Apparently Judy McGuire is out as The Frisky’s CNN correspondent. Now some Jew named Simcha is the girl who writes the relationship advice columns which are syndicated on CNN’s website. For months, I greedily devoured McGuire’s columns, because her ideas were so inane they deserved in-depth responses decrying her utter stupidity. Now we’ve got this [...]

Tomorrow we’ll return to our regularly scheduled updates. You know, rants, interviews, lists and stuff. Antics. Antics too. We’ll get started with some good shit tomorrow. Until then, enjoy your Sunday mix tape.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods [...]

“Yes-influenced basement progressive from high school kid multi-instrumentalist?” Um…yes!?
Thanks to Swan Fungus reader “Viagra Falls” for this contribution. Today completes our week-long foray into the world of private press releases. We started with “Todd,” a teenager writing intensely heartfelt love songs, and are ending the week with Jack Intveld, another teenager who was obsessed with [...]

Who is Eddie Callahan, and why are collectors paying ridiculous sums of money for his album, False Ego! That is the question which we will debate tonight here at Swan Fungus. And by “debate” I mean I’m going to copy and paste some information about Callahan from the Acid Archives, then follow it up with [...]

I hope that you are enjoying this week-long exploration of some rare, private press recordings. Reader “Viagra Falls” was kind enough to send over a gigabyte of albums for me to enjoy, and now I’m passing some of his donations on to you. Because I care about you. I want you to discover new music [...]

Originally released in a limited pressing of 500 copies, this album took five years to complete. That’s an absurd amount of time for a microscopically small, self-financed recording at any time — perhaps more so in the ’70s, when not everybody had the means of producing, pressing and distributing an album electronically like so many [...]

By now you all know of my fascination with Dave Bixby. I’ve lauded his album Ode To Quetzalcoatl copiously here. As I was talking to a collector at work many months ago about the record, he told me how he obtained his original copy, informed me about the impending (now available) reissue, and mentioned [...]