outsider music Archives - Desperate Living

Our look at the Christmas music of 2023 continues with an exhaustingly dreadful vanity project that beggers belief.

One half of the eccentric geniuses behind Fish Heads returns with a new album.

The prolific and pointless musical career of a woman with limited talent but unlimited resources.

The once heard, never forgotten recorded works of the unique singer and video producer.

Behind every Bad Album Cover is a record, often made with sincerity and naivety. Here is the tale behind one of the more infamous.

Probing the wonders and frustrations of The Residents’ Cube-E Box extravaganza.

Another unlikely musical collaboration from the legendary performer.

A visual study of the incredibly strange world of the independently-produced Christian LP.

The uber-experimentalists move on from the loss of their leader with a new, angry and aggressive reconstruction of the blues.

Anarchy in the Music Industry – an alternative world of Sex Pistols classics by other people.

The magnificent cacophany of ‘the world’s worst orchestra’ remembered.

Transracialism vs cultural appropriation, via the medium of wailing pop music.