Negativland

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Wednesday, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, Babehoven, Dylan LeBlanc, DJ Logic, and more.

‘Stand By For Failure‘ tells the story of sonic collagists and culture critics Negitvland, and is screening in Brooklyn at Nitehawk Williamsburg as part of the BrooklynVegan-presented Music Driven series.

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Helado Negro, Testament, Eyehategod, Dave, and more.

Plus: Kool Keith, Ivan Julian, Little Simz, Nas / Wu-Tang Clan, Billy Bragg, Neko Case, Four Chord Fest, Outside lands and more tour and festival news.

Plus: Seth Herzog’s SWEET comedy series, The Killers, Billie Eilish tour openers, and more tour and festival news.

The 2019 edition of Utrecht music festival Le Guess Who wrapped over the weekend and featured performances from Jenny Hval, Cate Le Bon, Efterklang, Deerhunter, Deerhoof, The Raincoats, Sudan Archives, Moon Duo and more.

Cut-and-paste sonic social critics / pranksters Negativland are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year and will release new album True False on October 25. It’s the first of two interconnected albums, and “tackles concerns that will be familiar to any surviving fans of the band: our nervous systems, our realities, and the evolving forms of media that inevitably insert themselves between the two.

Listen to new songs by IDLES, Ariana Grande, Drake, Devendra Banhart, The Wedding Present, Negativland, Teyana Taylor, Little Simz (Gorillaz cover), Bibio, and more.

Guest curators at 2019 Le Guess Who? include Jenny Hval, Moon Duo and The Bug.

Richard Lyons, a founding member of avant-garde, witty sound collagists Negativland died on Tuesday, April 19 from complications due to nodular melanoma. He was 57 and the third key member to die in two years — Don Joyce died last summer, and former member Ian Allen died in January, 2015. From Negativland’s Facebook, a lovely […]