Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Graham Nash: Life on the Road
Showing through May 26th at Proud Camden, Life on the Road is a stunning photographic collection of personal and intimate portraits taken by internationally renowned English singer-songwriter and political activist Graham Nash, founding member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. This photographic series, spanning from 1969 to 2003, showcases a unique selection of street photographs and portraits of family and friends featuring Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, David Crosby and other legendary musicians of the 1970s. Read the rest of this entry »
Only The Good Survive: A Mixtape
Here we are again with a new mixtape. We are still kind of trapped in this winter that looks like it never wants to leave, and perhaps this month’s selection has got its inspiration during these days of chilly winds and frequent blizzards. Not that we believe that music is related somehow to seasons but let’s say this could be the perfect soundtrack for this winter’s tail. There are some of our all time favorite artists in here (Kraftwerk, Sonic Boom, Coil) alongside a couple of inclusions that are closer to avant-garde and pure experimentation than to alternative music (Bruce Haack, Daphne Oram). We enjoyed to put this selection together and we hope you’ll enjoy it too. Read the rest of this entry »
A Year In Records: 2012 ROUND-UP
End of the year list, we meet again. 2012 has been another exciting year for records, even in the middle of the usual “music is dead” rhetoric. So we approached the round-up game this time deliberately wanting to set a list of ten records which symbolized and represented the last twelve months. The idea was simple: write down your twenty favourite records, see how many get championed in every list and take it from there. Unsurprisingly, this simple idea became an exercise in arithmetics and statistics, once we realized the unanimous choices were very few. Read the rest of this entry »
Little Stings: PINS
Manchester, so much to answer for. It may have been a while since Manchester could be considered the epicentre of UK new music movements but the less the city has been covered (thanks also to having got rid of certain few populist bands), the more awkward and interesting the sounds have become. There’s something approachable yet sinister at the core of the best Manchester acts and female four-piece PINS honourably joins those ranks. Formed just over a year ago, singer/guitarist Faith Holgate, guitarist Lois Macdonald, bassist Anna Donigan and drummer Lara Williams started to impress the live circuit by washing away their catchy pop melodies in dramatic echo and powerful noise. It’s no wonder that their debut single release (Eleventh Hour/Shoot You) – released on a gold cassette – sold out in days. Read the rest of this entry »
1234 SHOREDITCH: A photo report
Sean McLusky may not be a name familiar to many outside London, but back at the start of the noughties he was almost single-handedly responsible for saving the capital’s nightclubbing, inventing what he called Future Rock’n’Roll and booking the new post-punk indebted acts, like Liars and Ikara Colt, next to legends like Suicide. Five years ago, his Sonic Mook Experiment inaugurated a festival, 12345 Shoreditch, an alternative to the hugely crowded Reading and one of the very few chances to see all the best bands in a day without leaving the city. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Is Bright: THE FRESH & ONLYS
Patience is everything. But who wants to be patient in rock’n’roll? San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys started in 2008 as the home project of bassist Shayde Sartin and singer/ guitarist Tim Cohen, who used to work in the same record shop, quickly adding drummer Kyle Gibson and bassist Wymond Miles to the line-up. A vibrant and collaborative scene gave them the chance to release records: seven-inches, tapes, EPs and albums, so many it’s easy to forget a few, for as many labels like Chuffed , Castle Face, Castle Face, Captured Tracks , In The Red , Woodsist and Sacred Bones. Linked to the psychedelic rock renaissance of their city, The Fresh & Onlys got to be mentioned in the same breath with Ty Segall and The Oh Sees. Read the rest of this entry »
ADAM GREEN: Houseface
American musician and artist Adam Green recently opened a new solo show at The Hole in New York City. Entitled Houseface, the exhibition consists of a series of paintings and sculptures and introduces a continuous loop screening of his feature-length film The Wrong Ferrari. Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t Deny Your Heart: HOT CHIP
Almost ten years ago, a good friend suggested to give a listen to this new band from London called Hot Chip. The name was kinda endearing in its naivete but self proclaiming to play R&Bedroom and having songs like Down With Prince which wore its influences on the proverbial sleeve hinted at an intelligent and playful rather than just quirky and kitschy attitude. The intuition proved to be right. Read the rest of this entry »
This Is The One: DENNIS MORRIS and THE STONE ROSES
St. Andrews, Scotland. Summer 1990. A tiny independent record shop. A Jackson Pollock-style record cover as the only object in its even tinier window, as if to say “this is the only record you need right now; this is the one”. To a teenager’s ears, to any teenager’s ears, there was no need for words. Read the rest of this entry »
WHO SHOT ROCK & ROLL: A Photographic History
Originally shown and created by the Brooklyn Museum with Gail Buckland, Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is a major group exhibition exclusively devoted to rock photographers. The summer show includes 166 prints by over 100 iconic photographers and features an original documentary film produced exclusively for the Annenberg Space for Photography. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Is Bright: THE FRESH & ONLYS 
Better Than Something: Interview with Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond 
Filming The Music: AG ROJAS 
Coyotes in My Backyard: TRAVIS MILLARD 
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG 
Drenched in The Rain of Dreams: Dimitri Drjuchin 
I CAN SEE FOR MILES: The Art of Jacob Escobedo 