Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Sept Jours










Six weeks until Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, affectionately known as FIMAV. (You know, that obscure music festival we go to every year in the Canadian hinterlands.) Seven days until we know the full lineup of acts. Breaths are baited. Pins and needles we are on (?). In the meantime, you can check out a partial list of bands here (and, if you are unduly interested...or profoundly bored...learn more about the fascinating region of Bois Francs here).

Photos, clockwise from top left (all from FIMAV 2007): Koenji Hyakkei, Melvins, Carla Bozulich, Anthony Braxton's Diamond Curtain Wall Trio

We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own


Liars are opening for Radiohead in Charlotte on May 8. Yep, I'll be there. This weekend I saw a Liars video that disturbed me in the most pleasant of ways. Watching it, I was paralyzed by an unfamiliar combination of curiosity, confusion, delight, and fear. Plastic Casts of Everything, a newer film, is also worth a watch.