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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI September 5 - 11, 2006

 
 ANTIGIRL   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 326: multifarious flavor

Our city's startling diversity — economic, ethnic, and cultural — could hardly be better exemplified that with this snapshot. Crazy kids can slake their psych-rock thirst with Comets on Fire or nod to the beats of legendary turntablist DJ Krush, while fans of sung narratives can attend Opera-For-All — which shrinks those cumbersome librettos down to size — or the New York Musical Theatre Festival. DancenOw/NYC sends over 85 companies and choreographers twirling across DTW's stage, and FringeNYC Encores gives you a second chance to catch the edgy theatrics you missed during August. Maggie Gyllenhaal turns in a fierce performance in Sherrybaby, a film about a recovering addict, and the Best of NewFest reprises hit GLBT movies from the June festival. Plus, the city flies its freak and fashion flags as Deitch's annual Art Parade arrives (replete with unicorn troupe), and Olympus Fashion Week sets up shop in Bryant Park for seven days of catwalks and exclusive parties. Finally, the five-year anniversary of 9/11 comes this Monday, and with it a chance to be reminded of our perseverance and thankful for the richness that surrounds us.

- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor

 

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The Starbucks Salon runs every day from September 8th through September 17th at 76 Greene Street (between Spring & Broome), with rotating art, interactive installations, free nightly performances, and more. We'll be open all day Sunday through Tuesday from 10am-10pm, and Wednesday through Saturday from 10am-11pm. Come by and drink in the festivities.
 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Arresting Artists; Sarah Oppenheimer; Art vs. Real Life: Canadian Stories; Craig Anthony Miller
dance DancenOw/NYC
dj Jeff Samuel; DJ Krush; Mixtape Riot feat. Bahamadia
film Best of NewFest; Sherrybaby; Saint of 9/11
multimediaVideo Art presented by Andrea Merkx
music The Presets w/ Holy Hail; Junior Boys; An Albatross; Comets on Fire; SoundArt Festival feat. Daedelus; Band of Horses; Growing w/ Comets on Fire
operaOpera-For-All
spectacle Art Parade
symposium September 11, 2001: Five Years Later
theatre New York Musical Theatre Festival; FringeNYC Encores; Stuff Happens
FEAT pret a part-ay Olympus Fashion Week; cd review Burial, Burial; streams Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliott Live at the Getty Center
UPCOMINGCheck out our weekly updated list of upcoming events




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Presenting the anti-Macy's Thanksgiving Day spectacle: the weird, the wacky, and the wonderful all flood the streets of SoHo this Saturday for the second annual Art Parade.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART
Art vs. Real Life: Canadian Stories

when: Now through Sat 9.9 (Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm)
where: Morgan Lehmann Gallery (317 10th Ave, 212.268.6699) map
price:
links: Event Info

Katharine Mulherin, a prominent Toronto gallerist, curates an exhibit of her favorite Canadian artists. It's not all free check-ups and polar fleece up north; Eliza Griffiths satirizes the Canadian dream of middle-class prosperity in her lascivious, rainbow-colored paintings Health Care for Everyone, The Traveller, and Abundance. Photographer brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez borrow from Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson to depict the ennui of a precocious child, alone in his room and surrounded by toys. Graham Gillmore's Boo-Hoo-Waa-Haa is a large, rough-hewn print with the letters and words of the title interspersed with colored squares. Murmurings of angst are undercut by a sincere, if self-effacing, national pride. (HGM)



MUSIC: Electro-Pop
The Presets w/ Goat Explosion and Holy Hail

when: Tue 9.5 (10pm)
where: Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th St, Wburg, 718.782.5188) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | The Presets | Goat Explosion | Holy Hail

Holy Hail, the openers of tonight's synth-pop cavalcade, are in sum far more than their four charmingly lo-fi parts. Wielding new-wave keys, post-punk bass lines, and occasional hip-hop beats, the quartet masterfully constructs moody backing tracks — at once languorous yet spirited, innocent yet sinister — under girl/boy vocals. Duos rule the rest of the night, with Goat Explosion mining '80s pop territory (it's criminal that their anthemic "Come on Make Me Feel" is without an accompanying John Hughes film), while Aussies the Presets play it cooler and weirder, with electro stabs and candy-coated squelches that leave ears ringing happily. (DM)



ALSO ON TUE

MULTIMEDIA
Video Art presented by Andrea Merkx
Tue 9.5 (7pm) Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 212.925.2035) map

Event Info
 
Curated by artist Andrea Merkx, tonight's program includes music videos from Doug Aitken, Slater Bradley, Keith Haring, Terry Richardson, Andy Warhol, and Damien Hirst, displayed on multiple monitors and projectors throughout Swiss Institute's gallery space. (HGM)



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Saint of 9/11

when: Opens Wed 9.6
where: IFC Center (323 6th Ave, 212.924.7771) map
price: $10.75
links: Saint of 9/11

Father Mychal Judge was a NYC Franciscan priest, forever trolling the streets wearing his brown robes and a cheeky grin. A fierce public advocate for the homeless, for AIDS patients, and for peace in Ireland, he was openly gay, openly political, openly in AA, and openly ambivalent about the Church — if not God. He was garrulous but intensely humble; irreverent but deeply humane. As this unadorned doc conveys, he represented the best this city has to offer — and so it was fitting that amongst the many tragedies of 9/11, Judge's heroic death as a fire marshal at the WTC emerges as a triumphant end to a well-lived life. (LR)

  As a boy, what was Judge's job at Penn Station? The first five correct responses each win a pair of tickets to any Saint of 9/11 screening, Mon-Thur.



ALSO ON WED

ART: Opening
Craig Anthony Miller: Recent Paintings and Drawings on the Culture of Jazz
Wed 9.6 (6-8pm) Jazz Gallery (290 Hudson St, 212.242.1063) map

Event Info
 
Artist Craig Anthony Miller's vividly colored and graffiti-style meditations on jazz culture are as lively as the polyrhythmic music that inspires it. West African guitarist Lionel Loueke's acoustic accompaniment adds to tonight's organic vibe. (IB)

Note: Free food and wine complete tonight's salon-like opening. This exhibition continues through Sat 10.14 (Sat: 1-6pm, and during evening performances: Mon & Thur-Sat).



THEATRE
Stuff Happens
Wed 9.6 (8pm) Delacorte Theater (Central Park at 80th St, 212.539.8650) map

Event Info
 
The Public Theater's much-hyped, uber-political season extends with a free reading of David Hare's successful Stuff Happens, a provocative drama that attempts to shed light on how and why we went to war in Iraq. (SP)

Note: Pick up your tickets the day of the show (two per person) at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park beginning at 1pm, and at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette St) from 1-3pm.



DJ
Mixtape Riot #9 feat. Bahamadia, Sunspot Jonez, Ivana Santilli, and Doujah Raze
Wed 9.6 (10pm) Fat Baby (112 Rivington St, 212.533.1888) map $5

Event Info
 
The beaTards have packed up their four-deck-driven live remix/mash-up party and moved to LES hangout Fat Baby. Tonight features live performances from former Gang Starr vocalist Bahamadia, Sunspot Jonez of LA's Living Legends, Canadian songstress Ivana Santilli, and Brooklyn MC Doujah Raze. (JRC)

Note: Open Brahma beer bar from 10-11pm.



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ART: Opening
Sarah Oppenheimer: 554-5251

when: Thur 9.7 (6-8pm)
where: P.P.O.W. Gallery (555 W 25th St, 212.647.1044) map
price:
links: Event Info | Sarah Oppenheimer

Sarah Oppenheimer's mesmerizing new installation builds on her long-standing interest in the manipulation of pre-existing spaces. Oppenheimer developed her own modular system — explained through photographs in the back gallery — demonstrating that an infinite number of forms can be generated and arranged from the standard building unit of 4ft x 8ft. Adhering to this method, 554-5251 is a massive rectilinear tube that emerges from a wall of plywood veneer, and is comprised of bent forms that interlock to create a stable structure. A progressive take on minimalism, Oppenheimer's piece borrows the sullen forms of Robert Morris and Donald Judd to subvert, rather than emphasize, architectural forms. (HGM)

Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 10.7 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm).



DJ
Giant Step presents DJ Krush

when: Thur 9.7 (9pm)
where: Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map
price: $20 / $18.50 advance
links: Event Info | Giant Step | DJ Krush

Japan has given two great gifts to hip-hop: the Technics direct-drive turntable and DJ Krush. Like Tokyo breakdancer Crazy-A, Krush saw Wild Style in '83 and found his calling. Fast-forward to '06 and Krush's legend stands with those of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Z-Trip and other new-school masters. His career has been characterized by a dialogue between East and West, integrating his homeland's traditional instrumentation and minimal aesthetic with modern production tricks and international MCs. Tonight he supports his double-disc of career-spanning reworked tracks, Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best. (JRC)



MUSIC: DigiPop
Junior Boys w/ Ensemble

when: Thur 9.7 (9pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $15 / $13 advance
links: Event Info | Junior Boys | Ensemble

Last Exit's gently glitched techno-pop made for a nice reprieve from electroclash's hangover, but Junior Boys' '05 tour to support it proved revelatory, as the Boys bested their headliners by a stretch. Hushed vocals, warm, immersive bass lines, and atmospheric electronic tones soaked Bowery Ballroom in sophisticated, new-romantic soul. The just-released So This Is Goodbye captures their expansive live sound, refines their songwriting, and demonstrates the continued confidence and expressiveness of singer Jeremy Greenspan — making for one of the year's best albums. Tonight's return to the Bowery finds them, appropriately, in the top slot. (JL)

  Junior Boys Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus have been friends since what age? The fifth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON THUR

OPERA
Opera-For-All
Thur 9.7 - Sun 9.10 (Thur: 7:30pm / Fri & Sat: 8pm / Sun: 1:30pm) New York State Theater, Lincoln Center (W 63rd St & Columbus Ave, 212.870.5630) map $25

Event Info
 
Offering performing arts in bite-size servings seems to be the trend du jour. New York City Opera brings the uninitiated to the yard on the cheap with sneak peeks of La Bohème and the rest of its 2006-07 season. (SP)

Note: Saturday's performance of Carmen is already sold out, and other performances are going fast, so reserve tickets soon.

  Though most of the original music is now lost to history, what was the name of the first opera? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets for the Thur 9.7 performance.



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Sherrybaby

when: Opens Fri 9.8
where: Sunshine Cinemas (143 E Houston St, 212.358.7709) map
price: $10.75
links: Sherrybaby

A recovering addict and recently released convict, Sherry (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a wild blur of motion who always crashes away from problems — even her young daughter — in her wobbly platforms. But Sherrybaby is about what happens when your old tricks no longer work; when your most obvious asset has also become your greatest enemy — in Sherry's case, an immediate carnality that has opened many doors she wishes had remained closed. Aided by Laurie Collyer's deft, unobtrusive script and direction, the ever-resourceful Gyllenhaal rescues a character drowning in her own self-pity by rendering her not only fiercely sympathetic but laudable. (LR)

  Laurie Collyer worked with which New York non-profit to learn more about the experience of women coming out of prison? The sixth and eighth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this film.



FILM
Best of NewFest

when: Fri 9.8 - Sun 9.10
where: BAM's Rose Cinema (30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718.636.4100) map
price: $10 per screening
links: Event Info | NewFest

For those who missed June's annual NewFest, BAM screens crowd favorites from New York's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this weekend. Highlights include Adaora Nwandu's Rag Tag, chronicling the plight of two immigrant boys in love in London, and set to a lively b-boy soundtrack, and this year's winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature, Cruel & Unusual, a documentary detailing the fate of transgendered male-to-females ordered to serve their sentences in men's facilities because of their "original" anatomy. Homo-hop doc Pick Up the Mic explores the hypocrisy of oppression in hip-hop, while Mom lightens the mood with a lesbian spin on the gal-pal comedy. (IB)

  Outside of film, which profession has Pick Up the Mic director Alex Hinton also considered pursuing? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to Girl's Room on Sat 9.9 (2pm), and the third correct response wins a pair of tickets to Boy's Shorts on Sun 9.10 (2pm).



MUSIC: Post-Hardcore
An Albatross

when: Fri 9.8 (8pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | An Albatross

Squeezing more spastic, distorted fury into 50 seconds than most bands can fit in 3 minutes, An Albatross create mathcore mini-movies, briefer-than-brief exercises in aggression that add up to the most satisfying sucker-punch you'll ever receive. With overblown sci-fi album titles like Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder and We Are the Lazer Viking (both of which boast a nigh-ten-minute run time) and a penchant for futuristic synth squiggles and farfisas in their thrash, the quintet puts a decidedly heady, psychedelic spin on visceral music. An Albatross performances are devastating — equal parts religious revival, hardcore show, performance-art piece, and herky-jerk dance party. (TG)

  How many recognized species of albatross are there? The second and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



DJ
The Bunker presents Jeff Samuel

when: Fri 9.8 (10pm)
where: SubTonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $5
links: Event Info | Jeff Samuel

Jeff Samuel doesn't produce disciplined minimal techno; somewhere beneath his signature hiccupping beats and percolating bleeps exists an indelible wildness, subtly shaking dancers to their cores. Initially seduced by the electronic sounds birthed from his native Midwest in the mid '90s, Samuel began tinkering with his own tracks en route to a gig as a video game sound-effects designer. Nowadays, when not churning out quirky hits for taste-making minimal labels Trapez, Spectral, and Poker Flat, the techno ace can be found hunched over the decks, stacking jacking groove upon groove with the algorithmic aplomb of an 8-bit Tetris wizard. (JJ)

Note: Samuel also kicks off the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's final Summer Sessions series today.

  What video game/pop song combo would you most like to hear? Our two favorite mash-up suggestions each win a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Psych-Metal
Comets on Fire w/ Soldiers of Fortune and Blues Control

when: Fri 9.8 (11pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132) map
price: $14 / $12 advance
links: Event Info | Comets on Fire | Soldiers of Fortune | Blues Control

Burning at the core of cosmic, acid-damaged metal, Comets on Fire's scraggly band of hooligans slam the explosive rock of hooky psychedelic freaks like Blue Cheer into the rough-and-ragged skronk of Albert Ayler's free jazz. As beholden to the avant-garde as to forgotten relics of hard rock, their sound even edges on the volatile audio experimentation of noisy Japanese bluesmen like Hiroyuki Usui. With ear-melting solos, enough colorful riffs to make a synesthete OD, and plenty of teary, muscular ballads, the band's latest album, Avatar, marks a milestone in 21st-century rock. (DRC)

Note: Comets on Fire also play Todd P's show on Sat 9.9.

  Which ballad has most recently made you teary, and why? The two most sob-worthy explanations in 50 words or less each win a pair of tickets to this show.



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Avant-Electronic
SoundArt Festival feat. Daedelus w/ So Percussion & Jerseyband, Paul Lansky, Joan La Barbara, Luke DuBois, and Carl Stone

when: Sat 9.9 (3pm)
where: Washington Square Park (5th Ave btwn Waverly Pl & W 4th St) map
price:
links: Event Info | Daedelus | So Percussion | Jerseyband

A staggering array of modern music makes the culture-clashing battleground of Washington Square Park its stage today. Recovering d'nb-head Daedelus applies his affinity for rapid-fire, polyrhythmic pacing to dense patchworks of others' songs, coercing such disparate styles as samba, folk, lounge, gabba, and breakbeat to shimmy together in a single track. Meanwhile, Jerseyband's blistering, horn-heavy jazzcore melds with the ethereality of the So Percussion quartet in a united set (they also perform separately); Joan La Barbara weighs in with avant vocals; and experimental composers Luke DuBois and Paul Lansky round out a bill in great debt to headlining computer-music progenitor Carl Stone. And we didn't even mention soundscapes... (JL)



SPECTACLE
Deitch Projects, Creative Time, and Paper magazine present the Art Parade

when: Sat 9.9 (4pm)
where: W Broadway (from Houston to Grand Sts, 212.343.7300) map
price:
links: Event Info | Creative Time | Paper

Even in this, the city at the center of the universe, it's quite difficult to find a 12-foot-tall, walking sex doll. Thanks to artist E.V. Day's participation in this year's Art Parade, however, this can be seen parading alongside its freaky kin, as kites, floats, Whore Cops, and the inevitable unicorn troupe make their way down West Broadway. Pia Dehne recreates a Queen album cover with dozens of naked-suited motorcycling babes, while Fischerspooner collaborate with designer Gareth Pugh for their float and performance. Creative Time's multi-person bicycle-float, Octopussy, rides along with Bob Snead's faux-admirers of Wal-Mart, who are dressed as greeters and accompanied by giant, nonperishable products. (JWG)



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: ToddPalooza
Todd P presents Growing w/ Comets on Fire, Matt & Kim, Ex Models, Dirty Projectors, and Excepter
Sat 9.9 (12-10pm) East Williamsburg Industrial Park (1105 Metropolitan Ave, Wburg) map $10-15

Event Info
 
Now post-vacation, super-indie super-promoter Todd P jumps back to booking with a vengeance, with more than 16 of the funnest spazz/noise/
drone/avant rockers ever to hit Brooklyn — let alone Bushwick. Welcome back. (JL)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Canyon Rock
Band of Horses w/ Chad VanGaalen

when: Sun 9.10 & Mon 9.11 (9pm)
where: Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.388.0300) map
price: $18 / $17 advance
links: Event Info | Band of Horses | Chad VanGaalen

Capturing the scruffy charm of My Morning Jacket with shimmering Northwest-indie restraint, Seattle's Band of Horses are custom-built for amphitheater action (in a good way). As the group's Pitchfork Music Festival gig this summer showcased, the band exudes warm, sparkling grooves and keening melodies that are best experienced with a slight buzz while the sun beats down overhead. The fresh Sub Pop signees should translate well to stage, with lead singer Ben Bridwell belting out the plaintive lyrics of songs like the elegiac "Funeral" while the other Horses engage the audience with one gorgeous, mid-tempo anthem after another. Genre-crossing balladeer Chad VanGaalen opens with everything from glitchy beats to sharpish post-punk riffs. (PS)

  Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell used to drum for which Seattle band? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


SYMPOSIUM
September 11, 2001: Five Years Later

when: Mon 9.11 (8pm)
where: Tishman Auditorium, the New School (66 W 12th St, 212.229.5488) map
price:
links: Event Info

On this, the five-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, prominent writers and artists gather to read and discuss two 2006 National Book Award-nominated works: The 9/11 Commission Report and 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. Join New School president and 9/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, co-authors of The 9/11 Commission Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Jay McInerney, The Good Life author and reformed literary rogue, and others in contemplation, reflection, and perhaps, hope. (LT)



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


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ART
Arresting Artists: Franklin Furnace Artists and the Long Arm of the Law

when: Now through Fri 10.27 (Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm)
where: Franklin Furnace Archive (80 Hanson Pl, #301, Bklyn, 718.398.7255) map
price:
links: Event Info

For 30 years, Martha Wilson's performance-art institution Franklin Furnace has been the protector and promoter of the avant-garde. Embroiled in the NEA controversies during Bush Sr.'s administration, the Furnace had its own encounters with Congressional inquiries, nosy lawmakers, and the fire department. A compact survey of artists' encounters with the law — from the 1980s to the 2004 Republican National Convention — features documentation of offending performances, editorials, posters, and pictures of their arrests. Wilson offers an impromptu slide show as well as a selection of videos, including a recording of Reverend Billy's evangelist sermon "Church of Stop Shopping." (HGM)



DANCE
DancenOw/NYC presents the Festival

when: Wed 9.6 - Sat 9.16
where: Dance Theater Workshop (219 W 19th St, 212.691.6500) & Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778) map
price: $15-30
links: Event Info

For dance fans who only make it to Lincoln Center or the occasional Joyce show, DancenOw/NYC provides a chance to sample works from over 85 adventurous dancemakers who call this city their own. For the true fanatics, the 12th-annual installment of the Festival provides a rare opportunity to recital-hop for two weeks solid. Dance Theater Workshop hosts three series — 40Up, Base Camp, and Upclose — featuring both seasoned and aspiring young artists, before Joe's Pub takes over to present DancemOpolitan, three nights of cabaret performances hosted by choreographer Leigh Garrett. (SP)



THEATRE
New York Musical Theatre Festival

when: Sun 9.10 - Sun 10.1 (schedule)
where: Various locations
price: $20
links: Event Info

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is back for its third year, featuring more than 30 premieres of full productions, works in development, and commissioned plays, as well as concerts, panels, and — for the first time — a dance series. There are of course the obligatory bio-musicals that chronicle the lives of such diverse icons as Charlie Chaplin (Behind the Limelight), Johann Gutenberg (Gutenberg! The Musical), and Mary Magdalene (Korean sensation Maria, Maria). There's also a curious fascination with schoolchildren, from love in the eighth grade (Lunch) and traumas of the senior prom (the classical music-scored School Daze), to a busload full of zombie kids (The Children) and the conceptually promising Oedipus for Kids!. (SP)



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

THEATRE
FringeNYC Encores
Tue 9.5 - Sun 9.24 Various locations $18

Event Info
 
FringeNYC launches a new concept by presenting encore performances of a dozen critically acclaimed shows and/or audience favorites, including festival winner I Was Tom Cruise, evil corporation saga Walmartopia, and the must-see political-satire-without-words, Billy the Mime. (SP)



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  PRET A PART-AY: Olympus Fashion Week  

With fall temperatures lingering on the optimistic side of 70 and shop windows brimming with winter gear, the Spring 2007 collections at Olympus Fashion Week feel like ready-to-wear. Starting September 8th, boldface royalty and devils wearing Prada behold the parade of models in togs from veteran houses Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, purveyors of downtown chic Vena Cava, it-girl-to-be Erin Fetherston, three Project Runway finalists, and dozens of new and notable designers. Seating is very VIP and security is tight, but afterparties abound, like GBH's Fashion Week bash (Thur 9.14) at Hiro with Tory Burch's rumored runway DJs the MisShapes, or the Parisian-imported Colette Dance Class with Oxy Cottontail and Aaron Lacrate at Culture Club (Sun 9.10). City kids without friends in high places should stay camera-ready; where the glitterati go, the 'razzi are sure to follow. (IB)

Note: To get the detailed scoop on the hots and nots of Fashion Week and other current couture trends from around the globe, check out Flavorpill's twice-monthly fashion digest, JCReport.



 


  CD REVIEW: Burial, Burial  

Hyperdub
Released June 2006
$14.99 (Insound)

The early buzz for the debut album from dubstep dark horse Burial, an obscure figure in an already shadowy scene, references everything from DJ Shadow to Tricky and from Pole to Goldie. The record's very amorphousness may be why listeners spot so many ghosts among the rushes: eerie rave stabs cut through two-step shimmy, and scissor-handed hi-hats blunt themselves on echoes so dense they seem made of stone. Tracks like "Distant Lights" and "Gutted" prove Burial — less heavy-handed than some of his dubstep peers — to be a romantic at heart, the former track's plaintive male vocals suggesting a moldering Chicago house cut that's been disinterred from six feet under. Track after track, the references keep coming: here the steely echo of Seefeel, there the weepy earnestness of lover's rock. Ambient heads will lean into the cushions of delay, while beat freaks will jerk to Burial's impossible syncopations. And with successive listens, members of each camp may find themselves unexpectedly switching teams. (PHS)

This review originally ran in our sister publication, Earplug.


 


  STREAMS: Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliott Live at the Getty Center  

Fridays Off the 405, the Getty Center's monthly fresh-air fête held high above LA, again played host to a night of elite techno curated by Flavorpill in mid-August — this time featuring digibeat dynamos Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliott. Both players are essential artists in Ann Arbor's Ghostly/Spectral axis, and made themselves right at home somewhere between the staggering, pink-hued horizon and the night's 3,000 guests. Elliott kicked things off with a diverse set, corralling dubby creepers, neo-disco, laptop funk, and atmospheric acid. It was a perfect table-setter for Matthew Dear's sonic storm of crispy, jacking syncopation. While nothing approximates the Getty's environs for a party, AOL Music delivers the sounds — if not the sunset — for your microhouse listening pleasure. (JL)



 


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