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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI May 23 - 29, 2006

 
 Jawa   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 311: unnatural flavor

Summer is heating up, and Al Gore has something to say about it in his harrowing new doc about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. But he's not the only one in the kitchen: this week brings all things hot, gruesome, and unnatural, starting with death metal and tech-grind from Necrophagist and Cattle Decapitation. The Ontological-Hysteric Incubator helps us laugh at death with its theatrical comedy Q&Y, artist Josiah McElheny makes a Big Bang with glass, and Steve Coleman and Five Elements do the same with sax 'n drums. Meanwhile, Modeselektor's mutant techno and Dandy Jack's live/DJ hybrid give electronic music's evolution a swift kick in the pants. Films take a hard line on the natural order, too, as La Moustache makes an existential mountain out of upper-lip growth and Cavite digs into the dark side of agritourism. Re-introduce yourself to the world, and spread it...

 

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Return to purity — detox with Evian
 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Josiah McElheny; Wangechi Mutu
dance Adaptations: Variations on Deborah Hay
dj Dandy Jack; Modeselektor; Domu
film An Inconvenient Truth; The Music of Regret; Cavite; La Moustache
multimedia NDP: The Movie; The XY Chromosome Moving Image Project; Siamese Cinema
music Howe Gelb; Soul Position; Necrophagist; Zip w/ Jan Jelinek; Steve Coleman and Five Elements
performanceJackie Beat Is Not a People Person
photography Snap Judgments
puppetryLabapalooza!
reading Stories About the News: An Evening with the Moth; Augusten Burroughs
theatre Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon 2006; Q&Y: A Brief Comedy About Death
FEAT wear your heart on your sleeve Dry T-Shirt Contest; cd review Jolie Holland, Springtime Can Kill You; streams Flavorpill Radio on Heavy.com




Death Becomes Them
Do we really need to tell you that progressive death metal bands with names like Cattle Decapitation and Necrophagist are awesome? We probably have to tell you not to eat the Styrofoam peanuts too.

Daily Updates




Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


PHOTOGRAPHY
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography

when: Now through Sun 5.28 (Tue-Sun: 10am-6pm)
where: International Center of Photography (1133 6th Ave, 212.857.0000) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

With Snap Judgments, curator Okwui Enwezor proposes a dramatic shift toward a more thorough and articulate examination of contemporary African identification, attitudes, and trends. Many of the works on display, such as Yto Barrada's The Strait Project, a wistful look at life on the border between Europe and Africa, represent a purposeful changeover to the use of cameras as tools of artistic representation. Michael Tsegaye considers psychological attitudes through portraiture, while Mohamed Camara and Guy Tillim round out the exhibition by highlighting the surreal in contemporary cityscapes and home life. (JG)

Note: The ICP stays open until 8pm on Fridays.



MULTIMEDIA
North Drive Press presents NDP: The Movie

when: Tue 5.23 (7pm)
where: The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793) map
price:
links: Event Info | North Drive Press

Cerebral cream pie thrower Sara Greenberger Rafferty and limnal portraitist Matt Keegan bring their artist interviews and multiple-project North Drive Press out of the box with an inquiring evening on screen and stage. Video interviews featuring artists such as spooky sleepover sculptor Ian Cooper and fabric fetishist Michael Mahalchick intermix with video and sound works from middle America spiritualist Ronnie Bass and nostalgia investigator Carol Bove, among others. Melodic noise artists/rockers Hurray top off the proceedings with improvised experimental music to round out a night of presentations by a quirky crop of artists. (CEK)



DJ
Other Music presents Modeselektor

when: Tue 5.23 (9pm)
where: APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map
price: $9
links: Event Info | Modeselektor

Modeselektor's Hello Mom! is one of the best releases yet on Ellen Allien's increasingly dominant BPitch Control label — and it's not even proper techno. The Berlin-based duo packed its debut LP to the gills with impish synthetic mischief that does for electronic music fans what the Go! Team does for the indie massive: provide a shameless sugar-rush of dizzying, look-no-hands genre hops. Whether cutting euro-crunk anthems with Cuizinier, unleashing mind-melting ghettotech bounce, or dropping faux-dancehall burners, Modeselektor refuse to be pinned down — much less sit still. (TW)

  What was the name of Allien's first record label? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
La Moustache

when: Opens Wed 5.24
where: IFC Center (323 6th Ave, 212.924.7771) map
price: $10.75
links: IFC Center | La Moustache

Marc and his wife Agnès (the inimitable Emmanuelle Devos) are the ideal Parisian couple: clever, cosmopolitan, and just neurotic enough to keep dinner parties interesting, at least until Marc shaves off the moustache he's sported his entire adult life and no one, not even Agnès, notices. Then, he catapults into a tizzy of alienation — is he going mad or the victim of a conspiracy? — and his wife, wide-eyed and subversive, proves to be no help at all. With a wonderful insidiousness, La Moustache director/writer Emmanuel Carrère mines the psychological-thriller genre to tackle that classically French topic: the existentialist limitations of romantic love. (LR)

  Which personal physical attribute is integral to your identity, and what would you do if you suddenly lost it? Our five favorite responses each win a pair of tickets to any La Moustache screening between Monday and Thursday.



FILM
Laurie Simmons: The Music of Regret

when: Wed 5.24 (7 & 8:15pm )
where: MoMA (11 W 53rd St, 212.708.9400) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Laurie Simmons

A key figure in contemporary photography, Laurie Simmons is known as one of the first to shoot complex staged narratives. The artist's first film, The Music of Regret, premieres at MoMA this week, and builds off three bodies of work she has developed over 35 years. Vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and female figures costumed in objects are, respectively, the subjects of each distinctive phase and of corresponding acts in the film. The Green Tie, a suburban tale as told by puppets, is followed by ventriloquist dummies who sing about love and loss in The Music of Regret. Deriving from both '50s imagery and surrealist cinema, The Audition brilliantly casts absurd creatures made of objects and legs in a dance revue. (PJ)

Note: There is an additional screening Mon 5.29 (1pm).

  What is believed to be the original purpose of ventriloquism? The second correct response wins a pair of tickets to one of tonight's screenings.



READING
EXTRA! EXTRA! Stories About the News: An Evening with the Moth

when: Wed 5.24 (8pm)
where: Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre, Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, 212.864.1414) map
price: $21-25
links: Event Info | The Moth

What do Moby and Jonathan Ames have in common? Aside from being scrawny white guys with shaved heads, the two also love the urban storytelling gathering the Moth. Tonight, Ames and Moby relate stories of media, that fickle mistress to the stars. They are joined by various media moguls, such as Tom Reiss of the New Yorker, CBS news correspondent Randall Pinkston, and Six O' Clock News guru Janet Paist to relate thoughtful, though unscripted, tales of the press. Thanks Mr. McLuhan, tonight the media really is the message. (JDS)

  Moby inherited his real name from which of his famous relatives? The fifth correct response wins a Moth CD and a pair of tickets to this reading.



ALSO ON WED

READING
Augusten Burroughs: Possible Side Effects: True Stories
Wed 5.24 (12:30-1:45pm) Bryant Park Reading Room (btwn 5th & 6th Aves & 40th & 42nd Sts) map

Event Info
 
After two memoirs that were equally engrossing and cringe-inducing, Augusten Burroughs is back. Reading from his latest collection of essays, he continues his brand of recognizably bizarre desperation. (NK)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MULTIMEDIA
Lynne Sachs and Mark Street: The XY Chromosome Moving Image Project

when: Thur 5.25 (7:30 & 10pm)
where: Monkey Town (58 N 3rd St, Wburg, 781.384.1369) map
price: $5
links: Event Info | Lynne Sachs | Mark Street

Local Brooklyn filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Mark Street engage in visual dialogue tonight across Monkey Town's four screens, using the venue's Cartesian symmetry to explore the spaces between abstraction and representation. Street's inexhaustibly tactile film is shown on two screens, in which handpainted found footage and camera-less handmade films reveal themselves like luminous palimpsests before the eyes. Sachs responds in turn with theatrical, microcosmic worlds where the everyday is defamiliarized and hundreds of represented objects — toys, hands, a cherry pie, a miniature Empire State Building — resonate and tremble in the presence of each other and the opposing projections. (BB)

Note: Reservations are strongly recommended.

  If she wasn't busy as a filmmaker, Lynne Sachs claims she'd prefer what alternative occupation? The seventh correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



DANCE
Adaptations: Variations on Deborah Hay

when: Thur 5.25 - Sat 5.27 (8pm)
where: Dance New Amsterdam (280 Broadway, 2nd Fl, 212.625.8369) map
price: $17
links: Event Info

Deborah Hay, choreographer and matriarch of modern dance, demands that her dancers situate themselves in this surreal world through an intense, three-month regimen of isolated daily practice. Adaptations, organized by downtown dancer Layard Thompson, presents the fruits of this self-exploration as five dancers each perform personal interpretations of Hay's pieces. Room is a particularly striking example, in which Thompson's aggressive style both opposes and compliments the fuller, softer approach of fellow Adaptationser Lise Serrell. In keeping with the interpretive theme, Hay is not performing tonight. (JDS)



DJ
Robots presents Dandy Jack and the Junction SM w/ Sonja Moonear and Sammy Dee

when: Thur 5.25 (10pm-4am)
where: Love (179 MacDougal St, 212.477.5683) map
price: $20 / $18 before midnight
links: Event Info | Robots | Dandy Jack and the Junction SM

In contrast to the more restrained and cerebral compositions of Chilean-born Martin Schopf's countrymen Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano, Schopf, as Dandy Jack, adds a playful, funkier twist to the proven combination of minimal techno and Latin-inspired polyrhythms. Live, Dandy Jack manipulates a palette of vocal blips, crisp, jumpy percussion, and the occasional vibrant melody over shifting, blurry textures and tones. DJ Sonja Moonear joins him as the Junction SM, offering limitless possibilities as a live/DJ combo. The duo combine vinyl with on-the-fly edits, warping both pre-existing tracks and Schopf's own sounds, allowing for jaw dropping improvisation on one of the city's finest sound systems. (CJN)

Note: Perlon's Sammy Dee takes a rest from his Pantytec partner Zip (who DJs tomorrow) to add more jacks to the evening.

  What was the dramatic reason behind Villalobos' move to Germany? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON THUR

MUSIC: Jazz
Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Thur 5.25 - Sat 5.27 (9 & 10:30pm) Jazz Gallery (290 Hudson St, 212.242.1063) map $15

Event Info
 
Legendary jazz theorist and sax master Steve Coleman flirts with the avant-garde as he explores complex mathematics with a brassy groove. (JM)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Cavite

when: Opens Fri 5.26
where: Cinema Village (22 E 12th St, 212.924.3363) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | Cavite

Consider this macrobudget action movie spiked with a hefty political conscience to be the cinematic equivalent of agritourism immersion. When San Diego resident Adam returns to the Philippines for his father's funeral, a cell phone planted in his bag rings with the news that his mother and sister have been kidnapped, and that he must obey the anonymous caller's mandates if they are to survive. All jump-cuts and handheld shots, Cavite spirals along with Adam as he races deeper into his native country and the painful recognition of what is lost when a land and its children grow westernized. (LR)



MUSIC: Minimal techno
Zip (aka Dimbiman) w/ Jan Jelinek

when: Fri 5.26 (10pm)
where: Subtonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Zip | Jan Jelinek

After a stunning live set in January with his Pantytec partner Sammy Dee (who performs solo on Thursday, May 25th), Zip, the owner of tastemaking Berlin minimal house/techno imprint Perlon, stops en route to DEMF and Mutek to man the decks at one of the city's true bastions of underground electronic music. Joining him is noted experimentalist Jan Jelinek — best known for his highly influential Loop-finding-jazz-records album — who translates his latest work Kosmischer Pitch from a largely laptop-assembled composition of subtle, micro-glitched tones and Krautrockian samples into a live, semi-improvised performance complete with a three-piece ensemble. (CJN)

  Which mid-'80s experimental group helped launch Zip's musical career? The second and third correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON FRI

PUPPETRY
Labapalooza! Mini-Festival of Puppet Theater
Fri 5.26 - Sun 6.4 (Fri-Sat: 8pm / Sun: 3pm) St Ann's Warehouse (38 Water St, DUMBO, 718.254.8779) map $20

Event Info
 
Ranging from bizarre to poetic, the annual Labapalooza extends the limits of puppetry with works that draw inspiration from Walt Whitman, Bertolt Brecht, Haruki Murakami, and the ancient Welsh ritual of sin-eating. (CM)



DJ
Federation presents Domu
Fri 5.26 (10pm) Element (225 E Houston St, 212.254.2200) map $10 / $8 with RSVP

Event Info
 
Domu was instrumental in founding the broken-beat sound that splintered from 4-Hero's Reinforced d 'n b label. Tonight, catch a rare visit from this 14-year DJ vet, dropping all manner of nu-jazz and electro soul in Element's intimate vault. (CN)

Note: For more club-land action tonight, Robots presents Collabs 3000, the techno project from hardheads Chris Liebing and Speedy J, at Pacha.



PERFORMANCE
Jackie Beat Is Not a People Person
Fri 5.26 - Sun 5.28 (Fri: 10pm / Sat & Sun: 8pm) The Cutting Room (19 W 24th St, 212.691.1900) map $17

Event Info
 
New York's lovably bitter drag queen Jackie Beat is on the attack, with a new show featuring songs about love, and, well... hate, in anticipation of a glam documentary about her career slated for release in early June. (SP)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Desert Folk
Howe Gelb feat. Voices of Praise Gospel Choir

when: Sat 5.27 (8pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $18 / $16 advance
links: Event Info | Howe Gelb

Prolific, perennially underappreciated singer/songwriter Howe Gelb has been tweaking his formula lately, appropriating elements of spiritual music and recasting them in surprising ways. On 'Sno Angel Like You, the former Giant Sand leader adorns his dry, husky country ballads with a gospel choir. Songs like the spare opener "Get to Leave" see Gelb muttering over desolate folk instrumentation, with the Voices of Praise Gospel Choir humming softly. Rarely does the album explode into full-on hands-raised Hallelujah mode, instead relying on Gelb's close-mic'd baritone and the gentle coos of his accompanying chorus to make its mark. (TG)

  Who is commonly identified as the father of gospel music? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Soul Position

when: Sat 5.27 (9pm)
where: Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Soul Position

With so many high-profile MC/producer collaborations happening these days, it sometimes seems like underground hip-hop stars are trading partners like Wilt Chamberlain between road games. Luckily, Soul Position — the duo of Ohio rapper Blueprint and acclaimed beatsmith Rjd2 — are interested in a longer-lasting relationship. On their debut, 8 Million Stories, and their new disc, Things Go Better with RJ & Al, the two synch their efforts seamlessly. Blueprint (né Albert Shepard) skips from topic to topic, staying anchored with quirky but straightforward rhymes and a bold delivery, while Rj lays down his reliably badass beats. (PS)

  Which MC/producer collaboration would you most like to see? The creator of our favorite combo wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON SAT

THEATRE
Q&Y: A Brief Comedy About Death
Sat 5.27 (10pm) St. Mark's Church (131 E 10th St, 212.674.8194) map $5

Event Info
 
The Ontological-Hysteric Incubator serves up a late-night comedy about the difference between the de rigueur composition of life before death, and the race to reach death as the ultimate prize. Free beer and wine are also on tap. (SP)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MULTIMEDIA
Siamese Cinema

when: Sun 5.28 (7:30 & 10pm)
where: Monkey Town (58 N 3rd St, Wburg, 781.384.1369) map
price: $5.99
links: Event Info

In honor of Asian Contemporary Art Week, Monkey Town hosts Siamese Cinema, a night of experimental film by Lili Chin, Angie Eng, Koosil-ja Hwang, and Masako Miyazaki. The commonality of approach lies primarily in their interest in collage and curation, as each artist presenting collects and samples film. A live performance in the main lounge finds Eng responding to Hwang's vocal abstractions with Burmese and Thai calligraphy. Chin, a Voom/LAB coordinator, presents HD shorts from the streets of China, while Miyazaki provides dactylic montages of avant-garde filmmaking. All four artists however, attest to the vibrancy of the voices of Asian women artists. (PJ)

Note: Reservations are recommended. See both of tonight's performances for $8.

  Thai and Burmese calligraphy derive from what shared origin? The fifth correct response wins a pair of tickets to one of tonight's shows.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Death Metal
Necrophagist w/ Cattle Decapitation, Arsis, and Neuraxis

when: Mon 5.29 (6:30pm)
where: B.B. King Blues Club & Grill (237 W 42nd St, 212.997.4144) map
price: $25 / $20 advance
links: Event Info | Necrophagist | Cattle Decapitation | Arsis | Neuraxis

Prog rock was eviscerated by punk in the '70s, but now its festering, undead corpse is back for your brains. Necrophagist's unmatched brutality and vomitous vocals align them with the legions of death metal, but they owe more to King Crimson than King Diamond in their complex song structures and inhumanly technical musicianship. Neuraxis use their metallic arsenal with enough devastating precision to make fellow French-Canadians Cryptopsy proud, while San Diego's Cattle Decapitation have shed the organic, gore-drenched sickness of their early days in favor of more mechanical and menacing tech-grind — don't worry, vocalist Travis Ryan is still as likely as ever to spray the front row with phlegm. (GM)

  Who does Necrophagist's guitarist, Muhammed Suicmez, cite as his biggest musical influence? The fourth and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



Ongoing / Upcoming TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART
Josiah McElheny: Modernity 1929-1965

when: Now through Sat 6.3 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Andrea Rosen Gallery (525 W 24th St, 212.627.6000) map
price:
links: Event Info | Josiah McElheny

Continuing his artistic study of modernity and its legacy, Josiah McElheny celebrates his first exhibition at Andrea Rosen with a big bang: An End to Modernity. This collaboration with Ohio State University cosmology professor David Weinberg looks like a massive chandelier but it is in fact an accurate representation of the birth of the universe. Made of glass and chrome, it hangs ponderously above the floor, radiating reflective energy. Two accompanying sculptural installations incorporating the same materials attempt to realize an environment without shadows. Consisting of reflective objects placed in reflective environments, these esoteric projects, based on an apocryphal conversation between Modernist greats Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, offer an absurd vision of endless infinity and the utopian imagination. (AM)



FILM
An Inconvenient Truth

when: Opens Wed 5.24
where: Sunshine Cinemas (143 E Houston St, 212.358.7709) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | An Inconvenient Truth

Featuring a once-defeated Al Gore with his boxing gloves back on, An Inconvenient Truth aims to raise awareness of Gore's fight against the "climate crisis." Since his fall from grace in 2000, Gore has been circling the planet with a potent PowerPoint presentation, warning that unless changes are made, we could be toast in only ten years time. Essentially a cinematic version of the presentation — with the occasional sidebar ferreting out Gore's motivations — the film's lesson makes it a must-see, but witnessing the man who was a hair away from the presidency toting around his own luggage is a bonus. (MB)



THEATRE: Marathon
Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon 2006

when: Tue 5.23 - Sun 6.25 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 3 & 8pm / Sun: 7pm)
where: Ensemble Studio Theatre (549 W 52nd St, 212.247.4982) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Enesmble Studio Theatre

For the media-grazing, ADD-clamoring crowd — aka most of us — the idea of a short, sharp, one-act play is a godsend. Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon 2006 neatly packages 11 such plays into three separate evenings for the 28th edition of their prestigious festival that has featured new short works by many noted playwrights over the years, from Tennessee Williams to Christopher Durang. Among this year's participating playwrights are Public Theater's darling Stephen Adly Guirgis with The Sissy Letters: Numbers 14, 29, and 47 (directed by Adam Rapp), contemporary legend David Mamet with Bone China, and the creator of last year's surprise hit Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), Will Eno, with Intermission. (SP)

Note: There are no performances on Sun 5.28 or Sun 6.11.



ART
Wangechi Mutu: Exhuming Gluttony: A Lover's Requiem

when: Now through Thur 7.6 (Mon-Thur: 11am-6pm)
where: Salon 94 (12 E 94th St, 646.672.9212) map
price:
links: Event Info

Teaming up with rising British architect David Adjaye, artist Wangechi Mutu takes gluttonous excess and serves it up for critical review in this mixed-media, full-room installation. The exhibition centerpiece is a mammoth banquet table that teeters on a rickety assemblage of wooden legs, while other details include a trophy sculpture made from animal parts and weeping wine bottles. This work develops from Mutu's signature collages on mylar featuring monstrous hybrid characters that exude both ostentatious sex and animal violence. A counterpart exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea features a new collage series exploring the metamorphosing body and modes of grotesque adornment, as well as sculptural thrones sprouting long, spider-like legs. (AM)

Note: Wangechi Mutu at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. continues through Sat 6.17 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm).



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  WEAR YOUR HEART ON YOUR SLEEVE: Dry T-Shirt Contest  

As the Center for American Progress' endeavor to fortify freethinking on university grounds, Campus Progress aims to counter the right wing's growing influence by mentoring grassroots campus publications, providing grants to students in public advocacy, and innovating national issue campaigns. Using a student-wardrobe staple and the program of their choosing, contestants can submit graphics for potential t-shirt silkscreens that endorse liberated thinking in three categories. The panel of judges includes Air America's The Majority Report co-hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder, irreverent comic David Cross, politico blogger Markos "Daily Kos" Moulitsas Zúniga, and Bono's eco-conscious EDUN design partner Rogan Gregory. Entries are due by Saturday, June 4th and unlike most Campus Progress student-only programs, the contest is open to just about anyone. (IB)



 


  CD REVIEW: Jolie Holland, Springtime Can Kill You  

Anti
Released May 2006
$14.99 (Insound)

More moonshine than sunshine, Jolie Holland's second studio album, Springtime Can Kill You comes on like a slow-burning crush, full of low-lidded passion, and a little bit crazy. The release marks the first time Holland, a self-taught musician, has written songs with a full band in mind, and the result — a unique brand of cobwebbed and cracked Americana — is more cohesive and significantly richer than her acclaimed debut, Escondida. Holland's quavering blueswoman's voice conjures up visions of hectic love, rash justice, wrecked hearts, and restless ghosts. Like a come-hither look from a cad, the lyrics carry a tension between beauty and danger as when she sings in "Stubborn Beast": "I might resist you when you try to save my life/ Why don't you take me when I'm willing?" Holland's onto something with this spring sleeper, so don't resist. (JKG)


 


  STREAMS: Flavorpill Radio on Heavy.com  

Flavorpill broadcasts the best new and unreleased music every month on Heavy.com. The close of May brings new hyperbole-hoarding indie like Beirut's gypsy crooning, and elaborately composed weirdness from Sunset Rubdown. The harmony-happy Futureheads, Aussie Zep-style rawkers Wolfmother, and Jack White's Raconteurs deliver the assertive riffage, while Jolie Holland (see above) and Boards of Canada provide breathers in the action with low-key, wonderfully weathered sonics. Delving into more circuit-heavy pop territory is Dntel, with a dark remix of Mia Doi Todd, plus Psapp proffering their savvy toy-box tweaks. Beat-wise, Diplo discoveries Bonde do Role drop a carioca doo-wah-ditty, and Justice deftly punk a Franz Ferdinand track. Hip-hop gets representation courtesy of the Coup, kicking Cali commie funk, and Jay Dee (RIP), blessing a woozy clap track from Dabrye. With selections from prior installments of Flavorpill Radio lurking deeper in the mix, it's a veritable Best of '06 in the making. (JL)



 


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Header Design:
JawalienJawa
 
Editors:
JocelynicideJocelyn K. Glei
Ardycosis RexArdalan Keramati
Schultz Ate My BrainsJake Lancaster
Dougl the DestroyerDoug Levy
Sascha DescendsSascha Lewis
Rigor MordorAndrew Maerkle
Mark of the BeastMark Mangan
Death by PantsKristin Miller
Death by FranceColin J. Nagy
Decapitaded Fetal StephanStephan Paschalides
Napalm JonJon Schultz
SteinatorJoshua D. Stein
She Wants LeahvengeLeah Taylor
 
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