dove, the thirteenth album from +, is available for download/streaming via bandcamp+soundcloud (for mobile users)
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
announcements//NOVEMBER 2013
event
photo credit Monica Wizgird
On November 29th, a week following the release of +’s thirteenth album dove + will have a show signaling the beginning of an indefinite hiatus, at Elastic Arts Foundation, 2830 N Milwaukee. It’s at 8, and it’s free. Featuring Raych Jackson, Dave Green, and elise or else.
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dove + singles
dove will be available 11/22
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homies blog
Two new homies blogs were posted in the month of November, the first featuring the poetic musings of Imani Jackson’s Jaywalking in Chicago and the ponderous, thunderous joint “The Waters” by Mick Jenkins and the second being a video feature with SKECH185 and Lamon Manuel of the Tomorrow Kings talking their new album Nigger Rigged Time Machine (12/3) and rapping out loud in a beautiful place.
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lexica
+ at October’s Salonathon: LEX·IC·A 1 year Anniversary Celebration
photo credit JRVMajesty
+’s final scheduled performance preceding the hiatus show will be at the November edition of Salonathon: LEX·IC·A. Monday, November 25, 9 PM. Beauty Bar.
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b-sides
emanuel has been contributing posts to the tape’s b-sides blog. Today’s entry was Xiu Xiu’s “Don’t Smoke in the Bed,” a cover from their upcoming Nina Simone tribute album Nina. Visit the post (and the rest of the blog) here.
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pitchfork
In early September a video of + performing the tender discovery track “brutal discovery” was uploaded to Pitchfork.tv..
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coop
emanuel contributes tweets to The Cooperation Operation’s official twitter. Follow it to find out about volunteer opportunities at the garden, see educational (and probably pretty) videos on farming from around the web, get recommendations and insight from Coop Op members, and say what up.
+ is alive atm
the homies blog//VIDEO FEATURE: SKECH & Lamon drop bombs
Tomorrow Kings are imaginative beings with an industrial slant. Their lyrical persona render them like wordy assassins fresh from pulp fiction, prizing mental agility as highly as brute strength.Tomorrow Kings’ new album Nigger Rigged Time Machine (December 3) has a title that bears explanation// thanks to this dusk-lit talk with TK members Lamon Manuel & SKECH185, we got it for you.
We also have furious, erudite rapping, beautiful imagery courtesy of Palmisano Park (and the wonderful Kiam Marcielo Junio), thoughts on afro-futurism, the black diasporic struggle, and other fetchness. Biggest of ups to Joseph Varisco of JRVMajesty for editing.
Keep up with Tomorrow Kings via FB.
the homies blog//FEATURE: imani jackson &mick jenkins
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For better or worse, [the city] invites you to remake it, to consolidate it into a shape you can live in. You, too. Decide who you are, and the city will again assume a fixed form around you. Decide what it is, and your own identity will be revealed, like a map fixed by triangulation. Cities, unlike villages and small towns, are plastic by nature. We mould them in our images: they, in their turn, shape us by the resistance they offer when we try to impose our own personal form on them. In this sense, it seems to me that living in a city is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relation between [human] and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate in maps and statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture. – Jonathan Raban, Soft city
Imani Jackson’s Jaywalking in Chicago.
