So, you all know MEN right? Of course you do!
Well...get excited because they just sent us their BRAND NEW song Credit Card Babie$!!
I was already a big fan of MEN's brand of dance music, but this song (and their other new song Off Our Backs) takes it to the next level! These songs have more of a post-punk/disco thing going on and might just be even more infectious than their previously released songs. Also-- as awesome as Credit Card Babie$ is already, I'm excited to hear the remixes that are probably being started right now! These songs are absolutely made for the dancefloor!
Besides making the songs you can't wait to dance to at your local sweaty dance party, MEN always have something to actually SAY with their music...so be sure to check out the lyrics on their Myspace page!
Brand new song from MEN!
Call for Artwork-Fresh Meat
Hey!
Are you an artist? Are you also trans, transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-variant, or gender-fabulous? If so, Fresh Meat could be for you!
Fresh Meat in the Gallery is an annual 2D art show (unfortunately they cannot show sculpture, video, or installation art at this time) in San Francisco that aims to build community and bring visibility to the trans artist community, among other things. This is the fourth installment of the themed exhibition, with the theme this year being Defying Gravities.
Fresh Meat in the Gallery runs in conjunction with the Fresh Meat Festival that expands the scope of work presented to include music, theater, dance, and other performance art. The gallery show is up June 6-July 15 while the festival runs June 18-21.
If you want to show your work in Fresh Meat in the Gallery IV, you don't have much time...submissions are due April 15, so get on it! Details about the theme Defying Gravities and submission info are available at the Fresh Meat website.
Lost Missing
Lost Missing is the latest project from author, activist, and artist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, who you may know as the editor of the Queer anthology "That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation" (or from her novels, or work with Gay Shame SF, or a ton of other awesome totally queer projects).
Beginning around the end of January, Sycamore began posting images and writings around San Francisco that are meant to publicly express the personal grief of losing friends. Mattilda explains the project best: "This project is a public expression of grief in order to feel hopeful again -- it’s about that random poster you see and you don’t know what it means but your eyes get bright all the sudden."
Most of us have probably dealt with the feelings associated with losing a friendship and Lost Missing offers us a creative way of dealing with that. All 24 images created thus far are available for download on Mattilda's blog and you are invited to post them anywhere and everywhere. So far, Lost Missing images have been seen in Portland (OR), Berlin, Houston, DC, and a bunch of other places. If you post or see a Lost Missing poster in your town take a photo and send it to Mattilda for a potential future project using the Lost Missing documentation. 
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Jep-pe Hooray!
Anyone remember that band Junior Senior? Well the Senior (The big gay bear looking one) has been releasing some solo pop jams in the recent months and they are fab.u.lous. It's a gay disco in Jeppe's world. He also recently performed a song called "Lucky Boy" for the Swedish entries for the Eurovision contest (The most insane Broadway musical production times 10000). The Junior is currently releasing music under the moniker I Scream Ice Cream.
Anyways, here are some clips of Jeppe's solo stuff. It's so good, the SSION did a remix for "Big Boy".
"Big Boy (SSION's Bang Bang Remix)"
Please make this the official video:
Nick Cave at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
No, not that Nick Cave.
Nick Cave, the Chicago based artist and professor (SAIC), has 60 of his "Soundsuits" currently on exhibition in a show entitled "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The Soundsuits (which are titled as such because they are designed to create sounds when the wearer moves) combine found objects, thrift store finds, human hair, sequins, flowers, beads, twigs and countless other handmade elements to create couture installations that aim to transcend notions of sexuality, race, and class while exploring cultural and ritualistic concepts.
In addition to exhibiting the Soundsuits, Cave has collaborated with choreographer Ronald K. Brown to create a performance fusing the Soundsuits with movement. The collaboration will be performed May 28, 30, and 31 and is free with gallery admission.
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
If you are there, please go see this and tell us how it was!
The White Worm
I'm not sure how it happened, as it often is with the internets, but I stumbled upon an interview with this band The White Worm.
The interview (conducted by Cody Critcheloe from SSION) starts like this: "The future of lesbian music can be summed up in two words: WHITE WORM!" I'm not sure if lesbians can be convinced of that, especially since it's kind of unclear whether or not White Worm is a joke, but their drunken night of Hole karaoke and a couple of Ambien version of Stevie Nicks' Stand Back has got me convinced.
Also--the members of the band, Erin Zona and Rachel Mesplay Helm, seem like total pothead weirdos, which is always a plus. Check out Erin Zona's blog for more on her creative process.
And here's the White Worm video:
The White Worm
I'm not sure how it happened, as it often is with the internets, but I stumbled upon an interview with this band The White Worm.
The interview (conducted by Cody Critcheloe from SSION) starts like this: "The future of lesbian music can be summed up in two words: WHITE WORM!" I'm not sure if lesbians can be convinced of that, especially since it's kind of unclear whether or not White Worm is a joke, but their drunken night of Hole karaoke and a couple of Ambien version of Stevie Nicks' Stand Back has got me convinced.
Also--the members of the band, Erin Zona and Rachel Mesplay Helm, seem like total pothead weirdos, which is always a plus. Check out Erin Zona's blog for more on her creative process.
And here's the White Worm video:
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