White Hills “The pursuit of rock & roll transcendence”
I’m going to non-randomly throw in some ideas about Zen calligraphy, because I think it relates to White Hills and their “thing.” Writing, sound, and vision combined. Live,...
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Portugal’s Finest
SUNFLARE Everybody knows the sun has outbursts of energy. Violent eruptions that can even disrupt Earth's magnetic energies. What most people do not know is the sound it...
Zeuhl
Zeuhl, the most challenging and densest of progressive rock subgenres, elicits intense reactions from most who have listened to this truly unique music form. The word, Zeuhl, means...
Tyler Jakes – Evil
"Music resembles poetry; in each are numerous graces which no methods teach, and which a master hand alone can reach." So said Alexander Pope and no truer...
Psychedelic Toronto
When one thinks of cities with a psychedelic musical past, certainly San Francisco will spring to mind immediately, with perhaps London or Austin a close second... but...
Smoke “Heaven On A Popsicle Stick”
As it happens, when the musical fingers of an album reach into my mind and clutch so tightly that everything about the first listening experience—in this case, the...
Rags to Rags: The Lost Tale of Detroit’s Sugar Man aka Sixto Rodriguez
Writing isn't necessarily an option for me. In this case, it is a matter of bounden duty. To find something remarkable and make no remark is to completely...
One story about two songs by Kenneth B. Higney
This is the story – maybe truth, maybe fiction – about two songs I wrote and recorded, “I Wanna Be The King” and “Funky Kinky”. Both were released...
The Source Documentary SXSW opening
This whole Source Documentary adventure was born out of the excitement of doing the book, the untold story of “Father Yod, Yahowha 13 and the Source” with my...
Hippie Punk Fusion
If we take a glance at any ideology, we will see that it contains many factions that are sometimes in violent conflict over what the outside world would...