Must-Hear SXSW, From Yoko Ono to Ringo Deathstarr and Beyond
South By Southwest Festival stuffs a killer load of coders, filmmakers, musicians and more into the otherwise lame state of Texas.
Geek The Beatles
John Lennon’s Assassination Simulations
Unable to shoulder the burden, reality splintered and began to virally replicate the assassination and its effects across media, slowly replacing that reality along the way.
John Lennon, Working Class Mythmaker
Because he is unfairly lost to us now, all we have are mounting media replications to inform and console us.
Geek The Beatles: John Lennon Assassination Simulations (Abridged)
It wasn’t easy writing this piece, because the reality of John Lennon’s assassination is a heavier load than hyperreality of his simulations. After all, hyperreality’s job is to suck the […]
Best Album Art of All Time
By the time The Beatles got to their last proper album, 1969′s Abbey Road, they stripped themselves entirely of simulations and presented four friends parting at the road responsible for pop music’s most memorable sonics.
Geek The Beatles: Let It Be’s Recombined Reality Programming
Forty years ago, Let It Be closed out a decade of The Beatles’ artistic and technological influence.
The Prisoner: An All-Star Appreciation
Its revolutionary mix of geopolitics, sci-fi and psychedelia has influenced not just television, but also music, comics, film and more.
The Prisoner Inspires Dhani Harrison’s TheNewNo2 Experiment
“It’s kind of like opening up a massive can of worms.”
Five On Five With The Beatles Rock Band
What, no Strawberry Fields Forever? Are you kidding?
McCartney to Israel: Give Peace a Chance
“I’m bringing a message of peace, and I Think that’s what the region needs.”
Did Paul McCartney Ride The Colbert Bump To Coachella?
Coincidence? Let’s weigh the evidence.
Jesus Forgives The Beatles
It’s nice that you finally got around to forgiving John Lennon for boasting that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, who we admit has a birthday coming up. But you might have wanted to pick a better time than the 40th anniversary of The White Album.
The Beatles Say Goodbye To Television
Frost’s audience crowds the band at the ballad’s finale, as if they didn’t want to let The Beatles go.
The Day The Beatles Fled Imelda Marcos
Just like that, The Beatles’ police protection disappeared, and the band was hounded out of the country, and roughed up along the way.
DJ Spooky On The Birth of Hip Hop
“Forget Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Bandor Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland as studio masterpieces, I’m talking about rare dub tracks that cut across the whole idea of what a song was meant to be.”
Give Peace a Price Tag
Money may not be ably to buy you love, but evidently it can buy you peace.