With the proviso that I obviously can't be everywhere all the time, I'll say that I was impressed with the crowds listening to live music at several venues around town last week. Still, I routinely ...

Kirby’s Dream Band drummer Erich Beckmann is also the musical manipulator behind Djinn & Tonic, an experimental alt-rock project that makes what he calls electro exotica, blending electronic dance ...

A celebration of a lot of the things that make life worth living, “Back in the Dungeon,” which was just posted yesterday, is a video to jumpstart your brain if you’re at all feeling in a rut. If ...

Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man were formed in 2004 and their name is a reference to the film of the same name.[9] The makers of the film have since endorsed the band and produced a film trailer/music ...

Grindhouse, trash sci-fi and kung fu films, experimental 3-D — these are the territory of bizarro cinema. The Twin Cities Psychotronic Film Society, which has been operating since March, screens ...

As gear becomes available to anyone with the money to buy a decent computer and some image-processing software, the entire idea of “low budget” as a signifier of anything becomes increasingly hazy.

11. BREAKING THE MOLD: More than make up, this one is when practical effects masters employ their crafting skills directly to making the whole damn movie. Really great art slips through the cracks ...

For all those moviegoers who would rather see ”Night of the Living Dead” than ”E.T.” and ”Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” rather than ”Santa Claus: The Movie,” Chicago Filmmakers is hosting a film ...