Angel Olsen: Shut Up Kiss Me

Angel Olsen enraptures in her new boisterous (teetering on the edge of rash desperation) rock song “Shut Up Kiss Me,” whose music video was written and directed by the singer-songwriter herself. Rocking the same glittering silver wig seen in the similarly awesome “Intern” teaser trailer, Olsen seems to be enjoying her new, forthright musical direction (and perhaps alter ego) as much as we are. Her …

Oaxacan Stonecutter and Dressmaker Tiburcio Sánchez

Exploring the dual crafts of a master maker in light of the city's wild Carnival of Teitipac

by Max La Frenais Maestro Tiburcio Sánchez was born in San Juan Teitipac in 1945 and has been stonecutting metates and molcajetes for the past 55 years. (A metate is a large, carved stone with a curved surface used to grind maize; a molcajete is the Mexican version of a mortar and pestle used to make salsas.) Outside in his yard, the 71-year-old sits on …

Noise Patterns by Tristan Perich

The sound artist behind 1-Bit Music has a new album available on circuitboard

Sound artist Tristan Perich has long been interested in stripping art down to an elemental level to explore randomness and order (catch his drawing machine in this 2006 Cool Hunting video). To listen to his 2004-2005 album1-Bit Music, one plugged headphones into a translucent CD case as a microchip played 40 minutes in low-fi 1-bit audio tones—electronic music’s most simple, raw form. Only a single …