CULTURE

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

Jennifer Gori

June 13, 2017

ART, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

The Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex

Lee Tudor

May 18, 2017

CULTURE, FILM, LATEST POSTS

Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation

Danai Molocha

April 14, 2017

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

The Universe By Ear: Ocean/Clouds Video Release

Jacob Sailor

March 14, 2017

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...

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Life of Significant Soil: Interview with Film Director Michael Irish

Justine Morrow

August 17, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, INTERVIEWS

When the lights dim, and the first scenes of a film splay their light onto the eagerly awaiting faces, I imagine Michael Irish sitting in the back with baited breath. Imagine the exhaustion, excitement, and...

Poetry of the Lens: Contemporary Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Anmarie Soucie

August 10, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Tattooed across the heart with a Bert and Ernie duo, Melbournian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been unapologetically making films since the tenderoni age of single digits, when he was just barely old enough to grasp a camera, let alone its understandi...

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...

A Look Back on Drive (2011): Movie Review and Commentary

Lee Tudor

July 27, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Out of a house in the L.A. hills, director Nicolas Winding Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini, produced, cut, and auditioned for a movie about a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. Driving for...

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 cultivated an ideological wildfire; broaching the...

Interview with Author Miriam Elia

Jackie Lemmon

July 2, 2016

CULTURE

Sex. Death. Contemporary art. I first learned about this London satirical artist, author, filmmaker, and comedian in the New York Times a few months back. I was immediately taken with her apparent sillin...

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Surrealism’s Not Dead: Interview with Jan Svankmajer

Justine Morrow

June 29, 2016

ART, FILM, INTERVIEWS

There are watermelons being thrown out of a window, and Alice is dipping her hands in jam spiked with push-pins. Two bodies, lost in the heat of passion, merge faces then birth a blob, and Satan pulls the s...

Opia: Suku Dance Lab Interview

Justine Morrow

June 25, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS, PERFORMANCE

In the background, the music lilts in the air. A voice is saying, "She is the most beautiful thing I have ever met." The lights are low, and send warm glints along the walls. Nuria, Ali, and Amanda, three dancers of the Suku Dance Lab curve and sway on the...

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Franklin Furnace Burns Strong: Publishing House Interview

Justine Morrow

June 21, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

Harley Spiller, Deputy Director at the famed Franklin Furnace, was kind enough to sit down and have a chat with me just a few days after the organization celebrated its 40th anniversary. We chatted about ev...

Blood Tea and Red String Stop-motion: Christiane Cegavske Interview

Justine Morrow

June 16, 2016

FILM, INTERVIEWS

Stop-motion animation has always fascinated me. Anything from Wallace & Gromit to the Quay Brothers; it's like a secret, sacred obsession I only indulge in when no one is around. In a world full of fanc...

The Mind Ocean: Interview with ZZYW Studio

Justine Morrow

June 11, 2016

FILM, INTERVIEWS

Standing before the screen in a dark room, I slip on the ultra-modern glasses and watch as the electronic ocean before me, a sea of dots and lines, reverberates softly. Slowly it undulates, ripples, and then suddenly heaves and sways, replicating my mind's...

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,...

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Casting Spelling Spells: Interview with Shelley Marlow

Justine Morrow

May 27, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

Voracious readers will no doubt claim several reasons for their personal literary obsessions. I believe mine is one of escapism mingled with a wanderlust that is only satiated by actual travel, or the ingestion of inspiring words and images. The different ...

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...

Forced Perspective: Interview with Derek Hess & Nick Cavalier

Jackie Lemmon

May 23, 2016

ART, FILM, INTERVIEWS

Superhero + Modern Master = Derek Hess Last year, Forced Perspective swept through film festivals, gaining a large amount of recognition. The piece won several awards. Directed by Nick Cavalier as his debut ...

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 with electronic music and fashion in her unusual and ...

Charlie Kaufman’s Strangely Beautiful Anomalisa

Kim Crowie

May 18, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Never one to conform to the trends of the day, Charlie Kaufman has widened his already indescribably large range of capabilities to include animation. The screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist is b...

Joanna Newsom’s 21st Century Harp Revamp

Danai Molocha

May 16, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Since 2004, when Joanna Newsom released her first studio effort The Milk-Eyed Mender via Drag City, something entirely fresh and enigmatic appeared in the sonic horizon of 21st-century folk. A singer-songw...