Dispatch: Hydra does SXSW 2011 (Part 2)
Hydra covers live sets by John Maus, The Soft Moon, Shabazz Palaces, Dominique Young Unique, Jamie xx, and some heavy-hitter digital cumbia cats.
Hydra covers live sets by John Maus, The Soft Moon, Shabazz Palaces, Dominique Young Unique, Jamie xx, and some heavy-hitter digital cumbia cats.
From Metacom to the Maya, Revere to Aronofsky, etchings to CGI, the Indian is delivered with deformities.
Who knew the township occultism of Spoek Mathambo shared something of the pulse of post-punk dirges?
Cine Foundation International entreats us to consider the plight of Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof.
In Manhattan, a Second Ave tiger is on the loose. In Queens, a balding middle-aged dad loses his job and spends a night experiencing hipster loft living. In Vietnam, it's all about Napoleon and KFC. Hydra's review of the best, funniest, most intelligent fiction of 2010.
The Soft Moon, Last Angel of History, Cut Copy, and a game-film called 'Play' all thrive in their cosmic slop.
On the first installment of our best of re-issue list we covered British art-rock, psych-folk from Chile, French bossa-new wave, Swedish drone, American lounge folk, Jamaican dub and Ghanian psychedelia. On the next two installments we continue traveling the globe with prog from Italy, Nigerian rock, Egyptian soundtrack music, Persian rare groove, Detroit folk,
As I sat down with the first issue of the Dory Reader, poems by Jen Bervin, it became apparent to me that a dory, although modest in size, still conveys something from a larger body. The point, in other words, is to fish.
So what is the perfect film ? Hydra's own Jose-Luis Moctezuma interrogates this question by exploring the greatness of Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped.
Cumbia has a growing worldwide following. Hydra tracks the paths and projects of some of its devotees.
