The Shaggs barely registered a footnote in rock 'n' roll history books until the sister act's lone 1969 recording started earning holy grail status from outsider-music aficionados during the last two ...
The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Playwrights Horizons) is a complexly unhappy musical about simple unhappy people. Its hook, making it both intriguing and unendurable, comes from its being a ...
In 1969, the small New Hampshire town of Fremont still felt like the 1950s. Most of the families went to church and the ham-and-bean suppers. Some of the boys were letting their hair grow, but not ...
When Kurt Cobain listed his favorite albums of all-time, number five went to an obscure 1969 record by an all-sisters band from Fremont, N.H., called The Shaggs. Frank Zappa proclaimed the Shaggs to ...
The Shaggs' 'Philosophy of the World' getting Light in the Attic reissue w/ NYC release/tribute show
The Shaggs‘ ramshackle 1969 debut album, the outsider art cult classic Philosophy of the World, is getting a vinyl reissue via the good people at Light in the Attic which will be out September 9. The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — "My girls are gonna play in a band!" declares Austin Wiggin in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Aw. Isn't it nice, with Father's Day coming and all, to hear a dad dream big for ...
the musician joke goes, you can tell that the drumming platform is level when the drool comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth. To see an actor not only accurately re-create bad drumming but ...
It used to be that the theater was where you saw great men and women (Oedipus, Clytemnestra, Lear) fall from grace. These days, theater and our other forms of popular mythmaking prefer to focus on the ...
On Friday April 13th, a collection of musicians from the rock, pop, jazz, blues, folk, metal, prog, & experimental worlds will be gathering together at The Bell House to pay tribute to the music of ...
I’m writing this column to the gloriously wrong sounds of the Shaggs, affectionately known as the worst band in the world. The Shaggs consisted of the teenaged Wiggin sisters of New Hampshire. They ...
The Shaggs barely registered a footnote in rock 'n' roll history books until the sister act's lone 1969 recording started earning holy grail status from outsider-music aficionados during the last two ...
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