Tagged: Antony and the Johnsons
Antony Hegarty on the Life of Kazuo Ohno
The covers of the last two Antony and the Johnsons releases feature black and white portraits Kazuo Ohno, a frail man posed strangely. Ohno, the Japanese founder of the impressionist butoh style of dance, passed … read more »
Marina Abramović Made Me Cry (Unless You are Antony Hegarty)
Right now at New York’s MoMA, Marina Abramović has a piece of art called “The Artist is Present” where you sit across from her at a table and don’t say anything. That’s it. It’s free, … read more »
Video: Antony and the Johnsons, “Crazy in Love” (Beyonce Cover)
“Crazy in Love” was the jam the summer it came out. This was 2003, before Serato, and with the official 12-inch being just remixes, DJs either found the super random white label (Killah Kuts was … read more »
Coachella 2009 – Sunday Photos
Featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Devendra Banhart, The Cure, Lykke Li, Antony and the Johnsons and Peter Bjorn and John. read more »
Hospice
Hospice, the album, is a fictional narrative set in hospice care with two central characters: The Narrator (referred to as “I”) and The Patient (who seems to be his girlfriend). The story begins with the Narrator learning the Patient will die. The album’s time frame is a likely a few weeks or months until her inevitable death. read more »
Exclusive Download – The pAper chAse "What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning)"
The pAper chAse will be releasing their new album Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1), late next month on Kill Rock Stars Records, so we thought we would share a taste of what is to come from John Congleton and his band with an exclusive listen to “What Should We Do?”. read more »
Latitude Festival Headliners Released Early
The headliners for this year’s Latitude Festival have been revealed early, and among those performing this year are Grace Jones, Nice Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pet Shop Boys and Bat for Lashes, among others. read more »
Wildly Abstract And Constantly Oblique: An Interview With Antony Hegarty
“Now Antony,” I muse, roughly halfway through our conversation, “tell me how your romantic relationships have affected your songwriting.” There is a pause; then he simultaneously scoffs and laughs at my quasi-investigative journalism. “Well, I do a great cover of a Beyoncé song [“Crazy In Love”], I don’t know if you’ve heard it.” We both laugh. “That’s as confessional as you’re going to get out of me.” read more »
The Crying Light
“Hope there’s someone to take care of me when I die,” sang Anthony Hegarty on 2005’s breakthrough I Am A Bird Now. “I need another world/ This one’s nearly gone,” he sings now on The Crying Light. These lyrics encompass the central difference between the two releases: the former, a confessional journey of personal and sexual identity, inwardly focused intended for cathartic release; the latter, Antony’s reflection on the changing world environment and his own relationship with it. This theme, especially analogized through his maternal and paternal relationships, is at the forefront of this record. Opener “Her Eyes Underneath the Ground”, whose soft piano introduces Antony’s quavering voice, deals with all these elements. Even Antony admits it; initially a song about his mother, he began feeling it was more about his mother’s relationship with her own mother, then it became about our relationship with ecology. read more »
