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Stuntkid’s pretty girls in comic book-stylings portfolio is one of jesus satan’s absolute faves, and a group show featuring his sexy candy-colored ladies is going to be too good to miss. as a bonus, four other lumniaries in the field are showing their illustrative wares. respective sites: Stuntkid, Nomi Chi, James Flames, Eliza Frye, JJ Villard, and the show goes off Saturday, February 20th at Miss Scarlet in the Parlor, 1282 W Sunset, 90026. (Villard is also showing tonight at Gallery Nucleus’ Zombies In Love show, with other pieces from a whole grip of good folks. zombies and love, how could it go wrong?)

Stuntkid - Anatomical Apnea (yes, THAT Apnea)

Nomi Chi - Angels Eyes

Eliza Frye - In Bed Alone

JJ Villard - Got To Get Tough

James Flames - Splitting Headache Jay Reatard at Orange Peel, Ashevill, NC (RIP, Jay)

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damn, those Yeasayer kids are going to be kind of a big deal, and Warpaint kind of rulz the schulz, too, so i was really looking forward to tonights First Fridays‘ double header tonight at the Natural History Museum. (Deer Tick closes out the season on March 5th.) oh well, as compensation here’s a bunch of awesome Yeasayer-ness. firstly, their new album, Odd Blood, which has finally released, is available right now to preview in its entirety on their Myspace page here, and it’s also available for download in a variety of packages here. some really great stuff, although nothing as stellar as their Ambling Alp single, NSFW video of which is below. which brings me to my second note. check out the naked psychedelica weirdness of their Ambling Alp Single experience that’s meant to accompany the video at their site here. kind of like watching porn while you drop some acid. (the image above is a screen capture from it.) fuck i love this song. (*update: they’re streaming the live show starting at 8.30 here.)

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp from Spy Films on Vimeo.

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this looks impossibly, impossibly lame, and it could have been such an amazing concept if they shot it right, like their Fight Club homage last year. empires crumble, folks. probably all started with the way they treated their talent. and their photographers. someone give that guy a job… he needs the money.

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world famous bad ass and WTTD pal Mike Stilkey brings a literal approach to his art (god i’m so fucking clever), often using books, their pages and their covers as his canvases. his room-sized installations are something to behold; brick-like stacks of literature that reach from the floor to the ceiling while painted over with Stilkey’s trademark twisty-turny animal studies and gaunt-like, dark-haired figures (who you can just tell are waxing all philosophic about Dostoyevsky and shit). it’s been a couple years since Los Angeles saw a Stilkey opening, he’s been too busy jet setting, but lucky for us in the meantime he has made an amazing new limited edition print available via BLK/MRKT. (hey! Valentine’s Day is coming! maybe it’ll make a good present for that hot librarian you’ve been trying to mack on.) here’s the info direct from Stilkey himself:

“I’m excited to announce that my very first print is now available for sale through BLK/MRKT Editions! The print, “Sleeping Horse,” is a four-color screenprint on 100 percent cotton rag paper. It measures 24 by 18 inches. The print is an edition of 150 and each one is signed, numbered and stamped. They are available for purchase for $45 and will be delivered within 2 to 3 weeks.” – so get your piping hot prints here, straight out of the oven, and check out Stilkey’s own site for plenty more good. art.

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first Orbital has kissed and made up (gross! they’re brothers!) to play Coachella, and now Leftfield, who made two of the best electronic albums of all time OF ALL TIME!! is reforming for a headlining set at the Rockness Festival in merry olde England. here’s hoping they come to the states sometime soon thereafter… look out, world. big beat is coming out, so you better get this party started. (thanks, Mixmag. seriously.) and yes, above is John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols singing techno.

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i can’t tell you how impressed i am with the upcoming album by jónsi. it’s like hearing Sigur Rós all over again for the very first time, only upbeat and full of life and a bunch of lame shit like that. he’s just announced his 2010 US tour, and he hits Cali a couple other times in Berkeley and San Fran. check out the full schedule at his site here. more importantly, you’ll notice his name on the updated Coachella flyer right next to De La Soul on Sunday’s schedule. Sigur Rós’ debut at Coachella way back when was utterly disastrous, but it’s good to see that they’ve since made amends. also, Definition: Hopelandic: A made-up language consisting of gibberish words. shit, turns out we’ve been using Hopelandic here on WTTD for more than a year now.

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presales seem pretty fucking stupid for general admission venues, kind of misses the point when it’s not assigned seating or Radiohead selling out some tiny club in five seconds. regardless, there’s a presale today at 10am for Broken Social Scene’s May 3rd show at the Henry Fonda / Music Box. so that’s exciting. really, actually, they’re great live. the presale password is… (whispers) BROKEN. get your tickets here. (hey! i know that goth kid!)

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fuckin’-a if Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ It’s Blitz! wasn’t one of the best albums of 2009, and here’s the new video for one of the best songs off of it, Skeletons, from director Barney Clay. looks like they shot the location stuff at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, too. home town whut whut! also, here’s a making of if you care not that you do.

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in the mood for an avant garde operatic piece of performance art! of course you are! The Knife has released their new album, Tomorrow, In A Year, a scoring collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for a Danish opera based on Charles Darwin and his ‘On The Origin Of Species’ treatise. doesn’t that get you in the mood to dance? it’s available for streaming right now at their website here, and there are also links to purchase it from iTunes et al. i heartily recommend people preview this one before they buy. A Letter To Henslow, for instance, is more or less two minutes of bird calls. i like it, but it probably plays a lot better with the actual performance.

The Knife “Na Na Na” from A Space In Time on Vimeo.

Created for The Knife and commissioned by Rabid Records, this ambient track in neutral tones, spins a spell of love and it’s complexities enveloped in the texture of the environment.

Directed & Produced by David Vegezzi & Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Cinematography by Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Edited by David Vegezzi
Single track from Silent Shout / The Knife
© 2008 http://www.davidvegezzi.com

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Check out our photos from the Hollywood Bowl Poster Show at the Arclight, some awesome music art:

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