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INTERVIEW: DMITRY KOMIS : CHELSEA PLACE CURATOR
The Chelsea Hotel is an icon of New York’s endangered free spirit — replete with freaks, geeks, ground shakers, noise makers, and artists who just don’t give a shit about capitalist progress. Though the latter has gnashed its teeth and the Chelsea’s caboose has stuttered to a halt, the spirits in the air will never vacate the premises.
Writer and independent curator...
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One of our very favorite culture and fashion sites, Nowness, today premiered a Chinese language version of their original content, including this short about Beijing-based artist Zeng Fanzhi. It behooves you to keep an eye on them — they are excellent hunter gatherers.
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DESERT GOLD INTERVIEW : ALEX PASTERNAK OF LEMONADE
Alex Pasternak grew up in Half Moon Bay, California playing punk and hardcore and jazz bass. He studied ethnomusicology and anti-boasts a repertoire of rare magic from all four corners of the planet including Turkish Cifteteli, North African Rai, samba-reggae and Folklorico, and he mixes it all with two-step, grime, kuduro and cumbia digital. He lives in Brooklyn, plays drums with Lemonade, has...
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DESERT GOLD INTERVIEW : VANESSA WRUBLE OF...
Okayafrica editor Vanessa Wruble co-hosts a night of live music from the heart of Africa in the Amigo Room Saturday April 21 for Desert Gold. Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 present Chief Boima from Sierra Leone and Sinkane from Sudan, with Afro-futurist visuals by Just A Band from Kenya. See the full schedule and get a room.
Put some Okayafrica in your life long after the fires have cooled in the Amigo...
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DESERT GOLD INTERVIEW : FRED ARMISEN
Fred Armisen, half of comedy duo ThunderAnt with Carrie Brownstein, has an impressive resume of comedic characters ranging from Brutus, “a monkey who has been having sex with a doctor,” to Manuel Ortiz, host of The Manuel Ortiz show on Television Dominicana where he “helps with whatever it is” his audience members are going through. Fred is extremely helpful. Tonight, he...
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DESERT GOLD INTERVIEW : CARRIE BROWNSTEIN
Carrie Brownstein really requires no introduction. Early sightings include basement punk shows in Portland, OR with Sleater-Kinney and recent sightings include Portlandia and Wild Flag — both projects are taking off like rockets. Carrie DJs with co-pilot Fred Armisen Tuesday night for Desert Gold at Ace Hotel & Swim Club, and they’ll throw in some hijinks and group fun, so come...
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Watch9-piece Cumbia “musical collective” Quita Penas from Southern California play Afro-Latin & Latin-Afro sounds influenced by cumbia in Colombia to semba in Angola. Translated as “take away your worries,” the collective is working to revive traditional feel good music, getting people to dance and enjoy each other’s company. Quita Penas plays poolside tomorrow with...
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DESERT GOLD INTERVIEW : DAREK MAZZONE OF KEXP
Darek Mazzone is a coat of many colors. A DJ with 20 years notched on his belt, he’s a crown jewel at Seattle’s community radio station KEXP, is currently working some magic with Microsoft (top secret stuff) and Native Instruments, and he’s also partnering with Dubspot, a NYC-based electronic music production and DJ school whose aim is to get thousands of youngsters DJing from...
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WatchBeatrix Ost and Ludwig Kuttner on the epic, molten-core fashion blog, StyleLikeU.
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DESERT GOLD INTERVIEW : AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA
Brian Shimkovitz is curator of Awesome Tapes from Africa — an outfit that formed out of a blog he ran for years posting, you guessed it, awesome tapes from Africa that he found while traveling. He now releases new LPs, CDs and MP3s from African artists and tours the world playing both his finds and his releases. The forthcoming release from Awesome Tapes From Africa is by a gentleman named...
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