Okay, I really wouldn’t call this a definitive guide, more like a list and a link to an article. Am I partially posting this because I got a PR e-mail with a…
Music/Performance
“I live in a dub house!” warbles Dave Thomas on a live recording from 1979 of “Sentimental Journey” off of Pere Ubu’s debut The Modern Dance, over a thorny bramble of breaking…
Corpses! Armed Robberies! Southern (California) Death Cults! It’s the PIFF After Dark Film Festival!
Genre fiction can be given short shrift in serious cinephile circles. Major award ceremonies like the Oscars and Golden Globes regularly overlook top-shelf horror and science-fiction (no doubt Westerns as well, when…
Seven that Spells are one of those bands that just sort of exist in their own gloriously acid drenched universe. Hailing from Zagreb, Croatia (which I had to look up because I…
Valentine’s Day is not all hearts, chocolates, and roses. In fact, the heart-shaped holiday can be pretty grim for a lot of folks. Perhaps that’s in keeping with the dark history of…
Dancing To Dead Vibrations The Fall’s first two records managed to outline many of the tenets of post-punk while punk itself was still getting going. While most post-punk bands were breaking away…
You know what’s nuts? I wrote this critique of media monoculture year end lists back in 2015 and since it’s more relevant in 2017 I’m just going to re-paste the thing. All…
Words for Thad’s SEO standards. Must type words for internet. Not wanting to over abstract the art that is already overly abstracted. This is already meta meta. Is this enough meta description yet?…
Bitch where were you when I was being reprogrammed by mysterious unknown forces? Now I run the game got the whole world talkin’. King Contact. The fact that I have to explain…
Twenty-five years ago, Sinead O’Connor proved herself to be the single most courageous artist of our time. Perhaps, even, the bravest of all time. Just two weeks after inoculating Saturday Night Live…
Take your protein pills, and put your helmet on. So, we all know David Bowie’s masterpiece, “Space Oddity.” At least, I hope we do. Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to…
On the 13 February 1976, experimental rock band This Heat played its first show. They were arguably the most inventive band to emerge from the UK’s DIY scene in the 70s –…
Sixty four years after its debut performance by pianist David Tudor, death metal band Dead Territory lines up behind their instruments, tunes up, and takes on Cage: There’s a setup, earplugs go…
Below I present to you an interview with guitar virtuoso and international touring artist, Tim Palmieri. From Tim’s Website: “Tim Palmieri has made a name for himself as one of the most…
There is an upside to the weirdness of the times I might point out. Even the most supposedly rationalist of science-y types can no longer legitimately ignore the fact that people just…
Some people might remember that my first post on Disinfo back in the day was my yearly roundup of tasty psychedelic albums. I haven’t had a whole ton of time to cover…
Every time I take a high enough dosage of psychedelics I encounter these rapidly shape shifting omnidimensional entities comprised of pure living art. Hell, I can get into a state where I’m…