All the women caught in flaring light
Imagine a big room of women doing anything
Little Shop of Horrors: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Composer Alan Menken beams with pride as he introduces the Little Shop of Horrors Tiny Desk (home) concert. May 6, 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the show's first production. Menken is joined by the stellar cast of the current off-Broadway revival, which swept the Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Drama League Awards for Best Musical Revival. They perform a joyful medley of five earworm-filled tunes from the cult classic.
clipping. live for no audience during a global pandemic
Clipping are Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes.
Chappell Roan: Tiny Desk Concert
Performing five songs from Midwest Princess, Roan worked through songs of youthful heartache (“Casual”), queer liberation (“Pink Pony Club”), mournful alienation (“California”) and two decidedly different forms of chaotic seduction (“Picture You,” “Red Wine Supernova”).
The Book as Art: Codex Curiosities
This exhibition features the codex, the most common book format made of pages bound to a spine.
The Malware Museum
The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected.
Hung Liu: Making History
Adapting motifs and symbols from Chinese visual and cultural traditions, as well as antique photographs of Chinese society by Western observers, Liu transformed documentary-style photography into painterly, personal reflections on canvas and paper.
Busy Beaver Button Museum
The mission of the Button Museum to show how as much American history as possible through pinback buttons. The words, artwork, printing style, color, and size were the final result of a vision they wanted to communicate. Buttons tell a peoples' history like anything else!
But I'm a Cheerleader (Tubi link)
A naive cheerleader is sent to a gay conversion camp when her strait-laced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian in this quirky comedy.
“Butterfly Lovers” Erhu Concerto
Based on the ancient Chinese folk tale of The Butterfly Lovers, this music is adapted from tunes of “Yue Opera” in Zhejiang Province. The three main sections of the original folk tale tell of the making of sworn brothers at Cao Qiao, Zhu Ying Tai’s refusal of an arranged marriage, and the reincarnation of lovers as butterflies by their graves. These three sections are presented in the sonata form – exposition, development, and recapitulation of the concerto.
Brushy One String: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Artists shine given restrictions and limitations. Subtlety and nuance are more easily found in minimalism than excess. That's the beauty of Brushy One String, whose sound is make by one big fat E-string and a voice so rich and full, all it wants is a bit of rhythmic and melodic underpinning.
I Am The Dog
Sir Chloe is an American indie rock band from Vermont. The group consists of Dana Foote, Teddy O'Mara, Palmer Foote, Emma Welch, and Austin Holmes.
Skiptracing
Mild High Club’s second studio album, Skiptracing, is the follow up to their 2015 release, Timeline. Skiptracing is based around the idea of a private investigator who’s on a mission to retrace the “steps of the sound and the spirit of American music.”
Pony
Orville’s debut album, Pony, delivers a diverse collection of stories that sing of heartbreak, revenge and the unrelenting tug of the cowboy ethos. Warm lap steel guitars and echoing drums move through dreamy ballads and sometimes near frantic buzzsaw tunes - all the while paying homage to his country music roots.
Electra Heart
Electra Heart is the second album by Marina and the Diamonds. Marina told The Sun that Electra Heart is a collection that, “personifies love and what you go through when your heart gets broken.”
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is Chappell Roan’s debut album. It follows the story of Roan, an alternate persona for the singer born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, acting as an outlet for her fantasies as a queer girl.
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is considered a cult classic among jazz critics and the pinnacle of its genre, a worthy competitor to albums such as Bitches Brew and A Love Supreme. The album is frequently regarded to as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Link Wray
Link Wray is the 1971 album by pioneering guitarist Link Wray. The music is an Americana blend of blues, country, gospel, and folk rock elements.
There Existed An Addiction To Blood
Clipping’s third album for Sub Pop, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, finds them interpreting another rap splinter sect through their singular lens. This is clipping’s transmutation of horrorcore, a purposefully absurdist and creatively significant sub-genre that flourished in the mid-90s.
Sings Ballads and Blues
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues is the debut solo album by American folk singer Odetta, first released in 1956. Like much of Odetta’s early work, Ballads and Blues combines traditional songs (e.g. spirituals) with blues covers.
Little Shop of Horrors (The New Cast Album)
Little Shop of Horrors is a horror rock comedy musical. The story follows an ordinary florist who is unsatisfied with his life. However, one day he comes across a mysterious plant, that talks and feeds on blood and flesh.
A New Form of Drone Warfare, or The Spicy Chicken Incident
More things fall from the sky now.
Wolf Facts
If there were any justice in the world, I would have been born a wolf. Instead, I’m a seventh grader.
The Never-Ending Chinatown
I went on a jog this morning in a never-ending Chinatown.
The Americanization of Kambili
I hissed the words at her. “This, your America, it will kill you.”
Hartliss Detective Agency
In the mafia-run streets of 1920s Chicago, a private investigator with a knack for the paranormal gets a case that'll bring him to the dark underbelly of the city in more ways than one.
The Girl with Flies Coming Out of Her Eyes
Imagine you are a young woman. Imagine you want to cry, but you can’t, because of a sickness where your eyes make flies instead of tears.
All Summer in a Day
Children wait by the windows of their school for a chance to see the Venutian sun.
4th Man Out
A laid-back car mechanic has the challenge of his life when he decides to finally let his blue-collar best friends know that he is gay.
All Dogs Go to Heaven
A junkyard dog returns to Earth from heaven thanks to the powers of a magical, rewindable watch, though his objective changes as he watches events unfold in his former stomping grounds.