God’s Dice
...of violence? He tried out his theory on hundreds of the most elusive variables: the type of music listened to, favorite sexual fetish, being an early morning or night person....
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
Placebos and Noisy Bodies
...to self-medicating my aches and pains—the sprains, depressions, anxieties, flus—with mix-and-matched doses of alcohol, friendship, romance, sex, food, coffee, writing, sleep, the Internet, exercise, pop music, critical theory, literature, art,...
The voice is Ricky’s voice
...to try on some black and pink lingerie, the photog briefed me. it’s for richardson, i want you to be like music, intelligible and inexplicable at the same time. totally...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
...rooms on the first floor into a music room, another into a library. The largest room they made into a dining room that could accommodate 60 people. “It is the...
The Stoop and the Street
...for this conversation,” Lacy said. She paused. “I think that’d be Washington.” *** An hour and a half after we began talking on the stoop, the sound of music seeping...
Google's Macchia
...current age of frenzied information collection, massive computation, and feral capitalism. Google tried to do everything. It proved itself the deepest and fastest of the search engines. It stomped the...
If You Are Lucky Enough To Be In LA...
...and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. But more recently, defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits...
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Opening Reception: Yto Barrada & DJ /rupture @ Walker Art Center 11/21
...Yto Barrada In conjunction with the exhibition An Album: Cinematheque Tangier, join artist Yto Barrada and special guest DJ/rupture, referred to as “a thoughtful pipeline for music from...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.13.12
...out when you've been loosely protected from it. Hold onto your hats, folks: Research has proven that music videos objectify women. Shocker, I know. But what's interesting here is how...
Fringe Feminists: Patti Smith
...her music is something, finally, to rally around. For one thing, she has certain qualities that can make her a hero to a whole generation of young girls; Patti has...
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Red Holidays of Genius
...everyday habits. All of this discombobulating, disordering, and unmooring they believed advanced a risorgimento, a wholesale remaking of Italian thought and culture. "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and...
Skin Feeling
...beautiful story I know about Bird was told by August Blume: “There was this musician’s girl who had a bad case for Bird’s music. She left her fiancé to follow...