Music Archive: Son House “Death Letter”

Delta blues great Eddie “Son” House performs his classic “Death Letter Blues”, a song later covered by The White Stripes on their album De Stijl. This performance is from the Vestapol DVD Legends of Country Blues Guitar, Vol. One.

Art Roundup: July 30, 2010 to August 6, 2010

Weekly roundup of the best art shows and art related events in and around the Lawrence/Kansas City area.

FRIDAY JULY 30

• Do You Need A Friend To Go With?
Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio
(803 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, July 30, 7-10pm (Ongoing until August 22nd)
From the organizers: Christopher Bostwick is a graduate of the printmaking department at the Kansas City Art Institute. It was here that he developed his skills as a printmaker but also reaffirmed his penchant for drawing directly on paper. Do You Need A Friend To Go With? features colored pencil and gouache drawings – some as large as 60” x 48”. These drawings take the form of a set or stage, the theatrics of which are always implied, the actors never shown. Bostwick sets the scenes, rife with absurd details culled from a culture of excess and Google image searches. He revels in humorous juxtapositions and complicitous pairings. His drawings become abandoned scenes full of misleading clues to the most banal of mysteries – the everyday.

• Dem Young Arts
Dot Dot Dot Artspace (1910 Haskell Avenue in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, July 30, 7-10pm
We don’t know much about this show but there will be Live Musick Hip Hop (not sure what that means?!) and will feature local artists Matt Avila, Sam Foster, Kyle Longabach, Jordan Moshiri, Josh Snoddy, Alexandra Sova, and Ryan Storck.

THURSDAY AUGUST 5

• Last Splash Bash
Lawrence Public Library (707 Vermont Street in Lawrence, KS)
Thursday, August 5, 6:30pm
This is not an art event, but we love the LPL and everything they do. This bash will include games like Dunk a Librarian, a live performance by the wonderfully fun and lovely duo Truckstop Honeymoon, plus food and more.

FRIDAY AUGUST 6

• Jeromy Morris: Masked Portraits
The Invisible Hand Gallery (801 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, August 6, 7-10pm
From the organizers: A series of masked, mixed media portrait paintings, with a hint of nostalgia, inspired by an early photographic process. www.jeromymorris.com

• Jeanette Powers: Self-Portrait as the Mad Hatter
Plenum Space (504 E 18th Street in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, August 6, 6-10pm
From the organizers: Jeanette Powers is a graduate physics student at the University of Kansas and a self-taught painter. Her expressionist paintings are imaginative and intense and have been collected for the last ten years throughout North America. She enjoys representing chaotic motion and fluid dynamics in her paint application, without losing the focus of the mind. Portraiture is the mainstay of her work thanks to her belief in the importance of friends and family. www.arttract.com/jeanettepowers.htm

• re:vision quest
The Slap & Tickle Gallery (504 E 18th Street in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, August 6, 6-9pm (Also open Saturday, August 7, 1-4pm)
This show features new paintings by Gryphon van der Hole. This quote directly from the artist’s statement for this show, “gay culture. queer aesthetic. kinky indulgences.”, is all we need to hear to peak our interest. We are not sure if the name Gryphon van der Hole and his photo on Myspace does the same or scares us away. www.myspace.com/gryphons_hole

• Molly Murphy: Spatial Constructions
BNIM Architects (106 W 14th Street in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, August 6, 5-7pm
From the organizers: Spatial Constrictions is an installation of paintings, drawings, text and human hair to be housed in the display windows of BNIM Architects. The show of multiple paneled works will span around the the block of 14th and Baltimore in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri. www.mollymurphyartwork.com

Free Music Roundup: July 29, 2010

Deerhunter
“Revival”
From the band’s forthcoming album Halcyon Digest, out 9/28 on 4AD
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Wise Blood
“STRT SRNS”
From the + EP, out now via Delicious Scopitone
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Minks
“Ophelia”
From the 7″ single of the same name, out now via Captured Tracks
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Magic Kids
“Summer”
From the forthcoming album Memphis, out 8/24 on True Panther Sounds
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Burnt Ones
“Burnt to Lose”
From the band’s debut album Black Teeth & Golden Tongues, out 8/10 via Roaring Colonel Records
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Woven  Bones
“Wanna Tell Ya”
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Jaill
“The Stroller”
From the That’s How We Burn, out now via Sub Pop
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Bonus: Real Estate’s Daytrotter session
Bonus: Sonny and The Sunsets’ Daytrotter session
Bonus: ARMS’ Daytrotter session

Watch: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and Steve Carell

Episode 9: Zach sits down with Steve Carell from “The Office” and tries to discuss Carell’s latest movie Dinner for Schmucks.

Watch: Mountain Man’s Kaleidoscope(s) Session

Watch as Mountain Man performs three songs at St Augustine’s Tower in London for a Kaleidoscope(s) session. Mountain Man is Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath out of Bennington, Vermont. With the accompaniment of  only one acoustic guitar, Mountain Man’s harmonies bring you back to the female folk power of the late 60′s and early 70′s when real women were respected for their songwriting and vocal abilities and not for shaking their ass.

Download Mountain Man’s “Soft Skin” here
Purchase Mountain Man’s debut album Made the Harbor here
Learn more about Mountain Man on Partisan Records

The music of Mountain Man is nestled in the tradition of American folk, but shoots like diamond dust out of the nest into the high, wide atmosphere. Their songs are shaped by three searching voices, encompassing harmonies and a shared belief in and love of the world. They are mutually moved to sing by their love for people, and for trees, birds and mountains, the ocean, the night, the moon, and being a woman. They all love the rambling, rumbling, rolling summer….