Our pals at Suicide Squeeze are streaming the new album “Geneva” by Russian Circles. Click here to listen. You won’t be disappointed. Make sure the check these guys out on tour (dates below).
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Full Stream: Russian Circles “Geneva”, coming October 20th (Suicide Squeeze)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta scores new film “The Burning Plain”
The new film from Guillermo Arriaga (“Amores Perros,” “21 Grams,” and “Babel,”) stares Charlize Theron and music by Rodriguez-Lopez. The film received an 11-minute, 36-second standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last year.
Arriaga has referred to Rodriguez-Lopez like, “something between Chopin and Jimi Hendrix,”
D*Face Ludovico Aversion Therapy / All Your Dreams Belong To Us
London-based street artist D*Face has a show up on Jonathan Levine Gallery (NYC). Images below.
Datamoshing: artists turn to internet for a new way to create shitty artwork
The New York Times presents a sideshow of technology-fueled artwork to discuss how, “artists are engaging ever more creatively with computers.”
Um, right. Look at these disasters.
Marathon runners, crazy and into shitty music
We already knew marathon runners were crazy (paying to run?!, what?), and now we know they have shitty taste in music too.
One thousands runners from the 13th Annual Chicago Half Marathon (taking place Sunday, Sept. 13) were polled for their favorite running songs. Here are the results:
Last of My Species, a crazy outdoor performance by Redmoon Theater
Last of My Species had two things going against before I even arrived. First, I’ve hated about 90% of every event I’ve seen with the word “theater” in it that wasn’t prefaced by the word “movie.”
Second, I’m a live music guy, and people pretending (sorry, acting) to play along with prerecorded music on cardboard instruments didn’t intrigue me.
So it was to my great surprise, that Last of My Species: The Fearless Songs of Laarna Cortaan totally blew me away–what a blast.
Colors: Extraordinary Records by Taschen
My favorite set during Lollapalooza 2009
My favorite set of Lollapalooza happened on Saturday when Atmosphere played in front of the majority of the attending audience.