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A Spat at the Wind, A Touch to the Moon

June 4, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Brilliant new work from Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World”
w/ Perfume Genius

from the forthcoming Cool It Down
out 30 September
on Secretly Canadian

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Entering the Mind: The Radio & Podcast Tour

June 1, 2022 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Riot Material Presents

Entering the Mind
— The Tour —

C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie on their global radio and podcast tour in support of Entering the Mind, the new book by Riot Material Founding Editor, C von Hassett. Audio and video access to shows as they go live can be found below:


Zen Success
with Charissa Sims
“Entering the Mind with C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie”

Charissa Sims
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.The Blissful Living Show
with Rochel Marie Lawson
“Entering the Mind with C von and Rachel”

Rochel Marie Lawson
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Spiritual Geek Out

with Diane Hudock
“The Teachings of Dzogchen: Entering the Mind to Go Beyond the Mind”

Diane Hudock
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Master Your Mind

with Dr. Erika Montgomery
“C von Hassett and Rachel Wilkie — Entering the Mind”

Dr. Erika Montgomery
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The Empowered Spirit Show

with Terri Ann Heiman
“Entering the Mind with C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie”

Terri Ann Heiman
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The Art of the CEO

with Bart Jackson
“Gaining Awareness: Mental Leaps from Practical Meditation”

Bart Jackson
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We Deserve Better

with Dorrin Rosenfeld
“A State of Pure Consciousness”

Dorrin Rosenfeld
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Between the Lines

with Corine La Font
“Entering the Mind: Interview with C von Hassett & Rachel Reid Wilkie”

Corine La Font
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The Psychic Coffee Shop

with Aeson Knight
“Entering the Mind”

Aeson Knight
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Aquarian Times

by Julia Bernbaum
“Entering the Mind” with C von Hassett & Rachel Reid Wilkie

Julia Bernbaum
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Sagewlf Interviews
“Rachel Reid Wilkie”
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Sagewlf
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Sagewlf Interviews
“C von Hassett”
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Sagewlf
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Radio Medium Laura Lee
5 Minute Spirit Reboot: S6, E62
On WRWO 94.5 FM

“Achieve Pure Consciousness”
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Laura Lee
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Mindfulness Mode
with Bruce Langford
Episode 753
“Entering The Mind, with C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie”
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https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/C-von-Hassett-and-R-Reid-on-Bruce-Langford.mp3

Mindfulness Mode #753: audio interview with C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie (37 minutes)
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Bruce Langford
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The Jeff Mara Podcast
Episode 449
“Meditation Practice Used On Earth & OTHER PLANETS!”
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Jeff Mara
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A Fine Time for Healing
with Randi Fine
“The Natural State of Pure Consciousness”
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Randi Fine
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PURCHASE
ENTERING THE MIND
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Entering the Mind Global Radio and Podcast Tour: Follow at Riot Material..

Filed Under: Entering the Mind, Mind, Video

“Decimation (Dis Nation)” is an Emotive Stunner

May 14, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Dälek
Feat MC dälek & Mike Mare

Directed by Will Brooks
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from Precipice
out now on Ipecac Recordings
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Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Mere Tongue to Take Back a Name

April 2, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Tanya Tagaq’s “Tongues”

 
out now on Six Shooter Records

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

“Skunk Hour,” by Robert Lowell: A Reflection

March 22, 2022 By James McWilliams 1 Comment

by James McWilliams

Robert Lowell
Life Studies / From the Union Dead
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 176pp

In 1958, The Partisan Review published Robert Lowell’s poem “Skunk Hour.” This was a notable moment in American literary history. The poem was closely linked to Lowell’s friendship with Elizabeth Bishop. Reading and re-reading Bishop’s work allowed Lowell to escape, as he put it, “the shell of my old manner.” It is to her that he dedicates this poem. 

“Skunk Hour” is worthy of close study because it captures Robert Lowell in the midst of creative transformation. He alters himself from a formal to a confessional poet in the middle of the poem. It happens “right before our eyes,” as one critic aptly put it.

What follows is my own stanza-by-stanza attempt to make sense of it. I’ve always loved this poem for the way it hits my ear, and the shifting imagery. But I’ve never really slowed down and tried to figure out why. This is what I’m doing here. My comments are italicized    —jm———

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Filed Under: Fiction, The Line, The New Word, Thought, Video

Dance! and Ye Be Granted “Protection From Evil”

March 19, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

by Ibibio Sound Machine
feat. Eno Williams

out today, 25 March
on Merge Records 

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

“My Boy, My Horse, My Dog,” Featuring Saadet Türköz

February 10, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Pipilotti Rist’s wonderful exhibition, Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor, is currently on view at The Geffen Contemporary, DTLA, and is a must see! Below is one of the many Rist videos on display in varying contexts. “My Boy, My Horse, My Dog” is in gallery-space ‘Das Zimmer (The Room),’ and viewed on the old television sitting floorside. The MOCA exhibition is on through 6 June, 2022.

“My Boy, My Horse, My Dog,” vocals by Saadet Türköz
Music by Anders Guggisberg and Pipilotti Rist
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Filed Under: Video

New from Nia Archives: the Breakbeating “Luv Like”

February 6, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the upcoming EP Forbidden Feelingz

on HIJINXX

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

The Desert Stranglers Take It To The Throat

February 1, 2022 By Cvon 1 Comment

“The Captain’s Tale”
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Recorded on a debauched, drug-addled evening where the Desert Stranglers laid down a dozen or so tracks — all improvised on-spot, all one takes, a single mic — in the remote highlands above Pioneertown, CA. This is the resultant carnage:
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The Desert Stranglers are:

Ben Moore | @harvest_recordings
Steve Seleska | @steveseleskaart
Reid Wilkie | @reidwilkie
C von Hassett | @riotmaterial
Produced by Harvest Recordings

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

The Smile, in Call to The Bends, Says “You Will Never Work in Television Again”

January 5, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Featuring Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) & drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet)

See The Smile Live in London
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Stutter as Point Zero in the Revolution of Self: JJJJJErome Ellis’s “Loops of Retreat”

November 24, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the new release The Clearing


out now on NNA Tapes

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

A Sonic Key to the Unbound in “Open the Gates”

November 12, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

The new release from Irreversible Entanglements

out now on Don Giovanni Records
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

A Glory That Soars on “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”

October 29, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

The War on Drugs (feat. Lucius)
from the newly released I Don’t Live Here Anymore

out now on Atlantic

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Little Simz’s No-Go-Suffer Groove Pierces Deep on “Point and Kill”

October 5, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
feat. Obongjayar

out now on Age 101 Music

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “Woman”

September 30, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“Woman”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp

Filed Under: Video

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “Oil”

September 29, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“Oil”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “Seven Sisters”

September 28, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“Seven Sisters”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp

Filed Under: Video

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “Silent Voice”

September 27, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“Silent Voice”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp

Filed Under: Video

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “She Within Her”

September 26, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“She Within Her”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp

Filed Under: Video

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “Contradiction of Self”

September 24, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“Contradiction of Self”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp
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Filed Under: Video

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The Line

An interview with Alison Saar, at Riot Material magazine.

An Interview with Alison Saar

By Ricky Amadour As an indefatigable voice for women of color and the greater human spirit, Alison Saar recomposes fractured histories into multivalent sculptures. Saar curated SeenUNseen, a group exhibition at L.A. Louver Gallery, with a focus on spirit portraiture. Throughout human existence there has been a predilection to the allure of the unseen. Hidden […]

William S. Burroughs on a bed, smoking a cigarette.

“The Opposite of Literature:” Mary McCarthy’s Feb. ’63 Review of Naked Lunch

From the inaugural print edition of The New York Review of Books In remembrance of Jason Epstein, originator and co-founder of NYRB RIP 1928-2022 by Mary McCarthy Naked Lunch  by William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 304pp., $14.49 “You can cut into The Naked Lunch at any intersection point,” says Burroughs, suiting the action to the […]

Remembered and Remade: James Castle’s Conjurings of Mind

James Castle at David Zwirner, NYC (through 12 February 2022) by Andrew Martin James Castle: Memory Palace John Beardsley Yale University Press, 280pp., $65.00 NYR Every James Castle picture seems to contain a secret. Approaching one of his works for the first time, you peer into pockets of shadow and smudge, examining the depopulated landscapes […]

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

An excerpt from a new book which examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre’s relation to queer male erotic life. —The University of Chicago Press Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Steven Ruszczycky University of Chicago Press, 216pp., $30.00 In the United […]

Hilary Brace, Drawings and Tapestries, is reviewed at Riot Material magazine.

Darkness Made Visible in Hilary Brace’s Drawings and Tapestries

at Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station (through 19 February 2022) Reviewed by Eve Wood The intricacies and inherent beauty of the natural world are rarely celebrated these days, and when artists do turn their attention to the surrounding landscape, the resulting images are usually ones of devastation and chaos — charting the movement of fires, […]

The Tragedy of Macbeth 

A film written and directed by Joel Coen Reviewed by James Shapiro NYR Those who have long followed the Coen brothers and their cinematic universe of criminals, nihilists, and overreachers may see in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) a long-deferred reckoning with Shakespeare, who has been there before them. We don’t typically think of Shakespeare […]

John Divola, From Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert,1996-98,

Illuminating Images: Liquid Light and Golden Hour and the Affective Force of Non-Didactic Art

at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (through 5 February 2022) Reviewed by Johanna Drucker What is the difference between a wall label and a work of art? The unrelenting didacticism that prevails in current gallery and museum exhibits of contemporary art makes it seem that many curators and artists cannot answer that question. […]

The Occult Works of Ray Robinson, with an essay by Christopher Ian Lutz, is at Riot Material Magazine.

The Brush as Luminous Torch: Ray Robinson’s Blazing Portals Into the Divine Feminine

The Third Door:Occult Works of Ray Robinson, at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (through 15 January) by Christopher Ian Lutz Burn the Sun The persecution of the witch is a war of the hours. The Inquisition that charged women with witchcraft was not just about controlling women’s bodies – it was a crusade to extinguish […]

An Interview with Artist Gala Porras-Kim is at Riot Material Magazine.

An Interview with Artist Gala Porras-Kim

by Ricky Amadour . Interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim frames her research to highlight and question the current institutional practices of conservation, acquisition, and deaccession. Acting as an investigator of cultural artifacts that correspond to institutional collections, Porras-Kim deep dives into the expansive histories, stories, and functions of those objects. The artist’s first solo exhibition in […]

Seizing the Snowmelt: Industrial Agriculture is Draining Our State Dry

by Mark Arax The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax Knopf, 576pp., $25.00 MITTR The wind finally blew the other way last night and kicked out the smoke from the burning Sierra. Down here in the flatland of California, we used to regard the granite mountain as a place apart, our […]

The Great Flood of 1862

The Looming Catastrophe Few in California Are Aware Of (or in Want to Address)

An excerpt from Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent it, by Tom Philpott. THE FLOOD NEXT TIME In November 1860, a young scientist from upstate New York named William Brewer disembarked in San Francisco after a long journey that took him from New York City through Panama and then […]

Precontact California Indians: Their Life Prior to Genocide

An excerpt from the first chapter of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, by Benjamin Madley. CALIFORNIA INDIANS BEFORE 1846 Within a few days, eleven little babies of this mission, one after the other, took their flight to heaven. -Fray Junipero Serra, 1774 We were always trembling with fear of […]

Laurie Anderson's "The Weather," is reviewed at Riot Material magazine.

An Atmospheric River of Wonder in Laurie Anderson’s The Weather

at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (through 31 July 2022)  Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner             “What are the days for? To put between the endless nights. What are the nights for? To slip through time into another world.”  –Laurie Anderson             “Stories are our weather”  –Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson is a Renaissance polymath whose […]

Maria Lassnig Augenglaeser - Autoportraets (1965)

Maria Lassnig: The Paris Years, 1960–68

at Petzel Gallery, New York City Reviewed by James Quandt Maria Lassnig: Film Works edited by Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein, Peter Pakesch, and Hans Werner Poschauko FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, 189 pp., $35.00 NYRB Many female artists — most recently Carmen Herrera, Faith Ringgold, and Lorraine O’Grady — have had to wait a lifetime to be accorded the recognition […]

Marcellina Akpojotor’s Sublime Matriarchy

Daughters of Esan at Rele Gallery, Los Angeles (through 4 December 2021) Reviewed by Eve Wood Marcellina Akpojotor’s second solo exhibition, Daughters of Esan, continues her exploration into notions of personal intimacy, drawing on her own relationships with her family and the tremendously powerful and transformational possibilities of education and love. Inspired by her great-grandmother’s […]

An interview with Rachael Tarravechia, at Riot Material

Fear and Self-Loathing in Rachael Tarravechia’s Wish You Were Here

at Launch F18, NYC (through 4 December 2021) by Danielle Dewar The horror genre is rooted in a desire for catharsis by means of dispelling fears and anxieties that live deep within a subconscious mind. Since we often crave a controlled release of such emotions, the use of the macabre within an artist’s practice allows […]

Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Feathers, exhibition review of En Garde/On God is at Riot Material magazine

Histories Disembowled in Umar Rashid’s En Garde/On God

at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles (through 18 December 2021) Reviewed by Ellen C. Caldwell In En Garde/On God, Blum & Poe showcases the work of artist Umar Rashid (also known by the pen name Frohawk Two Feathers). Featuring thirteen large paintings and one sculpture in Rashid’s hallmark style, the exhibition highlights works that are bold […]

A Grid Gone Wholly Off in My Monticello

Reviewed by Bridgett M. Davis My Monticello By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Henry Holt & Company, 210 pp., $13.49 NYT In the essay “The Site of Memory,” Toni Morrison described the crafting of her fictional worlds as a quest to access the interior lives of her ancestors. “It’s a kind of literary archeology,” she explained. “On the […]

The Web of Mind Throughout Our Earth

Reviewed by Zoë Schlanger Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake Random House, 352 pp., $28.00; $15.48 NYRB Imagine that you are afloat on your back in the sea. You have some sense of its vast, unknowable depths—worlds of life are surely darting about beneath […]

Drugs Amongst Other Adult Liberties

Reviewed by Mike Jay Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Dr. Carl L. Hart Penguin Press, 290 pp., $16.94 NYRB The modern meaning of “drugs” is of surprisingly recent origin. Until the twentieth century, the word referred to all medications (as it still does in “drugstore”); it was only […]

Rashid Johnson, Anxious Red Painting August 20th. At Riot Material

Break//Breathe: Broken Men That Glitter

by Allyn Aglaïa Aumand On the coherence of fracture an essay in fragments on fragments * I had a lover once, who self described as a volcano, but fully encased. Make space to let it out sometimes, I told him. That’s why I wanted to see you today, he said.

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

An excerpt from a new book W. W. Norton calls “a radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.”  Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria W. W. Norton, 256pp., $23.95 There is an important distinction between what Nancy Fraser calls “affirmative change” and actual transformational change. The former is […]

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