Merzbow – Collection:006 Album Review
In which Merzbow plays the radio. I m getting the feeling these Collection cassettes are like an exquisite corpse, with only the last few moments of the last release visible, everything Continue reading
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Merzbow – Collection:005 Album Review
One man s trash is another man s treasureAnother man s treasure is another man s trash. Another week, another album of Merzbow jams from 1981. With even less tape scuzz, early electronics, and Continue reading
Merzbow – Collection:004 Album Review
Collection:004 is even less like a traditional Merzbow album than the previous three volumes. It s almost music. Put away any expectations or pre-conceived notions you might have about a Merzbow Continue reading
Merzbow – Collection:003 album review
With its clattering percussion, clinical electronics, violin and clarinet, Collection:003 may be as close to free improv as Merzbow gets. Merzbow s Collection Series is an odd bird, even in a Continue reading
Merzbow – Solonoise I album review
Merzbow s Solonoise I bridges the brutalist sound sculptures of his earliest work with the harsh noise to come. Masami Akita s 23rd album as Merzbow, Solonoise I from 1982, is the Continue reading
10th Annual Portland Horror Film Festival Preview
Portland s premiere horror film festival descends on the Hollywood Theatre and Clinton St. Theater for 5 days of macabre madness. Credit: J Simpson//Offscreen Magazine Today s the day! The 10th Annual Continue reading
Merzbow – Nine Studies of Ephemeral Resonance Volume 6 (Urashima) album review
Merzbow s second installment of the Nine Studies of Ephemeral Resonance series for 2025 offers a compelling mixture of modern classical, harsh noise, and post-industrial aesthetics. Masami Akita and modern classical Continue reading
The Outcasts (1982) folk horror movie review
Although not precisely a Folk Horror, Robert Wynne-Simmons The Outcasts is still steeped in genuine Irish myth, folklore, and landscape. It s a stone-cold classic of the genre that was lost Continue reading
Phil & Friends – 10/31/99
Looking back on a Halloween concert from the turn-of-the-century as we mourn the passing of a legend. On October 25, 2024, we lost yet another of the last remaining giants Continue reading
A Night in the Lonesome October – Roger Zelazny book review
It s A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath from a dog s-eye point of view in Roger Zelazny s A Night in the Lonesome October, one of the Continue reading