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Amid the relentlessly changing cityscapes of Beijing and Shanghai, a new kind of music is being made. In terms of its discordance and abstraction, it compares to Dada, or the New York City and Berlin avant-garde movements of the 1970s. Yet something about it - a certain urgency and iconoclasm - could only have been spawned amid the wild experiment that is modern China itself. The country's punk and alternative-rock scenes have been gushed over by excited commentators, eager to cite them as evidence of China's changing mores. But they are staid in comparison to that created...
Tell me about the name "Girl Talk." I was coming from the more avant garde world and when I chose it, I clearly wasn't trying to figure out a game plan for a 10-year project that I would eventually live off of. Back then, I was almost using pop music as an act of rebellion, especially being part of the experimental-music community. I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing noise and feedback and having some name like X_R2. So I kind of picked the name Girl Talk because...
...decade and change later, Blur has broken up. But Albarn stayed on his artistic trajectory and has assumed the throne, vacant since David Bowie's prime, of popular music's avant-gardist in chief. In the past few years, he's launched a cartoon hip-hop band (Gorillaz), an Afro-pop album (Mali Music) and a side project with a member of the Clash. All were slightly ridiculous (hip-hop, world music, supergroup--the hubristic rock star's triple crown) but well received, yet none can quite prepare you for Albarn's latest: Journey to the West, a "circus opera...
ANTWERP Margiela The MoMu Museum presents an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of avant-garde Belgian designer Martin Margiela (through...
First things first: Yes, he's full frontal - and not in Hair-like dim light or just for a fleeting few seconds, in the manner of so many off-Broadway plays trying to demonstrate their avant-garde cojones these days. He's out there for several minutes, alongside a young actress (Anna Camp) equally on display, in a scene that, even 35 years later, is still pretty startling and (rare for the stage) actually erotic. The kid's a trouper...