(Mad Bunny Records, digital) Based in their home state of Texas since 2010, husband-and-wife duo Burette and Gabrielle Douglas operated their group, the Cush, in Burlington for a decade during the aughts. Their newest LP,
Riders in the Stardust Gold, is their first to be released via Mad Bunny Records, an imprint founded by singer-songwriter Ben Harper. After nearly 20 years of playing music together, the Cush are more locked in and cohesive than ever.
Riders in the Stardust Gold is a six-track collection of astral, shoegaze-tinged rock with a chewy Americana core. Its album art is a pastiche of Victorian-era and 1960s pop-art styles, subtly implying that time is meaningless and that history always repeats.
Art & Design|A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/arts/design/frederic-church-olana-jean-shin.html
In memory of the millions of hemlocks that fell in the 19th century to the local leather-tanning industry, Jean Shin used antique bark-peeling tools to remove the tree’s outer layer before giving it a protective new coat.Credit.Amanda Picotte for The New York Times
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A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.
The sculptor Jean Shin gravitates to castoff objects, including a threatened tree at Olana, the former estate of Frederic Church.
nasimiYu is a true multi-hyphenate, someone who plunges head-long into each challenge.
Renowned as a musician and dancer, she split her time between New York and New Orleans, connecting with left-field communities in both cities.
Whether she was working on a dance project or a punk rock group, nasimiYu turned all her energies up to 100, fully plugging herself into the creative possibilities.
Taking time out to recalibrate and restore, nasimiYu is ready to mark out her next project, a full length album called P O T I O N S .
Out shortly, it s a bold yet subtle return, packed with whispered incantations and a desire to exist outside the rules.