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Cultural Stimuli in SF
Issue 235: vampy flavor
All Hallow's Eve is here, but whether you let it all hang out on the streets or get your queen on at the gender-bending Pepperspray show, this is hardly the week to limit your vamping to a mere Tuesday. True, there's something to be said for being the Pleasant Looking Woman in Sensible Shoes — especially when even the men can get in on the wardrobe act at the All Men's Fashion Clothing Swap. Yet when you've got chaotic Gallic disco duo Justice and legendary dubmeister Lee "Scratch" Perry on the decks, exploring our fair city's nocturnal urban landscape is top priority. Elsewhere, you can stalk your favorite indie-rock star with the help of Peter Ellenby, or get all bat boy in a gothic vein. Flash your fangs, and spread it...
- Lisa Hix, Managing Editor
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| MUSIC: Queer Rock |
Pepperspray w/ Wood and Whoa Nellies
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If the Castro's not queer enough, treat your tricks to a lineup of gender-bending bands that present a veritable history of rock music. The Whoa Nellies play gooey '60s bubblegum pop in the vein of the Cowsills or Herman's Hermits, complete with androgynous Partridge Family pageboys and pointy boots. Drag kings Wood lampoon burly '70s cock-rock acts while still laying down some Skynard-style boogie. Finally, headliners Pepperspray burlesque the fey side of the decade, updating glam rock's satin and tat with nods to fellow retro-sexuals the Scissor Sisters. (MS)
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PARTY
Halloween in the Castro
Tue 10.31 (7pm-midnight) Castro (Castro & 18th St) map 
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Put on your most fabulous, outrageous costume and come party it up in the Castro District for this annual, fun-filled night where nobody is too old for Halloween. (CS)
 
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THEATRE
Bat Boy: The Musical
Tue 10.31 - Thur 11.12 (Thur-Sat: 8pm / Sun: 3pm) School of the Arts Theater (555 Portola Dr, 415.651.4521) map $15-35 sliding scale
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You've seen him at the supermarket checkout lane, now catch him on stage. It's the ubiquitous loveable mutant Bat Boy, minus the heavily Photoshopped Bigfoot sighting of the week. (CH)
Note: Tonight's performance is at 7pm.
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PARTY
All Hallow's Eve
Tue 10.31 (9pm) DNA Lounge (375 11th St, 415.626.1409) map $13
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The extravagant, gothic cabaret act Rosin Coven lulls listeners into All Hallow's Eve bliss with an eerie, velvet touch. (CH)
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MUSIC: Folk Jazz
Rupa and the April Fishes w/ the Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club
Tue 10.31 (9pm) The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, 415.647.2888) map $8
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Rupa and the April Fishes and the Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club are haunted by the sounds of old — accordions, horns, and stand-up bass. Feel the hairs on your neck stand up as they conjure ghosts of the jazz age. (LH)
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MUSIC: Hyphy
Keak da Sneak's Pimps N Hos Halloween Ball
Tue 10.31 (9:30pm) Barcelona Nightclub (767 N. Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, 408.245.8777) map $20
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The raspy rascal Keak da Sneak wants you to dress like a hooker (or pimp) this Halloween. Seeing the "king of the supa dupa hyphie" rhyme live is worth the trip down south to go dumb while looking sexy. (LH)
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| MUSIC: Electro Christ |
Justice
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Wed 11.1 (9pm) |
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880) map |
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Event Info | Justice |
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French producers Justice keep blowing speakers, eardrums, and minds with their glitchy, fist-pumping electro nuggets. The latest single from these Ed Banger posterboys, "Waters of Nazareth," has been popping up in many a top DJ's set, and more than lives up to its biblical name — it saturates dance floors in a massive deluge of distorted organ swells and drums deep fried to fuzzy perfection. If the Britney Spears remix posted on the group's MySpace page is an indication of things to come, you can say you had already sweat it out to their live set long before the Nike commercial. (MS)
Note: MSTRKRFT open.
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| ART: Opening |
Matthew Cusick
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Matthew Cusick's past shows have focused on themes such as the American fugitive, the intersection of James Bond movies and modernist architecture, and car chases. This newest exhibition builds on Cusick's past Mixmaster pieces, developing his fascination with maps by concentrating on roads as the arteries and byways of civilization. His large paintings and a wall installation utilize collaged maps to create cracked, pieced-together landscapes based on Texas highways and the ancient routes and patterns of movement that have been paved over by modern superhighways. (BMS)
Note: This exhibition runs through Sat 12.16 (Tue-Fri: 12-6pm / by appointment).
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| FESTIVAL |
Día de los Muertos
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Thur 11.2 (6:30-10:30pm) |
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Garfield Park (Harrison & 26th St, 415.420.1939) map |
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An ancient tradition with roots in Aztec culture, the celebration known as Day of the Dead has taken place in San Francisco's Mission District for the past 26 years. Beginning at the corner of 24th and Bryant, the Rescue Culture Collective leads a procession through the streets in the heart of the Mission, convening on Garfield Park for the Festival of Altars, where participants honor ancestors and departed loved ones. Flowers, candles, and miscellaneous mementos are encouraged, as is a celebratory spirit — this is no somber funeral. (JK)
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Peter Ellenby: Every Day Is Saturday
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Like one-stop shopping for those truly voyeuristic indie fans, Peter Ellenby's volume of concert and candid photos captures the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, and the Flaming Lips through toy cameras, fish-eye lenses, and standard snapshots. Accompanied by a CD packed with tracks by local favorites (Rogue Wave, Film School, the Court & Spark), Every Day Is Saturday is an a/v-rich offering that makes standard coffee table fare pale in comparison. Remaining true to the book's aesthetic, tonight's reading includes a performance by members of the irreverent psyche-pop outfit Oranger. (CH)
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MUSIC: Indie Pop
Mt. Eerie
Thur 11.2 (8pm) 21 Grand (416 25th St, Oakland, 510.444.7263) map $6
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Phil Elverum might have put the Microphones to rest, but he continues to dole out fuzzed-out chords and pop allure with Mt. Eerie. (CS)
Note: The Curtains and Jason Anderson open.
 Why did Phil Elverum decide to change the band's name from the Microphones to Mt. Eerie? The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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MUSIC: Electro-Soul
Jamie Lidell
Thur 11.2 (8pm) Bimbo's (1025 Columbus Ave, 415.474.0365) map $18
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Still riding the smash success of his 2005 album Multiply, Jamie Lidell lands at Bimbos tonight, serving up an electro-Motown sound guaranteed to groove like it's 2999. (RT)
What was the first hit written by Motown Records founder Berry Gordon Jr.? The second and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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MUSIC: Glitch-Pop
EGGS presents: DAT Politics
Thur 11.2 (10pm) Mighty (119 Utah St, 415.626.7001) map $7
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French laptop spelunkers DAT Politics bring their masks, wacky stage presence, and oddball beats to the consistently well-curated Eggs series. (CH)
Note: Kevin Blechdom and Lucky Dragons open.
What's the most inane political discussion you've ever had? Our favorite three responses in fifty words or less each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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| READING |
Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi's contributions to contemporary comics range from Persepolis, her provocative and poignant memoir of childhood in pre- and post-revolution Iran, to Embroideries, an intimate conversation about the personal lives of three generations of women in her family. Satrapi is also a founder of the influential and prolific French comics collective and publisher L'Association, which is revolutionizing the medium overseas. Alongside fellow associates David B., Thomas Ott, Lewis Trondheim, and Joann Sfar, she's part of a Gallic new wave that's starting to wash up on our shores as well. (TW)
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| FILM |
Tenth International Latino Film Festival
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Fri 11.3 - Sun 11.19 (schedule) |
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Various locations |
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A two-week event spread throughout the Bay Area, this film festival begins tonight with its tenth anniversary celebration. The night ends with food, drinks, and music at Fort Mason's Golden Gate Room, but it begins with a pair of films. First up is Un Franco, 14 Pesetas, actor Carlos Iglesias' autobiographical comedy about a Spanish family who fled Franco's regime to make a life in Switzerland. The evening's second film, the English-language romantic comedy East Side Story, tracks the ups and downs of Diego, a gay Latino man anxious to leave his conservative, rapidly gentrifying community in East Los Angeles. (JK)
Note: Tickets for the opening night screening and gala are $85.
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| MUSIC: Electronic |
Mouse on Mars w/ Kid606
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Too funky to hang squarely with the clicks 'n cuts crew, and too into dub and Krautrock to make club-ready techno, Mouse on Mars have always coated their fuzzy electronica with a certain hippy crunchiness. Calm, bubbly analog interludes can give way to electro hooks distorted beyond recognition, while live drummer (yes, they have a live drummer) Dodo Nkishi's vocals are put through a DSP-heavy rinse cycle. "Organic" isn't just a lifestyle choice but is also a music journalism cliché. But, 11 albums strong, Mouse on Mars definitely qualify as a sustainable alternative to most laptop navel-gazing. (MS)
Note: Lithops also open.
What is the name of the music label created by the members of Mouse on Mars? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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| MUSIC: Indie Rock |
Tara Jane O'Neil w/ Sir Richard Bishop
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Even by indie-rock standards, Tara Jane O'Neil (ex-Rodan) has kept a low profile, quietly putting out a steady stream of beautifully understated releases over the years in the same revisionist folk-country vein as fellow Louisville, Kentucky, native Will Oldham. Providing a more abstract counterpoint to O'Neil's bittersweet croon, the guitar playing of Sir Richard Bishop (of Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies fame) invokes the Eastern-tinged acoustic peregrinations of Robbie Basho or the Appalachian ragas of John Fahey. (MS)
Besides being a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, which other two professions has Tara Jane ONeil tackled? The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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| FASHION |
All Men's Fashion Clothing Swap
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Sat 11.4 (12-4pm) |
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The Cafe (2367 Market St, 415.861.3846) map |
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Fall is upon us and the fashion-industrial complex is telling all you image-conscious men to refurbish your wardrobes. Maybe you already own too much H&M or you're tired of being stuck between Saks and a hard place — maybe you just hate shopping. In any case, San Francisco's first clothing swap pour homme lets you make it easy on yourself by giving you the chance to pick over someone else's previous fashion finds. With admission benefiting local AIDS charities, rummaging through the dog-piled detritus of gay men's closets has never been more rewarding. (MS)
Which past clothing fad would you like to see make a comeback, and why? Our favorite response in fifty words or less wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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Gray Area Gallery Launch: Half Past Midnight
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Sat 11.4 (7pm) |
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Gray Area Gallery (371 11th St, 415.513.5623) map |
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Former members of LA's underground art institution Hear Gallery, Josette Melchor and Carrie Martin have launched an ambitious NorCal operation, with an opening party to match. Housed in a 2,000-square-foot SOMA warehouse, Gray Area is slated to house six artists-in-residence and host monthly shows. Tonight's show pays homage to nocturnal urban landscapes and the dreams and emotions that they evoke. An international coterie of artists show their work, with performances by local dance troupes and sets by Blevin Blechtum, DJ Qzen, and a host of other local music acts slated to last far into the night. (CH)
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John Tejada
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Sat 11.4 (9pm-2am) |
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Rx Gallery (132 Eddy St, 415.474.7973) map |
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$12 / $10 advance |
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Perennial techno maven John Tejada releases a new full-length this week with Cleaning Sounds Is a Filthy Business, an LP that lives up to his pitch-perfect 2004 minimal masterpiece Logic Memory Center. The turntablist is still effortlessly shuffling through house and electro, with a few more nods to his Playhouse-era output. Tejada has lost hardly a minute in between albums, keeping things hectic with 12-inches for a variety of labels including Poker Flat, ~scape, and his own Palette imprint. With Tejada's knack for folding subtle textures into spring-loaded rhythms, this installment of Broker/Dealer's monthly POP night promises plenty of bubbly beats for the faithful. (TW)
What are Tejada's parents' musical specialties? The first five correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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Maria Forde: A Strange 31 Years
Sat 11.4 (6-9pm) little tree gallery (3412 22nd St, 415.643.4929) map
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In 31 oil paintings, 31-year-old Maria Forde has recorded a personal and collective chronicle of growing up in America. She depicts easily identifiable milestones (kindergarten) as well as more esoteric ones (Björn Borg's retirement). (BMS)
Note: This exhibition runs through Sun 11.26 (Thur: 3-8pm / Fri & Sat: 12-8pm / Sun: 12-6pm / by appointment).
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Florida Is a Death Metal Town
Sat 11.4 (7pm) Arspace (1286 Folsom St, 415.621.4438) map $5-10 suggested donation
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Love 'em or hate 'em, local experimental hip-hop enclave Anticon continue to expand their prolific media empire with this art show displaying the work of core members and creative allies. (MS)
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| MUSIC: Dub |
Lee "Scratch" Perry
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Sun 11.5 & Mon 11.6 (9pm) |
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1421) map |
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Lee "Scratch" Perry is dub reggae's eternally reigning freak genius. Perry was on top of his game — having produced, performed, or left his dubby fingerprints on a mind-boggling number of tracks, often with his powerhouse studio band the Upsetters — when he burnt down his Black Ark studio in a paranoid frenzy, believing Satan had possessed the building. (One apocryphal story claims Perry drank tape-head cleaning fluid beforehand.) Despite mellowing with age, Perry can still "dub it up blacker than dread." Now there's just a gentler madness at work beneath the decimating bass and reverb-marinated high-end. (MS)
Although he has gone by many names, such as the Upsetter, Piperock Jaxxon, and the Duppy Conqueror, what was Lee Perry's given birth name? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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| DANCE |
A Pleasant Looking Woman in Sensible Clothes
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Mon 11.6 (7pm) |
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ODC Theater (3153 17th St, 415.863.9834) map |
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ODC founder and artistic director Brenda Way, one of the dance collective's three resident choreographers, previews her latest work, the final part in a trilogy of reflections on some of our culture's most pressing social issues. The piece focuses on privacy and the ways in which the State invades it, most recently in the name of homeland security and the War on Terror. The full ODC company participates in the piece, as do composer Jay Cloidt and video artist Hiraki Sawa, allowing Way to explore surveillance and the erosion of privacy in terms abstract (dance) and a bit more concrete (video). (JK)
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| ART |
Prophets of Deceit
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Now through Sat 11.11 (Tue-Sat: 12-5pm) |
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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (1111 8th St, 415.551.9210) map |
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For an exhibition that chronicles modern predictions of doom and gloom, murderous cults, and the occult, Prophets of Deceit presents surprisingly wry, engaging works that examine our media-fed culture of fear. Video stands out here, including Christian Jankowski's slickly-produced 16mm Mystery, which concludes with the explosion of a Los Angeles skyscraper; Melvin Moti's The Black Room, a haunting interview with a French surrealist "sleep writer"; and Craig Baldwin's video mashup of B-movie sci-fi, UFO hysteria, and American foreign policy propaganda. Another don't-miss is the early Komar & Melamid piece (1978-82) documenting the Russian artists' business venture buying and selling human souls. (SF)
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Moving Right Along
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Now through Sat 11.18 (schedule) |
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Magic Theatre (Fort Mason Center, Bldg D, 3rd Fl, 415.437.6775) map |
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This collection of three short plays finds the humor in life and death — the stories feature hitmen, a salsa-loving limousine driver, and a bitchy socialite. It's most notable, however, for one of its stars, Marlo Thomas. First noted by the public eye in the '60s TV comedy That Girl, Thomas has remained active on stage and on screen (including a gig on Friends). Phil Donahue's longtime wife, Thomas contributed perhaps her most enduring pop culture confection in the form of Free to Be You and Me, TV's definitive celebration of feel-good music, childhood, and diversity. Moving Right Along finds her exploring her darker side. (JK)
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BEAT BACK: NextAid's Bids4Beats online auction |
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An LA-based organization dedicated to African children orphaned by AIDS, NextAid rises above the rest by promoting sustainable solutions to the region's problems — as opposed to just throwing money at them and hoping they go away. Programs like Youth with a Vision work to rebuild communities, not just feed them, addressing underlying problems through education and awareness initiatives. The group is equally inspired in its fundraising efforts, using dance-music events and musicians themselves to get out the gospel. Its current Bids4Beats online auction features hundreds of items donated by famous music-makers, including signed CDs, posters, audio equipment, plane tickets, and a special session with Grammy-nominated producer Chris Lum. If that's not a sound solution, what is? (AP)
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CD REVIEW: The Blow, Paper Television |
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K Records
Released October 2006
$11.99 (Insound)
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Captivatingly fractured like a beautiful smile made only more charming by a
chipped tooth, intimate snippets of what might be lyricist and singer Khaela
Maricich's diary are delivered over the glitched-up, tripped-out beats of cohort Jona
Bechtolt. It's this dichotomy of syncopated production and modern,
pressing poetry that so endears the Blow's Paper Television. Sweetly hushed and coaxing
vocals belie the sometimes bitter but always witty lyrics, as Maricich moves
effortlessly from dancey grrrl-power anthems ("Pile of Gold") to comforting ballads
of love and promise ("Parentheses"). Maricich's tender innocence is repeatedly
tempered by both heartbreak and epiphany, but the album is full of such spontaneity,
electro-energy, and, ultimately, hope, that all you can do is press repeat. (LT)
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STREAMS: XLR8R Incite |
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For some time now, our good friends at the electronic music/culture/style magazine XLR8R have been cranking out some formidable free podcast material every week via their Incite page. SF-based DJ and regular XLR8R columnist Kid Kameleon recently threw down a nice mix documenting the red-hot dubstep scene, which finally — after years percolating in the UK — is making stateside waves. In a separate 'cast, Berlin-based breakcore producers Society Suckers wax poetic about their rave/punk/noise sound in an exclusive interview. And next time you're visiting the newsstand, be sure to pick up the XLR8R Berlin special, which digs deep for the restaurants, clubs, museums, and bars worth a visit after passing through customs at Tegel. (CJN)
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