Riot Material

Art. Word. Thought.

  • Home
  • Riot Material Magazine
    • About RM / Subscribe
    • Entering The Mind
      • 3-Part Podcast
    • Contributors
    • Categories >
      • Art
      • Artist
      • Books
      • Thought
      • Film
      • Cinema Disordinaire
      • Riot Sounds
      • Records
      • Jazz
      • Interview
      • More   >
        • Architecture
        • Image
        • The Line
        • The New Word
        • That Evening Sun
        • The Natural World
        • Video
    • Contact
    • Masthead
  • Art
    • Art Reviews
  • Books
    • Book Reviews
  • Film
    • Film Reviews
  • Records
    • Jazz Reviews
    • All Reviews
  • Riot Sounds
  • Cinema Disordinaire
    • Riot Cinema

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 C von Hassett 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

Dance! and Ye Be Granted “Protection From Evil”

March 19, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

by Ibibio Sound Machine
feat. Eno Williams

out today, 25 March
on Merge 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

Qué horas son, mi corazón?

February 4, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Sofia Kourtesis’s “Estación Esperanza”
featuring Manu Chao

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/01-Estacion-Esperanza-feat.-Manu-Chao.m4a

the single is out now on Ninja Tune

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

The Desert Stranglers Take It To The Throat

February 1, 2022 By Cvon 1 Comment

“The Captain’s Tale”
.
Recorded on a debauched, drug-addled evening where the Desert Stranglers laid down a dozen or so tracks — all improvised on-spot, all one takes, a single mic — in the remote highlands above Pioneertown, CA. This is the resultant carnage:
.
The Desert Stranglers are:

Ben Moore | @harvest_recordings
Steve Seleska | @steveseleskaart
Reid Wilkie | @reidwilkie
C von Hassett | @riotmaterial
Produced by Harvest Recordings

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

The Smile, in Call to The Bends, Says “You Will Never Work in Television Again”

January 5, 2022 By Cvon Leave a Comment

Featuring Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) & drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet)

See The Smile Live in London
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Stutter as Point Zero in the Revolution of Self: JJJJJErome Ellis’s “Loops of Retreat”

November 24, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the new release The Clearing


out now on NNA Tapes

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

A Sonic Key to the Unbound in “Open the Gates”

November 12, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

The new release from Irreversible Entanglements

out now on Don Giovanni Records
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

A Glory That Soars on “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”

October 29, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

The War on Drugs (feat. Lucius)
from the newly released I Don’t Live Here Anymore

out now on Atlantic

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Little Simz’s No-Go-Suffer Groove Pierces Deep on “Point and Kill”

October 5, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
feat. Obongjayar

out now on Age 101 Music

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

Sault’s “Fear” Makes the Pain Real

October 4, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Nine

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/04-Fear.m4a

Fear

out now on Forever Living Originals

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

The Ankle-Bit, Dance-Floor Itch of Sleaford Mod’s “Mork n Mindy”

October 3, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from Spare Ribs
feat. Billy Nomates

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/08-Mork-n-Mindy-feat.-Billy-Nomates.m4a

Mork n Mindy
out now on Rough Trade Records

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

“Post Meridian,” from the Unknown Knowns of the Nameless Stranded

October 2, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

from the Post Meridian EP

https://www.riotmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/01-Post-Meridian.m4a

Post Meridian

out now on Homage

Filed Under: Riot Sounds

Riot Material Presents: XI’s “Oil”

September 29, 2021 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

“Oil”
from XI’s self-titled inaugural release

Out now, on Bandcamp

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

A Vibe Most Pleasing, and Chill, in “Pleasantville”

June 23, 2021 By Cvon Leave a Comment

by Jozzy

Single
Out now on SME

Filed Under: Riot Sounds, Video

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 12
  • Next Page »

The Line

An interview with Alison Saar, at Riot Material magazine.

An Interview with Alison Saar

By Ricky Amadour As an indefatigable voice for women of color and the greater human spirit, Alison Saar recomposes fractured histories into multivalent sculptures. Saar curated SeenUNseen, a group exhibition at L.A. Louver Gallery, with a focus on spirit portraiture. Throughout human existence there has been a predilection to the allure of the unseen. Hidden […]

William S. Burroughs on a bed, smoking a cigarette.

“The Opposite of Literature:” Mary McCarthy’s Feb. ’63 Review of Naked Lunch

From the inaugural print edition of The New York Review of Books In remembrance of Jason Epstein, originator and co-founder of NYRB RIP 1928-2022 by Mary McCarthy Naked Lunch  by William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 304pp., $14.49 “You can cut into The Naked Lunch at any intersection point,” says Burroughs, suiting the action to the […]

Remembered and Remade: James Castle’s Conjurings of Mind

James Castle at David Zwirner, NYC (through 12 February 2022) by Andrew Martin James Castle: Memory Palace John Beardsley Yale University Press, 280pp., $65.00 NYR Every James Castle picture seems to contain a secret. Approaching one of his works for the first time, you peer into pockets of shadow and smudge, examining the depopulated landscapes […]

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

An excerpt from a new book which examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre’s relation to queer male erotic life. —The University of Chicago Press Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Steven Ruszczycky University of Chicago Press, 216pp., $30.00 In the United […]

Hilary Brace, Drawings and Tapestries, is reviewed at Riot Material magazine.

Darkness Made Visible in Hilary Brace’s Drawings and Tapestries

at Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station (through 19 February 2022) Reviewed by Eve Wood The intricacies and inherent beauty of the natural world are rarely celebrated these days, and when artists do turn their attention to the surrounding landscape, the resulting images are usually ones of devastation and chaos — charting the movement of fires, […]

The Tragedy of Macbeth 

A film written and directed by Joel Coen Reviewed by James Shapiro NYR Those who have long followed the Coen brothers and their cinematic universe of criminals, nihilists, and overreachers may see in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) a long-deferred reckoning with Shakespeare, who has been there before them. We don’t typically think of Shakespeare […]

John Divola, From Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert,1996-98,

Illuminating Images: Liquid Light and Golden Hour and the Affective Force of Non-Didactic Art

at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (through 5 February 2022) Reviewed by Johanna Drucker What is the difference between a wall label and a work of art? The unrelenting didacticism that prevails in current gallery and museum exhibits of contemporary art makes it seem that many curators and artists cannot answer that question. […]

The Occult Works of Ray Robinson, with an essay by Christopher Ian Lutz, is at Riot Material Magazine.

The Brush as Luminous Torch: Ray Robinson’s Blazing Portals Into the Divine Feminine

The Third Door:Occult Works of Ray Robinson, at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (through 15 January) by Christopher Ian Lutz Burn the Sun The persecution of the witch is a war of the hours. The Inquisition that charged women with witchcraft was not just about controlling women’s bodies – it was a crusade to extinguish […]

An Interview with Artist Gala Porras-Kim is at Riot Material Magazine.

An Interview with Artist Gala Porras-Kim

by Ricky Amadour . Interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim frames her research to highlight and question the current institutional practices of conservation, acquisition, and deaccession. Acting as an investigator of cultural artifacts that correspond to institutional collections, Porras-Kim deep dives into the expansive histories, stories, and functions of those objects. The artist’s first solo exhibition in […]

Seizing the Snowmelt: Industrial Agriculture is Draining Our State Dry

by Mark Arax The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax Knopf, 576pp., $25.00 MITTR The wind finally blew the other way last night and kicked out the smoke from the burning Sierra. Down here in the flatland of California, we used to regard the granite mountain as a place apart, our […]

The Great Flood of 1862

The Looming Catastrophe Few in California Are Aware Of (or in Want to Address)

An excerpt from Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent it, by Tom Philpott. THE FLOOD NEXT TIME In November 1860, a young scientist from upstate New York named William Brewer disembarked in San Francisco after a long journey that took him from New York City through Panama and then […]

Precontact California Indians: Their Life Prior to Genocide

An excerpt from the first chapter of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, by Benjamin Madley. CALIFORNIA INDIANS BEFORE 1846 Within a few days, eleven little babies of this mission, one after the other, took their flight to heaven. -Fray Junipero Serra, 1774 We were always trembling with fear of […]

Laurie Anderson's "The Weather," is reviewed at Riot Material magazine.

An Atmospheric River of Wonder in Laurie Anderson’s The Weather

at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (through 31 July 2022)  Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner             “What are the days for? To put between the endless nights. What are the nights for? To slip through time into another world.”  –Laurie Anderson             “Stories are our weather”  –Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson is a Renaissance polymath whose […]

Maria Lassnig Augenglaeser - Autoportraets (1965)

Maria Lassnig: The Paris Years, 1960–68

at Petzel Gallery, New York City Reviewed by James Quandt Maria Lassnig: Film Works edited by Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein, Peter Pakesch, and Hans Werner Poschauko FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, 189 pp., $35.00 NYRB Many female artists — most recently Carmen Herrera, Faith Ringgold, and Lorraine O’Grady — have had to wait a lifetime to be accorded the recognition […]

Marcellina Akpojotor’s Sublime Matriarchy

Daughters of Esan at Rele Gallery, Los Angeles (through 4 December 2021) Reviewed by Eve Wood Marcellina Akpojotor’s second solo exhibition, Daughters of Esan, continues her exploration into notions of personal intimacy, drawing on her own relationships with her family and the tremendously powerful and transformational possibilities of education and love. Inspired by her great-grandmother’s […]

An interview with Rachael Tarravechia, at Riot Material

Fear and Self-Loathing in Rachael Tarravechia’s Wish You Were Here

at Launch F18, NYC (through 4 December 2021) by Danielle Dewar The horror genre is rooted in a desire for catharsis by means of dispelling fears and anxieties that live deep within a subconscious mind. Since we often crave a controlled release of such emotions, the use of the macabre within an artist’s practice allows […]

Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Feathers, exhibition review of En Garde/On God is at Riot Material magazine

Histories Disembowled in Umar Rashid’s En Garde/On God

at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles (through 18 December 2021) Reviewed by Ellen C. Caldwell In En Garde/On God, Blum & Poe showcases the work of artist Umar Rashid (also known by the pen name Frohawk Two Feathers). Featuring thirteen large paintings and one sculpture in Rashid’s hallmark style, the exhibition highlights works that are bold […]

A Grid Gone Wholly Off in My Monticello

Reviewed by Bridgett M. Davis My Monticello By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Henry Holt & Company, 210 pp., $13.49 NYT In the essay “The Site of Memory,” Toni Morrison described the crafting of her fictional worlds as a quest to access the interior lives of her ancestors. “It’s a kind of literary archeology,” she explained. “On the […]

The Web of Mind Throughout Our Earth

Reviewed by Zoë Schlanger Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake Random House, 352 pp., $28.00; $15.48 NYRB Imagine that you are afloat on your back in the sea. You have some sense of its vast, unknowable depths—worlds of life are surely darting about beneath […]

Drugs Amongst Other Adult Liberties

Reviewed by Mike Jay Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Dr. Carl L. Hart Penguin Press, 290 pp., $16.94 NYRB The modern meaning of “drugs” is of surprisingly recent origin. Until the twentieth century, the word referred to all medications (as it still does in “drugstore”); it was only […]

Rashid Johnson, Anxious Red Painting August 20th. At Riot Material

Break//Breathe: Broken Men That Glitter

by Allyn Aglaïa Aumand On the coherence of fracture an essay in fragments on fragments * I had a lover once, who self described as a volcano, but fully encased. Make space to let it out sometimes, I told him. That’s why I wanted to see you today, he said.

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

An excerpt from a new book W. W. Norton calls “a radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.”  Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria W. W. Norton, 256pp., $23.95 There is an important distinction between what Nancy Fraser calls “affirmative change” and actual transformational change. The former is […]

RIOT MATERIAL
art. word. thought.