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Gabriel Kennedy

Gabriel Kennedy (aka Prop Anon) is the author of "Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson." He also music as Prop Anon and with his band Hail Eris!

Travelling to Infinity: An interview with Jaime Reynolds of the Klaxons

Travelling to Infinity: An interview with Jaime Reynolds of the Klaxons

On a temperate fall evening in late September 2010, Thee Semiotic Alchemyst and I went to check out the Klaxons, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on North 6th street in Brooklyn. The band was on tour in support of their second album, Surfing the Void and seemed poised to

Mr. Lif: A Positive Force in Hip-Hop

Mr. Lif: A Positive Force in Hip-Hop

This interview took place in April 2009 a few days before Mr. Lif's show at New York City's Studio at Webster Hall in support of his then-current album, I Heard it Today. This record marked two 'firsts' for Lif: his first post-Def Jux album

America is Killing Its Youth: Martin Rev and the Artistic Legacy of Suicide

America is Killing Its Youth: Martin Rev and the Artistic Legacy of Suicide

A conversation with Martin Rev is an inspiring event. Let alone that he is one-half of one of the greatest musical duos of all time, engaging in conversation with the man tends towards thinking about the bigger subjects in life and art. To hear Rev talk about the absolute importance

The Mystery

The Mystery

When considering the most current discoveries in astronomy one may not think about Hip-Hop. However, over the course of its first fifty years, Hip-Hop artists have rhymed about the movements of the sun, moon, and stars in multitudinous songs and freestyles. Out of that group, Rakim Allah is the greatest

It Began in Africa

It Began in Africa

Recently, I came across the documentary Beware Mr. Baker (2012), by filmmaker Jay Bulgar. It's about the musical career and life of Ginger Baker. Baker first made a name for himself as the drummer for Cream, the British rock group from the 1960s. When I was a kid,

Flowers for Bill Laswell: Collision, Chaos, and Freedom

Flowers for Bill Laswell: Collision, Chaos, and Freedom

“We may certainly see God in all arts and in all sciences, but in music alone we see God free from all forms and thoughts.” - Inayat Khan Inayat Khan, the Sufi musicologist, believed that underneath all the apparent dissonance among humanity, there was a unity that can be found

The Rising Tides of Australia

The Rising Tides of Australia

This past month’s celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop, which occurred on August 11th, 2023, marked the anniversary of when DJ Kool Herc threw the first Hip-Hop jam at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx in 1973. Herc created the indelible ‘merry-go-round’ technique which entailed mixing the percussion