Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: Echos Hypnotiques, Vol. 2 (Analog Africa, 11/10/09) I’ve never been to Benin. I’ve never walked the streets of Cotonou or ridden on one of their motorcycle taxis. I’ve never walked along the beaches of the Bight of Benin and seen the fishermen hauling in th
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No CommentsThe Bubble Process was conceived 10 years ago in the back of a classroom and finally birthed in 2006 after graduation, relocation, and four years of “weirdness.” Sean Higgins and Nicholas Rezabek, sole creators and employees of the silkscreen-producing company, work together but apart — H
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No CommentsCleric: Regressions (Mimicry) Ultimate annihilation, the end times, post-apocalyptic Earth — these are worn-out visual clichés, but ones that apply to the devastating music of Cleric. For its full-length debut, this Philadelphia quartet specializes in demolishing tech-metal eruptions, sava
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No CommentsWhen Griff Williams started Gallery 16 in 1993 in San Francisco, a city known for having the most non-profit art organizations per capita, he knew that he had to create a space that would stand out. “I really wanted to connect myself with the arts community in San Francisco, which has always been
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No CommentsRepresenting a random sampling of ambiguous pop-culture references, Tyler Cufley unveils his latest work at NEXT, the Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art in Chicago. Exhibiting at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart from April 30 to May 3, the Seattle-based artist references fine-art trends and demons
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No CommentsAutolux guitarist Greg Edwards is well accustomed to the demands of recording your own music. In 1995, Edwards spent months recording what ended up being the band Failure’s final album, Fantastic Planet — a sprawling alt-metal epic with a cinematic narrative. Five years since the releas
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No Comments“The zine has a life of its own, so as the time for it approaches, I start pulling together my own story and the stories of others, and that’s the most rewarding thing — building community, reaching out, making friends.” That’s how zinester/blogger Tom Moniz describes the uniquely orga
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No CommentsTrans Am: Thing (Thrill Jockey) Began as a sci-fi soundtrack for a project that fell apart, Thing is Trans Am’s most ambitious — and greatest — album to date. The trio’s spacey synth rock is at its most dynamic and dramatic, and its jestful elements are all absent again. In
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No CommentsPrefix Magazine has premiered “The Best of Times,” a single from rapper/poet Sage Francis‘ forthcoming album, Li(f)e. The track, whose lyrical content is a revealing and personal reflection, is built on a neoclassical composition by Yann Tiersen, best known for his work on the Am
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No CommentsVarious Artists: Next Stop…Soweto Vol. 2: Soultown. R&B, Funk & Psych Sounds from the Townships, 1969-1976 (Strut, 5/11/10) Is there anything that apartheid didn’t fuck up? The disgusting policy of extreme segregation seeped through every aspect of South African life, even the music scen
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