Out of nowhere, Trent Rezner and Nine Inch Nails just put out a new release called Ghosts. Like Radiohead, NiN is one of the leaders in the emerging trend of superstar artists deciding to go it alone, go digital, and release in a variety of formats. The options for getting the album range from FREE [...]
Cruxy friend’s Rikshaw Films participated in Current TV’s coverage of the U.S. New Hampshire Presidential Primaries as “CJ’s”, short for Collective Journalists. You might remember our promotion on this blog of Rikshaw’s film and website The Listening Project a few months ago.
Listener Han-shan in Afghanistan
You can view the Current “Pod” here. Overall its a [...]
Great news. TiVo, the set-top DVR time-shifted media innovator, announced at CES yesterday that any video podcast will be able to be viewed on their boxes. This means that the DRM-free video you purchase from Cruxy or convert with Mux will be able to be fed directly to and watched on your TiVo box in [...]
New Cruxy artist Isisip came to our attention when we noticed a few of her music videos appearing on the site. Now to be honest, they are hardly videos in the sense of what you’d see on MTV (well, when they actually show videos I mean). They are more documentary or “verite” perhaps – what [...]
A new documentary film Prince of Peace – God of War has just been released on Cruxy and announced on The Movie Blog:
Prince of Peace – God of War is a non-sensationalized visual record of Director John Campea’s (a former evangelical Christian and minister) journey across North America, speaking with historians, professors and religious leaders [...]
My natural instinct in music is towards the dark, cinematic, vast soundscapes often created by artists such as Bjork, Funkstorung, and Future Sound of London. I’m also a big fan of Herbert, who creates amazing collages of sounds that he rips up, smashes, and then puts back together. It is the work of these artists [...]
After a long hiatus, I’m glad to return with this week’s artist spotlight, featuring the partially Brooklyn-based Wreck and Salvage. I can honestly say that W&S makes me laugh and scratch my head nearly simultaneously. Too bad I am not more coordinated. Here’s a little more about ‘em:
Wreck & Salvage LLC is a collective of [...]