Blockhead’s The Music Scene MEDIA ROOTS- An extremely psychedelic and visually explosive animated video for Blockhead’s The Music Scene directed by Anthony Francisco Schepperd. The video encompasses a lot of interesting themes and explores a post human world where animals and televisions rule.
Media Roots Music- Atop Set #2 by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS– With my second set for Media Roots Music, I continue to explore my different musical obsessions. At the beginning of the mix there is a sense of technology’s distance and coldness with the sounds. The end of the set ends with the more tangible essence of hands on instruments … Read More
Media Roots Radio – Conversation with Songwriter and Musician John Vanderslice by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS– A couple of weeks ago, John Vanderslice killed his headlining show at the New Parish in Oakland. As he milled around the merch table enthusiastically greeting dedicated fans, I approached him and asked if he would be willing to conduct an exclusive interview for … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- PJ Harvey has made videos for every song on her new album Let England Shake with photojournalist Séamus Murphy. The video for the beautiful and moving “The Words That Maketh Murder” alternates shots of Harvey playing her autoharp with ominous imagery: lights through a windshield, elderly people dancing, dead bodies. The song is incredibly powerful and the lyrics … Read More
(Free album download below) “Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely ‘think’ his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of … Read More
