Events Listings
School of Seven Bells, Active Child, Shigeto
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopThu., Sept. 9, 6 p.m.
Though Active Child may be heading into tonight's show with the most buzz for his disjointed, electro-based avant-pop, we're much more excited to hear songs from Disconnect From Desire, the largely overlooked new album from local band School of Seven Bells. They way Claudia and Alejandra Deheza (twin sisters, it's too perfect) melt saccharine harmonies and pop hooks into dense walls of noise is quite mesmerizing. SOLD OUT
Cannonball Press: Born Under A Bad Sign
ArtThursdays-Sundays. Continues through Sept. 9
Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston, the duo that makes up Cannonball Press, presents some massive new prints on canvas, as well as a wall-full of $20 dollar prints from the woodblocking duo and a host of other artists.
Dirty Fences, Strange Shapes, Beauty Feast, Past Planes
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopThu., Sept. 9, 8 p.m.
FREE
Illinois, Whale Belly, The House Floor, Seth Kallen
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopThu., Sept. 9, 8 p.m.
Paul Baribeau, Emilyn Brodsky, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopThu., Sept. 9, 8 p.m.
Total Slacker, Christmas, Diehard, Dutch Treat, Widowspeak
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopThu., Sept. 9, 8 p.m.
Grass Grows by Itself
ArtMondays-Fridays. Continues through Sept. 9
We’ll gladly attest to the truth of the Zen proverb that lends this exhibition its title, namely that the most original and productive ideas often bloom from a state of total entropy. Curator Sima Familant’s creative intergenerational pairings attest as much, from Dale Chihuly’s floral blow glass and Chakaia Booker’s grass-like strips of tire rubber, to Kianja Strobert’s melancholic abstract paintings and Cameron Martin’s barely-there white-on-white canvases.
Cody Critcheloe and Ssion: Boy
ArtTuesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Sept. 11
This will be good: the queer kid from Kansas, also frontman and music video creator for Ssion, already designed the superb installation for The Hole's inaugural show, but with the entire space there's no telling how crazily kaleidoscopic things will get. Critcheloe's aesthetic, to give you an idea, is like Roy Lichtenstein painting M.I.A. album covers. Now will you go see this multimedia extravaganza?
