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...
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...
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...
Lamin Fofana tribute to Chinua Achebe
...Achebe with some natural sounds and music added. Binyavanga is also a hero. He played at the release party for my last EP." – Lamin Fofana Download as .Zip More...
Violent X
...Festival for the backing without which this film and especially these live performances would not have been possible.) Violent X Written, directed, and narrated by Evan Calder Williams Music by...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...and visual culture." Eager to see where Mr. Cole takes us—and eager to find new ways that visual studies interact with beauty. 'Cause I'm a blonde: It's neither wise nor...
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...
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,...
Selfie-Correction
...behind the practice establishes a cyclical association between the image and female subject, in which each is enlisted to reinforce the low status of the other. A music video by...
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...
Witches
...of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject of the Internet’s emotional implications.” And Karla Cornejo Villavicencio outlines how botanicas—the community...
Pray for Chic
...was very supportive …and we watched The Kardashian wedding special and listened to 50’s music ( I think)…" [r]Self-Portrait as Rosemary Myst with Balloon Dick, 2011[/r] “I have a...
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,...
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...
TNI Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel March 27
...up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Greil Marcus Legendary rock critic and...
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...