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Jun 3

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Review: The Dandy Warhols’ This Machine

“Don’t put a band together with musicians who are good enough to imitate anyone well.”

–Courtney Taylor-Taylor¹

I didn’t know The Dandy Warhols had a new album coming out until the Monday before its Tuesday release.  Suddenly there it was; lingering in my peripheral vision, coaxing me out of a lack of cognition.  And This Machine is a particular gift.

I’ve been a fan for quite a while; ever since Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth there has been a place in my ears for their workings.  Always maintaining a certain pop sensibility, I’ve found them to use this to their advantage in creating complex songs hiding under the simplicity of catchy constructions.

As a result they’ve become easy to dismiss for some, but it’s nothing they’ve done.

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May 30

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Artists’ Others: Hal Ashby

When (not if, be real) time travel is perfected and made suitable for the masses, my first stop will be the 1970s. I’d do it for the hard livin’/hard lovin’ vibe, the post-flower power/pre-greed-is-good period of cultural transition where, on national and personal levels, souls were searched and identities were continually evolving.

Most substantially, cinema of the ‘70s appeals to me like that of no other era. The essence is hyper-masculine and gritty (consider the rise of Nicholson, Coppola, Scorsese/DeNiro, and a pre-Looney Toons Pacino), but combined with artful subtlety and minutiae. The stories speak to the individual and universal experiences (consider Annie Hall and Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network). And the entertainments are intense, bold, and affecting (consider the pinnacle of the horror genre: religious—The Exorcist; sci-fi—Alien; holiday—Halloween; parody—Young Frankenstein; real estate, even—The Amityville Horror).

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May 26

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An Interview with Nick Butcher and Jordan Martins

Nick Butcher and Jordan Martins are cutting a new path through the Chicago creative scene. Both multitalented visual and musical artists – and both with diverse experience in and outside of Chicago – Butcher and Martins can often be found collaborating on new visual/aural experiments, working in tandem to create and improvise new artistic experiences and possibilities. They will be performing at the OFFICE GIRL release party on June 28th at the Book Cellar in Chicago.

Anobium recently sat down to Butcher and Martins to talk music, Chicago, and – implicitly – creative collaboration.

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