What Is an Artist?
...Andy Warhol Atomic Bomb, 1965 (via) A Glossary Classical musicians: Uptight, ambitious squares. Doctors. New Music musicians: Having implicitly resigned from the institutional rat race, they are the...
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
...take cues from self-help classic The Secret in order to satisfy government-backed dreams of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject...
Wifey Status
...stardom. In an interview with Vogue U.K. she explains, “I wanted a name I could shape the music toward. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time,...
Locations Requiring Further Examination
...flavors. Operated by Egyptians, Pakistanis and African Americans. The cover charge for customers is five dollars. Location caters to college students and plays Hip Hop music at night. Turnpike Mediterranean...
Pray for Chic
...I am eternally committed to Style. Devoted to the Goddess.” [r]Self-Portrait as the Virgin Surrogate as the Bride in Chanel, 2011[/r] “Nowadays pop-culture feels a little 'Insert Anybody.'" ...
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...more sympathetic to the problems writers face and better able to evaluate a literary work. Music has always seemed infinitely more difficult to me, but that’s probably because no one...
Sunday Reading
...the World (Chapter 5) Guitar Hero TV and the Rebirth of Music Television 'being yellow' by binghao wong Why you should be checking out this year's interactive fiction competition Conversations...
Vice is Hip
...bounced out of Chavez Ravine to build Dodger Stadium, American Indians swept out of Bunker Hill for the Music Center, Tariq’s neighborhood bulldozed aside for channel view estates.” Tariq is...
Autofill Mythologies
...we collect through our wanderings, bits and bobs from the news and pop music and cinema and that infant-size pizza slice you once ate because someone told you it was...
A/V Recommends: Zebra Katz
...to music this week. Minimalist and undeniable, Zebra Katz' production makes such calibrated use of dynamics that it's as well suited for headphones as the dance floor. Dark and funny...
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet
...and filesharing replace brick and mortar record and video stores, greatly damage music companies large and small, and will soon do the same to Hollywood. Ignore the free-media utopians’ sleight-of-hand...
Holing Up
...Burton wrote it like that. Music and space were crucially important to her, a dancer who wrote by filling the corner of the barn where she worked with a maelstrom...
Sunday Reading
...The Finn-donesian of "The Force Awakens" The music of Taiwan’s death metal star turned national politician Remembering Ellen Meiksins Wood The object of satire Human-Animal Chimera Bernie Sanders for President...
Tooth-to-tooth metal lock
...the largest nuclear reactor in Europe alongside a facility that could solve the problem of what to do with spent nuclear fuel. Music Listening Near Bedtime Disruptive To Sleep Blood...
Everyday schadenfreude
...God I didn’t have Facebook back then!” statements is the worry that a less-refined past-self would be exposed to current, different, perhaps hipper or more professional networks. Silly music tastes,...
Day Residue
...ultra of the utopian society gone horribly wrong; as she searches for “resistance” in the music of the People’s Temple, the looming dread of what would come seeps out of...