Lincoln Eddy, Author at ALARM

Exploding flags, Persian miniatures, and slave ships: Artist Andrew Schoultz’s Fall Out

Artist Andrew Schoultz has an idea of America. And it isn’t one you’ve seen before.

Inspired heavily by “German map-making from the 14th Century and Persian and Indian miniatures,” Schoultz’s work is a clash of collage, mixed media, and imperialistic intrigue; gilt-leaf drips down American flags and exploding brick walls are overrun by all-seeing eyes and stamping horses. It’s a whimsical, disturbing amalgamation of the modern and historical, captured in a time capsule for an era that hasn’t happened yet.

Check out some of the pieces below, and if you’re in Culver City, CA, head over to the Mark Moore Gallery to see Fall Out, up through February 9, 2013.

Motörheadphönes are a thing now

In a sentence that we never thought we’d be typing, Lemmy of Motörhead stopped by the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show to premiere his band’s new line of listening peripherals, the why-hasn’t-this-happened-before Motörheadphönes.

Aimed at “the rock/pop audience, a target group who are critical listeners,” the three headphones and six in-ear models will be more focused on the mid-range of sound than other “lifestyle” models such as Beats by Dre. Launched last fall in Europe, and with a pedigree including an engineer from Gothenburg, Sweden, Motörheadphönes will be hitting the US market towards the end of April 2013.

Dave Grohl’s super-collective Sound City Players to perform one night only in LA

MP3 Premiere: Fonda’s “You’ve Got a Life of Your Own” delivers pop dichotomy

With an infectious wall of sound blasting at the listener, LA’s Fonda writes break-up music you can drive to.

Mastodon’s Troy Sanders has bacon saved by Orange Amps + adorable Labrador retriever

This viral beauty from Orange Amps combines fake douchebaggery, goofball humor, an adorable Labrador, and Mastodon’s Troy Sanders for a video that, while offering little information about the Orange Micro Terror, is worth your three minutes.

Slumber-party jams: Dan the Automator and Emily Wells’s Pillowfight debuts “Used to Think”

Video: How to Destroy Angels’ “The Loop Closes” offers audiovisual ouroboros

How to Destroy Angels: An Omen EP (Columbia, 11/13/12)

Images of cell mitosis, swarming bees, and something that could be either a crosswalk or an orgy of organisms — the video for How to Destroy Angels’ “The Loop Closes” has the intensity of a visual countdown to the apocalypse, viewed through the dispassionate eye of city surveillance.

Shai Hulud to tour with Propagandhi, support first album in five years

Justice in the atomic age: Atoms for Peace debuts “Judge, Jury, and Executioner”

Hive mind: Ex-Battles looper Tyondai Braxton does the Guggenheim

Tyondai Braxton is not one to let the grass grow under his feet. The former Battles loop guru / singer has worked with Philip Glass, performed his 2009 record Central Market with orchestras worldwide, and has written commission pieces for artists including Kronos Quartet and Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Now Braxton is taking over the Guggenheim. His new piece, Hive, which is part art installation / part music performance, will have its world premiere on March 21 in New York.

Cut off one, two grow back: Hydra Health Rehabilitation continues with exclusive T-shirt

As part of its Hydra Health Rehabilitation Project, Hydra Head Records has debuted an awesome, very limited T-shirt and print from artist Andrew Cox.

MP3 Premiere: Brokeback’s “The Wire, the Rag, and the Payoff” makes a dusty, psychedelic trip west

Brokeback: Brokeback and the Black Rock (Thrill Jockey, 1/22/13)

With more than a little reverb, a sense of wide-open space, and a strong kinship with Americana, Brokeback and Black Rock is what instrumental albums should be. There is no struggle with absent vocals; these are complete compositions, finished and evocative.