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DOMED MOMENTS

2012-04-24T01:07:00.000-04:00

Photos of recent times. MP3: Yes, really. • Ke$ha - Don't Think Twice It's Alright Band here.

DESERT DANCING IN WAX

2012-04-10T10:00:00.000-04:00

Other gems of recent shows in NYC have included Pat Noecker from These Are Powers bringing his solo project RAFT into a dreamlike Wild West installation at the Clocktower Galery and DJ Rusty Lazer of Big Freedia and New Orleans fame holding down an entire church full of dancing bodies, all from the elevated pulpit. Also pictured are What Cheer? Brigade, The So So Glos and Daddy.

SLAPPY BEER SLOP

2012-04-09T10:00:00.000-04:00

There has been no slow down post-SXSW for bands in NYC. From Cerebral Ballzy breaking a long hiatus with a new drummer (and playing a show with Japanther), to more of the brand-new collaboration with Jah Jah of Ninjasonik joining the Unstoppable Death Machines, the rock has continued. MP3: • Le Switch - Monkberry Moon Delight Band here.

CENSORED IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE

2012-04-05T09:50:00.000-04:00

I was recently lucky enough to spend some time in Washington DC working with a great crew of artists under the umbrella of a new installation by Monica Canilao. The installation is part of 5x5 and is in an old police evidence warehouse in Anacostia. It will be up through most of the spring (part 2). MP3: • Wanda Jackson - Funnel Of Love Band here.

BULLETS, BEANS AND A BETTER VIEW

2012-04-04T10:48:00.000-04:00

I was recently lucky enough to spend some time in Washington DC working with a great crew of artists under the umbrella of a new installation by Monica Canilao. The installation is part of 5x5 and is in an old police evidence warehouse in Anacostia. It will be up through most of the spring (part 1). MP3: • Hurray For The Riff Raff - Butterfly Band here.

BOTTLE + HEAD + COP

2012-04-03T18:37:00.000-04:00

Skull X Skull 5, hosted by the Skidmarxxx (part 1). Well, what I could post that isn't NSFW anyway. Which wasn't very much. This is what I'm referring to. MP3: • Total Abuse - Buried Band here.

THAT UNNATURALLY SLIMEY WAY

2012-04-02T12:27:00.000-04:00

Skull X Skull 5, hosted by the Skidmarxxx (part 1). Well, what I could post that isn't NSFW anyway. Which wasn't very much. MP3: • Give Up The Ghost - Love American Band here.

BASTARDS OF YOUNG

2012-03-30T12:49:00.000-04:00

Photos from SXSW 2012 (part 3), featuring the Cro-Mags, Narrows, FEAR, Ceremony, Titus Andronicus, Deerhoof, FIDLAR, Purity Ring, Power Trip, Turquiose Jeep, Two Gallants, Ringworm, Crystal Antlers, Built To Spill, Cults, The Men and Yelle. MP3: • The Cribs - Bastards Of Young Band here.

TERROR DANCE REVOLT

2012-03-29T12:39:00.000-04:00

Photos from SXSW 2012 (part 2), featuring Dan Deacon, Andrew WK, Mannie Fresh, Rich Aucoin, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Nicky Da B, Pictureplane, Best Fwends, Unstoppable Death Machines featuring Jah Jah from Ninjasonik, Maps & Atlases, Japanther, Nola Fam, Zorch, Katey Red and Pictureplane + Grimes. MP3: • Charles Bradley The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away Band

SHOT TO THE HEART

2012-03-28T11:57:00.000-04:00

Photos from SXSW 2012 (part 1), featuring Rick Ross, Trash Talk and A$AP Rocky. MP3: • Rick Ross - Shot To The Heart Band here.

UNDERNEATHERS

2012-03-05T00:34:00.000-05:00

Photos from a Brooklyn basement show with Ninjasonik, Japanther (in costumes by Laura Kapalan), Jogyo and BEEF. MP3: Wow. So this is what The Police would have sounded like if they were still making music. • Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know Band here.

DANCE IN DANCE OUT

2012-03-02T09:50:00.000-05:00

Some other music-related photos from Mardi Gras. MP3: • Blackbird Raum - A Rat In My Dream Band here.

MARDI GRAS IN MUSIC

2012-03-01T09:25:00.000-05:00

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is a multi-faceted event, stretching for many days, weeks, or even months (depending on your stamina). While most people think of a rowdy Bourbon Street, frat boys, flashing boobs, flying beads and vomiting, there is a whole other side to the celebration leading up to Ash Wednesday (yes, it is actually a Christian-instituted holiday). A huge part and

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

2012-02-28T20:06:00.002-05:00

Photos from the last Parts & Labor show, with Oneida and Neptune. Words by Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor Seeing Parts & Labor for the first time is like walking into Spanish 101 on the first day of high school: It's confusing, but exciting enough that you don't drop the class. Eventually you learn the language and revel in it. Over 10 years, Parts & Labor created music that was

DANCE MACABRE

2012-02-14T15:11:00.001-05:00

A caught mention of a "secret house show" eventually leads to an address and a time. Somewhere around the Myrtle stop on the J train, a door to a basement apartment opens and immediately reveals a sweaty mass of thrashing bodies in the windowless front room. 40ozs being passed around among two distinct sections: the roiling bodies surrounding the band, and the calm socializing kids

NEW NOISE AND POISE

2012-02-01T17:14:00.001-05:00

This past weekend Unstoppable Death Machines brought their sonic onslaught to an art gallery in Williamsburg as part of an interactive performance installation based on the animated music video for the UDM song, "Space Time Continuum." It all took place at Present Company Gallery in Brooklyn as part of an ongoing series called Synaesthesia, which focuses on exploring

ASS EVERYWHERE

2012-01-27T15:48:00.000-05:00

This past weekend the temperature in NYC rose a few degrees, courtesy of some heat brought up from New Orleans. Sissy bounce artist Nicky da B was here with his dancers and DJ Rusty Lazer. They played a few shows at Santos Party House and at a speakeasy in Brooklyn (with some poodle-penis burlesque starting the night off right), before opening for Big Freedia at Brooklyn Bowl.

IN THE MORNING WITH TROUBLES

2012-01-19T16:58:00.000-05:00

Miscellaneous photos from New Orleans. MP3: • Sweet Tooth - Zombie Apocalypse Band here.

RUMBLECUSSION

2012-01-16T11:49:00.000-05:00

What Cheer? Brigade and Mirrors & Wires performing at C-Squat. MP3: • What Cheer? Brigade - Malaguena Band here.

SLEIGHT 'N BEHIND

2012-01-14T14:51:00.000-05:00

Photos from the Ridin' Dirty after party at the St. Roch on New Years Eve, with Mars, Delicious and Night Crusade. MP3: • La Peste - Better Off Dead Band here.

DANCING IN DISSENT

2012-01-12T14:13:00.000-05:00

(Photos by unknown sources) "We lost one of the good ones this week. Actually, one of the best ones. Dara Greenwald, artist, activist, thinker, organizer, and all-around inspirational person passed away this week from cancer at the age of 40." --Abigail Satinsky Dara Greenwald was all of these things and more. I met her many years ago in Chicago, and was struck with how instantly she

PERPETUAL APOCALYPSE

2012-01-11T10:00:00.000-05:00

Photos from the fifth annual Ridin' Dirty, hosted by the New Orleans chapter of the Black Label Bicycle Club (part 2). MP3: • R.I.P. - Policia No Band here.

UNDER THUNDER

2012-01-10T18:35:00.000-05:00

Photos from the fifth annual Ridin' Dirty, hosted by the New Orleans chapter of the Black Label Bicycle Club (part 1). MP3: • Into The Rhine - No Rain, But Thunder Band here.

ROADS TO RECOGNITION

2012-01-06T23:08:00.000-05:00

A second line on St. Claude in New Orleans. MP3: • Trampled By Turtles - Wait So Long Band here.

UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE

2012-01-04T19:00:00.000-05:00

Photos from a little late-night tall bike jousting in Richmond. MP3: • JEFF The Brotherhood - Something In The Way Band here.