Sleigh Bells: Champions of Unrestricted Beauty

It’s the season for Sleigh Bells and the Brooklyn-based duo, though still working on finishing their new album, offers a new track from it today. “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty” forgoes their trademark distorted filters and aggressive guitars, bringing Alexis Krauss’ powerful vocals front and center for their poppiest song yet. What the rest of the yet-to-be-named album will sound like still remains a mystery, but …

Jehnny Beth + Julian Casablancas: Boy/Girl

Julian Casablancas and Jehnny Beth of Savages rock out in their cover of an ’80s punk track from Danish band Sort Sol and American singer Lydia Lunch, “Boy/Girl.” It’s a fierce duet that’s rough around the edges, especially with Jehnny Beth’s half-howl, half-singing voice. Even the new music video is a nod to the original—the opening sequence, some body gestures and even actual video clips …

Satellite Miami Beach 2015: Jennifer Avery’s Beast Boutique

A room filled with grotesque, bewitching dolls in a repurposed beachfront hotel

Providence-based multidisciplinary performance artist Jennifer Avery has a fascination with dolls. This is clear in her installation, “Beast Boutique,” which makes its USA debut this week in Miami as a part of the inaugural Satellite exhibition, made up of several different shows in venues like a pharmacy and a bandshell. The Ocean Terrace Hotel is curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid as an artist-driven intervention space, …