Category: Music
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Dead Bird Movement : TRIOS
Dead Bird Movement : TRIOS On July 27, 2011 I participated in a 24 hour dance event. Local arts incubator Project: Space Available recently held a week-long fundraiser, Five Fingers Fundraiser. There were 5 different events each hosted by a different artist or arts collaborative.They invited Jessie Smith, creator/choreographer/sole intelligence of dance concept Dead Bird…
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Beyond the Pyramids, the Square
Cairo-based artist and musician Ahmed Basiony died on January 28 from asphyxiation while participating in the successful Egyptian popular uprising. 100radiostation.com has been playing his music continuously ever since. His Vimeo channel has only two documents of his live sound, but it’s interesting stuff (via Dangerous Minds). Disquiet.com offers a small view of his life’s work…
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Review: Losing Control in Soweto
Spoek Mathambo Remember that name. Spoek is a musician and designer in South Africa. His cover of Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” came into my world last night via the ever perverse homolandia (NSFW). It’s a beautiful take on an old anthem; both are dismal yet somehow joy inducing. They both make use of minor…
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dirty bomb! the video!
my friend filastine has finally made a music video. it’s pretty damn fabulous and feels just like our conversations on life and culture. check it and then go grab his new record, ‘dirty bomb,’ at www.postworldindustries.com for the record, i suggested multiple times that he call the new effort ‘dirty dirty bomb bomb,’ but that…
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Music: no confessions… a ring of fire
recently i went into the studio with my good friend anna huckabee. we recorded a cover of the cash family’s ring of fire. the song is by the lovely june and popularized by the cranky bastard johnny. and it really is the only song by the man i have ever had any affinity for. i…