From their new Untitled (Rise) release
on Forever Living Originals
Possessor
Reviewed by Glenn Kenny
Possessor (2020), about an assassin who works by taking over the mind and body of someone who can get close to the victim without suspicion, could have sprung from the imagination of David Cronenberg and, like his early films, Possessor is equal parts cerebral and visceral. But this film is the work of the writer-director Brandon Cronenberg, his son. It depicts horrific murders in appalling detail as it relentlessly interrogates the experience of inhabiting a foreign body. [Read more…]
It’s Been Going On and On and… The Devonns “Blood Red Blues (Protest Song)”
from their recent self-titled release, The Devonns
on Record Kicks
A Bullet of Exigent Thought in Sault’s “Don’t Shoot Guns Down”
From the just-released Untitled (Black Is)
on Forever Living Originals
Juneteenth in an Amerika Undone and a Nation’s Action Against a Coded Tongue
“Coded Language”
by Saul Williams
from the Amethyst Rock Star release
on American Recordings
Mind Within a Fisted Hand in “Read My Palmer, Laura”
by The Fantastic Twins
From Bongo Beats and Bankruptcy : The Sound of I’m a Cliché
Curated by Cosmo Vitelli
on I’m a Cliché [Read more…]
Blood-Borne Torpors and the Sound of Covicious Return
The “Problem of Subjectivity” Beneath Star-Shot Chimera and a Supine Sun
Slow Delivery From Viral Malaise to Vaporizing Blasts of Mind
Like Claws On The Soundboard Of Mind: Slove’s “Carte Postale”
from Le Danse
on Pschent Music
Through Thinly Flesh the Corona Invades and Not But a Flash The Body Betrays
“Primative Struggle,” or a Cough Only a Corona Mother Could Love
As Covid Spreads, So Too the Space for Covert Sound
New work from Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini
From Illusion Of Time
“Inside The Ruins”
on Phantasy Sound
Tony Allen, Nuanced Drummer And Creator Of The Indelible AfroBeat, Dies
Tony Oladipo Allen
Drummer of Protest, Drummer of Peace
1940 – 2020
♠
Below, from No Accommodation for Lagos
“African Message”
As Man Slips Through Volatile Lands, Feed Not On Dollars And Dow
“Oil,” by Xi
The song “Oil,” from XI, both suits and most certainly honors this day, Earth Day, when a barrel of oil arrives on the global markets utterly worthless — a negative sum that is not only ironic but undeniably apt.
To that end, Happy Earth Day everyone! Let’s take this day to commit to healing this incredible planet and, more essentially, to changing the way we live on it: lightly, with love, and with infinite respect for each other and the very terrains that give birth and lend majesty to our truly miraculous existence. C
Pre-release of “Oil” by XI
Lyrics: Reid Wilkie; Music: Eddie Hultén
Instagram: @reidwilkie | @eddie.hulten
@EarthDayNetwork
@poetsorg (Academy of American Poets)
@ThroughtheFlowerArtSpace
Artists for the Earth | Artists for the Earth Registration.
From Sonic Collage To Stepping Groove: John Tejada’s “Moving 909s”
Prince BeProud: Moodymann’s Sinuous “I’ll Provide”
from the recent Sinner release
on KDJ Records
Quentin Tarantino Pure Cinema Podcast
Elric, Brian, Phil and Jules are joined remotely by Quentin Tarantino himself for an epic discussion about a great feature on the New Beverly website called “Tarantino’s Reviews” where QT has been writing his own articles on movies and TV episodes. He also offers five of his own picks in response to our “Ripoffs” from way back in 2017.
Bacchanal Euphonies In Yaeji’s “Money Can’t Buy”
feat. Nappy Nina
from What We Drew 우리가 그려왔던
out now on XL Records