Running from June 9-30, Scion will display artwork – like the Patrick Martinez piece shown above – of some of Los Angeles’ most prominent aerosol and graffiti artists. Read more


Sufjan Stevens, driven by his love of America, has announced that he will make a music/film piece about one of the least loved American landmarks — the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Read more

Here’s a look at some of Tuesday’s releases, including Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, that have received attention in our confines this week. Read more

In addition to joining the throng of musicians and labels with YouTube channels, Relapse Records will release new albums from The Dillinger Escape Plan (pictured above), High on Fire, and Coliseum in the late summer and early fall. Read more

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times Bay-area avant rockers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, whose theatrical mixture of melodies, progressive rock, and metal gives them few contemporaries, have returned with a third full-length studio album. The album, In Glorious Times (The End), leaves no shortage of material on par with the group’s past efforts. Read more


Running from June 23 to July 21, 2007, New York’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery will host an exhibit of Shepard Fairey’s artwork titled E Pluribus Venom. Fairey, best known for his “propaganda engineering” and stencil-esque renditions of Andre the Giant for his Obey Giant campaign, will show pieces that include paintings, mixed media, screen prints, album covers, and more. Read more


Coming as the first film to be branded with the label Morgan Spurlock Presents… but having no work credited to the semi-famous director of anti-McDonald’s documentary Supersize Me and television program “30 Days,” Chalk, a mockumentary in the style of “The Office,” has begun to be released in select cities around the United States. Read more

On September 14th and 15th, many indie darlings will be playing at the geographically formed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. The initial line-up, announced by Monolith today, includes CAKE, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Spoon, Kings of Leon, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ghostland Observatory, and many others. Read more


Trawlers, 2004, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, 7” x 9″

Looking through the gallery window, Alexia Stamatiou’s paintings seem like a celebration of color and life, an eye-catching display against the pristine white of the Sunday Gallery located in New York City’s Lower East Side. Read more


The reissue of James Chance and the Contortions‘ live album Soul Exorcism heads the discs spinning at ALARM this week, May 21-25, 2007. Read more

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