AN EAR ALONE

poemswhileyouwait: “Don’t Be a Baby” by Liz Hildreth — The...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:49 -0500

“Don’t Be a Baby” by Liz Hildreth — The Parlour Tapes + The Guilty Party, 5.16.13

Poem topic: “The Honing of your Craft

hotsugar: When I was 13 this thing changed my life. Looking at...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:00 -0500

hotsugar:

When I was 13 this thing changed my life. Looking at this box reminds me of the first time I ever felt powerful. I recorded every single thing in my room, even though I didnt know anything back then. I felt like when Harry Potter first got his wand

*single tear rolls down my soft cool cheek*

You and me both. That shit had backwards playback!

poemswhileyouwait: “Brood” by Virginia Konchan — The Parlour...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:56:33 -0500

poemswhileyouwait:

“Brood” by Virginia Konchan — The Parlour Tapes + The Guilty Party, 5.16.13

Poem topic: “sibling kitties”

poemswhileyouwait: The Parlour Tapes + The Guilty Party,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:56:09 -0500

poemswhileyouwait:

The Parlour Tapes + The Guilty Party, 5.16.13

Find out ”“”wwwhhhooo dddiiiddd ttthhhiiisss...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:22:00 -0500

Find out ”“”wwwhhhooo dddiiiddd ttthhhiiisss ttthhhiiinnnggg”“”.

nprmusic: Stravinksy’s ballet The Rite of Spring turned Paris...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:08:01 -0500

nprmusic:

Stravinksy’s ballet The Rite of Spring turned Paris upside down upon its world premiere in Paris May 29, 1913 — and we’re asking you to help us celebrate this groundbreaking work’s centennial with, what else, dance.

Photo: Keystone-France/Getty Images

“And human sacrifice is strongly discouraged.”

Schyeah. Right.

parlourtapes: The _______ take.

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:25:53 -0500

parlourtapes:

The _______ take.

parlourtapes: Also available in handwritten cursive on card...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:20:45 -0500

parlourtapes:

Also available in handwritten cursive on card stock.

R_______S____________V_______________________P

Tickets

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:16:36 -0500

Tickets

coming to Chicago tonight please let there be girls there I’m literally marinating in...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:47:46 -0500

coming to Chicago tonight please let there be girls there I’m literally marinating in...

nprmusic: The pioneering electronic composer responsible for...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:17 -0500

nprmusic:

The pioneering electronic composer responsible for Silver Apples of the Moon turned 80 years old this week. Q2 Music visited with Morton Subotnick and his wife, vocalist Joan La Barbara, in the couple’s Greenwich Village apartment for this installment of their web series Spaces.

bryce-dessner: Composer David Lang’s death speaks will be...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:23:23 -0500

bryce-dessner:

Composer David Lang’s death speaks will be released on April 30th. The album features Bryce Dessner, Shara Worden, Owen Pallett, and Nico Muhly and was produced by Bryce.

If any of you in the Chicago area are attending the upcoming eighth blackbird concerts (featuring Bryce, Nico, and Shara), the composer and artists will be signing copies of the CD after the concert on Wednesday, May 1st. Tickets and more info for that event are available here.

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:34:40 -0500

We found a few more tickets for @smithwesterns tonight. Better hurry up: bit.ly/13LkFN0 — Schubas...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:40:39 -0500

We found a few more tickets for @smithwesterns tonight. Better hurry up: bit.ly/13LkFN0 — Schubas...

4-a-d: Deerhunter - ‘Monomania’ (Live on Late Night With Jimmy...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:40:16 -0500

4-a-d:

Deerhunter - ‘Monomania’ (Live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)

‘Lil Tape Player Boy at 2:53.

So Winston Choi is playing this tomorrow:

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:15:00 -0500

So Winston Choi is playing this tomorrow:

Pitchfork: When we did the show with you and Peter Sotos and Yellow Tears in 2011, I didn’t see...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:44:00 -0500

Pitchfork: When we did the show with you and Peter Sotos and Yellow Tears in 2011, I didn’t see...

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Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:48:18 -0500

airgordon: Can I tell you how much I love Marnie Stern’s new...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:33:24 -0500

airgordon:

Can I tell you how much I love Marnie Stern’s new album? I’ve been listening to it all week, playing air drums in my bedroom where no one can see me. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to interview her for the Village Voice.

Fonema Consort (formerly Ensemble Vulpine Lupin) concludes their...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:27:20 -0500

Fonema Consort (formerly Ensemble Vulpine Lupin) concludes their introductory concert series tonight at the Jennifer Norback Gallery. Aside from the personal-less space of the venue which provides a fairly intense, in-your-face concert experience, the ensemble will be taking advantage of the art currently on display. Composer Scott Scharf’s new work drifting the upper layers draws inspiration from the surrounding photography exhibit, “Luminous Garden.” You can read Scharf’s blog post about the process over at Fonema Consort’s website.

Also, Mac DeMarco is in town! I’ve been listening to “Ode to Viceroy” for nearly half a year now; the guitars are paradise. To me, the overall sound of 2 is completely captured by the album’s cover seen above; it’s dirty and messy, and yet there’s something undeniably sweet about it all. Hopefully this aesthetic will prevail in tonight’s show.

And I know it doesn’t seem like Spring in Chicago right now, but the MCA is celebrating anyway. Tonight begins Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s run of The Rite of Spring and Henri Michaux: Mouvements. The company will be doing Stravinsky’s ballet with some wicked choreography:

I will be taking notes in preparation for August when you and I take up the dance ourselves on the lawn of the Pritzker Pavilion.