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New Album ‘Altars’: Interview with Sadistik and Michael Hussar

June 13, 2017

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...

Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation

Danai Molocha

April 14, 2017

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

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

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

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

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

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

Lee Tudor

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

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

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...

Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+Evolution

Jackie Lemmon

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

Entering the Coven with Goat’s New Album, Requiem

Lee Tudor

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...

Gobblefest @ Shady Lea Guitars

Jackie Lemmon

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...

Swans: Future Destination Unknown

Danai Molocha

September 29, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Michael Gira and his sonic cohorts gave birth to Swans in the famously bleak, dystopian cityscape of early 80's downtown New York. Minimalist, ritualistic and downright brutal, the band delivered a relentle...

Art Pop Gets Redefined with Anomie Belle’s ‘Flux’

Daniel Barron

August 27, 2016

ART, MUSIC, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

"You know you'll never have to look back now," sings Anomie Belle on the hopeful opening of her latest release 'Flux'. Across multiple EPs and now three full-lengths, the versatile multi-instrumentalist has...

Interview with Anomie Belle & Redd Walitzki

Kindra Nikole

August 7, 2016

INTERVIEWS, MUSIC, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Seattle-based artists Anomie Belle and Redd Walitzki have come together to create an absolutely decadent collaboration in alignment with Anomie’s newest album, Flux. Readers are invited to experience 'Lover...

Sunn O))) Exposure: Experience the Rays

Kristy Senko-Hall

July 19, 2016

MUSIC

Rarely can music, or moreover, sound, truly enrich life and advance consciousness so instantaneously. Sunn O))) has not only changed my personal perception of music in all of its possibilities, but also has...

Chto Delat (What Is To Be Done?) – A Border Musical

Jackie Lemmon

June 8, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, MUSIC

A collaborative group of artists and philosophers founded in 2003, in Russia, Chto Delat, which translates to "What is to be done", creates films, performance art, musicals, and newspapers. This group, c...

Kyle Lewis’ Unapologetic Approach to Music Videos

Kim Crowie

June 1, 2016

INTERVIEWS, MUSIC

Kyle Lewis is a twenty-something film director with an eye for the visually weird. He's worked with some of the biggest names on South Africa's pop charts - Khuli Chana, Toya Delazy, The Parlotones, Haezer,...

Interview with Adam Gnade

Justine Morrow

May 24, 2016

INTERVIEWS, MUSIC

New York has a particular grind that is, at times, exhausting and terrible. I've seen people in the subway, swaying with the push and pull of the train, with permanent frown lines embedded into their face a...

Roxanna Walitzki’s “Exquisite Corpse”

Deianira Tolema

May 21, 2016

ART, MUSIC

Roxanna Walitzki is a performance artist trained at NYU and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Often defined as an "operatic iconoclast," Roxanna combines the potential narrative aspects of beauty wit...