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Studio Music
Via studiomusic.fm
Aug 2012
Design director Emmet Byrne provides the newest playlist for Studio Music, with picks ranging from the “greatest cheating song ever written” to a Black Dice brain-tickler to Os Mutantes’ “Bat Macumba” (its lyrics “look like bat wings when they’re left justified”).
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Pussy Riot Guilty
Via bbc.co.uk
Aug 2012
A court has found members of the punk band Pussy Riot guilty of “hooliganism” for an anti-Putin performance in a Moscow church. Their two-year prison sentence has sparked protests worldwide.
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Devo v. Mitt
Via rollingstone.com
Aug 2012
While Devo says its new single, “Don’t Roof Rack Me, Bro,” isn’t partisan, its story— of Mitt Romney strapping Seamus the dog on the top of the family car—reveals a “deal-breaker” “character flaw” in the 2012 contender, says the band’s Jerry Casale.
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MCA’s Will
Via theatlanticwire.com
Aug 2012
Filed in a Manhattan court this week, the will of the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (aka MCA) reveals a no-sellout clause: It states that his image, art, or music can’t be posthumously used in advertising.
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Reading Songs
Via avclub.com
Aug 2012
Beck’s upcoming album, Song Reader “isn’t really an album, so much as a collection of 20 different songs that exist only as individual pieces of sheet music.” It will be released by McSweeney’s along with unique drawings by Marcel Dzama and others.
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Supporting Pussy Riot
Via telegraph.co.uk
Aug 2012
“I’m against censorship, and my whole career I’ve always promoted freedom of expression, freedom of speech,” says Madonna in support of Russia’s Pussy Riot days before her concert in Moscow. “So obviously, I think what’s happening to them is unfair.”
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TBA in Portland
Via theartnewspaper.com
Aug 2012
At Portland’s Time-Based Art Festival, “artists are often in the room and the audience is invited to be in concert with them.” Opening Sept. 6, this year’s edition features Miguel Gutierrez, a Buckminster Fuller film project featuring Yo La Tengo, and more.
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Punk Politics
Via foreignpolicy.com
Aug 2012
Since Rites of Spring’s Guy Picciotto protested apartheid outside the South African embassy in ’85 and Fugazi denounced the Gulf War a few years later, punk’s geopolitical influence has waned, writes Spencer Ackerman. Could Moscow’s Pussy Riot change that?
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BAM Bucks
Via galleristny.com
Aug 2012
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has received a $1 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to create a digital archive—which will house “everything from Civil War memorabilia to footage from the early performances of Merce Cunningham and Robert Wilson.”