Tash Sultana: The One-Person Band
Tash Sultana sprouted from humble roots, busking in the streets of Melbourne Australia to earn a living, all while teaching themself to be multifaceted musically. Upon receiving their first guitar at age three,...
DevilMonkey – Dirtypopspacepunk: An Interview with James Cain
'Our hope is that people feel fidgety when they listen to us & want to move in both an emotional & physical sense'
Anyone my age will remember the spectacular live scene in Melbourne in t...
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips
‘Don’t croak without Jesus!’ reads the blood red lettering on mustard coloured board in Wayne Coyne’s friendly home town of Oklahoma; a silhouetted image of Jesus accompanies this scene with famed two-by-fours. For a town known mainly for its oil, college foot...
Interview: Words with Dande and The Lion
The band Dande and The Lion remind me of a close-knit family ringing true to the saying that ‘friends are the family you choose’. I feel very fortunate to have been included in what could only be considered a ...
Interview: Inside The Graceful Cinematic Universe Of Kin Fables
Have you ever woken up one day, and wondered where all the sun, warmth and possible of your childhood have gone? While you’re sipping your morning coffee, full of melancholy and perhaps dejection, you are ponde...
Interview: The Organic ‘Noir&B’ Music of Elle Watson
Based in London, Elle Watson is a rising talent of the music industry and is already having a serious experience in the field. Indeed, she started singing and composing at the age of 14. Favoring emotions over catchy pop music, she creates low-key tracks with ...
The Different Harmonies of Christian Patey: Interview
I met up with Christian Patey in a unique bar in Newtown, Sydney, Australia, amongst the hustle bustle of a people going out for a night of fun. In this dark, intimate bar, Christian was playing his music among...
Music, Art and Comedy @ KAABOO Del Mar + Interview with Lucien Shapiro
KAABOO Del Mar is a live music and entertainment experience happening September 15-17, 2017 in San Diego, CA. KAABOO is shifting the festival paradigm and has carved out its name among national and destinat...
Morgana A Documentary Film. housewife. pornographer. artist
A lonely housewife’s plan to commit suicide takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radical journey of sexual exploration and personal reinvention. Morgana was a divorced woman in her late 40's, living in rural Australia; she had lost her i...
New Album ‘Altars’: Interview with Sadistik and Michael Hussar
In a world where, unfortunately, art has become fast food for soul, we cannot but rejoice when we stumble upon artistic projects that lead to deeper conversations. It is the case with the unexpected collaborati...
Let Me Make You a Martyr: Reveries of Darkness and Murder
Tired of livin’ in the darkness, man. It’s all I’ve ever known. It’s all that’s ever know me, besides her. You ever think about suicide? I mean really thought about it? Like there might be no other way out?...
The Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
“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)
Frankenstein, originally a ghost story conceived in ...
Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation
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
Allow me to introduce to you The Universe By Ear, a delightful mix of experimental, prog, and funk. Straight of out Switzerland, the three-man band consisting of Beni Bürgin, Pascal Grünenfelder, and Stef Strit...
Ginger and the Ghost: New Rituals, an Album for Dreamers
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 creative duo. Behind Ginger and the Ghost are two Aus...
“Fun and Cosmopolitan”: The Music of Aksak Maboul in the Words of Founder Marc Hollander
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
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...
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
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 or song lyric critique could provide: he was fea...
Scratches: Beautiful Single and Music Video
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
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 ...