Jenny Lee Lindberg, co-founder and bassist of Los Angeles band Warpaint, is releasing her debut solo album, right on!, as jennylee. The ... More

jennylee

Album “right on!”

jennylee

Album “right on!”

Jenny Lee Lindberg, co-founder and bassist of Los Angeles band Warpaint, is releasing her debut solo album, right on!, as jennylee. The album holds onto the dreamy psychedelic foundations of Warpaint overlayed by a darker new wave edge, and features musicians Norm Block (Plexi, Mark Langegan), Dan Elkan (Them Hills, Broken Bells) and Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa.

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After years of writing and recording, Cass McCombs compiles his often forgotten, hard-to-find and previously unreleased songs for A Folk Apart: Rarities, ... More

Cass McCombs

Album “A Folk Set Apart”

Cass McCombs

Album “A Folk Set Apart”

After years of writing and recording, Cass McCombs compiles his often forgotten, hard-to-find and previously unreleased songs for A Folk Apart: Rarities, B-Sides, Space Junk, etc. The anthology features 19 tracks recorded between 2003 and 2014 with collaborators including Mike Gordon of Phish, Tim Dewit (aka Dutch E. Germ) and Joe Russo of Further. It’s an alternate telling of the past decade, a glimpse behind the curtain and an experiment in diverse compilation.

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Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino, whose opulent film The Great Beauty won the 2013 foreign-language Oscar, returns with the very candid Youth. Set ... More

Youth

Film by Paolo Sorrentino

Youth

Film by Paolo Sorrentino

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino, whose opulent film The Great Beauty won the 2013 foreign-language Oscar, returns with the very candid Youth. Set against the Swiss Alps, Youth tackles aging, art and regret with good humor as two old friends on a spa vacation confront the end of their creative careers. Michael Caine plays Fred, a retired composer and conductor resisting a bid for one last performance, opposite Harvey Keitel as Mick, a filmmaker writing a final script for his muse (Jane Fonda).

Stunning scenery and cinematography accompany an orchestral score celebrating Fred’s finest piece, “A Simple Song”—composed for the film by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang. With Fellini-esque beauty and brilliant performances, Youth features supporting roles from Rachel Weisz as Fred’s daughter and Paul Dano as a Hollywood actor. The film was nominated for the Palme d’Or, Cannes Festival’s highest accolade, and won several versions of Italy’s Nastro d’Argento.

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Life tells the story behind the iconic 1955 Life magazine photo essay of rising star James Dean, published seven months before his ... More

Life

Film by Anton Corbijn

Life

Film by Anton Corbijn

Life tells the story behind the iconic 1955 Life magazine photo essay of rising star James Dean, published seven months before his fatal car accident. Directed by Anton Corbijn, who has helmed a number of complex, character-driven films including Control, The American and A Most Wanted Man, Life is a slow-moving and elegant portrait of the guarded young actor (Dane DeHaan), captured through the lens of photographer Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) desperate to jump-start his own career. The film delves into Dean and Stock’s professional relationship-turned-friendship as both struggle to make art on their own terms and realize the compulsory sacrifices that come with success. Co-starring Alessandra Mastronardi and Ben Kingsley, Life relies heavily on the chemistry between the two leads, allowing DeHaan to shine with a melancholic innocence. At its core, Life is a touching tribute to Dean teetering on the precipice of fame, full of rebellion, moodiness and mesmerizing talent.

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Founded in 1991 by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani and art director Tibor Kalman, Colors is an Italian quarterly “about the rest of ... More

Colors

Book by Oliviero Toscani & Tibor Kalman

Colors

Book by Oliviero Toscani & Tibor Kalman

Founded in 1991 by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani and art director Tibor Kalman, Colors is an Italian quarterly “about the rest of the world.” Colors has been called the magazine of the MTV generation, and Kalman once described it as, “a mix of National Geographic and Life on acid.”

After nearly twenty-five years and counting, a book about Colors explores the best of this influential magazine, recombining text and images from the far and near past into a strong iteration of Color’s ever-relevant, ever-expanding story about the enormity of human experience and art. Due to the publication’s wildly eclectic nature—with a range and scope that foreshadowed that of the internet—its content is organized thematically, including: “That’s Amore” (physical and emotional love); “Bang!” (weapons, violence, lust, shock); “Elvis” (fame, excess, degeneration, disguise, kitsch) and “I Want to Believe” (faith, cult, what we worship). With a foreword by renowned art curator and writer Francesco Bonami, Colors gives homage to this unconventional magazine, which tackled the era’s social and cultural issues with shrewd eccentricity.

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In 2015, when the internet has rendered publishing easy, accessible and above all free, why self-publish? Self-publishing has long been a way ... More

Self Publish,
Be Happy

Book by Bruno Ceschel

Self Publish, Be Happy

Book by Bruno Ceschel

In 2015, when the internet has rendered publishing easy, accessible and above all free, why self-publish? Self-publishing has long been a way to beat censorship, but the internet has no such boundaries as a communal space open to all. And therein lies another familiar problem: there’s way too much.

In reply to media oversaturation and digitization, a disparate mass of artists have banded together to create physical books of their work, resulting in a collective effort founded by Bruno Ceschel—Self Publish, Be Happy. The London-based organization began collecting self-published photo books in 2010, donated by the self-publishers themselves. Five years later, the archives of Self Publish, Be Happy comprise over three thousand titles.

Ceschel conceived the eponymous book form of the project as a sampling of the current collection as well as manual to the reader, offering ideas and information for pursuing DIY photobooks. His manifesto in the preface opens with, “Self Publish, Be Happy is not a survey of recent photobooks. It is not a best-of. It is a call to arms—a rallying cry to take part, to act, to share.” In short, a modern revolution of tangible art and communal experience against a virtual backdrop of homogeneity.

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Venezuelan electronic musician Arca is set to release Mutant, the follow-up to his outstanding 2014 debut Xen and 2013 mixtape &&&&&. Arca ... More

Arca

Album “Mutant”

Arca

Album “Mutant”

Venezuelan electronic musician Arca is set to release Mutant, the follow-up to his outstanding 2014 debut Xen and 2013 mixtape &&&&&. Arca collaborates regularly with artist Jesse Kanda and has co-produced several innovative albums in the past few years, including FKA Twigs’ EP2, Björk’s Vulnicura and Kanye’s Yeezus.

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This month, Taschen Books is reissuing a 20th anniversary edition of Richard Kern’s iconic 1995 photobook, New York Girls, which includes an ... More

New York Girls Revisited

Book by Richard Kern

New York Girls Revisited

Book by Richard Kern

This month, Taschen Books is reissuing a 20th anniversary edition of Richard Kern’s iconic 1995 photobook, New York Girls, which includes an original interview by Kim Gordon, photos rejected as too explicit for the first book and outtakes from his original sessions.

Marlborough Chelsea’s Broome Street location will be showing the accompanying exhibition, New York Girls Revisited, opening November 19-December 23. A retrospective of his work, Richard Kern: Photographs 1979-1990, is also on view at Marlborough Chelsea through December 23, 2015.

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Hailing from Nashville, JEFF the Brotherhood is the two-piece of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall. Their newest double-album Global Chakra Rhythms is ... More

JEFF the Brotherhood

Album “Global Chakra Rhythms”

JEFF the Brotherhood

Album “Global Chakra Rhythms” 

Hailing from Nashville, JEFF the Brotherhood is the two-piece of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall. Their newest double-album Global Chakra Rhythms is their second release this year (and 10th in total), following last spring’s Wasted on the Dream. The album features collaborators Jack Lawrence of The Dead Weather/Raconteurs, Reece Lazarus of Bully and Jessica McFarland, and a song originally recorded with Jack White at Third Man Records.

This year, Jake Orrall also played on friend/fellow musician Colleen Green’s album I Want to Grow Up. Read our doodle Q&A between the two here.

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