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“Completely Punk Rock”: Cindy Sherman’s (Nearly) Forgotten History with Babes in Toyland
Via walkerart.org
Feb 7
“Cindy Sherman is totally, completely punk rock.” Lori Barbero has some credibility in making that assessment. As drummer of the late, great Minneapolis band Babes in Toyland, she knows the artist well: Sherman’s photographs are on the covers of two Babes albums; her imagery was featured on stage banners; and the artist had a cameo–as doppelganger of lead singer Kat Bjelland–in a 1991 music video.
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Love Song to a Clement World
Julie Caniglia
Feb 5
During a 2010 trip to the Arctic, Cynthia Hopkins serenaded a sailing vessel, the Noorderlicht, that carried her and other artists on what she calls a “lucky, life-transforming” journey. First sung with ukelele accompaniment on the ship’s deck, the song is now part of Hopkins’ new climate-themed music-theater work, one she characterizes as a “love song to the miraculous clemency of our world.”
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Woody Updated
Via cynthiahopkins.com
Feb 5
Cynthia Hopkins, whose Walker-co-comissioned This Clement World opens at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York Tuesday, offers a song from the music-theater piece—a climate-crisis reworking of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”
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Women & Population
Via creativetimereports.org
Feb 4
Immigrant women are having fewer children, Barbara Crossette, author of two UN population reports, tells Laurie Anderson. “It shows that if you just let women from the developing world have the same rights—or, rather, access—that we have, they make smart decisions.”
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New Stetson
Via brooklynvegan.com
Jan 31
Sax player Colin Stetson (Sound Horizon 2012) drops a new LP, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, Apr. 30. Mixed by Ben Frost (who plays a Walker-copresented gig in St. Paul next week), it features four tracks with vocals by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver).
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Passings: Butch Morris
Via nytimes.com
Jan 30
New music pioneer Butch Morris has passed away at 65 after a battle with cancer. The inventor of “conduction”—“an improvised duet for ensemble and conductor”—he has worked with an array of artists, from Christian Marclay and John Zorn to Burnt Sugar.
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Decoding Mick
Via lifeisnoise.com
Jan 28
Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier’s favorite album, the Stones’ Tattoo You, poses questions and codes he wants to crack: “Why are these guitars so rough? Why is everything so ragged?” And, of the “sassy” Mick Jagger, “Why is he so excited to be yelling in this part?”
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Beatbox Science
Via wired.co.uk
Jan 24
A team of USC researchers is analyzing the science of beatboxing: Using MRI technology, they aim to document the array of sounds produced by a bilingual LA rapper and, ultimately, compare noises with those produced in different global languages.
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Passings: Steve Kramer
Via citypages.com
Jan 23
Steve Kramer, accordionist and frontman for the ‘80s punk-polka group the Wallets, has died at age 59. Prior to the Wallets, he played with James Chance and the Contortions, including a gig at the legendary Walker-copresented M-80 Festival in 1979.