The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago just kicked off an exhibition called “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967.” I wanna go! It chronicles the cross-breeding between art and music in that glorious era from Andy Warhol/Velvet Underground onwards… The exhibition focuses on major cities…
It’s been a while since my last post, I’ve been locked away coding like crazy, adding features for our private beta users and getting ready for launch. It’s ironic that building a website to make it easier to go to shows has meant I’ve gone to less myself. After a…
One of my online hobbies is sifting through concert posters. Maybe it’s just a weird nostalgia for something that never was a part of my life, SF Fillmore shows notwithstanding, but I just love a good concert poster. I love seeing how designers solve the problem of communicating the visual…
But read it every day anyway. Gawker did a scientific study of Pitchfork reviewers. Not telling me anything new, but it says there are twice as many dudes named Mark as women who do reviews. Meh.
I only recently discovered Josh Ritter. I read his name around everywhere, but never got around to actually listening to him–for the stupidest reason too. His name reminded me of John Ritter (actor in Three’s Company), which reminded me of Robin Thicke (R&B singer I’m not a fan of), son…
It’s the Brooklyn Book Festival today, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to post a couple more lit/music cross-pollinations I’ve found. Moistworks is an mp3 blog run by a collective of authors, like Susan Choi, Ben Greenman, Jonathan Lethem (awesome writer), and Douglas Wolk among many, many others. Living…
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