Vee Hua 華婷婷Oceans of watery paint swirl and marble in this video collaboration between laptop band Project Jenny, Project Jan, and Turkish artist Hikmet Barutçugil. The style of painting used in the video is called ebrû, or “marbling”, and involves...
In their new video for “Every Minute Alone,” Danish electropop trio WhoMadeWho explore real human sadness, through montages of what was always a childhood taboo — men crying. Crying while building IKEA furniture, crying while...
Peter WoodburnTickets for the Mogwai show went on sale absurdly early, at least four months or so before the concert rolled around. On the night of the show, there were a few procrastinating individuals milling around the Showbox at the Market desperately looking...
If you didn’t know that twine being pulled in different directions or the slight bowing of cello strings could be beautiful, this video will make you think otherwise. This video is gentle like “Embrace” from Ben Sollee’s...
According to the introductory statement to the Festival’s website, “Festival of Ideas for the New City is a major new collaborative initiative in New York, involving scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power...
On a Tuesday night in San Francisco, I wandered to Great American Music Hall, alone, having been told I would only have a ticket for myself. This turned out to be untrue. But with the man at will call telling me that my guest needed to be present...
Hopefully this isn’t ridiculous music journalism, but I just want to take a quote the YouTube’s ever-so-painful-to-read-comments to sum up this video: “Katy Perry lookalike + black swan vibe + great song + moustache =...
tUnE-yArDs’ new video for “Bizness” off her upcoming album, w h o k i l l, combines manic editing tricks, modern dance, and lipsyncing by young students pretending to be Merrill Garbus. These elements themselves are nothing new...