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Chapman LP
Via factmag.com
Nov 2012
Artist Dinos Chapman likens the sound of his first electronic music album to “a naked mole-rat plucked untimely from its snuggly basement-burrow, on its back, all squirmy, exposed to the sun’s dissecting rays.” Luftbobler will be released Feb. 25, 2013.
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Making Cents
Via pitchfork.com
Nov 2012
Pandora and Spotify aren’t making artists rich, writes Galaxie 500’s Damon Krukowski. For 7,800 plays on Pandora, the band’s song “Tugboat” earned them 21 cents in royalties—which is why Krukowski is streaming all his bands’ music for free elsewhere.
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Lost Jazz
Via jazzwax.com
Nov 2012
When Robert James Campbell died in a homeless shelter in 2001, few knew of his past life documenting the jazz scene of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Now the City of Burlington, which owns his photos of Count Basie, Wayne Shorter, and others, is fundraising to preserve his work.
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Cinematic Sound
Via npr.org
Nov 2012
NPR offers a “first listen” to the new album by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (guitar) and Jozef Van Wissem (lute). The Mystery of Heaven is “gritty but not in-your-face; it’s pretty, but there’s nothing delicate about it. It’s a rich, appropriately cinematic sound.”
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Dancing Around the Bride
Via theartblog.org
Nov 2012
“This is an exhibition as Gesamkunstwerk,” writes Andrea Kirsh of the Philadelphia Museum’s Philippe Parreno–designed show Dancing Around the Bride, which explores the interconnected lives of Duchamp, Cunningham, Cage, and others.
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Prison Riot
Via reuters.com
Oct 2012
The two members of Pussy Riot who remain imprisoned in Russia face Soviet-era prison conditions, according to freed member Yekaterina Samutsevich. With no medicine or hot water, “they can die,” she says.
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Homesteading: Nick Zammuto on Composing, Decomposing, and Life after The Books
Doug Benidt
Oct 2012
After pop polymath Nick Zammuto ends his current tour at the Walker on November 10, his thoughts will turn from the stage to the definitiveness of winter as he readies his homestead for a season that “gets a little hairy where we are in Vermont.” In a new interview he discusses life after the vaunted experimental duo the Books and how he balances making art and living off the land (and grid).
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Between Real & Unreal
Via latimes.com
Oct 2012
Laurie Anderson’s genius, writes Mark Swed, “is to find the music and theater to capture that space between the real and the unreal, which she says has become increasingly unclear.” She brings her work Dirtday! to the Walker Nov. 2–4.
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Transplant for POS
Via youtube.com
Oct 2012
Minneapolis rapper P.O.S.—who performed with Doomtree at Rock the Garden 2012—canceled his tour this week, announcing that his “kidneys are garbage.” On dialysis for a month, he’s seeking a new kidney. A fund has been set up to help pay medical bills.