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Breaking into mainstream music can be difficult, especially for a folk-band when genres like pop and rap generally stand at the forefront. Last year, Blitzen Trapper, the energetic yet pensive Portland-based sextet, garnered recognition for their single “Wild Mountain Nation” from their third album of the same name. After signing last summer with Sub Pop Records, Trapper seems right at home with their record label, as their fourth album “Furr” showcases their talent well.Influenced heavily by nature and their own spirituality, Trapper creates interesting tunes through light guitar...
...wants to remember “Pop Up Video.” VH1 was young then and hadn’t yet solidified the type of obnoxiousness it would perfect with “Flavor of Love.” I’ll never watch the video to “Goody Two Shoes” again for fear of that incessant “Pop Up Video” ping.I was afraid—viscerally afraid—that ReConstitution at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) was going to turn into Pop Up Debate...
...appear near the end of the video having fulfilled Luda’s earlier request to “get some ice.” This appears to be their only function. The soul of the video is, of course, the women’s thoughts that pop up in cartoon bubbles throughout. They range from predictable (“He got money!” and “Come and get it!!!”) to mildly insightful (“I’m pretending to be bored!” and “That?...
...Pop quiz: where is that gleaming stairwell featured on the cover of the now-coffee-stained course catalogue that you’ve been staring at for the past three weeks?It’s Harvard’s Northwest Science Building, and if it took you a while to place it—or you caught yourself flipping to the inner blurb entitled “A Note on the Cover”—it’s probably because the building is brand new, just out of its Tyvek wrap and with a few stray hard...
...traditional art schools and the dictates of the state—have chosen to use their national identity, more than anything, as a selling point. To them, Yue Minjun’s smiling faces appear more Chinese-looking than is accurate; similarly, Wang Guangyi’s political pop paintings are seen as insincere and overly topical. Many Western critics, along with other Chinese artists, are bothered by the success of those who make intentional and overtly Chinese art. Some have gone so far as to characterize much of this work as a sort of soft minstrel...