Among the several activities organized by
Looking at Music —the exhibition set up at the MoMA until January 5 that looks at the prosperous creativity of musicians from the 60’s and 70’s, —
the screening of the early music videos by David Bowie stands out. Hosted by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), the event celebrates the gift from the David Bowie Archive of music videos to the Museum.
Occupying the first position of DJ Mag's Top 20 VJs, the English collective Addictive TV created a new audiovisual genre: the remix videos, collages of images at high speed combined with electronic music functioning as viral tools to promote the greatest Hollywood films. Check out their best works.
"11 y 20" is out. The promotional track is included in Quema, the new album of Bicicletas. The quintet of power rock, pop melodies and psychedelia formed by Julio Cesar Crivelli (Vocals and Guitar), Federico Wiske (Guitar), Agustin Pardo (Bass), Ignacio Valdez (Synthesizers and Guitar) and Mariano Repeto (Drums) will be in Buenos Aires to play at the biggest festivals. Between show and show, Ruki –the bassist– picked 5 albums he would carry everywhere on his iPod. "If I had one, of course," he confess.
The project Creative 30 is in its final stage. This English contest aims at discovering 30 young creative wonders that stand out in a wide range of creative disciplines, such as body art, journalism and furniture design. Vivienne Westwood, Wiley and Klaxon's James Righton are part of the panel of judges that will choose one of the two winners of the competition, since the other will be decided by the public's votes.
Not long ago, it seemed music videos have been expelled from the artistic paradise. Cool bands hated making them, MTV had stopped showing them, and innovative directors from Spike Jonze to Michel Gondry had long since moved on. Then, somewhere between OK Go's success on YouTube (more than 37 million views) and Feist choreography lesson turned into an iPod ad, music videos made a comeback. Meet this new generation of directors and their greatest hits.
All the music is already on YouTube. Under this premise, the first great successor of
Muxtape was created from the open source platform
Opentape. Its name is
Mixtube and it consists in a tool to create and listen to playlists from the million videos stored in the biggest online clip collection. Create yours!
After
Graduation, the album that contains the greatest number of hits, Kanye West has already finished his next album. It is rumored that the name will be
Good Ass Job and that
the release date is set in December. The most sensitive rapper, that will be touring across Latin America in October,
has started to present some tracks in his live performances. Check them out!
James Lavelle and his project UNKLE are back with End Titles … Stories For Film, an album inspired in movies that will be available in digital format from July 15 and in limited CD and vinyl 12" format as of September. The four tracks will be rolled out for free download at different sites. Check them out!
The
trend is growing together with fashion and ecological consciousness. Being green friendly is a daily job, and the organization I Don't Use Plastic Bags also considers so. It is
an initiative that combines craftwork, glamour and the effectiveness of social networks to promote the use of these beautiful and useful bags instead of polluting plastic bags.