Music
Friday, May 24, 2013
Hip-Hop Music How local rapper Young Giftz improved his already great tune "Nino"
Posted by Leor Galil on 05.24.13 at 03:05 PM
Whoa Arts Music Dance The uncanny choreography of World Order
Posted by Miles Raymer on 05.24.13 at 02:35 PM
The band behind them is called World Order, and they're from Japan. The guy behind the band is Genki Sudo, an actor, essayist, and former world-class mixed martial artist who's spending his post-MMA career making electropop music and filming extremely insane music videos to accompany it.
In each of them Sudo and his crew, all wearing the severe suits and haircuts of the Japanese salaryman, perform intensely complex choreographed dance routines where they frequently do real-time physical emulations of film special-effects like slow motion and video tracers. It looks so unreal that it's hard to believe, but most of their shoots take place in public spaces, with no apparent attempts to keep passersby out of frame, so you'll frequently see people gawking at the performances—which also suggests that there's no postproduction trickery.
Each video is a minor masterpiece of the uncanny colliding with the banal, and I hope no one lets David Byrne see them because I'm afraid he might literally shit his internal organs out. Check them out after the jump.
Jazz Music Post No Bills The easy stylistic yin and yang of drummer Ches Smith
Posted by Peter Margasak on 05.24.13 at 02:00 PM
- Ziga Koritnik
- Ches Smith
Do This Music This show: Blank Realm tonight at the Burlington
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 05.24.13 at 12:34 PM
- Courtesy of Fire Records
- Blank Realm
Below are the album's first two tracks: the electric opener "Acting Strange"—a noisy, crunchy stomper that includes a background of anxiety-inducing bleeps and bloops—and "Cleaning Up My Mess," which with its hazy slow burn of reverb and tropical guitar is a nice sedative to temper the nerves created by its predecessor.
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: "John Carpenter" is the dark, dirty return of the Weeknd
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 05.24.13 at 12:00 PM
Books Arts Music History Chicago River, the symphony, and the book that inspired it
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 05.24.13 at 10:31 AM
- The Lost Panoramas (CityFilesPress.com)
- The Chicago River at State Street, 1902
• There used to be a "continental divide" ridge near the southwest suburb of Summit. Water on one side flowed toward the Gulf, and water on the other side ran toward the Atlantic.
• If you wanted to go from the Des Plaines to the Chicago river (or back), you had to carry or slide your canoe across this bump.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Whoa Music Tim Dog: Dead or alive?
Posted by Miles Raymer on 05.23.13 at 04:12 PM
News of Tim's death originated in a short item on the Source website by Shah Be Allah blaming it on a seizure caused by complications from diabetes. It also noted that the last time Tim had made the news was in 2012 when Dateline set up a sting operation that seemed to have caught him in the act of defrauding women he met through a dating site.
Today that Source post is gone (but still archived online), and there's an arrest warrant out for Tim Dog in Desoto County, Mississippi. It seems that the Source item was the closest thing to proof that he had actually died. No one's been able to find a death certificate for Tim Blair, the rapper's real name, and one of his closest friends, who turned down Tim's family's request that he speak at the funeral, doubts that in the end there was even a funeral at all.
Music Post No Bills La Sacre du Printemps turns 100, the Butchershop Quartet celebrates
Posted by Peter Margasak on 05.23.13 at 02:50 PM
Music Exploring Dance Mania's old inventory in Ray Barney's basement
Posted by Leor Galil on 05.23.13 at 02:15 PM
Given Dance Mania's reputation and importance, I was pretty eager to get down to Barney's basement and literally get my hands dirty searching for the label's classic records. So I recently headed down to Lawndale with videographers Dustin Park and Peter Holderness in tow, where we explored the Dance Mania inventory with Barney and Mitchell and talked to the pair about the label's history, its new-found popularity, and selling off the old records. As Mitchell told me the back stock is picked over, but we still managed to discover some beloved Dance Mania records hiding between leftover LPs from Barney's old retail music store. Check out our video below to see some of the records we found, watch Barney and Mitchell talk about the label's history, and get a glimpse of a dance nerd's Holy Grail.
Do This Music Pink Avalanche celebrate the release of their first record, Wraiths, with a free listening party
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 05.23.13 at 12:33 PM
