Archive for June, 2009:
Tracey Emin
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEKXlgsJmg[/youtube]
One of my all-time fav artists. She has a new show on now at White Cube in London, the gallery she started out with in the ’90s.
Tracey Emin – Those Who Suffer Love @ White Cube
Channel 4 Video Interview w/ Tracey Emin
Lunch with the FT – Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin’s Column @ The Independent
Oh Snap
okok, this is pretty badass.
Tuesday June 23 @ Neptoon Records, Vancouver, BC ( 3561 Main Street)
There is a release party for Nardwuar’s band the Evaporators new 7′ “A Wild Pear”
It will feature a live performance by The Evaporators w/ Special Guest Andrew W.K!!!!!
4pm ALL AGES FREE INSTORE SHOW
and then aaafter,
The two of the rock the Biltmore. Show starts at 9pm, $15, tickets avail at Zulu, Scratch & Red Cat.
It looks like we might be there doing some Winnie TV filming as well. This is going to be nuts.
Don’t know who Nardwuar is!!? He is a Vancouver legend. Check out his interviews…
The Tunnel
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3O2DdwfM4[/youtube]
Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, DJ Clue, Memphis Bleek, Amil, Freeway, even Pain In Da Ass does the intro, at The Tunnel in NYC — this is AFTER Jay-Z’s “In My Lifetime Vol. II” went 4 x platinum. So ghetto.
Winnie-Tv Episode 2 Kidnap Kids!
This Saturday Winnie presents, Kidnap Kids! at No More Strangers. We did our second episode of winnie-tv on them! check it out.
Winnie-TV Episode 2 – The Kidnap Kids! from Winnie Cooper on Vimeo.
Aren’t they adorable?
We sure think they’re special, check out their songs.
Kidnap Kids! – Stories
Kidnap Kids! – Ghost
Apparently they are not as cute and adorable as they look. who wrote these lyrics?
Kidnap Kids! – Lolita
And a lil soulja boy cover. ain’t no thing.
Kidnap Kids! – Crank That (Soulja Boy Cover)
Winnie TV Ep-1 / Local Natives
Our pals, Local Natives have been blowing up, I give them 6 months till they make their Letterman / SNL debut.
They were in British newspaper, The Guardian’s, new band of the day feature today.
The guys are currently traveling 44 hours straight from the house in Silverlake they share to New York to play the Bowery Ballroom and an Eastern tour.
They are making it back to Canada passing through Toronto & Montreal, June 11th & 12th. Check out more of their dates here.
If they’re passing through your city, go and see them. They are very much live musicians and will blow you away. They are also really nice guys so if you see them, go and say hi!
I am greatly honored to have had them do their first international tour date at our Winnie Cooper / No More Strangers night.
We made a lil video about their trip for a new thing were doing called Winnie-TV. Hope you like it! It features an interview, a live take away show, and footage from their performance. It also features their pals, The Union Line who played as well. They will be right behind them, so be on the look out! Their self titled debut is bad ass.
Here are some tunes from both bands that they recorded at Daytrotter!
Local Natives – Cards & Quarters
The Union Line – Rich Man’s Tune
The Union Line – Mama Don’t Care
Oh and here’s some bonus footage from the after party that didn’t make the cut and probably shouldn’t be shown.
Coeur De Pirate
Maybe I’m a just sucker for the raw vocals of almost any indie pop songstress, but this remix of Montreal’s Coeur De Pirate is tremendous.
Coeur De Pirate – Comme Des Enfants (Le Matos Andy Carmichael Remix)
No Fun City trailer
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/3967326[/vimeo]
Melissa James and Kate Kroll are making a rad documentary about how craptastic it can be to keep a venue open in Vancouver. Shawn Conner over at Guttersnipe interviewed Melissa about it so you should check that shit out too.
The Teaches of Peaches
Peaches was so fucking good that my friend let some acne-plagued teenager grind her from behind just because she was to focused on enjoying the last encore. That’s love.
I decided 5 seconds into Peaches’ set that it was too good to take notes, plus I drank moonshine for the first time, so I’m not sure how skewed my retrospective analysis is, but let me say this, a Peaches concert could easily inspire a city wide orgy and after attending Sunday’s show at the Commodore I would gladly marry her and/or adopt her as my Mom.
Peaches works with the primary agenda of being fucking awesome and putting on a rad show, but she also works in the context of addressing gender roles, made clear by her album “fatherfucker.” Cause why is saying “motherfucker” so easy when you spill your cereal, but “fatherfucker” is worthy of a bar of soap in your mouth? The presence of gender bending is evident in her prop choices: a laser between her legs, a neon phallic saber, and a blinking light over her cooch.
I’m not really even into talking about male/female power role shit, all I know is that Peaches is hairy and looks like she stinks, but she’s fucking sexy. So is her female keyboard and guitarist who did a “Hegwig and the Angry Inch” transformation during the show from an Iggy Pop look-a-like into a sparkly-lingerie-wearing bombshell.
The whole show played out like a Broadway musical that your grandmother would hate. There were multiple costume changes, including an elaborate Elvis outfit for the last of three encores. The performance also included a parody on dear old Britney Spears and her disappearance from GM place after claiming there was too much smoke in the air. Peaches stormed off the stage claiming there wasn’t enough pot smoke. She also complained that the crowd at the Red Deer show was more amped to take off their shirts. I’m not sure why, but I was enraged by this fact, I wanted everyone to take off their shirts, and their pants, beat by Red Deer?! What an embarrassment, get naked! Prove our superiority! Make Peaches love us too! Then I remembered I was wearing a bodysuit which I’d never be able to put back on given my present state, and being nude in the Commodore ballroom when the lights go on and you see all the hideous sweat faces was just not what I envisioned for myself.
Anyways, she played everyones fave Peaches tunes and her stellar new material and it was one of the best shows ever. In conclusion, here is the Haiku that I was going to submit as the review, but I thought I’d get in trouble.
Peaches Haiku
Peaches, Camel-toe
Lazer beam where dick would be
Light saber hand-job
