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Kanye West is pop culture’s ultimate villian these days, but he is hardly the first to challenge the sense and sensibility of mainstream culture. The news today that the album artwork for his upcoming album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been “banned” just makes him the latest in a long line of artists who album art pushed the limits. …MORE
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Chicago’s Grant Park is idyllic – expanses of open field with sunbathers, families partaking in a weekend picnic, the occasional dog chasing an airborne Frisbee. The entire scene belies what was there a mere three weeks ago – Lollapalooza. Its fifth year stationed in Chicago, 2010’s Lollapalooza received as much scrutiny as it did praise, featuring artists like pop queen Lady Gaga alongside Australian nu-grunge group Violent Soho and dubstep mastermind Rusko. Fact is, Lollapalooza’s been changing for a while, and according to founder Perry Farrell, it’s all completely intentional.
URB spoke with Farrell in 2009 about the shift and his increasing interest in electronic music, and we were lucky enough to speak with him again this year. Touching on his future projects and revisiting topics like the modern face of Lollapalooza, Farrell tells us what collaborations are on …
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LA art kids We Are The World have never been afraid to sample a little something or another from pop culture (this band got our attention not after Lady Gaga’s tweets, but their awesome rework of Jane’s Addition’s Nothing’s Shocking album cover.) The video for the band’s latest, “Not In Death” reminds us of the freakazoid humor of classic Aphex Twin (without the disturbing monsters and transexuals) while the bands sound adds similar IDM affects to a quirky pop ala Animal Collective template. Good stuff then.
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Internet curiosity & electronica artist, Dan Black, has announced North American tour dates in 2010 – just in time for the US release of his record “(un)” which I hear will have extra tracks on it! Lucky us!
Don’t miss it live!
February 18 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
February 19 – Montreal, QC @ Belmont
February 20 – Toronto, ON @ WrongBar
February 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Cinespace
February 25 – San Francisco, CA @ Popscene / 330 Ritch
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By Steve Baltin
As I wait for Perry Farrell in an upstairs room at Santa Monica recording studio The Village, I hear him out in the hallway looking for me. He enters the room with a huge smile. “Come on, I’ve got a much better room for us,” he says, leading me upstairs.
Though we’ve become friendly over the years from seeing each other out often around LA and from the many times I’ve interviewed Farrell, it wouldn’t matter if I was a long-lost relative or we’d never met-he welcomes everybody into his world with the same warmth.
In his two decades in music, Farrell has done it all-fronted the iconic alternative band Jane’s Addiction; founded Lollapalooza, the most important outdoor festival of the last two decades and arguably one of music’s most revolutionary ideas (without Lolla would there have been Warped, Ozzfest, …
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