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June 8, 2009 | New Music | 
by Gerry Mak |
The chapel at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church — a functioning place of worship that is also one of the city’s best music venues — was the perfect place to see Brooklyn’s Death Vessel. The first time I saw frontman Joel Thibodeau play, he was alone on stage at the Mercury Lounge in New York doing an moody, introspective, all-acoustic set. This time, he was backed by a full band that threatened to outnumber the tiny audience — an upright bassist, a lead guitarist that sometimes switched to a banjo and a ukulele, a violinist, and a drummer. The tunes they played, mainly from the new album, Nothing is Precious Enough for Us, were markedly more uplifting and dramatic than I had remembered, country rock shot through with expansive balladry and a gentleness that exploded into twangy, desert-evoking electric guitar rock-outs. A lot of people make a big fuss about how Thibodeau sounds like a girl, but to me, his soprano is beautifully genderless. At one point, one of the amps on stage buzzed with an AM radio frequency, which though unintentional, fit the performance perfectly, further driving home the sense that we were riding with the band in an old pickup somewhere on a dusty highway.
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Primarily known as a jazz musician, John Lurie also is a prolific painter. His drippy style has something mysterious and even a bit creepy about it. Read more
One of the largest contemporary construction projects in the world [it's the size of London's Hyde Park], the 220 suite Hydropolis, situated twenty metres below the surface of the Persian Gulf near Dubai, will be the first luxury underwater hotel. It’s expected to open to the public in late 2009. Read more
Ben Lee upped the label a while back, but Band of Outsiders is still probably the best label you’ve never heard of. Read more
I’ve been a big fan of Babak Radboy’s designs for a while now. I love how complex and time consuming some of his pieces look and how fresh and original they are.
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I was lucky enough to meet with John Trippe, the main man behind the popular arts based site, Fecal Face. Read more
Films involving characters faced with an impossible choice never make easy viewing, an example being the Nick Cave Australian gem, The Proposition. A nightclub manager, played with understated power by Joaquin Phoenix, is the victim here, and you actually feel truly uncomfortable as his predicament unfolds. Set in the 1980s, We Own The Night shows a real nostalgia for that period — particularly in the costumes. Read more
I’m totally addicted to a tape I downloaded from Awesome Tapes from Africa by Onipa Nua. The Ghanan street musician has since passed away, but hopefully he’s somewhere smiling knowing that his tunes make me smile as well.
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There is not a medium that UK illustrator Lizzy Stewart cannot wrap around her little finger to make the most beautiful, whimsical images. Read more
Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
T-post: the world’s first wearable magazine
So here’s the scoop. Every six weeks, T-post subscribers get a new t shirt issue in the mail, with a news story on the inside and an artist interpretation of that story on the front. Yes, we agree. It’s clever, clever. Read more
With the recession still biting, it may be time to whip out the glue and the cardboard and make your next pair of cool kicks. Don’t know how they’d manage in the rain though? Read more
Charlie Immer’s pastel-pallete sometimes obfuscates the gory violence in his surreal images. At other times, it heightens the gut-wrenching and visceral effect of his work. Read more
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
From an artist selection of t-shirts comes this limited edition David Bray illustrated silkscreened tee, distributed in a vinyl sleeve with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Every t-shirt is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic American Apparel cotton. We like! Read more
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