! hear and pre-order the rad handscreened debut lp from family band !
Malicious Glamour
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Late 60s photographs by Franco Rubartelli Title via the tumblr Malicious
Glamour Will 50 Watts
3.30.2010
3.17.2010
3.11.2010
listen | neon indian
Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, a brilliantly lucid 21-year-old college dropout, who – despite what his music would have you believe – never got around to eating any acid. Frankly he's kind of afraid of the stuff. But he'd hate for you to think that any of that mattered much. The Mexico-born, Texas-raised synth-wizard who learned production chops as part of Ghosthustler and perfected them as VEGA, has made an art of leaving out the details and letting the world draw its own conclusions. His heralded 2009 debut Psychic Chasms, for example, was released anonymously and drew wild speculation for months. Was this the secret side project of a restless MGMT member? Had Gang Gang Dance unearthed a trove of early demos? Was Jonathan Taylor Thomas a secret tapehead? No. No way.
Had Palomo been any jerk off the street, he could have let the speculators go on speculating until they lost interest. But a world of kids was already too awash in his idiosyncratic synth loops to let the anonymity last long. Gorilla Vs. Bear blogged him, Grizzly Bear tweeted him and Pitchfork finally sealed his fate when they named “Deadbeat Summer,” and then Psychic Chasms, Best New Music. “The project really finds its groove,” they wrote, “nailing perfectly the essence of woozily nostalgic synth pop.” Alan Palomo was outed and all of a sudden, what started as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the VEGA mold, had gone and defined a genre.
The sound that (per Pfork) wraps Washed Out, Ducktails, Nite Jewel and company up in a neat (Ariel) pink bow, is fluorescent deja vu music, warbling gritty and heat-stroked out of swollen TV speakers. Palomo describes it as “Childhood re-contextualized through a psychedelic, lo-fi filter. The idea of memory before you were old enough to have memories.” Psychic Chasms very intentionally captures the sound of records stored in sunlight and played to the breaking point. It is a mishmash of exotic musical memes that adds up to a kaleidoscope of ululating 8-bit snake charmers, barefoot Camaro-driving coal walkers and neon Indians, lost in time.
The lyrics that traverse this freaked out universe of cop-show-theme-song singles are far less esoteric than the music. Psychic Chasms is grounded in the familiar ache of what happens to relationships when high school ends. Alicia Scardetti is one of those aches. The Brooklyn-based visual artist who invented the name Neon Indian, and started out as half of the band, was Palomo’s high school classmate and the inspiration for “Should Have Taken Acid With You.” She is one of the psychic chasms Palomo has crossed to arrive in a place where sold out crowds sing her story back to him.
To those dazzled masses, eager for his follow-up, Palomo promises new full-lengths and tours from VEGA and Neon Indian on the horizon. In the meantime, he has teamed up with Green Label Sound (Chromeo, Matt & Kim, Amazing Baby, Theophilus London) to release an exclusive new single called "Sleep Paralysist" as a free mp3 download. When asked what it sounds like, Palomo cracks, “Well, it’s been described as terminally chill.”
DOWNLOAD NEON INDIAN'S SLEEP PARALYSIST MP3 HERE
3.09.2010
watch | western & maungo
Botswana musician Western, his wife Maungo and a couple friends get down in the yard. All 2geda now!
happening | kim krans
Diamonds
Kim Krans
Opens Friday, March 12th, 7-10pm
Hunter and Cook
15 Ossington Ave
Toronto
hunterandcook.com
3.08.2010
look | hanging tender
as of today, you can browse photos and videos by the very dedicated henrik knudsen, and listen to full live sets by meg baird, one hundred dollars, family band, and many more -- all from this summer's paradigm-shifting hanging tender music festival in bovina, new york. click and drag to explore the sprawling display. it's a loving and beautiful document of a genuinely special time. definitely spend a while looking at it.
3.06.2010
3.05.2010
visit | lamonte young's dream house
take your anxiety down to dream house for the nerve-pounding space odyssey vibrations and you will be fine. it is the minimalist composer lamonte young's thing -- apartment therapy you could call it -- and it drones in custom waves that change with every neck tilt and cough or clench of your face, back etc. your own personal vibration wave to ride. sit completely still if you can, for a steady hum. directions.
3.03.2010
3.02.2010
happening | time tunnel
T I M E T U N N E L
OPENING RECEPTION MARCH 5TH 7-9 PM
28 MARCY AVE btw. METROPOLITAN & HOPE
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
Mira Billotte
John Brattin
Eric Copeland
Jeff Davis
Spencer Herbst
Pali Kashi
James Kendi
Adam Marnie
Keith McCulloch
Rich Porter
Leif Ritchey
Arik Roper
Francine Spiegel
Ruby Sky Stiler
Curated by Pali Kashi
"The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator, and lies in a tunnel 175 meters beneath the Franco-Swiss border. Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer the most fundamental questions in physics, concerning the basic laws governing the deep structure of space and time." ~Brian Greene reporting for The New York Times
"Time Tunnel" proposes a collision of art-making traditions with the uncertainty of time and space. The collective unconscious is infused with ritual and mysticism, and has become dislodged and reinterpreted. The reformed amalgam of paint, wax, clay, sand, and plaster that is presented here are artifacts of this convergence. Totem poles are now made of monster masks, images of prarie women have paint splattered on them, Roman relics are fractured, sand mandalas are blurred, and our spirit animals have been unleashed in the wild.
Mira Billotte is an artist and musician (White Magic) interested in the "Music of the Spheres"; the belief that the planets of the solar system and stars beyond each create a tone in perfect harmony. Mira's installations and sand mandalas reference transcendental rituals practiced throughout time.
Arik Roper's work depicts a fantastical reality filled with mythical warriors, smoky terrain, and decaying skulls. His paintings breathe life into our uncharted history.
READ ON ABOUT THE FEATURED ARTISTS...
3.01.2010
look | woodstock
WHAT: A two-bedroom one-bath converted church
HOW MUCH: $879,000
SIZE: 1,560 square feet
PER SQUARE FOOT: $563.46
SETTING: This building — an 1861 church converted to a residence in 1963 and renovated in 2005 — is set on a hill about two miles from Woodstock’s center. Woodstock is a town of about 6,200 in the Catskill Mountains, and an arts colony since the early 1900s. The town has an artists-only cemetery; the police department’s insignia has a harp and palette on it. The town’s shops and restaurants are mostly located along the two-lane Route 212, or on small streets off of it. The 700,000-acre Catskill Park and six different river systems are nearby. Manhattan is about two hours south.
INSIDE: Most of the church’s original details — including leaded stained-glass panels in the great room, a hand-carved limestone fireplace, pressed tin walls and ceilings — are intact. There’s a sleeping area in the great room, and another in a loft over the kitchen, accessible by ladder. Off one part of the great room is an office; off another is a small alcove with a wood-burning stove. A spiral staircase leads up to a meditation room below the church’s bell tower. The bell tower is now a sitting room with views of the grounds, and interior views over the living room.
OUTDOOR SPACE: A meadow with a fire pit.
TAXES: $7,372 a year.
CONTACT: Gary Heckelman and Thea Millen, Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty, (845) 532-1178 or (845) 679-8888; villagegreenrealty.com
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