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Get Out! A NY State of Mind

Friday: Super interesting Japanese performance artists Eiko and Koma will be at Barnes and Noble on 86th Street to talk about their new book Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty, an illustrated catalogue of their dance works, with choreographer’s notes and archival material. 7pm. Barnes and Noble, 150 E. 86th Street @ Lexington. (photo above from a performance of theirs at Lincoln Center.) Saturday: Stay home and close the windows and make sure you have hurricane supplies, booze and movies. Good luck out there! Sunday: Afro-Punk Festival at Commodore Barry Park, Flushing Ave, btw Navy St and N Elliott, Brooklyn, 1pm, Free Ongoing: The BMW Guggenheim Lab is …

artMRKT SAN FRANCISCO May 16 – 19

artMRKT SAN FRANCISCO, a contemporary and modern art fair, opens this week and will feature 70 galleries from around the globe. This year, the third for artMRKT SAN they will be located in the Fort Mason Center, a good location with ample parking. The Opening Preview will be Thursday, May 16, from 6-8pm, benefiting the de Young and Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The evening on continues with an Opening Night Party which runs until 10:30pm. Check the artMRKT SAN FRANCISCO website for additional details and ticket info.A few of artists and galleries that you’ll see at the art fair. Lee Materazzi, C-print on PlexiglassQuint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Hung Liu, Oil on CanvasGail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, …

A New Site

There is a new version of Conscientious, and you can find out all about it following this link (with its own, dedicated URL: cphmag.com, for Conscientious Photography Magazine). Starting immediately, this version of Conscientious is going to remain frozen. New content will now only appear at the new site (for reasons I am explaining here). Please update your bookmarks!

Clouds and Famous Fashion Designers

I have a thing for clouds at the moment. I’m totally in love with them. Some days they’re so freaking beautiful I have to look away. I’ll be driving around in the car looking at them, swearing at them in disbelief, wondering how such things could exist. So the cloud works of Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde obviously fascinate me. He has teamed up with Harper’s Bazaar magazine to photograph famous fashion designers with his clouds. The photographer Simon Procter captured the cloud/fashion designer project for Harper’s Bazaar.. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld with the Berndnaut Smilde cloud. Israeli fashion design Alber Elbaz and the cloud. Fashion designer Donatella Versace with the Berndnaut…

Making Time Makes Its Way to LA TONIGHT – Free w/ RSVP

So basically, Making Time is a Philly institution. If you look at my bio, I totally name check it because it’s been foundational for me. A girl that I had a huge crush on that worked at my favorite record shop invited me to a Making Time party. I went thinking I’d get with her, but ended up instead falling in love with the party. It was pre-blog culture, pre-hipsters, pre-Instagram 2000-2001. I used to go dance my head off every month to Dave P’s indie + Britpop sets and got to see bands like The Strokes, Trans Am and Adult waaaaaaayyy before they were bands anyone cared about. It was my HOME. And when I came to LA, I looked…

Two Great New Jazz Books from Taschen

Jazz Life by Joachim E. Berendt Two wonderful books have just been published by Taschen, known for its beautiful coffee table productions. The first, Jazz Life, chronicles a three month trip in 1960 across America by German jazz journalist and record producer Joachim Berendt and photographer William Claxton. Berendt wanted to experience jazz and American culture first hand and Claxton set up the tour, from New York City, through the South, and the LA scene, visiting musical capitals like New York City, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Claxton’s memorable photos capture more than just the jazz scene at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. Like Robert Frank‘s classic 1955 photo journey, it is a view of  America and its culture that reveals …

Monday Music News

Dr. Dog photo by Chad Syme Dr.Dog has a charming lyric video for “Broken Heart” from their upcoming album B Room. Composed of vintage footage of an amusement park, the happiness of the park seems bittersweet contrasted with the tracks title – which is fitting considering the song feels upbeat, but the lyrics tell a different story. [Sterogum] The Replacements played their first reunion show last night in Toronto, and thank god for technology because you can now watch video or stream the audio from the performance. Proving they haven’t forgotten a beat, Paul Westerburg had this to say about their 25 year hiatus, “Sorry it’s taken us so long. For 25 years we’ve been having a wardrobe debate.” Check out “Bastards of…

Harry Dean Stanton Sings Danny Boy

Photo by Larry Hirshowitz I feel it is safe to say that if you are a fan of the movies, then you are a fan of Harry Dean Stanton. For me, it is hard to separate the two… for as long as I have loved movies, he’s always been there.  He puts the “character” in character actor. From the cocky crewman in ‘Alien‘, to Molly Ringwald’s dad in ‘Pretty In Pink’, to Brain in ‘Escape From New York‘, to damn near every David Lynch film ever made. He has appeared in nearly 200 films and television series …

Lycia: Quiet Moments

For over two decades, Arizona’s Lycia have been pioneers of “darkwave,” a reverb-drenched, gothic take on dreampop. This is the Cocteau Twins, if they looked so far inward that they began to focus on the darker, downer-ridden side. Along with lovesliescrushing, who freed shoegaze from pop conventions, they became one of the noteworthy and boundary-pushing acts on the goth music label Projekt. Quiet Moments, their first release for Handmade Birds (run by Rich Loren of Pyramids, Sailors With Wax Wings, and White Moth), is consistent with their past efforts, while remaining an intriguing headphone journey. At this point, Lycia are basically Mike VanPortfleet, the multi-instrumentalist has always been the band’s…

Fat Joe Begins Prison Sentence

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Joey Crack turned himself in today to begin his four month sentence on tax evasion charges. TMZ caught him at baggage claim to get his final thoughts before going to the clink. A few hours ago, he issued the tweet the below. See ya in December. FARE WELL MY PEOPLE IM BOUT TO TAKE THAT RIDE SEE U AT DIDDYS HOUSE FOR NEW YEARS#GODWILLINGINSHALLAH— FAT JOE (@fatjoe) August 26, 2013

Radical Something

Kings favorite Radical Something released an acoustic video for “Feels Like Forever” a brand new song from their upcoming Album Ride It Out. The band also reached 50,000 Facebook fans. The new album will be self released on September 2nd and the new video for the single can be viewed here. Contact: amh@radicalsomething.com

FYF Fest 2013, Day 2: My Bloody Valentine, MGMT, Beach House and more from the Carrie Stage

My Bloody Valentine, MGMT, Beach House, Yo La Tengo, Kurt Vile, Guards ||| Photos by Carl Pocket After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews: MY BLOODY VALENTINE You Should Have Been Here Because: Even noisier than the U.K. shoegazers’ supercharged wall of sound was the sound of several thousand hearts breaking, as problems with the P.A. sabotaged MBV’s highly anticipated set. This despite several thousand dollars worth of additional production for the Carrie Stage to accommodate the band’s mammoth sound (including an old-school analog soundboard). FYF shrank by 20 bands this year and a weekend pass increased by $22; look no further than MBV’s hefty…

Toronto’s Not Dead Yet fest announces partial ’13 line-up (Limp Wrist, Boston Strangler, Left for Dead, MInd Eraser & more)

Martin of Crudos/Limp Wrist at Chaos in Tejas 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro) One of the most stellar lineups of hardcore/punk on this side of Chaos in Tejas is Not Dead Yet, a collection of four days of shows on 11/14 – 11/17/13 at various venues throughout Toronto. Announced bands include Limp Wrist, Boston Strangler, Left for Dead, MInd Eraser, Circle Takes the Square and more. Ticketing/venue/additional info is on the way, but you can still check out the initial line-up of bands and the flyer below. Continue reading “Toronto’s Not Dead Yet fest announces partial ’13 line-up

Reading 2013: Six things we learned

Lana Del Rey was everywhere – and she wasn’t on the bill. And the same went for Donna Summer …1. The number of public blowjobs that happened during Eminem’s Saturday night headline set was zeroFor that may we all be thankful. No-one wants a repeat of the double standards and slut-shaming/stud-praising that followed the #slanegirl incident that took place during Mather’s Slane Castle show in Ireland earlier this month. 2. Lana Del Rey is queen of festival fashionistasShe may have been absent from the esteemed line-up this year, but LDR’ fashion steez were noticeably visible amongst the multitude of young girls rocking denim …