On Friday, January 18, 2007 The Riverside Art Museum’s Earwax series
presents:
Music by the legendary bass player, Mike Watt
+ music by Pegasissy
+ Art by the infamous, Ray Pettibon (just look at all of your Black Flag covers to remind you). This includes Live Drawing.
Doors open at 7:00pm @ the Riverside Art Museum in
downtown Riverside.
This week, Ryan reviews Solomon’s Hip-Hopera…
With a special epilogue and confirmation by dex. Reject bin.
KUCR’s Tina Yonas talks to Jordan Elgrably ,the Artistic Director of the Leventine Center, about the upcoming show at UCR’s University Theater. The Sultans of Satire aim to bring peace through comedy. For more information, look at the post below.
To listen to the interview press play.
Hope to see you there!
This Sunday, December 2nd, KUCR and the Associated Students will sponsor the Sultans of Satire: Middle Eastern Comic Relief at UC Riverside’s University Theatre. The Sultans are Middle Eastern comedians on a mission—peace through laughter. This unique show consists of young American comedians of Arab, Iranian, Jewish, Armenian, Turkish and Greek heritage in uproarious sets of stand-up comedy.
The Sultans had an acclaimed eight-month run at the World Famous Laugh Factory on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip and just sold out 1,200 seats at USC. They now bring their cutting-edge comedy to UC Riverside — American comedians with all these different Middle Eastern backgrounds, each with their own sense of humor, breaking down barriers and getting the message across that everybody really can get along. The comedy is fresh, funny and raucous — and definitely for a college-age and up audience. For more information, tickets and comedian videos, visit sultansofsatire.com or levantinecenter.org.
The Details:
Location - at the UC Riverside University Theatre
Date - Sunday, 2nd December 2007
Time - 7:30 pm. Arrive early!
Tickets - $15 UCR Student; $20-30 General (call 951-827-4331 for the campus box office, or 310-657-5511).
Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office itself!
Click “play” below to listen:
As the title should imply, this is a list of some of the better music videos that debuted this year; one which was apparently marked by an efflorescence of color not felt in music for a long time. We could get used to this, though. The list starts out, appropriately enough, with the video for the new Daedelus single, Fairweather Friends. It begins in an animated world which has gone “101 Days Without Color” before sprouting into an extravagant spectrum. The colorful trend transcended genre boundaries, gracing everything from hip hop to indie rock with some much needed happiness. Let’s hope we haven’t seen the last of this.
Daedelus - Fair Weather Friends
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRJ2YvRv3N4[/youtube]
Daedelus’ catchiest song yet is an expression of joy unlike anything he’s offered up before.
Abe Vigoda - All Night And Day
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Mcj4UXIyY[/youtube]
This year saw the emergence of several important releases from the LA underground scene. Bands like No Age and Silver Daggers (who are also included on this list) released albums on Fat Cat and Load. Abe Vigoda, originally from Chino and frequent Smell performers, are in the midst of recording a full length this very minute. All Night and Day is a track culled from the Animal Ghosts 7″, out on PPM. The video makes the list partially because it’s built on such an amazing song, but also because the video itself is so much fun. What face paint, fake blood, catholic iconography, and food have to do with each other I don’t know, but I’m not sure it really matters. Check out Abe Vigoda’s new songs.
Escort - All Through the Night
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqRDct1IDI8[/youtube]
You probably didn’t know that you needed to witness the entire extended cast of the Muppets take part in what might be the greatest disco extravaganza of our era, but until you do you couldn’t possibly understand.
Black Dice - Kokomo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9WSNMKf_Vw[/youtube]
Black Dice are easily the most abstract band on the list and it comes as no surprise that their video is its most abstract contribution. The video for Kokomo, one of the more accessible tracks on the new Load Blown album, is comprised of collaged found footage from Saturday morning kids commercials and any number of other sources. The whole thing ends up looking like what you might expect to find if you stumbled in on a kindergarten class stuck in a transdimensional feedback loop.
Dan Deacon - Crystal Cat
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFlBJ1xZK10[/youtube]
Dan Deacon became a household name this year (well, maybe not in everybody’s house) based on his spastic performances of a style of music which is entirely his own. He’s been often quoted describing his music as “the kind of music really cool six year-olds would make” and I couldn’t pin it any closer that. This video is all neon and as ADD as any kid who’s grown up on Firefox tabbed browsing. You should also see this video in which Dan Deacon improbably manages to perform a song of his on the Savannah, Georgia NBC affiliate morning news program. With his zipper down.
M.I.A - Boyz
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZv-G7IISgs&feature=related[/youtube]
Pretty much anything that can be said about M.I.A has already been said, so anything here would more than likely be superfluous pixel space. Suffice to say that Boyz is an amazing track with an amazing video. Ms. Arulpragasm is also the only artist to have more than one entry on this list.
Sigur Ros
Hvarf/Heim
(XL; 2007)
When Radiohead fans get bored listening to Kid A and In Rainbows and feel like progging out like their parents did to King Crimson in the early 70’s, they put on Sigur Ros.
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[Wea/Relapse; 2007]
Ire Works, one of the top albums of the year, emerges as Dillinger Escape Plan’s most genre bending and innovative albums. After losing a core member and drummer, Chris Pennie, to a mediocre and half as talented band, Coheed and Cambria; Greg Puciato, Liam Wilson, Ben Weiman, Brian Benoit and replacement drummer, Gil Sharone of Stolen babies, continue the path to solidifying themselves as a band that refuses to lack integrity in a genre of music that is consuming itself; post punk and hardcore.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU2jpHmz2sI[/youtube]
Did you know that every Thursday from noon to 1 pm, you can count on hearing at least 1 hour of brilliant music, for free?
That’s right. Each and every Thursday (okay, not Thanksgiving, but you get the idea), one or more of your favorite KUCR DJs will be dropping the hot tracks right in front of the Belltower. That’s like ten bajillion watts of punk, techno, indie, hip-hop, psychobilly, and Scotty knows what else for the price of, uh, zero.
So next Thursday, be on the lookout and listenout for our beautiful new tent and our beautiful new sounds. We’ll even be posting upcoming DJ spots on the site, so you’ll know what you’re in for as you trek towards the Commons in search of new aural satisfaction.
Apparently this CD won’t be getting a whole lot of airplay on your favorite radio station. I do remember Sole doing some cool things.
Ryan Says is a weekly column featuring pithy things that Ryan writes on tape about various records that come in to KUCR.
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