[Obituary] RIP Dennis Paul Batt (1952-2012) Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Selections from Dennis Paul Batt personal website: Dennis was a Past-President of the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild and a former trustee of the San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2002). As Guild President he developed the first democratically juried art exhibition for the organization at the Boehm […]
San Diego Loses an Important Figure in the Visual Arts
Formed Opinions: Men in Skirts
When is a kilt just a skirt? Formed Opinions: Men in Skirts By Bridgett Rex Tweet skirt /skəːt/ 1. A woman’s garment fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs. Although we Americans like to consider ourselves fashionably progressive, with our opinions printed on t-shirts and gimmicky nail-stickers that boast our political party, only a handful of men […]
Get Ready for a Sex-Up!
[New Music] of Montreal Paralytic Stalks Polyvinyl Records, 2012 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Tweet With the brand new year upon us, 2012 is sure to bring some surprises. So far, the most intriguing one has been the new CD from of Montreal’s, Paralytic Stalks, a righteous return to the heady days of the mid 2000s. Just when you thought the […]
cool beats: L. Ron Butterfly
Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Butterfly! Tweet By Tim Sheepy Sometimes I describe L. Ron Butterfly as “tongue-in-cheek new age,” but more specifically, my aim is to produce multi-dimensional music that can serve either as background noise or as a focus of intense concentration, even meditation, at the listener’s discretion. LRB is strongly influenced by the German electronic groups of […]
Meeting Princess Thrashpunk
Princess Thrashpunk: The Skinterview, edit 1 Tweet Members Section video HERE after the link. Very NSFW, for 18-&-up ONLY.
Dance Until Your Brain Falls Out!
Kohib Make Fire-The Remixes 8D Promo Tweet Reviewed by Kent Manthie Kohib, a Scandinavian dance combo has just released Make Fire -The Remixes. It’s a CD featuring 9 songs of “Nu-Disco” on it, each track re-mixed by a different outfit, e.g. “Push Me Down” has four versions, remixed by four entities: track one, remixed by Stoyvind; track four and five […]
A Refreshing Blast of Mellow Music
Victor Villarreal Invisible Cinema Joyful Noise Records, 2011 Tweet Review by Kent Manthie This, the new solo CD from Victor Villarreal, guitarist extraordinaire, Invisible Cinema, is a real departure from his appearance on the latest Joan of Arc CD, Life Like, on which he appears as one of the twin lead guitarists (Tim Kinsella also plays guitar). Life Like is […]
The New Previews Blog
New blog –> V.I.P. Previews Tweet And kicking it off is our sultry Dom Unicorn, Helena de la Severin. Read her inaugural poem HERE.