Hydra Magazine's Thirty Best Tracks of 2012, featuring music from Holy Other, Tame Impala, Frank Ocean, Jim Jarmusch, CHVRCHES, Nite Jewel, and others.

An Interview with Steve Spacek of Africa Hitech on sound systems, Donna Summer, Jah Shaka, and the feeling of bass.

A playlist for the post-apocalypse.

Hydra Magazine's Twelve Best Films of 2012, featuring films from the Philippines, UK, USA, France, South Korea, Iran, Portugal, Norway, and Romania.

Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" has more to do with faciality and Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 than it does with Dianetics.

Tracing the temporality of love through Bruce Willis sci-fi films, '12 Monkeys' and 'Looper', and at the heart of it all, 'La Jetée.'

Haring's current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum draws us to the musical stylistics of his art.

Brooklyn-based photographer, Sasha Rudensky, recovers traces of her Russian homeland in an unsettling collection of photos.

What SOPA and PIPA mean for the future of independent art and online criticism.

Edgar Garcia surveys contemporary American experimental poetry, including Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith / Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place

RAW food is good for your mind, Edgar Garcia explains why.

Some reading suggestions that might elucidate, antagonize, support, or deepen your ideas about the current nationwide OWS Movement.