(Photo:Ben Arons) The "New Band To Burn One To" today is Ruby Bullet. If you are looking for a post punk /prog math metal duo featuring female vocals from NYC, then this band is right up your alley. The band just recently released their CD called "Splitting Heirs" to some pretty
BEYOND THE CENTRES: MUSICAL AVANT GARDES SINCE 1950ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, GREECEDEPARTMENT OF MUSIC STUDIES1 - 5 JULY 2010CALL FOR PAPERSIn memoriam Yannis Andreou Papaioannou (1910 – 1989) The notion of the avant garde in music has stereotypically been linked wi
I wanted to mention a couple of new books to keep an eye out for that I'm pretty excited about. But first off, I have to send out a huge congratulations to friend & writer Michael Patrick MacDonald whose All Souls: A Family Story from Southie has just been named as (lucky) number
[photo courtesy of Self-Titled Magazine - more here] Its been almost a year since we last saw Fiery Furnaces live, at East River Park last July. In that time, the band has produced a new CD I'm Going Away, due to be released on July 1. At Le Poisson Rouge last night, the Furnaces
Hello everybody..... Another new poster is in your midst, riding in on a mountain lion wearing a jetpack. Anyways, thanks to Cheeto, and I am really looking forward to it. So without further ado, I thought for my first post, I would post one of my favorite albums of 2008. They t
Experiments in Terror 3 I was sent to review Experiments in Terror 3, a new collection of horror shorts with an emphasis on surreal, experimental techniques that differ from normal conventions. Avant garde art is always interesting to me; I'm the type of guy who can't stick to o
Previously mentioned before in an older post. If you've got a unique style and haven't found anything new or different lately, Avant Gaudy maybe the spot for you. Instead of doing your own searching for vintage items, here is a one stop shop where they do the finding for you. The