Our friends in Tokyo and other densely-populated Asian cities may not entirely sympathize, but when we “westerners” consider an elevator or subway car “too full” in the moment, it’s usually a testament to our phobia of getting too close to our proximate humans.
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Rudy Stone announces new album The Blinking Light/Peace on Earth, premieres video for album track “Rudy’s Dream,” could really go for a muffuletta and a nap after all that promotion…
As the old saying goes: “when the going gets tough…the TOUGH get the fuck out of crazy-ass New York and chill their asses out ASAP down in easy-breezy New Orleans.” And damned if laid-back, psych rock auteur Rudy Stone is about to start going around “arguing” with OLD SAYINGS.
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Feist Pleasure
Styles: embarrassments of riches
Others: Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah, Ivanka
“My aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes great pains to relate in detail the things it does not say, denounces the powers it exercises, and promises to liberate itself from the very laws that have made it function.”
– Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality
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Young Thug dropping new “singing album” this week, executive produced by Drake’s face
Young Thug has just changed the world with four tweets. Following the recent video drop for “All The Time,” Thugger took to Twitter tonight to announce that a “singing album” is coming “this week.” That was tweet #1. Tweet #2 was simply “E.B.B.T.G.,” which was soon revealed to be an acronym for “Easy Breezey Beautiful Thugger Girls,” according to tweet #3. (Speculation abounds that the album is titled E.B.B.T.G. or Easy Breezey Beautiful Thugger Girls.) The final tweet was “@Drake will be EP’n my singing album.” EP’n = executive producing.
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Diamanda Galás All the Way / At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem
Styles: jazz standards, folk standards, curses, lamentations, speaking in tongues
Others: Scott Walker, Lydia Lunch
“Thus the dark, mysterious, oriental strain of the Greek character is linked to the feminine through the art of lament. As a sort of stylized lament, the amanes is associated, in the Greek tradition, with the female voice. In rural Greece, as in the majority of pre-industrial societies, it is women who sing the laments for the dead, and not only women who are the immediate kin of the deceased, but those who are regarded to be especially skilled in the art of expressing the pain of the community through the improvisation of an artful song.”
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Lieven Martens Moana Idylls
Styles: underground composition, stage & screen, scenic sequence, Soundvision
Others: Seth Graham, Spencer Clark, Spielberg, Zealandia
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07.19.17 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
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