Bosko Hrnjak and Truus de Groot’s multimedia project The Salton Sea is a bleak but beautiful escape into decay featuring Music, Video and Photography.
FILM
THE GODDESS BUNNY – Transexual Polio Superstar
The Goddess Bunny is a transsexual polio victim with a rabid, underground GLBT fan base from before there was such a term.
ART
BRION GYSIN EXHIBITION – Dreamachine Opens at New Museum
by Red Cell Brion Gysin Dreamachine 7 July – 3 October 2010 New Museum – NYC From the New Museum’s Press Release: The New Museum will present “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously [...]
DRUGS
Karpo Godina : “Pupilias Ferkeverk Brain Au Gratain”
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilia Ferkeverk (1970), Karpo Godina’s banned short film featuring the Slovenian poets of the collective Pupilia Ferkeverk.
DRUGS
HIP DEATH GODDESS – Ben Van Meter / Circulus / Bridget Hayden / Peter Sundae
Hip Death Goddess is a celebration of the psychedelic and surreal through live performance, film and projection.
ART
IRA COHEN – UPDATE! Influential Poet, Artist and Filmmaker NEEDS HELP!
Influential Beat Poet Ira Cohen is in immediate need. Read this article to find out why and how you can help!
FILM
KENNETH ANGER – New Film “Missoni F/W 10-11″
Cult/Occultist filmmaker Kenneth Anger has made a new film for the Missoni Collection in Italy.
MUSIC
GAZELLE – Afro-Future Electro “Lim Pop” From South Africa
South Afrikaan Electro-Roots “Lim Pop” band Gazelle, balance traditional African culture and Western pop music effortlessly, at the same time as making a name in the fashion world.
MUSIC
FEMME EN FOURRURE – Plump Bisquit Video
Strange video for FEMME EN FOURRURE’S song “Plump Bisquit”
KULTURE
MAAKIES SHOT GLASSES – Drinky Crow Meets They Might Be Giants
Set of four shot glasses featuring the eternally inebriated Drinky Crow designed for They Might Be Giants!
MUSIC
TRUUS DE GROOT – Listen to Rare Cassette & Read Truus’ Thoughts on the Album!
Listen to a rare, out-of-print, 1980 cassette album from the legendary underground musician Truus de Groot, and read a letter about her memories of the tape!
MUSIC
OTIS – The Lovesick Plane Crash Victim: A Mystery
Grace Marks compares two very different Otis Redding recordings of the song “Just One More Day”, one from the recently released “Live on the Sunset Strip”, and speculates on Otis’ seemingly passionate love life.
MUSIC
TRUUS de GROOT – Playing the Sonas Inflecto
Very cool psychedelic music video of underground legend Truus de Groot playing the Sonas Inflecto and an Omnichord. Filmed by artist Bosko Hrnjak.
MUSIC
LAURIE ANDERSON – Advanced Listening for “Homeland”
Listen to Laurie Anderson’s new album, “Homeland”, in it’s entirety before it is released on June 22. Antony and the Johnsons, John Zorn and Lou Reed guest!
MUSIC
PINK NOISES – Women on Electronic Music and Sound
Twenty four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists.
MUSIC
JANE SIBERRY – 17 Albums for Free!
The well loved songstress is literally giving away her back catalog in a “pay what you wish” system due to her frustration with the entire PayPal system.
DRUGS
LITERARY OUTLAWS – New HUNTER S. THOMPSON Album in Production at Paris Records
Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” might just be the final contribution of the legendary Paris Records label to the the legacy of spoken word.
MUSIC
HANATARASH – Venue Destruction as Music
Amazing photo document slide show of Hanatarash destroying a venue as part of their Nerima, Tokyo performance in the mid 1980s.
KULTURE
Hang Out with The Master Musicians Of Joujouka
A rare opportunity to hang with the legendary Master Musicians of the Joujouka and meet their families as as well as listen to the ancient, trance inducing Sufi music!
ART
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE – Voodoo Exhibition
The Wiels Museum in Brussels is hosting an ongoing series featuring the past 50 years of performance art captured on video called, DO /REDO /UNDO. They are featuring Charlemagne Palestine in a solo show that spans his entire video art career!
MUSIC
TRENT REZNOR’S NEW BAND – How To Destroy Angels – “A Drowning”
Former NIN frontman Trent Reznor teams up with wife and former West Indian Girl frontwoman, Mariqueen Maandig, to form a new band named, How To Destroy Angels.
KULTURE
GIUSEPPI LOGAN – 75th Birthday Party @ Issue Project Room, NY
Giuseppi Logan, the nearly forgotten and highly elusive Free-Jazz master, is having a big birthday bash at the Issue Project Room on May 14th with Befo’ Quotet and TAUOM.
MUSIC
MUSIC FOR DOGS — Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed
Your dog is going to fall in love with Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed at a free concert that’s so high-frequency you won’t be able to hear it.
ART
CITY OF ABACUS — Music and Words
Music and comic books keep colliding as out senses lose focus and we seek to rebel. Even better, this one’s helmed by two women and a man, so it’s not just big boobies and guns everywhere. Yay.
DRUGS
HIP DEATH GODDESS – Kenneth Anger / Flame Schon / Wolf People / The Lucid Dream
A celebration of the psychedelic and surreal through live performance, film and projection and will take place at the end on May 30th in Balham, London.