Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton died yesterday of a heart attack. The musician, known for his output with the Box Tops and Big Star, died unexpectedly in New Orleans, aged 59.
"Historically despised the new Gypsies are there by choice, not heritage. Unrelated to the Roma, the movement began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside. McKell followed these New Age Travellers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living the subversive lifestyle in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans." Iain McKell, "New Gypsies"
Sounds of new worlds: Blevin Blectum, aka Bevin Kelley, retrofuturist album OMNII released by Deathbomb Arc, is an interstellar sound exploration of a vast sci-fi electrified cosmos. OMNII by Blevin Blectum
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