If we didn’t know any better, we’d assume Afroman was harvested by scientists hunkered down in a secret government bunker trying to cook up the perfect rapper. But their experiment went terribly wrong, you see. Or, depending on your countenance — and proclivity to get lifted — terribly right. Those scientists were…
Thurston Moore is one cool cat. He was there — in NYC circa the mid- to late ’70s — for punk and was one of the tantrum-throwing No Wavers who didn’t think the Ramones et al. took their rock reinvention far enough. Thus, he and the rest of Sonic Youth…
Vein CranesWith Snakehole, the Band in Heaven, Dharma Days, and M-Tank The Snooze Theater, Lake ParkWednesday, July 21Better than: A parallel universe in which the Snooze Theater is actually a Snus depot. In the future, children will gather around a video of a campfire projected on the forehead of their cybernetic grandfather…
Parallel to rock’s digitization is its ever-snowballing preoccupation with its own history. Take the Bringing It Back for the Kids Fest, a hardcore punk festival engendered by the reunion-show obsession of the internet age as well as a simultaneous yearning for simpler times. “Nostalgia really is playing a role in…
Philip Glass is a heavyweight of contemporary minimalism. Alongside auteurs such as Steve Reich and John Cage, Glass is, simply put, one of the biggest, boldest names in 20th-century music. And much like those peers in experimentation, his oeuvre delicately and delightfully blurs the line between the colloquially dubbed classical…
