The wait is over! After more than five years, Philadelphia’s A Life Once Lost will release their new studio album, Ecstatic Trance, next week. Angular, furious, forward-thinking, and totally trippy, ...

A Life Once Lost are certainly not the first band to understand and appreciate the hypnotic element that lies underneath the fury and power of heavy music. Because all too often, we focus on the ...

James Lawer will first discuss the known physiological research on trance, the benefits of it, and the curious origins of the re-emergence in 1976 of pre-agricultural Ecstatic Trance Postures. The ...

A Life Once Lost might be dunzo, but guitarist Doug Sabolnick started a new project called Ecstatic Trance (which just so happens to be the ...

”It’s not just barefoot hippies dancing to great music and getting stoned on dance,” says Portland-based ”dance catalyst and movement arts facilitator” Paula Byrne, describing ecstatic dance. The ...

First of all: sorry there was no CUBLOTW last week! Post-Hurricane Sandy, I had no electricity (or heat for that matter) for pretty much the entire week. Sucky. But now we’re back! So — Second of all: ...