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New From the Mods: “Force 10 From Navarone”

March 16, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Sleaford Mods
feat. Florence Shaw (of Dry Cleaning)
from UK Grim

on Rough Trade

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

“The Rot” — Though A Rose By Any Other Name

March 7, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

by Dean Blunt
feat. Joanne Robertson
from BLACK METAL 2

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/10-the-rot.m4a

on Rough Trade

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Water From Your Eyes and Still Counting

March 2, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

“Barley”

from the forthcoming Everyone’s Crushed
on Matador Records
.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Biig Piig Strikes an Inviting Match to “Kerosene”

February 23, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Bubblegum

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/03-Kerosene-1.m4a

“Kerosene”
newly released on RCA Records

.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Brijean’s “Ooo La La” is so ooh la la!

February 23, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

(The Bad Tuner Remix)

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/13-Ooo-La-La-Bad-Tuner-Remix.m4a

“Ooo La La”

on Ghostly International

.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

M(h)aol’s “Asking For It” Picks Up the Retributive Hammer

February 6, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from their debut release Attachement Styles

out now on Tulle Collective
.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Into the Triangular Warp

January 12, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

New from Mandy, Indiana
“Injury Detail”

on Fire Talk Records

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

New Work From Bill Frisell

January 6, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

“Dog on a Roof”

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/13-Dog-on-a-Roof.m4a

from Four
out now on Blue Note
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Jeff Parker Hits an Ace at LA’s Enfield Tennis Academy

January 1, 2023 By Cvon Leave a Comment

“2021-04-08”

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Jeff-Parker-ETA-IVtet-Mondays-at-The-Enfield-Tennis-Academy-04-2021-04-28.mp3

from Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy

Read Riot Material’s review of Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy [Read more…]

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Love Borne of a Good Groove, and a Trio

November 26, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

“Show Me Some Love”
Honey Dijon & Channel Tres
Feat. Sadie Walkier

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/10-Show-Me-Some-Love-feat.-Sadie-Walker.m4a

out now on Black Girl Magic
on Classic Music

.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

For Its Sweetness, We Turn The Ear

November 4, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

“Help”
new from Rozi Plain

from the forthcoming Prize
video directed by Noriko Okaku
.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Ingesting Liberation Through Song

November 1, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

New work from Special Interest
“Midnight Legend”
ft. Mykki Blanco

from the new release, Endure
on Rough Trade
.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

New Work From Irish Noise Rockers Gilla Band: “Post Ryan”

October 11, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Most Normal
(out today)

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/12-Post-Ryan.m4a

on Rough Trade

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

A Spat at the Wind, A Touch to the Moon

June 4, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Brilliant new work from Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World”
w/ Perfume Genius

from the forthcoming Cool It Down
out 30 September
on Secretly Canadian

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

“Decimation (Dis Nation)” is an Emotive Stunner

May 14, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Dälek
Feat MC dälek & Mike Mare

Directed by Will Brooks
.
from Precipice
out now on Ipecac Recordings
.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Uffie Sings Us Back to the Dancefloor with “sophia”

April 22, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the forthcoming Sunshine Factory

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/08-sophia.m4a

“sophia”

on Company Records

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Spring Blooms and Evening Heat Bring, Beautifully, “No Regrets”

April 15, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Club Tularosa
feat. Megan Sutherland

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/02-No-Regrets-Ft-Megan-Sutherland-feat.-Megan-Sutherland.m4a

“No Regrets”

newly released on Me Me Me
.

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Mere Tongue to Take Back a Name

April 2, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Tanya Tagaq’s “Tongues”

 
out now on Six Shooter Records

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

A Sonic Punchup in Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul’s “It Hit Me”

March 8, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the new release Tropical Dancer

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/05-It-Hit-Me.m4a

“It Hit Me”

out now on DEEWEE / Because Music

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

New from Nia Archives: the Breakbeating “Luv Like”

February 6, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the upcoming EP Forbidden Feelingz

on HIJINXX

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

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Sleaford Mods, "Force 10 From Navarone," featuring Florence Shaw, can be listened to at Riot Material magazine -- in the exclusive Riot Sounds.

New From the Mods: “Force 10 From Navarone”

Sleaford Mods
feat. Florence Shaw (of Dry Cleaning)
from UK Grim

on Rough Trade

Dean Blunt's "The Rot." Listen at Riot Material under the exclusive Riot Sounds.

“The Rot” — Though A Rose By Any Other Name

by Dean Blunt
feat. Joanne Robertson
from BLACK METAL 2

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/10-the-rot.m4a

on Rough Trade

The Line

A poetic interpretation of Anselm Kiefer's Exodus, at Los Angeles Marciano Art Foundation, is at Riot Material.

On Wing With Word Through Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus

Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (through 25 March 2023) by Rachel Reid Wilkie Los Angeles poet Rachel Reid Wilkie was given the task of walking into Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus — a literally monumental exhibition, in that each of these paintings are upwards of 30’ tall — and addressing the colossal artworks “cold,” as in […]

Songbook of a Bygone Dead: Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song

Reviewed by Dan Chiasson The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan Simon & Schuster, 352pp., $28.93 NYR Bob Dylan’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, is a kind of music-appreciation course open to auditors and members of the general public. It is best savored one chapter, one song, at a time, while listening to the […]

Grant Wallace, “Through Evolution Comes Revelation.” at Riot Material magazine.

Communication Breakdown: Grant Wallace, His Heirs & the Legacy of a Forgotten Genius

Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio at Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC (through 3 December 2022) By Michael Bonesteel Freelance writer and editor Deborah Coffin of Albany, California, was in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 when she first encountered street musician Brian Wallace at a party. “I had a friend who knew Brian,” […]

Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani

Words To Wrap Around A Dying Brother

Smoking the Bible Reviewed by Rhony Bhopla Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani Copper Canyon Press, 96pp., $15.99 HR Chris Abani’s autobiographical book of poems, Smoking the Bible, centers on the relationship of two brothers growing up in Nigeria with an Igbo father and an English mother. The poems, which incorporate the Igbo language along […]

Yehonatan Koenig. "Shulamith" (2022). At Riot Material Magazine

Yehonatan Koenig’s Subversion of the Ordinary

Knowing Not Knowing, at Matt Drey Arts (presenting with the Kava Collective) by Mat Gleason The art of Yehonatan Koenig is a subatomic soiree, every mark-making molecule involved in contributing to a higher purpose along the way. There is form and structure revealed here, an elegant point in the digressions of a thousand or more […]

The Joshua Tree Talk

A Conversation on Dzogchen C von Hassett & Rachel Reid Wilkie at Joshua Tree Retreat Center 

Louise Bourgeois: What Is The Shape of This Problem?

at University of Southern California, Fisher Museum of Art. (through 3 December 3, 2022) Reviewed by Margaret Lazzari Louise Bourgeois is widely recognized for her sculptures and installations, but Louise Bourgeois: What is The Shape of This Problem is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in her perhaps-lesser-known prints, fabric work and writings. This exhibit contains over […]

The Artful Construction of The ‘I’

by Merve Emre NYR The essay form…bears some responsibility for the fact that bad essays tell stories about people instead of elucidating the matter at hand. —Theodor Adorno The personal essay is a genre that is difficult to define but easy to denounce. The offending element is rarely the essay as a form, but its […]

Moonage Daydream Conveys More Myth Than Man

Moonage Daydream Dir. Brett Morgan Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin As one of the greatest shapeshifters in the expansive history of rock music, it seems only fitting that the documentary with David Bowie as its subject never seems content to express the trials, tribulations and artistic triumphs of Bowie in any one fixed way. This is […]

Carnación di Rocío Molina, at Riot Material Magazine.

On Binding: Notes from Venice

Bienalle Arte and Bienalle Danza, Venice 2022 By Allyn Aglaïa Chest bound, lips sealed, I walked through Venice alone, quiet, and: thought about narratives that bind us to erotic binds

Mohammad Barrangi's Guardians of Eden (Dreamscape #8), at Riot Material magazine.

Transcendence Beyond Erasure in Mohammad Barrangi’s Dreamscape

at Advocartsy, Los Angeles (thru 5 November 2022) Reviewed by Christopher Ian Lutz Fantasy requires a symbolic vehicle to transport a character from the real world into the imaginary realm, where the laws of reality are subverted or obscured to justify an otherwise absurd event. The artist might depict the vehicle as a real object […]

Idris Khan's The Pattern of Landscape at Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles. An interview with Idris is at Riot Material magazine.

An Interview with Idris Khan

The Pattern of Landscape, at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles (through 5 November 2022) by Ricky Amadour Opening on the corner of Highland and De Longpre Avenues in the heart of Hollywood, Idris Khan’s The Pattern of Landscape is the inaugural exhibition at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles. Khan investigates color theory, text, and musical concepts through […]

Soul Crash: Our Slow, Inexorable Release Into the Metaverse

by Sue Halpern The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball Liveright 352pp., $18.89 NYR In October 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be called Meta and its business interests would be pivoting to the metaverse, there was almost universal confusion: most observers had no idea what he was […]

green tara

Pointing the Staff at the Old Man

A wisdom transmission by Samaneri Jayasāra Excerpted from —  Advice from the Lotus Born  from the chapter “Pointing the Staff at the Old Man” Translated by Eric Pema Kunsang Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 184pp., $21.95 . .

Margaret Lazzari’s "Shimmer." From the exhibition "Breathing Space."

Margaret Lazzari’s Luminous Breathing Space

at George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles (through 8 October 2022) Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner “Things are not what they seem: nor are they otherwise.” –Buddha Margaret Lazzari’s luminous solo exhibition of paintings, entitled Breathing Space, were painted during the pandemic, and the exhibition title is indeed significant. It’s defined as a respite, a hiatus, or an […]

A Look Back on an Iconoclast: Art Critic Dave Hickey

by Jarrett Earnest Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Daniel Oppenheimer University of Texas Press, 141 pp., $24.95 The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded by Dave Hickey University of Chicago Press, 123 pp., $15.00 (paper) Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey Art Issues Press, 215 […]

From Phil Tippet's Mad God, reviewed at Riot Material magazine.

Nihilism Births Its Own Interminable Hell

Mad God Dir. Phil Tippett Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin Technically astonishing and immersive to a fault, director Phil Tippett successfully demonstrates that thirty years of relentless dedication to your craft can lead to cinematic innovations even his old stomping grounds – the sets of Star Wars and Jurassic Park – have yet to catch up. […]

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