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carolina benavidez’s newest work as a bfa graduate is at nau’s beasley Gallery through may 10.
Six nasty songs of feedback, drone, and riffage that come to absolutely no surprise if you’re familiar with Phoenix-based Ryan Rous- sau’s past work. The rocker is building a hefty discography. The unfamiliar are either not fans of rock n roll or haven’t heard of Jay Reatard. Both are okay, but at some point one should question their lifestyle choices. The vocals kind of remind me of the recently-often-discussed Peter Murphy. Trying to think of a better Ari- zona record that has come out this year and coming up short.
light heat
The Mirror
Light Heat; Georgiana Starlington
Nashville ruins yet another young song- writer’s dreams. This sounds infinitely more like some horrible college rock (I kept thinking Jim- my Eat World) than it does country or western. The lyrics are okay; even his song about trucks has some fantastic lines. And Kip has a voice that could be just fine over an acoustic guitar and maybe a pedal steel and snare drum; I imagine in an alternate universe, Moore’s tunes resembling Lucero a little bit, but it’s wasted here over a thousand backing vocal tracks and just some of the worst production this Johnny Cash fan has ever heard in his life.
For all I know, this is some crossover mega- hit. That would make sense.
semi-twang
The Why and the What For
has the challenge of making all her gar- ments from recycled materials. Not limit- ing herself to old fabric, she began collect- ing months in advance a unique array of materials.
She used old magazine pages, trash bags, grocery bags, bottle tops, and so much more. What is truly amazing is that the garments were sewn like a regular fashion line, on sewing machines or hand- stitched, with a very minimal use of glue.
“I was adamant about sewing as much as I could,” Ms. Jones says. “I wanted to treat this like any other fashion collection. There was a lot of trial and error.”
Out of the collection, Ms. Jones’ favorite dresses are the trash bag gowns, and the tan gown sewn from grocery bags.
“I did not do this alone,” Ms. Jones em- phasizes. “I had about five volunteers help- ing me, and the models. I couldn’t have done it without any of them.”
During the evening I met artist mchala kravako, who made a delightful umbrella creation using old silk ties and silk flowers.
“The exhibition gave me an incentive to create something I’ve never created nor seen before,” Ms. Kravaka says. “The allowance of creativity is infinite when re- using materials — taking something and re-shaping its existence from its primary purpose. I enjoy the openness that there is to experience when transforming worn out items into something fresh.”
“I visited many secondhand outlets, yardsales, and even rummaged through a friend’s tool shed for supplies and the idea progressed as the project went on,” Ms. Kravaka explains. “The heavy marble base that holds the umbrella was once a lamp fixture. I sewed together a collage of funky dress ties to restore the fabrication of an old tattered umbrella, sewn mostly by machine and some with a needle and thread. I’ve been having spring fever for some time now, expressing that on the underneath of the umbrella with a wide arrangement of stem-less flower beauty.”
The ACF’s 11th annual recycled art exhibition will remain on display at co- conino center for the arts through May 25, 2013. CulturalPartners.com
MISS ROSE’S ARTSBRIEFS
During the May First Friday ArtWalk visible difference, 116 S. Beaver Street, will be displaying the pastel paintings of elwyn shorthair and beads and metals by silversmith eunice bennett. Submis- sions from the call to artists, “What’s in your water?” will be on display. The people’s choice awards from the April ArtWalk went to klee benally and aza erdrich, and are now displayed in the 11th annual recy- cled art exhibit at Coconino center for the arts. VisibleDifferenceOnline.com
On May 24 theatrikos’ production “messiah on the frigidaire,” opens at the Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse and runs through June 9. Stay tuned for
more in the June edition. Theatrikos.com
The new working studio of percilla stoeckley and I (Clair Anna Rose) is open for the First Friday Artwalk, with special guest Gretchen lopez. the pink angel art boutique is located on the second floor of the Knackard building, directly above Arizona Handmade Gallery, at 13 N. San Francisco Suite 202. Museminiatures. blogspot.com
Calling all writers! flagstaff cultural partners invites submissions for the high desert dispatches Writing contest. Sub- missions are open April 15-July 15 and will be accepted online only at culturalpart- ners.submittable.com/submit. Please submit up to 6,000 words in fiction or nonfiction, or up to three poems. Judges are Viola Award winners mary sojourner (fiction), ann Walka (nonfiction), and Jill divine (poetry). The contest is open to residents of Coconino County and mem- bers of the Hopi and Navajo Nations, ages
18 and older. A $200 cash prize will be awarded to each genre contest winner along with publication in one of the local art magazines. CulturalPartners.org
| Clair Anna Rose needs your unwanted knick knacks to glue to stuff. arts@thenoise.us
ribbon music
jjj
self-released
This sounds an awful lot like the Walkmen.
Georgiana starlington
Paper Moon
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hozac records
Solid Midwestern good time rock n roll Americana by old dudes that have been doing it for a while. Wilco-rock.
the men
New Moon
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Fun album of reverb heavy indy-Americana (ugh, what a phrase) that just builds on itself wonderfully. Male and female vocals that nev- er get old. Wonderful songs. And that’s all it’s about.
White fence
Cyclops Reap
sacred bones
jjjj
castle face
This band could be your life, kids.
If Pearl Jam could back up Neil Young and not eff the whole thing up, than these guys could give the proceedings a crazier than Crazy Horse infusion. Dinosaur Jr cross-pollinated with (Grant Hart’s songs) Hüsker Dü? Just throw a little Meat Puppets in the blender as well.
“Half Angel Half Light” sounds like the best song Tom Petty never wrote, but should have. I guess you can read all about it on Pitchfork. I’m just gonna be jamming this album all summer.
MUSIC IS FREE! PART 3
I recently watched a panel discussion/de- bate featuring a pop music journalist, a pro- fessional mainstream songwriter, a working studio musician, a lawyer for ASCAP, and punk rock icon/producer extraordinaire/opinion- ated dweeb Steve Albini. Perhaps not surpris- ingly, Albini was the only one present without his head planted directly up his ass.
The ASCAP lawyer started off by claiming that songwriters have a right to earn a living as songwriters. I almost spat my beverage through my nose onto the computer screen.
jjj
John Lennon on heroin. And lots of LSD.
black angels
Indigo Meadow
light in the attic
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The disappointing return of a promising psych/drone LA band. Very little of what I en- joyed about their music remains on this oth- erwise fine alt rock album. If you are a fan of the Black Angels, perhaps seek out Destruction Unit’s reviewed record instead. Just a sugges- tion.
kip moore
Up All Night
jmca nashville
Apparently, ASCAP’s next target is YouTube.
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