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Cultural Stimuli in CHI
Issue 44: Lance-a-lot flavor



Some say Lance Armstrong is a rebel without a cause, but for hardcore athletes like him, competition is such a magnificent obsession that it becomes its own cause. The Tour de France is no gravy train: armchair cyclists gape at the sight of Armstrong and his pack prowling the French Alps, enduring various trials and terrors. Like crafty mafia bosses planning a high-stakes heist, the Discovery Channel team has its collective eye on the prize: yellow jersey number seven. Good luck, Lance. Bike long, live strong, and spread it!

 

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Koichi Enomoto, Ruby Osorio, and John Sparagana: Girls of Summer; Coated; Summer Group Show; Trials and Terrors
discussion Chicago Green Drinks; Murder City: The Misunderstood and Bloody History of 1920s Chicago
dj Kompakt vs Underground Resistance; Hed Kandi Twisted Disco Party; Walter Meego w/ Quadraphonics vs Analog Addicts; Kid Koala
film Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan; Rebel Without a Cause; Murderball
music Gravy Train!!!!; Eva Ayllon; Maria Taylor w/ Statistics; Ruins w/ Big Business and Yowie; Junior Brown; Dungen; Turin Brakes w/ West Indian Girl; Jason Loewenstein
panel Authors Roundtable
spectacle PISTIL Prom
fairChicago Craft Mafia: Summer Shakedown
readingReading Under the Influence Round 3: Suicide
FEAT a new yellow journalism The Banana King zine; cd review Fantômas, Suspended Animation; streams BBC Collective


Spotlight






Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


DISCUSSION: Environmental Mixer
Chicago Green Drinks

when: Tue 7.19 (6:30-9:15pm)
where: Jefferson Tap (325 N Jefferson, 312.670.7812) map
price: $4
links: Event Info | Jefferson Tap

Though the title reads like another St. Pat's bar binge, this event actually focuses on ecology and sustainability. (Don't worry — there's still alcohol involved.) Chicago Green Drinks is in fact a networking party for the Sierra Club crowd, also open to anyone interested in discussing environmental issues. The evening includes a panel discussion on cycling in Chicago, featuring local luminaries such as Nick Jackson, director of planning for the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, and Gin Kilgore, founder of Cycling Sisters. Bring plenty of good questions and some business cards — just make sure they're made from recycled paper. (PS)



MUSIC: Swede-a-delica
Dungen w/ Lichens

when: Tue 7.19 (10pm)
where: The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, 773.276.3600) map
price: $12
links: Event Info | Dungen

Following a hot, sticky weekend in Union Park at the Intonation Music Festival, guitarist Reine Fiske joins his fellow Swedish psychotropes in Dungen, including jack-of-all-instruments Gustav Ejstes, for a rare stateside excursion into the cavernous beauty of the Empty Bottle. 90 Day man Rob Lowe (not that Rob Lowe) brings the honeybee drone of his superb psych side project Lichens — set to debut on Kranky later this year — in for an opening trip. (SB)



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

when: Wed 7.20 (9pm)
where: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall (Northwestern University, 50 Arts Circle Dr, 847.491.5441) map
price:
links: Event Info

Grant Park isn't the only outdoor venue re-creating the drive-in experience for Chicagoans this summer — Northwestern's Block Cinema hosts its own open-air film festival all season, screening a selection of oldies-but-goodies on the wall of the campus' lakefront concert hall. And since the "screen" doesn't cost a thing, Block Cinema passes the savings on to you, the viewer, and waives admission. This week's selection is the classic turbocharged teen-angst drama Rebel Without a Cause. See James Dean's legendary juvenile pout-and-panache blown up bigger than life. (PS)



DJ
Walter Meego w/ live DJ battle: Quadraphonics vs Analog Addicts

when: Wed 7.20 (9:30pm)
where: The Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave, 773.227.4433) map
price: $6
links: Event Info | Walter Meego | Quadraphonics

"Quadraphonic sound" refers to a technological development in the early '70s, in which four channels of audio were crammed into a record player's two skimpy channels. While the system has fallen into obsolescence, its musical namesake — the Quadraphonics — continues to break new ground in hip-hop (check their remix of Common's "The Corner"). Tonight's event pits the group against another Chicago crew, the Analog Addicts, whose repertoire includes breaks, funk, soul, and hip-hop. Also up is Walter Meego, a sentimental electronic group that currently occupies a coveted summer residency at the Hideout, and that takes its cues from Air, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, and Amon Tobin. (VG)

  In the sitcom Full House, what did the "D.J." in D.J. Tanner stand for? The first and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.



ALSO ON WED

READING
Reading Under the Influence Round 3: Suicide
Wed 7.20 (7-10pm) Sheffield's Beer and Wine Garden (3258 N Sheffield Ave, 773.281.4989) map $3

Event Info
 
Indulge in some liquored-up literature as you listen to selections from authors who offed themselves. Relax, imbibe, and win prizes for guessing for whom the bell tolled. (QH)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Afro-Peruvian
Eva Ayllon

when: Thur 7.21 (7 & 10pm)
where: HotHouse (31 E Balbo Ave, 312.362.9707) map
price: $30 / $25 advance
links: Event Info | Eva Ayllon

"The Queen of Afro-Peruvian Landó" sets off a noche caliente tonight at the HotHouse. With over 20 hit records under her belt, Eva Ayllon is a superstar in her home country, and is widely considered the leading interpreter of Peruvian music in the world at large. The combination of Ayllon's seductive vocals and her sextet's driving rhythms leads to an irresistible blend of poetry, intensity, history, and force. Singing only the finest valses Peruanos (Peruvian waltzes), criollo, festejos, and landós, Ayllon mixes African and Spanish styles to create a picture of Peru like no other. (KS)

  Which musica criolla style also doubles as the Peruvian national dance? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.



DJ
Kid Koala

when: Thur 7.21 (9pm)
where: Abbey Pub (3420 W Grace St, 773.478.4408) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Kid Koala

Dorked-out turntable golden child Kid Koala got signed by Ninja Tune in the late-'90s based largely on the strength of his wildly successful underground mixtape Scratchcratchratchatch — a testament to the connoisseur-level talent and ingenuity of the Montreal-based DJ. Koala's range includes everything from masterful turntable noodling, such as sampling crazy pollos on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome's "Like Irregular Chickens," to ingenious future-forward amalgams like the molten jazz vision of Some of My Best Friends Are DJs' "Basin Street Blues." When he's not inking his own sprawling graphic novels, Koala tours like a maniac, opening for Radiohead and the Beastie Boys, and spinning beside hip-hop tastemakers like Dan the Automator, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Coldcut, and more. (RS)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Murderball

when: Opens Fri 7.22
where: Landmark's Century Centre Cinema (2828 N Clark St, 773.509.4949) map
price: $9.50
links: Event Info | Murderball

Focusing on Olympic-level quadriplegic rugby players, Murderball is at once a backstage story, a reconciliation saga, a rehab drama, a classic sports documentary, and a crash course in how to convey a potentially maudlin topic with grace and humor. For the US team members, it's not as if just playing is winning, Special Olympics style. In their armored chairs, they are cyborg gladiators: part man, part machine, and completely out for blood. Each of them has already conquered so much internal strife in order to come to terms with their physical limitations that they radiate a Buddha-like equanimity, just below the surface of their boys-will-be-boys bluster. (LR)



MUSIC: Sexed-Up Disco
Gravy Train!!!!

when: Fri 7.22 (9pm)
where: Open-End Gallery (2000 W Fulton, 312.738.2140) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Gravy Train!!!!

Gravy Train!!!! dispense their hyperactive electro-perve with suprising good cheer. Foursome Hunx, Chunx, Funx, and Junx sing songs comprised primarily of anthems to Astroglide and descriptions of explicit acts with hamburgers. In a post-Peaches climate, Gravy Train!!!! won't shock you, but that's OK. The band's pure excitement about yelling lyrics that would have gotten them expelled from Catholic school is enough to rouse any crowd. Armed with Wesley Willis-reminiscent keyboard demos and middle-school humor, Gravy Train!!!! aren't here to push boundaries or provide background for toe-tapping hipsters — they just want to see those booties bounce. (AN)

  Other than brown gravy, what are the key ingredients in the Jersey-area delicacy "disco fries"? The second and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.



DJ
Kompakt vs Underground Resistance feat. Superpitcher and James Pennington

when: Fri 7.22 (10pm)
where: SmartBar (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | Kompakt | Underground Resistance

If techno ever held a title fight, it's safe to say that the contestants would probably hail from the industrial and musical centers of Michigan and Germany. Both locales have been training electronic producers for decades, with their indigenous talent continually teasing out new sounds from synths and drum machines — making this friendly international match a must-see. In one corner is Superpitcher (aka Aksel Schaufler), purveyor of dark, moody electronic music representing the Cologne-based Kompakt label; in the other is James Pennington, who records as the Suburban Knight for the famed Underground Resistance label, representing Detroit's Motown. Local DJ prodigy and flavorpill CHI scribe M50 opens the evening. Get ready to rumble. (PS)

  What does it mean if something is the pièce de résistance? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.



MUSIC: High-Octane Honky-Tonk
Junior Brown

when: Fri 7.22 (10pm)
where: Subterranean (2011 W North Ave, 773.278.6600) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Junior Brown

The rule of thumb for country music is that if Nashville ignores it, it's gotta be good. Austin's Junior Brown gets two of those backhanded thumbs up for not following the pop-dressed-up-in-a-cowboy-hat direction that "hot" country has taken, choosing instead to apply some heavily wonked-out innovation to Ernest Tubb-influenced honky-tonk. While pouring his barroom baritone into lyrics wrapped in puns and wordplay, Brown gets down to business on a custom six-string/lap-steel Telecaster dubbed the "guit-steel," dispensing blazing guitar licks with constant detours into surf, swing, rock, and whatever else is handy. Touring in support of his recent Greatest Hits album, count on Brown to barnstorm through a little bit of everything. (QH)

  In honor of Junior Brown's first album, 12 Shades of Brown, name at least three different shades of brown. Our two favorite responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.



MUSIC: Noise
Ruins w/ Big Business and Yowie

when: Fri 7.22 (10:30pm)
where: The Bottom Lounge (3206 N Wilton, 773.975.0505) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | The Bottom Lounge | Ruins | Yowie | Big Business

Ruins were shredding eardrums and driving bespectacled music nerds into a frenzy more than a decade before Lightning Bolt first blasted out of a Providence basement with their fuzzed-out Van Halen licks. Inspired by the intensity of punk and the complexity of bands such as France's Magma, drummer Yoshida Tatsuya formed the prog-thrash duo in 1985; since then, they've melted faces with releases on both Tzadik and Skin Graft. But it's their live shows that make avant-hipsters pee themselves. "That song was a cover," Tatsuya once announced after a number, "but you may not recognize it. It's 'Ride the Lightning' backwards." Fellow skronk cubists Yowie and Big Business open. (GM)

Note: This show is part of Ruins' Bassist Wanted Tour, as longtime bassist Hisashi Sasaki has left the band.

  In 50 words or less, tell us about a time in which your day was ruined. Our favorite response wins a pair of tickets to this event.



ALSO ON FRI

FAIR
Chicago Craft Mafia: Summer Shakedown
Fri 7.22 (8-11pm) Catalyst Ranch (656 W Randolph St, 312.207.1710) map FREE

Event Info
 
The Chicago Craft Mafia, part of the "extended Craft Mafia familia," triumphantly strongarms its way back into the city in a spray of machine-gun cozies and other crafty wears. (AF)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART: Opening
Trials and Terrors

when: Sat 7.23 (10am-5pm)
where: Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E Chicago Ave, 312.280.2660) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Trials and Terrors assembles works that evoke uncomfortable and unnerving confrontations with reality. The exhibit focuses on large-scale installations: Bruce Nauman's Hanging Carousel (George Skins a Fox) is a nearly 17-foot-wide mobile exploring hunting and taxidermy, which magnifies the conflicted, romanticized relationship between the present and past. Another highlight is Kara Walker's Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South, a cut-paper installation of silhouettes that uses visual tropes of slavery to interpret America's still-racist present. Less Halloween funhouse than psychological thrill-ride, Trials and Terrors sketches the journey from complacence to unease and back again. (MP)

Note: This exhibition runs through Sun 9.25 (schedule).



DISCUSSION
Murder City: The Misunderstood and Bloody History of 1920s Chicago w/ Ira Glass and Michael Lesy

when: Sat 7.23 (7:30pm)
where: Harris Theater for Music and Dance (205 E Randolph Dr, 312.334.7777) map
price: $30
links: Event Info

As kids today try to taser their genitals because Johnny Knoxville did it on Jackass, give thanks you're not living in 1920s Chicago, when young'uns were totally into aping the double homicides they saw splashed across newspaper headlines. It wasn't just bored youths like Leopold and Loeb and bigshot mobsters like Al Capone with blood on their hands, though — average citizens weren't exactly saints, either. It seems that everybody had an itchy trigger finger and wanted in on the death-wave sweeping the city. Chicago Public Radio's Ira Glass talks with author Michael Lesy (Wisconsin Death Trip, Dreamland) about Chicago's bizarre bloodlust, delving into the details behind the murders. (QH)



SPECTACLE
Don't Stop Believing: PISTIL Prom

when: Sat 7.23 (9pm)
where: The Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave, 773.227.4433) map
price: $6 donation
links: Event Info | PISTIL

The nouveau-feminist fashionistas from PISTIL magazine bring their rough-and-ready style to the Hideout tonight for Don't Stop Believing: PISTIL Prom. DJs Beau, Easy Rider, and How Could God Let this Happen? spin an '80s-influenced mix sure to summon the smell of wine and cheap perfume (read: plenty of Steve Perry), and probably memories of wedgies, swirlies, and Milwaukee's Best. Worthy of powder blue tuxedos, flammable hair, and, in the end, the geek getting the girl, PISTIL Prom may be your last chance to confront/celebrate the ghosts of proms past. (SB)

  What did you wear to your senior prom? Our two favorite responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.



DJ
Hed Kandi Twisted Disco Party

when: Sat 7.23 (9pm)
where: Park West (322 W Armitage Ave, 773.929.5959) map
price: $30
links: Event Info | Hed Kandi

British electronica label-cum-radio station Hed Kandi unleashes its blend of disco house upon the Second City tonight, as DJs Mark Doyle and Eric Kupper criss-cross-crash it up stateside. Doyle — Hed Kandi's founder — left the label just this past month to pursue spinning, floating, and taking deep breaths at Ibiza and beyond. It all comes together with his deckmate for the evening, Kupper, who helped launch Def Mix Productions with Chicago house legend Frankie Knuckles. Finally, teenage fantasies come true as knockout Danish duo S.O.A.P. keep the party rocking into the wee hours of the morn. (SB)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Anti-Rock Brakes
Turin Brakes w/ West Indian Girl

when: Sun 7.24 (8pm)
where: Double Door (1572 N Milwaukee Ave, 773.489.3160) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | Turin Brakes | West Indian Girl

Where Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian differ most from other contemporary acoustic rock duos is in the intensity of their sound. Far from the soothing quietude of, say, Kings of Convenience, the duo conjures majestic sonic peaks through a combination of deft musicianship and intricate harmonies. Paridjanian's enviable fretwork is a perfect match for his bandmate's singular, falsetto-drenched melodies, while Knights' strumming likewise complements his cohort's spot-on vocal counterpoint; their third and latest album, JackInABox, finds them springing some sunny surprises from their typically melancholy midst. West Coast psych purveyors and Astralwerks labelmates West Indian Girl open tonight's show. (DL)

  What is the name of the brake-pad company in the 1995 film Tommy Boy? The fourth and eighth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.



ALSO ON SUN

MUSIC: Post-Lo-Fi
Jason Loewenstein w/ Those Peabodys
Sun 7.24 (9:30pm) The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, 773.276.3600) map $10 / $8 advance

Event Info
 
Get all nostalgic about the post-grunge '90s as Jason Loewenstein, aka the Other Dude in Sebadoh, hits the Empty Bottle stage with some indie-rollicking new tunes. Austin, TX, power-pop jerks Those Peabodys open. (TG)



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


PANEL
Authors Roundtable: On Authorship, Blogs, and the Changing Literary Landscape

when: Mon 7.25 (7-9pm)
where: Sulzer Regional Public Library (4455 N Lincoln Ave, 312.744.7616) map
price:
links: Event Info

Writers don't just want rooms of their own — they want readers, lots and lots of readers. Gutenberg's invention may have helped push words on paper out to a larger audience, but bits 'n bytes now give writers unprecedented access to readers, and vice versa. In this Authors Roundtable organized by Chicago-centric webzine Gapers Block, local writers Wendy McClure, Kevin Guilfoile, Erin J. Shea, and Claire Zulkey join San Francisco literary critic Kevin Smokler and GB editor Andrew Huff to discuss how weblogs and online publications (mais, oui!) have forever altered the author/reader relationship without spilling so much as a drop of ink. (AF)



MUSIC: Melancholia
Maria Taylor w/ Statistics

when: Mon 7.25 (8pm)
where: Schubas (3159 N Southport Ave, 773.525.2508) map
price: $10 / $8 advance
links: Event Info | Maria Taylor | Statistics

One-half of the oft-melancholy duo Azure Ray, and one-quarter of Now It's Overhead, Maria Taylor has struck out alone with a new set of hanky-worthy tunes. You can feel the icy Nebraska winters in each song, and even her more upbeat numbers have a mournful pull to them. It's easy to miss the harmonies she shared with Orenda Fink, but she manages to turn that loss in her favor, making her sound like a lone voice in a cold forest. On the other side of the volume meter is Bright Eyes' buddy and ex-Desaparecidos cohort Denver Dalley's emo-friendly Statistics. (JCF)

  If an azure ray, a red ray, and a yellow ray intersected, what color would they produce? The fourth and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.



Ongoing / Upcoming TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM: Architecture
Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan (2004)

when: Sat 7.23 - Tue 7.26 (schedule)
where: Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St, 312.846.2600) map
price: $9
links: Event Info | Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, and died two years after Sputnik was launched into orbit by the Russkies. Certainly a great architect, Wright's buildings and influence were surpassed only by his outsized ego. (Over the course of his 75-year career, Wright denied that he had himself been influenced by a single person or thing, his genius apparently having sprung fully formed from his downy head.) Magnificent Obsession seeks to expose the pervasive influence of Japanese art and architecture on the work of America's most famous architect — a task made easier by the fact that Wright's not around anymore to refute it. (CF)

Note: Co-directors Karen Severns and Koichi Mori field questions after all three screenings.



ART
Koichi Enomoto, Ruby Osorio, and John Sparagana: Girls of Summer

when: Now through Sat 7.30 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm)
where: Monique Meloche (118 N Peoria St, 312.455.0299) map
price:
links: Event Info | Koichi Enomoto | Ruby Osorio | John Sparagana

The fact that the title of this exhibition triggers a mental loop of the infuriatingly catchy Don Henley song of (almost) the same name would be a drawback, if the works of Koichi Enomoto, Ruby Osorio, and John Sparagana weren't as visually compelling as they are. Osorio and Enomoto create post-post-feminist takes on femininity; their works on paper feature cute/sinister bunnies, deer, doe-eyed beauties, and butterfly-winged Harajuku girls rendered in delicate, candy-colored watercolors and thread. Sparagana's signature "worried," or hand-fatigued, fashion magazine ads, meanwhile, have former It-Girl models fading into a spectral nowhere, warning, "Don't look back / You can never look back." (AF)



ART
Summer Group Show at Contemporary Art Workshop

when: Now through Fri 8.5 (Tue-Fri: 12:30-5:30pm)
where: Contemporary Art Workshop (542 W Grant Pl, 773.472.4004) map
price:
links: Event Info

A fittingly casual summer group exhibit, this mix of works by emerging artists in painting, drawing, and sculpture presents some pleasingly unexpected connections. Harmonies emerge in Alex Lu's inventive drawings in gouache and ink and Patrick Walsh's sophisticated, colored-marker abstractions, in paintings by Vanessa Murray and Tracy Taylor, and in drawings by Alex May and Aline Cautis. In the front gallery, Todd Chilton's painting White Squares is stunning, a white grid over a sequence of bold color horizons; likewise, William O'Brien's sculpture composed of wood, paper, and electronics is somewhat cryptic, somewhat familiar, and fully poetic. (EH)



ART
Coated

when: Now through Sat 8.6 (Sat: 12-6pm)
where: Gallery 40000 (1001 N Winchester, 773.342.4930) map
price:
links: Event Info

A group show at this fresh gallery in the Ukrainian Village conjures images of life beyond urban streets, from the forest, snowy mountains, and outer space. In Josh Mannis' mesmerizing video Soldier, a ghostly woman wearing a cat mask dances to a pulsing bass score; Dan Anhorn presents Avalanche Fences, rows of miniature snow-hazard barriers that appear to have been relocated from steep mountain slopes onto the gallery floor; and Zachary Buchner creates tension between comfort and confusion with Asteroid — a solid, wooden, many-limbed, origami-like object covered in golden dust. (EH)



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  A NEW YELLOW JOURNALISM: The Banana King zine  

All hail The Banana King, the lit zine willing to put a magnifying glass to the map of life. Borrowing its name from a character in Jack Kerouac's classic American journey On the Road, the publication hosts stellar live readings all over town. Word to the wise: snatch the latest issue up as quickly as you can from discriminating retailers. From fiction to non-fiction to poetry, the zine's able stable of writers develop characters so vivid, it's as if they're standing before you — or perhaps as if you are looking in a mirror. And best of all, Banana King contains the kind of poignancy and depth that will keep the wheels in your head turning long after you've put it down. (MH)



 


  CD REVIEW: Fantômas, Suspended Animation  

Ipecac Recordings
Released April 2005
$12.99 (Amazon)

Suspended Animation sounds like Mike Patton and his Fantômas supergroup have been battling yakuza clowns from outer space. Their arsenal on the album includes boings and splats from the Acme armory and Speak & Spell samples to augment the steely and impossibly precise riffs from the Melvins' King Buzzo, whip-thrash blast-beats from Slayer's Dave Lombardo, bass and compositional derangement from Mr. Bungle's Trevor Dunn, and of course, the schizoid voice of fellow Bungler Patton himself. Fantômas' M.O. is always high concept — on S.A., each track corresponds to a day in April, and the CD is packaged in a calendar illustrated by cutesy pop artist Yoshitomo Nara — but Patton's been able to make metalheads and Wire-reading dorks alike drop their shorts. (GM)


 


  STREAMS: BBC Collective  

The BBC Collective's stated intent is simple: to exchange views on new music, film, and culture. And what a job they do. The site is among the best on the web to get the scoop on forthcoming albums and preview full tracks as well as participate in interactive discussions. This week, we have Gilles Peterson talkin' loud about his new African music compilation (with full tracks from Konono No.1 and Letta Mbulu) as well as the Juan Mclean on his new DFA release. Finally, Ninja Tune's Fink throws down a 60-minute DJ mix of the beats, breaks, and funk that we know and love from the imprint. (CJN)



Gilles Peterson: Interview & tracks
The Juan Maclean: Interview & tracks
Fink: Ninja Tune mix (Beats 'n breaks)


 


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