5 Asian Cover Gems Celebrating English as a Second Language
As an immigrant to the United States who is Chinese and born in Australia, I appreciate the linguistic synthesization of people who also have the experience of ...
Category: History
The 500 Covers of Ron Clyne: A Prospective Look at Smithsonian Folkways Design
Ron Clyne (1925-2006) was a Chicago born, Brooklyn based freelance graphic designer and painter who fashioned approximately 500 Smithsonian Folkways covers sta...
The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders Of Mars
We all have one of “those” records. A record to raise your spirits. A record to make you feel less glum. A record that paints the inside of your earholes with d...
Remembering Earthman Kelan Phil Cohran
Kelan Phil Cohran (May 8, 1927-June 28, 2017) was an influential jazz musician, composer, civil rights activist, inventor, educator, artist, philosopher, astron...
Nigerian Afrobeat: The Women
No doubt many social factors prevented women artists from being recorded in Nigeria during the emerging 1970s pop scene. Chief among them was the disreputable v...
Keeping Up with the Jones – Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami
In Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami (2017), director Sophie Fiennes follows Jones, documenting her from 2008 while she was recording her last album, Hurricane...
The Wonderful World of Electronic Voice Phenomena
EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) are sounds or voices that are transmitted through electronic sources. They can be recorded and heard during or after playback f...
Khánh Ly
Ten years ago I was sipping rice wine on the floor of a tiny bar in Sapa, Vietnam. The amiable bartender, a 15 year old boy wearing an ACDC t-shirt and plastic...
Los Punks: We Are All We Have- A Definitive Look at the Continuing Latino Punk Scene in Los Angeles
Punk subculture was born in the 1970’s from oppressed youth who wanted no part in conforming to the colonial mass culture surrounding them. The movement was “ag...
Freeform Portland celebrates the music of Jason Molina
This week marks the five-year anniversary of the death of Jason Molina, a songwriter and musician who recorded under his own name, and under the guise of bands ...