In Flagranti - New single Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary (Original Mix)

Click on the link to listen to swiss electro In Flagranti new realease. Loads of remixes also available !!!

Venice Beach Release Party, Panic Room (Paris), 5 July 2012

Venice Beach is the super active Italy disco Philly dance duo formed by DJ Moar and Dee Dee Hey. The duo has become one of the most active in the parisian night-life, DJ and playing live at Panic Room as residents, Chez Moune, Bataclan, Mama Shelter, etc... Venice Beach will celebrate its EP on 5 July at Panic Room (rue Amelot, 11ème). Vicious Vitamins will be there of course !!!

Venice Beach Soundcloud; http://soundcloud.com/venice-beach

Music: Lady Pheres by Steve Morell and Monica Pokorna....

Steve Morell & Monica Pokorna, Lady Pheres

Steve Morell, DJ, musician and founder of label Pale Music just released Lady Pheres, the second single of his album "The Life And Death Of Jimmy Pheres And His Rise From The Undeworld". For the occasion, Monica Pokorna joins the artist for what is probably the most beautiful melody of 2012. Steve Morell has the voice of those who lived too much and too fast contrasting with Monica Pokorna's naive but brave tone. We love the romantism and the simplicity of the melody, the dialogue between both artists and the invitation to dream and love. There is a bit of In The Death Car in Lady Pheres, the song Goran Bregovic composed for Iggy Pop for the soundtrack of Arizona Dream (or American Dreamers depending on where you live). Lady Pheres should soon become an icon of the independent scene (whatever it means) so don't wait to become one of the first to discover it.

For the occasion, Steve Morell and Monica Pokorna worked with close friends such as the wonderful Valerie Renay from Noblesse Oblige as well as EF Kriete (Goldfish), Andrew Unruh (Einsturzende Neubauten) or Kevin Mooney (Adam & The Ants). The release also includes other songs of the artists, It's Been So Long, Confusion and Holding On (on vynil only). Remixes of Lady Pheres (included in the download) are available by Berlin scene artists such as Electrosexual, DJ Vela and The Handclap Situation). A must-have for the Berlin-scene followers !

The single is available in vinyl and download.

Discover more here:
pale-music.com
http://soundcloud.com/palemusicinternational/sets/steve-morell-monica-pokorna-lady-pheres/
soundcloud.com/palemusicinternational

Picture by Stephane Hervé

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

View from the outside of the Gerard Richter exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie of Berlin.

The Gerard Richter painting that Sonic Youth used for the Daydream Nation album.

The Penelopes played at The Nest, Dalston

The Penelopes played live at The Nest in Dalston for their first ever London show. Great place and great music where the band could test their new songs. Two pics below...

London, Hackney

The Penelopes, new single NOW NOW NOW

London-based The Penelopes have just released their new single Now Now Now which was also remixed by the C90s. The band will play live at The Nest on 20 January 2012 (Stoke Newington Road, Dalston).

and the C90s remix

Mark Maggiori

Mark Magiori is a French visual artist, former singer of nu-metal band Pleymo (the French Pleymo, not the English one), director, painter and photograph. Galerie Oberkampf in Paris opens an exhibition of his works on 3 December.

More info:
markmaggiorishots.blogspot.com
www.hkartagency.fr
http://www.galerieoberkampf.com/

M83 - New album

Anthony Gonzalez aka M83 released his new album, "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"

 M83 will play at La Cigale, 15 March 2012.

Turzi

Turzi will play at Gaîté Lyrique in Paris on 7 September... More info www.myspace.com/turzi

Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore played at La Villette for the Villette Sonique festival, celebrating the release of his new album Demolished Thoughts.

Glenn Branca Ensemble

No Wave icon and mentor for Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Glenn Branca played at La Villette in May 2011.

Beastie Boys are back !!!!

We love it !!! The Beastie Boys still rule !!!!

Beastie Boys and Santigold, Don't play no game that I can win !!!!!!

NEW! Beastie Boys - Don't Play No Game I Can't Win (feat. Santigold) (2011) - MusicPlayOn.com

Some Sonic Youth news...

Sonic Youth is back. The band released the soundtrack of French film "Simon Werner a disparu", a different musical experience from the latest release of the band. This is truly a soundtrack, not an album. It is however a great piece of music, experimental and electronic.

To celebrate the release of his latest solo album "Demolished Thoughts", Thurston Moore will play live in Paris at La Villette Sonic on 19 May 2011. Vicious Vitamins already got tickets !!!

http://www.sonicyouth.com/

Artus de Lavilleon a la Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris

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Rétrospective II / LIEUX COMMUNS


Vernissage samedi 22 janvier 15h / 21h
Exposition 22 janvier – 26 février 2011

Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, 61 rue de la Verrerie, 75004, Paris

Après avoir vécu dans les vitrines du magasin Le Printemps, créé un mouvement artistique, « retourné ma veste en galerie », perdu ma mère, vécu en chine, montré un film à Beaubourg, exposé à l’étranger et dans des foires, et presque tout vendu à une exposition ou tout était bien encadré, bien montré, bien justifié, je me suis senti trahi par moi-même et par le système qui (enfin) me reconnaissait.

« Tant qu’à ce que l’art soit devenu un marché comme un autre », je me suis alors mis à développer les grands dessins noirs et blancs qui faisaient mon succès en publicité et sous forme d’illustration, tout en me servant de cette excuse pour exposer dans des lieux communs (boutiques, librairies, magasins) et continuer de témoigner de mon vécu et de son archivage quotidien de la façon la plus large possible (décalée ? Banale ? Populaire ? Marginale ? Posthume ? sans rapport avec ce marché).

C’est cette partie de mon travail que je vous propose aujourd’hui de découvrir, entre performance et revendication engagée, ce qui découle d’un refus du marché de l’art, et de ses conséquences, plus quelques peintures faites dans mon salon.

Artus Laviléon, 15 janvier 2011

Music auction at Philips de Pury

Auction house Philips-de Pury will held a Music auction on Friday 10 December at 5pm in London. Vicious Vitamins went to the exhibition and particularly enjoyed the Alan Vega/Suicide memorabilia and a picture feature the three legends David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed. A number of rare items will also be auctioned such as a collection of 52 vynil covers designed by Andy Warhol (including the Velvet Underground banana cover), a picture of Joy Division front-man Ian Curtis by Kvin Cummins or some Black Flag gig posters designed by Raymond Pettibon.
http://www.phillipsdepury.com/splash/music-2010/music.aspx

On a similar topic, we were happy to discover (probably late, sorry...!) that Rizzoli released a new book about Joy Division featuring photographies of Kevin Cummins with foreword by writer Jay McInerney and text by Joy Division founder Bernard Sumner.

Aleksi Cavaillez at Espace Fiction

Last week end to see "Espace Fiction - Drawings from the moon", exhibition by Art Posthume artist Aleksi Cavaillez at Espace OFR, 20 rue Dupetit-Thouars 75003 Paris (MOnday to Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 2pm-7pm). You can also download the beautiful catalogue here: http://www.dirloz.net/works/DIRLOZ_SCIENCE_REVIEW.pdf

Palazzo Grassi, Venice - Art Idea #87: make a portrait/self-portrait by captioning a mirror

Superflex in Metz

French industrial group Bel (The Laughing Cow, Babybel) launched earlier this year Lab'Bel, a program dedicated to promote contemporary visiual arts. For the Nuit Blanche, a night of events and visited organized in the largest cities throughout France, Lab'Bel invited Danish art activists Superflex.

Vicious Vitamins interviewed Superflex last year for the issue #2 released during Frieze and FIAC (issue 2 that you can download by clicking on the right margin of the site). For the Nuit Blanche in Metz, Superflex will present a work already featured at Art Unlimited 2010, Flooded Mc Donald. The performance will consist of a rise in the water of a Mc Donald restaurant until complete flooding. Mixing humour and tragedy, Superflex, here again, chalenges our lives of consumers and the power of brand in the developed world.

Flooded MacDonald's (2008), 1 October 2010 from 18.00pm to 1am
Salle des fetes du Lycee Fabert, Metz.

Info: http://www.superflex.net/floodedmcdonalds/
      : http://www.nuitblanchemetz.com/