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Here Come the Mummies announce “If the Clown Shoe Fits” tour
Anubis be praised! (No? Not an Egyptology crowd tonight? Fine…) Here Come the Mummies are bringing their reanimated funk back on the road…and this time, for the first time in like, forever (well, OK,...
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Autopsy Report of Drowned Shrimp
If there was a Weird Band Olympics, Japan would rack up medals like some monster combination of Chinese swimmers, Norwegian skiers and U.S. men’s basketball players. Every time we think we’ve found...
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Pink Project
This week’s band comes to us from a reader named Alex Thermostellar Duddy (Thermduddy, to his bros) and from the dark, twisted heart of the early ’80s. Back then, much of Italy was getting its...
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New GWAR guitarist Pustulus Maximus is coming to crush us
Like most puny humans, we shed tiny, powerless tears at last year’s passing of GWAR guitarist Flattus Maximus. So it is with great joy that we report that our favorite band of skull-crushing...
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Weird Live Review: Here Come the Mummies
I don’t mind telling you, it was with some trepidation that I went out to see Here Come the Mummies last Thursday night. And not just because they were playing at the House of Blues on the Sunset...
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Weird Live Review: GWAR
I’m really glad one of the last things I did before Election Day was go see GWAR. This is a band, after all, that “heartily cried for the destruction” of all candidates earlier this year, and who...
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Hans Grusel’s Krankenkabinet
Photo by Matt Brislawn Someone suggested this week’s weird band to us over a year ago and I really have no good explanation for why we haven’t featured them sooner, other than the fact that for such a...
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Rockets
This week’s band is one of several recently suggested to us by the inimitable Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin, who could probably do a way better job than us running this blog if she were so inclined....
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Winny Puhh
You blew it, Estonia. You could’ve given that stupid fucking Eurovision contest its greatest moment since the year monster-rockers Lordi won it for Finland. But no. Instead of sending Winny Puhh, you...
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Computer Jesus Refrigerator
Photo swiped from Coilhouse I have to start off by thanking the guy who wrote us up on Metafilter last week, a website that apparently has the magical power to make even a half-assed music blog like...
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Rosemary’s Billygoat
So in perusing the music lineup for this Saturday’s Long Beach Zombie Walk, Andy and I realized that there are a lot of weird bands right in our own backyard that haven’t made it onto the Weird List...
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Weird Live Review: Long Beach Zombie Walk 2013
BRRRRAAAAAIIIIINNNNSSS! Okay, so we didn’t dress up as zombies for the 6th annual Long Beach Zombie Walk. Instead of brains, we feasted on bacon-and-gorgonzola sliders from the Me So Hungry food...
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Brace yourselves, Japan: GWAR is about to get Godzilla on your ass
In their 28 years on our pathetic excuse for a planet, GWAR has cut a pretty wide swath of destruction. But for reasons that remain murkier than the inside of Oderus’s codpiece, Japan has been...
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R.I.P. Dave Brockie of GWAR, aka Oderus Urungus
Like a lot of people, we just assumed that GWAR front-demon Oderus Urungus would be around forever. Yes, we knew there was an actual human being underneath the codpiece and monster makeup; we’re not...
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Ten things I’ll miss the most about Oderus Urungus
I’m not gonna get all misty-eyed about the death of GWAR main man Dave Brockie, who for 30 years strapped on the Space Barbarian suit known to fans the world over as Oderus Urungus. I never actually...
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Public memorial for Dave Brockie set for Aug. 15th, one day before the GWAR-B-Q
This amazing Dave Brockie photo lifted from this even more amazing Metal Sucks article GWAR fans still shattered over the death of their hero, Oderus Urungus, now have something to look forward to: On...
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Radioactive Chicken Heads, The Rhythm Coffin and the Satanic Puppeteer...
[Update: Due to circumstances beyond our control, Haunted Garage had to cancel their appearance. The Rhythm Coffin will be rockin' Weird Band Night in their place. Our apologies to all you Dukey...
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Behold Vulvatron, GWAR’s awesome new female lead singer
The post-Oderus incarnation of GWAR continues to exceed our expectations. Instead of replacing the irreplaceable entity that was Oderus/Dave Brockie, the band’s reportedly totally revamped their stage...
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