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ART: Time Traveling with Alex Varanese

ART: Time Traveling with Alex Varanese

He has so-called time traveled in and used four vitally important pieces of technology commonly used today (video game console, MP3 player, mobile phone and laptop) and placed them in the realm of the 1970s. It is the most efficient way of time travel since the Dolorean.

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ART: Vince Collins- Retro Animations

ART: Vince Collins- Retro Animations

Vince Collins is an animation legend. He has been creating psychedelic short films since the 1970s, well before Tim Burton ever scared our pants off. His style is very organic, free-flowing, and made before a lot of us were….

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Retro: Single Bullet Theory (1977-1980) Album download

Single Bullet Theory-There is the Boy (Open post to download full album)

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Retro: Bomis Prendin (2 Free Albums)

Retro: Bomis Prendin (2 Free Albums)

Formed in 1978, five post-adolescent artists from Washington DC got together to create Bomis Prendin. Within a few weeks they were experimenting with noise in a living room full of amps, circuit bent toys, various analog effects, an old organ and some guitars. Listening to their music is like digging thru a ton of shit, and then being rewarded by finding a gold nugget.

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Retro: Karen Cooper Complex-Shinjuku Birdwalk [1981] Download

Retro: Karen Cooper Complex-Shinjuku Birdwalk [1981] Download

The Karen Cooper Complex a six-piece band formed in 1970. Their music was a marriage between rock and free jazz. The group of outsider artists played loosely structured, improvisational rock that found itself in the realm of the avant guarde.

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Retro: “Cigaretts” Free songs

Retro: “Cigaretts” Free songs

Cigarettes_-Gimme_Cigarette (Open post to download more Cigarette tracks) Rumored to be a “Sparks” side project, Cigaretts were a bunch of punk rockers from L.A. with a teen prog background giving them a lo-fi bubble gum sound.  Their song “oh!oh!oh!”  is reminiscent of the group “Television” with it’s pre drum macine/synth  new wave sound.  Future members [...]

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David Janssen (Renaldo & the Loaf) 2 Free albums

David Janssen (Renaldo & the Loaf) 2 Free albums

The Darkening Scale is one of the solo project of David Janssen, better known for his work with the experimental duo Renaldo and the Loaf . From 1970, until the group’s demise in 1986, David and  Brian Poole (aka Renaldo M) worked together and produced a number of albums for The Residents’ Ralph Records label. [...]

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Gary Wilson: Mp3 Download

Gary Wilson: Mp3 Download

Gary Wilson-NY Surf (Open post to download Gary’s whole performance.) Gary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977′s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its [...]

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Renaldo & the Loaf covers: Free album downloads

Renaldo & the Loaf covers: Free album downloads

The following free albums are covers of Renaldo & the Loaf done by various bands. Download both albums below. Volume #1 album download Volume #2 download

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Earle Mankey

Earle Mankey (sometimes misspelled “Earl” in credits) (b. March 8, 1947, Washington, USA) was a guitarist for the seminal band Halfnelson, later called Sparks. He became a record producer, predominantly for offbeat Los Angeles area bands like The Runaways, Concrete Blonde, The Long Ryders, The Three O’Clock, Adicts, and Kristian Hoffman.

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Teenage Jesus & the Jerks: 3 song download

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