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Zine Scene: Wordplay with Katie Haegele
Katie Haegele’s language-centric zines grew, quite appropriately, out of having something to say, but nowhere to say it.
Two songs available from Serena Maneesh: S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor
“Ayisha Abyss”
“Ayisha Abyss”
“I Just Want To See Your Face” (available on their MySpace page).
Gallery Spotlight: Quintron and Miss Pussycat at NOMA
The New Orleans Museum of Art kicks off its 2010 Contemporary exhibition January 29 through May 2 with New Orleans artists Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park is designed to get audiences acquainted with the artists’ past work while exposing their new work.
Sneak Peek: Brent Rollins artwork for Freeway’s The Stimulus Package
We got a sneak peek at the artwork for Freeway & Jake One’s new album, The Stimulus Package (Feb. 16th, Rhymesayers) created by hip hop design star Brent Rollins.
Zine Scene: The Sociology of Aaron Lake Smith
Like countless other works of art, Aaron Lake Smith’s zines were born out of boredom. The author of Big Hands and Unemployment recalls how he got started in writing, in 2004: “I spent a summer living in a moldy garage behind an anarchist collective in Greensboro, North Carolina. All my friends were gone, and I had nothing else to do.”
Man or Astro-Man? to play SXSW
Man or Astro-Man? are going to reform, again (they did it twice in 2006) at SXSW this year. They’ll also play a one-off show March 6th at the Bottletree in Birmingham.
Gallery Spotlight: Pop-Up Art Loop
In the time of the recession, cities all over the world have started using empty storefronts as pop-up art galleries. Pop-Up Art Loop is the latest initiative put into place by the Chicago Loop Alliance and features four art galleries, creating partnerships between artists and property owners.
Snapshot of Chicago’s Tomorrow Never Knows Festival
Schubas’ Tomorrow Never Knows Festival aims to alleviate the mid-winter blight that typically hits Chicago’s live music scene in the winter.
Zine Scene: Independence and Creativity in Publishing
Zine Scene is a new weekly column where you can learn about new and established zinesters, as well as other people from inside the scene as they talk about their experiences in the unique and fascinating world of independently published media.
50 Unheralded Albums from 2009
ALARM leaves no genre unloved in our round-up of 50 albums that didn’t receive enough attention in 2009.