A freak young american artist: Devendra Banhart. His music is generally defined as indie/pyscho folk but his songs are an unusual combination of rock and folk also. Devendra has got an attitude and a way of life close to old hippies, and the songs are surrealistic but very funny. Sometimes he sings in spanish probably …
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On Sunday the 13th, the Chelsea Town Hall will host Frock Me!, a vintage fashion event that brings a nostalgic collection of clothing and accessories to a crowd of students, designers and fashionistas. Hats, shoes, gloves and jewellery are all on display alongside contrasting contemporary designerwear. It’s a must see if you want to spice …
Ex – Otago are an indie pop italian band (coming from Genoa). They have produced two albums, “The chestnuts time” (2003) and “Tanti saluti” (2007), and they are also popular for the remix of ” The rhythm of the night” by Corona, the nineties’ song that was a big dance success. By the way Ex …
Marie is an artist coming from Denmark. Are you thinking about classic indie scandinavian rock? close to folk and quite melodies? Her project is called Marybell Katastrophy and she likes talking about her music as an expermimental electronic pop. We at Polkadot like Maybell Katastrophy for the vitality and the movement of her songs. Funny …
Chicago is a good place for musicians and rock music. Some important rock bands come from Chicago: the Smashing Pumpkins, Shellac, Jesus Lizard, Wilco and Tortoise. Tortoise are considered one of the most important indie rock band of the scene, and the most part of their production has been made during the nineties, have a …
MEI is the italian music fair dedicated to independent labels and artists. Every year the music event takes place in Faenza (Ravenna). Gigs, conference and discussions about music world with a lot of representatives coming from labels, radio, music magazines, artists, and all of them involved into music business. MEI is an event to celebrate …
A partire dal 18 novembre è nato a Milano un nuovo ciclo di live interamente dedicato alla scena Indie-Electro internazionale. Se la prima data ha visto protagonista lo statunitense PUBLICIST (all’anagrafe Sebastian Thomson, già batterista dei Trans Am) che con la sua batteria, campionamenti e vocoder ha conquistato gli astanti, a partire dal 25 dello …
San Francisco, 31 december 1969: with their first performance on stage, the performer group called Cockettes is officially born. Trough 60s hippie rebellion and political revolution of 70s by Harvey Milk, these “psychedelic drag queen” makes of freedom their flag. Self-irony, extravagance, glitter, beard, high heels and muscles: there are no rules into Cockette’s aesthetic. …
Plans for tonight? We suggest you Saetta Party @ Bitte in Milan. A lot of music and performances: Cabaret with Dos Ankos, (b) Ananartista with Orgasmini live show (crazy and ironic performance). Following them Moscova Dreamers Dj set: indie new-wave and electro, plus Digital genetic pasta: funky, electro and breakbeat. But the main artist will be Etienne Jaumet from France. …
We are fun of the fun theory, and we showed you few times ago two videos about the Volkswagen initiatives of making funny the waste recycle. It’s on line now a new one focused on the glass and how people could improve the recycle just having fun. Usually people collect plastic bottles and cans but not …
Today is a special day for raggae & rastafarian movement. We are talking about the Rototm Sunsplash and the bad news of the last days. We at Polkadot usually don’t speak a lot of raggae music, but we like it and we respect absolutely every kind of music events if they were based on quality …
To build extra excitement around the upcoming Tim Burton retrospective, MOMA has released a new animated spot directed by Tim Burton. The animated reconstruction of the MOMA logo is reminiscent of the Toy Story teaser trailer. The exhibition (sponsored by Syfy) will open to public on November 22nd, 2009 and will run through April 26th, 2010. Danny …
What is the autumn exhibition we were waiting for? Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) of course. The artist is considered an important representative of the american realism movement, he loved to represent the human condition into modern society with a strong precision for details but at the same time his workes had a methaphysics atmosphere, …
