It’s safe to say that nearly anyone cognizant of the existence of the Trautonium can easily fit under the umbrella category of “eccentric.” Yet, this electronic instrument, invented in 1929 Berlin, is…
Music/Performance
Last week, Dr Dre released Compton: The Soundtrack – his first album in 16 years – with cover art that features the iconic Hollywood sign transformed to read C-O-M-P-T-O-N. The timing, title…
Selomon and Shantastic Shine interview Scott Love on episode #57 of the Project Bring Me to Life Podcast. In this episode Scott Love, founder of Emergence Earth and creator of the Three…
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton is one of the greats of the roots of jazz, and is too often overlooked. His virtuosic playing is larger than life, innovative,…
Over the Fourth of July weekend, the Grateful Dead performed a farewell series of shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field, celebrating 50 years as a band. Reading about these final sets brought me…
Black metal is fast, loud, theatrical, angry, and murderous — both musically and in the scene that surrounds it. If you dig Black Metal, or if you like to read about things odd and…
At the Bowery Poetry Club, November 2006
This post originally appeared on four by three magazine. What is music? Can music make sense of the world or even transcend it? Philosopher and jazz musician Andrew Bowie talks to four…
Selomon and Shantastic Shine interview Sarah Solstice on episode #53 of the Project Bring Me to Life podcast: Sarah Solstice is a writer, vocalist, dancer, acrobat, actress, producer and performance artist. She…
From the Project Bring Me to Life podcast: In Episode 52 Selomon and Shantastic Shine speak with meditation music producer Ashton Robertson about music and vibrations such as the Solfeggio Frequencies that…
Featuring the controversial and highly-talented British rapper and artist M.I.A., Gener8ion has just released “The New International Sound Pt. II,” from a four-track EP. While I like the song a lot, with the video — which…
Alan Lomax an ethnomusicologist, much like Bela Bartok, was responsible for the recording and preserving of American folk music in the 20th century, much of which has ceased to exist in a living…
via Mute.com: In August 2015, Laibach will become the first ever band of its kind to perform in the secretive country of North Korea, a reclusive garrison state as well-known for its…
Craig Finn, best known as frontman for The Hold Steady, sat down with Ron Placone at a coffee shop in East Nashville. Topics include the Punk and Hardcore movements of the 80s…
Brazilian bank worker Anthony Kulkamp Dias, 33, knew something was wrong when he had trouble talking. Just 15 days after his son was born, Dias found out that he was suffering from…
Truth: I live in Seattle, was a freshman in high school right when Nirvana broke, and never thought they were anything more than a pretty good band lead by a complete fuckup…
The video for Killer, a neon space odyssey, chronicles a journey from the edges of 5D space “somewhere beyond Sirius” to planet Earth. The video co-stars comic legend and Disinfo favorite, Grant Morrison. Killer is Midnitemen’s…
Shantastic Shine and Selomon interview performance artist Drew Phoria at Metta Morphosis 2015 for episode #50 of the Project Bring Me to Life podcast. Drewphoria is a solo acoustic artist and plays…
Reel Big Fish is one of the few acts out of the California ska scene in the mid-90s that has truly stood the test of time and is still going strong today!…
Asma Ghanem writes at Reorient: Six musicians on their work and the state of experimental music in the Arab world My eyes filled with tears during a classical music concert in Ramallah…
“I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem.” — Kurt Cobain Interview by Jon Savage | July 22, 1993. Cassette Tape
“I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don’t know why I seem to bring that out in people.” “I didn’t like the sound of people gasping…
An early frontrunner in my microverse for album of the year, Swahili’s sophomore effort AMOVREX finds the band abandoning the shamanic trance stylings of their debut for a slick cosmic disco sheen….
Hey Disinfonauts, my regular rants about talking to extra-dimensional entities with my penis will resume shortly. In the meantime, I was forwarded several rather excellent Occult themed videos in the last few…