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OAK Beach House PARTY!
May 18th, 2011
Come join us as we kick off the summer and launch our new store, the Oak Beach House at the Fire Island Pines.
May 21st, 10 P.M.-Late
At the Pavilion at the Fire Island Pines
Music by DJ Josh Sparber
Stay the night – special rates at the Hotel Ciel use the discount code: oak
Sponsored by Avion Tequila and RÖKK Vodka.
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PS1-Saturday Sessions: Presents BENT by SSION
May 9th, 2011
PopRally, in conjunction with MoMA PS1’s Saturday Sessions, invites you to the three-night debut performances of BENT by SSION. Playing a selection of songs from the new album BENT, SSION’s loosely narrative spectacle-incorporating video backdrops, costumes, and props-touches on subjects from riot grrrl party anthems about dieting and dying in LA to having a hit record in purgatory and creating an underwater dance club. Various collaborators will make guest appearances.
SSION, created and led by Cody Critcheloe, is a continuously mutating Kansas City-based music and performance collective. Through the mediums of music video and live performance, the group focuses on visuals, theatrics, and music that blur the lines of fantasy and reality.
The performance will begin at 8:30 p.m. and take place in the Third Floor Main Gallery each night. Admission includes the SSION performance and a cocktail reception. You must be 21 or older to attend this event.
Tickets: $15 when purchased online prior to the event, $17 at the door. Museum admission and MoMA memberships are not valid for this after-hours event.
A.OK FAVORITE JEFFREY CAMPBELL
April 29th, 2011THE BELL CURVE
April 21st, 2011
Hey ladies have you gotten your bell bottoms for Spring yet? Check out Court’s new high waist bell bottom jean!
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via OAKAZINE: ICON: THE NEW ROMANTICS
April 21st, 2011
In the Eighties, decade of yuppies, Amazonian supermodels and a lot of cocaine, the New Romantics ruled the airwaves. They sported modern hairdos, modish tinged with Victorian suits, and crooned about the world as they knew it. Amongst the new widespread knowledge of AIDS and Bob Geldof’s co-saving the world, they allowed a brief moment of relief and a certain relaxing of the hips. European New Romantic bands like Alphaville, Visage, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club and Duran Duran played synth pop – and are widely referenced today with our current love affair with all things synthesised. In fact, New Romanticism is one of the biggest influences on modern popular culture in Britain. As a reaction to the overly political punk rock of the late Seventies during the reign of Thatcher in the UK, New Romanticism sought to celebrate artifice. In this way, it was fun, easy on the ears, and synthetic. In keeping with their light-hearted approach they were highly stylised in their appearance and performance. They harkened back to glam rock of the 70s, and channelled androgynous acts like David Bowie. While the world was freaking out, and conservativism was taking over both Stateside and in Europe, the New Romantics offered a break from politics and incessant campaigning, and instead allowed us to let our hair down and have fun. Music was fun again, just like it is now. — Text by Becky Cope. More pictures after the jump.
via OAKAZINE: FRANK (JUST FRANK)
April 21st, 2011
Last year one of my iPod staples was Wierd Records act Frank (Just Frank) — a synth/jangle rock duo from the French Riviera whose darkly echoey music is reminiscent of early REM and The Smiths. Although in the past few years 80s nostalgia has become something of a dead horse, Frank (Just Frank)’s excellent debut LP “The Brutal Wave” sounds like lost Murmur b-sides with Morrissey on vocals; spinning nostalgia on its head by, at times, doing 1983 better than the originals. Frank (Just Frank) was founded by high school friends and metal-heads Anthem and Kirti with the aim of injecting their black metal brutality into synths, drum machines, and jangly, elliptical guitar riffs. Taking the catch-all metal term for something good, “brutal” wave came to be both the name of FJF’s debut and an accurate tag for the music they created which lies somewhere between cold wave and new wave — dark, but still full of shimmeringly poptastic pay-offs. An instant dance floor hit at the Wierd Records party at Home Sweet Home, FJF quickly got signed to Wierd and became a cult favorite amongst the post-punk aficionados that flock to Wierd Wednesdays weekly. Although Kirti and Anthem are no longer making music together, Anthem recently relocated to New York to work on new FJF material and focus on his more metal-informed solo stuff which he debuted to the Weird crowd in January. OAKAZINE met up with Anthem and spoke about French music scenes, brutal wave, and being an American ex-pat in France. — Text by Marlo Kronberg. Photos by Jakob Axelman. Interview and video for “Die in Bed” after the jump.
NEW A.OK SPRING CANDLES
March 30th, 2011get into spring cleaning with our fresh batch of new a.ok spring candles featuring past favorites and two new scents- foxglove and nightshade!
HIT SO HARD
March 29th, 2011
We checked out last night’s premier of Hit So Hard a documentary on drummer Patty Schemel.
Courtney Love and her former Hole band mates, Melissa auf der Maur, Patty Schemel, and Eric Erlandson all reunited last night in honor of the documentary on Schemel’s life, Hit So Hard, at the Museum of Modern Art. Read the rest of this entry »
