EXCLUSIVE: In Cahoots shingle has teamed with writer/producer Joy Gregory to develop a feature adaptation of the off-Broadway musical The Shaggs: Philosophy Of The World. The musical is based on the ...

In 1969, the small New Hampshire town of Fremont still felt like the 1950s. Most of the families went to church and the ham-and-bean suppers. Some of the boys were letting their hair grow, but not ...

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: 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 ...

"Philosophy of the World" by The Shaggs, the 1969 cult album that inspired the Off-Broadway musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, has been remastered and reissued for CD in time for the current ...

Creation Records reissues this 1988 compilation from these remarkable 1960s outsiders, famously dubbed "better than The Beatles" by Frank Zappa. Save this story Save this story I've always found it ...

In early August, indie label Light in the Attic announced that the improbable story of the Shaggs would have yet another chapter. Forty-seven years after its release, their Philosophy of the ...

A 1960s cult favorite is back: The Shaggs are going to be performing in June at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts. The Shaggs were a sister act from rural New Hamshire founded ...

It used to be that the theater was where you saw great men and women (Oedipus, Clytemnestra, Lear) fall from grace. These days, theater and our other forms of popular mythmaking prefer to focus on the ...

Plenty of people heckled the Shaggs and even pelted them with soda cans when they played live. But as time went on, Philosophy of the World gained an unexpected and fervent cult following. There are ...

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World is a simply dreadful jukebox musical. It features no hits and a minimal amount of razzle-dazzle choreography. Plus, it’s largely set in the unprepossessing, ...

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 ...