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David Byrne’s installation transforms the Battery Maritime Building into a giant musical instrument, but the mysterious noises that emanate from all corners of the delightfully dilapidated industrial space have more in common with a late-80s Grateful Dead mid-set midi-freakout than whatever usually goes by “music.” Waiting and sweating in line for my turn at [...]
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Playing the Building
June Tunes
A few bands I’ve been enjoying lately to drown out the jackhammers going berserk outside my window. More at muxtape.
Marco Benevento
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Budos Band
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Jackie Greene
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MGMT
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The Wood Brothers
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Tocotronic
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The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette
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The Avett Brothers
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and, for Bo Diddley, The Grateful Dead
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Konsum: One More Saturday Night
Fewer movies than usual because I’m working on several top secret plans for world domination, we’re still catching up with The Wire, and my obsession with Daniel Plainview shows no signs of abating. (Check out the new entries in the contest.) The notable exception was Etgar Keret’s Jellyfish, a sweet film that plays like minor-key [...]
U2 3D
I’ll take bubbly pop over self-righteous posturing any day, so we’ll lead this post off with the Pet Shop Boys’ brilliant cover of “Where the Streets Have No Name” (with a touch of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”)
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With that out of the way, my review of U2 3D is now up at UGO: “You’ll [...]
