Playing selections from their upcoming album (via Bayonet Records), Kinlaw will disclose the process behind making selected tracks, getting stuck and unstuck, and how her thinking around performance and choreography helps the artist get closer to words.
Attention independent musicians! Join an expert panel—including Moses Sumney, Fabienne Leys, Brandon Sánchez, and Robbie Gong—Ben Rafson––for a discussion on the financial realities of releasing music independently. Presented by The Rising Artist Foundation and UMAW as part of the "Office Hours" educational series.
Wendy’s Subway presents a reading of Dafne Phono, artist Nour Mobarak's experimental translation and reimagining of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written in 1598—a story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformation, inspired by the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Topos Press hosts a listening session of Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1, in which sound artist Patrick Quinn captures the rare sounds of periodical cicadas emerging after 13 and 17 years underground
Where to go when you’ve got to go? Bathrooms are a place for business, pleasure, and unsurveilled breaks—little wonder, then, that our access to toilets is so restricted. A conversation about the right to public bathrooms with Lux, Hell Gate, and New York Review of Architecture.
The hosts of the Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily podcast, Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, are joined by Laura Albert, the author behind the J.T. LeRoy phenomenon, to discuss self-destruction vs. self-acceptance, how to challenge the literary status quo, and her forthcoming memoir. A special introduction by artist Leigh Ledare.
Les The DJ spins an all-vinyl set of Manila Sound and Original Pilipino Music from the ’70s and ’80s—the uplifting sounds that carried Filipinos during the nation’s most challenging times. Les's work and vinyl archive are collected in a new publication by Passenger Pigeon Press.
Artist collective and label PTP host a conversation between YATTA and GENG PTP, moderated by timmhotep aku. Together they will discuss sampling, sound, and how expressions of memory can subvert language, space, and ownership.
A deep dive into the latest issue with special guests and a chance for letter-to-the editor-style feedback and questions. Call during the broadcast or submit in advance to thewhitneyreview@gmail.com / @thewhitneyreview
Hanuman Editions gathers a poetics of contemporary avant-garde culture from key voices of our times. In the spirit of the cult series of pocket-sized volumes published by Hanuman Books in the 1980s and 1990s, their editions invite playful criticality, unexpected parallels and unique pairings within a diffuse planetary context.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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