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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI June 20 - 26, 2006

 
 Yuko Kondo   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 315: rainbow flavor

The colors come out this week as Pride fever sweeps the city, amping up both awareness and a proclivity for parading ab-fab outfits. At Joe's Pub, a group of men — including Stephin Merritt and hunky Joel Gibb — make sweet music together while Liars' Angus Andrews (who's been known to don a dress) drops in for a performance at Warsaw. DTW brings back choreographer Neil Greenberg's very personal 1994 piece about the impact of AIDS, while an installation of street photography by Diane Arbus, Gary Winograd, and others documents NYC life in the '60s and '70s, before the epidemic. In Queens, a group of artists explore bodily functions in Into Me / Out of Me, and back in Manhattan, Stories of the Wobbly Hearted and the Rejection Show offer hilarious tales of people not connecting. The annual Mermaid Parade provides a non-LGBT-themed excuse to dress up in sequins, and we've rounded up even more rainbowed event options in our Pride Week feature. Dig diversity, and spread it...

 

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Tyson Reeder; Into Me / Out of Me
comedyThe Rejection Show
dance Not-About-AIDS-Dance
dj MSTRKRFT
film The Road to Guantánamo; Ocularis at Ten; Billyburg Short Film Festival
music David Bazan; Brightblack Morning Light w/ Espers; Boys of Melody; JG Everest; Liars; Deadbeat; Gomez; Andy Vaz; Alex Lukashevsky w/ Final Fantasy; Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival; Aa w/ Japanther and the Occasion
paradeMermaid Parade
performanceTeatro Slovak
photography New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970s
symposium Remix Hotel
theatre Susan and God; After the End; Stories for the Wobbly Hearted
FEAT grow your homo Pride Week 2006; cd review Dwayne Sodahberk, Cut Open; stream Flavorpill Radio on Heavy.com




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As riveting as it is harrowing, Michael Winterbottom's quasi-doc The Road to Guantánamo transcends the activist film genre with wit, style, and originality.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Mr. Mopey-Mope
David Bazan

when: Tue 6.20 (7pm)
where: Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | David Bazan

David Bazan is so soft-spoken and gracious onstage — all scruffy beard and twitchy, sleepy gaze — you'd never guess the man has a capacity for such lyrical cruelty and dark, sociopathic themes. As lead singer/songwriter for the dearly departed Pedro the Lion (whose Control and Winners Never Quit are masterpieces of exhilaratingly doleful indie rock), Bazan chronicled infidelity, murder, and crises of faith with an unflinching, novelistic attention to detail. The Eeyore-esque singer now tours as a solo artist, playing new songs alongside heartbreaking cuts from his PtL albums and his underrated synth-and-drums project, Headphones. Thankfully, being talented, prolific, and appreciated hasn't done much to lighten the guy's mood. (TG)



THEATRE
Stories for the Wobbly Hearted

when: Now through Wed 6.28 (Tue-Sat: 8:30pm / Sun: 3:30pm)
where: 59E59 Theaters (59 E 59th St, 212.753.5959) map
price: $25
links: Event Info

Daniel Kitson is best known in the UK for his unique brand of stand-up comedy, a mixture of lonely guy observations and misanthropic put-downs. With Stories for the Wobbly Hearted, the comedian crosses into theatrical territory with an enchanting evening of stories about loneliness and the failure of love. Seated in an armchair in the middle of a British-looking living room, Kitson delves into his storytelling with such spellbinding style and panache that each story feels familiar and each character identifiable. His language is rich and colorful, a wistful throwback to the old days of eloquence and bons mots, crafting a melancholic and lovely affair that is bound to turn anyone into a wobbly hearted romantic. (SP)



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


DANCE
Dance by Neil Greenberg: Not-About-AIDS-Dance

when: Wed 6.21 - Sun 6.25 (Wed-Sat: 7:30pm / Sun: 4pm)
where: Dance Theater Workshop (219 W 19th St, 212.691.6500) map
price: $25
links: Event Info | Dance by Neil Greenberg

Choreographer Neil Greenberg created Not-About-AIDS-Dance as a response to the deaths of his brother and nine friends from the disease in a single year. The piece is an autobiographical work where he references his own HIV+ status. By integrating dance and projected text, he navigates the space between life and loss, with heartfelt emotion and humor. By providing unexpected personal information about each dancer, Greenberg manages to alter the relationship between audience and performers, as he brings them closer together. The program was originally performed in 1994 and is back to mark the 25th year of HIV/AIDS, with the addition of a new piece, Quartet with Three Gay Men. (SP)

Note: There is a post-performance panel discussion on HIV/AIDS activism following the Thur 6.22 performance (8:45pm).

  What was Greenberg's working title for Not-About-AIDS-Dance? The fifth correct response wins a pair of tickets to the Sun 6.25 performance (4pm).



MUSIC: Freak-Folk
Brightblack Morning Light w/ Espers

when: Wed 6.21 (8:30pm)
where: Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Brightblack Morning Light | Espers

While ADD freak-folkies like Devendra Banhart thrive in the wham-bam fury of ecstatic energy, Espers court a mellower buzz. They're Chong to Banhart's Cheech (or Teller to his Penn), embracing the quiet mystery of twilight, and building methodically upon it. Co-vocalist Meg Baird's breathy balladeering may lull the listener in and out of consciousness, but when the band's extended medievalist jams reach their crescendo, they explode the dream state in well-earned moments of psychedelic fuzz. Similarly stoic, Brightblack Morning Light deliver the droning, hypnotic vocals of a huskier Sufjan Stevens. Kneading lyrics through bending guitars and bebopping organs, they play like the woebegone soundtrack to a particularly lonely luau. (AP)

Note: This lineup also appears (with Espers headlining) at Mercury Lounge on Fri 6.23 (10:30pm).



ALSO ON WED

MUSIC: Techno/Digidub
Beyond presents Deadbeat w/ DJ Olive and $mall ¢hange
Wed 6.21 (8pm-1am) subTonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map $5

Event Info
 
Deadbeat wowed the masses at Mutek with an intense laptop set that transcended his heady, dubby minimal techno productions by deftly sneaking in dancehall and reggaeton. The Montrealer headlines with fellow dub-style selectors DJ Olive and $mall ¢hange. (JRC)



MUSIC: Trip-Pop
Gomez
Wed 6.21 (8:30pm) Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.388.0300) map $25

Event Info
 
With their wealth of onstage personality, Gomez have always been best live. The psychedelic blues-rockers may seem a bit more restrained on their fifth album, How We Operate, but don't expect any pulled punches tonight. (DL)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


DJ
MSTRKRFT

when: Thur 6.22 (10pm)
where: Hiro Ballroom, The Maritime Hotel (366 W 17th St, 212.242.4300) map
price: $20 / $7 advance
links: Event Info | MSTRKRFT

Death From Above 1979's bassist/keyboardist and producer, Jesse F. Keeler and Al Puodziukas (Al-P), respectively, are making waves as MSTRKRFT, a DJ duo that has already produced remixes for such indie-elite artists as Annie, Wolfmother, and Bloc Party. Tonight, the pair hits Hiro to trump up anticipation for a forthcoming debut full-length, The Looks. A far cry from DFA1979's raw assault, MSTRKRFT channel the electro-disco shimmer 'n grit of classic Daft Punk — most notably on their vocordered single "Easy Love." (MG)

  If it were up to you, what would MSTRKRFT be an acronym for? Our favorite response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



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SYMPOSIUM
Remix Hotel NYC

when: Fri 6.23 - Sun 6.25 (12-8pm)
where: SAE Institute of Technology (1293 Broadway, 9th Fl, 212.944.9123) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Remix magazine's traveling music production seminar Remix Hotel returns to New York for three days of interactive workshops for studio pros and bedroom beatmakers alike. Held at the NYC campus of the SAE Institute of Technology, this year's attendees can register for demos and use Apple's LogicPro7 and Digidesign's Pro Tools LE with new virtual instruments and plugins in the school's teaching studios, or get the skinny on PR, production, mixtapes, and marketing from M3 Master Classes or Public Enemy founder Hank Shocklee's Innertainment panels, which also include Talib Kweli, DJ Spooky, and Jean Grae. Badge holders can hit afterparties at city hotspots Crobar, the Cutting Room, Cielo, and then celebrate Dub War's first birthday at Avalon. (IB)



FILM
The Road to Guantánamo

when: Opens Fri 6.23
where: Angelika Film Center & Lincoln Plaza 6 Theatre (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000; 1886 Broadway, 212.757.2280) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | The Road to Guantánamo

Co-director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) has dug deep in his bag of tricks — lickety-split cuts, broad winks, and quick washes of acid color — to bang home his wildly partisan points about the Tipton Three, the British Muslims unjustly held in Guantánamo Bay for two years. Suffice it to say Winterbottom and co-director Mat Whitecross aren't fans of the US military-industrial complex. The part-drama, part-documentary may suffer from preaching to the choir with no chance of new converts, but its openly bombastic, unabashed fury is undeniably admirable in this 1984-style era of careful moviemaking by consensus. (LR)

  What was the original purpose for leasing Gitmo's land from Cuba in 1903? Prizes for the first correct responses include four RtG passes (each good for two people), four posters, and four Amnesty International RtG Action Guides to help people get involved.



MUSIC: Electro-Pop
JG Everest w/ Charles Atlas and Barbara Morgenstern

when: Fri 6.23 (10pm)
where: Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | JG Everest | Charles Atlas | Barbara Morgenstern

Although she's wisely stuck with the excellent Berlin label Monika Enterprise — home also to Masha Qrella, Cobra Killer, and Figurine — for the release of The Grass Is Always Greener, Barbara Morgenstern's new album sounds like a sea change. While the insinuating and largely instrumental tracks of Fjorden (2000) felt like music for night-riding on glaciers, and Nichts Muss (2003) strove toward a complex, darkling crescendo with "We're All Gonna Fucking Die," Morgenstern settles into a subtle, glimmering pastoral pop-ism on Greener. And judging by the easy enthusiasm expressed in her last NYC performance — all frenetic knob-twiddling and a goofy, toothy grin — Morgenstern's pop embrace could be catching. (JKG)

Note: Morgenstern is preceded by the guitar-pop confections of JG Everest, and Charles Atlas, the two-piece band, not the filmmaker or the body builder.

  In the mid-'90s, Barbara Morgenstern was a part of which curiously named Berlin music scene? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Pop Collab
Boys of Melody feat. Joel Gibb (the Hidden Cameras) w/ Gentleman Reg, and DJ Stephin Merritt

when: Fri 6.23 (11:30pm)
where: Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | The Hidden Cameras | Gentleman Reg | Stephin Merritt

Tonight, Boys of Melody offer a joyous homo-haven of music that splits with both indie-rock and mainstream notions of gay culture. The Hidden Cameras broke the mold of twee-pop by transcending fey preciousness with brilliant songwriting and a startlingly direct communion of eroticism and love — not to mention an eye-popping live show. Principal 'Camera Joel Gibb acts as head Boy in this cabaret-like evening of performances curated by Earl Dax. The expansive outfit Gentleman Reg is the conduit for Reginald Vermue's gorgeous songs and lilting, Archer Prewitt-style vocals. Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt and his Phantastic Invisible Tentacle DJs mix things up throughout the night. (JL)

  According to Stephin Merritt, which band represents the ideal pop aesthetic? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON FRI

PERFORMANCE
Richard Caliban: Teatro Slovak
Fri 6.23 (8pm) Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th St, Wburg, 718.782.5188) map $10 advance

Event Info
 
Richard Caliban's latest work is a hodgepodge of eccentric, acrobatic, and visually charged performances by an agile Slovakian theatre troupe taking on an imagined multimedia immigration to New York. (BB)

Note: There is an additional performance on Fri 6.30 (8pm).



MUSIC: Techno
The Bunker presents Andy Vaz w/ Filastine
Fri 6.23 (10pm-4am) subTonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map $5

Event Info
 
Düsseldorf's Andy Vaz has long been known for uber-nuanced minimal productions that teeter on the edge of fussiness, but a recent ratcheting-up of groove and swing makes it all gravy. Anarcho-beatmonger Filastine opens. (JL)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Rhythm and Skronk
Liars w/ the Apes and Alan Vega

when: Sat 6.24 (8pm)
where: Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave, Greenpoint, 718.387.0505) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Liars | The Apes | Tickets

The past few years have proved to be a pivotal turning point for the members of Liars, and it seems the experimental rock band's relocation to Berlin was just the artistic catalyst it needed to evolve. This year's Drum's Not Dead is a complex amalgam of heavy drumbeats, radiating guitars, swirling bass lines, and dronish vocals, ebbing and flowing with an ever-shifting intensity. Though the trance-inducing voyage is vividly industrial, it's also emotionally driven, at times ringing like the ritual music of some urban postmodern tribe. (DM)

Note: Dense garage rockers the Apes and Suicide co-founder Alan Vega open. Liars also play Avalon on Mon 6.26.

  Which album does Liars' Julian Gross claim was "life changing" for him? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Second Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival feat. Big Daddy Kane w/ Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest, and Maya Azucena
Sat 6.24 (1-8pm) Tobacco Warehouse (1 Main St, Bklyn) map w/ registration

Event Info
 
More than a decade before Jay-Z and Biggie could claim to be "Brooklyn's Finest," Bed-Stuy's own Big Daddy Kane was perfecting his fast raps and battle skills. Catch a true hip-hop hero alongside upstarts Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest, and others. (JRC)



PARADE
Mermaid Parade
Sat 6.24 (2pm) Coney Island Boardwalk map

Event Info
 
Celebrate summer with music, costumes, and plenty of kitsch at this year's Mermaid Parade. The identities of celebrity King Neptune and Queen Mermaid are still top secret, but expect a way-out walk at the nation's largest art parade. (LT)



FILM
Billyburg Short Film Festival feat. Michael Showalter and Japanther
Sat 6.24 (6:30pm) McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St btwn Driggs Ave & Bayard St, Wburg) map $10

Event Info
 
The first of many chlorine-free activities to fill McCarren pool, the Billyburg Short Film Festival plunges in tonight with a Stella-fueled party featuring a 90-minute mix of narrative, experimental, and documentary cinema, with strong showings of comedy and art-punk. (MB)

Note: Food from area businesses and $1 Stellas courtesy of My Open Bar will be available for purchase.



MUSIC: Orchestral Pop
Alex Lukashevsky w/ Final Fantasy
Sat 6.24 (8pm) Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map $10

Event Info
 
Alleviate your classical-music guilt with Owen "Final Fantasy" Pallett's singular vision: technicolor pop songs tied up in dizzying, contrapuntal violin lines. Really, Final Fantasy deserve a genre all their own, but "awe inspiring" will do for now. (TG)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART
Into Me / Out of Me

when: Sun 6.25 - Mon 9.25 (Thur-Mon: 12-6pm)
where: P.S.1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084) map
price: $5 suggested donation
links: Event Info

The folk wisdom "better out than in" materializes through art in P.S.1's new summer show, in which contemporary artists use bodily functions to explore nuances distinguishing the external and the internal. Andy Warhol's pissy Oxidation Painting questions what is art and what is better left flushed, while Matthew Barney's early video installation Field Dressings features the famed artist nude, patching his orifices with petroleum jelly. Other highlights include works by Marina Abramović, known for radical performances in which she transforms her body into a slashed-and-suffocated canvas, and Paul McCarthy's quirky, erotically grotesque sculptures. (CA)



ALSO ON SUN

MUSIC: Indie Everything
CitySol feat. Aa w/ Japanther, the Occasion, Parts & Labor, Tomorrow's Friend, and the Wowz
Sun 6.25 (1pm-sundown) Solar 1, Stuyvesant Cove Park (24-20 FDR Dr, Service Rd East) map

Event Info
 
Solar 1 kicks off their eco-aware summer music series today with a great lineup of local art rockers and DJs, interactive exhibits, and a green lifestyle marketplace — all powered by renewable energy. Did we mention the sweet waterfront location? (JL)



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Ocularis at Ten

when: Mon 6.26 (8pm)
where: Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th St, Wburg, 718.388.8713 map
price: $6
links: Event Info

Ocularis celebrates its 10th year as North Brooklyn's destination for experimental film and video, inviting a star-studded cast of past organizers and artists to help program the final show before the series goes on hiatus. Look out for recent Biennial participant Marie Losier who presents Ross McLaren's provocative, disjointed '80s curiosity Sex Without Glasses, and Rhizome.org director Lauren Cornell as she highlights Paper Rad's nostalgic Internet hyper-ballad Welcome To My Homey Page. Ocularis' fearless director Thomas Beard puts his thumbprint on the program with Lillian Schwartz's early and highly generative digitally animated Pixillation, while past curator Karyn Riegel showcases Jem Cohen's harrowing portrait of nationalism and its excess in Little Flags. (BB)

  Besides Sex Without Glasses, punk rock icon Ross McLaren is also known for what other two films? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.



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


PHOTOGRAPHY
Recent Acquisitions: New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970s

when: Now through Sat 6.24 (Tue & Wed: 11am-7:30pm / Thur-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Stokes Gallery, New York Public Library (5th Ave & 42nd St, 212.930.0830) map
price:
links: Event Info

Known for producing curated exhibitions illustrating the evolution of New York lifestyle and architecture, the NYPL now turns its attention to street photography from the 1960s and '70s. New York Street Photography brings together six of the most important photographers working at that time. Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand, and Joel Meyerowitz make photographs that combine personal expression and vision with documentary approaches. William Gedney closely follows this model as well, but like Thomas Struth and Roy Comer, also included in the show, he demonstrates a great aptitude for building layered pictorial narrative by returning to the same subject year after year, as he did with the early gay rallies commemorating the Stonewall Riots. (PJ)



ART
Tyson Reeder: Tomorrow

when: Now through Sat 7.1 (Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm)
where: Daniel Reich Gallery (537A W 23rd St, 212.924.4949) map
price:
links: Event Info

Milwaukee-based painter Tyson Reeder envisions chimeric fantasyscapes where abstract form collides with representational flourish. Employing materials including gouache, acrylic, pen, and pencil, Reeder presents a collection of medium- and small-scale paintings in his trademark oxidized palette, and a white-and-purple ceramic saxophone. The titles of his paintings help identify the surreal scenes they depict, as in Catfish, in which green fish-shapes swim through an environment both aqueous and terrestrial. In Milwaukee River, three bold chromatic circles give way to lighter, pastel-hued shapes that twist and curve to suggest flora and fauna, while in Night Alley, a stray cat folds into industrial, urban surroundings. (GKH)



THEATRE
After the End

when: Now through Sun 7.2 (Tue-Fri: 8:15pm / Sat: 2:15 & 8:15pm / Sun: 3:15 & 7:15pm)
where: 59E59 Theaters (59 E 59th St, 212.753.5959) map
price: $35
links: Event Info

Dennis Kelly's intense psychological drama After the End imagines the aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack on London as played out in a claustrophobic '80s bunker. Mark, the shy owner of the shelter has carried Louise, a no-nonsense acquaintance into safety, where they survive on tinned chili and Dungeons & Dragons games while awaiting rescue. Louise's initial relief and acceptance of the situation — and the play's hefty dose of black humor — give way to anxiety and paranoia, as violence and dread creep inside their ostensibly safe haven. Director Roxana Silbert's compelling production keeps audiences guessing as it serves up an eerie reminder of our own war on terror. (SP)



THEATRE
Susan and God

when: Now through Sun 7.16 (Tue-Thur: 7pm / Fri: 8pm / Sat: 2 & 8pm / Sun 2pm)
where: Mint Theater (311 W 43rd St, 212.315.0231) map
price: $45
links: Event Info

Like discovering a dusty Rothschild in the cellar, Rachel Crothers' long-neglected 1937 hit play proves that perfectly crafted material grows ever more valuable over time. Lovingly resuscitated by the Mint Theater Company's Jonathan Bank, Susan and God is American theatre at its best — no bizarre experimentation or gimmicks, just great acting coupled with superb dialogue. Inspired by the popular early 20th-century religious movement that spawned Alcoholics Anonymous, Crothers' play satirizes the smugness of the fashionably spiritual, while remaining empathetic to the desire for faith in an uncertain world. Leslie Hendrix gives a knockout performance as Susan Trexel, a hilariously self-obsessed socialite on a mission to save souls, meanwhile denying her husband's alcoholism. (KI)

  Where and when did Susan and God have its debut? The first three correct responses each win a pair of tickets for your choice of performance this week.



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

COMEDY
The Rejection Show
Tuesdays (7:30pm) Mo Pitkin's (34 Ave A, 212.777.5660) map $8

Event Info
 
Rejection hurts. Luckily, this hurt comes from laughing so hard you pull a muscle. Comic Jon Friedman offers a "Summerfest of Rejection": TV sketches, movie pitches, and New Yorker cartoons go from the cutting-room floor to Mo Pitkin's. (LT)

Note: Friedman cracks us up all summer by making his previously sporadic Show quasi-weekly. Check his site for a detailed schedule.



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  GROW YOUR HOMO: Pride Week 2006  

Out of the closet and into the fire, Pride week brings the good, the bad, and the scary. To save you the trouble, we've rounded up a shortlist of additional LGBT gatherings that really bring it. On Tue 6.20, the WYSIWYG blogger love-in sponsors its annual event, subtly entitled Way Gay: Gayer Gay Gayness, while on Wed 6.21, In the Flesh assembles a racy LGBT reading. Drag diva Sherry Vine hosts Totally Funked Up at Joe's Pub with Peppermint Gummybear and Erika Aviance on Thur 6.22, and Murray Hill hosts weekend gigs with Erase Errata, Dynasty Handbag, Lesbian Overtones, and Taylor Mac. Non-hungover non-heteros can embark on the five-mile Pride Run Saturday morn, while the day stomps to a close with the Dyke March. Then, fierce city council speaker Christine Quinn marshals the masses for the annual march on Sun 6.25. (JKG)

Note: For more LGBT fare, check GO NYC, the L Magazine, and My Open Bra.



 


  CD REVIEW: Dwayne Sodahberk, Cut Open  

Tigerbeat6
Released May 2006
$13.05 (CD Universe)

Dwayne Sodahberk is yet another producer on sabbatical from abstract electronic experimentation to explore a more song-based, post-rock territory. While Cut Open carries whispers of Sodahberk's previous work on leftfield imprint Tigerbeat6, it's a serious departure for both label and artist. Recorded in Stockholm and Paris, the 15 tracks are equally informed by pop's melodic immediacy and folk's acoustic inclinations. Sodahberk's sleepy, peaceful vocals sit alongside contributions from notable collaborators such as Honey Owens of Nudge, who sings on the woozy, stuttering opener, "Cambiocorsa." But Cut Open's dreamy, Klonopin-sedate tone explodes into bombast on album highlight "Open Cuts," where singsong melodies ride warm waves of shoegazer guitars. (CJN)


 


  STREAM: Flavorpill Radio on Heavy.com  

Every month on Heavy.com, Flavorpill reports from the front lines of new music, offering the best recent and forthcoming rock, hip-hop, and techno, plus the glorious grey areas beyond. Fresh selections for June include solo Thom Yorke; a quasi-dancehall ditty from King Biscuit Time (aka Steve Mason from Beta Band); widescreen art rock from Lansing-Dreiden; Afrobeat from Nomo; and percolating pop from the UK's demi-diva Lily Allen. Elsewhere, Dwayne Sodahberk (see CD review) and Asobi Seksu make a case for nu-gazing, Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project corrupts Norah Jones, a reinvigorated Dr. Octagon touches down, Burial drop a dark dubstep gem, and the Pipettes' perk gives the Go! Team a run for their caffeine. Stream it all direct, plus tracks from past Flavorpill Radio dispatches. (JL)



 


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