PLAYLIST: Fear and Loathing in Milwaukee (04/20/18)

Here's the playlist for a special audio/visual mix made to accompany WMSE's Friday Night Freak Show screening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, lovingly crafted by Milwaukee multimedia artist Sam LaStrapes and Mondo Radio. You can download or stream the piece here, and if you dig it, be sure to find Mondo Radio on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas - Elvis: Viva Las Vegas

Gram Parsons - Las Vegas - Grievous Angel

Buffalo Springfield - Burned - Buffalo Springfield

The Byrds - Medley: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)/Mr. Tambourine Man/Eight Miles High (Live) - Live At The Fillmore, February 1969

Bob Dylan With The Band - Highway 61 Revisited (Live, Isle Of Wight, 1969) - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)

Brewer And Shipley - All Along The Watchtower - Weeds

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky - Spirit In The Sky: The Best Of Norman Greenbaum

Grateful Dead - New Speedway Boogie (Alternate Mix) - Workingman's Dead

Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds (Live At Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA) - The Roar Of Jefferson Airplane

George Benson - White Rabbit - Anthology

Oakenfold Feat. Hunter S. Thompson - Nixon's Spirit - Bunkka

Tomoyasu Hotei And Ray Cooper - A Drug Score - Part 3 (Flashbacks) - Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Music From The Motion Picture)

AUDIO/VIDEO: (ORB) - The Voodoo Inspector Session

Welcome to the first in a bi-monthly recording series, the Voodoo Inspector Sessions! You can download or stream the first installment, featuring the excellent Chicago/Milwaukee prog-pop duo (ORB)! Enjoy, and keep an eye on this space for further sessions!

FEATURE: Video Villains Celebrate Three Years of Visual Accompaniments

For three years now, Milwaukee's Video Villains have been transforming area shows into psychedelic extravaganzas, but this dynamic duo still has big plans for the future.

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FEATURE: Not from Where You Think: Ninos Du Brasil

Despite hailing from halfway around the world, eclectic percussion duo Ninos Du Brasil enthusiastically embrace the exciting batucada sound of their conceptual homeland. 

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FEATURE: Juiceboxxx Brushes off His Viral TV Performance

I catch up with the always-unpredictable Juiceboxxx to find out how having a less-than-flattering video go viral can actually offer its own unique advantages.

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FEATURE: Satire Isn't Always Smart: Prime Time

It's tempting to say the 1977 television send-up Prime Time was shelved by Warner Brothers for being too uncompromising but, in reality, it's simply an absurd disaster.

Read the full piece here.

FEATURE: Why You've Never Seen Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Even for a Norman Lear production, the largely forgotten Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was a radical departure from the 1970s television norm, but the show's uncompromising nature isn't what consigned it to eventual obscurity.

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FEATURE: Wonder Showzen: We Hardly Knew Ye (but Man, the Stuff We Did Know?)

The controversial kid's show satire Wonder Showzen was predictably cancelled after two seasons but, surprisingly, it wasn't its offensive content that got it the ax. 

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VIDEO: Live Music Show - Live on WMSE

Proudly presenting a killer collection of in-studio performances from Milwaukee's own WMSE FM, featuring some of the best in local music as well as a few surprises.

FEATURE: The A.V. Club's Guide to the 2013 Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival

I turn to programmer Carl Bogner for help narrowing down the 2013 Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival's jam-packed schedule to just a handful of must-see movies.

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FEATURE: Weird Shit, All Right: Alive From Off Center

At the height of the MTV era, PBS got in on the video revolution, throwing cash at a bunch of avant-garde performers and artists with open-ended instructions to explore the boundaries of television. The results were predictably stoner-friendly and surreal.

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FEATURE: See the World in a New Way: Time-Lapse Footage

Today, time-lapse footage is commonplace, something people can make on their phones, but few stop to think about how it became so familiar.

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VIDEO: Doctor Who Weekend (Day 2)

In honor of the show's 50th anniversary, I'm proud to present part two of an entire weekend of Network Awesome programming devoted to Doctor Who, all curated by yours truly!

Watch day 2 here.

VIDEO: Doctor Who Weekend (Day 1)

In honor of the show's 50th anniversary, I'm proud to present part one of an entire weekend of Network Awesome programming devoted to Doctor Who, all curated by yours truly!

Watch day 1 here.

FEATURE: Julia Child: Changing TV Forever

Between her towering height, plain looks and incredibly strange voice, legendary chef Julia Child at first seemed ill-suited for television, but she ended up changing the medium as much as she did American attitudes toward food.

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VIDEO: Voodoo Inspector Commercial #1

Presenting Voodoo Inspector's first foray into video marketing! Please watch and share!

VIDEO: Network Awesome Behind Bars

Another full day of Network Awesome programming curated by yours truly, this time devoted entirely to music, film and television about being in prison, featuring varied depictions of life on the inside, factual and fictional, dramatic and comedic! 

Watch the full day here.

FEATURE: Nollywood's Baby: Genevieve Nnaji and Sharon Stone

2002's Sharon Stone (not about the actress, by the way) is a fairly run-of-the-mill Nigerian movie, cheap and melodramatic though fairly entertaining, but it's star Genevieve Nnaji is no ordinary Nollywood actress.

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VIDEO: Muhammad Ali Day

A full day of programming celebrating the remarkable life and lasting life of The Greatest himself, Muhammad  Ali, all hand-picked by yours truly! 

Watch the full day here!

VIDEO: Sherlock Holmes Day

A full day of programming devoted to the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes! If you're sick of waiting for the third season of the BBC's Sherlock, this is the next best thing, featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation in a host of interesting adaptations, including a silent-era short, an animated series, two feature films and much more, all handpicked by yours truly (naturally). 

Watch the full day here.