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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI September 19 - 25, 2006

 
 Christian Patterson   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 328: generous flavor

New York can take a lot out of you — energy, money, more money — so when artists are in a generous mood, receiving is a no-brainer. The Come Out and Play Festival organizes three days of unconventional street games (PacManhattan anyone?); new and old Europe bestow their best and weirdest culture upon us in the European Dream Festival; engineer-cum-artist Natalie Jeremijenko gives a gift to the birds atop Postmasters gallery; and director Michel Gondry proffers another whimsical cinematic journey with The Science of Sleep. Musically speaking, UK retro-raver punks Klaxons offer themselves on two different bills; the club Love makes d'nb heads happy with a rare turn on its sublime sound system; the upbeat crew at GOOD magazine throw readers a party to remember; and Nouvelle Vague give the people what they want — yes, the people want classics covered bossa nova-style. Embrace the bounty, and spread it...

- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor

 

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Natalie Jeremijenko; Walead Beshty; Daniel Lefcourt
competition Come Out and Play Festival
djHumdinger feat. Tim 'Love' Lee; DB w/ Clever; Grandmaster Flash w/ DJ Prefuse 73
festival The New Yorker Festival; European Dream Festival
film American Hardcore; Sólo con tu pareja; The Science of Sleep; Richard Sandler Screening Series
multimediaalva noto (aka Carsten Nicolai)
music Cibelle; Klaxons; Eric Bachmann w/ Richard Buckner; Soulwax/2ManyDJs; Akron/Family w/ Hamid Drake & William Parker; Sunset Rubdown; Nouvelle Vague; Sondre Lerche
theatre The Treatment; Off Stage: The West Village Fragments
FEAT halcyon days Arthur Magazine; cd review The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love; streams Miles Maeda and DJ Three Live at the Guggenheim
UPCOMINGCheck out our weekly updated list of upcoming events




Uncommon Creativity
Peeping Tom (Mike Patton with turntablist Rob Swift and beatbox virtuoso Rahzel) summon myriad voices and styles while Diplo and Girl Talk flaunt advanced mash-up skills at Irving Plaza next Friday, September 29th, in WIRED NextFest's benefit for open-source advocacy org Creative Commons.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Nova Wave
Nouvelle Vague

when: Tue 9.19 (9pm)
where: Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.388.0300) map
price: $25
links: Event Info | Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague svengalis Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux's inspired formula of hiring French chanteuses to croon '80s punk, post-punk, and new-wave hits and semi-obscurities over smooth bossa nova couldn't be more successful. On their new Bande à Part, Nouvelle Vague's tasteful remakes of old favorites (their take on "Blue Monday" is both breezy and bizarre) make them accessible to a broader audience. With gently picked rhythm guitars, sober bass lines, and those familiar shuffling drums, the band's multilayered nostalgia is surreal, beautiful, and often hilarious, as on their debut's positively adorable version of the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk to Fuck." (KB)



MUSIC: Post-Rave Punk
The Modular Monthly feat. Klaxons w/ 120 Days

when: Tue 9.19 (10pm)
where: Club Midway (25 Ave B, 212.253.2595) map
price: $5 with RSVP
links: Event Info | The Modular Monthly | Klaxons | 120 Days

It was just a matter of time before the disparate post-punk genre found room to accommodate the decidedly non-rockist sounds of early rave, and the UK's Klaxons make that marriage pay off. Tonight they take the stage with guitar, keys, bass, drums, and, as the band promises, "lots of siren!" (It's the new cowbell, you know). Imagine the peaks and valleys of the most epic rave anthem — its rhythmic bombast inspiring unchecked glow-stick waving — compressed into to pop-punk/funk form, and you're nearly there. Norway's 120 Days mine a more classic Joy Division sound, but ditch the pretentious, all-too-prevalent Ian-aping vox. (CJN)

Note: Klaxons also appear at FIXED this Thursday.



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FESTIVAL
European Dream Festival

when: Wed 9.20 - Tue 10.31 (schedule)
where: Various locations
price: Various
links: Event Info

The Europeans give the local arts scene a run for its money during the monthlong European Dream Festival, a collaboration between 23 nations that showcases cutting-edge performing arts, literature, and film at cultural institutions throughout the city. The highlights are ample, and include plays like the Czech Republic's Dreaming.Andersen, an innovative look at the beloved children's author, and the Netherlands' Tower of Babel, a mesmerizing collection of bedtime stories. Innovative dance comes from France (A Bras le Corps, an intense duet with chairs), Germany (Back to the Present integrates live rock, riotous video, and passionate love letters), and other countries. In film, the Youth of Europe series is a standout option among dozens of films likely to never see a domestic release. (SP)



MUSIC: Alt-Country
Eric Bachmann w/ Richard Buckner

when: Wed 9.20 (9pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $16 / $14 advance
links: Event Info | Eric Bachmann | Richard Buckner

With his new solo album, To the Races, Eric Bachmann slowly but surely strips his music to the core: the post-punk dissonance of his first band, Archers of Loaf, is left in tatters and the campfire jams of his more recent project, Crooked Fingers, are all but gone. For all the woebegone edge, the skeletal folk tunes that remain are delicate and moving tributes to the dark realities of rural life. On this tour, Bachmann teams with fellow traveler Richard Buckner, whose new album, Meadow, shares a similarly melancholic tone, invigorated by the singer's husky-voiced delivery. (EJL)

  Where was Bachmann living when he created To the Races? The fifth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON WED

MUSIC: Nu-Pop
Sondre Lerche
Wed 9.20 & Thur 9.21 (7:30pm) Hiro Ballroom, the Maritime Hotel (366 W 17th St, 212.242.4300) map $22

Event Info
 
With the lead single off Sondre Lerche's forthcoming Phantom Punch self-described as a "disco waltz," expect a new incarnation of this A-Ha-loving, Elvis Costello-opening, Norwegian wunderkind's genre-bending oeuvre. (CB)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Richard Sandler Screening Series

when: Thur 9.21 - Wed 9.27 (7:30 & 10pm)
where: Monkey Town (58 N 3rd St, Wburg, 781.384.1369) map
price: $5
links: Event Info | Richard Sandler

If you like dinner with a dash of discomfort, Richard Sandler's two nights of hand-held, voyeuristic, and noisy docs deliver. The Gods of Times Square (1999) offers a peek into the day-to-day of Times Square's religious radicals; Brave New York is a similar venture, documenting East Village vagabondism and eccentricity in the 21st century. Sandler's Guggie fellowship-winning pedigree shows in the tight editing and the filmmaker's tireless obsession with the fringe elements of some very touristy areas. (BB)

Note: Reservations are recommended.

  What unique New York phenomenon do you think is worthy of a Sandler documentary, and why? Our favorite response in 50 words or less wins a pair of tickets to a screening.



MUSIC: Electro-Rock/Mash-ups
FIXED feat. Soulwax/2ManyDJs w/ Klaxons

when: Thur 9.21 (10pm)
where: Studio B (259 Banker St, Bklyn, 718.389.1880) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | 2ManyDJs | Klaxons | Studio B

Belgian electro-fiends Soulwax have launched into club stardom via their bombastic singles "E Talking" (aided by an equally stunning video) and "NY Excuse." Their remixes of tracks by like-minded disco rockers LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk have also garnered them some approving nods, and they're currently collaborating with Tiga on a new album. The band's core, David and Stephen Dewaele, flex their mash-up muscles as 2ManyDJs tonight. The much-hyped Klaxons and FIXED residents JDH and Dave P round out the night. (CH/GM)

Note: Free Sparks and PBR from 9-11pm.



ALSO ON THUR

DJ
GOOD Magazine Launch Party feat. Grandmaster Flash w/ DJ Prefuse 73
Thur 9.21 (8pm) Emergency Arts (551 W 21st St, 917.553.5531) map $20 (includes open bar and year-long GOOD subscription)

Event Info
 
Publishing do-GOODers throw their readers a helluva party tonight, with an open bar and DJ sets from old-skool legend Grandmaster Flash and post-hop producer Prefuse 73. (JES)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
American Hardcore

when: Opens Fri 9.22
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $10.75
links: American Hardcore

Maybe all your hardcore buddies now have 401Ks, but their initial feeling of blinding rage in the face of vapid mass culture and Reaganomics was earnest and volatile, as Paul Rachman's documentary American Hardcore proves. Through archival footage and interviews with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and most other icons of American punk, the film — inspired by Steven Blush's eponymous book — reminds us why we loved this music in the first place. Though the film lacks focus (and makes only passing reference to the scene's women), the pounding soundtrack and the still kinda scary subjects should get old punks pumping their fists and old deadheads running for the exits. (GM)



FILM
The Science of Sleep

when: Opens Fri 9.22
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $10.75
links: The Science of Sleep

In the films of writer/director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), romantic love requires a world entirely unto itself, replete with its own logic, glow-in-the-dark palette, and time-space continuum. For the much-anticipated Science of Sleep, a young Mexican-born artist and inventor (the irresistible Gael García Bernal, gamely trying his hand at English) moves to Paris where he — and the camera — surrenders to the fugue-like trance of his gamine neighbor (Charlotte Gainsbourg). That the grammar of this film, pell-mell and radioactive, proves difficult to parse is a mighty understatement, but the process of sorting it out proffers all the elusive magic of, yes, falling in love. (LR)

  What is the weirdest place you have ever fallen asleep? The funniest response in 50 words or less wins a pair of tickets to a screening and a copy of the film's soundtrack.



COMPETITION
Come Out and Play Festival

when: Fri 9.22 - Sun 9.24 (schedule)
where: Various Locations
price:
links: Event Info

All work and no play gets boring fast. Hosted by interactive art foundation Eyebeam, the first-annual Come Out and Play Festival turns the city into a supersized playground for cell phone scavenger hunts, pedestrian-packed mini-golf, and capture the flag. Human bodies power interactive games of Risk, Pong, and Space Invaders; altruistic assassins kill others with kindness — and die of embarrassment — in Cruel 2 B Kind; and techies text their camera-phone pics to complete sentences in the Manhattan Story Mash-Up (snapshots eventually wind up on the infamous Reuters sign in Times Square). Guitario Kart and Modal Kombat kick off the festivities tonight at Eyebeam's Chelsea space. (IB)

Note: Space is limited for some games, so sign up early to partake!



ALSO ON FRI

DJ
Humdinger feat. Tim "Love" Lee w/ Soulstatic and Bruce Tantum
Fri 9.22 (10pm) The Vault at Element (225 E Houston St, 212.254.2200) map $5

Venue Info
 
Time Out New York's club editor Bruce Tantum returns with his monthly Humdinger shindig, an unbridled party purveying all sounds electronic. Tonight's installment kicks to the beer-battered funk of ribald retro-man Tim "Love" Lee and fellow Brooklyn Radio cohort Soulstatic. (JJ)



DJ
The Secret Night of Science feat. DB w/ Clever, Place 42, and Eshin
Fri 9.22 (11pm) Love (179 MacDougal St, 212.477.5683) map $10

Event Info
 
A human heart pulses beneath the science of drum 'n bass — albeit at 160 bpms. Tonight, NASA rave-vet and Breakbeat Science founder DB teams up with fellow Gothamites Clever, Place 42, and Eshin to champion d'nb's smoother, warmer side. (JJ)

Note: The evening kicks off with a 9pm screening of seminal sci-fi noir flick Blade Runner (1982).



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Freaky Folk
Akron/Family w/ Hamid Drake & William Parker

when: Sat 9.23 (8 & 11:30pm)
where: Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $12
links: Event Info | Akron/Family

If "freak-folk" is generally an inept descriptor, its application to experimental rockers Akron/Family is apt — they're undeniably freaky folks. Their mellowness on record (as on the forthcoming Meek Warrior) belies their live sound; far more punk than Pentangle on stage, the band treads the long line between Animal Collective and Lightning Bolt with frantic, improv-heavy jams banging between skewed, sweet-toothed songs and knee-shattering noise. The Family's January set at the Knitting Factory was a blistering, three-plus hour affair — an exhausting up-and-down odyssey that culminated in a raucous 2am circle chant. Arrive early for East Village jazz icons William Parker and Hamid Drake, who offer smoother innovations, working elements of avant-garde through wild, worldly rhythms. (AP)



MUSIC: Avant-Pop
Cibelle

when: Sat 9.23 (11:30pm)
where: Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700) map
price: $18 / $16 advance
links: Event Info | Cibelle

Sultry and sensual, Cibelle is what you want from a Brazilian chanteuse. But beyond the cute poutiness of a girl from Ipanema, she incorporates unconventional percussion, subtle electronic tweakery, and other avant-isms to update Rio's lush syncopated sensibilities. Cibelle alternates between Portuguese and English with a breathy, warm voice, making both languages convey rapturous longing. From English covers of Caetano Veloso to original songs that sigh with the jet stream, Cibelle charms, entices, and leaves you wishing that the summer was just beginning. (AD)

Note: Cibelle also performs at Joe's Pub on Fri 9.22 (7:30 & 9:30pm).

  Cibelle recently sang on the album of which French duo? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON SAT

MULTIMEDIA
alva noto (aka Carsten Nicolai): xerrox
Sat 9.23 (8pm) The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793) map $10

Event Info
 
Carsten Nicolai's xeroxx consists of video projections paired with collages of familiar music and found sounds that gradually move toward greater abstraction — embracing the hushed digital beauty that he produces for the raster-noton label. (CM/JL)

Note: Presented by the European Dream Festival, xeroxx is part of Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany at the Kitchen.



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Indie Rock
Sunset Rubdown w/ Beaver

when: Sun 9.24 (8pm)
where: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Sunset Rubdown

Think of Spencer Krug's Sunset Rubdown as his much-loved other band, Wolf Parade, reflected in a fun-house mirror. Wolf Parade's well-ordered pop forms are sliced and twisted into mobius strips with Krug manning the scissors, yelping scary lyrics about snakes with legs, mothers eating their babies, and the terrors of growing into misshapen adulthood. Shut Up, I'm Dreaming, Sunset Rubdown's Absolutely Kosher debut, doesn't quite hit the same melodic highs as Wolf Parade's straight-up anthems, but makes up for it in haunting textures and glammy, nervous energy. "Stadiums and Shrines II" is especially tingly, a lurching carnival hymn to Krug's lost youth, with one iconic guitar line flashing and twitching like lightning in the distance. (TG)

Note: Sunset Rubdown and Beaver also perform at the Bowery Ballroom on Mon 9.25 (8pm).

  Before joining Sunset Rubdown, Mike Doerkson played guitar for which biblically titled band? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Sólo con tu pareja (1991)

when: Now playing
where: IFC Center (323 6th Ave, 212.924.7771) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info

Long before his on-the-road caper Y Tu Mamá También (2001) rattled indie-film cages round the world, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón established himself in his native country with this sexual comedy of errors only now achieving US theatrical distribution. Perhaps more overtly Almodóvar-inspired than his later work, Sólo con tu pareja nonetheless bears the seeds of Cuarón's signature style: a love of human nature and its inherent conflicts of interest, as well as splashy, witty editing and cinematography. This is a profane ballet of a film, complete with a classical music score, a puckish Lothario, and a number of impressively acrobatic sex scenes. (LR)

Note: This film opens on Wed 9.20.



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


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ART
Daniel Lefcourt

when: Now through Sat 10.7 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm)
where: Taxter & Spengemann (504 W 22nd St, 212.294.0212) map
price:
links: Event Info

Inspired by photographs and text fragments reporting a political scandal over the diversion of funds to a cultural institution, Daniel Lefcourt's minimalist sculptures recall lines of censored information. The artist outsourced his production to stage prop company Scenicorp to create the black, wooden wall pieces that populate the first and second floors. Apparent Misconduct, the largest work, is comprised of 24 lines — some of considerable thickness — while other pieces, like Final Explanation #1, resemble blacked-out haiku. Lefcourt's deadpan humor shines through the austere work; over-hiring for a simple prop construction is frivolous and so reveals the falseness that high capitalism brings to both the art world and the greater political arena. (PJ)



ART
Natalie Jeremijenko: OOZ, Inc. (for the birds)

when: Now through Sat 10.7 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm)
where: Postmasters (459 W 19th St, 212.727.3323) map
price:
links: Event Info

Engineering maverick Natalie Jeremijenko commissioned architects to design affordable housing, a concert hall, a Ferris wheel, and a park of indigenous plants for New York City's birds. Situated on the roof of Postmasters, Jeremijenko's OOZ, Inc. (for the birds) is an eco-friendly experiment in urban planning. Live feeds of the birds in their new habitat are broadcast into the gallery and exhibited along with models of the rooftop designs. The Living, architects David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang, configured a chain-link fence with sawed-off plastic bottles for nesting, and this being Manhattan, luxury condos are available for the winged set from bonnetti/kozerski. In the back gallery, Jeremijenko's robotic geese rest in an inflatable pool, with goose-driving lessons available upon request. (HGM)



ART
Walead Beshty: The Maker and the Model

when: Now through Sat 10.14 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm)
where: Wallspace (453 W 17th St, 2nd Fl, 212.675.5804) map
price:
links: Event Info

More modern than modernism itself, Walead Beshty's work results from his applying modernist art-making strategies to canonical 20th-century artworks. Five large black-and-white abstractions and six smaller versions — each entitled Picture Made By My Hand with the Assistance of Light — are unique photograms, made by crumpling light-sensitive paper, exposing it, then flattening and developing the sheet; every piece is a record of its own making. In a reprisal of Man Ray's 1917 sculpture New York, Beshty's 24-karat gold New York, New York, doubles the set of metal bars held in the c-clamp. Beshty also recreates Le Corbusier/Jeanneret/Perriand's iconic LC2 Club Chair with aluminum piping from Home Depot, suggesting that his anachronistic hyper-modernism has a self-effacing twist. (HGM)



THEATRE
The Treatment

when: Now through Sun 10.15 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat & Sun: 3 & 8pm)
where: The Culture Project (45 Bleecker St, 212.253.9983) map
price: $25-55
links: Event Info

As the Impact Festival's headliner, Eve Ensler's latest play The Treatment captures the social repercussions of the war in Iraq and its devastating psychological effect on the returning soldiers. Ensler lays out her politically motivated concerns through a simple device — the sessions between a traumatized soldier and a female army psychologist — that allows the issues to take center stage. Ensler's stepson, Dylan McDermott, steps into his role of the soldier with a startling ferocity that carries the play to its emotionally distressing, yet ideologically predictable, finale. However unsubtle, the play is a much needed wake-up call regarding war, torture, and a soldier's "duty" to commit atrocities in the name of democracy. (SP)



FESTIVAL: Upcoming
The New Yorker Festival

when: Fri 10.6 - Sun 10.8 (schedule)
where: Various locations
price: $10-125
links: Event Info

Act fast, and we mean now, and you can still get tickets to a few choice New Yorker Festival events that haven't yet sold out. On Friday's fiction night, Drop City's infamous California commune cat T. Coraghessan Boyle speaks with old-school New Yorker contributor Andrea Lee at Cedar Lake Dance Studios in Chelsea. Other highlights include poetry from John Ashbery, a performed monologue of "My Trip to Al-Qaeda" by Laurence Wright, a conversation with Gustavo Santaolalla — who merged Latin rhythms with American rock in the scores of 21 Grams and The Motorcycle Diaries — and a dance party with Kompakt Records impresario and uber-DJ Michael Mayer, hosted by Sasha Frere-Jones. (McM)



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

THEATRE
Off Stage: The West Village Fragments
Now through Sat 10.7 (Thur-Sat: 7, 7:30, & 8pm) Various locations $15

Event Info
 
Billed as a "performance heritage trail," this walking tour showcases scenes from a dozen off-off-
Broadway plays — performed in site-specific locations throughout the circus that is the West Village. (SP)



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  HALCYON DAYS: Arthur Magazine  

Arthur magazine is the last of a dying breed. A publication with no discernible demographic or target market, the free, bimonthly journal muses on all facets of pop culture – politics, music, comics, and art – spanning the expanse of the cultural zeitgeist, from death metal to science fiction and eastern mysticism. The magazine's work is raw, thoughtful, and sometimes biting. Its outsider sensibility and high ideals hearken to the halcyon days of the '60s and '70s underground, when Lester Bangs was editing Creem and Rolling Stone was never to be found in a doctor's office. Past contributors include David Byrne, Thurston Moore, Spike Jonze, Art Spiegleman, and T-Model Ford. For those who can't find a newsstand, many articles are posted online, and the full issues are available as free downloadable PDFs from the website. (RS)

Note: Also check out freak-folk anti-war comp So Much Fire to Roast Human Flesh. Recently released on Arthur's adjoining record label, Bastet, the album features the likes of Feathers and Devendra Banhart, and was curated by Josephine Foster.



 


  CD REVIEW: The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love  

Vertigo/Motown
Released September 2006
$9.49 (Insound)

Cowbell? Check. Yelping? Check. White-hot guitar lines and keyboard counterpoints? Check: this must be a Rapture album. But something's changed on the NYC quartet's sophomore LP, Pieces of the People We Love, beginning with the vocal harmonies, which usher the record in with a Queen-like explosion of backmasking and continue to slather song after song like hot butter. A new sense of spread and spaciousness is in large part due to Ewan Pearson and Paul "Phones" Epworth, who co-produced eight of the album's ten tracks. And the band's songwriting feels both more controlled and more ambitious: "Whoo! Alright-Yeah... Uh Huh" may sound at first like a stock disco-punk rave-up, but bluesy guitar riffs, some killer turns of phrase, and genuine moments of freak-out jamming lurk beneath. "People don't dance no more"? Not if the Rapture have anything to do with it. (PS)

This review originally appeared in our sister publication Earplug.


 


  STREAMS: Miles Maeda and DJ Three Live at the Guggenheim  

After a summer-long recess, First Fridays at the Guggenheim — featuring music curated by Flavorpill — kicked off its fall season with DJ sets courtesy of Chicago-house stalwart Miles Maeda and rising tech-house jockstar DJ Three. Little could suppress the feeling on the rotunda floor, as the talent dropped tech-funk, electro, and straight-up jacking house, that First Fridays' re-inauguration couldn't have come at a better time. Plug in to AOL Music for soundboard-quality, exclusive mixes of the night, and be sure to check the photo archives from this and previous First Fridays events. Next up in October are Ratatat and Pink Skull. (CJN)



 


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