Back in the days there was still jazz at No See Jazz and the public broadcasting organization broadcasted culture. Check out this great Sun Ra concert!

The spectacular performances of the Sun Ra Arkestra will be remembered for a long time by those happy enough to have witnessed one or more of the 6 perfomances they gave at ZXZW 2008.
On this cool blog you can find several very interesting jazz downloads, and also the most famous movie of Sun Ra: Space [...]

“Last month the ZXZW Festival in Tilburg, Holland sent me an invitation to attend this year’s event to witness the Embassy of the Living Sun Ra, a week-long residency by the 15-piece Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen. I was able to attend the last four nights of musical delights and at [...]

Did a bunch of high box jumps onto the stage and risers, wall handstand push ups and stuff for a bit.
Went and ate at the artist meal hall and then went and saw THE SUN RA ARKESTRA.
Holy shit, I cried during their first song. Some of these guys have been with the band for 50 [...]

Aad van Nieuwkerk wrote a piece about the Sun Ra Arkestra on the Radio 6 website. You can also find old Sun Ra material (from 1971 till1990) to download. Saturday night Radio 6 will broadcast the Sun Ra Arkestra show live. Find it all here.

John Corbett arrived yesterday with a real Sun Ra treasure. He’s now working at the public library. We’ll open the exhibit Sunday 24th of August at 14.00.

This Sunday, the 24th,  we’ll open the Sun Ra exhibition Tapestries from an Asteroid: Arkestra Art & Design 1956-1975. Curator John Corbett will be there. Staplerfahrer will remix the Ra. And we’ll treat you on some free drinks and a Raket ice cream. Be there, Public Library at 14.00.

Mark Dery is a cultural critic. Time magazine called him one of “the smartest people we know.” (Praise so staggeringly over-the-top that even the Smartest Kid in the World would collapse under the strain of trying to live up to it!) Bruce Sterling wrote, “He may be the best cultural critic alive.” Dery writes about [...]