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Grizzly Bear Recording a New LP (Soon)
Earlier today, Grizzly Bear informed us they have been writing songs for a new album and will start recording it by the end of this month in Texas. That’s all information for now, but I will definitely keep you posted!
Twice, The Twilight Singers
On The Twilight Singers for the Scene and then again (to a lesser extent) for MAGNET.
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Take Cover: Karate vs. Billie Holiday
On Holiday’s personal attachment to “Strange Fruit” in last week’s blurb for MAGNET.
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This is, so far, the most haunting video I’ve come across of the Tuscaloosa tornado. Unreal.
Via Sullivan
One of my favorite modern composers, Dustin O’Halloran, has just announced a North American tour in support of both Lumiere, which I wrote about here, and a new live album, Vorleben, which was just released on April 21st in North America. (The collection will be available worldwide on May 23rd.) And thankfully the tour is coming South, to Louisville to be exact, so I can finally experience the man’s incredible work in the flesh. Best news all week.
Dates below:
May 27 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Forever Cemetery
May 30 — San Francisco, CA — Rickshaw Stop
June 4 — Portland, OR — The Woods
June 5 — Chicago, IL — Schubas
June 7 — Brooklyn, NY — Littlefield
June 8 — Philadelphia, PA — World Café Live
June 9 — Washington D.C. — Iota
June 10 — Louisville, KY — St. Francis of Assisi
The tour also features video art accompaniment inspired by Lumiere from video artist Christina Vantzou. If it’s anything like the work she did for “Fragile No. 4,” we’re in for a treat:
More on Vorleben soon for MAGNET.
Happy to announce that I’ll be manning the decks for an upcoming charity event curated by Giving Back is the New Black.
More from the press release:
Giving Back is the New Black is hosting The Red Party on May 12th at the Icon in the Gulch, from 7-10pm. Proceeds will benefit eXile International, a Nashville-based organization which provides counseling services in the Congo and other African countries to former child soldiers and children of war, through methods of art, dance, and music.
Sweets, snacks, red cocktails, wine, beer, valet parking, and music by DJ Ryan Burleson will be provided for a $20 ticket fee at the door. The room will be filled with pops of the color theme. All in attendance are requested to wear red.
Visit exileinternational.org for more information about eXile International.
RSVP on the facebook event page, or email givingbackisthenewblack@gmail.com to reserve a ticket.
Currently the soundtrack to my day dreams, the pilot of my trip to the ether and the tones that remind of me of beautiful things.
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Not sure how I missed that The Appleseed Cast were releasing a new EP, especially because I’ve been wearing out my recently-procured Low Level Owls 3xLP set. Going back in time like that usually dovetails with a trip online to see what old favorites of mine have been up to, if anything. Yesterday, it was Karate, which led to me listening to Geoff Farina and Chris Brokaw singing pre-Civil War blues numbers by 5PM.
Thankfully I have Brett Miotti in my life to bring me up to speed. He who has been privy to all good things ambient-ish for all the years I’ve had the pleasure of knowing him.
It appears the digital edition of Middle States, from which “Three Rivers” is streaming above, was made available on March 29. A physical ed. is set for a June 7 release, both from Graveface.
David Foster Wallace on Worship
“Here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. …Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.”—
David Foster Wallace (via 101 Books)
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