May Day Moscow by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, 1928. MoMA, fair use.
CHICAGO Celebrate International Workers Day with a HotHouse special online cultural program featuring Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Marvin Tate, and Bill MacKay, plus shout-outs from activists in the labor movement.
Jon Langford and Sally Timms have been performing together in and around U.K. Punk Rock band the Mekons since the early 1980s. This acoustic duo situation is most likely born of pandemic necessity because they prize collaboration above all else and love to work with other writers, artists, and musicians like Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Roger Knox, The Sadies, Will Oldham, Greil Marcus, Johnny Dowd, Lee Scratch Perry, Freakwater, The Magnetic Fields, Handsome Family, and many more.
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The Chicago guitarist and the North Carolina multi-instrumentalist work wonderfully together and channel many spiritual influences with great warmth and ease.Â
The folk and gospel artist E.C. Ball drove a school bus and owned a service station, but what he really wanted to do was spread the Good News. With his wife Orna, he wandered Appalachia during the middle of the 20th century, delivering sermons and singing simple songs he had made up: plainspoken hymns of joy and wonder and faith. On their new collaborative albums, the North Carolina multi-instrumentalist Nathan Bowles and the Chicago guitarist Bill MacKay cover Ballâs lovely ode to the beauty of the natural world, âI See God.â âI see God in everything, on the land and the deep blue sea/In the fields, the meadows, and the pastures green,â they sing together, as MacKayâs guitar and Bowlesâ banjo combine into a gentle patter. Itâs as simple as a childrenâs song b
Music reviews: Flock of Dimes, Brooklyn Rider, The Heads and more
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For many years decades, Flock of Dimesâ Jenn Wasner has been a supple, shapeshifting and prolific musician. Best known for her work in cult indie duo Wye Oak, whose music flits between dark, folk-tinged rock and undulating electronica, sheâs also a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist, regularly touring and recording with the likes of Bon Iver, Future Islands and Sharon Van Etten.
Head of Roses, the contemplative second album from solo project Flock of Dimes, is a dazzling and harmonious display of styles and influences. From the bright, simple