happy mutants Trippy Tiny Desk Concert features a "saxocone," a saxophone with a traffic cone in it Jennifer Sandlin

arizona Free festival turns 5,000-person mining town into musical maze Jennifer Sandlin

electronic music The Faint: 25 years of Blank Wave Arcade (Todd Fink Interview) Lee Keeler

outsider art Insightful interview with Bill Wurtz of "history of the entire world, i guess" fame Natalie Dressed

top talent RayonBase's fusion of synth-pop, country, alternative, rock, and jazz blows my mind Jennifer Sandlin

music Black Thought and Yasiin Bey to collaborate on new musical project Elías Villoro

documentary Classic skateboarding film The Devil's Toy captures the spirit of the sport in Montreal in the 1960s Jennifer Sandlin

music Jazz innovator Wayne Shorter, RIP David Pescovitz

music Far-out Japanese laserdisc of 1980s space fantasy artwork with astro-jazz funk/ambient soundtrack (video) David Pescovitz

haiti What Sniglets, Haiti and the International Monetary Fund have in common Elías Villoro

tabloids Warring UFOs and warring Royals in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

hippies Attempting to clean up hippie camp, county encounters hippies Jason Weisberger

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Fifty years of Zappa's "Hot Rats" and how it inspired the jazz-rock fusion genre Gareth Branwyn

music Watch "Dog Police," a bizarre DEVO-inspired music video from 1984 David Pescovitz

music Legendary Betty Davis and Miles Davis funk/fusion/psych session released David Pescovitz

music Deeply freaky space-jazz-prog-fusion from The Visitors (1974) David Pescovitz

music When Miles Davis named his album Bitches Brew David Pescovitz

cuba A brief visit to Cuba Lars Forseti