HOW CAN IT be that for years now, I’ve been missing out on the Scissor Sisters? [click to continue…]
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I‘M OFF TO THE beach this week, which means that all I need for a good time is a book, a hat, and some tunes. (Yeah, a bathing suit, too, but that’s not a good time. That’s just a necessary torture of self-loathing and recriminations. But I digress.) I like to listen to the ocean, and the kids playing, and the sound of the breeze in the palms (oh, yeah, it’s that kind of beach, and I am in paradise) but sometimes, I want to disappear into another sonic realm. [click to continue…]
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IF YOU’VE NEVER heard cello punk queen Melora Creager and her band Rasputina, you’re in for a sonic ride, one I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy. [click to continue…]
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From Poppy de Villeneuve's "You Are Everywere"
PROLIFIC PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER Poppy de Villeneuve is at it again. Back in March we highlighted her first film for T , the New York Times style magazine. (All five parts of that film, The Park, are here.) Now she’s released another, You Are Everywhere, a stripped down, meditative, surprisingly intimate view of last year’s Coachella music festival. Like much of Poppy’s work, the film seems deeply influenced by Richard Avedon’s photographic collection, In the American West (one of my favorite art books, as it happens). Enjoy this poetic film, and for more on Poppy and her influences check out our profile of her and sister Daisy, an accomplished illlustrator.
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SISTERS BIANCA AND Sierra Casady, better known (maybe) as freak folk duo CocoRosie, offer up an otherworldly mix of vocals, strings, and sounds from children’s toys in their often haunting, undeniably original songs. The duo sometimes performs with longtime TSP fave, Antony of Antony and the Johnsons, but for many years, the girls didn’t see much of one another at all. [click to continue…]
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