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John Oswald: “Dab” 26 Jun 2009 | 04:41 pm
John Oswald – Dab (Alien Chasm Rock)
Yvette Mimieux and Ali Akbar Khan: Flowers of Evil 21 Jun 2009 | 10:05 am
I really can’t do better than The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool in summarizing the career of Yvette Mimieux: The California Girl: Los Angeles-born Yvette Mimieux began her career wearing a toga and fe...
Basil Wolverton’s Culture Corner 25 Mar 2009 | 07:24 pm
Here are some helpful instructions on how to perform everyday tasks in a cultured manner, courtesy comic book master Basil Wolverton. This feature ran in Whiz Comics from 1945 to 1952, and I believe t...
Roctober #46 presents: Truckin’ Music! 25 Jan 2009 | 09:33 am
The new issue of my Roctober Magazine features a huge article on the history and highlights of the truck driving country and western genre that ruled the roads and airwaves in 60s and 70s. To celebrat...
Unknown Mystery Tape Recordings 3 Dec 2008 | 09:13 pm
I recorded these two unknown tracks on tape decades ago from a local college radio station, WCBN-FM, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I’ve saved them this whole time, never figuring out who or when these were...
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Fourth Dimension 2 Dec 2008 | 09:13 am
(How has Dinosaur Gardens managed to avoid all references to the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop until this post? Surprising…) So much has been written and said already about the infamous and inf...
Survive-All Fallout Shelter Radio Ads 29 Mar 2008 | 09:06 am
The international struggles of our world may lead to… (ka-boom) NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST! Nothing lends itself better to a fear-based advertising campaign than your family’s radioactive death. So when the M...
The Trojan Story 20 Mar 2008 | 03:31 am
Trojan Records was founded in 1967 by Jamaican-English producer Lee Gopthal as something of a sister label to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records. It became one of the best-known and successful reggae la...
Threepenny Opera update 23 Jan 2008 | 12:49 pm
Hey- Although we appreciate your enthusiasm for the Threepenny Opera recording posted at http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/180, we must ask that you remove the full-length mp3 files immediately...
Cab Calloway’s 100th Birthday 26 Dec 2007 | 04:34 pm
Merry Christmas, everybody. I’m in Detroit eating lamb, but I needed to take some time out to commemorate a very important date. Were Cab Calloway still alive, he would be 100 today. So here are some ...
