Reports have rushed in through Twitter and Facebook about the purported death of hiphop iconoclast Rammellzee. Before the skittering lyrics of Outkast, the space odysseys of Deltron, the spiraling flustered funk of Weezy, or the free-association spiritual vomiting of DOOM, there was Rammellzee. Best known for his ten minute trek into the mathematical chaos
Sanullim is something of an anomaly in rock history. Sanullim’s heavy bass lines, thunderous drums, chromatic fuzz guitar-work, and psych-image lyrics were a revival shock in a korean pop system which had gone dormant since the early 60s.
We at Hydra are constantly on the lookout for innovative work on the cross-section of art and technology. That’s why we’re all for The Creators Project, a new online network from Intel and VBS, celebrating artists around the globe engaging with the creative potential of the analog/digital wave. The channel currently features a number
Quetzaltepec Volcano, Solstice 2010 With your anticipated baktun shift 585 days away, the penultimate peak of summer before the 5,125 year baktun period terminates obtains the significance of being, in the hot rainy June of the tropics, the last tropical torrents before the last wash of the cycle of the current baktun. This is
Megan Prelinger's "Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962" traces the history of the post-war technological boom. What Prelinger reveals is a dreamy fiction constructed and realized not just by scientists and scholars but people from all walks of the earth.
It became loudly apparent to me Saturday as I watched the England vs. USA World Cup game with a room full of usually quiet and gentle pacifist intellectuals that we all need, once in awhile, to let loose our animal selves. People got drunk; popcorn was thrown; rude epithets, insults, threats bandied; it was
Shanghai glamour is a subject of multiplied nostalgia for fans of Wong Kar Wai.
The FIFA World Cup is without a doubt the biggest sports event in the world. But it's also the stimulus for some of the most expensive television commercials in the media universe (move over, Super Bowl).
Last month I had the privilege of blogging for the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City, a literary festival that spotlights international writers. During the festival I met writers from all over the world and was exposed to work that had not yet been translated. In a market where translations account for
