary Pink Dots through The Residents. An obscure Youtube artist going under the moniker of therezident (now renamed Virgil Pink) had been producing his own videos for Residents songs. Sometimes these videos would be cobbled together from cheap DV footage…