Tag: Experimental Music
Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of Russia’s Eastern Orthodox Church, has a very particular taste in art. He considers contemporary art a sign of the Apocalypse — just like gay marriage and that Pussy Riot “doing the work of Satan!” At an Orthodox festival on Wednesday, Kirill ranted at length about his specialized notions of aesthetics. The Moscow Times reports: According to the patriarch, art […]
The Unsound Festival — a multi-day Polish experimental music festival imported to NYC from Krakow, has just announced its dates: April 2nd through April 6th. Taking place across multiple venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan, the lineup includes “experimental, classical, post-classical, techno, improv, dub,” Demdike Stare, Andy Votel, Ital & Halal and Huerco S. There will be a series of lectures, […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from Dirty Beaches, whose acclaimed new album Drifters/Love Is the Devil synthesizes sounds as disparate as drone, minimal classical music, early rock and roll, and industrial. For his mix, Dirty Beaches’ […]
