Shiina Ringo
by Japan’s best kept musical secret, Shiina Ringo has been around since the late 90s and is regarded as a major star in Japan. The closest Western parallel you could draw would be Bjork, her music is endlessly interesting to me. The added veneer of cultural disconnection makes her art a puzzle sometimes, which is very alluring.
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Jonathan Lethem’s book: The Fortress Of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem wrote his book, The Fortress Of Solitude, very loosely about his childhood growing up in Brooklyn as a young comic book obsessive. It pulls in themes of race, street art, childhood dynamics, the seeming endlessness of urban street life and lots of music and comic book references. It’s no coincidence that the two main characters are called Dylan and Mingus.
The Radiant Child: documentary about Jean Michel Basquiat
This is a recent documentary about my longtime obsession, Jean Michel Basquiat, made by his friend Tamra Davis, who knew him well enough to film him at the time working and in conversation. Footage of Jean Michel Basquiat is, sadly, rather rare, so I savour every second of this documentary. Check out the trailer, some of which is very aptly spliced to Dizzy Gillespie’s Salt Peanuts.
Barbiero and Ghaphery: wild improvised jazz
This is a brand new project from Silver Spring by Jazz bassist, Daniel Barbiero, and reed and wind player, Jimmy Ghaphery. All the pieces are recorded in one take and totally improvised, ranging from hard-edged full-on improvised blasts, to reflective bowed bass and flute. This is some of the best improvised music I’ve heard in a very long time.
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Infinite Comic takes random Flickr images and pairs them with random Twitter tweets to create a comic. Users can type in search terms to look for related images and tweets for a more custom comic, but the results are still absurd and amusingly non-sensical.
Yooouuutuuube is a mesmerizing site that divides your browser into hundreds of screens, each of which plays any YouTube video on frame later than the previous screen, resulting in a psychedelic experience bound to waste hours of your time.
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I’m kinda obsessed with this track by Kansas City hipsters, Republic Tigers. Maybe it’s the Phil Spector-ish wall of sound harmonies or perhaps it’s the thumping bass riff, which drives the ear worm melody. Whatever. In these times of throwaway pop, it’s the well crafted and subtely produced songs that are truly memorable, and these guys have it in spades, as reflected right across their brilliant debut album, Keep Color.
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Japanese designer Kazuki Kuraishi has come up with the Ian Brown ObyO KZK shoes for adidas Originals and the ex-Stone Roses frontman has his very own limited edition with a bit of his monkey magic tattooed all over it.
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