The Drummer Has a Rubik's Cube For a Head
And the band's name is just a question mark. Like the dude who fronts the Mysterians.
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March of the Hierophants
Dear Reader, I hope that you have your thinking cap on, because we have to figure this shit out together. So sit back in your weird ‘70s egg chair, pour yourself a vodka and blood orange spritzer...
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Phantasmagoria
The best American movie ever made is Don Coscarelli's Phantasm. It asks important philosophical questions, such as how one deals with the knowledge one's deceased parents have been stolen from their...
View ArticleAnd there is Audio
Today I went to a record sale at the Archive of Contemporary Music and made a killing. Yeah, a KILLING, Dear Reader. I got so many good records, you wouldn't even know. These records make me feel...
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JANG JANG GRXDZANK (Fin.)
And with a simple trip to Amoeba records in Berkeley, CA, I became the proud owner of the final A Frames record, 333, which is three albums (!) of demos, unreleased stuff, singles and EPs, and all...
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Tyvek: Nothing Fits
I liked all the previous Tyvek stuff a lot, but when I put this platter on the turntable a bunch of exclamation points appeared over my head and I hollered “Gadzooks!” I didn’t even know what side I...
View ArticleBüdösök Kills, Eats
As far as I'm concerned, Büdösök is the greatest thing to come out of Europe since defenestration (and/or Tesco brand beer). If you peer into the background at 3:08, you can see me hunched over and...
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The Charismatic Croatian Caliphate of Crazed Caprice
Dear Reader, throw all that Erkin Koray shit out the window because the future of Turkish music is here, and it's from Croatia in 1991. That's the year that the Slusaj Najglasnije! (or "Listen...
View ArticleOh Joyous Funeral
Here is the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar:Probably the best song about killing a spouse, really.
View ArticleBlack Stalin
Since we here at The Little Black Egg live in a Carribean neighborhood, we're doing our best to learn about music from that part of the world. And while we have only just begun acquainting ourselves...
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You Can't Escape Your Biology
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we learn and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as...
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Listen Loudest!: An Interview with Zdenko Franjic
Dear Reader, as you all know, we here at The Little Black Egg think that punk rock (and other music) from the ex-Yugoslavia is among best stuff ever made. Starting out in 1987, Croatian record label...
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All Hail the Maharajah
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane. To designate the act of manifestation of the sacred, we have proposed the term...
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She Was So Pretty
Although it got off to a horrifying start, 2011 ended up treating us pretty well—good enough, in fact, that we're going to indulge in some uncharacteristic optimism. So in a few hours, with a glass of...
View ArticleMiskolc 2
Every year, Miskolc hosts the Retek Festivál (Radish Festival). Here is an interview with some of the people who put the festival together, along with a cross-section of bands from the area.
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In Recognition of Excellence
Dear Reader, I'd like to draw your attention to the internets' number one blog for mind-blowing Hungarian punk, experimental and otherwise: Ultra Rock AgencyHere is VHK (The Galloping Coroners) playing...
View ArticleIt's Halloween
Dear Reader, regular broadcasts from The Little Black Egg will now resume.
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Goodbye 400 Years of Culture
It’s been a dry time here re: the word production of we here at The Little Black Egg, but a totally super-exciting time in our actual lives. Now, there may be some seething pedants amongst my Dear...
View ArticleŠarlo Akrobata
Šarlo Akrobata were a Belgrade-based Novi Val band active in the early 1980s. They only had one album (Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...) and it's unbelievable. I'd cut off my hands for a copy of...
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Guerilla Radio
Dear Reader, if you are at all a fan of the writings found in this fine publication, you are no doubt wondering: “Rick, why in the world haven’t you yet reviewed any books about punk rock from the...
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The Space Monster Never Sleeps
In this amazing photograph, Neil Young looks like a space monster.
View ArticleSiberian Hunchback Punk
Оргазм Нострадамуса were from Siberia, and they sounded like what I always imagined crust punk ought to sound like. I grabbed all their albums from Puke Skywalker. From Puke:Tragically, the band's...
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