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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI July 5 - 10, 2006

 
 Andy Ward   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 317: breezy flavor

Independence Day grilling may be behind us, but we just can't manage to stay indoors for long, as local parks continue to beckon with cool breezes and free fun. Central Park alone provides big-band pop from Hakim and his Egyptian Orchestra, a top-notch rendition of Macbeth, and all-ages tumbling, strumming, and disco-dancing on Global Family Day. Steve McQueen simmers on Bryant Park's silver screen as man's man Frank Bullitt, Sitelines serves up great, populist modern dance across Manhattan, and that much-maligned instrument, the accordion, garners a pier-front tribute. But the outer-boroughs are steppin' up too: Brooklyn kicks off a series of indie-rock parties in Williamsburg's historic McCarren Pool and a selection of writers for McSweeney's The Believer magazine wax garden-side in Red Hook, while the Bronx's Crotona Park delivers deck-wrecking jams each Thursday from old-school legends like Kool DJ Red Alert. Throw a/c dependence to the wind, and spread it.

 

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Emmy-nominated Project Runway returns for a third seam-busting season on July 12th. Supermodel and host Heidi Klum, her fellow judges — fashion designer Michael Kors and Elle Fashion Director Nina Garcia — and beloved fashion mentor Tim Gunn are back to decide which of the new crop of 15 aspiring designers will be in, or out. This season promises more surprise guest judges, more unexpected challenges, and, of course, even more drama — on and off the runway.

Wednesdays @ 10/9c on BRAVO premiering July 12th.
 Table of Contents WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art After the Reality; Dada
comedy Tommy Tiernan
dance Sitelines 2006
dj Crotona Park Jams; Warm Up feat. the Idjut Boys; Jeremy P. Caulfield
film A Scanner Darkly; Once in a Lifetime; Andy Warhol's Screen Tests; Bullitt; Cult Movie Marathon
multimedia The Way of Chopsticks
music The Rakes; Hakim and his Egyptian Orchestra; Guapo; Shearwater w/ the Court & Spark; Camera Obscura; Electric Junkyard Gamelan; Main Squeeze Accordion Festival; Les Savy Fav
party Global Family Day
readingPark-Lit: The Believer
theatre School of the Americas; Macbeth
FEAT blog of hope Nata Village Blog; cd review Hot Chip, The Warning; streams Jeff Samuel and Lusine Live at the Getty Center




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Wednesday WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


COMEDY
Tommy Tiernan: Loose

when: Now through Sat 7.29 (Wed-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 8 & 11pm)
where: The Actors' Playhouse (100 7th Ave S, 212.463.0060) map
price: $30-35
links: Event Info | Tommy Tiernan

Tommy Tiernan has wryly observed that the Irish tend to have a better work ethic when working abroad than they do in their native land, so it makes sense that the comedian is pulling out all the stops in his New York engagements, running about the stage, jumping around, and sweating buckets, despite his stand-up superstar status in Ireland. His likeable nature and charismatic delivery would suffice, but the energy he summons during his latest show is contagious. Bittersweet observations about family, religion, and politics are intermixed with lyrical musings about his personal failings, and punctuated with slaphappy comical material. One bit even ends with the Irish potato famine as a punch line. (SP)

  What is Tommy Tiernan's trademark fashion statement when on stage? Correct responses three through six each win a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Post-Punk Pop
The Rakes w/ Every Move a Picture and the Adored

when: Wed 7.5 (9pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $17
links: Event Info | The Rakes | Every Move a Picture | The Adored

It would seem that when Alan Donohoe, a science geek with an irresistibly brash voice, and Jamie Hornsmith, a bass-toting art student, met in college they might not have had much cerebral compatibility. As half of British quartet the Rakes, however, the convergence of their left and right brains proves harmonious indeed. Having previously toured with the likes of Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, these boys combine the best of current pop-friendly post-punk with a respectful homage to demigods like the Clash and the Smiths. Tonight California bands Every Move a Picture and the Adored warm up the crowd. (CB)

Note: RSVP for the official afterparty, with DJ sets from members of the Rakes and Every Move a Picture. Open vodka bar (11pm-midnight).

  When doing karaoke, what are Donohoe's two songs of choice? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON WED

READING
Open City presents Park-Lit: The Believer
Wed 7.5 (6:30pm) Backyard Garden (Van Brunt St & Hamilton Ave, Red Hook, 212.696.6609) map

Event Info
 
Open City's seasonal weekly reading series inhabits a garden tonight to salute the prose of Pitchfork columnist Brandon Stosuy, Time Out editor Elisabeth Vincentelli, Beatles enthusiast Devin McKinney, poet Sarah Manguso, and author Deb Olin Unferth. (MB)



MUSIC: Hodgepodge Ensemble
Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Wed 7.5 (8 & 10pm) The Stone (NW corner of 2nd St & Ave C) map $10 per set

Event Info
 
Truck springs and farm implements are among the truly unique instruments wielded by Terry Dame and her Electric Junkyard Gamelan band. This striking scene is as central to the experience as the intricate, interlocking rhythms and hypnotic melodies. (CM)



Thursday WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART: Opening
After the Reality

when: Thur 7.6 (6-9pm)
where: Deitch Projects — Grand & Wooster (76 Grand St & 18 Wooster St, 212.343.7300) map
price:
links: Event Info

Gallerist Hiromi Yoshii has insinuated himself into the Tokyo art scene in recent years, and now he brings his milieu to the epicenter of New York's commercial underground with this show at Deitch Projects. Yoshii's artists borrow freely from psychedelia's Day-Glo palette and twisted imagery: Yoshitaka Azuma is a rising star, collaging eye-catching portraits of faceless girls from the wreckage of his internal anxieties; Koichi Enomoto's drawings and paintings provide crisp hallucinogenic visions of an owl grafted onto an ear or a phallic growth emerging from a hospital gurney; and Taro Izumi is part of a new wave of Japanese video artists exploring the uncanny surprises hidden within everyday materials and actions. (AM)

Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 8.12 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm).



DJ
Tools of War presents Crotona Park Jams

when: Thursdays through 7.27 (6-9pm)
where: Crotona Park (Charlotte St & Crotona Park E, Bronx) map
price:
links: Event Info

Coming off its successful Turntablist Sessions parties in Queens last month, Tools of War takes the park jams back to the borough that birthed hip-hop culture. Bronx's Crotona Park plays host to legendary lineups each Thursday in July. This week, Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers and Zulu Nation protégé and Native Tongues affiliate Kool DJ Red Alert join Jorge "Fabel" Pabon as he hosts a month of parties that will leave you looking for your old boom box and Cazal shades. (JRC)

Note: Other July performers include Lord Finesse, the Original Jazzy Jay, Grandwizzard Theodore, T-Ski Valley, and DJ Cash Money. The jams move to South Bronx's St. Mary's Park in August.



FILM
Callie Angell: Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

when: Thur 7.6 (7pm)
where: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave, 212.570.3676) map
price: $8
links: Event Info

Borrowing imagery from both Campbell's soup cans and sensational news footage, Andy Warhol was notorious for pioneering artistic twists on the everyday. And only Warhol could take something as mundane as a screen test — prospective actors for his Factory-made films staring blankly into a camera — and turn it into high art. This particular collection of portraits, curated by the Andy Warhol Film Project's Callie Angell, includes Taylor Mead, a Beat-era luminary whose illustrated fairy tale added a sardonic charm to this year's Whitney Biennial, and Susan Sontag, intellectual activist and low-art essayist. Their unguarded, unblinking stares reveal a different side of Warhol's Superstars. (CA)

Note: An exhibition of photographs by Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe, Celebrity Portraits, is on view at the Sean Kelly Gallery in Chelsea through Fri 7.28.

  What color was the interior of Warhol's factory? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.



MUSIC: Spooky Synths
Guapo w/ Zombi and James Plotkin & Tim Wyskida

when: Thur 7.6 (9pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | Guapo | Zombi

Clearly, Pittsburgh's Steve Moore and A.E. Paterra want nothing to do with horror films. After all, the two named themselves Zombi after the Italian release of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead; their moody synth, bass, and drum compositions just happen to be heavily inspired by the spare, creeping scores that Goblin recorded for Dario Argento's films; and the group states that it sounds like "John Carpenter and Alex Van Halen starting a prog-rock band." Headliners Guapo play a dark-side version of the happily erratic Deerhoof, starting with the same off-kilter dissonance, but heading in a sinister direction. (QH)

Note: Avant-metal guitarist/sound terrorist James Plotkin is joined by Khanate's drummer Tim Wyskida for a skull-grinding opening set.

  Which veteran album cover artist designed the cover for Guapo's 1995 release Great Sage, Equal of Heaven? The fifth and seventh correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



Friday WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
A Scanner Darkly

when: Opens Fri 7.7
where: Landmark Sunshine (143 E Houston St, 212.330.8182) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | A Scanner Darkly

Big names like Spielberg may forever pussyfoot around the paranoia central to novelist Philip K. Dick's sci-fi noir, but Richard Linklater, the director of such hopped-up navel-gazers as Slacker (1991) and Before Sunset (2004), has finally cracked that hard nut. Rotoscope, an animation-overlaid live-action technique he deployed in Waking Life (2001), proves ideal for the shifty, shifting future of Dick's A Scanner Darkly, in which the drug wars have gone so underground that not even the narcs, who don DNA-scrambling suits, know they're narcs. As always, Linklater coaxes talky, winning performances out of his indiewood cast, including Keanu Reeves who, apparently, requires literal animation to transcend his normal deadpan. (LR)



FILM
Once in a Lifetime

when: Opens Fri 7.7
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | Once in a Lifetime

Aptly timed for release on the heels of the 2006 World Cup, Once in a Lifetime is an intoxicating jaunt back to the '70s heyday of American soccer and the meteoric rise and fall of the New York Cosmos. Fueled by the vision and cash flow of Warner Communications' Steve Ross, New York's team gave the nascent league a much-needed publicity kick. International superstars like Pelé and Giorgio Chinaglia were wooed over to the Cosmos — with Studio 54 as de facto clubhouse — and ABC made it all primetime before things came crashing down. Paul Crowder and Dogtown and Z-Boys editor John Dower helm this doc, featuring a soulful, rousing soundtrack, hilarious sound bites, and a story that is sure to have legs with non-soccer enthusiasts. (MB)



MUSIC: Indie Americana
Shearwater w/ the Court & Spark

when: Fri 7.7 (10:30pm)
where: Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Shearwater | The Court & Spark

Alt-country has quickly become a burdensome critical term, tossed like a wet blanket over the new school of twang-loving guitar-toters, be they gifted balladeers or vintage poseurs. The Court and Spark have always crested on the first, better half of this rootsy revival, and the beaching of that subgenre has never left them high and dry. On Hearts, the Cali group continues to turn out dependably classic harmonies, embracing a slightly broader array of genres. On their recent Palo Santo, Shearwater have dispensed with the eccentric warblings of Will Shelf in favor of subdued, prettier vocals from Jonathan Meiburg — both songwriters in the more raucous Okkervil River — and the material is more natural and unselfconsciously mature. (TW)

Note: For free avant-folk offerings tonight, head to the South Street Seaport as the free River to River Festival presents Argentina's brilliant, loveable Juana Molina and Brooklyn's haunting White Magic.

  Which two members of Shearwater were formerly married? The fourth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.



ALSO ON FRI

MUSIC: Sugar Pops
Camera Obscura w/ Georgie James
Fri 7.7 (9pm) Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map $17 / $15 advance

Event Info
 
Like fellow Glaswegians Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura charm their listeners with angelic vocals laid over savvy, yet sweetly innocent indie-pop stylings. Sweet-as-pie indie rockers Georgie James open for them tonight. (MGD)



DJ: Live Techno
The Bunker presents Jeremy P. Caulfield
Fri 7.7 (10pm) SubTonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map $5

Event Info
 
Jeremy P. Caulfield's work for his own Dumb Unit label falls under the disappointingly vague "minimal" tag by default, but his techy, upbeat productions swing and swagger brazenly — tech-house at its finest. Look elsewhere for anemic micro-isms. (JL)



Saturday WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Egyptian Pop
Hakim and his Egyptian Orchestra w/ Karina Pasian

when: Sat 7.8 (3-6pm)
where: Central Park SummerStage (Rumsey Field at W 72nd St, 212.360.2777) map
price:
links: Event Info | Hakim

While Hakim may not be a household name in America, the charismatic Egyptian singer is one of the Arab world's most popular. His blend of sha'bi, a street-smart style of Egyptian pop, and danceable Western beats has earned him a tremendous following, including the Godfather of Soul himself, with whom Hakim recently recorded a duet. With swooping vocals and a thick blanket of rhythms, Hakim evokes both the vital din of a Cairo corner and the husky sensuality of a belly dancing performance. Karina Pasian, the freakishly talented 14-year-old R&B phenom, opens. (JDS)



FILM: Triple Feature
Cult Movie Marathon feat. And Now for Something Completely Different (1971), Brazil (1985), and Dr. Strangelove (1964)

when: Sat 7.8 & Sun 7.9 (4pm)
where: Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, 212.864.1414) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Combined, Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different, Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove document mankind's predilection for entropy. Python's hilarity is founded in the subversion of English prudery, while ex-Python Gilliam's dystopian vision is of a bureaucracy so ossified that chaos is its only policy. Dr. Strangelove may seem the odd man out, but Kubrick's tale explores the chain of command's breakdown, which allows the hawkish tendencies of one man to destroy the world. Peter Sellers' brilliant turn as Strangelove is the jewel in this jaunt toward Mad-ness. Watching the world descend into gut-busting chaos thrice over makes a surprisingly pleasant diversion from the bizarre world at large. (JDS)



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: The Wheeze Accordion to Kühr
First Annual NYC Main Squeeze Accordion Festival
Sat 7.8 (2-9pm) Riverside Park South (Pier 1 at W 70th St) map

Event Info
 
Walter Kühr can do more with hot air than most. Besides being the founder of LES accordion depot Main Squeeze, he co-curates today's fest, which offers global squeezers the Balkan Brothers, Proyeccion Norteña, and Guy Klucevsek. (LT)

Note: If you've got an accordion of your own, bring it for the free-for-all at 8:30pm.



DJ
Warm Up feat. the Idjut Boys and Phil South
Sat 7.8 (3-9pm) P.S.1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084) map $10

Event Info
 
As their name implies, English duo the Idjut Boys keep things a bit cheeky as they mix feel-good house, touches of techno, leftfield disco, and deep dub riddims for P.S.1's always up-for-it Warm Up massive. (CJN)

Note: The Idjut Boys headline APT's Rong! monthly on Fri 7.7.



Sunday WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


PARTY
Global Family Day feat. the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats, Dirty Sock Funtime Band, and Baby Loves Disco

when: Sun 7.9 (1:30-4pm)
where: Central Park SummerStage (Rumsey Field at W 72nd St, 212.360.2777) map
price:
links: Event Info | Dirty Sock Funtime Band | Baby Loves Disco

Crouching tigers, golden dragons, and Chinese acrobats reign at this year's Global Family Day, which features mesmerizing feats from skilled aerial performers, many of whom have trained since the tender age of eight. Expect to hear '80s classics amid bubble machines and diaper-changing stations from the DJs for Baby Loves Disco, the roving dance party for booty-shaking toddlers. Their website proudly proclaims: "this is not the Mickey Mouse Club and Barney is banned," so leave your commercial kiddie gear at home and prepare to rock out with your pacifier out. Meanwhile, the Dirty Sock Funtime Band sing songs about pterodactyls, backpacks, and clowns for cute hipster spawn. (RBD)



ALSO ON SUN

MUSIC: Spazz Rock
JELLYNYC presents Pool Parties feat. Les Savy Fav w/ Beans & Holy Fuck, Dragons of Zynth, and Proton Proton
Sun 7.9 (2-8pm) McCarren Pool (Bedford Ave & N 14th St, Wburg) map

Event Info
 
This new series of free parties at historic McCarren Park Pool features dodgeball, DJs, and slip 'n slide. And while the pool itself is for rocking, not swimming, Les Savy Fav's frontman Tim Harrington will likely be flaunting his Speedo anyway. (JL)



Monday WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Bullitt (1968)

when: Mon 7.10 (dusk)
where: Bryant Park (btwn 5th & 6th Aves & 40th & 42nd Sts) map
price:
links: Event Info

Bullitt, as many who love movies and most who love cars know, contains the apotheosis of filmic car chases. The classic stars Steve McQueen as a detective bent on finding the man who shot his friend, but he shares top billing with the city of San Francisco and his '68 Ford Mustang GT-390. Winding through the city's streets, McQueen's Frank Bullitt is by turns debonair, crude, cunning, and crafty. Projected on Bryant Park's expansive screen, the movie can only be more exhilarating, with the sound of upshifting cars echoing off NYPL's marble walls. To score a plum picnic spot, floor it to the lawn to stake your claim early. (JDS)



Ongoing / Upcoming WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


THEATRE
Shakespeare in the Park: Macbeth

when: Now through Sun 7.9 (Tue-Sun: 8:30pm)
where: Delacorte Theater (Central Park at 80th St, 212.539.8650) map
price:
links: Event Info

What happens when a leader yields to his vaulting ambition, casts aside honesty and honor, and plunges his nation into a bloody and unnecessary war? Shakespeare in the Park answers this question with a characteristically engaging production of Macbeth. Though the parallels to Bush's America are ultimately much thinner than the liner notes would have us believe, an able cast led by Tony-winners Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle, intelligent direction by I Am My Own Wife's Moises Kaufman, and excellent sound, lighting, and World War I-era costumes underscore the enduring value of this story of murder in high places. (DR)

Note: Though it's a free event, tickets are required and can be picked up at the Delacorte Theater starting at 1pm, or at the Public Theater box office from 1-3pm, the day of the show.



THEATRE
School of the Americas

when: Now through Sun 7.23 (schedule)
where: The Public Theater (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8500) map
price: $25-50
links: Event Info

For those who still cherish their Che Guevara t-shirt from college, José Rivera's latest Che-dolizing play — following his award-winning script for The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) — will bring back that rebellious feeling. School of the Americas is based on historical facts, and chronicles conversations between the great revolutionary, captured and held in a derelict schoolhouse in the Bolivian jungle, and the local, idealistic schoolteacher. LAByrinth Theater's John Ortiz is a competent — if too cuddly — Che. But Andromache Chalfant's set design is terrific down to the live chickens, and Mark Wing-Davey's direction manages to keep us interested through the Che chatter. (SP)



MULTIMEDIA
Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks

when: Now through Fri 7.28 (Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm)
where: Chambers Fine Art (210 11th Ave, 4th Fl, 212.414.1169) map
price:
links: Event Info

Using chopsticks as a relationship metaphor, Chinese artist couple Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen created five two-part pieces in communicative isolation. Their resulting works, when paired together, function like flip sides of a coin. Among the works on display, two misty oil paintings provide linguistic twists on public service announcements, while a halved bed transforms into functional benches. A pair of monumental chopsticks, one covered with nude stockings twisted into models of architectural landmarks and the other with punched-metal words, both map aspects of the artists' home city, Beijing. Shown in a gallery space compressed by chest-high milky-white banners, the collaborative experiments point toward the invisible fibers connecting emotional partners to geographic locations and to each other. (CEK)



DANCE
Sitelines 2006

when: Now through Wed 8.30
where: Various downtown Manhattan locations
price:
links: Event Info

Theaters are fun — the dark, communal hush and all — but site-specific performances have the sexy thrill of detournement. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council presents a whole summer's worth of these works as part of Sitelines 2006. The upcoming months see LA's Collage Dance Theatre pas de deux with washers and dryers, Aaron Rosenblum's New York is Here! re-enact Gotham's myths in a lobby, and the barely-clad dancers of Ellis Wood Dance score spots at uber-chic Cipriani (albeit on the balcony) to impersonate fire in a piece called Fire on Wall Street. (JDS)

Note: Check the event info link for detailed locations and directions.



ART
Dada

when: Now through Mon 9.11 (Wed-Mon: 10:30am-5:30pm)
where: MoMA (11 W 53rd St, 212.708.9400) map
price: $20 admission
links: Event Info

Emerging amid the chaos of World War I to respond to the increasing mechanization of media and culture, Dada was an artistic movement intent on critiquing the nature of modern life. The Dadaists thrived on satire and irony, as illustrated by the movement's most iconic piece: Duchamp's ready-made urinal, sardonically titled Fountain. Focusing on the six urban centers of Dada productivity, MoMA recreates the sense of urgency and doubt pervading the movement's most active years. Enter the gallery on the right to begin with Zurich, or on the left to start with New York — the choice reflects the simultaneity of a zeitgeist that developed in both cities, independent of one another. (CB)

Note: On Fridays MoMA extends its hours to 8pm.

  Taking your inspiration from Duchamp's "ready-made" pieces, pick a common object and give it a witty new name. The three most satirically stellar responses each win a pair of tickets to this exhibition.



Features WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  BLOG OF HOPE: Nata Village Blog  

Jon Rawlinson was traveling through Botswana when he stumbled across the village of Nata. There, he met Peace Corps volunteer and HIV/AIDS educator Melody Jenkins, who introduced him to the community. Rawlinson was so moved by the people he met and the plight they faced that he volunteered his production and web-design skills to help raise the profile of this out-of-the-way village. The Nata Village blog features frequent posts and a vlog documenting the daily lives of village residents and their struggle with a devastating disease. After a recent plug on Rocketboom, the site raised $2,000 in just one day, but international funds and charities still largely neglect smaller villages like Nata in favor of larger communities such as nearby Francistown. You don't need Sally Struthers to tell you that a little goes a long way, so check out the blog — make a donation and spread the word. (GM)



 


  CD REVIEW: Hot Chip, The Warning  

Astralwerks/DFA
Released June 2006
$13.98 (Amazon)

Over and over and over and over, you're bound to hear the first Hot Chip single in stores, clubs, and your own head on perpetual (and perhaps painful) repeat. Similarly powered by catchy choruses, The Warning, the follow-up to 2004 debut Coming on Strong, finds the UK dance-rock troupe dropping disco beats with its trademark deadpan lyrical delivery. In the title track, when Hot Chip threaten to break your legs and put you underground, it sounds like a computer geek threatening a quarterback. (But who doesn't love an underdog?) Elsewhere, soft-spoken, almost-emo lyrics accompany mellow, laid-back beats, sounding not unlike the band's peers in the Postal Service. Hot Chip, however, ditch the glitch in favor of warm synthesizers and loungy drums, ensuring that they're coming on stronger than ever. (JS)

This review originally appeared in Earplug. For more in-depth electronic music coverage, check our current issue.


 


  STREAMS: Jeff Samuel and Lusine Live at the Getty Center  

On a gorgeous summer evening, LA's Getty Center welcomed a pair of Seattle techno masters, curated by Flavorpill, to the June edition of Fridays Off the 405. Jeff McIlwain (aka Lusine) started things off right with a bubbling set of his trademark glitchy melodies. Then, Jeff Samuel stepped to the decks and pushed the tempo up a notch or three, brilliantly mixing two hours of slamming dance-floor bangers without missing a beat. Samuel rode a relentless assault of surprisingly funky minimal techno, laden with fat bass lines, distinctive synths, and tight, powerful beats. It was all over by 9pm, but the groove goes on courtesy of AOL Music, where Lusine and Samuel's sets are available to stream free of charge. (SN)



 


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