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Speedboat Homage
Via letoilemagazine.com
Jun 2012
Host to bands like Bikini Kill and NOFX and artists such as Frank Gaard, St. Paul’s late Speedboat Gallery, feted at CO Exhibitions this Saturday, captured the ’80s punk spirit—a good parallel to This Will Have Been, our show of the era’s art.
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Rock Recap
Via mnoriginal.org
Jun 2012
Through Friday, MN Original is releasing footage from Rock the Garden 2012 with three segments sharing clips and interviews with Howler, tUnE-yArDs, Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and The Hold Steady. Look for them on the Walker Channel as well.
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Peel’s Alphabet
Via theparisreview.org
Jun 2012
Over four months, the first 100 records for each letter of BBC Radio legend John Peel’s alphabetized 26,000-item music collection will be presented online, “replete with their owner’s personally devised catalogue number and, occasionally, remarks.”
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Aitken’s Song
Via pitchfork.com
Jun 2012
“A song is something that goes inside of you and, at its best, never leaves,” says artist Doug Aitken in a new short documentary on SONG 1, his music-visual art work projected onto the Hirshhorn’s exterior last month.
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Big Ups in DownBeat
Via downbeat.com
Jun 2012
Pianist Vijay Iyer, who played the Walker in March, topped five categories in this year’s DownBeat International Critics Poll, an unprecedented feat. His honors include: jazz artist of the year, top jazz album, top pianist, top jazz group, and “Rising Star Composer.”
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Sonic Yoko
Via guardian.co.uk
Jun 2012
Yoko Ono and longtime friends Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth are teaming up on a new album of “noise music.” Mulberry, due later this year, aims to “bring out maximum energy to wake up the world.” It also apparently has another name: YOKOKIMTHURSTON.
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Byrne & St. Vincent
Via brooklynvegan.com
Jun 2012
David Byrne, who headlined Rock the Garden 2004, and St. Vincent, who graced our stage last fall, have teamed up on a new LP, Love This Giant, and are starting a tour in support of it. A departure for both, the album will hinge on “idiosyncratic horn arrangements.”
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Sound of Chigliak
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Jun 2012
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, who opened Rock the Garden 2008, has founded a record label dedicated to promoting new or older bands making “good music that may not be box office-smashing.” It’s name, borrowed from a Northern Exposure character: Chigliak Records.
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Being tUnE-yArDs
Via motherjones.com
Jun 2012
College study in Kenya, a gig performing quirky scores for Buster Keaton films, parents who met in New York while playing square dances, a political sensibility: A bit of what goes into the music of Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, who plays Rock the Garden Saturday.