Spectacle — it’s the swagger, it’s the back-up singers in matching costumes, it’s when too much is never enough, it’s Las Vegas and its antithetical twin Burning Man, it’s gold and gold and more gold. It’s the Flaming Lips with their dancing aliens, Santa Clauses, and rock superstars floating through the crowd in big plastic bubbles. It’s what Redmoon Theater does.
Good vs. Wiivil Wins $10K at Inaugural Nintendo Film Fest
Nintendo has announced the winner of its first-ever Short Cuts Showcase, an open-call competition that called for Nintendo-themed short films. After submissions were narrowed down to just ten finalists, a select panel of judges voted “Good vs. Wiivil,” created by Jack Paccione, Jr., to earn top honors.
Marnie Stern @ The Abbey Pub (Chicago)
The first thing that hits you is the awesome gravity of that guitar. Marnie Stern is probably the cutest, most effervescent noise rocker out there, but she is damn serious about her guitar.
Riceboy Sleeps Announces First U.S. Exhibition
Beginning Friday, August 3 at Gallery 801 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Icelandic musicians Jon Thor Birgisson of Sigur Rós and Alex Somers of Parachutes — collectively known as the art collaboration Riceboy Sleeps — will open their first exhibition in the United States.
Chic-A-Go-Go: Put on Your Dancin’ Shoes
Adults in silky pink suits, pirate paraphernalia, and fake hair of assorted varieties. Children in striped tights, fairy wings, capes, cowboy boots, and leopard print pants. A rat puppet and a pixie-punk woman with tattooed arms and a short, black and silver dress that shines underneath the TV lights. Indie rock, punk, hip hop, cha-cha – whatever plays, they dance.
To say that percussive guitarist SiCKO
Americans are no strangers to the financial debilitations of sickness – or more specifically, of being trapped in a system that exploits patients and widely denies health coverage to nearly anyone with any sort of preexisting ailment.
So it should come as no surprise that controversial filmmaker Michael Moore had little trouble finding victims of said system for his latest work, Sicko, and presenting stories and testimony that cast little doubt on the intentions of health care executives.
Tool, Big Business @ Sears Centre (Hoffman Estates)
With all the fanfare, visual imagery, and lasers (!) necessary to present a proper arena-rock experience, alt-prog veterans Tool spent Wednesday night in the northwestern Chicago suburbs giving concertgoers a performance nearly worth their exorbitant entrance fee.
Di Rosa Preserve
When you live in the Bay Area, you are solicited for advice on the regular from faraway friends and family on what to see when visiting your part of the Golden State. Nine times out of ten, when you tell them about the cutty little “not-in-the-guidebook” spots that will give them a true taste of Boca de California, they proceed to ignore that advice and spend large blocks of time at heinous Fisherman’s Wharf tourist traps.
ALARM Magazine Presents: QOTSA Listening Party
Will you be in or near Chicago on Tuesday, July 3? Join ALARM at our release party for Issue 27!
Bring your friends and fireworks to Delilah’s for the celebration. We’ll be playing Era Vulgaris, the new record from Queens Of The Stone Age, and giving away copies of the new issue of ALARM Magazine with them on the cover. PLUS, we’ll be buying all the drinks from 8pm – 10pm thanks to Izze Sparkling Juice and Level Vodka!
Akron/Family Announce Tour, Maintain Prolific Pace
Giving other blue-collar bands a run at being the hardest working outfit in the ever-burgeoning spectrum of indie folk, Akron/Family have announced fall tours in North America and Europe to coincide with the release of Love is Simple, their second full-length album.