Word: discoing
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...studio, Swaffield recycles carefully scavenged refuse from across the continent into rare works of art?pieces like Bali, an achingly exquisite collage finished in gold leaf, or Chinatown, an exuberant homage to Swaffield's favorite Hong Kong graffiti artist. Hanging in his tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from discarded spectacles, each pair of which Swaffield first tried on to check the refractive qualities. ("I got conjunctivitis making it," he says.) Another work, called Solewave?a collage of 350 ocean-bleached flip-flops plucked from various Sri Lankan beaches?recalls the swirling intensity of a Van Gogh...
...band names go, “The Prom” is a pretty odd choice. In terms of music, the prom recalls cheesy disco compilations and the tasteless dance remixes. Memories of calamities like “The Electric Slide,” “YMCA” and Britney’s first big hit, once repressed, emerge from dark, hidden recesses...
...Meeting with a Palestinian journalist, who had to travel illegally to Jerusalem because he is not an Israeli citizen, called attention to the civil rights violations that have occurred in the wake of the Intifada. Hearing the immense sorrow of a woman who lost her daughter in the Dolphinaria disco bombing brought home the fear and pain of living every day under the shadow terror...
Indeed, S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. is pretty good. Along with Phyllis, their trusty drum machine, the Sacramento-turned-NYC based quartet breeds unique and complex instrumental rock that might be described as post-rock given the remix treatment by disco-nouveau duo Metro Area. Though indie heads inevitably hail Out Hud’s music for being “danceable,” the band is neither as danceable or as explosive as their parent group !!! (pronounced chik-chik-chik...
Like its cousin the sneaker, the tracksuit came into the fashion mainstream via the street, through hip-hop and rave culture. The sweat suit became a B-boy uniform partly because disco gear did not lend itself to the gymnastics of break dancing. Another influence: music legends like Bob Marley, who adopted sweats as a uniform (and may have been drawing on the much iconized image of tracksuit-clad John Carlos and Tommie Smith giving black-power salutes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...