CMAT Makes Country Music Sad, Smart and Strange
The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.
Devo’s Future Came True
Half a century after Devo began singing about cultural De-Evolution, the visionary new wave band would have preferred to be wrong.
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‘Stereophonic’ Finds Drama in a ’70s Rock Recording Booth
The playwright David Adjmi explores the in-studio creation process in a play with new songs by the former Arcade Fire member Will Butler.
Posted inArt Collectors and Collections Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (Exhibit) Ginsberg, Allen Mekas, Jonas Music Nineteen Hundred Sixties Smith, Harry (1923-91) Whitney Museum of American Art
Harry Smith, a Culture-Altering Shaman, at the Whitney
A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also hints at what has been lost.