Lennon's Legacy Lives

Sue Dougherty

Twenty-nine years after the tragic murder of beloved Beatle John Lennon, his legacy of love lives on as artists, actors, and musicians come together to celebrate his life and raise money for children's charities.   (more)

Cosmic Vinyl

Remi Gurak

Jack White's label, Third Man Records released a 7-inch single of "A Glorious Dawn"--a song comprised of Carl Sagan's words taken from his "Cosmos" series and tweaked with auto-tune. (Video) (more)

All the Music You Will Ever Need

Steven Taylor

All the music you will ever need appeared in three boxed sets of LPs in 1952, produced by Harry Smith and published as The Anthology of American Folk Music by Folkways Records. This anthology was an important source for the folk music revival of the 1950s, and through that movement played a role in the larger cultural phenomenon that we call "the sixties." (more)

Adventures of Power: The Power of the Beat

Ari Gold

"Adventures of Power," an award-winning comedy about air-drummers and the American Dream, is being released independently starting October 9. Here, filmmaker Ari Gold speaks with co-conspirators Adrian Grenier, Elvis Perkins, and Ethan Gold about the film. (more)

King of Rai Returns

Zachary Koval

Exiled for the past 20 years, Khaled is back with a fantastic stripped down album proclaiming "Liberté" in both his life and music. (more)

A New Song Every Day

Zachary Koval

The lead singer of Rock Cookie Bottom challenges himself to write a new song every day.

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Poet's Passage (Jim Carroll)

Steven Taylor

Poet, novelist, and rocker Jim Carroll died on September 11, 2009. He was 60 years old. I wrote the following at the funeral at Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village. (more)

Sharing Songs Online

Stephen Hershey

Joel Park provokes the music industry with SongCycle.org, which encourages artists to freely share their work through an interactive musical experiment.  (more)

Lysergic Bicycle Music

Bill Machon

Albert's Bicycle Music is home to the vibrant, globally inspired music of the artist Jon Scoville.

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I am Rock and Roll

Steven Taylor

In a culture where participation in American Indian spiritual practices can be arranged for you by a travel agent, it is important to understand the history of the things we choose to practice, particularly with regard to historical conditions of exploitation. So does this mean that my white students shouldn't be rapping?  (more)

The Process is the Product

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

What might happen if a rock band, instead of just seeing fans as an income flow and an ego booster, focused that admiration and energy toward a cultural- and lifestyle-directing network?  What would happen if we created a "paramilitary occult organization" that shared demystified magickal techniques? (more)

Revolutionary Rhymes: A Talk with Immortal Technique

Propaganda Anonymous

New York Hip-Hop veteran Immortal Technique is a voice that needs to be listened to: fully indepedent, innovative, and revolutionary. In this interview, Tech gets open about 9-11 Truth, gentrification, and shamanism.

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Fug Everything, Let's Dance

Steven Taylor

If you are a socially-conscious independent artist operating today, and you are not due for senior citizenship any time soon, then the Fugs are your daddy whether you know it or not. (more)

The Fire of Freedom: A Talk with Larry Kirwan

Propaganda Anonymous

Black 47's Larry Kirwan and I converse about what it's like to be Irish and American in today's world. It's not green beer and shamrocks. (more)

Getting Subliminal with DJ Spooky

Propaganda Anonymous

For over ten years, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky has quietly been linking the worlds of DJ culture and high art. You could say his approach has been nearly subliminal. In this interview, Spooky gives a retrospective of his diverse body of work. (more)

The Sound of Ice: Discussing "Terra Nova"

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

In this interview with Elena Glasberg, I discusses my new multimedia performance work Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, open-source media, music history, new relativism, the need for more paradox, and the sound of no government. (more)

Screaming Divinities: Interview with An Albatross

Tristan Gulliford

An interview with experimental hardcore band An Albatross about channeling the energy of chaos for live shows, their new collaborative album, and the psychedelic power of music. (more)

True Punk: Everything I Say Is a Lie

Steven Taylor

Two broad streams feed into punk. One is the African stream that since the mid 19th century has been a wellspring of American popular musics. The other is the avant-garde stream that since the late 19th century has blurred the boundaries between art and life. Both made art a medium of protest. (more)

Nightingala

David Rothenberg

[Terra Nova] • All bird species have their own zikr, praising Creation, and the bolbol is the master bird who never repeats himself, always coming up with new names for God. This gives bird song the highest honor in a devotional culture, a loftier purpose than biology has so far allowed. (more)

Is That a Real Reality, or Did You Make It Up Yourself?

Steven Taylor

Since ancient times, people have believed that music holds the power of transformation, and that new forms of music tell us about changes in society to come. (more)

Etheric Rap Warriors

tony damico

Masta Buildaz, the Chicago-based rap crew, brings ancient spiritual knowledge to the streets via 12 Jewels Productons. (more)

Hand Of God

Morgan Maher

Dj Shiva puts her personal touch on the new Fingerprints mix, fusing, tweaking and expanding unusual forms of music. (more)

Peacemakers Paving The Way

Stephen Hershey

The Gathering of the Peacemakers in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains mixes workshops, music, culture, and consciousness into seven days of positive living.
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Tom Waits Meets Super Joel

Paul Krassner

The anonymous Vietnam War protester who was photographed placing a flower in the barrel of a National Guardsman's rifle later appeared in a lyric by Tom Waits: "Joel Tornabene lies broken on the wheel..." (more)

Lightning Strikes Thrice

Charles Shaw

The LA-based art collective The Do LaB is returning for a third straight year with “Lightning in a Bottle," one of the most innovative eco-festivals around.
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