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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI September 12 - 18, 2006

 
 Doze Green   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 327: refracted flavor

New York loves its purists: the old-school hip-hop artist, the Neapolitan-style pizzaiolo, the piano-bar crooner. But the multifaceted, multiethnic makeup of NYC yields more than its share of cultural confluences and subsequent mutations, refractions, and hybrids — and they're all lining up this week. Noémie Lafrance's multimedia dance spectacle Agora II takes the McCarren plunge; the Impact Festival imbues debate and the visual and performing arts with political awareness; a laugh-happy quartet views and skews our world through funhouse mirrors at Comedians of Comedy; and painter Mark Grotjahn sends butterflies through a (p)op-art lens. In the musical realm, Diplo and Girl Talk chop up (or recontextualize, whatever your pleasure) tracks for Creative Commons, while Tortoise merge disparate sounds into a genre-free listening experience. Take a good, hard, sidelong look at the reflection, and spread it...

Flavorpill recognizes the recent passing of longtime NYC nightlife icon Adam Goldstone. Our condolences are with his friends and family.

- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor

 

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Kay Rosen; Mark Grotjahn; Fall Forward
comedy Comedians of Comedy
danceCANDIES: girlish hardcore
djLittle Mike w/ Scott Paradis
festival Brooklyn Book Festival; Conflux Festival
film Confetti; Man Push Cart
music Lupe Fiasco; Deep Space feat. Otto; Starbucks Salon; Rogue Wave; Vashti Bunyan; Zero 7 w/ José González; Tortoise; M. Ward; Man Man; Airto Moreira; Peeping Tom w/ Diplo and Girl Talk
panel Anselm Kiefer
performance Agora II
theatre Impact Festival; The Persians
FEAT reality check A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City; cd review Arthur Russell, Another Thought; multimedia BBC Collective
UPCOMINGCheck out our weekly updated list of upcoming events




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Brooklyn becomes psychogeographer central for the Conflux Festival — four days of activities and exhibitions that tweak our notions of New York's varied landscapes.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Avant-Electronic
Starbucks Salon presents A Day of Field Recordings and Electroacoustic Music

when: Tue 9.12 (10am-10pm)
where: 76 Greene St map
price:
links: Event Info

All week, this free series puts Starbucks' muscle to creative use, hosting adventurous music, art, and speakers in an open, coffee-house environment. Today, Brooklyn-based Koen Holtkamp (half of soundscaping duo Mountains and co-founder of the Apestaartje collective) curates 12 hours of organic electronica, with artists sampling sounds from their surroundings. Aki Onda lends improvisational sparks to the evening, and Greg "don't call it folktronic" Davis headlines. Later this week, be sure to check out the breezy, melancholic folk of José González and the old-school rap of DMC. Hear authors Melissa Bank, Jim Carroll, and Jonathan Lethem sling prose, and local divas Justine D and Carol C spin the sounds of NYC nights. (IB)

Note: Starbucks Salon ran big ads here last week, but we decided to cover it again this week anyway — a great series already picked by the editors.



FILM
Man Push Cart

when: Now playing (12, 2, 4, 6, 8, & 10pm)
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | Man Push Cart

There are two kinds of living ghosts: those whom no one really sees, and those so defined by their past that their present is invisible to them. Ahmad, the Sisyphean hero of Man Push Cart, is a ghost two times over — a rock star in his native Pakistan, he's worked as a coffee street vendor in lower Manhattan since he lost his much-beloved wife and son. Shooting in long black-and-white shadows punctuated by early morning street clatter, director Ramin Bahrani has, without a modicum of bombast, made universal the burdens of a person who many in real life might scurry by without a second thought. (LR)



PANEL
Anselm Kiefer: Velimir Chlebnikov and the Sea

when: Tue 9.12 (6:30pm)
where: Teresa Lang Center, the New School (55 W 13th St, 2nd Fl, 212.229.5353) map
price: $8
links: Event Info

Anselm Kiefer's steel basilica occupies the lawn of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Inside, Kiefer's 30 paintings pay tribute to early 20th-century Russian Futurist poet Velimir Chlebnikov. Before the artworks disappear into a private collection, the Aldrich and the New School host a panel discussion addressing Kiefer's monumental series of oceanscapes at the New School entitled Velimir Chlebnikov and the Sea. Along with Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz, Kiefer was a controversial figure in the '80s German art scene; his depressive, allegorical paintings address war guilt and German history. These works of steel and rust-colored canvases depict naval battles past and present, fictional and real. (LM)



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Indie Pop
Rogue Wave w/ Jason Collett

when: Wed 9.13 (9pm)
where: Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave, Greenpoint, 718.387.0505) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Rogue Wave | Jason Collett | Tickets

Zach Rogue's home-recorded 2004 debut, Out of the Shadow, earned him a Sub Pop record deal and heaps of critical accolades for its earnest indie-pop sensibilities, unpretentious lo-fi production, and delicate, folksy melodies. For his sophomore effort — last year's shoegaze-y Descended Like Vultures — Rogue teamed up with a band of like-minded multi-instrumentalists who helped guide and stretch his dainty tunes into fuller, more luxurious arrangements. The new sound — more sprawling, complex, and rocking — is on display tonight as Rogue Wave make a welcome return to NYC. (SN)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FESTIVAL
Conflux Festival

when: Thur 9.14 - Sun 9.17 (schedule)
where: Various locations
price:
links: Event Info

An event for "psychogeographers" might conjure immediate thoughts of Bedlam, but rest assured: the Conflux festival is low on lobotomies and high on urban adventure. In fact, contemporary psychogeography investigates the physical and psychological landscapes of cities, and this fest draws artists from around the world to Brooklyn for four days of street games, tours, installations, presentations, and performances to do just that. Among Conflux 2006's lineup are a tourism mash-up in which Baghdad is recreated in New York; a life-sized game of Othello; a performance-art piece based on a Coretta Scott King speech given in Central Park in 1968; and a walk through Brooklyn guided by olfactory senses and inspired by an 1891 activist group called the Smelling Committee. (MB)



ART: Opening
Kay Rosen: Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006

when: Thur 9.14 (6-8pm)
where: Yvon Lambert Gallery (210 11th Ave, 212.242.3611) map
price:
links: Event Info | Kay Rosen

Kay Rosen, who has been making text pieces for 25 years, employs typography and coloration to unveil humor, puns, hidden meanings, and political commentary. To mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Rosen exhibits three new paintings. New Orleans is a canary-yellow wall printed with the block letters "OHNOAH" in different colors; it's Rosen's choice of color that breaks the nonsense word into three syllables, which, taken all together or in various permutations, suggest New Orleans' recent tragedy. In a series of alphabetized pencil drawings in the back gallery, Rosen further elaborates on her playful engagement with language, fusing aural, visual, and cultural references. (HGM)

Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 10.21 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm).



MUSIC: Original Folkster
Vashti Bunyan w/ Espers

when: Thur 9.14 (9pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $25 / $20 advance
links: Event Info | Vashti Bunyan | Espers

Cult folkie Vashti Bunyan has always taken a while to get around to things: the stunning songstress waited 35 years to follow up her legendary debut, her inaugural performance came 40 years after her first single, and she's only now getting around to a US tour (her first substantive road journey of any kind). With a stamp of approval from folk's new guard — recent, ecstatic collaborators have included Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Animal Collective — the singer makes her NYC debut tonight, touting the earthy, ethereal folk ballads that have made her a living (if somewhat lazy) legend. (AP)



ALSO ON THUR

DANCE
CANDIES: girlish hardcore
Thur 9.14 - Sat 9.16 (7:30pm) Japan Society (333 E 47th St, 212.832.1155) map $28

Event Info
 
Japan Society's fall programming theme is "Girl, Girly, Girlish," so it's no surprise that girl-power multimedia group YUBIWA Hotel kicks off the season with this examination of the grotesquery and violence lurking beneath girlhood's sugary coating. (SP)



MUSIC: Singer/Songwriter
M. Ward
Thur 9.14 (9pm) Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.388.0300) map $20

Event Info
 
Like a Jim Jarmusch film painted in song, M. Ward's tales of Americana provide a soundtrack to dusty country roads traversed by bleeding hearts. Equal parts Nick Drake and Johnny Cash, the singer/songwriter brings a modern sensibility to his heartfelt compositions on new album Post-War. (KT)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Confetti

when: Opens Fri 9.15
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | Confetti

Truth be told, the world hardly needs another Christopher Guest-style mockumentary, but this well-executed, British-grown spoof of the wedding industry boasts some serious guffaws smack in the midst of a fairly humorectomized film season. The spiel: three couples compete in a bridal magazine-sponsored contest for the most smashingly themed wedding — among them, the MGM musical-inspired ceremony of two tuneless, graceless lovers; a tennis match extravaganza; and, heaven help us all, nudist nuptials. Confetti tackles every possible cliché — from gay wedding planners to a last-minute nose job and pathological in-laws — with such good-natured, Anglo aplomb that there's no need to resist its tender charm. (LR)



ART
Williamsburg Celebrates: Fall Forward

when: Fri 9.15 (until 10pm)
where: Various Williamsburg galleries
price:
links: Event Info

Williamsburg galleries stay open late tonight and get festive to usher in the fall art season. Jack the Pelican presents a night of outlandish performances including Bill Etra, co-founder of the Kitchen, reading his ferret-themed poetry; Black and White Gallery hosts a vodka tasting to promote the opening of Konstantinos Stamatiou's multimedia installation of an all-white, mobile bunker (AIRBOX II) and Roberley Bell's at Play, an outdoor series of blob sculptures; Momenta Art's The Unhumane Society explores and transgresses the human/animal boundary; and feral impulses fully take over when Dallas performance artist Randall Garrett and his Uncle Remus' La Supreme Discoteca y Youth Explosion Jamboree play the afterparty at Supreme Trading. (HGM)



ART
Mark Grotjahn

when: Fri 9.15 - Sun 1.7.07 (Wed & Thur: 11am-6pm / Fri: 1-9pm / Sat & Sun: 11am-6pm)
where: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave, 212.570.3676) map
price: $15
links: Event Info

Los Angeles painter Mark Grotjahn — recently included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial — is singled out this fall for an exhibition of drawings. Grotjahn's formal ingredients are familiar: the algorithmic structure of Sol Lewitt's wall pieces, the graphic color and visual buzz of pop- and op-art, and the hand-hewn, perfect-but-imperfect materiality of Agnes Martin's grids. However, Grotjahn's concoction is unique. His signature motif is the butterfly, in which narrow triangles of color converge toward two slightly offset vanishing points. Like a kink in the orderly fabric of minimalism, the artist's two-point perspectives create perceptual effects that range from those in the psychedelic Untitled (Multi-Red 4 Wings White Background) to the vertigo-inducing Untitled (French Grey 10 - 90% Butterfly). (AT)

Note: Fridays from 6-9pm are pay-what-you-wish admission.



MUSIC: Chill Out
Zero 7 w/ José González

when: Fri 9.15 & Sat 9.16 (7pm)
where: Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.388.0300) map
price: $30 / $27 advance
links: Event Info | Zero 7 | José González

Folk, jazz, and '70s rock fuse with thoughtful electronic elements this week at Webster Hall, courtesy of Zero 7. For its recent disc, The Garden, the downtempo duo abandoned its dreary London digs for a pastoral Glastonbury recording studio and a pile of vintage analog gear. The critical darlings steered clear of the urban introspection of previous efforts and captured a shimmering, sun-drenched sound. Vocals on The Garden come courtesy of longtime collaborator Sia and Swedish folk sensation José González, who auspiciously joins Zero 7 as their supporting act and, presumably, guest vocalist. (RT)

Note: You can also catch González tomorrow at 4pm at the Starbucks Salon.



COMEDY
Comedians of Comedy feat. Patton Oswalt w/ Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, and Eugene Mirman

when: Fri 9.15 (9pm)
where: Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map
price: $20 / $19.50 advance
links: Event Info | Patton Oswalt | Brian Posehn | Maria Bamford | Eugene Mirman

Dragging stand-up out of the clubs and onto the stage, the Comedians of Comedy tour promises "all the funny without the two-drink minimum." And that's a lot of funny. Patton Oswalt (yup, Spence from The King of Queens — but also a longtime writer for Mad TV) has rounded up a group of his friends and favorite "alt-comedians" to explore, complain about, and deride everything from Republicans to MySpace. Joining him are Mr. Show alum and one-man revenge of the nerds Brian Posehn, droll and literary local favorite Eugene Mirman, and Comedy Central staple Maria Bamford. If you're not laughing within the first ten minutes, you might just be too cool for your own good. (LT)



ALSO ON FRI

MUSIC: Post-Waitsian
Man Man
Fri 9.15 (9:30pm) Maxwells (1039 Washington St, Hoboken, 201.653.1703) map $10

Event Info
 
Man Man roll into town like a traveling band of pirates chanting shanties, or a troupe of vagabonds singing songs of the rails, or a roving bunch of gypsies providing musical accompaniment for a dusty circus — or maybe all three. (LT)

Note: Man Man also hit the Spiegeltent at the South Street Seaport on Sat 9.16.



DJ
Unified feat. Little Mike w/ Scott Paradis, Justin R, and Taimur Agha
Fri 9.15 (10pm-6am) Love (179 MacDougal St, 212.477.5683) map $15 / $5 before midnight

Event Info
 
In his final Gotham gig before relocating to Germany, Beatport beatsmith Little Mike joins fellow Denver denizen Scott Paradis and local boys Justin R and Taimur Agha behind Love's decks to mix a kaleidoscope of warped electronic sounds. (JJ)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FESTIVAL
Brooklyn Book Festival

when: Sat 9.16 (10am-6pm)
where: Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza (209 Joralemon St, Bklyn, 718.802.3846) map
price:
links: Event Info

Ever wonder what Jonathan Ames' alcoholic, self-indulgent Alan Blair and his cohort/butler Jeeves have in common with Gary Shteyngart's Russian debutantes? It's not vodka; it's Brooklyn. While their characters hail from all over the globe, the authors featured in this festival have each resided in the county of Kings. So whether or not your tree grows there too, check out panel discussions with topics ranging from hip-hop as literature (with Touré) to Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Lethem's muses, and performances that include a crew of promising young slam poets and Brooklyn Noir editor Tim McLoughlin. (MM)



THEATRE
The Persians

when: Sat 9.16 - Wed 9.20 (Mon-Wed & Sat: 8pm / Sun: 2 & 7pm)
where: City Center (130 W 55th St, 212.581.1212) map
price: $35-75
links: Event Info

The Public Theater would have a ball staging The Persians; the play's moral tales of tyranny fit perfectly with the institution's recent series of anti-establishment works. Audiences are spared that didacticism, however, as Aeschylus' work — the only existing Greek tragedy based on historical fact — is instead presented by the National Theater of Greece. The play chronicles the defeat and ruin of the Persian forces by the Greek army from the Persian perspective, and stars grande dame of Hellenic theatre Lydia Koniordou as the despotic Queen Atossa. Expect contemporary touches and a modern update by this experiment-friendly company. (SP)



MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Lupe Fiasco w/ Jean Grae

when: Sat 9.16 (10:30pm)
where: Canal Room (285 W Broadway, 212.941.8100) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Lupe Fiasco | Jean Grae

Lupe Fiasco isn't like most rappers, backpack or bling. With challenging ideas amplified by skillful wordplay that would make even Dipset shudder, this blogging, Chomsky-reading sneakerhead refuses convenient classification — but his style hearkens back to that of outspoken '90s hip-hop revolutionaries A Tribe Called Quest. With his debut album, Food & Liquor, the mixtape prodigy cements a bright future for himself. Come celebrate the disc's release tonight with performances from Fiasco, as well as the best female lyricist since Lauryn Hill, Jean Grae — who takes turns on the decks and the mic. (JRC)

  According to Fiasco, what three words of career advice from Jay-Z have particularly stuck with him? The third and sixth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Post-Stuff
Tortoise w/ the Notekillers

when: Sun 9.17 (9pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Tortoise | The Notekillers

With a decade-plus career of recording, touring, changing lineups, and pushing their richly textured, dizzyingly complex music into waters unknown, the inimitable Tortoise are releasing a boxed set of singles, b-sides, and rarities. The three-CD/DVD A Lazarus Taxon is a comprehensive (albeit lengthy) primer for the uninitiated, a point-by-point breakdown of all the things that make Tortoise tick: the watery ambience, stuttering polyrhythms, and expressive, jazzy attack of the McIntire/Herndon/
McCombs rhythmic axis. These days, the quintet (including Jeff Parker on guitar and Dan Bitney on, um, everything else) has honed its slow-burning live shows, mixing marimbas and laptops, jazz and rock, avant-minimalism and dub into a sound that exists blissfully outside of genre. (TG)



ALSO ON SUN

MUSIC: Exotic Beats
Airto Moreira
Sun 9.17 (8 & 10pm) The Stone (NW corner of 2nd St & Ave C) map $10

Event Info
 
Widely hailed as Brazil's greatest percussionist, veteran Miles Davis, Weather Report, and Herbie Hancock collaborator Airto Moreira astounds with exotic bells, gongs, and primal singing in this rare solo performance. (JM)

Note: Early arrival is recommended.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Mangue Percussion
Deep Space feat. Otto

when: Mon 9.18 (9:30pm-3:30am)
where: Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map
price: $10 / $5 before 10pm
links: Event Info

From fútbol fever to baile funk, all things Brazilian continue to burn white-hot stateside, and mangue beat is no exception. Vocalist Otto blends hip-hop, post-psychedelic Brit-hop, and traditional Afro-Brazilian maracatu with ambient techno rhythms and funky bossa nova samples. A one-time percussionist for mangue heavyweights Mundo Livre S/A, Otto has a free-form approach to beatmaking, rural folk rhythms, and simple melodies, infusing the loungy genre with samba-flavored drum 'n bass. Tonight, the Recife native spreads a tropical vibe, adding a live rhythm section to François K's long-running digital dub night, Deep Space. (IB)



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


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THEATRE
Impact Festival

when: Tue 9.12 - Sun 10.22 (schedule)
where: Various locations
price: Various
links: Event Info

Culture Project's works are commonly grounded at the juncture of theatre and politics, so it's fitting for the dynamic company to originate a politically conscious cultural arts festival. Impact Festival 2006 is a six-week affair focusing on human rights, social justice, and political action. Beyond theatre, the event includes exciting film, dance, comedy, music, and debate. Eve Ensler's latest play, The Treatment, kicks off the fest, and other highlights include a stage adaptation of Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, a Harvard Law School-commissioned piece by Liz Lehrman Dance Exchange, and a benefit reading by Bill Clinton. (SP)



PERFORMANCE
Agora II

when: Wed 9.13 - Sat 9.30 (Wed-Sat: 8pm)
where: McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Wburg, 718.388.6309) map
price: $30 viewer / $20 player
links: Event Info

The choreographer behind the acclaimed site-specific stairway piece Descent and the original Agora, Noémie Lafrance delivers a sequel to her meditation on public space, this time with the ambitious twist of audience participation. With a crew of roughly 100 individual dancers, collaborating companies, musicians, and singers — who have all designed original characters for the performance — Agora II casts the lot into the McCarren Park Pool, creating a petri dish of urban interaction. Yet, for all this concerted activity, the performance peaks in a moment of peace: the cast remove their clothes and lie sleeping, scattered across the pool floor. As a xylophone and violin play a soft lullaby, the city once again becomes wondrous. (AV)

  What do agoraphobics fear? The first three correct responses each win a pair of tickets for a performance on Thur 9.14, 9.21, or 9.28.



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

MUSIC: Upcoming
Creative Commons, WIRED, and Flavorpill present Peeping Tom w/ Diplo and Girl Talk
Fri 9.29 (9pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $25 advance

Event Info | Tickets
 
Diplo and Girl Talk abuse decks and laptops respectively in this night of sample-jacking for content-recycling advocates Creative Commons. The Flavorpill-curated lineup finds Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project in the top slot. (JAS)



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  REALITY CHECK: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City  

While technologies like RSS feeds, text messaging, and filtered email news magazines do increase our global awareness, there are some things you have to see to believe. This weekend, humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders sets up camp in Central Park (literally), offering a first-hand experience of the realities of refugee life. Experienced aid workers walk New Yorkers through makeshift shelters, vaccination tents, and feeding centers, offering insight on how epidemics, malnutrition, and landmines affect almost 33 million people a day. Through the initiative, the organization hopes to raise awareness and help us all understand the obstacles that keep people in the developing world from getting the medical assistance they need. (IB)

Note: The Camp is open Fri 9.15 - Sun 9.17 (9:30am-6:30pm) in Central Park; it moves to Prospect Park Wed 9.20 - Sun 9.24 (9:30am-6:30pm).



 


  CD REVIEW: Arthur Russell, Another Thought  

Orange Mountain Music
Released August 2006
$17.99 (Amazon)

When Arthur Russell tragically died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of 40, he left behind a body of work split between arty, idiosyncratic disco and eerie solo cello-and-voice compositions. Another Thought, the latest in a series of remastered posthumous releases, lifts the crystalline gauze from Russell's haunting, effects-laden World of Echo. Sharpening the focus, the record reveals a suite of exquisite pop songs featuring the artist's lightly bowed cello and throaty, otherworldly mumble. "Keeping Up" operates according to a boomerang-like internal logic, returning to one heartbreaking hook, while "Home Away from Home" gilds sad-eyed melodies with a childlike glint. Other tracks hint at Russell's disco-fried alter ego, adding horns and charmingly cheapo drum machines; but Another Thought's best moments are its simplest, ones that conjure images of the gentle Russell, alone in his room, whispering sweet, watery nothings into a tape machine. (TG)


 


  MULTIMEDIA: BBC Collective  

This week, we check in with our cultural cohorts at the BBC Collective to absorb some new sounds, emerging visual art, and exclusive, interactive multimedia sessions. Check a live set and in-depth interview with up-and-coming UK artist Plan B, who's recently worked with esteemed indie producer Paul Epworth (aka Phones). Next, sample a few full tracks from Erlend Øye — he of Kings of Convenience fame — on new project the Whitest Boy Alive. Finally, don't miss the Collective's playlist, consisting of new music from the likes of Headman, Yo La Tengo, Padded Cell, and others. (CJN)



Plan B: Live In-Session (Hip-hop)
The Whitest Boy Alive: Dream (Ambient rock)
Various Artists: The Collective Playlist (Eclectic)


 


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