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Ratatat may need no introduction, but the following Q&A
we had with them certainly does. We got the chance to e-terview the Brooklyn-based creators of one of our favourite 2006 releases, and suffice to say
we spent an embarrassing amount of time trying
to think of the best, most interesting, most nonchalantly
witty questions we could ask.
And suffice to say, they spent little-to-no time at all
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Hi, how are you? Where are you answering this from?
From my kitchen...
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MAY - 11 MAY >I hereby declare,
without an inkling of substantiation, that
Australia does the musical-comedy-trio thing
far better than any other country. The Axis
of Awesome were borne out of the Sydney
Uni comedy scene only a few years ago, and
have already won awards, sold out shows
across the country, and made a video you’ve
already seen on YouTube. They just returned
from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and
are about to head to Edinburgh for the Fringe
– so you’ve pretty much only got this tiny
window of opportunity to peek at them through
before they start over-saturating every
radio station and panel show like Tripod,
or split up dramatically and devastate their
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MAY > In Scotland in 1996, Aidan
Moffat and Malcolm Middleton did what we all do when we bond with someone
new over a mutual love for indie-folk champions Will Oldham and Bill
(Smog) Calahan – they formed a
band and named it after a type of cock
ring. Arab Strap was born, in all its bitter, post-folk glory... So it's fitting that since the band’s
distressing split in ’06, Middleton has
joined the legendary ranks of his heroes.
His latest solo album Sleight of Hand is
as intimate, poignant, melancholic and insouciantly
cheeky as you’d expect from the man who
accidentally and terrifyingly got to No.
31 on the UK Christmas Charts with a prank-bid
song called “We’re
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fake nails favoured by sluts and trannies,
and patterned with flags, clouds, stars
and tropical island scenes? Did you know
you can also get toenail sets? U-huh! Costing
around $100 a pop, it's a hideously expensive,
ridiculously extravagant habit and We Love
It! Zsa Zsa Gabor does too - actually, she
should totally be the face of the California
Toenail. Finally, the Queen of Tack adds
Tic Tac Toe to her resume!
+ Smorgasboard: Can you think of anything better
than an all-you-can eat food poisoning buffet?
The epic amount of food you can pile on
the plates is salivating! Hot or cold, sweet
or sour - If you want to live large, live
like a Roman! Indulge yourself because regret
only means one single word: laxatives.
+ Emoticons:
:) :P :l :O :) :P :I :O ) :P :l :O :) :P
:I :O....... That was as much of a pain
to type out as it is to read. What kind
of retard talks in glyphs? Incredibly childish,
irritating and embarrassing to everybody,
and if you happen to be friends with someone
who suddenly pulls this shit on you - it
should be instant grounds for dismissal!
+ Reality tv
shows about people's lame jobs: Even
the names are too tedious to recount: Border
Security, RPA Hospital, Bondi Rescue...
Only in a country with 5 free-to-air channels
can a show about airports achieve record
high ratings. Who the hell even watches
this shit? All they do is bust Asians for
bringing in forbidden food produce and Arabs
for smuggling tobacco - since when is that
a crime? The real crime here is the production
of fetid turds masquerading as entertainment.
Offensive.
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Learning To Love You More is a collaborative project
that was put together by Miranda July and Harrell
Fletcher to open up that elitist art world to plebs like you and I. Basically, it’s a catalog of ongoing
assignments with simple but specific instructions,
and a space for you to upload the results. For
example, “recreate an object from someone's past”,
“write the phone call you wish you could have”,
“make a protest sign and protest” and our favourite,
“sculpt
a bust of Steve”. Some of the projects
reference past assignments (“Recreate a scene
from Laura Lark’s story”), some are exceptionally
simple (“Take a flash photo under your bed”),
and some require a bit more work (“make the saddest
song”). LTLYM is also a series of global exhibitions,
screenings and radio broadcasts – so your work
could end up anywhere.
Because sometimes the imagination
just needs a jumping off point. [Also file under:
because we all have almost illegally huge, vaguely stalky crushes on Miranda July.]
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“Some people are just unlucky. We think it’s really important that these people be given better opportunities than they have. So, if you’re luckier than they are, there’s always something you can do to help.” And thus begins the philosophical underpinnings of the Yellow Bird Project Manifesto. Yellow Bird Project was begun by Montrealers Casey Cohen and Matthew Stotland in 2006, out of a mutual passion for music mixed with what Casey calls a mutual desire to “do something truly meaningful.”
It’s an inspired idea. Casey and Matt contact their favourite musicians, ask them to design a T-shirt, get them to pick a charity, and then sell the resulting band T on their website to said band’s loyal and devoted fanbase.
Not only is it for a good cause, but you end up with a personal band t-shirt unlike any you can pick up at merch stores – and they’re comparably cheap at only US$25. Plus, the guys have taste - artists like the Shins, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Devendra Banhart, the National, and our very own Holly Throsby and Wolfmother have all tried their musical hands at design. Broken Social Scene were added to the roster just last week. “We know that there are so many people out there who love the same kind of music we do, and so we thought that this would be a challenging way to bring people together, by harnessing artists’ creativity and channeling people’s generosity.”
With no industry contacts, and no experience doing anything like this, it would have been an outrageously difficult thing to get started – but in the project’s first two months, they estimate they raised as much as US$10 000.
I asked if the ‘Yellow Bird’ came from an image continually evoked by Conor Oberst, AKA Bright Eyes? “Right on the money… Since this project was inspired by the music we listen to, it was fitting to have a name which was derived from one of our favourite songwriters. Also, we really liked the image of the Yellow Bird. It can be interpreted in so many different ways. Typically in music and literature, a brd represents freedom. In our case, it could be freedom from disease, abuse, torture, addiction, pollution…”
The charities selected range from international organizations like Greenpeace and Amnesty, to far more specialist ones clearly personal to the artist – like Lake Ontario Water Keeper, Acoustic Neuroma Association, and the Elliot Smith Memorial Fund.
So what’s next?
“We just recently released a brand new T-Shirt from Broken Social Scene, and we have designs in the works from bands like the Magic Numbers, the New Pornographers, Elvis Perkins, Sunset Rubdown and others. So we definitely want to grow. But we also want eventually to diversify.” They have a “very special musician” writing a theme song for the organisation, and a lot more to come. So sign up for updates, and in the meantime, have a browse, and have a buy. I just ordered one, and it costs only $32 Aussie bucks, including shipping, to wear my music on my sleeve and a charity on my back. “The charity will get 100% of the profit, you get a cool T-shirt, the artist gets to raise awareness for their favourite charity, you get to raise awareness for your favourite artist, and we feel the satisfaction of a job well done. Everybody wins. Now if that’s not lucky…”
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MAY > Sometimes it seems that the Aussie creative
scene is it's own worst enemy, limiting itself by being too afraid
of its own creative potential, and awarding
'buzz' only to safe artists able to impersonate
the already-successful. Please indulge me
as I give Melbourne’s Kes and his Quixotic
label Mistletone just one more plug for happily
being an exception to the rule. Kes supported
Coco Rosie in 2006; a good fit, with both
acts sharing in their complex, whimsical and
intimate arrangements. The tender, gentle
and (admittedly) strange tonality of frontman
Karl Scullin also brings Mt Eerie to mind,
but you should make up your own mind at the
Hoey – just so long as you don’t get rowdy
and stand in front of us talking loudly again.
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UNTIL
24 MAY > I hate plays. I hate
theatre. Anything that happens on a stage
has to be hilarious for me to like it, so
"Angels in America" should be a play that
I detest. It's a philosophical, fantastical
look at the AIDS crisis in the 80s – meaning
it’s long, and unless someone in the cast accidently falls over, it’s not funny. But I love
this play. I love it even though I've only
seen it as a student production. A STUDENT
PRODUCTION, people. Question: "How can you
ruin a play?" Answer: “Unleash students." Imagine how amazing this play
will be when actual actors have a go. GO
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MAY - 07 JULY > “Fantastic.
It’s amazing that this is free. Excellent
interactivity. Very cool! Awesome & interesting.
More surreal than real life. What a fabulous
thing to stumble across – marvellous! Excellent.
Stimulating. Loved it!”. The press
release didn’t clarify whether this
was a collection of comments from a variety
of satisfied users, or just one dude who
almost wet himself. 30 Aussie and international
artists joined forces for this
touring group show with interactive
art, video installations, short films and
something tantalising referred to as ‘extreme art’. It’s hands-on, fun, free, and at Carriageworks,
which is just across the road from your
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Overwhelmed
by options and bombarded with information, it’s
no wonder we seem to be living in the age of the
identity crises. Melissa White’s body of work, Whoo
Knows Honey, is a representation of that confusion,
with all of its loneliness and nostalgia
wrapped up in warmth, sweetness and understanding. What we've seen is compelling and poignant,
so we asked what what inspires her?
“A narrative… once I get hooked on an idea for my
works, characters are formed and they sort of take
on a life of their own. This is what propels me.
I try and convey what these characters and ideas
mean to me to other people – and I love it when
they get it.”
It’s her first solo show. “I’ve
never made so many works that have had a common
thread... The basis of the show is the owl, which
pops up a lot in several of the works with this
idea of Knowing or, in most cases, NOT Knowing.”
The owl came from an image of Melissa came
across a while ago of Athena, the Greek goddess
of knowledge who is often portrayed with an owl
on her shoulder. “I know so
many people who have absolutely no idea what to
do with themselves, myself included… maybe if we
ALL had owls with us we’d have a chance to answer
some questions.” But as the concept progressed,
she realised the owl has nothing to do with it.
“Who knows, honey?” seems to be the only answer.
“I think it’s an optimistic and light hearted response
to some major pressure that a lot of young people
feel, to know what you should be doing and who you
should be.” At least some of us seem to be
on the right track – Melissa’s only 23, finished
her Bachelor of Visual arts at SCA less than two
years ago and already has her own solo show. Well,
for everyone else (us), there’s always distractions.
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INTERNET
FOR YOUR EYES
April 8, 9pm, and a post appears on Stereogum from the editor: "I
registered Videogum.com a little over two
years ago. Now, finally, we’ve got something
to show you." Videogum
was borne. Same uber-nerd accuracy, insightful
verbosity, ensuing hilarity – but
videos only. It’s comedy writers
Gabe (who we’ve already plugged)
and Lindsay (who we haven’t but love
anyway), and they do stuff
like this. |
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| As soon as I heard that there was a “nu-folk supergroup” I was sold.
Even moreso when I read it was spearheaded
by Sam Genders, star of Throw Shapes’ fourteenth
issue and, less significantly, Tunng. The
album is named after the happy accidents which
brought Genders together with Memory Band’s
Steven Cracknall, singer-songwriter Liam Baily,
and Bicycle Thieves’ Hannah Caughlin. The
stunning vocals of Caughlin, coupled with
the strings of Serafina Steer and members
of the Elysian Quartet, lend soft intimacy
to the folksy tales, and bundle in all up
in an almost innocent optimism which is delightfully
difficult to resist. This album reflects a
variety of styles, but the Genders-driven
songs are the best because they all end up
sounding Just Like Tunng, only even better.
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track sounds like Canadian lesbian twins.
So, phew. Cause this hyped little number jumps
around like the seek button on a boombox.
But it'll majorly turn the traditionalists
round on this whole ringtone rap game - RZA
and Rhymefest can eat it, 'cause
when it sounds like Chrissie Hynde's
cross-ethnic nasal little neice singing over
car alarms the indie kids are gonna get up.
Haunted slow grinds, pop(corn chicken) nuggets,
day-glo dub funk, headband anthems, probably
some tablas, lalala trying not to mention
M.I.A. lalala. All the right
names are involved, Hollertronix,
Swith, Diplo;
but just give it three weeks to turn up on
a Bonds ad. (MR) |
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| I was somewhat
hesitant when I saw the cover of the new B-52's
album. They all looked old and crazy, but
in that disturbing without-realizing-it way.
"Do you really want to taint my impression
of you, B-52's? DO YOU?!" I yelled at the
CD, "I am seething with frustration!" But
once you finish seething and settle down, the album is actually
pretty great - particularly the first song.
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