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Music News 05/30/2015

Shamir Radio

We here at Tuneage love Shamir Bailey! He’s got awesome spare and innovative music; he’s young, fresh, and so goshdarn adorable. Earlier this month he released his first full-length album and has a radio station where he’s curated a bunch of songs that inspired the sounds in his new album. There is a lot of surprising inspiration behind the album. And as you listen, you can hear it all.

Drake curates the music for an art show

Sotheby’s has put together a show of contemporary black American artists. To make the show stand out, they decided to find someone to add music to the show. And they convinced Drake to match songs to the pieces. In talking to Buzzfeed News, the gallery’s director, Jacqueline Wachter said, “We were looking for a curator that would give [the art show] a different twist from the other shows going on out there. We have been talking about doing a show of some of the most important black American artists for a while. We were interested in looking over the span of many generations from the 1920’s to the present. And I was connected to Drake by my uncle. He was so enthusiastic from the first conversation.”

Drake chose his own song, 4 Wu-Tang Forever (Nothing Was the Same 2013) to pair with Glenn Ligon’s Figure #29. Check below to see another pairing.

Is disco here to stay?

What do you think about the resurgence of disco? It’s been burbling along, slowly taking over. And now it’s about to make a full force return when the self-proclaimed founder of disco, Giorgio Moroder, 75!, returns with an epic new album on June 12. The trailer for the album samples every track and shows off the album’s wealth of talent including Foxes, Sia, Kelis, Marlene, Charli XCX, Matthew Koma, Mikky Ekko, Kylie Minogue, and Britney Spears.

Pogo is back!

Pogo, also known as DJ Nick Bertke, is back with another fabulous soundscape of music taken from sounds from various Disney films. Pogo got into some immigration problems a few years ago and got kicked out of the US and back to his native Australia. But we’re glad this hasn’t dissuaded him from continuing to make magical music.

More Drake and Sotheby’s…

Jacob Lawrence’s The Lovers with Lucille by Anthony Hamilton as Drake’s song choice

I haven’t seen any posts on tumblr about this kid, but you may have seen this going around twitter. He’s received an absurd amount of hate for supporting women, as well as a lot of love (as he obviously deserves!) Let’s keep this movement going! 

“I miss dinosaurs.”

“Evolution, we’ve talked about this.”

“But I miss them.”

“You turned them into birds, remember? It was the best you could do, given the circumstances.”

“It’s not the same.”

“I know. I’m sorry.”

“Can I at least make these cassowaries 50 feet tall?”

“Come on, you know that size didn’t work out so well before.”

“Six feet, then? And over 100 pounds?”

“Yeah, that sounds better.”

“And can I put weird prehistoric crests on their heads?”

“I don’t see why not.”

“And can they slash people’s throats with their dagger claws?”

“Sure, pal, if that would make you feel better.”

“I think it would. Thanks for understanding.”

“You got it, evolution. Anytime.”

witches whose day jobs is treating ill people with “alternative” remedies like crystal healing and herbalism that actually work

incubui and succubi who are models

dryads and other nature spirits who are huge environmental activists

schools designed for supernatural and magical creatures

witch tattoo artists who secretly disguise protective runes into all their tattoos

fair folk who sell potions at market stalls

mermaid marine biologists

normal humans that somehow come across dragon eggs and are trying to hatch it in their basement

elf scholars who run libraries filled with books about magic

werewolves running animal shelters

safety runes graffiti on apartment blocks

LILY’S HUGEASS I-USED-TO-BE-AN-ART-STUDENT-BUT-NOW-I’M-NOT GIVEAWAY

yoooooooo so here’s the deal. Once upon a time, I got a master’s degree in fine art. But a bunch of shit has happened since then… namely me becoming permanently disabled……. and because of that, I’m not really able to make art the way I could when I was a student. (I mostly work digitally now; it’s just easier on me.) Anyway, this means that I’ve had a shitton of fine art supplies just sitting around collecting dust! AND I want them the fuck out of my space already… so I am going to give them away! One winner will get everything listed below.

Pictured:

3 new or nearly new watercolor sketchpads 

2 new or nearly new oil/acrylic sketchpads 

apx. 25 partially used tubes of acrylic paint (almost all liquitex brand) in assorted colors

1 partial bottle of liquitex gesso 

3 partial bottles of liquitex acrylic mediums (one slow-dri and two gloss medium) 

6 gesso brushes 

a shitton of oil/acrylic brushes (assortment of natural bristle, soft natural fiber, and synthetic) plus 1 canvas brush holder. they are used but I took pretty good care of them and they are decent quality. (also sorry for the shitty blurry pic) 

1 palette/paint mixing knife (pictured with the brushes) 

1 set of partially used color conte crayons 

1 large tub of brush cleaner (I know it looks beat up but it’s actually barely used… sigh oil paint makes everything so dirty) 

assortment of willow charcoal

canvasmaking tools (2 pairs of scissors, staple gun and staples, paint scrapers and canvas pliers)

Not pictured:

5 new or nearly new paperbound sketchbooks 

2 new or nearly new wirebound sketchbooks 

apx. 12-15 small canvas boards (they’re kind of scuffed up but still very usable)

3 small premade canvases 

3 sets of small assembled stretcher strips (12 strips total) 

4 unassembled small stretcher strips 

small amount of unprimed/unstretched canvas fabric

1 small container of brush cleaner

assortment of graphite drawing pencils

Rules:

you do not need to follow me

likes count as one entry

reblogs count as one extra entry

winner will be chosen at random

I will pay for shipping to anywhere in the US

I will not pay for shipping outside the US (sorry about this but I just can’t afford it right now… however if you would be willing to pay your own shipping, you can still enter)

you must have your askbox open

you must be willing to share your address with me (hopefully that goes without saying but just in case!)

I would strongly prefer that these things go to someone who needs them, as in either a.) a current/future/recent art student, or b.) someone who otherwise has a strong interest in art but has trouble affording it. But since I have no way of verifying that, I’m not going to worry too much about who enters.