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Vocal Trash
What do you get when you cross Stomp, Rockapella, and the kind of highly enthusiastic but somewhat amateurish cover bands you see at B-list state fairs in places like Iowa and Delaware? You get Vocal...
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Brokencyde
Today’s weird band was brought to our attention by Richard, the man behind Army of Gay Unicorns. Dude knows his weird shit, and by his account, this band Brokencyde is not only bomb-ass weird, they...
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Trippple Nippples
Thank God for Japan. If it wasn’t for that crazy little island nation, this blog would not be half as much fun. The latest bit of freakery from the Land of the Rising Sun: Trippple Nippples, a nutso...
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Klaus Nomi
Today’s weird band…or rather, weird artiste…was suggested by a reader named Aaron, who notes that New Wave opera singer Klaus Nomi was “most defiantly a awesome weird guy.” True dat, Aaron! Even if...
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The Superions
As we gear up for another round of dysfunctional holiday get-togethers with our respective fam-damnlies, Jake and I would like to take a moment to reflect back with gratitude on all that 2011 brought...
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Let’s take this blog up a notch, shall we?
Happy 2012, weirdlings! Jake and I have decided it’s high time we shake things up here TWBITW, so expect some changes and surprises in the months ahead, including: More posts. Not just a new band...
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Back by no demand whatsoever: Weird Band of the Week Polls!
Back in olden days, when TWBITW was still a smooth young pup of a blog and not the craggy old coot you see before you, what’s now the Submit a Band page was called the Submit & Vote page (in fact,...
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New Christeene video “Big Shot” is kind of creeping us out
When we got a message a few days ago from our favorite Texas shemale, Christeene, telling us she had a new video on the way, we had to strap on the Depends so we wouldn’t shit ourselves. Christeene’s...
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New Flaming Lips video features Bon Iver and lots of naked dead people
Even though it features an alien with a giant eyeball for a head, a baby with a man’s face, and lots of blood-soaked naked people huddled around mutilated corpses, the most perverse thing about the...
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Todd Tamanend Clark
A few weeks ago, we got an email that began: “Please allow me to introduce myself! My name is TODD TAMANEND CLARK, and I am notorious for having made the weirdest album of all time.” Jaded fuckers...
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Weird Band of the Week: Pan
Meet our latest Weird Band Poll winners: Pan! These guys just moved last year from sunny Los Angeles to cold, desperate Detroit, so you know they’re weirdos. Pan’s music kinda sounds like...
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Zone out to the new Matmos video, “Aetheric Vehicle”
ESP-loving electronic duo Matmos are still out promoting their latest album, The Marriage of True Minds, which they created with the help of volunteers in a psychic powers experiment. We’ve covered...
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R.I.P. Alan Myers, DEVO drummer
Sad news from the weird music world this week: Alan Myers, drummer for DEVO during their classic 1976-1985 period, died of brain cancer on Monday at the age of 58. Although DEVO has gone through many...
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Wait, did Winny Puhh really just play a fashion runway show in Paris? Yes,...
From our We Couldn’t Make This Shit Up If We Tried Department: This past week, hirsute Estonian punkers Winny Puhh recreated their amazing Eurovision tryout performance at a fashion show in Paris....
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Weird Band of the Week: Fratello Metallo
Hey, you know that one Swedish metal band whose lead singer dresses up like an evil pope? Know why we haven’t added them to the Weird List yet? Cuz they’re fucking posers, that’s why. This week’s...
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July Weird Band Poll: Vote for BB BlackDog, Ben & Amy, Fartbarf, O Bo de Vil,...
It’s that time of the month: Time for us to hand you the keys to this here hoopty of a blog and hope you don’t drive it off a cliff. Yep, it’s poll time! Y’all ready to vote your little asses off?...
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Matmos turn The Strangeloves’“I Want Candy” into “I Want Snowden”
When The Onion A.V. Club asked avant-electronic duo Matmos to cover “I Want Candy,” the classic ’60s stomper made even stompier in the ’80s by Bow Wow Wow, you just knew they were going to twist and...
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Dukey Flyswatter is getting Haunted Garage back together
Splatter punks Haunted Garage have played a few reunion shows in the years since they broke up in 1993, but they’ve mostly been one-off type deals. But this time, if we can believe the band’s Facebook...
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Let’s take this blog up a notch, shall we?
Happy 2012, weirdlings! Jake and I have decided it’s high time we shake things up here TWBITW, so expect some changes and surprises in the months ahead, including: More posts. Not just a new band...
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Where’s the “Pause” button on this blog?
You may have noticed, dear readers, that we have been posting less frequently of late. There’s a simple explanation for this, and here it is: We are burned the fuck out. So rather than continue to...
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