Maschinenmensch: Janelle Monae’s Metropolis
Through her android alter ego, Monae stands as the avant garde flagbearer of an increasingly popular urban cyborgism.
Through her android alter ego, Monae stands as the avant garde flagbearer of an increasingly popular urban cyborgism.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) I don’t know how I forgot about the video for Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ “Heads Will Roll” when I wrote my blurb about monsters and music videos. This stunning piece of video performance dating back to this year’s excellent full length, It’s Blitz!, features a
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. There’s an amazing new video for Dam Funk’s “Mirrors“, taken from this month’s debut 5-lp record, Toeachizown (Stones Throw Records). The video meanders from a distance between
Imagine if you will, a man in a dark tight fitting suit, a black fedora atop his head, a knife tucked into his belt, and a purple sash on his neck while a cigarette limply hangs from the corner of his mouth.
Midnight Juggernauts – Into the Galaxy (Chateau Marmont Remix) I stumbled upon this amazing throwback video of Chateau Marmont’s intergalactic, embodied mind disintegrator, “Solar Apex”. The unknown producer of this video pilfered scraps of footage from what looks to be a 60s sci-fi trip into the outer reaches of the universe, of also
The influence that krautrock has had on the music of the last 40 years has not yet been properly quantified or codified; to this day it remains a vague taxonomy of sounds, categories and phonic components that serve as a modern day venn diagram for discourse on underground music. Hip-hop, post-punk, house, noise, techno,
If indulging in a massive meal large enough to feed the whole human history of asceticism isn’t quite enough; if you need to cultivate another sensual pleasure to really drive home the orgy of taste; if you are any lover of music whatsoever; or, if your family and conversation partners would make better company
It all seemed a bizarre mystery; a label owner and source of the project (Paul Reynolds), who didn’t want to talk about the Patrick Gleeson's San Francisco Express recording, musicians who didn’t quite remember it, and a neglected soundscape that stood out as solidly original and experimental for its time. time
Preeminent West Coast rapper Calvin Broadus created an extraordinary work of art in his now legendary hybrid animal/human alter ego, Snoop Doggy Dogg. His debut effort, Doggystyle, features an illustrated depiction of a personified hound reaching towards a female counterpart who explicitly props her rear in the air in the standard doggystyle position, which
A review of the “The Grandfather Paradox” ; a mix/album put together by production duo AME, Dixon and Henrik Schwarz.
