Halloween may be long past, but Imperial China hasn't stopped creeping people out. The trio's new offering is essentially a video mashup, but with some snappy editing, eerie clips from the 1973 horror flick Messiah of Evil complement the darkness of the Imperial China song "Letter of a General" quite well. Check out the gruesome [...]
It's coming. The exponential rate at which technological progress keeps happening, according to respected futurist Ray Kurzweil and his kin, points toward an impending Singularity, when artificial intelligence will suddenly exceed the capabilities of its human creators in wildly unpredictable ways. In other words, remember pre-gubernatorial Schwarzenegger? Turns out the underlying plot of Terminator (aside [...]
Hello! I'm sure there a lots of fascinating things to aggregate this morning, but first: Let's talk about Gyptian. No, no, not the smooth-singing dancehall star, not specifically. I'm talking about "Africans," the "Official African Remix of Gyptian’s 'Hold Yuh,'" which landed in my inbox yesterday, which stars a bunch of D.C. artists and producers, [...]
Good morning! I woke up at 4:30 and my mind is Jello, so I'm sticking to quick hits today.
WaPo's Jessica Dawson on "One Hour Photo," the exhibit at the Katzen Art Center in which 128 photographs by different artists are shown for one hour each, and then never again. In other words, they each have [...]
Friday
Kinoeye, Maximillion Dunbar, Protect-U, Steve Summers. The Cherch. $5 donation.
Vladimir Feltsman. Strathmore. $27-$77.
Ravenous, FOX Japan, Caustic Casanova. The Red & The Black. $8.
Justin Jones, Down Dexter, Peter Bradley Adams. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Shearwater, Wye Oak, Hospital Ships. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12.
Next Door Ellen. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Imperial China, Cephalopods, Lo Moda, Busses. [...]
Good morning! Want to start your day with a mind-fuck? OK!
You can now watch Ramin Bahrani's 2009 short "Plastic Bag" (no relation to this blog's former name) for free, which you most certainly should do, since it stars the voice of Werner Herzog as an emotionally needy plastic bag. Seriously.
Last year, when I interviewed Bahrani—whose [...]
Good morning! Yesterday I learned about the Russian Rickroll! I'm fairly late to the party on this one, I gather. Nevertheless: Guess where this roundup is going!
Long before she became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar, Kathryn Bigelow directed a New Order video, in which she dressed the synthpop heavies up as [...]
There’s a fight brewing on the interwebs, pitting generations of indie rock against each other. On one side is Carrie Brownstein, former member of Sleater-Kinney and NPR blogger, who favors the aggressive, punk take on indie rock that’s been passed over by allegedly toothless, safe indie rock over the past decade. On the other side [...]
Missed the Sockets Records showcase last week? Too bad. It was a pretty good time. Luckily, the label has preserved it—well, three-fourths of it—for posterity. Throughout the week, Sockets has been doling out mp3s of the soundboard tapes on its blog. Now three of the five sets—including performances by Hume, Imperial China, and Buildings–are up [...]
If you couldn't tell already, we're extremely pumped for tonight's Sockets Records showcase at the Black Cat. In this week's One Track Mind, Leor Galil talks to one of the groups playing tonight, Imperial China, about "Corrupting the Integrity of the Grid," his favorite song on the trio's upcoming album Phosphenes. He writes:
... the track [...]
