Jackie Tileston, Philadelphia-based painter and winner of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, will debut her latest work at Chicago’s Zg Gallery starting the second week of September. Adventures of Semionauts features work that further explores Tileston’s interest in the linguistic ability of painting to bridge the gaps between disparate elements. (more…)

Subterranea, the collaboration between ALARM illustrator Ferris Plock and his girlfriend Kelly Tunstall, opens this Saturday at Fuse Gallery in New York City. Though the couple lives in San Francisco, it used the network of New York City subways, tunnels, and sewers to inspire a body of work depicting the lives of creatures inhabiting a mythical underground world. (more…)

The popular saying goes “venture adventure,” as should any footnote that accompanies this beautiful new sound from Ethiopia. It is an adventurous sound that incorporates ethnocentric rhymes, funky horns, lively percussion, and booty-shaking beats. (more…)

Who needs southern or ’70s rock credibility when you can grow thick hair on every square inch of your head and face? On the self-titled debut from Buffalo Killers, these mountain men open with a spacey mix of White Album melodies and blues-heavy guitar work. And that’s before the Buffalo Killers figure out what they do really well. (more…)

Polemics is a little noisier, a little more avant-garde than 31Knots’ previous album, Talk Like Blood, but it is definitely accessible. “Sedition’s Wish” is the EP’s best song, and with its catchy vocal and guitar melodies, it is sure to please any indie rock fan. (more…)

A documentary about the first all-queer, all-woman punk band is going to feature a lot of frank talk about sexual politics. And because that band is San Francisco’s Tribe 8, whose performances regularly feature bare-chested band members, males from the crowd fellating strap-on dildos, and on-stage depictions of castration, the talk is going to get heated. (more…)

Inspired by the US military’s dumping of lethal toxinsinto Korea’s Han River, director and writer Bong Joon-Ho takes the scenario an evolutionary stepfurther by introducing an unwelcome byproduct of pollution — a giant mutated monster that eats people. (more…)