Sun Ra

In his 67 years, Robert Wyatt has lived several musical lives. Read More

Indie-pop, uncle-nephew duo Casimer & Casimir haven't recorded an album, yet record executives are sniffing around to see what's what. Read More

The Davis Museum is rolling out a new exhibit today, featuring some a layered approach to art. Read More

The theme to Bad Weather California's sophomore album, Sunkissed , on the Family Tree record label, is the sun - how it shines when you're hanging at the beach, skateboarding down a street, or just killing time making love and getting busted for weed on a sunny California afternoon. Read More

With their "Borusan's New Series," and their "Musica Nova" series, and additional contemporary music concerts that have an element of the unknown, and played by relatively unknown artists, the venue is willing to forgo the tried and true in favor of relatively undefinable 21st-century music. Read More

2012 is looking rosy for Andy Carthy, aka Mr Scruff , British DJ, beatmaker, artist and tea propagandist - returning to base camp after a month of gigs in Switzerland and France, the Ninja Tune veteran has artwork and studio stuff to take care of before heading off on a stretch of UK and Ireland dates, plus his first festival set of the year at Snowbombing in April. Read More

A trippy alchemical potion of a movie, Space Is The Place inhabits an alternative reality that could only exist in the Afrodelic cosmology of Saturnian jazz priest Sun Ra. Directed by John Coney in 1974, the movie is a hybrid of B-grade sci-fi, Blaxploitation flix (on shrooms), the films of Kenneth Anger and surrealist head trips like El Topo and the electric western Zachariah. Read More

I had an interesting twitter exchange today with Andy Bowen (@andymbowen) about John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Read More

It's Friday, and you have no clue what's going on this weekend. Read More

When people think of country and jazz, they frequently consider the work of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Read More