WASTOIDS Archive

Mary Papenhausen of Zia Records joins Sam and Jason for a Beatles ramble, discussing lost sound collages, Revolver vs The White Album, sitars, and more. Do you wear blue blockers on your third eye? It's time for Click Vortex. Read more.

SlyVinyl is an independent dream pop/electronic music label ran by Eric Hughes. This mixtape features a selection of Sly artists and is presented chronologically, to give a sense of the auditory journey the label has taken over the past decade. Read more.

Welcome to WASTOIDS Music News, our new weekly broadcast with Decoy Deloy. This week, Learn all you need to know about the new Fugazi documentary, Sony's Walkman digital music player, the return of Wallace & Ladmo on to Arizona's TV airwaves and the Danzig Sings Elvis concert at Hollywood's Montalbán Theatre February 10. Read more.

Is it grunge? Is it doom? Is it alternative? Who cares: it's Melvins. On the latest episode of The Spindle Marc and John drop the needle on this 1992 single from The Melvins. Read more.

Baked and fried in the Sonoran Desert and New York City, WASTOIDS is a throwback to the halcyon days when stoned teenagers could stay up all night watching music videos, loopy comedy, skate vids, and arty strangeness on the TV set. Featuring Supercrush, Astrologer, Smirk, Portrayal of Guilt, Wednesday, Denial of Life, Reptaliens, Dante Elephante, Salvador Cresta, a goth coffee shop and more. Read more.

Global weirdness from Spiritual Warfare and the Greasy Shadows, who share a four-hour-plus epic playlist with WASTOIDS. Featuring The Black Lips, Emby Alexander, Pro Teens, Los Puchos, MF Doom, Nico, Kendrick Lamar, Yma Sumac, Serge Gainsbourg, Sun City Girls and more hardly classifiable gems. Read more.

Click Vortex rips into 2023 with a corker, featuring Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian, Glenn O'Brien and Chris Stein (Blondie)'s pioneering public access show TV Party, Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren's globetrotting 1983 fusion of African folk, hip-hop, punk and electro Duck Rock, and untangle the thread connecting magical author Alan Moore, Damon Albarn of Blur and the Gorillaz, and antiquarian British occultist  John Dee. Did the world secretly end in 2017? Press play and find out! Read more.

Crouch low and head up to the attic with Argentinian video artist and musician Salvador Cresta as we launch his new monthly show: Midnight Music Review in the Attic. For the debut episode, Salvador checks in with lo-fi guitar wrangler Green Sahara, AKA Avery Chandler. From his Roland Jazz Chorus to his trusty Tascam, Avery shows us the tools he uses to build his fuzzy and blurry experimental pop. Read more.

Coming January 9 to WASTOIDS: Midnight Music Review in the Attic, is WASTOIDS new monthly video series spotlighting experimental songwriters, garage rockers, avant-pop acts and more from the mind (and attic) of Argentinian artist Salvador Cresta. Read more.

This week on The Spindle, Marc and John drop the needle on The Clean's debut single, "Tally Ho!" backed by "Platypus." Read more.