Paradoxal Pterodactyl

Tonight is the third show in the Undercurrent concert series at the Schlafly Tap Room, and the release of the second Undercurrent mix cassette with audio taken from last month's show.  We've realized in assembling these tasty plastic morsels that 20 minutes per side leaves a lot on the cutting room floor, and barely gives you room to stretch your leathery wings.  So starting this month we are offe...

curated by chad, dingus, and brad.  specimens: mad at dad, denasjeh, losers make good, the night grinder, onewayness, josh meyer, icebergs, navigator, plickety plack, stress orphan, and other.

If you hadn't heard, Paradoxal Pterodactyl is participating in a special project in association with Wrong Division and Chizmo.tv called Undercurrent, a series of (FREE) monthly shows at the Schlafly Tap Room aimed at fostering communication and collaboration amongst the diverse artistic and musical scenes around St. Louis.  Each month, Joseph Hess curates a select lineup of the best experimental/...

curated by brad and dingus.  specimens: tom sanders feat. austin case, peg hulse, laura rosener, and britton dougherty, savant trigger, dankle swankoff, mad at dad, volnastar, leland p. malaria, conky, jaded evil lambs, ultraviolet, ss, the top grossing films of 1984.

have you ever wondered what "rock lobster" sounded like backwards? well now you can go ahead and scratch that off your list (presumably, you can now die happy).  it's actually kinda cool and utterly bonkers.  and if you were feeling bad about the way your life is going, now you know that this dumb shit is how dingus spends his free time.  doesn't seem so bad now, huh?

Genderqueer activist Andy Semler gave this platform address at the St. Louis Ethical Society on 11/11/2013, as part of National Transgender Awareness Week.  Recording taken from the Ethical Society podcast feed, and shared with our audience with Andy's gracious permission.   "Genderqueer people are gaining increased visibility within a society that doesn't legally recognize our existence, but we a...

John Beabout (maybe you know his band Stonechat?) sat down at the piano on the first day of this year's edition of Noisefest at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, and gave us what was perhaps the most atypical performance of what was already an atypical festival.  He calls this piece "A Pitiful Statement".  Recorded by Dingus with his Zoom recording thingus on 11/1/2013. Be sure to check out stone...

the eggnogs were a band from iowa city, iowa.  davelybob saw them at the way out club with the phonocaptors years and years ago.  the singer looked just like him but a head shorter, so everyone went around calling davelybob "evil sam" all night.  their record had a bunch of fun songs on it.  a lot of them were absolutely horrible to think about, just like this one.  that's right, a pterodactyl jus...

curated by dingus and chad.  specimens: community awareness alert, mr. silly man, the ghosts of pterodactyls past, lillybean, esqueleto, keith lowell jensen, touch people, unknown paris metro band, grocery guys, chad's wife, dutch smurf, baratunde, sguwtn, keith, turan, tim, tom, mad at dad, kat, guy with sax under bridge in paris

singer/songwriter/cassette impresario/friend of the show BILL TUCKER graciously gifted us this tasty morsel.  ripped by dingus straight from the tape to your ears.  it's sold out now, but there are plenty more tunes to be had at  http://billtucker.net/  or  http://1980recs.com/   or  http://1980recs.bandcamp.com / or  http://www.facebook.com/1980records 1- weird shapes2- telephone wizard3- lamp bi...

curated by chad, brad, and dingus.  specimens: jane, mad at dad, blair, banjo, jerry, paul, abigail, seth, sunny, adam, pseudosmile, miles davis, downtown saint louis, korn feat. downlink & charlie turner, the night grinder, effingham county fair, the icebergs, counterfeit i, karthik, more moneybags (the charlie so nice we stuck him in twice), jaded evil lambs feat. smith corona & ghostface killah...

For the second portion (and main event) of the evening, Darin & Tatsuya were joined by butoh dancer Vanessa Skantze, who gave a truly beautiful, haunting, and mesmerizing performance (other adjectives used that evening also included "gut-wrenching," "grotesque," and "horrifying").  Butoh, if you didn't know, is a subversive, confrontational, and often painfully awkward style of dance that emerged...

curated by dingus, brad, and chad.  specimens: elder statesmen, rhs musik, skarekrau radio, spelling bee, nevin, the radish king, derfsregor, fire ban'd, dave stone and brad schumacher, dweller, bambi raps, the least comma, chris wease, mad at dad, chad's neighbors, capable guy, joe kile, seth andrews, sguwtn, mort, paul, kristy, em, ladybug, miss robin, boo, thug friends.

It physically pained Dingus to sit on this snacktime so long, but we were saving it for a special occasion.  Legendary St. Louis bassist Darin Gray (Dazzling Killmen, Grand Ulena, On Fillmore, etc) and NYC-based percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (as shining an example of a man living his dream as you are likely to ever meet) unleashed this rumbling, shuddering, improvisational maelstrom a little over...

curated by chad and dingus.  specimens: franc, samantha, turan, dr. pamela gay, mark & family, alan, mimi, fraser, mr. coffee, em, the night grinder, little miss heavy legs, head of security

Adolph Bunyan & The Nazi Lumberjacks is up in this piece!  This track was a live brap by HLIC (head lumberjack in charge) Davelybob, with special guest Ra3ndy (accomplished visual artist and board game designer), and will be featured on one of the two Bunyan albums that D-Bob is currently polishing for release (and has been for quite some time now, to be honest).  Once that feat is accomplished, t...

Your pal and ours, one Mr. Charlie Turner  (née moneybags) doing what he does best.  This one starts with a nice throbbing, pulsing drone, and ends up in unrelenting tormented spasms of howling glitchery.  Oh my goodness, indeed.

Michael McKay, president of the Skeptical Society of St. Louis, gives a talk on the implications of psychologist Daryl Bem's research into precognition.  Recorded by Dingus at the inaugural edition of SkeptiCamp St. Louis on August 18th, 2012, held at the St. Louis Ethical Society- one of numerous SkeptiCamp events put on this summer all over the US, and thus far the largest in attendance!  The Sk...

There's a lot of stlpunk.com nostalgia going on right now.  So here's one of Dingus's old favorites, the "Rock Star" EP by The Yellow Five.  It's peppy, catchy, sloppy fun circa 2002.  Because there's nothing more pure at heart than a high school ska band. Tracklist: 1.  My Life 2. Super Monkey Toenail Flesh 3. Same Old Line 4. Iron Curtain 5. Spontaneous Erection (full disclosure, we re-EQed this...

This four way battle royale of analog persuasion was recorded by Dingus at  the "Spend an Evening With  Tapes" event on  3.14.2012 at Floating Laboratories, which is apparently no longer a place.   Dingus misses that joint already,  and wishes he  had spent more time there.

We're extremely happy and grateful to be able to bring you these two tracks as an exclusive sneak peek at the new Xrin Arms record "Drugganaut Trashedelix", which is set to drop in just a couple weeks.  You'll know when it's out because it will smell like the entire internet is on fire.  We're talking hot shit here.  It blisters, for real. Transact here:  http://xrinarms.bandcamp.com/ A video for...

It's almost upon us.  Josh Levi is josh leaving us.  Taking his lovely lady and pulling up stakes and leaving St. Louis for Washington D.C.  Our loss is their gain, and we're absolutely positive the multitalented and prolific softspoken sweetheart that's been such a fixture in our scene will flourish and thrive in his new digs.  Best of luck to you Josh! So urrbody raise up your glass and salute h...

We are very pleased to reveal that author Trista DiGiuseppi was gracious enough to supply us with a second reading from her science fiction novel "Nails Jane", an excerpt she's entitled "Memories". music by Kevin MacLeod. For more info on this book, including a sweet video trailer and links to purchase paperback and digital editions, visit  www.sixletterpress.com

curated by dingus.  specimens:  fry 13, em, bryan hobein, scottie snuggleduck, sarah, leland p. malaria, insidious device, chad, dingus, mr. silly man, tim, eric donton vs davelybob, private estate, 86ed sight, lady bug, bug (bunyanized), thug friends, qatie, joe, loofah, the lk chorale, blane, yeph, the news man, escalade, and other.

Friend of the show Swim Ignorant Fire released this precocious little gem earlier this week with the following narrative: "I thought I had lost all of the tapes from my first tape recorder when I was in 3rd grade or so (1994?) but this snippet was recently found on an old dying hard drive of mine. This is probably the earliest recording of myself doing any kind of unintentional tape manipulation a...