Styles: collage, playground, psychedelic
Others: DJWWWW, toiret status, seaketa
Lots of voices jabber through Meeting Room + Rare Plants. Many of the ones that say anything discernible speak English. One, a British man, says, “This is rather irate or something. I was picking up an awful lot of shit, though. Can you smell that shit? Yes, I can smell an awful lot of shit, though. A lot of shit smothered on the microphone.”
More about: woopheadclrms
Hark! Forget all those vocaloids and Tupac holograms, everybody — because the next stage in the Future of Live Performance™ is upon us with Actress’ newly announced fall tour!
More about: Actress
Styles: “sadly, future R&B is no longer what it was”
Others: FKA twigs, Solange, Little Dragon
If we say that the personal is inherently political, can that be enough? Take Me Apart stakes itself in totality on an answer in the affirmative.
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New York City is the kind of formidable citadel that tends to keep the residents in and the outsiders out…which probably explains why I can’t get “authentic” New York pizza without first building an elaborate series of underground tunnels and smuggling various local experts in the craft outside of the city limits in the middle of the night. (It’s not kidnapping!)
More about: Cibo Matto, Diamond Terrifier, ZS
Styles: post-punk, experimental rock, noise rock
Others: Ought, Pere Ubu, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Post-punk has long been a paragon of musical and lyrical unrest, smacking of gravitas and self-seriousness. Excepting Talking Heads’ oft-exuberant exploration of the urbane artist lifestyle, the genre has perennially reveled in disaffection, ranging from the codified depression of progenitors Joy Division to the fraught maladjustment of contemporaries Preoccupations.
More about: Protomartyr
“But if nostalgia as a political motivation is most frequently associated with fascism, there is no reason why a nostalgia conscious of itself, a lucid and remorseless dissatisfaction with the present on the grounds of some remembered plenitude, cannot furnish as adequate a revolutionary stimulus as any other.”
– Frederic Jameson
An unnecessary nostalgia:
More about: Mark Templeton
Styles: metal, resonance, joy, disruption
Others: Jlin, Air Max ‘97, Aïsha Devi
Not one to rest on herself, Laurel Halo has shared a veritable slew of live dates in the familiar lands of the United States and Europe for all you hardcore Halo’ers out there (and I know you’re out there).
More about: Eli Keszler, Laurel Halo
If last week’s new Caretaker installment and additional 16-song album weren’t enough to satisfy your Leyland Kirby fix, then how about 100 more Caretaker-related tracks?!?
More about: James Leyland Kirby, NMESH, The Caretaker
Styles: limerence, liminality, luminosity
Others: Deux Filles
“Essence of faith: It is impossible really to desire the good and not obtain it.”
– Simone Weil, “The Things of the World”
“Baptism is only the desire for new birth. When an infant is baptized, those who love it express their desire that one day it shall be born from on high. When an adult is baptized, he himself expresses this desire.”
– Simone Weil — Last Notebook
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