Musical stories in fantastical worlds
You like faerie folk murder ballads? Then why not check out this wonderful little EP by a burgeoning artist who i’m convinced has a dazzling artistic light that will shine gloriously throughout her long, radiant career. I’m also really into mandolin […]
Cause why not? Back when we did the London Ovalhouse workshop of Dolls, i had to be in London for it for 2 weeks and needed a place to stay. Normally i would stay with Mark but he had just […]
Long time cohort Matthew Broyles, as known as an ingenious idea man, has written a sci fi book where on the edge of perception, mankind’s future balances between cold predictability and chaotic reinvention. Total Psychology: the exact science of opinion and […]
Ziltoid frikkin rules. I’m not usually a big metal guy, although occasionally some metal concept albums come along and just really, really do it for me. This is one of those albums. The epically grand, utterly batshit, balls out insanity […]
As the 20th century opened, a certain arm of western culture was up in arms about the threat that hordes of strange East Asians, unfathomable in their foreign otherness, posed to the western way of life, i.e. the Yellow Peril. […]
It is not our purpose here to list characters who are simply East Asian stereotypes. We are specifically listing several pop culture characters directly created by Yellow Peril era bias The socially awkward uber geek trope, the Tiger Mother, these are […]
We are going to do a little exploration into the racist propaganda that is the Yellow Peril and examples thereof. In the upcoming Gothic Western Steampunk Cabaret there is an aspect of the racism of yellow peril era thinking that is subtly […]
“I make songs that shouldn’t be heard”. -Zebulon Whatley In the Southern Gothic music genre, the band Sons Of Perdition are a high water mark of slow musical intensity. Evoking a desolate rural area where the choking weight of religion is standing […]
As long as we’re on a weird west kick for the time being, how can we not feature this delightful collaboration between Professor Elemental and Steam Powered Giraffe, two names undoubtedly already familiar to the steampunk oriented audience reading […]
Yay!!! The always awesome Sarah de Buck has sent her preliminary sketch for Lost Hallow which i cannot help but share, even though it’s hardly the finished version. Although it looks pretty damn good to me. I’ve been promising i […]