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Hypnotizing Punk Loops and Binary Art in Pittsburgh
It seems like every month Pittsburgh gets name-checked on one hot list or another.
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It seems like every month Pittsburgh gets name-checked on one hot list or another.
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La Mélancolie des dragons is a magical play from director Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio about a crew of inventive metalheads.
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There have been losses. Terrible losses. And yet, somehow the underground finds its way.
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The best work of 2016 in the land of metal, noise, avant rock, out-there jazz, and in-there experimental.
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Obviously, this list needs to go to 11.
Music
We've been through this before. I'm a HUGE Ai Weiwei fan. He somehow continues to send out beautiful and challenging transmissions from behind the bonefart razor wall of oppression and torture that is the Chinese government. He was a 100 percenter as far as I was concerned, from intention to viewpoi
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Look, Ai Weiwei's been through hell. But that doesn't mean he needs to put the rest of us through it. And yet, here we are — "Dumbass" has arrived. In terms of metal, Ai Weiwei, in one song, has become the Billy Ray Cyrus of the genre. Billy Ray is about as country as Pat Boone was heavy metal. And
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For the third and final installment in his series of YouTube Essays, called YouTube Archive + Anarchy, blogger and curator Brent Burket pretty much goes for broke. If this doesn't get you pumped about YouTube, or at least disturbed enough to stop using it for a few days, there's no hope for you. Fro
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For the second in his series of YouTube Essays, YouTube Archive + Anarchy, blogger and curator Brent Burket selects a mix of art and music, collecting YouTube music videos, amateur documentation of video art pieces and performance art. Check out a Katy Perry introduction and feminist firecracker Kar
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For a fan of art like me, YouTube is a gold mine. I remember when I was in college about the only access I had to the art and music scene in New York City was pouring over the New York Times in the library. The rest was imagination. YouTube brings art and music closer, no matter where you are or whe
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Starting Wednesday, Brooklyn blogger and curator Brent Burket will be curating a three-day YouTube retrospective that mines the insanity of the online video juggernaut to find gems and germs that are sometimes painful to watch but always entertaining. His mission was to present an array of short vid
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And as soon as it started it is now concluded … in our final installment of the complete review of The Brucennial: 229. Lola Schnabel - Generation Next; 230. Tom Fruin - Didn’t like this until I saw the stitching. All our comforts, sewn together in a skin suit; 231. Shelly Silvers - Screen koan. Thi