The Tale of Smokey: Lost Great American Gay Pre-Punk Icons →

Chapter Music presents the first ever reissue of wild and outlandish 1970s LA pre-punk icons Smokey. Featuring cameos from James Williamson of the Stooges, Randy Rhoads of Quiet Riot/Ozzy Osbourne and members of the Motels, King Crimson, David Bowie’s Tin Machine, Suburban Lawns and many others, the Smokey story has to be heard to be believed. Read more about Smokey and listen to a track off the reissue here. 

Pop Duo Honne Releases Sultry Sci-Fi Video for 'Coastal Love'

Honne and tatemae are Japanese words that describe contrast between a person's true feelings and desires and the behavior and opinions one displays in public - we've all been their before. Honne is also the name of London based pop-duo who are due to release their EP 'Coastal Love' on the Tatemae label on May 4th. Today, Honne releases their music video for the EP's namesake track. The music video - directed by Danilo Parra - takes you on a strange and enchanted journey, replete with clandestine exchanges and illicit sea creatures. 

A Coachella Diary on Film by Ethan DeLorenzo

Ethan DeLorenzo gets strange and weird with Father John Misty, Travis Scott, Chris Brown and more during Coachella 2015. photographs by Ethan DeLorenzo

Adanowsky Has Surreal Orgasm with Stoya In New Music Video

Adan Jodorowsky - AKA Adanowsky - (son of cult filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky) stars and directs in his new music video, alongside pornstar Stoya, for the track Would You Be Mine. In a bedlam of forrest and jungle animals and two geishas, Jodorowsky and Stoya embrace in multiple, sometimes sacrilegious (if you count sodomy with a crucifix sacrilegious), positions until the pornstar comes to a climax in beautiful liquid form. Oh, and then they fly away together. Watch the video above - we won't judge you if you need to be alone. 

Premier of Peach Kelli Pop's Video Game Inspired Music Video

To further celebrate the release of their amazing new album III (Burger Records), Peach Kelli Pop premiers their new music video for “Princess Castle 1987!” Directed, shot, and edited by Eddie Ruiz. The project of multi-instrumentalist, Allie Hanlon, Peach Kelli Pop first began when Hanlon decided to start writing and recording songs in her native home of Ottawa, Canada back in 2009. Inspired by video games, conspiracy theorists, and Chinese food, Hanlon also tackles larger, more serious issues such as the pressures and challenges women face and the weight of love.Hanlon had this to say about the new video:

“We dressed up as Princess Toadstool and ran through LA in search of a Castle. Costumes were created by Jessica Owen and Vanessa Gonzalez, our guitar player and keyboardist who also happen to be costume designers. Running around in a group of princesses was extremely fun and I hope to have the opportunity again some day.”

A Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Howl at Ace Hotel

Nick Cave, Courtney Love, Peaches, Devendra Banhart, Will Forte and more join forces for a night of music, words and laughs to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Allen Ginsburg's seminal poem Howl at the Ace Hotel Theater. Proceeds from the event benefit the David Lynch Foundation. photographs by Jessie Askinazi

Young Fathers Premier Music Video for 'Shame' Off New Album

Edinburgh based Young Fathers, who last year won the Mercy Prize for their album Dead, premier a new music video for the track 'Shame' off their new album - entitled White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada). The video was brilliantly directed by Jeremy Cole, who remarks that it "...reflects the dichotomy of the track’s mix of intensity with joy and euphoria." The band has a grander statement about the video and about the Post Pop genre as a whole: 

"What.  Now? Can’t we just leave it to moulder away in the corner?  Do we have to keep prodding it with a stick?  Frankensteining it? Remember the melodious sweet times, the soundtracks to the moments, the whistling and skipping along, the arm in arm, girls together against the world, the boys trash it up, smash it up, school leaving day, first day at the desk-face, did we just make a baby groovy times? It died, didn’t it?  Just passed slowly away.  In its sleep. We’re feeling mischievous, though.  Wanna mess it up.  One more time for daddy.  One more dance around the maypole.  Do the zombie twist.  For the memories. No shame. Squeezing the last few drops before it’s over-analysed into the very computer screen, a shadow burn of an ecstatic smile.  Just another product.  This, is just another product and that’s the way you should take it.  There’s no shame in that."

Niagra Premiers Avant-Psych-Tronica Video for 'ELSE'

Niagara is the collaborative project of artists/producers David Tomat (TOMAT / N.A.M.B./ GEMINI EXCERPT) and Gabriele Ottino (N.A.M.B. / Milena Lovesick / GEMINI EXCERPT), whose off-kilter take on pop incorporates elements of electronic, psychedelic, Eastern and dance music to create their own brand of 'avant-psych-tronica'."Else What Else?" is the second single from Turin-based experimental pop duo Niagara's second album, Don't Take It Personally.

Petite Noir's Official Music Video for 'The Fall'

Capetown based Yannick Iluga, otherwise known at Petite Noir, calls his music 'noirwave.' Born to a Congolese father and Angolan mother, Iluga has been making his unclassifiable, joyous music in various iterations for a number of years now. See the new music for the track 'The Fall' - off the current album The King Of Anxiety (Domino). The video is inspired by the work of Serbian artist Marina Abramovic, and in particular her ‘The Artist is Present’ performance art piece (MoMa 2010). 

[PHOTOS] Björk Mid-Career Retrospective @ MOMA in New York

The Museum of Modern Art presents a retrospective of the multifaceted work of composer, musician, and singer Björk. The exhibition draws from more than 20 years of the artist’s daring and innovative projects and her eight full-length albums to chronicle her career through sound, film, visuals, instruments, objects, and costumes. Autre was granted preview access to the show before the opening, which is March 8th and it runs until June 7th, 2015 at MOMA. 

Check Out Viv Albertine's New Memoir

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Viv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. She formed a band with Sid Vicious and was there the night he met Nancy Spungeon. She tempted Johnny Thunders…toured America with the Clash…dated Mick Jones…and inspired the classic Clash anthem Train in Vain. But Albertine was no mere muse. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene. Pick up her memoirs book here. 

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Deliriously Strange New Music Video

The newest single fromSinger's Grave A Sea of Tongues is molten, set to burn like a classic torch song should-- in your ears and forever! On "New Black Rich (Tusks)", Bonnie 'Prince' Billy collaborated with longtime songwriting partner Bryan Rich to create the ardent ballad. In the music video, Billy is featured with long ivory tusks as he dances and sings his way to a country speakeasy where he falls in love with a girl who has another strange animalistic characteristic.

[MUSIC] Ariel Pink New Album Pom Pom Out In November

Spanning 17 tracks and 69 minutes, pom pom is unfiltered Ariel Pink, a pied piper of the absurd, with infectious tales of romance, murder, frog princes and Jell-O. With the Los Angeles native striking it out alone and returning to the solo moniker he has adopted for well over a decade, pom pom could very well be Ariel Pink's magnum opus. pom pom is Ariel Pink's third studio album for 4AD.

Listen: Ariel Pink "Black Ballerina"