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Treasure Teeth Provide a Live Soundtrack to Metropolis at Coral Gables Art Cinema

By Matt Preira
May 27, 2016

When German expressionist Fritz Lang filmed his prodigious and highly innovative science fiction social commentary, Metropolis (1927), his agenda was manifold. A dry reading of the plot reveals a somewhat formulaic commie pinko bildungsroman, but Lang's real achievement lay in his vanguard approach to the cinematic process. In addition to...
Oneohtrix Point Never at PAMM

By Matt Preira
Mar 20, 2014

Trippy visuals and live music go together like drugs and rock 'n' roll — or bpm and EDM. In the beginning (the '60s, when else?), there were Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, featuring San Francisco's Grateful Dead and full-on psychedelic film projections splashed across the walls like shamanistic flower-power visions. Meanwhile,...
Oneohtrix Point Never on Gimmicky Visuals: "Electronic Music Has a Built-In Shame Aspect"

By Matt Preira
Mar 4, 2014

Trippy visuals and live music go together like drugs and rock 'n' roll -- or BPMs and EDM. In the beginning (the '60s, when else?), there were Ken Kesey's Acid Tests featuring San Francisco's Grateful Dead and full-on psychedelic film projections splashed across the walls like shamanistic flower-power visions. Meanwhile,...
Holiday Rock N' Roll Swap Coming to Churchill's Pub: "Pins! Posters! Buttons! Records! T-shirts!"

By Matt Preira
Dec 13, 2013

Envision the archetypal marketplace. Vendors hock wares by waving them in the air and shouting prices while the consumers are divided into two classes: astute veterans who know the art of the bargain and rubes about to lose their pants. Buyers bid competitively on rare and esoteric goods. A child...
Wolf Eyes' John Olson Says Noise Music Is Over: "Completely, 100 Percent"

By Matt Preira
Dec 4, 2013

Wolf Eyes is one of the most iconic bands from the early- to mid-2000s explosion of noise music that reverberated (deafeningly) across North America. While the genre is the cumulative product of often disparate scenes, this Michigan unit -- consisting of Nate Young, longtime collaborator John Olson, and a shape-shifting...

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