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Imagine a screeching, ululating, fuzzed-out roar that reduces your teeth to shards and your internal organs to pulsing red mush.

If your tastes in jazz run toward the traditional, Borbetomagus will seem as impenetrable as its name.

Beyonce didn't gain much by adding Lady Gaga to her much hyped latest video. The clip for "Video Phone" - which stars the woman also known as Sasha Fierce and features La Gaga - doesn't offer much in the way of chemistry or even interaction between the two divas.

The Hand of Fatima Synopsis: Anthology is thrilled to present the US Theatrical Premiere Run of THE HAND OF FATIMA, a double portrait of a rock critic and his favorite band.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Snoopy gets all the breaks. The Complete Peanuts reprint series is up to the mid-1970s now, faithfully transferring every last one of Charles M. Schulz's newspaper comic strips into enduring, acid-proof, beautifully designed hardbacks.

Gentle sounding indie-pop that is very ocean-y and summer-y. Hell, it even samples the ocean.

As frontman with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed epitomised the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

I love seeing Laurie Anderson live; I've seen her about four times and have never been less than electrified.

We are pleased to announce the return of The Score, a forum for contemporary American composers to discuss their work and the larger issues involved in creating music in the 21st century.

John Zorn and Bill Laswell asked former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris to cement the evil jazz backbone of Painkiller.

Over the years, Emanem has nobly championed the cause of improvising string players.

To her already multi-media stage show, Laurie Anderson has added some movie cameras out front, to record it for posterity -- it and her white shoes and dimples and all the rest.

Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hard-core music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg, are "destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band AhleuchatistasA certainly ...

Misfits, "Saturday Night" So far, October has been a great month for me to live out my adolescent fantasies: In the span of one weekend, I not only got to shake Leatherface's hand, but also to see Type O Negative singing "Love You to Death" from five feet away.

The inimitable Sam McPheeters , who used to front Born Against and Men's Recovery Project and currently spends a lot of time thinking about economics, on the effect the global financial crisis has had on the subculture: I would love to see a real thinning of the herd, and seeing less bands and less shows.

Record labels are, in essence, an outlet, a means for production. They are not the paint or the painter but merely the paint factory.

American composer Philip Glass makes a point of visiting Kutztown, Pa., every couple of years.

LOCAL residents blighted by the alleged poor upkeep of an area of land at an Ellon estate have recruited new leaders to their action group.

The past two years of my life culminate in this moment. I have one and half hours to prove to some examiner in a dingy room that I can multiply, subtract and divide.