Salem on Tour

Salem stops at Santos Party House on their US Tour

Gallery of Photos from the AIPAD Photo Show NY

Highlights from the AIPAD Photo Show NY

Massimo Vitali, Simen Johan and Julie Blackmon





Photos: From top to bottom Simen Johan, Mark Seliger

A selection of highlights of the upcoming AIPAD Photography Show New York -- the biggest international photo show.

Yes I was on the Inaugural Bruise Cruise

Along with the Black Lips, Vivian Girls, VICE editors and more...









Ian Svenonius was the cruise director and the ship's elder statesman of punk. His underlings included 400 indie rock fans along with the bands--The Black Lips on the beach, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, The Strange Boys, Ty Segall, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Surfer Blood, Jacuzzi Boys, and Turbo Fruits--and VICE, the editors of which were there to shoot The Black Lips video. See the full pictorial at Flavorwire.

Hahn Bin: Visionaire's Mozart

A Salon in the old Boom Boom Room



Violinist Hahn Bin performed for a small gathering at the top of the Standard Hotel in New York for Visionaire's party to celebrate Fashion Week. Read more at BlackBook.

Tamaryn at MoMA PS1 Saturday Sessions

Tamaryn performs at MoMA PS1's Saturday Sessions with Mirror Mirror and special effects by Thunder Horse Video.

How to be a Witch House Poser

Brush Up on your Salem, Shams and Pendu



If you want to get in on the Witch House scene, read this piece first and enter with dark cred.
For example: Listen to Horror Scores for the Dance Floor Vol. 4, deny the legitimacy of the term "Witch House," and please, please, please have an opinion on Salem, even if only to say that their fame rides on Jack Donoghue's hair.

Ariel Pink, Mongolian Contortionists and 12 Liberty Ponies

THE ROCK & ROLL CIRCUS


Ariel Pink

The Rock & Roll Circus happened over two days in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park. Punks be Not Proud--a photo essay with pictures of Japanther's performance that ended prematurely--can be viewed on BlackBook.com. Day 1 had performances by the So So Glos, The Pharmacy and Japanther. Day 2 had Ariel pink, Aska + Nick Zinner, Saint Motel and Amazing Baby. While you can see a photo essay up on BlackBook as well, here are more photos of the 2nd night.



"Mongolian Contortionists" (must we still objectify peoples' nationalities...)



Aska + Nick Zinner (Played the most haunting beautiful set while people were walking into the tent)


Aska + Nick Zinner



"Kenyan Boys" (must we still objectify peoples' nationalities...)



"Acid Baby" (Kept talking about getting lubricated)



Saint Motel (All I could think about were this guys red suspenders)


Saint Motel


Saint Motel



"Russian Aerialist"



Amazing Baby


Amazing Baby

Break Time


Acid Baby and friend







VIP Loungers






Big Apple Circus performers







Aska + Nick Zinner







12 Liberty Ponies (People screamed more loudly for these ponies than for anyone else)

ARIEL PINK


(He does a good parody of a musician but I kinda wished it was Geneva Jacuzzi)

Riot Grrrls

A Visual Guide to The Revolution Girl Style



Tobi Vail, Kathleen Hanna and Sara Jaffe had them. Miranda July had one. Called Snarla. Goteblud's exhibition of Riot Grrrl zines was one of the more compelling components of last weekend's NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. In a visual piece for Flavorwire, I document some of the zines I found that were most interesting and significant to the Riot Grrrl movement.

Review of Madame Bovary for The Believer

I Review Lydia Davis's New Translation of Madame Bovary



Number of previous English translations of Madame Bovary: at least nineteen (according to Davis); Plot summary: Dissatisfied, a country doctor’s wife goes to a fancy-dress party, dreams of a better life, has two affairs, buys things she can’t afford and goes deeply into debt, eats arsenic; Representative sentence: “They had to lift her head a little, and at that a stream of black liquid ran out of her mouth like vomit.” Read my review here.