Mike “Biggs” Kallio, who you may know from his piano and celesta performance on our “Museum TV Station” EP, just had his seven-second-long “Plugs” jingle featured on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast! Composed and performed by Biggs, it was recorded and arranged at Bumbleplex Studio by the two of us in a feverish dervish of(…)
Playing With Dolls
Joe just created original sound design for Academy Award Nominated filmmaker and animator Gary Schwartz. “Playing With Dolls” will be installed at Carrington Gallery in Sandusky, Ohio for the exhibition opening April 6th through May 19, 2018. The April 6th opening is from 6-9pm. The sounds for this project were mostly recorded using binaural or “3-D(…)
New EP – “Museum TV Station”!
We’re proud to present our new EP, available immediately and without warning, featuring extremely rare live performances by Zelda and the Unibrows augmented by rock band, orchestra and chorus! Lado Darakhvelidze is the mind behind Museum TV Station, and event he held for many years starting in 2010. MTVS features artists performing original works live(…)
New Work With Erie Canal Theatre and Personal Vlog
Hey. Joe here. Zelda and the Unibrows may seem dormant, but we’re just overwhelmed by too many social media obligations! In the last two years of not updating this site, we’ve created numerous new tracks as part of the Erie Canal Theatre Podcast, most notably the theme to “Switchboard Infinity”, which is available as a(…)
How A Ghostly Comedy Song Took A Decade To Create
Hey, folks. Zelda and the Unibrows posted some new stuff over the course of the last month, culminating in Vlog 4, all about our song “How I Lost My Body“. The vlog references early mixes of the song, starting with the version called “China King”. Here’s the First Mix, the Second Mix, and the Extended Instrumental Version. If(…)
Poetry: “I Need A Garbage Man In My Life” and UniVlog 3
I NEED A GARBAGE MAN IN MY LIFE Yvonne Szymczak I need a garbage man in my life The kind that’s not afraid to flip a can And lets the combined trash juices run down his leg Without a flinch, or even a thought For the need of a baby wipe or a shower(…)
UniVlog 2 – Weird Al Song Ideas and Swedish Remixes
This Vlog features new remixes by Paza Rahm and Psilodump, fun on WFMU and a search for “Weird Al” Yankovic’s manager, Jay Levey. Also Emininem.
Happy Atheist Winter Vacation! It’s the Athiest!
Trailerama Greetings all! We have been busy this month. First, we made a new trailer for our Youtube channel: The trailer includes a tune that has never really been released (although it appears, in secret, on Neves-eatnouT). We hope this trailer can stand in as a swift introduction to the uninitiated. UniVlog In addition to(…)
How Detroit Transit Fails, From A Passenger’s Perspective
A year ago, while bitterly complaining to someone working for a local transit provider about Detroit’s ineffective services, he asked me to write it all down. So here it is, presented as a blog post. This post isn’t satire, it’s not about Zelda and the Unibrows, and, frankly, it’s pretty dry. A few things(…)
Kościuszko Fountain
by Joseph C. Krause Between Downtown Detroit and Corktown is an anti-pedestrian zone framed by the MGM Casino and some not-very-well-designed “green space”, all overwhelmed by giant roads. Revolutionary War General Thadeus Kosciuszko greets visitors to one wedge of this ephemeral land, once a row of shops in Corktown’s “skid row”, later destroyed by the 1960s(…)