Pretty bummed I don’t live in New York right now. This Thursday Chris Garneau will be performing songs from his new album EL RADIO. I haven’t had a chance to get my hands on El Radio yet so check out the previous link for more information about the album. The album came out yesterday. This post is just a heads up to any New York readers. The event is happening this Thursday, July 9th, with Scary Mansion + The Lisps !!
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Bay Area::: I’d like to let everyone know a new musician is heading your way – meet Love Leaves. Fans of Debutante, Casey Chisholm, Samuelroy and Brother Bruno will totally be happy!!!! Love Leaves is working on an album. It’s been described by Love Leaves as, “a labor of love.” When I asked how long he’s been working on it, he replied, “hmm, not too long, the album proper, probably like a year or so, i mean, I didn’t decided to make an “album” until this past winter and I’ve been making music for just a few years, but you know, I’ve always loooved it. I went to school for painting and then for poetry and I guess really I thought music is where it’s at. It’s all produced but I have very strong feelings about electronic music, and don’t like people to disown it as genuine.” Read More…
CocoRosie’s new EP Coconut’s, Plenty of Junk Food totally managed to fly past my radar when it came out about a month ago. A bit of research showed that the album is only being sold at their live shows so don’t feel too much like a moron if you too hadn’t heard of it and consider yourself a fan of the girls. As of now, I’m thinking the album isn’t that great but maybe with time it will grow on me.
So for those of you that don’t wanna buy ARTFORUM and therefore missed the summer 2009 edition with the fabulous essay by Wayne Koestenbaum on the work of Ryan Trecartin, I’ve decided to post some video’s. I hope that his work hasn’t completely escaped you, but if it has, he’s a video maker/ artist/performance artist. Remarkably, Koestenbaum’s wild essay/prose in Artforum does manage to capture the essence of the work that Trecartin is putting out, more precisely, online:
the 90’s R&B singer MAXWELL has come out with the first album in about seven or eight years. In the late nighties he covered Kate Bush – nowadays it seems like Kate Bush has been elevated to a “secret” that young music aficionado’s whisper about.
“Oh,” she said, “you don’t know which Kate Bush song I’m referencing?”
Vulture Whale is one of the better finds we stumbled upon at SXSW a few months ago. Brokenbrooklyn and myself were smoking a joint and scowling at the dreadful Vivian Girls when Wes McDonald (singer for Vulture Whale) asked us if we knew who was playing that awful “pussy rock”. Embarrassed that we knew, we told him and passed him our joint. Quickly we all agreed we were at the show to see Ponytail, they were coming on after Titus Andronicus. After ensuring Wes that Titus Andronicus was far removed from the drudgery we were withstanding, we got to talking and he told us about his band Vulture Whale.
Fast forward a couple months and I received an awesome package in the mail from Wes with a CD and links to videos:
So as many of you remember President Obama campaigned that he was for GLBT rights and for civil rights for all; people cheered when he was elected because people believed he was ushering in change that would make the lives of all Americans betterl.
But that is not what is happening:
Ok. Now the real question…. Read More…
If you haven’t heard of CA Conrad, CA Conrad is an American poet that is based in Philadelphia. His name has popped up over and over again the past few months in my life and I’ve taken the cue to read more and more of his work. You can check out his blogspot for links to his work and collections of poems. Anyway, here are a few youtube videos I’ve found him in and if you haven’t heard of him well now you have and I suggest you take the chance and dig into what he has to say. Be sure to check out his new book, The Book of Frank.
“Poetry should be in everything,” CA Conrad.
Whats up? It’s been forever since we’ve been regularly posting because of a hectic summer start for all of us here at minorprogression. However, all our schedules are starting to cool down so expect more from us throughout the summer. First up on the summer watch list from me is the fabulous Oh Mr. Flowers hailing from Provo, Utah. Read More…
Hey everyone,
I have a few upcoming events happening. On May 30th is the finale performance that I am apart of with Gage Boone and Marc Arthur. Then on June 3rd I’m reading at the Army of Lovers festival. Details below:
Co-presented by the National Queer Arts Festival, Sex Worker Fest, Army of Lovers and the Center for Sex and Culture.
Hosted by Kirk Read
Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission Street near 11th
Tickets are $10-20 sliding scale, no one turned away
Advance tickets encouraged: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66814
More info: armyoflovers.org and kirkread.com
More Sex Worker Fest events! Check out www.sexworkerfest.com
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3
Peggy L’eggs aka Matthew Simmons
George Birimisa
M. Lamar
Matt Walker aka Elliott Skellington
Stephen Boyer
Amos Mac
Nico
Seeley Quest
Kirk Read
THURSDAY JUNE 4
Christraper Sings
Stephen Elliott
Debutante
MACK
Daniel Allen Cox
Krylon Superstar
Mikiki
Scott Upper
Alvin Orloff
Alic Shook
Durward
Kirk Read
Army of Lovers is funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission, Theater Bay Area, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the California Arts Council and the Horizons Foundation.
