Tagged: Willis Earl Beal
Download Willis Earl Beal’s Principles of the Protagonist EP
Willis Earl Beal has released a surprise, five-song EP called Principles of the Protagonist, via BitTorrent, with support from his labels, XL and Hot Charity. The EP will soundtrack an upcoming animated short of the … read more »
World Premiere! The FADER #79 Featuring Philip Glass
The most famous, absurd anecdote about Philip Glass, the subject of our annual Icon Issue this year, is that around the time Einstein on the Beach was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976, he … read more »
79
Recently, I watched Xavier Beauvois’ very good movie, Of Gods and Men. It’s a narrative film based on a true story about nine Trappist monks living in Tibhirine, Algeria during the mid-’90s, when radical Islamists … read more »
GEN F: Willis Earl Beal
Preview: This story will appear in FADER #79, on stands soon. Willis Earl Beal plays with Wu Lyf tonight in New York at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Willis Earl Beal sounds like this world is … read more »
Video: Willis Earl Beal, “Monotony”
In the video for Willis Earl Beal’s “Monotony,” someone stands on a street corner in a ski mask and goggles offering newspapers to passersby, most of whom are too wrapped up in the hustle and … read more »
Stream Willis Earl Beal’s Album Acousmatic Sorcery
The Chicago Reader, who told the tale of Willis Earl Beal‘s itinerant lifestyle and karaoke machine recordings last year, is streaming his lovely and world-weary album, Acousmatic Sorcery in full. “Monotony,” a single-strummed guitar ballad … read more »
Video: Willis Earl Beal, “Evening’s Kiss”
To apply to RISD, one of the best art schools in the country, you’ve got to submit a drawing of a bicycle, done in graphite pencil. This is a longstanding tradition, and I assume it … read more »
