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Yoko Ono

When most people hear the name Yoko Ono, their first thought is often “the woman who broke up the Beatles.” It's an oversimplification that has clung to her name for decades, obscuring a rich and radical career in avant-garde art, experimental music, and activism. In truth, Yoko Ono is one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. To reduce her to a footnote […]

todayMay 24, 2025

General

The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Sonic Cults, Chaos, and Beautiful Noise

If rock music were a dusty thrift store full of forgotten gems, broken radios, velvet jackets, and acid-stained notebooks, then The Brian Jonestown Massacre would be the slightly unhinged shopkeeper handing you a tambourine and inviting you to a séance behind the curtain. Founded in the early ‘90s by the infamous Anton Newcombe, BJM didn’t just form a band — they summoned a swirling, psychotropic entity. The name alone is […]

todayMay 23, 2025 4

General

Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue

Step aside, Beethoven. Take a seat, Duke Ellington. Today we’re talking about Moondog — the blind, self-fashioned Viking who pounded the streets of Manhattan with a staff, a beard like a Norse god, and a mind full of music that defied every tidy label and genre box the 20th century tried to impose. Born Louis Thomas Hardin in 1916, Moondog was a composer, poet, street performer, and proto-minimalist who saw […]

todayMay 22, 2025 7 2

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Noise, Nails, and Neubauten: A Love Letter to Sonic Collapse

Let’s talk about the sound of scaffolding kissing the ground at high speed. The groan of steel as it remembers it used to be something else. The whisper of wire under tension. Yes, friend, I’m talking about Einstürzende Neubauten—Germany’s most elegantly destructive export since Nietzsche’s mustache. In a world where bands cling to guitars like emotional support animals, Neubauten looked around and said, “Screw that—hand me the jackhammer.” Formed in […]

todayMay 21, 2025 3 2

Avant-Garde Jazz

Ava Mendoza: Redefining the Boundaries of Guitar and Sound

In the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary music, few artists have demonstrated the fearless innovation and versatility of Ava Mendoza. Born in 1983 in Miami, Florida, and now based in Brooklyn, Mendoza has carved a unique niche as a guitarist, composer, and bandleader, seamlessly blending genres and pushing the boundaries of sonic expression. A Journey Through Sound Mendoza's musical journey began with classical training, but her insatiable curiosity led her to […]

todayMay 19, 2025 12 2

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NOFX: Punk’s Irreverent Jesters and Accidental Revolutionaries

In the pantheon of punk rock, few bands have managed to maintain both relevance and irreverence quite like NOFX. For over four decades, this quartet of musical misfits has carved out a unique space where technical proficiency meets juvenile humor, political commentary meshes with self-deprecation, and DIY ethics coexist with commercial success. Founded in 1983 in Los Angeles by vocalist/bassist Fat Mike (Mike Burkett), guitarist Eric Melvin, and drummer Erik […]

todayMay 15, 2025 5 2

Avant-Garde Jazz

The Sonic Alchemy of Patricia Brennan

If Salvador Dalí played jazz, he might’ve sounded a bit like Patricia Brennan. In the wobbly, woozy dreamscape of modern improvised music, Patricia Brennan is less a player and more a conjurer—bending metal bars and wooden blocks into whispers, howls, and glimmering labyrinths of sound. Her weapon of choice? The vibraphone—a percussive instrument often thought of as jazz’s background shimmer. But in Brennan’s hands, it becomes a sentient creature, spitting […]

todayMay 13, 2025 6 2

Avant-Garde Jazz

Flying Lotus Is Probably an Interdimensional Jazz Wizard

Let’s get this out of the way: Flying Lotus is not from here. “Here” being Earth. Or the solar system. Or possibly even linear time. I mean, just listen to Los Angeles. It’s like someone spliced the DNA of J Dilla, Aphex Twin, Sun Ra, and that weird dream you had where a toaster was DJing in a velvet-walled spaceship. The result? A genre-melting, neuron-frying sound casserole that makes you […]

todayMay 12, 2025 5 2

Ambient

Listening to Jon Hassell in a Disjointed Age

Some music slides into your life politely. Other sounds arrive like mysterious artifacts—half-remembered dreams, or transmissions from a place you’ve never been but somehow recognize. Jon Hassell’s work belongs squarely in the latter camp: uncanny, enveloping, and oddly intimate, like the voice of a friend whispering in a language you don’t know. Hassell wasn’t just a trumpeter, or even merely a composer. He was a cartographer of phantom geographies. His […]

todayMay 10, 2025 7 2

Ambient

Edgar Froese: The Sonic Visionary Who Dreamed in Tangerine

When speaking of trailblazers in electronic music, the name Edgar Froese rings with a resonant, otherworldly clarity. As the founder of Tangerine Dream, Froese didn't just contribute to the genre—he helped invent a new language of sound. His work pushed the boundaries of what music could be, treating synthesizers not just as instruments, but as vessels for cosmic storytelling. Born in 1944 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Froese studied painting and […]

todayMay 9, 2025 5 2

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