Site: Ironing Board Collective
Amy Herschleb02.01.12
The thinking person’s fashion blog. From fashion in Rwanda to: Cranston, cobblers, the mementos of generations past, and Joan Didion, the bloggers…
Review of Fuckscapes by Sean Kilpatrick
James Greer01.30.12
Painterly? No that’s sort of feeble for what it is. Impressionistic? Nah…getting there but… author James Greer ponders––with his own lyrical might––the right word to describe Sean Kilpatrick’s Fuckscapes (his first collection of poetry with a title con huevos). Vomitous? Yes, but bombastically beautiful in the squalor. Here’s a revolutionary panorama of jarring rhythm that deserves your prompt attention.
First Aid Kit: The Lion’s Roar
Christina Lee01.23.12
First Aid Kit’s sophomore LP, The Lion’s Roar, is music for what ails you. Hailing from Stockholm, sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg deliver some of the most compelling Americana this side of––well, shit––Wichita.
Girls in Trouble
Winston Ward12.26.11
Douglas Light has built a world of characters tossed into the air with a fascination for their lack of safety. Their context fails to hold them on the page, and as they arc out over the unknown, Winston Ward analyzes their doomed trajectory with one eye down the barrel of a shotgun. The hunted, haunted heroines of Light’s Girls in Trouble.
The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality
Donal Mosher12.08.11
A party-line game of telephone in which each voice is distinct, The Air We Breathe grew by accretion into a conversation that stepped off the page into an exhibition at SFMOMA, running November 5, 2011 through February 20, 2012. Photographer and filmmaker Donal Mosher enters the pages of the formative text/collage on marriage equality from the mind of editor Apsara DiQuinzio and takes a look at what is on display, and what is at stake. The public and the private forms of exhibition and exchange are on the table.
Lay Mirrors in the Street / Bring Heaven Down to Earth: On Jen Benka’s Pinko
Laura Carter11.28.11
All the leaves fall off the trees in one night (as they do) and all the flowers come back red in the springtime. Laura Carter explores the loveliness in revolution of Jen Benka’s Pinko.
Music: Barreracudas: Nocturnal Missions
Amy Herschleb11.26.11
The first LP from the Barreracudas from Douchemaster Records goes down like a turkey rubbed in butter (too soon?): without tenderness but with…
Music: Oneohtrix Point Never
Casey McKinney11.26.11
You quit smoking again. You may have tried self hypnosis from a podcast. You realize there actually is porn on the iTunes site. You searched…
Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness
Christina Lee11.14.11
Faux-Welsh rockers Los Campesinos! release their third album, Hello Sadness, and Christina Lee gives her read of a geography peppered with the gouges and striations and lacunae of their maturing consciousness. And if you want to read more, try their quarterly fanzine(!) Heat Rash.
Music: Real Estate: Days
Casey McKinney11.02.11
I haven’t been doing my musical homework lately or would have noticed the new Real Estate album at the top of the Pitchfork best albums list….
