Sonic Attack

Serendipity. It’s defined by Merriam-Webster as, “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” It’s also a force that takes you through an unexpected back road that leads to some of the best and most ...

Angels in the musical arts have gotten a bad reputation. Not even bad in a colorful, smoking-in-the-boys-room kind of way, but bad in a cliched and whitewashed way. Simpy, bloodless, with nary an ounce of passion and power. Once portrayed ...

“An artist is forced by others to paint out his own free will.”  —Willem de Kooning “Censorship=Artistic Death” —Skinny Puppy The art of fear is both a potent weapon and a mighty revealer when placed in the right hands and minds. ...

If there is a redheaded stepchild of the creative arts, the music video format is it. Literature, music, theater, even the L’Enfant terrible that is cinema, all have their “respectable” champions and preservationists. Music video, on the other hand, has ...

Mood music is a phrase that evokes either sounds for some downtown lovin’ or something more in the vein of Jackie Gleason’s’ For Lovers Only. (Believe me, despite the title, there is a HUGE divide between the two categories, unless ...

The pantheon of rock vocalists that emerged in the 1970s is a mighty enough one to stage a production of Clash of the Titans solely built from these sonic deities. (Seriously, who wouldn’t want to hear and see Ian Gillan ...

Music and imagery are two worlds that can be sheer blazing kismet or the art equivalent of a dumpster man giving you the middle finger. In short? It can range fiercely but when it works, it is absolute dynamite. A ...

The Halloween edition of Sonic Attack continues with the chaser to last week’s shot, Music to Get Your Spook On!: The Album Edition, presenting you with the perfect spooky music video playlist to accompany all things going bump in the night. The ...

90% of everything I love about life, nature and the arts (and please make sure to pronounce that last one really posh, as in the aaartsss) is encapsulated all within the greatest holiday ever. Halloween. Pumpkins, ghouls, masks, the smell ...