Damian Lazarus, head of the influential Crosstown Rebels record label, is transforming the clichéd image of house music. In this interview, Lazarus talks about Burning Man and Day Zero, his upcoming 24-hour dance party synchronized to the end of the Mayan Calendar. (more)

Introducing our new column of book, video and music reviews. (more)

Since 2008, Miami's Moksha Visionary Art Fair has provided artists with an outlet to showcase their work, while offering a unique 3-day multi-sensory experience to an audience hungry for art that speaks to higher levels of consciousness. (more)

He was the first man banned in Boston.  He was the first American foreclosed on by a company. He was the first American to publish a fart joke, and the first American to publish a dick joke.  He was also the first American accused of being a traitor. His name was Thomas Morton, but he would have wanted us to call him Tom. (more)

To an outsider, Brazil may seem like an easygoing and morally loose society. We do have, in some ways, an easy-going, openhearted nature. But in truth, we have a profoundly moralistic ethos inherited from our Roman Catholic colonization. It makes dealing with the chaotic amorality of the rave scene's bacchanalia difficult. (more)

Mystical Sun has been making verdant listening-room electronica for almost two decades. The recently-released 26000 is his first album in four years, a testament to the time-intensive work and, poetically, also a concept album about deep time and epochal cycles. (more)

Introducing our new column of book, video and music reviews. In this edition: Cloud Atlas, Two Fingers Stunt Rhythms, The Moneyless Manifesto, Dreams and Guided Imagery, Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, The Secrets of Alchemy, Video Game Play and Consciousness, and Terence McKenna Omnibus 2012.    (more)

If Tool and Jeff Buckley had an orgy on peyote in the desert and created a love child, that baby would be Sorne. The live performance weaves together the cycles of a story of five children told through music, visual art, and film. It is a sprouting, living mythos. (more)

A total solar eclipse is expected near Cairns, Far North Queensland, on 14th November 2012. A week long festival will be held to celebrate the cosmic event. 8-10,000 people from Australia and overseas will attend the Eclipse2012 Music, Arts & Healing Festival along with an impressive global lineup of sonic and visual artists as well as guest speakers and workshops. (more)

"The only hope in the world now lies with women. Men have tortured the world. We are walking on one leg, and it is a catastrophe. There is a deficiency of love in mankind. It's a lack of love for themselves, and therefore for mankind. The situation we are in makes us become cynical, egoists and profiteers. Parasites. Millions of parasites." (more)

On October 7, 1951, Jack went to Birdland to hear the alto saxophonist Lee Konitz.  The music sounded "so profoundly interior" to Jack that he was sure very few people would understand it. In fact, he compared Konitz's extended phrases to the sentences he was writing lately.  Jack saw that he and the musician were essentially doing the same thing. (more)

I think the mental awakening that's needed is a slow process, but it can happen. We've completely lost track of what matters in life. We have to regain that. Not that I always have it right, but at least we can try and then try to awaken others. And then, maybe, one day, perhaps, we'll be more excited to watch peace than we are to watch war. (more)

The Allen Ginsberg Estate is about to re-release in dowloadable format the most comprehensive audio collection the poet ever produced. Volumes have been written about Ginsberg's poetry, but nothing substantial has been written about the songs. Why not? Because poetry is "literature" subject to "literary criticism," and music is not? (more)

In this interview, CoSM co-founder Alex Grey discusses how he turned from suicidal nihilist to visionary painter, the convergence of psychedelics and Tibetan Buddhism, holding together a marriage involving two artists, and live-painting with Beats Antique and the Disco Biscuits. (more)

This week, while much of the Reality Sandwich team decamps for the Burning Man Festival in Gerlach, Nevada, we offer a selection of noteworthy articles that appeared on the site earlier this year. We'll be back on Tuesday, September 4. Enjoy!  (more)