Post Up: No Doors Without Jim Morrison
Greetings, Morphizm pals. Sorry for the delayed communication. I celebrated my birthday over the weekend, and spent this morning suffering for it. But I did manage to clock some work […]
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Post Up: Autolux Rox, De La Soul Jams
It’s been a busy weekend over at Wired, where I have tackled everything from dead icons to dead technology. I’ve also had a chance to float some stellar music into […]
Post Up: Metallica’s Puppets, Chemical’s Google, Fishing With Ween
I’ve been feeling like crap for days now, which means now is the time to talk about Metallica. I did just that for Wired over the weekend, and heckled the […]
Post Up: All Hail Rush’s Anthem
I posted this entry on Wired last week, but it has since proven to have sturdy legs. Perhaps it is because Rush was a monstrous power trio before it became […]
Post Up: Stereolab’s Chemical Pop, Stooges’ Gear Stolen
Happy Monday, Morphizm pals. Still reeling from the weekend Rush, which continues to attract comments like McCain attracts flies. But there is some bad news: Some asshole stole all of […]
Post Up: Rush Gets Snubbed, Sony Gets Desperate
I spent a great Saturday asking the hard questions at Wired.
Post Up: Batman’s Musical Mutations
From Nelson Riddle and Prince to Danny Elfman and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Pixies Lead Live Album Wish List
The trend is virally replicating.
What Isn’t Shoegaze?
But in the end, it was used to describe bands like My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Swervedriver and pretty much anyone else, like drone minimalists Spacemen 3, who didn’t fall into the comfortable confines of easily classifiable music.
Post Up: An Interview With Neil Halstead
A chat with the man behind the aural soundscapes of Slowdive.
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.
Lost Joins Shyamalan’s Pixies Lovefest
Lost hopped aboard the indie rock legend’s bandwagon during its season four finale, perhaps in hopes of righting its own sinking ship.
Twin Piqued: David Lynch’s TV Legend Makes Musical Comeback
“Everyone was watching that show. Angelo Badalamenti had a huge influence on the shoegaze sound.”
R.I.P. Camu Tao, 1977-2008
“He was an almost uncategorizable force of nature,” said El-P. “Wild, hilarious, proud, loving, tough, outspoken, spontaneous and brilliant.”
Does M. Night Shyamalan Have a Thing for Pixies?
And where Hitchcock leaned on the striking scores of Bernard Hermann to propel his movies, Night seems to be borrowing ideas from … the Pixies?
Reunited, And It Feels So Loud: An Interview With Swervedriver
As one of the finest bands from the so-called shoegaze scene, Swervedriver released four stellar, underrated efforts from 1991-1998 during a chaotic career marred by label drama and changing pop […]
From Spacemen 3 to Spiritualized: Jason Pierce Transcends Time
The influential artist’s experiments have ranged from drone, psychedelia and trance rock to jazz, gospel and ragged blues, sometimes all at once.
Swervedriver, Film School Hypnotize Hollywood
The mesmerizing reunion virus infected Hollywood on Saturday night, as Swervedriver’s ax pyrotechnics mind-melded with Film School’s phased anthems at the Henry Fonda.
Body Language: An Interview With David Cronenberg
“body horror was not my term. It was a term someone used to describe what I was doing, so it is not a category in my head that I use to make films.”
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.
Earth’s Altered States
Our reliance upon fossil fuels could spell the end of our species as a whole if we don’t get our shit together.
David Lynch’s Weird, Wired World
It’s all an experiment. I want to find things that fire me up, and see if it works for the people.
David Lynch, Uncut, Part Three
Scientists are so beautiful. They come up with these things, and then the other side of the coin is that artists grab hold of them, and who knows what can happen? The world is always changing, that’s rule number one.
David Lynch, Uncut, Part Two
It’s a dream world now. But like I always say, everybody has access to a piece of paper and a pencil. But how many great stories are written?