December 2009
9 posts
Fast Times at the Shalimar Motel (12/28/10)
text and photos by dana bassett There is nothing better than a brisk Monday night spent cruising seedy motels, unless, of course, there happens to be an ad-hoc art show happening inside one. “The Night Before/The Morning After” was exactly that: a prodigious yet short-lived collaboration that occupied a row of rooms on the first floor of the Shalimar Motel the evening of December 28. As the...
Freeform Friday
free-form (frē’fôrm’) [adj. free-fawrm; adv. free-fawrm]
adj.
2. characterized by an unconventional or variable form: their own freeform teaching methods.
adverb
4. without restrictions or preconceptions: The children were allowed to paint free-form.
All photos by Dana Bassett @ the America Legion on Friday, December 18 2009.
megacunt + treesa
self & other
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tomorrow @ Harvey's
6445 NE 7 AVE
9PM - FREE
performing live
TEEPEE (MIA)
Premier South Florida psych-eclecticism. Sets range from one-man fuzz anthems to blistering group freakouts.
LESSON LESSON LESSEN RELEARN (WPB)
Minimalism
SLASHPINE (MIA)
Delicious metal brought to you by an ensemble cast of usual suspects and true heroes. Hybrid brutality. Debut performance.
SELF & OTHER (MIA)
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EB @ MF
Short but solid clip of Endless Boogie’s set during Art Basel, courtesy of the New Times Crossfade blog: endless boogie live @ max fish (305)
ben franklin was a digusting lech
For a brief and bizarre period of time, Roofless HQ was based out of Philadelphia. Here are two operations we’ve kept up with since our return to the promised land. In a welcome twist of fate, the Roofless “home office” was right above that of Richie RecordsT a.k.a. TestosterTunes This was especially fortunate as certain members of our staff still haven’t stopped geeking...
weird world
Can’t wait for Glenn Beck to namedrop Skrewdriver.
future rumbles
photo of peter evans by hiroyuki ito
New York Times ran an interesting piece yesterday about the Peter Evans-led jazz quintet, which utilizes a laptop as part of their performance. Computers and avant-garde classical+jazz are certainly not strangers, but the integration of these bedrock genres with contemporary digital sorcery is still novel enough to warrant critic Ben Ratliff to situate the...
Art Basel 2009 Live Music Report
Art Basel 2009 has come to a close. Voices are hoarse and eye-bags permanently darker. Years have been shaved off our total life expectancy. In the course of driving back and forth between South Beach and the Design District, walking the length of both multiple times, drowning in the convention center and the multitude of excellent satellite fairs, getting rained on, and lapping up the subsequent...
anti-art becomes art (12/01/09)
Art Basel is this week and we’re doing our best to get as little sleep as possible. Along with the incredible overload of gallery openings, installations sprinkled across the city, parties, weirdos in costumes, exceptionally wealthy & cheesy patrons, reactionary purists, etc, there is also a large number of notable shows/concerts going on and we’re going to cover as much Basel...