My new favorite Denver band (i’m so proud of these two!). Just saw them live at the Hi-Dive on Tuesday. Heading out tonight to catch them at Woodsman’s house before they launch their east coast tour. They is gunna totally kill it.

Listen to Salem’s spooky ass mixtape via pitchfork.com.

I had an accident. Well, albeit a happy accident. I was searching online for songs for some Married in Berdichev mp3s to download after seeing her most excellent live performance at the UMS in Denver last week. I already had a song (Now That’s What I Call Vol. 2) from Teengirl Fantasy playing in iTunes when I suddenly launched an mp3 player and the song “I Need the Sun” from Brittany Gould’s “Readying EP”. I immediately noticed the ease in which each song caressed the other, like two light particles in a beam of light. I knew I had to mix the two together, So that is what I did.

Married in Berdichev vs. Teengirl Fantasy (mix by SDK)

Awesome live performance!

“The Pyre” New Works by Ravi Zupa (JULY 2 – JULY 30, 2010)

@illiterate gallery
82 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Temperatures rise at Illiterate as Ravi Zupa engulfs the gallery with his searingly sharp representations of the past and present. Historical styles are collected and rearranged as the kindling for drawings, paintings and sculptures that blaze with the intensity of a modern man’s angst as he attempts to place his own contemporary struggles amongst turmoils in time.

The Pyre, an exhibit of new works by Zupa, is directly inspired by a collaborative book project by the same name between the artist and renowned hip hop musician, Tim Holland, better known as Sole, founder of the Anticon record label, and leader of Sole and the Skyrider band. The book, also titled “the Pyre” revolves around the incendiary, with an epic poem by Sole interwoven with accompanying illustrations by Zupa. Both radical minds ripped from the same flaming cloth, this is not the duo’s first mutual effort, with Sole previously calling upon Zupa to direct a number of his and other Anticon artists music videos. Though the work in this exhibit exists outside the narrative within “the Pyre” book, as Zupa puts it, “they are the direct result of the same fire and seek to convey the same skepticism, want, desperation, and optimism”. Enter the Pyre and look through the eyes of an artist fueled by a world he sees all around and behind him poised to be set in flame.

Here’s what Ori had to say about it: “My final project at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design – Illustration department. A stream of consciousness animation for the song “Lion in a Coma” by Animal collective (taken from the awesome “Merriweather Post Pavilion” album).”

Lovely!

The AESTHETIST July music mix

1. Bomb The System by Cloud
2. Runaway DNA by Geneva Jacuzzi
3. Track 05 by James Ferraro
4. Foam by Stellar Om Source
5. Marimba by Many Mansions
6. Quiet Dog Bite Hard by Mos Def
7. Life by Justin Heathcliff
8. It Doesn’t Arrive by Emeralds
9. Fun Dink Death by Eric Copeland
10. Do the Astral Plane by Flying Lotus
11. Ruth, My Sister by Julian Lynch
12. Pour Diane Allaire by Marclay-Renaldo-Moore
13. Hoylake Mist by Forest Swords
14. Warm Clicked Fruit by White Rainbow