-
Watch Girlpool Perform in the Soundcheck Studio
soundcheckradio: Girlpool’s uncompromisingly honest punk is comforting; like an intimate embrace haunted by self-realization. The drumless duo, Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, use driving guitar, raw melodies and pregnant pauses to create a raw and full sound. It’s a new way to look at punk—rather than a hard-edged rebellion it’s a vulnerable yearning. The pair…
-
krxs10: Picture taken of scene where Sandra Bland allegedly “hung herself”, moments after the body was “found” was just released. And of course, no one is buying it. Police are claiming that Sandra took the trash bag out and tied it to the partition on her shower, and then used it to hang herself with. Problems with…
-
do you want to be famous?
lazenby: In 1928 the architect Mies van der Rohe was commissioned to design a pavilion representing Weimar Germany at the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona. The building ended up becoming justly famous as the most eloquent definition of what was later gathered into Modernism. This definition would be something like, ‘Not only doing way more…
-
1109-83: Francis Alÿs, The Loop, 1997 In 1997, Alÿs circumvented the much contested US-Mexico border at Tijuana: using his exhibition fee for an exhibition in San Diego, Alÿs traveled by plane from Tijuana to Mexico City, to Panama City, Santiago, Auckland, Sydney, Singapore, Bangkok, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Anchorage, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and finally…