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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI August 1 - 7, 2006

 
 Tez Humphreys   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 321: lamping flavor

While there are lots of reasons to stay out and active this summer, silver screens around the city are making a persuasive argument for seeking refuge in cool dark theaters — one that's certainly helped by this week's unsavory heat wave. Two visionaries receive retrospectives: silent film legend Buster Keaton and one of the Western genre's greatest auteurs, Sam Peckinpah. Brazilian films catch a little limelight with a weeklong series at the Tribeca Cinemas, Film Forum's Summer Swashbucklers series revisits legendary works of derring-do, RockDocs 2006 delivers nine new music-related flicks, Quinceañera corners the coming-of-age market, and cult classic The Warriors descends on its spiritual home of Coney Island. So kick back, cool out, and spread it.

- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor

 

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Freeing the Line; Hardcore; Gifts go in one direction; Kamp K48
dj Warm Up feat. A Touch of Class; I (heart) Danger feat. Matthew Dear; Ben Watt; Duane Harriott w/ Theo Parrish; Compressor 2.0
festival Spiegeltent
film Quinceañera; RockDocs 2006; The Best of Buster: Keaton Comedy Classics; Summer Swashbucklers; Brazilian Film Festival; Raising Hell: Sam Peckinpah; The Warriors
music Kélélé w/ Lágbájá; Hot Chip; The Detroit Cobras; The Flying Luttenbachers; Page France
spectacleKaiju Big Battel
theatre The Lieutenant of Inishmore; No Child
FEAT mashing up the world My Life in the Bush of Ghosts remix site; cd review Metallic Falcons, Desert Doughnuts; multimedia BBC Collective
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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART
Gifts go in one direction

when: Now through Sat 8.12 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm)
where: Apex Art (291 Church St, 212.431.5270) map
price:
links: Event Info

Central to Gifts go in one direction is the notion that imbuing objects with symbolic meaning is an essential human characteristic, exemplified in both art and gift-giving. As such, this exhibition documents a web of artist exchanges and explores the relationship between artistic practice, presents, and trade. Artist Richard Phillips gave his photorealistic drawing Christy to the photographers who inspired the piece. Paul Ramirez Jonas gifted 12 bottles and rockets to painter Amy Sillman, with instructions to light a rocket each year as a commemoration of her dog's death. Eliza Griffiths believes that gifting puts restraints on exploration because it removes choice from the viewing experience, and gave the light sequential figurative print Flashers to participating artist Julie Voyce. (PJ)



DJ
Giant Step presents Ben Watt

when: Tue 8.1 & Thur 8.3 (10pm)
where: Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map
price: $20
links: Event Info

Ben Watt's most recent mix, Buzzin' Fly, Vol. 3, may be his best yet. Half of the duo Everything But the Girl, Watt maintains dance-floor supremacy by always changing with the times. At this stage in his musical evolution, he's keeping things streamlined and soulful. With his judicious selections, Watt adds greater depth to deep house. As a producer, he creates a holistic listening experience, starting with quiet piano loops, smooth melodies, and spoken-word samples. Sure, he can still build up to those fist-pumping sugar rushes, but they're so much sweeter when they're earned. (JCF)



FILM
Summer Swashbucklers

when: Now through Thur 8.24
where: Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Errol Flynn is reason enough to see any film. Indisputably the sexiest man ever to sport shoulder-length hair and a sash (with Gene Kelly as D'Artagnan running a distant second), Flynn had already perfected his devil-may-care swagger by Captain Blood (1935), his first jousting collaboration with director Michael Curtiz. Kicking off with the heart-melting double bill of Flynn (in Blood) and Leslie Howard (as the damned elusive title character of 1934's The Scarlet Pimpernel), Film Forum's three-week celebration of muscled men with acrobatic aptitude offers four opportunities to submit to Flynn's dazzling charms. Other gems include a dueling Danny Kaye (in 1956's The Court Jester) and exciting b-rarities Scaramouche (1952) and 1948's The Swordsman. (LG)



FILM
Raising Hell: Sam Peckinpah

when: Tue 8.1 - Tue 8.29
where: BAM's Rose Cinema (30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718.636.4100) map
price: $10 per screening
links: Event Info

Sam Peckinpah's universe is an austere one. The landscapes of his Westerns are oppressively sparse, and his anti-heroes — there are no heroes — are tight-lipped men of flinty temperament and fierce values. Even the violence that flows red and thick from his first movie to his last seems utterly essential. From tonight's Ride the High Country (1962) to a less-edited Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), BAM's festival highlights many of Peckinpah's lesser known works. But even in films like Cross of Iron (1977), his lone World War movie, and the unconventional The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Peckinpah's status as Hollywood's greatest anti-hero (or anti-Hollywood's greatest hero) is beyond repute. (JDS)

  Peckinpah has a small acting role in what cult sci-fi film? The sixth correct response wins a pair of tickets to Ride the High Country on Mon 8.7 at 9:15pm.



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Play it Loud: RockDocs 2006

when: Wed 8.2 - Thur 8.10 (schedule)
where: Walter Reade Theater (70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 212.496.3809) map
price: $10 per screening
links: Event Info

Paying homage to concerts, musicians, and the various ear-popping incarnations of rock, this nine-film documentary series kicks off with loudQUIETloud, a cozy behind-the-scenes portrait of the Pixies on their 2004 reunion tour. Other high notes of the week include You're Gonna Miss Me, the tragic tale of Roky Erickson, frontman for 1960s psychedelic band 13th Floor Elevators, and Olivier Assayas' Noise, which documents the Festival Art Rock, and features performances by Metric, Malian performer Afel Bocoum, and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore in their Mirror/Dash side project. (MB)



ALSO ON WED

FILM
Netflix Rolling Roadshow feat. The Warriors (1979)
Wed 8.2 (8:30pm) Asser Levy Park Amphitheater (2nd St btwn Sea Breeze Ave & Ocean Pkwy, Coney Island) map

Event Info
 
Yes, Swan, this is what you fought all night to get back to. Come and see The Warriors in its Coney Island setting. Stay for the post-screening Q&A from the cast. (JRC)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART: Film
Walter de Maria's Hardcore (1969)

when: Thur 8.3 (7pm)
where: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave, 212.570.3676) map
price: $8
links: Event Info

Walter de Maria, like fellow "land artists" Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer, is drawn to expansive and challenging landscapes, as exemplified by his 1977 work Lightning Field, which flirts with the forces of nature in southwestern New Mexico. Predating that, de Maria's 1969 film Hardcore, screening tonight, demonstrates his long fascination with the American West by languorously tracking the surface of a dry, Mojave Desert lakebed. Simultaneously signaling a departure from environments influenced by man, and evoking that founding myth of America, Manifest Destiny, the iconography of the land is ripe with romanticism and the sublime. Shifting light reflects passing time and the otherworldliness of the desert, as the camera's eye consumes a vastness that in turn overawes the beholder. (GKH)

Note: Advance tickets are highly recommended.



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Quinceañera

when: Opens Fri 8.4
where: Sunshine Cinemas (143 E Houston St, 212.358.7709) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | Quinceañera

Right at the cusp of her quinceañera, a 15th birthday celebration to rival a 21-gun-salute wedding, pregnant Mexican-American Magdalena and her recently outed, rough-cut cousin Carlos are banished to the tiny casita of their unconditionally loving great-uncle Tomas. There, in the rapidly gentrifying Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, the three form a black-sheep family until the real world and its off-putting miracles creep under the door. Amongst the Movies To Slit Your Wrists By that comprise the bulk of American indies this year, Quinceañera emerges as a bracingly bright, lion-hearted film that commits so unfalteringly to its slightly formulaic premise that it invites you to do the same. (LR)

  The roots of the quinceañera celebration date back to what ancient civilization? The first three correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this film.



ART: Opening
Kamp K48

when: Fri 8.4 (6-9pm)
where: John Connelly Presents (625 W 27th St, 212.337.9563) map
price:
links: Event Info | K48

In case you had forgotten, the natural world is still kicking on our big, dirty, spinning rock. People increasingly conceptualize our relationship with nature through legends and movies, and Scott Hug, head of the art-punk fanzine K48, brought together young artists to go kamping and explore a freaky, constructed version of the natural world. Pairing mass media's tastes for alien abductions with campfire horror flicks and the masculinity-breeding inherent in the Boy Scouts, the gallery turns into an over-stimulated frenzy of off-kilter homages to nature. Assume Vivid Astro Focus turfs the space in neon zigzags, while Theo A. Rosenblum's glowing fire comes complete with s'mores and the roasting pig already diving in. (JWG)

Note: This exhibition continues through Wed 8.30 (Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm).



MUSIC: Electro-Pop
River to River Festival presents Hot Chip w/ Oppenhiemer

when: Fri 8.4 (7pm)
where: South Street Seaport (Pier 17, 212.732.7678) map
price:
links: Event Info | Hot Chip | Oppenheimer

With the terrific debut Coming On Strong already under their belts, Hot Chip rapidly became media darlings after their next release, The Warning, was cherry-picked by DFA. The album is a blast of potent mutant disco and cheekily lo-fi electro-pop. The wildfire enthusiasm surrounding it began to blaze this year as producers lined up to remix its tracks, with Erol Alkan, Solid Groove, Justus Kohncke, and DFA themselves just the boldfaced names. However, the Chip need very little help packing the dance floor — with an arsenal that includes the mesmeric stomper "Over and Over" and the sunny Italo anthem "And I Was a Boy from School," they promise to pluck even the most stubborn wallflowers. (TW)



ALSO ON FRI

MUSIC: Indie Pop
Page France
Fri 8.4 (8pm) Union Hall (702 Union St, Park Slope, 718.638.4400) map $8

Event Info
 
Earnest indie and kinda-Christian quartet Page France christen Park Slope's latest watering hole-cum-bocce ball court with their endearingly folky pop. (LT)



SPECTACLE
Kaiju Big Battel
Fri 8.4 (8pm) Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave, Greenpoint, 718.387.0505) map $20 / $18.50 advance

Event Info
 
Kaiju Big Battel illustrates just how far Western civilization has evolved since the gladiatorial arena. After all, nothing spells progress like an army of Japanese-inspired monsters duking it out in a battle royale meets WWF-style tournament. (CB)



DJ
Duane Harriott w/ Theo Parrish
Fri 8.4 (10pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map $8

Event Info
 
An esteemed producer and remixer, Detroit's Theo Parrish serves up deep, soulful house and techno downstairs on APT's delightfully warm sound system. (CJN)



DJ
Disorient presents Compressor 2.0
Fri 8.4 (10pm-6am) Club Exit (149 Greenpoint Ave, Greenpoint) map $20 / $15 advance

Event Info
 
The Burning Man-bound converge on Little Poland for an evening of dirty, pagan, breaks-filled debauchery. The flyer's Mad-Libs-for-tweakers say it all. (JL)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Afropop
Kélélé w/ Lágbájá and the African Underground Allstars

when: Sat 8.5 (2-9pm)
where: Prospect Park Bandshell (718.855.7882 x33) map
price:
links: Event Info | Kékélé | Lágbájá

To bring the best in Afropop to the BK, Celebrate Brooklyn recruits veteran and upstart performers from the motherland. Sax-wielding Nigerian Lágbájá is the obvious heir to Fela Kuti's throne, but the masked musician uses his native conga-like ogido drums and Yoruba language to pioneer a subgenre of his own. African Underground Allstars feature Rakim-influenced Tanzanian MC Dola and Bronx-by-way-of-Sierra Leone rapper Chosan. Congolese rumba ensemble Kékélé headline the evening, blending the harmonies of seasoned singers Bumba Massa and Loko Massengo with the acoustic guitars, French accordions, and swinging saxophone of more than a dozen globally pedigreed talents. Gabon-raised R&B singer Razia, Martino Atangana, and African Blue Note round out the day's lineup. (IB)



DJ
Warm Up feat. A Touch of Class w/ DJ Rage Johnson

when: Sat 8.5 (3-9pm)
where: P.S.1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Tickets | A Touch of Class | DJ Rage Johnson

Like fellow label/production duo the DFA, A Touch of Class' Oliver Stumm and Domie Clausen weathered the electroclash crash unscathed. Their hook-friendly rock inclinations might have appealed to that glam-informed scene, but ATOC's label tracks, remixes, and DJing proved more adaptable and enduring than asymmetrical haircuts and sexless, needlessly breathy vocals. For a taste of ATOC's finest, look no further than the slow-burning, soulful disco frenzy on their remix of the Gossip's "Listen Up!" Today, they spread the gospel at P.S.1's always-on Warm Up party. Inkheads graf artist Rage Johnson opens with old-skool NYC electro, Miami bass, and Latin funk. (JL)

Note: Just a short walk from P.S.1, Tim "Love" Lee headlines Rebound at Water Taxi Beach.

  In what year did The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette first grace Americans with a guide to acting classy? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



DJ
I (heart) Danger feat. Matthew Dear w/ eVa, Wolf + Lamb, and DJ Spinoza

when: Sat 8.5 (9pm-9am)
where: 3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave, Bklyn, 718.715.4961) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Matthew Dear | Wolf + Lamb | DJ Spinoza

Leave it to DJ Spinoza, the man behind SubTonic's frequent Bunker freakouts, to keep NYC dancers on their toes. As generic superclubs threaten to gentrify the city's techno scene, Spinoza teams up with other nocturnal adventurers for I (heart) Danger, bringing Gotham a 12-hour Brooklyn rave-athon replete with booze, BBQ, and a giant loft complex packed with eye-popping multimedia art and bassbin-rattling beats. Matthew Dear headlines on the decks, cooking up his trademark blend of swingin' minimalism, while local leftfielders Wolf + Lamb and Spinoza himself keep the music as diverse as the environment. (JJ)

  What do you "heart" most? The two most T-shirt appropriate responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: R&Beat-down
JellyNYC presents Pool Parties feat. the Detroit Cobras w/ the Everyothers and the Legendary Maxine Brown

when: Sun 8.6 (3-8pm)
where: McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St btwn Driggs & Bayard Aves, Wburg) map
price:
links: Event Info | The Detroit Cobras | The Everyothers | Maxine Brown

The Detroit Cobras aren't your average cover band. Updating '50s and '60s tunes with a punky edge, the band twists and shouts with 'tude. Singer Rachel Nagy purrs, snarls, and wails her way through every track, lending sass and sex appeal to girl group and Motown obscurities. Birthed from the same Motor City scene as the White Stripes and garage rock legends the Dirtbombs, the Cobras are enthusiastic and surprisingly original and relevant revivalists. Local glammy rockers the Everyothers open with sinfully good sleaze jams, convincing everyone that it really is very good to be bad, and in a spot of inspired booking,'60s R&B vocalist the Legendary Maxine Brown takes the stage to prove (or remind us of) her "legendary" status. (LT)

Note: The Cobras also play Maxwell's on Sat 8.5.



FILM
Fourth Annual Brazilian Film Festival of New York

when: Sun 8.6 - Sun 8.13 (schedule)
where: Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick St, 212.941.2000) map
price: $12 per screening
links: Event Info | Tickets

Brazil's music began invading international consciousness decades ago, but it's only recently that the world has turned to the tremendous well of Brazilian film — thanks in no small part to Fernando Meirelles, who directed City of God (2002) and The Constant Gardener (2005). But with all due respect to Meirelles, he's only the tip of the iceberg, as evidenced by this wide-ranging showcase stamped with that uniquely Brazilian combination of spiritual transcendence, political indignation, and a raging fire in the belly. Of particular note: Rudi Lagemann's Angels of Sun, Sandra Werneck's Teen Mothers, and Malu de Martino's Women of Brazil. (LR)

Note: The festival kicks off tonight at SummerStage with the samba rock of Lenine and a screening of the doc This is Bossa Nova — The History and Stories.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
The Best of Buster: Keaton Comedy Classics

when: Mon 8.7 - Mon 9.25
where: Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110) map
price: $10 per screening
links: Event Info

With his colossal, oafish charm and hangdog demeanor, Buster Keaton may not be hailed as the most recognizable silent film comedian (Charlie Chaplin reserves that honor) but arguably as the most innovative. As an actor, his shtick was as the pokerfaced, triple-taking straight man, struggling valiantly and unsuccessfully to navigate the flibbertigibbets flanking him — as in Spite Marriage (1929), in which he's in over his head as the rebound husband for a Broadway star. Keaton perhaps best earned his laurels as a screenwriter and director, though; witness The General (1927), a locomotion-chase, bona-fide moving picture teeming in visual gags on the scale of a small nation. (LR)



MUSIC: Free Spazz
The Flying Luttenbachers

when: Mon 8.7 (8pm)
where: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St, 212.253.0036) map
price: $6
links: Event Info | The Flying Luttenbachers

To many in the underground rock landscape of the mid to late '90s, Chicago seemed like the center of the universe. In the eye of the storm stood multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter and a rotating cast of jazz/punk/metal upstarts that at one point included saxophonist Ken Vandermark. As the indie cognoscenti have perhaps moved on from Chicago, so too has Walter: he relocated to the Bay Area in 2003. The band members still change at will, but the Flying Luttenbachers' M.O. remains the same: spastic noise for short attention spans. (JK)

Note: The Flying Luttenbachers also play Tonic on Wed 8.9.



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


Want to plan further ahead? Check out our weekly updated list of upcoming events!


ART
Freeing the Line

when: Now through Fri 8.25 (Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm)
where: Marian Goodman Gallery (24 W 57th St, 4th Fl, 212.977.7160) map
price:
links: Event Info

Gravity-defying lines soar in the latest show curated by Catherine de Zegher, where works from the '60s and '70s intermixed with contemporary drawings seek to free line from its ground. The front gallery contains pieces made mostly of metal wire twisted sometimes elegantly (Richard Tuttle and Karel Malich), other times rigidly (Gego and Joelle Tuerlinckx), but always to create suspended gestures. Ranjani Shettar bedazzles a middle gallery with colored, rolled-wax nodes connected to a web-like structure extending from ceiling almost to floor. The show's greatest moment, however, comes in the back gallery's far corner where Monika Grzymala's miles of layered masking tape traverse a window, attaining celestial transparency and flight. (MC)



THEATRE
The Lieutenant of Inishmore

when: Now playing
where: Lyceum Theater (149 W 45th St, 212.239.6200) map
price: $71.25-91.25
links: Event Info

Martin McDonagh's plays are so full of carnage they make Quentin Tarantino's blood-fests look like kiddie flicks. After ravishing Broadway audiences with The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Pillowman, the young, prolific Anglo-Irish dramatist offers The Lieutenant of Inishmore, an engrossing — if stomach-churning — comedy about a hapless bunch of would-be terrorists. The slaying of an innocent cat is the catalyst for much blood splattering around the stage while characters pontificate the idea of a free Ireland. The playwright's formal structure, calculatingly blasé dialogue, and acerbic humor are in perfect juxtaposition with the onstage violence and gore, forcing audiences to question the morality behind fighting for peace, and to acknowledge their own morbid fascination with blood. (SP)



THEATRE
No Child

when: Now through Jan 2007 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 3 & 8pm / Sun: 3pm)
where: Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow St, 212.239.6200) map
price: $45
links: Event Info

A boisterous cross between the immigrant pastiche of Sarah Jones' one-woman whirlwind, Bridge & Tunnel, and the fourth-wall deterioration of Thornton Wilder's poignant classic, Our Town, No Child explores, analyzes, and shames the New York public school system and Bush's No Child Left Behind act, while celebrating the hope and talent of a group of tenth-graders in a fictional Bronx school, Malcolm X High. Having spent time teaching drama in the Bronx herself, writer and actor Nilaja Sun offers astute observations on the lives and characters of each of the students, school staff, and educators she so energetically and endearingly impersonates. Directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain), the fast-paced play is an ode to teachers and thespians alike, proving at last that the show must go on. (LT)



FESTIVAL: Performance
Spiegeltent

when: Thur 8.3 - Sun 10.1
where: South Street Seaport (Pier 17, 212.279.4200) map
price: Various
links: Event Info

More than a glorified Biergärten, the Spiegeltent is a gorgeous hand-hewn pavilion, inspired by the early 20th-century traveling European dance and wine halls, offering an array of cabaret, music, and performance arts. This summer-perfect affair graces downtown's former Fulton Fish Market for two months of intoxicating entertainment, intensified by a beer garden run by Heartland Brewery. In Absinthe, Berlin cabaret meets New York vaudeville via a circus route, while musical guests from Diamanda Galás to Duncan Sheik and Menlo Park compete with Reverend Billy's political theatre, Lypsinka's drag fantasia, and the Wau Wau Sisters' naughty acrobatics. P.S. 122 also adds some tantalizing contributions, including avant-garde tango composer John Moran's latest opera and mysterious pop songs by emerging American novelists. (SP)



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  MASHING UP THE WORLD: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts remix site  

When it was first released in 1981, Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts crystallized everything that was brilliantly right and potentially sloppy about "world music." But their magpie aesthetic also set the template for less-talented Western bohos to treat "ethnic" sounds like sonic MSG. Fifteen years later, to correspond with the album's re-release, the two superproducers have set up a companion website that allows users to download and remix all 24 tracks from two of the album's songs — "A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody." You have to register, but once that hurdle is cleared users can upload and share their own tracks. The results — everything from head-bopping, Endtroducing-style hip-hop to hypnotic Middle Eastern fare worthy of Muslimgauze — augment world music with a good dose of mashup aesthetics. (TW)



 


  CD REVIEW: Metallic Falcons, Desert Doughnuts  

Voodoo-EROS
Released June 2006
$13.99 (Insound)

An epic exercise in mood and foreboding, Metallic Falcons' Desert Doughnuts traverses some truly unsettling emotional terrain. The band comprises CocoRosie's Sierra Cassidy (the operatic one, not the creaky one), Voodoo-EROS's Matteah Baim, and a host of like-minded (read: batshit insane) guests including Antony, Devendra, and Jana Hunter. The record itself is difficult to pigeonhole — the Falcons call it "soft metal" — a swirling amalgam of Cocteau Twins-ish fluttering, unintelligible vocals, watery guitars, incongruous trad-metal riffs, children's songs, medieval chants, and hissy, lo-fi production. Desert Donuts may not have CocoRosie's huggability, but what it lacks in cuddly quirk it makes up in artistic depth, shifting from creeping dread to shimmering beauty in the blink of a compound eye. (TG)


 


  MULTIMEDIA: BBC Collective  

Not unlike another online cultural filter you know and love, the BBC Collective casts a wide net into the tempestuous sea of pop culture and ensnares only the best music, visual art, theatre, and books for your consumption. It's a bookmark of choice for its constantly updated features, interviews, podcasts, and artwork. This week, check out an interview with Sweden's Love Is All, complete with a live session and streaming full tracks from their debut LP, Nine Times That Same Song. Also highlighted is a live London performance from Six Organs of Admittance, as well as a new playlist packing fresh tracks from Kerrier District, Guillemots, and the Knife. (CJN)



Love Is All: Live In-Session (Indie rock)
Six Organs of Admittance: Live at the Scala (Free jazz/electronic)
Various Artists: Collective Playlist (Eclectic)


 


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Ella FitzgeraldJocelyn K. Glei
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Cold beerSascha Lewis
Sydney Opera HouseAndrew Maerkle
Sophia LorenMark Mangan
Princess LeiaColin J. Nagy
Sweet revengeStephan Paschalides
PeonyLisa Rosman
Mission burritoJon Schultz
Burt ReynoldsJoshua D. Stein
An ACLeah Taylor
 
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