The Shaggs barely registered a footnote in rock 'n' roll history books until the sister act's lone 1969 recording started earning holy grail status from outsider-music aficionados during the last two ...

The Shaggs‘ ramshackle 1969 debut album, the outsider art cult classic Philosophy of the World, is getting a vinyl reissue via the good people at Light in the Attic which will be out September 9. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Shaggs — an all-girl band featuring the three suburban Wiggin sisters from Fremont, NH — were always an acquired taste. Formed ...

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It is increasingly rare that you encounter works of art of singular conception, origin, design and execution. “The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World” could only be grabbing us by the heart in its ...

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Playwrights Horizons) is a complexly unhappy musical about simple unhappy people. Its hook, making it both intriguing and unendurable, comes from its being a ...

The catch would be that Austin died in 1975, unaware that the band he christened The Shaggs — Dot and Betty on guitar and vocals, and Helen on drums — were about to go on a very strange journey. Back ...

NEW YORK (AP) — "My girls are gonna play in a band!" declares Austin Wiggin in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Aw. Isn't it nice, with Father's Day coming and all, to hear a dad dream big for ...

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THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, Lookingglass Theatre Company. Pure nonfiction is a mythical beast: the carefullest journalist still colors the tale, and in entertainment “based on” real events, ...

Sometime in 1980, a University of Southern California film student named Ken Kwapis walked into a Los Angeles record store. As he was flipping through the bins, an album caught his eye. Three ...