Front page photo by Jamie-James Medina

Next month, oddball troubadour Willis Earl Beal will roll out a new website, which will be accompanied by the premiere of an animated film from Beal, Principles of a Protagonist. The film is based on a novella-cum-photocopied-zine that Beal wrote and sold in his native Chicago back in the summer of 2010; the accompanying soundtrack will feature re-recorded versions of songs such as this one from this year's enigmatic debut, Acousmatic Sorcery.