Anyone growing up in this cursed generation ought to consider themselves awfully lucky. Yes, yes, you look at the news, you see the papers, you hear the polar bears cryin’, the Middle East bleeding, and the religious zealots choking on their own excrement, and it’s hard to immediately agree, but consider this...how many generations can rightfully claim being witness to the unlikely birth, the uncontrollably rapid rise, and the glorious apex of arguably the world’s most influential musical genre?
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UCLA's Hammer Museum finds itself in a position to merge popular culture with aspects of the global subculture in such a way that presents both of them as indispensible parts of each other. They’ve tapped into this age of edge by truly 'seeking' out quality rather than simply 'settling' for what we're commonly given. To find such notable aspects of our future culture, one has no choice but to cut up the cookie cutter and relish in the surprising satisfaction that comes with the process of discovery.
Dig into the underground.
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Guantanamo's Orange Suit City is America's 8th largest metropolis, we have 11,000 TV stations all programmed by Rupert Murdoch's wired brain preserves, and President Jeb Bush is buddy buddy with President bin Laden of Eurasia. This is Greg Palast's report from the future.
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"For me, being on stage...that is my release...that is my buzz...that is my drive...that is how I raise my adrenaline...how I get my blood flowing!" -Maxim
The Prodigy are on a mission. An expertly strategized and skillfully manipulated mission to resurrect the freak flag and catapult crowds into frenzy, it’s still their time, it’s Their Law.
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Author note: I first ran this in the Spring of 2004 in WAV Magazine, which eventually became Kotori Magazine, a music and culture magazine I used to publish in a previous life. After seeing a CNN piece this morning on Saul Williams, I felt that, on the anniversary of September 11, it was only appropriate to re-share this one to take stock of how far, or backwards, we've come since that fateful day. This interview took place at the Troubadour in Hollywood during what was billed a 9-11 tribute event.
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I once had a magazine. It was all about music art politics and culture. It was rad. It started as WAV Magazine, but then we almost got sued by Clear Channel, so changed it to Kotori Magazine (with the blessing of a Hopi Indian chief as ‘kotori’ is one of their sacred kachinas).
Well that magazine no longer exists.
And at the time, neither did smartphones.
Yes, I’m old.
But I would not let those magazines die.
So here are pdfs.
Scroll through the buggers and you’ll find interviews and features with everyone from the Ozomatli NOFX and System of a Down to Ralph Steadman and Noam Chomsky. Those were interesting days…
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