Saturday, August 16th
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be playing at Constellation, a performing-arts center owned by the drummer.
Roscoe Mitchell (reeds) & Mike Reed (drums, electronics), live, Poland (Poznan), 2013
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2014
Saturday, August 9th
The only risk is that you’ll go insane . . .
Flume (AKA Harley Streten), live, London (Boiler Room), 2013
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art beat
Kristín Ómarsdóttir (1962-), Iceland, 2013
2014
Saturday, August 2nd
summer in the city
Chvrches, live, Chicago (Lollapalooza), 8/1/14
2014
Friday, July 25th
summer in the city
St. Vincent, live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/19/14*
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the scrawny pine, too
looks extravagant . . .
summer moon—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Rattlesnake
5:39 Digital Witness
9:13 Cruel
13:10 Marrow
17:40 Every Tear Disappears / Shout (Tears for Fears)
22:16 Surgeon
27:35 Cheerleader
31:19 Prince Johnny
37:15 Birth In Reverse
41:10 Huey Newton
46:47 Bring Me Your Loves
50:52 Your Lips Are Red
2014
Friday, May 2nd
sounds of Manchester
The Warehouse Project (feat. Diplo, Four Tet, Nicolas Jaar, Skream, et al.), 2012
2014
Wednesday, April 30th
sounds of Chicago
Specter (AKA Spekter, Andres Ordanez), “Pipe Bomb,” 2011
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[N]othing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.
—Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
2014
Monday, April 28th
passings
DJ Rashad, October 9, 1979-April 26, 2014
Live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 2013
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“I Don’t Give A Fuck” (sampling Tupac Shakur’s dialogue in Juice), 2013
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“I’m Gone” (remixing Gil Scott-Heron’s “Home Is Where The Hatred Is”), 2011
2014
Friday, April 4th
only rock ’n’ roll
The War On Drugs, “Under the Pressure”
Live, Philadelphia, 3/14/14
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Recording (Lost in the Dream), 3/14
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Now, unlike then—sixty years ago—we know so much more about others . . . . [t]hough, of course, we know not much more of the important things—what’s in others’ hearts; and if their hearts are broken or damaged or full.
—Richard Ford, “A Symposium on Magic,” The Threepenny Review, Spring 2014
2014
Thursday, April 3rd
sounds of Chicago
Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics, voice; Chad Taylor, drums, mbira, electronics), live (music begins at 4:30), Italy (Venice), 2013
(This clip, alas, has some glitches: at 56:15 both the sound and the picture drop out, returning, with just one of two audio channels, at 58:46.)
2014
Monday, March 17th
Nick Hennies (music, film editing), “Lineal” (Part 1), 2009
[vimeo 7567186 w=560&h=315]
Someday our world, and its shiny technology, will seem no less remote.
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