No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making attempts to exist. – Andre Breton What do I know of you? Not from some distilled…

Cassilda and Carcosa produce a soulful piece of braindance on the playful and passionate “Tubes Transformers Transistors & Tape”. Forgoing the usual cut and paste techniques of so many loopers…

Echo Strike finds beauty in the imperfections on the infectious energy of “Not Inside Your Mind”. The stylistic diversity is a thing of pure wonder as they incorporate disco, dance…

Recently, I asked my mother why I was afraid of birds. “Maybe it was because you saw the movie The Birds when you were too young. Or maybe it was…

We believe a book provides a theater for the words, where the stage starts with the cover and moves inward through the physical narrative established by the pages—a journey through time and space.

The Minuses by Jami Macarty University Press of Colorado, March 2020 90 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   I first encountered Jami Macarty’s work when the title poem of this…

“Someone has to take the iPad,” my mom said. “I’ll never use it, you know.” I am certain my eighty-year-old mom will never dabble with technology. She still calls the…

Christopher Dallman’s “Digital Blue” exists at the perfect crossroads between dance, synth pop, and rock to create a vivid soundscape unique his own. The playful melodies skitter about while his…

Image Credit: Casey Taylor   By freshman year of high school my eldest son had broken more laws, bones, and hearts than any other child in our provincial town. With…

A decadent mixture of cabaret and dancehall emerge with the Safety Word’s “Remixed Vol. 2”. The slew of stylistic choices run the gamut from industrial to trip-hop to soul, all…

Little Hill by Alli Warren City Lights Publishers, March 2020 120 pages / SPD / Bookshop / Amazon   Alli Warren took the title to “Moveable C” from Ornette Coleman,…

* * * WITH MOORE & NIEDECKER ON THE NORTH SEA | SEEING that terns & skuas are quicker than rocks that lichen acidifies sandstone back to sand on the…

Eddy Mann’s gentle spirit radiates throughout the soulful spirited “Pray On”. A sense of togetherness runs through the whole of the album. By opting for the grace that faith can…

During this world-wide pandemic lock down, I am sitting on the couch in the living room of the apartment I am renting in Montevideo, Uruguay, watching the Argentinian food channel…