Here’s a look at some of Tuesday’s releases, including Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, that have received attention in our confines this week.
Relapse Launches YouTube Channel, Awaits DEP Disc
In addition to joining the throng of musicians and labels with YouTube channels, Relapse Records will release new albums from The Dillinger Escape Plan (pictured above), High on Fire, and Coliseum in the late summer and early fall.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: In Glorious Times
Bay-area avant rockers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, whose theatrical mixture of melodies, progressive rock, and metal gives them few contemporaries, have returned with a third full-length studio album. The album, In Glorious Times (The End), leaves no shortage of material on par with the group’s past efforts.
Shepard Fairey, Souther Salazar at Jonathan LeVine
Running from June 23 to July 21, 2007, New York’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery will host an exhibit of Shepard Fairey’s artwork titled E Pluribus Venom. Fairey, best known for his “propaganda engineering” and stencil-esque renditions of Andre the Giant for his Obey Giant campaign, will show pieces that include paintings, mixed media, screen prints, album covers, and more.
Chalk
Coming as the first film to be branded with the label Morgan Spurlock Presents… but having no work credited to the semi-famous director of anti-McDonald’s documentary Supersize Me and television program “30 Days,” Chalk, a mockumentary in the style of “The Office,” has begun to be released in select cities around the United States.
Monolith Festival Announces Line-Up
On September 14th and 15th, many indie darlings will be playing at the geographically formed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. The initial line-up, announced by Monolith today, includes CAKE, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Spoon, Kings of Leon, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ghostland Observatory, and many others.
Paintings from the Rapture: Alexia Stamatiou
Trawlers, 2004, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, 7” x 9″
Looking through the gallery window, Alexia Stamatiou’s paintings seem like a celebration of color and life, an eye-catching display against the pristine white of the Sunday Gallery located in New York City’s Lower East Side.
In Rotation: May 23, 2007
The reissue of James Chance and the Contortions‘ live album Soul Exorcism heads the discs spinning at ALARM this week, May 21-25, 2007.
Stars: Do You Trust Your Friends?
2005’s Set Yourself on Fire was critically acclaimed, so, keeping in line with recent trends, Stars decided to create a remix album. Instead of remixing their own tunes, Stars went to their Arts and Crafts labelmates to create the songs for this record. (Hence the title.)
Shapes and Sizes: Split Lips, Winning Hips, a Shiner
At worst, Shapes and Sizes come off like the self-consciously quirky “free spirits” who mock your cynicism and discredit your legitimate depression, trying to get you to join sing-alongs and play charades at parties where you’d rather just be left to drink beer and converse. So why is Split Lips, Winning Hips, a Shiner so irresistible?
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Present New Video
“Helpless Corpses Enactment,” the group’s song given visual accompaniment, will be available on In Glorious Times on May 29.
Tom Waits Cuts Disc With Dalai Lama
Tom Waits (shown left), Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, and more performed on the Dalai Lama’s U.S. tour in 2003 and will now have moments of the evening captured on compact disc.