Vee Hua 華婷婷In this video for the minimal “Still Corners,” flickering apparitions of band members float in like film reel projections or and turn about like three-dimensional holograms. Although there are only a handful of shots, the editing, which...
Matthew CarterThe Pictureplane tour stop in Los Angeles saw him as an addition to Check Yo Ponytail 2, a recurring Tuesday night coalition of IHEARTCOMIX and The Echoplex. Word on the street was that UK’s Holy Other had to drop from the bill due to illness...
Judy NelsonPrior to its release, Washed Out’s debut album, Within And Without, had been so widely hyped and over-anticipated in the internet world that it was almost nauseating. Yes, the few songs that were released a few months prior to the actual album...
This year, a playfully untraditional MP3 blog called LYFSTYL and an experimental psychedelic film company called Synesthesiae Films decided to create Celestial Summer, a compilation inspired by free ambient sounds released by NASA in decades past.
Thad McKrakenIt’s been my contention for the last five years or so that loop pedals are the coolest musical invention of the modern era, almost cooler than say, wah pedals or even the vaunted digital delay effect. How cool are loop pedals? Well, they can...
The relationship between ritualistic drumming and consciousness alteration is an age old tradition stemming largely from the overlooked shamanic cultures of antiquity. It should go without saying that viewing the supposed “triumph” of...
Kvitnu is a high blood pressure music label, started in 2006, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Many of the musical compositions on this mixtape are influenced by science, mathematics, machinery, and concepts.
I’ve seen a lot of tripped-out, spaced-out psychedelic videos set to electronic music in the recent past, and initially, this one certainly seems like standard fare. Bright colors and geometric shapes? Check! What I like best about this video...