Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow’s Auerglass
- story Matthew Schnipper
Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow, better known as Glasser, built a tandem organ because they are best friends. It looks completely insane, a giant wooden organ with white leather air bags and Lucite framing holding train whistle pipes. The piece is part of Auerbach’s show at Deitch in New York, “Here and Now/And Nowhere,” and they play it every day in a public performance of dual unification. They also have interlocking shoes. We spoke with Auerbach and Mesirow about the creation and inner workings of the Auerglass, along with Ida Falck Øien, who designed their dresses.
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posted on Sep 23, 2009 in ART + CULTURE CHANNEL, ART + CULTURE INTERVIEWS SHOW, FADER TV tags Glasser, Tauba Auerbach
Live: FADER 63 Issue Release Party
- story THE FADER
- photo John Francis Peters
The last time we had a FADER issue release party, summer was just beginning and we couldn’t have been more psyched. Now that summer is on the way out, we are still strangely psyched. Helping our general enthusiasm for all things slightly colder and slightly darker was last night’s FADER 63 Fall Fashion Issue release party DJ’d by Kingdomand featuring a Glasser performance backed by our dudes in Tanlines (Glasslines!). After a couple minor sound difficulties were ironed out, the three performers locked into a Kate Bush-esque groove and stole our hearts immediately. After a few Budweisers, we headed out into the semi-brisk air, weirdly excited to start wearing coats again. After the jump check out a bunch of snaps from the event.
The FADER Issue 63 Podcast MP3
- story THE FADER
- photo Jason Nocito (F63)
Our annual Fall Fashion issue is covered by the unlikeliest of stars—Drake, the former teen heartthrob turned hottest thing in rap, and Girls, whose main man escaped a Christian cult to write ragged pop songs. We’re all about switching up life plans this autumn and opting for the unexpected—partially inspired by these guys, partially by performance arty fashion designer Henrik Vibskov, also featured in the issue, who we’re using as our muse into 2010 (don’t freak out if you see us in the street wearing yarn over our faces). The latest issue podcast reflects our transformational attitudes, with disparate but equally awesome tracks by Pissed Jeans, Glasser, Douster, Kingdom, Free Energy, French Montana, plus a ton more, and of course the aforementioned cover stars. Download it below while asking yourself, “HOW CAN I BE MORE AWESOME THIS AUTUMN (if that is even possible)?” And keep TheFADER.com on lock, for on September 1st, we shall post the PDF of our entire issue for free, because we’re just that into you.
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Check the tracklist after jump.
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posted on Aug 20, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Douster, Drake, F63, FADER podcast, Free Energy, French Montana, Girls, Glasser, Kingdom, Pissed Jeans
Freeload: Fool’s Gold, “Surprise Hotel” MP3
- story THE FADER
Since putting them in our new summer music issue, we’ve been keeping frequent tabs on LA’s Foreign Born and its many jamming tendrils, including the dreamy Glasser and now Fool’s Gold—principally Foreign Born’s Lewis Pesacov along with Luke Top and many, many others—extract the the flecks of Afro-pop from FB and make it the whole thing. IAMSOUND just put up this song from the collective’s self-titled album, due September 29th, and it is yet another reason to believe Los Angeles is finally coming to terms with always being sunny and near the ocean and might as well give up trying to be bummed out.
Download: Fool’s Gold, “Surprise Hotel”
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story THE FADER
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Glasser’s “Apply” 12-inch. Download two of the songs (and an exclusive YACHT remix), buy the record and read Schnipper’s thoughts on it after the jump.
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posted on Jun 2, 2009 in SLEPT ON tags electronic/dance, Glasser, Grizzly Bear, Larry King, rock, Zadie Smith
NYC: Soft Circle, Glasser and Awesome Tapes From Africa
- story THE FADER
Hello New York City, a bunch of our homies are going hard this weekend. Brian who does Awesome Tapes From Africa will be playing music like the Sunny Ade cassette above, alongside DJs from Escort and a performance from Teengirl Fantasy, who are generally confusing if not fairly colorful. This is happening in Tribeca at 92Y. Also tonight, in Brooklyn, the current beloved FADER office star, Glasser, has made her way east and is at Williamsburg’s Zebulon. And on Sunday you can go to Glasslands to see Soft Circle with Justin Miller and famous internet blogger Lovefingers DJing. Check the full flyer for that after the jump. You are going to have to figure out what to do on Saturday, we got nothing.
Video: Glasser, “Apply”
- story THE FADER
We posted an mp3 of Glasser’s “Apply” (and an exclusive YACHT remix of “Learn”) a few weeks back, but neglected to mention the wild hiccup she has early in the track, bridges the track from percussion gaggle to warm synth raga. The song’s video posits Glassers as a Rorschach blot seen through a kaleidescope. Which, if we were smarter, is what we would have said about her music in the first place.
Exclusive Freeload: Glasser, “Learn” (YACHT Remix) + More Glasser
- story THE FADER
Glasser is a young Californian who has been able to record via Garage Band for a year before now releasing her first 12-inch of bluesy dream pop on True Panther. “Apply” is a gritty number peppered with taught-skinned hand drums overlaid with her mystic coo. “Glad” is more sultry, woozy strings and stuttered maraca. And “Learn,” remixed by YACHT (and here exclusively) lifts Glasser’s lithe voice and sets it simple over a shoulder-shaking bass line. She’s a shapeshifter and a thoroughbred.
Download: Glasser, “Learn” (YACHT Remix)
Download: “Glasser, “Apply”
Download: Glasser, “Glad”
