Live: No Age @ MoMA
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After showing a Patrick O’Dell selected variety of skateboarding videos spanning the last thirty years, everyone moved upstairs to MoMA’s atrium, double fisted some of those tiny airplane beers, and No Age got to work at the Museum’s atrium. They bumped old hits and a few new ones, not quite right for a museum, though also somehow appropriate with their youthful nihilism. Isn’t that the point of art? No Age is the new Basquiat. Fittingly, before this all went down, we stopped in the bathroom and heard an official yelling at no one in particular about how this place is a museum, damn it, and there should not be any graffiti in the bathroom. High/low culture clash—careful what you wish for. Check it all out filmed by the inimitable Ray Concepcion.
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posted on Oct 19, 2009 in EVENTS CHANNEL, EVENTS SPECIALS, FADER TV, FADER TV Spotlight tags FADER TV, MoMA, No Age, Ray Concepcion
FADER VS MOMA: Battle of the Estelle Summer Parties
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You may be aware that Estelle was on our Summer Music issue cover last year. And you may have even been at our issue release party where she performed. Or maybe you aren’t or weren’t. Or maybe you are and you missed it and you wish you hadn’t and now you are like “Man it is summer and I want to hear Estelle.” This post is for you then, friend. Because Estelle is performing at MOMA’s annual Party in the Garden. Which is awesome. So, on the one hand, our party was free. On the other hand, theirs is in a garden. Not sure who wins yet. Go next Tuesday and report back.
Video: Department of Eagles, “No One Does it Like You”
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Department of Eagles premiered their new Patrick Daughters/Marcel Dzama co-directed video for “No One Does it Like You” at MoMA’s PopRally last night and, during their Q+A, all the video’s crew could talk about was how they had no budget. Actually that wasn’t all they could talk about but they seemed pretty bewildered and stoked that the video actually materialized through favors and kindness. Someone somewhere had to have rubbed some pennies together, though, as dancing ninja ghost soldiers can’t come cheap. After the video screened and the panel spoke (with Daughters’ disembodied faux-French accented voice booming from above) the Eagles came out and played a crisp set of whispy, peppy folk. They closed with “No One Does it Like You,” and apologized for not being able to have 17 tracks of audio like the studio recording. Pretty sure they didn’t mean it, though.
FADER TV: Gang Gang Dance Live at MoMA
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Gang Gang Dance performed last night at MoMA’s party for the Armory Show, which opened today and runs through March 8th. They played on the building’s back steps in front of the sculpture garden and a friend who waved a flag cut from a garbage bag. The set was cut in half by Lizzi Bougatsos ad-libbing “now you’re in the Caribbean” over some light electronic beats. Then she talked about drinks with umbrellas in them. For those of you who weren’t able to attend the hundred dollar a head benefit for the museum, we filmed the band’s performance. See it here (or on German television, who looked like they had really fancy equipment).
NYC: Thurston Moore Explains Fairly Straightforward David Bowie Videos
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We try to make our way up to MoMA as often as possible, if only just to pound Bloody Marys at The Modern. But tonight there is extra incentive to visit as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore introduces and discusses some of David Bowie’s music videos, which were recently gifted to the museum by Bowie as part of the museum’s Looking at Music series. It’s not exactly clear what Thurston is going to talk about since most of the early Mick Rock-directed videos are just Bowie standing there looking awesome, but we’re sure he’ll have something interesting to say. For a teaser, above is one that is surely in the exhibit, “Life on Mars?” from 1973, and here’s what we predict Thurston Moore will say about it: “His hair looks really great in this one.” Buy tickets here, and if you have iTunes you can pick up some of Bowie’s 1972 Peel Sessions in the UK Store today, as well.
On The Street: We Saw Colors
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Color Chart premiered at the MoMA last Saturday eve and to kick off the exhibit the DFA roster (Holy Ghost!, the Juan MacLean, T&T, Justin Miller & Jacques Renault) spun us into a psychedelic electro rave—think Damien Hirst meets glow sticks. Ok, so maybe not that dramatic, but we definitely had a healthy serving of color-clad styles and even some Jasper Johns ‘Grey’ enthusiasts to counter the neon spray. While we sported our own versions of vintage black, others balled out in bright pink jumpers and electric yellow-blocked sweaters. Still, there’s no denying the subtle dark shades of one particular geometric coat and a finely executed cap’d couplet. Lesson learned: grey does love neon.
