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Tag: power electronics
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Pharmakon makes noise that vomits and bleeds
For New York noise artist Margaret Chardiet, aka Pharmakon, the body is a wet, alien thing that hangs on the self like meat on a butcher’s hook. Her defining album, 2014’s Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones), chronicles a serious illness and hospitalization. It opens with the multitracked sound of her desperate breathing, in a claustrophobic symphony […]
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Drake’s diaspora, Discogs drama, DJ ‘controllerism,’ and more of the week’s best music writing
Plus: pieces about the queer experience in contemporary dance and the intimacy of abrasive noise
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The weirdest Halloween cover show this year is tonight
Whitehouse, Death in June, and other weirdo outsiders will be covered.
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Night of Broken Pages celebrates the release of a new visual art book for local musicians
Extreme noise musicians Ted Sweeney and Omar Gonzalez celebrate the release of their first book with a launch party this Saturday.