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The Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex

May 18, 2017

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?” (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) - words from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book X, 743-745) Fr...

Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation

Danai Molocha

April 14, 2017

Coughing. Breathing heavily. Rhythmically banging sheets of metal. Confronting mortality - confronting anything that might get in her way. New York artist Pharmakon. a.k.a. Margaret Chardiet has been snarling, ...

The Universe By Ear: Ocean/Clouds Video Release

Jacob Sailor

March 14, 2017

Ginger and the Ghost: New Rituals, an Album for Dreamers

Jennifer Gori

March 13, 2017

After enticing us with some fascinating EPs, new coming band Ginger and the Ghost announced its eagerly awaited debut album, New Rituals, which shed light on the spiritual and theatrical universe of this creati...

“Fun and Cosmopolitan”: The Music of Aksak Maboul in the Words of Founder Marc Hollander

Danai Molocha

March 10, 2017

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

It was 1977 when Marc Hollander and Vincent Kenis formed Aksak Maboul — a Belgian ensemble going down the winding road of avant-rock and pop, just to mention a couple of the ideas floating and flooding their be...

Sun Ra Space is the Place (1974): Afrofuturism After 43 Years

Kristy Senko-Hall

February 5, 2017

It’s impossible to look back on the literary and cultural aesthetic dubbed, "Afrofuturism," without this sonic piece of film/music history blasting into perspective. Sun Ra’s “Space Is the Place” is the epitome of this unprecedented style. It’s the perfect com...

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

January 22, 2017

FILM, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

Frank Zappa was many different things to many different people. To some he was an idol, to others, a threatening hippy inciting a revolution. Nevertheless, Frank’s work spoke volumes more than any one interview...

Scratches: Beautiful Single and Music Video

Ry Sangalang

January 21, 2017

In 2010, Sarah-Maria Burgin and theater composer/guitarist, Sandro Corbat formed Scratches, a four-piece band from Basel Switzerland. The band includes bassist Marco Nenninger and drummer Jonas Pina. Sara-Maria...

‘Show Pieces’ by Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins

December 29, 2016

Show Pieces was successfully crowd-funded back in 2013 with the beautiful finished product coming to fruition in August 2015. Mitch Jenkins' boredom and a shoot called 'Dodging Molly' formed a desire to create a film, but not just any film. Within 5 years came...

Liza Burkin: O, The Things You’ll Find By The Side Of The Road

December 20, 2016

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS

Liza Burkin is the author of "O, The Things You'll Find By The Side Of The Road And Other Bicycle Poems", a chapbook released in Newport, Rhode Island this past November. The self-published book contains th...

Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+Evolution

December 18, 2016

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE

For the last three years, jazz musician and singer Esperanza Spalding has been working on her latest creative feat. The year of 2016 brought about Esperanza's completed work; her new album "Emily's D+Evolution"...

Right in the Flesh: Chenille’s First Album ‘Samen’

Jennifer Gori

December 17, 2016

BFI London Film Festival: A Monster Calls, Spaceship and Without Name

December 11, 2016

The BFI London Film Festival showcased some of the most exciting up-and-coming releases in central London, with an eclectic mix of film, documentary, and shorts, in a plethora of genre, form and style in e...

Entering the Coven with Goat’s New Album, Requiem

December 6, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Leave everything you thought you knew behind you and become one with the coven, the coven called Goat. Shroud in mystery and mask, Goat have continue their growth from musical obscurity to cult following an...

Nola and the Clones: Interview with Filmmaker Graham Jones

Anmarie Soucie

December 1, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, INTERVIEWS

Irish filmmaker Graham Jones’ latest work – Nola and the Clones – follows the story of a young homeless girl on the streets of Dublin, where she encounters a series of men eerily similar to one another. “It's realism with a touch of magic realism,” Jones s...

Gobblefest @ Shady Lea Guitars

November 22, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Luthier, noun: Individual who creates stringed musical instruments. In the spirit of the US holiday of giving thanks, Shady Lea Guitars is holding Gobblefest to celebrate Thanksgiving and the grand opening...

Projection: A Skate Film In Paris

Jennifer Susan Jones

November 21, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

A deft young skater mounts his deck and glides through the wet and dry streets of Paris, his moving image flickering between days and nights, as iconic French architecture decorates the background with beautifu...

10,000 Things by Erik Ehn: The Wilbury Theatre Group

October 31, 2016

CULTURE, PERFORMANCE

Providence, Rhode Island, USA is the site of the world premier of play "10,000 Things" presented by The Wilbury Group through this Halloween weekend. The Wilbury Group is a theater group of collaborative artists that regularly puts on eclectic and current...

Strange Books: The Literature of Mike Russell

Rowan Coughlin

October 22, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

Mike Russell is the author of Strange Medicine and Nothing is Strange, two collections of short stories that deal in the realm of outlandish peculiarity. The phrase “good things come in small packages” come...

Film: The Neon Demon