DECAYCAST 2017 UPDATES

screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-12-15-37-pm Hello, and if you’re reading this, you’re probably one of the few loyal followers of Decaycast over the years, we have been sporadicly posting over the last few years, and this year its time to finally take it to the next level. We announce with heavy hearts that the original founder of DECAYCAST, Jsun Adrian McCarty is no longer with us as they have passed in the Oakland Ghostship tragedy, as well as many other close family and friends. It is with a heavy heart and watery eyes that we announce this to the Decaycast community, and a re-shaping of Decaycast with more inclusion, more community centered, less standard review topics and a myriad of other things is going to be the next step. Before Jsun passed we were talking of finally getting this thing off the ground again, with a possible hardcopy zine as well which we are looking into as well for the future. One thing we have learned from the tragic Oakland fire was that we need to control the discourse around our own work as artists, musicians, historians and the like, and Decaycast will attempt to serve just as this. The mainstream media, just like the city, stare, and federal apparatus is not here for artists, its not here for the disenfranchised, it’s only there for itself and to uphold the racist, sexist, and xenophobic belief systems which reinforce and stem from, capitalism. I want to make Decaycast an open platform for bay area disenfranchised artists and musicians to help control the discourse around their own work, and do it right, With this in mind, if you’d like to contribute (reviews, interviews, brief writeup’s etc)- please email decaycast(at)gmail.com and lets talk some ideas. We leave you with this image commemorating all of the brave and powerful souls we lost in the Oakland fire as well as a link for the Immediate Fire Relief Fund which has been providing funds and access to chosen family of those we lost on the tragic day of December 2, 2016.