Music Behind the Scenes: Making a Twin Atlantic Video
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
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Art Gallery Artsy-Fartsy in Suburbia: The Echo Park Art Walk
Echo Park is the perfect place to have an art walk (preferably during the day, before the Tec-9 fire/stabbings erupt). It’s also a somewhat chaotic affair, strung throughout suburbs surrounding the local paddleboat haven/mini-tropical Watts: galleries in garages and lofts; museums in backyards, and hawkers peddling hand-crafted wares in front of their houses. Obviously it ain’t like walking into your local MOCA/MOMA, especially since the actual ‘museum’ is 2+ miles long and a good 15 degrees hotter.
And pleasantly disorienting: my accomplice and I got lost almost immediately; thank god those starving artists had child laborers to provide us with chalk drawing-maps and cotton candy!
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Music Mad Lib Monday: The Smiles
It’s Mad Lib Monday at ChinaShop, where they fill in the blanks and we make up the rest. Check out our exclusive portraits and listen to some brand new music.
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Art Livin’ LRG
Anyone can sell cloths… Well maybe not anyone, it actually seems like a fairly impacted market to me, I digress, but my point being is this, there are a lot of companies out there to sell threads, and then there is LRG.
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Gallery Music Le Butcherettes: Sin, Blood, And Fluctuating Moods
I’ve heard about the crazy performances that are typical of Le Butcherettes, but last week’s CD release show for the band’s Sin, Sin, Sin far exceeded any hype that I’d been exposed to.
Backstage before the set, I chatted with lead singer, Teri Gender Bender, who explained that her on stage antics go hand in hand with her fluctuating moods. “I just let the raw emotion come out. It depends on how I feel I guess,” says Bender.
The band, known for creating a stir in the Mexican underground scene for a daring live act involving elements such as artificial blood smearing, a depiction of women as slaves to household chores, and controversial props including a real pig head, has morphed into a different realm of entertaining, according to Bender.
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Art Gallery Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age
If I had enough of a reason to actually dig through my closet and do a serious deep cleaning, I’d definitely find some comic books in there. Those were a staple in my youth, as they were for many. While some people actually purchased them to read, I’d preserve them in little plastic sleeves, occasionally popping them out to stare at the elaborate artwork that graced the covers. This hobby might teeter on the neurotic side of the spectrum, but I associate it with my earliest days of collecting and appreciating art. Those that will admit to sharing in my comic book hoarding adventures should check out Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Ages at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.
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Music Welcome to America, Ms. Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle might moonlight as a model, but the spotlight has been shining quite brightly on her blossoming music career. Though pegging this British luminary as a lighthearted Norah Jones or the level-headed version of Lily Allen are perhaps the best musical comparisons, the bottom line is that she truly has her own distinct style, in more ways than one.
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Music Moby Gets Destroyed, Documents The Occasion With Photos
“Would it be okay if I stick some lettuce in my teeth?” politely inquires Mr. Richard Melville Hall as he stands before my lens. He’s framed only by a tofurky taco and a limestone scrawled moniker that maybe reads a bit more familiar than the name his momma gave him: Moby.
In most circumstances I would never get to this part of the shoot, as most artists usually catch a publicist’s ear, who would then politely ask why in the hell I would shoot a picture of their client with a taco? But as you’ll see with his new album, Destroyed, and accompanying book of images, Moby is one of us.
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Comic Books Comics To Hide From Your Parents: R. Crumb
There was a long line outside the door of the Society of Illustrators in the Upper East Side of Manhattan that stretched to the corner subway station.
The attraction was a retrospective for Robert Crumb, the gangly pioneer of the underground comix movement. Crumb produced his first comic book, Zap #1, in 1968, selling them on the streets of San Francisco; later books were sold at head shops.
Crumb drew and wrote about the hippie lifestyle, chasing women and sex, and marketed his comic books for “intellectual adults.” They were an instant hit.
Also known for living on his own terms, Crumb, who once turned down an offer to illustrate an album cover for the Rolling Stones because he hated the band, now lives in the south of France with his second wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, with whom he is working on a new book.
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Music Parachute Talks Sophomore Release
From touring across the country with the likes of O.A.R., Duffy, and Kelly Clarkson, to welcoming in the New Year by performing in Times Square, Parachute is all over the music scene. The five-piece pop/rock band from Charlottesville Virginia, consisting of Will Anderson (Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano), Kit French (Saxophone, Keyboards, Vocals), Alex Hargrave (Bass), Johnny Stubblefield (Drums), and Nate McFarland (Lead Guitar, Vocals) celebrated the release of their sophomore album, “The Way It Was,” on May 17th.
In an interview with ChinaShop, the guys behind Parachute discuss changing their band name, getting ‘too close’ to Clarkston’s band members, and most importantly, whether or not the rumors of them being cougar magnets are true.
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