Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern

Gabriel Orozco, DS, 1993

Ripples of complexity pervade this exhibition. Several works reflect Orozco’s preoccupation with geometric forms. Diagrammatic shapes drawn over newspapers; toothpaste spat onto graph-paper to resemble molecular cell structures. A key work is Black Kites, a human skull painstakingly inscribed with a checkerboard design, suggesting a triumph of skill and reason over a symbol of death.

New Radiohead album! - The King of Limbs

So the week started with the devastatingly exciting news that Radiohead are releasing a new album. Not much is known about it, but it's being released this weekend (19/02/11). As you might expect its going out in an unusual way, as the world's first Newspaper Album. This is what it looks like:


Have a look at this soundcloud for a selection of as-yet unreleased tracks that one fan thinks might make it onto the album.

*UPDATE 19/02/11*

The full album is now available to listen to here

New Events

Two new exciting events added here

Caribou at Plastic People. 29/01/11

Good old Caribou. Dan Snaith. The nerdy musician who likes maths. His latest work, Swim, was the best album of 2010. (Or the 7^th if you read the Guardian… 17^th if you read Pitchfork.) In fact I’m listening to it on my iPod now, which is a little keen as I’m waiting in a queue to see him perform. I’m outside a venue in Shoreditch, the area that was cool in the early-noughties. Like Camden a decade earlier. When Blur was around. I wait for just under 2 hours sipping John Smiths on the sly. This is Plastic People’s new management. They search through every single wallet.