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With its two-day industry summit, three days of film and video screenings, four days of poolside parties, five days of private networking, and a week of premier music events throughout South Beach, M3 Summit represents the culmination of Miami's annual tradition. March 5th - 9th. As good a reason as any to hit the beach. |
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| | One of Orson Welles' strangest films, this hodgepodge is also one of his most beguiling, a Rorschach test expressing his concerns as an artist. F for Fake isn't a narrative so much as a meditation on how artists create narrative blind alleys. Welles was always obsessed with magic and manipulation, and F for Fake explores the ways the creative process uses illusion and forgery to transform history and memory (witness his own controversial War of the Worlds radio broadcast for the most obvious example). Sometimes kitschy, sometimes sublime, this film exposes Welles as the ultimate cinematic eccentric. (MD)
Note: A discussion with cinematographer Gary Graver follows this screening.
  
 Welles plays movie producer Lew Lord in which children's film? The second correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | For those about to indie rock, salute +/-. Despite the name, +/- aren't exactly math rock, but, rather, former Versus compatriots Richard Balyut and Patrick Ramos' new project. On the self-explanatory Self-Titled Long-Playing Debut Album (2002) and You Are Here (2003), +/- take Versus' shoegazey indie-pop hum into Slint-esque atmospherics, Latin rhythms, and electronic moodiness while maintaining unself-conscious hooks. Live, watch out — Balyut is a reluctant guitar hero, giving the subtle arrangements a nice feedback blast that might make Kevin Shields smile. (MD)
Versus took their name from the title of an LP by which post-punk band? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Art Spiegelman believes that comics should be held in the same esteem as film, painting, and music. Getting his start in underground "comix," his work really took shape with RAW, a magazine he co-edited with his wife, Françoise Mouly, that exposed the works of such comic greats as Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan) and Daniel Clowes (Ghost World). He won a Pulitzer Prize for Maus I and II, the story of his parents' experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, in which he drew Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. More recently, his work has appeared in The New Yorker in an ongoing depiction of his life in post-9/11 New York, and in a series of children's books called Little Lit. At UCLA's Royce Hall, Spiegelman makes his case for comics as art. (JCF)
What is the best example of comics as art, and why? Our favorite answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | It's not every day someone uses "Ikea" as a verb. That's what makes four-track guru John Vanderslice so freaking cool. He's able to flip the everyday into the extraordinary and add a sweet hook at the same time. Whether it's his ode to lo-fi recording, "Me and My 424," or a ditty about how "Bill Gates Must Die," his deadpan sense of humor melds with extreme pathos in songs that would make the Flaming Lips green with envy. The Wrens have been rocking it since 1989, and three full-lengths, two EPs, and one major label dispute later, they're better than ever. (JCF)
What is the name of the recording studio in SF which Vanderslice founded and runs? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | While Edgar Arceneaux is a native of Los Angeles, he is very much a nomad. His work inhabits a perennially shifting landscape defined not by people, places, and things, but instead by elusive memories of them. For the large-scale installation piece Drawings of Removal, Arceneaux has temporarily relocated his studio inside the Hammer Museum, creating his work in public view. Incorporating hundreds of drawn, erased, redrawn, found, and layered images, the installation changes daily as new details are added or removed, with Arceneaux consciously mimicking the selective process of human memory. At once meditative, slightly eerie, and insightful, Arceneaux's art is as much about the passage of time as it is about beautiful drawing. (SND)
Note: Famed conceptual sculptor Robert Gober also lectures (7pm).
What experience specifically inspired Arceneaux's Drawings of Removal? The first correct answer wins a copy of Arceneaux's latest book, Lost Library.
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| | Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea present and sign Pills, Chills, Thrills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person with featured readers Amelia G, Pleasant Gehman, Trebor Healey, Shawna Kenney, Alvin Orloff, and Horehound Stillpoint. So come help these denizens of the glittery underbelly celebrate the release of their new anthology — a smorgasbord of style and wit from more than 40 writers. Whether new literature vanguards, never-before-published wunderkinds, traditional short storytellers, or compelling envelope-pushers, the one big idea that brings the participants together is the requirement that their stories be told in the first person. (MD)
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| | As the visionary behind local psychedelically altered power pop savants the Negro Problem, Stew (nom de birth: Mark Stewart) created tunes whose lush, ornament-heavy music was balanced by sharp lyrical blows to the head, airing the experience of an African American man rocking a supposedly white form. And a-f**king-men to that! Stew's solo work drops much of the Problem's rock-oriented baggage for a stripped-down, singer-songwriter vibe, with the Bacharach flourishes he's always loved. But the meaning and wordplay of Something Deeper Than These Changes (2003) still reflect the sunshine and the gutter. And where better to pay attention to meaning and wordplay than at Largo, where they value that kind of crap. (PO)
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| | Following in the footsteps of Cuban pioneers Chano Pozo and Machito, Francisco Aguabella arrived in New York in 1957, setting the Latin jazz scene on storm with his skill on the bata drum. After collaborating with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, and Carlos Santana, Aguabella went on to play a pivotal role in shaping the Latin jazz sound, infusing the genre with traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms. Currently on tour in support of his latest Cubop release, Ochimini, Aguabella and his Latin Jazz Ensemble are known to thrill a crowd, so catch the show at Temple Bar tonight and lively up yourself. (AM)
Aguabella is an adjunct professor in the Ethnomusicology department of which university? The first three correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
Aguabella played percussion on which post-Jim Morrison Doors album? The first two correct answers each win a copy of Ochimini.
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| | Headlining tonight's call to Empower Our Generation is Northern Cali crew Blackalicious, who have done their part over two albums — NIA (2000) and Blazing Arrow (2002) — melding soul samples with lyrically obtuse rhymes reminiscent of the Native Tongues. Other performers include Saul Williams, who twists and turns minds into a daze with his spoken-word funk; Mr. Lif, a member of NYC's Definitive Jux label; Lyrics Born, a rock-tinged rapper formerly of Blackalicious; Burning Star; Abstract Rude; and Mike Relm. (AB)
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| | Over the course of five full-lengths, Chicago's Aluminum Group have touched on all the good things in life: the pop traditions of Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach, the electro of the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode, and the biting wit of Morrissey. Tales of love, sex, drugs, and city nightlife unfold over stunning melodies, most recently on their Happyness trilogy (the third is due for release shortly). Founding members and brothers Frank and John Navin know style, and they know how to craft one helluva tune. The terribly named but underground-tipped United States of Electronica open. (AW)
The Aluminum Group take their name from a line of furniture by which famous designer? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets.
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| | For Minnesota trio Low, a melody is but a whisper. Led by husband-and-wife team Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, Low pen lullabies for cold Midwestern nights, when even the rustle of a Canadian breeze ruffles feathers. The Curtain Hits the Cast (1996) and Things We Lost in the Fire (2001) are the band's best releases, as the mesmerizing melancholy warms six-packs and cold, cold hearts alike. As heard on Dawson's Creek! (YS)
Note: Low also perform at the Knitting Factory on Sat 2.28.
Which city does Low call home? The second and fourth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Mixture continues to serve the freshest minimal tech house sounds on the last Friday of each month at Hollywood's King King. Cued-Up and Heavy Industries team up for tonight's event, which welcomes Geoff White back from Spain for an exclusive US performance. The Barcelona-via-Ohio White is the founder of Edit Records and a master of minimal laptop house, successfully bridging the gap between the Detroit and German sounds. Internationally celebrated techno maestro John Tejada also joins the mix, along with Dennis Rodgers of NYC's 112 Crew and Ryan Jones of Heavy Industries. Dance all night to the infectious bleeps and blips of these electronic frontiersmen. (SN)
Geoff White co-produced Discord with which frequent collaborator? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | With their playful stance making them outsiders from the start, it's fitting that Super Furry Animals are one of the only bands to successfully make it out of the mid-'90s Brit-pop boom. But, just like the Flaming Lips, every outsider gets invited to the party eventually, and through a series of consistently majestic and inspired psychedelic-pop records — most recently Phantom Power — the Welsh five-piece have a strong following and the critics' thumbs up. Papa M, the brainchild of David Pajo (Slint, Tortoise), opens tonight in anticipation of a new album, titled Hole of Burning Alms. (AW)
What is the English translation of "Y Gwyneb Iau," a song from SFA's all-Welsh Mwng? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Matthew Dear is the greatest Texan DJ ever — which, admittedly, isn't like being the greatest Texan rodeo cowboy. But with more albums like the recent Leave Luck to Heaven, Dear, now a Michigan resident, could challenge his current state's formidable electronic pantheon. The best Dear tracks, such as "Dog Days," cloud a laudable melodic effect in wavering beats and spacious arrangements — the Kompakt sound done right. His beats drift like drunken drivers, shifting across the double yellows with fluid ease, while the keyboard accompaniments give Dear's vocals and hooks (and vocal hooks) breathing room. The crown jewel of a Ghostly roster chock-full of them. (YS)
Note: Matthew Dear also performs a live set, along with Lusine, the previous night, Fri 2.27, at Zip Sushi (9pm-2am).
What is the name of Matthew Dear's upcoming single on Ghostly's sublabel, Spectral Sound? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | With the 2002 release of her third album, Blacklisted, Case's alt-country sound got richer, darker, and more mature — from the belted-out beauty of "Deep Red Bells" to the simple longing of "I Wish I Was the Moon" to the bridge-burning torch cover of Aretha Franklin's "Runnin' Out of Fools." Unaccompanied by her former Boyfriends or her newfound Pornos, Case is joined tonight by Bloodshot and Mint label buddies Kelly Hogan and Carolyn Mark, with instrumental support from slide guitarist Jon Rauhouse and blues rocker Ian Moore. Alternately performing individual songs and harmonizing together, the three women share the stage, and their camaraderie and combined vocal power are transportive. A rare, intimate occasion you'd be foolish to overlook. (JKG)
Neko Case won "sexiest babe of indie rock" in a poll conducted by which magazine? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | During the mid-'90s, DJ extraordinaire Roni Size's raving drum 'n bass tracks blew up in the UK and his machine-gun rap flows over digital bass lines and sputtering beat patterns made American producers sit up and listen. At this gig, he promotes his new album, Return to V, on V Records. Joining him is another jungle powerhouse — fellow Brit Photek (aka Rupert Parkes), whose excellent Astralwerks releases push madcap d'nb as well as minimal downtempo. (DJM)
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| | This brilliant paranoiac-critical black comedy finds a mild-mannered Trelkovsky (played by Roman Polanski) scoring the Paris apartment of his dreams, only to find that the prior occupant left more than her lipstick behind when she jumped out the bedroom window. To get inside the suicide's head, Trelkovsky travels some hilariously twisted roads, until, with clenched fists, he accepts his fate — walking in his obsession's footsteps, high heels and all! Underappreciated in Chinatown's afterglow, The Tenant may be the last Polanski picture to capture his singularly comic take on the nightmare of reason. With Shelley Winters and Isabelle Adjani. (MJ)
Note: The Tenant is preceded by Chinatown (1974) at 2:40pm & 7:30pm as a double feature. This program also shows on Mon 3.1 & Tue 3.2 (7:30 & 9:50pm).
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| | Fresh from well-received shows worldwide, British Sea Power steam into town tonight. The English band's not afraid to wear its influences on its sleeve — hints of early Joy Division, Wire, and even the Stone Roses are audible in the group's feedback ballast and rock-steady rhythmic anchoring. If that weren't enough to make the Rough Trade signing utterly au courant, their getups — each member of the quintet sports a vintage Royal Navy uniform — make for a darn good gimmick. (PS)
Which famed British sea captain was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Rufus Wainwright continues on his national tour with two shows in the Los Angeles area promoting two albums — the presentable Want One and the more daunting, operatic, and soon to be released Want Two. His passionate, almost ostentatious performances showcase sophisticated songs and in-between stories about gay love, the impact of his folk-pop parentage, and the pursuit of his many, many vices. With his honest delivery in addressing the audience, you can really relate to his lyrics about life — well, his life. Rock-violinist Joan as Police Woman opens the show. (NL)
Note: Rufus performs again Thur 3.4 (8pm) at UCLA Royce Hall.
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| | Dengue Fever isn't just a strange, exotic tropical disease — it's also a strange, exotic tropical band that happens to be one of LA's most distinctive. The band's eponymous debut and live show feature a hypnotic pulse over which gorgeous Cambodian pop queen Chhom Nimol spins gossamer, spiraling webs of voice like a Southeast Asian Björk. Nimol isn't Dengue's only notable — the band includes current and former sidemen for Beck, the Radar Brothers, and Dieselhed. They create an anachronistic sound that has no history: listening to Dengue Fever, you're transported into a seedy bar in an Asian film noir that never existed, a time warp into nowhere that's infectious enough to seep under your skin. (MD)
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African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: FADE
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| when: | Now through Sun 2.29 (Wed-Sun: 11am-5pm) |
| where: | Craft and Folk Art Museum (5814 Wilshire Blvd, 323.937.4230) |
| price: | $3.50 |
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| | This epic but accessible survey exhibition presents the range and depth of fine art made in the last decade by scores of LA-based African American artists. Often, but not always, engaged with issues directly related to race, the work presented here reveals the influences of folk art, magic, and history present in contemporary African American art as well as identity politics, conceptualism, and modern ideas about formalism and philosophies of art-making. It also further demonstrates the vitality of Los Angeles as a center of artistic production in global culture. (SND)
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Terry Allen: Dugout II: Hold on to the House
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| when: | Sat 2.28 - Sat 5.15 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) |
| where: | Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station (2525 Michigan Ave, 310.586.6488) |
| price: | $5 suggested donation |
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Event Info | Terry Allen |
| | Terry Allen is a patron saint of the high-minded and hyperrealistic. Part country and western songwriter, part conceptual visual artist, part absurdist, and part enigma, Allen casts a net as wide as his native Texas when it comes to forms of cultural expression. Starting this week, the entire city of Los Angeles is his multimedia oyster, with programs all across town that comprise Dugout, an ode to the vagaries of human memory and the boundaries of human invention. Exploring the consequences of Earth's imminent domination by strange new life-forms (teenagers), this "supernatural-jazz-sport-history-ghost-blood-fiction" tests the limits of mnemonic invention. (SND)
Note: Dugout I: Drawings and Photos is on display at the LA Louver (Thur 3.4-Sat 4.10) while Skirball holds Dugout III: Warboy, a multimedia performance, on Wed 3.3-Fri 3.5 & Sun 3.7.
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| CD REVIEW: Ellen Allien, Remix Collection |
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Bpitch Control
Released January 2004
$18.99 (Other Music)
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After her acclaimed Berlinette LP, restless Bpitch Control label boss Ellen Allien here assembles a few years' worth of remixes. The highlight is her mix of Sascha Funke's "Forms and Shapes" — over lagging, electro-tinged breakbeats, a resonant synthesizer line from the original mix lingers alongside Funke's vocals before a distorted bass line takes the tune up three notches. "Let's Get It On" rides an off-kilter, almost two-steppy beat, with Allien's crunchy programming battering Gold Chains' sassy, in-your-face flow. Goldenboy and Miss Kittin's "Rippin Kittin" tips the hat to the Misfits' "Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?" and touches it up with glimmering hi-hats. By mixing pop, minimal techno, electro, and breakbeats with her singular subtlety, Allien's made Remix Collection a varied, addictive listen that always engages cerebrally but remains aimed at informed dance floors. (CJN)
This review is courtesy of Earplug, a twice-monthly music newsletter produced by Flavorpill Productions.
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| CULTURE MASH: Hyphen Magazine |
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Identity politics got a bad rap in the PC '90s, but Hyphen Magazine, which purports to illuminate "Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest growing ethnic population in America," casts aside dour
sloganeering in favor of insightful reporting and a sparkling sense of wit. The debut issue tackled tough topics like hepatitis B and Cambodian
immigrants facing deportation to their home country, but it leavened its pages with features on Chinese American rapper Jin and Pakistani-born
painter Shahzia Sikander. The latest issue examined Bollywood's growing popularity, indie filmmaking, and even Maxim's humor columnist, Hiroki. (PS)
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| STREAMS: dublab |
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Wowee zowee! That's one hell of a fine suit you've got on. You must be a fancy pant panther. Where did you get those saddle shoes? They shine like pure gold. Is that your car? I've never seen a limousine so stretchy. Please tell me the secret of your success. Did you sell your soul or work your fingers to the bone? You won't spill the beans, eh? What if I traded you the key to the most beautiful music ever created? Okey dokey, smokey, read on and start jabbering about financial strategy. (Frosty)
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