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September 8, 2014 Marina Galperina

From Lacplesis Technology, here is LT-ML002 — “a pirated music legislation software.” Just insert a portable USB media device, and LT-ML002 will locate all you mp3s, cut them up and rearrange them. “You get sounds of your favorite songs in new unique compositions,” no copyright infringement intended! Like this: Lacplesis Technology (Andris Vetra and Artis Kupriss in collaboration with programmer Viesturs Kavacs) explains, in an […]

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September 5, 2014 ANIMAL

Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 84° LOW 73° Saul Williams at Le Poisson Rouge. (6pm, $20, Manhattan) diNMachine / rawmean / G.S. Sultan / sri experimental music and video games at Babycastles. (7pm, $7 suggested donation, […]

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September 4, 2014 Marina Galperina

From the YouTube channel that brought us gloriously swinging scrotum and BHQF’s “how to” art, here’s a “Bugz” from Berlin-based Low Concept. MOCAtv explains that Low Concept is a joint Ville Haimala (Renaissance Man, Millennium) and Daniel Fisher (Physical Therapy) “attempt to make literally low concept, functional music for the dancefloor.” What’s the roaches? Why is one of […]

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September 2, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Vancouver’s White Lung are one of the most exciting punk bands working today. Their thrilling […]

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August 29, 2014 ANIMAL

Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 79° LOW 66° Opening in theaters: The Strange Color of Your Tears (at IFC) and Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime Patema Inverted, “a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by opposite gravities” (at IFC). […]

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August 26, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Listening to Brooklyn’s Jordan Lee who makes music as Mutual Benefit, is like waking up […]

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August 25, 2014 Marina Galperina

For more than 25 years, Kim’s was a legend, an oddity, a staple, a community. Today, the last of its locations at 124 First Avenue closes its doors at the end of the day. There’s a lot to be said, and it’s all better said in Bedford and Bowery’s “The Story of Kim’s Video & Music, Told […]

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August 22, 2014 ANIMAL

Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 74° LOW 65° In theaters: Kink, a documentary about BDSM fetish franchise Kink.com (with producer James Franco and director Christina Voros in person at IFC), and See You Next Tuesday at […]

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August 19, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week, electronic musician, artist, designer and founder of witch house, Travis Egedy aka Pictureplane […]

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Aymann Ismail

“Let’s face it. What I’m doing isn’t really vandalism,” Jay Shells tells ANIMAL after a weekend of putting his site-specific Rap Quotes around Philadelphia. “But the questionably legal act of installing signs became trickiest around City Hall and the Liberty Bell where an abundance of bored security guards are waiting to flex on a smart ass like me.” But he got it done. […]

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