Part 3 of a 4 Part series involving magic, politics, hallucinogens, and ritual work. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Via Gods & Radicals: Let’s talk…
Music/Performance
A new video of the Hypnotic Bar shows people failing sobriety tests, getting drunk laughing uncontrollably and even passing out. However the people involved are entirely sober. The Hypnotic Bar is a public…
An awesome website, pianophase.com, has recently come to my attention. It takes the minimalistic music of Steve Reich’s piano phase and graphs it out to show how every permutation in the piece is simply…
Way back in the day, when I was in a touring rock band, we often dreamed of being picked up by a major label, having our financial woes taken care of and…
Unreleased Nintendo Commercial (filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) from 1993 promoting the Super Game Boy featuring ODB, RZA, Prince Paul on the beat, and street art by the COD Crew. h/t Reddit.
In Reflections on the Death of Mishima, Henry Miller, after singing the praises of both the Japanese author who put an end to his life with a ritual suicide by seppuku (abdomen-cutting)…
It may be a little weird to meet the puppet-masters behind the pop stars that so many love, but it’s high time the curtain was pulled back. Nathaniel Rich via The Atlantic:…
via YouTube: This unique video, features my first of 2 arrangements for solo lyre, of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6”, which was discovered in Ugarit in Syria in the early…
A little music and neuroscience for your Saturday, courtesy of Josh Jones at Open Culture: In most popular music, bass players don’t get nearly enough credit—even when the bass provides a song’s essential…
via YouTube: Jimmy Page first composed his original score for Kenneth Anger’s film ‘Lucifer Rising’ at his (then) residence, Boleskine House, in November 1973. The 24-minute piece was rejected by Anger and…
Actual Photo of Dave Wyndorf’s Attic It’s not everyday you get to interview one of your heroes, let alone at complete random. So, the backstory to this interview goes like this: I…
The ironic thing about punk is that people take it so seriously as a musical genre, which really isn’t a punk thing to do… Ratter tries a novel approach by assembling a series…
Even when Star Wars movies are stupid and ridiculous (think Return of the Jedi — you thought I was going to write Phantom Menace, eh?) the world goes bonkers with rumors and fan theories….
Disinfonaut & resident emcee Fletch serves up his next take of camp-satire Collage/Remix Art in the form of Short Film/Hip-Hopera “Fletch In Paris.” (Disclaimer : Audio NSFW)
You don’t know me from the wind you never will, you never did I’m the little jew who wrote the Bible In a recent 4-part, 5-hour podcast conversation with the author Ann…
Brendan D. Murphy via Waking Times: GA=440Hz: Not Quite Music to My Ears Humankind is the largely unwitting victim of afrequency war on our consciousness that has been waged for decades, if…
Noisey (Vice’s Music Channel) presents a new documentary exploring the story behind seminal rap track ‘Fuck Tha Police’ by NWA.
Saw this on Facebook, thought it was worth sharing. Something a bit different, and a bit freaky. Got to give her props for being bold enough to use the same song name as…
Tonya Riley via All That is Interesting: Although it might be easier to ignore in an age where nearly ever American carries thousands of songs in their pocket, the unmistakable sound of…
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…
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…