he decided that they are his favorite band ever! So, he produced their new single, Heavy Cross, and their new album, Music For Men. Listen HERE.
It’s that time of month for art openings and all that, so we decided to follow up on yesterday’s post about Banks Violette with a write up on another show that we are extremely excited about: Francesco Clemente @ Dietch Projects! The show opens tomorrow and will no doubt provide a glimpse into the beautiful mind that has collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat to Alfonso Cuaron and Robert DeNiro (kind of).
N.Y. based artist / sculptor / metal aficionado, Banks Violette, continues his Hollywood Babylon obsession with a new show at Team Gallery. Bela Lugosi as Christ, ghostly white motorcycles, and Vietnam all make an appearance in Banks’ running commentary on the nightmare of America. The show opens on May 7th. Click HERE for more info.
Classic Inspirations. 1953 to 1955. What an era!
Check out the NY Mag interview with Jim Jarmusch about his new movie The Limits of Control, his collaborations with cinematographer Christopher Doyle of Wong Kar Wai fame and production designer Eugenio Caballero of Pan’s Labyrinth, as well as other ruminations on life and filmmaking. Included as a little bonus are images from Eugenio Caballero’s beautiful production notebook. Click HERE for more.
It is a little known nugget of trivia that the obsessive music archivist responsible for the Anthology of American Folk Music was also an experimental filmmaker / artist / mystic lauded by Kenneth Anger as being the “greatest living magician” who died, while singing, in Paola Igliori’s arms in NY’s famed Chelsea Hotel. Also, his wife’s name was Rosebud. Here is a video that barely scratches the surface of what an inigmatic talent the world had in Mr. Smith. We recommend some heavy googling with the left hand and repeated toasting to a great man with the right. Check it out.
BubbleBoy, dutch new SuperHero 🙂
It could be the sad, sad sound of the always-growing-louder death knell of print that gets me all squishy for John-Paul Thurlow’s blog, COVERS, or the quaint nostalgia emanating from the stacks upon stacks of glossy magazines which I no longer have in my possession; but no matter which it is, combined with some swine flu and the remote possibility of someone douchey going to jail for torture, it feels like the times are a changing. So, what better way to celebrate than to sit with some beautifully illustrated mag covers from simpler times and toast to cooling off. Cheers!
Cool Hunting just did a write-up on the Ace Hotel / Palm Springs, where WMIG just helped curate the music for the Levi’s / Ace Coachella party. Check eeeeeeet.
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