Three videos based on “Shit Girls Say” by Kyle Humphrey / Graydon Sheppard
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Good Blogs: 10 Tumblrs You Might Like
I haven’t done this in a while, but i’ve stumbled upon so many interesting tumblrs recently that I thought it would be nice to resurrect the “Good Blogs” section. So here are 10 tumblrs that really have my appreciation (picture above via suk.me): Butch Queen (Fashion, divaishness, camp other crazy stuff) Preporno (“Art theory student trying to figure out political densities in pornography and post-pornography and homoerotism”) Epicenity (Androgyny and/in fashion) Teledildonix (Weird and fetishy, a collaboration between bloggers behind Spectral Flesh and mnemotechnics / seething miscellanies) A Queer Culture & Social Media Study (Video portraits of queer bloggers) My Heart is Forever Frozen in Siberia (Moody picture collection of flowers, gay stuff, landscapes, fashion etc) artQueer (“Art curated by a queer artist”) bj’s gay porno-crazed ramblings (WordPress blog in tumblr style/ dedicated to vintage porn, with pictures, film descriptions and small reviews) BROUX (Cute photo collection of cute guys with pictures from Flickr and and by the blogger) suk.me (Animated gay hipster kitsch art)
Shaun El C Leonardo
Shaun Leonardo is a New York based visual artist, working in painting, performance and video. His work tackles the hyper-masculine image of the contemporary male, whilst also looking into racial stereotypes and ‘violent’ performances that constitute these stereotypes. His work is bound together with personal experience and expression; creating an almost mythic self portrait of ‘masculinity’.
Music Ticker: JONTE’, Mary Ocher, Ecto, SPKR/Honey Soundsystem, LastO, Beat Connection
+++ JONTE’ has released an new mixtape called “The Last Train To Africa Paris”, mixed by Michael Magnan. You can stream and download it here / playlist on the artist’s bandcamp page. THE LAST TRAIN TO AFRICA PARIS by hellojonte +++ Israeli singer/songwriter Mary Ocher is releasing her album “War Songs” via Haute Areal on March 11 and has announced a record release party at HBC, Karl-Libknecht-Str. 9, Berlin at the same day. You can stream the album here. Check out the video to her single “On The Streets Of Hard Labour” +++ +++ Ecto is a new crassical / wip-hop /nu-kali / splitno project by Keanan, a friend of mine from Oakland. I really love his first release ever, the song “Divisible”. Check it out here:
Music Ticker: Beth Ditto / Simian Mobile Disco, Twin Shadow, James Blake, Tanlines, Koudlam, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Perfume Genius, Ceo
+++ As a follow-up to their song “Cruel Intention” Beth Ditto and Simian Mobile Disco have recorded a 4-track-E.P. together, which will be released in January. Here’s a mix of the record:
+++ There are two really nice really nice remixes of songs of Twin Shadow‘s awesome album “Forget” available online for free. You can stream and download Com Truise‘s version of “Castles In The Snow” right here and and the Van-Rivers-Remix of “Slow” on Stereogum.
Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (1955-2010)
Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Coil, passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 55 . This video for Coil’s version of “Tainted Love” depicts the the cruelty of HIV/AIDS and shows Marc Almond as Death himself, which is why it was widely banned. Today the MoMa owns a copy of it. The 12″ “Panic/Tainted Love” was released in 1985 and was the first AIDS benefit music release. More about Christopherson in this obituary published by the Guardian. Picture (c) Shawn Brackbill. Via Jockohomo.
Music Ticker: Hercules and Love Affair, Sali, The Loveliers, JD Samson, Rusty Lazer, We Have Band
+++ Hercules and Love Affair have announced their tour dates for July and August. They can be found on omg blog. It’s where I found the photograph of hunky Andy Butler I posted on top of this post +++ +++ An mysterious artist from NYC called Sali has recently realeased a track called “Toldya”, which features a voice sample of M.I.A.’ and musically reminds of the stuff she’s into herself. You can download the song and two other ones on his website by leaving your email +++ +++ I’d like to introduce you to The Loveliers from Poland which wrote me a nice email a few days ago. Here’s their current song “Interactivity”, a chilled and melancholic low-tempo dance track: The Loveliers – Interactivity +++ +++ The awesome queer culture blog Young Creature has recently posted a mixtape by JD Samson. You find the download link here +++ +++ Rusty Lazer is a DJ from New Orleans who’s currently supporting the Sissy Bounce superstars Big Freedia, Katey Red and Sissy Nobby live. You can download two of his Bounce mixes on his Soundcloud profile (via omg blog) +++ +++ Here’s a another nice video by We Have Band:
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Request For Contributions
CATCH FIRE has always worked like a little hub in a bigger network of people. A huge amount of the stuff posted on this site has been inspired by things friends of mine were talking about in conversations or readers sent to me via mail. At the same time at the moment I’m realizing that I have less and less time to regularly update you guys with interesting or entertaining input. So whenever you find stuff that you think could fit on this page let me know, may it be a new zine, a band, an event, an interesting artist or just a silly video. And if you even want to write a few lines about it, the better. All your stuff is highly appreciated here, because it helps to keep this site interesting and helps connecting people. Mail to contact@catch-fire.com. Thanks.
Poll: More/Less Pictures On CF?
Hey guys, I recently got critizised several times for posting too many picture galleries (like the one below) and single pictures on this site instead of “real” content. I’ve always wanted CATCH FIRE to be a very visual site, but I surely don’t want to annoy or even bore people with too many pictures. So please tell me what you think and vote: "There are too many pictures and picture galleries on CATCH FIRE": Total Voters: 48 UPDATE (02/10/10): Poll is closed now. Thanks to everyone who voted! I’m pretty happy with the result…
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