Staff
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi – chief editor
Photo by Gregg Mann
“Music should be like a real punch in your face.”
Sohrab´s Bio | Sohrab’s website
Jim Hoey – assistant editor & proofreader
Jim Hoey is a New York writer and guitar player, wondering about the apocalypse and the nearest connections between the here and now and the then and gone!
Martin Bisi – associate editor
Photo by Tasja Keetman
“I’ve worked as engineer/producer with many World Music artists, and I’ve always been drawn to interfacing what I do in experimental and indie music with their worlds.”
Bio: Martin Bisi has been, in his words, a “performer, producer and cultural antagonist”. He’s been a part of the downtown NYC avant-rock scene since the early 80’s when he started a recording with Brian Eno and Bill Laswell. He has since realized classic albums by Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, The Dresden Dolls, Foetus, Helmet, Boredoms, Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Africa Bambaata, Material, White Zombie, Cop Shoot Cop, Michael Gira’s Angels Of Light, Serena Maneesh, Unsane and others. This year he’s had two releases of his own work, Sirens Of The Apocalypse (CD), Son Of A Gun (digital-only EP).
Hubl Greiner – concept developer and consultant
Photo by Claudia Knupfer
Hubl Greiner – music activist, producer, composer, publisher, video- and photo artist – is known for many projects in testing the validity of border-setting in music. He enjoys to look deep into the abysm and sometimes further.
“…a devil-of-a-fellow and probably one of the most creative producers and musicians in his profession in Europe” /// Ear Magazine New York 1988
Hubl´s Bio | Hubl at myspace.com
John Kruth – contributor
Behzad Yaghmaian – contributor
Jason Reza Jorjani - contributor
Jason Reza Jorjani (b. 1981) is an Iranian-American and native New Yorker. He is a dual citizen of the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, who has traveled in Iran. A doctoral student of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jorjani completed his BA and MA at New York University. His NYU MA thesis concerned “The Conflict Between ‘Islamic Democracy’ and Universal Human Rights”, with a focus on Iran.
Augusta Palmer - contributor
photo by Bob Brinkmeyer
Augusta Palmer is a writer and filmmaker who holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University. She has also written about film for indieWIRE and Filmmaker Magazine, and has taught film history and criticism at N.Y.U., Sarah Lawrence College, Brooklyn College, and the School of Visual Arts. She co-directed If You Succeed (2007), a feature documentary about a young entrepreneur trying to start a business and save his failing marriage, and more recently completed The Hand of Fatima (2009), a film about the writer Robert Palmer and his deep affinity for The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Dawoud Kringle - contributor
Zach. Prewitt – CD reviewer
Zach Prewitt has no credentials in journalism. He never learned to properly play an instrument or read music. He does however have a nice set of speakers and is willing to dabble in CD reviews when the mood strikes him. Just so you know where he’s coming from, he thinks Appetite for Destruction and Mechanical Animals the only two perfect albums. One day in the not too distant future, he will release the third addition to this list under the name Dark Wonk.
Sean Hockings – contributor
Sean Hocking’s musical education began at an early age, growing up in the West Indies surrounded by steel bands, carnivals and soca music. On moving to the UK in the mid 70’s he was soon engrossed by the likes of David Bowie, Roxy Music and others appearing on Top of The Pops.
Aged 11 in 1976 the radio came alive with The Adverts, Stranglers, Damned, Clash & Sex Pistols and the discovery of the Beatles Helter Skelter on a compilation meant there was no going back. The subsequent downpour of new music into the early 80’s now classed as post punk meant that every week a new discovery came along …
Hocking also travelled to Australia in the early 80’s to discover the amazing underground music scenes that country’s cities as well as New Zealand.
Back in the UK at university in Brighton in the mid eighties with it’s wonderful underground gay club scene he was introduced to the delights of hi energy and early Chicago/Detroit house and started to dj and put on parties. Back in Sydney by the late eighties with it’s hedonistic club scene the next few years were are haze of House & Techno
Hocking formed his first label/art project 12 Apostles with partner in Crime Beb Davies in the late 90’s . And subsequently decided to start his own label Metal Postcard a couple of years later to highlight artists who were being ignored by other labels and the live scene
He now resides in Hong Kong and hopes to bring China and SE Asia’s underground music scene to a wider world.
Stephanie Keith - contributor & camera lady
Piruz Partow - CD reviewer
Jeff Greene – contributor
Anika Lani – contributor
William Harvey - contributor
Angela Davis – CD reviewer
Matthew Rentz – CD reviewer
Audrey Fort – concert reviewer
Audrey Fort is a native of Upstate New York. She danced in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and now studies drums at The Collective School of Music and teaches ballet.
Sarah Rahani - concert reviewer
Rob Pulwer – contributor
Chris Arnold – concert reviewer
Kevin Williams – contributor
Kevin is a guitarist and percussionist born in Washington DC. After graduating from NYU School of Jazz Studies in 2002, he has been performing with a lot of Brazilian music groups up and down the N.E, United States. He has also been dividing his time between Brazil and the U.S. for the last 15 years.
Ravish Momin - concert reviewer
Jeremy Siskind - contributor
Matt Cole – distributor and CD reviewer
Eric Lofhjelm – concert reviewer