Tag: Experimental
A warped film fest for warped times
Mr. HoleHead's Warped Dimension beams good ol' fashioned chills, kills, and cheap thrills to your Zoom room.
Screen Grabs: Keeping it together—and falling apart
Spotlight on mental health with Blackbird, Last Call, the Swerve, Rialto, and Oliver Sacks. Plus: The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Space Dogs
Qur’an Shaheed offers meditative frequencies on debut EP ‘Process’
Her boom-bap self-help hits all the right notes, assisted by musicians well-versed in satellite orbit neo-soul.
With glamour and grit, Red Vic aims for permanent queer housing transformation
How much is that drag queen in the window? Chip in to support QT BIPOC housing and you'll help stabilize a community.
Screen Grabs: Heavy themes for heavy times
New movies: Social media manipulation, voter suppression, deportation, white nationalism... Oh, and Suzi Quatro!
Ficks’ Picks at the 11th Annual CROSSROADS Experimental Film Festival
This year's mind-melting batch of experimental films at San Francisco Cinematheque's 11th annual CROSSROADS 2020, may be extremely helpful to some of you looking for an alternative to all...
On experimental duo Matmos’ latest, 99 is the magic number (and collaboration is key)
M.C. Schmidt of Matmos waves a limp assemblage of taped-together scraps of paper in front of his computer camera. “This is the third hour, this is the second hour,”...
Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice
Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations with electronic, funk-rock, and experimental...
New Music: Five great local artists to support
Local music platform Bandcamp will continue its special "Bandcamp Friday" series for the rest of the year, waiving its revenue share on all sales on the first Friday of...
Out of the Crate: The proper tools
Out of the Crate is our monthly column that takes a look into the fluid world of new vinyl releases, including reissues, compilations, and whatever else is available and...
