Gerard Malanga, once a close friend and right-hand-man of Warhol’s, has collaborated with designer Adam Kimmel on a new video project in homage to — who else? — his late companion. Unabashedly entitled Screentest, the project was envisioned as a part of Kimmel’s Fall/Winter 2009 presentation in Paris, and sees Malanga, in an extension of [...]
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42×42
June 18, 2009 – 8:39 am
42 Below, a brand of vodka from New Zealand, has begun a new campaign entitled OneDreamRush, in which it has asked 42 directors to produce 42-second shorts about dreams. While the idea itself seems a bit stilted, it’s the list of directors that should really excite: David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Kenneth Anger and [...]
Cloud
June 17, 2009 – 5:13 am
Nearly a year ago, I wrote about an up-and-coming beatmaker called Cloud the Exclusive. His name now shortened to the more pointed Cloud., he has continued his ascent, unceasingly producing new and brilliant beats. In the process, he’s established his own individual style and a reputation solidified by MySpace and YouTube, thanks in part to [...]
Bitte Orca
June 3, 2009 – 4:09 pm
I obviously have a ton to say about Dirty Projectors; but in this case I’ll let them speak for themselves. Their incredible new record, Bitte Orca, out on June 9th on Domino Records, is now streaming for free in its entirety at NPR.org. (The above clip is from their charity show with Björk at Housing [...]
Blind Man’s Colour Season Dreaming
May 25, 2009 – 8:54 am
It came as no surprise to me when I learned, reading the press sheet that accompanied the unanticipated arrival of their debut record, that the only shows Blind Man’s Colour have ever played have been on beaches; and while I can’t say that beachy was the first descriptor that came to mind as I put [...]
Veckatimest
May 23, 2009 – 9:28 am
Grizzly Bear’s new record Veckatimest, out on Warp Records in four days, has already seen an immense amount of positive press, with many both in and out of the media (and perhaps presumptuously) referring to it as album-of-the-year material. Just yesterday, Pitchfork awarded the record’s second to last track, ‘While You Wait For the Others,’ [...]
Coffman, Deradoorian and Guðmundsdóttir
May 6, 2009 – 3:24 pm
When the new Dirty Projectors record Bitte Orca is finally released early next month, it will mark, for the first time in the project’s history, a moment wherein the band is no longer looked upon as a mere extension of Dave Longstreth, afforing the group the perspective it deserves: of, indeed, a real band. Credit is due to [...]
Smooth Originals
April 11, 2009 – 3:08 pm
Ever wondered what 8 Mile might have been like had it been filmed in France in the 1960′s? Well, neither did I, but Stella Artois certainly did. In their new viral campaign dubbed Smooth Originals, the Belgian brand has recreated three very American contributions to film and television–Die Hard and 24 being the other two–in the very French style [...]
Dirty Projector’s Knotty Pine
January 28, 2009 – 9:16 am
Stripped of the brume that kept Dave Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors from being heard as the pop band they have always been, ‘Knotty Pine,’ their new collaboration with David Byrne for the charity compilation Dark Was the Night, is the first real step towards renouncing that opacity and taking that leap — ever so slight [...]
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Wav(v)ves
January 22, 2009 – 8:52 am
It is not often I hear a record I wish I had recorded myself, but when I first heard Wavves’ self-titled debut late last year, I was immediately jealous. It’s not even that Wavves are something truly spectacular or unique; indeed, what makes Wavves so enjoyable is not all that different from what makes Panda [...]
