Looking through my archives for the big followup issue last week, I was amused to read that I thought I could stay within a month or two of new music. I can’t keep up with shit on the internet, man, I got one thousand six hundred and ninety-two open tabs right now. Anyway, please enjoy one “new music” track from two weeks ago and one from last July.
Dingzhong Hu (dinghuart on instagram, and also he has a Facebook and a reddit) is an artist who has been on a real frog kick lately. One frog does yoga (he is trying his best); another goes on adventures with his son who is a tadpole in a big round glass bottle; a third (just published today!) is a mighty warrior who wields a lily pad battleaxe.
He sells fancy canvas prints on iCanvas, other kinds of prints and also greeting cards at INPRNT, and a wide variety of goods, including stickers, at RedBubble.
Wayne Sorce: Urban Color was an exhibition of big color prints of New York and Chicago in the 70s and 80s, as Peggy Rolf of the DART put it, “a time when anything not black-and-white guaranteed exclusion from the discussion of ‘fine art photography.’” In case you didn’t get out to La Jolla in 2017, the goods are available at the studio's website.
New music: Far From You by Mikaela Davis. (Bandcamp or Spotify or [this] YouTube or [studio] YouTube). A sweet-voiced folk rock harpist with a heck of a backing band. The harp and the steel guitar sound nice together. The album, And Southern Star, is out in early August.
New music: fleabag by dani mack. (SoundCloud or Spotify or YouTube). Indie pop rock. It opens with a neat little interplay between an electric bass and a deep-voiced rhythm guitar, grows a drumbeat after half a minute or so, then blows wide open into like five different fun riffs from the first chorus onward to the end. Through the whole thing, even the big breakdown, Baylee Barrett’s vocals are at the top of the mix; a layer of production “shimmer” helps her voice play nicely with all the electric instruments.
Old music: Beginning of the End by Invisible Inc (2007). (Bandcamp or Spotify or YouTube). The opening track to the opening album of the career of one George Watsky (who’s the sort of rapper that publishes sheet music). Three minutes of trumpet and flute over a simple organ loop, then a friendly “hello” and a wicked fast rap verse. [Lyrics available for your convenience at genius.com, the world’s only lyrics website.]
-Thomas