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Quiet Hollers: A Sharp, Dark and Unrestricted New Album
The day before Quiet Hollers released Amen Breaks, a stylistically-ambitious album that lyrically revolves around mental health struggles, the band was setting up their instruments at DeadBird Studio in Germantown to run through their Forecastle set. Somewhere in between plugging in and sound checking, they showed me their new music video for “Pressure,” featuring them…
The jerseys of Forecastle: We talked to the festival’s basketball fans
The annual Forecastle Music Festival carries a lot of fashion statements, but my personal favorite is the basketball jerseys — respect paid to former and current greats. I always wondered, though — is it a look, comfort or real fandom? He are a few of my favorites from 2017. Sam Wise with a Tim Duncan…
Photos from all three days of Forecastle 2017
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10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (7/17)
MONDAY Metal Monday: Creature of Exile, Koroidia Highlands Tap Room Grill Free | 10 p.m. Join Highlands Tap Room for a night of “metal mayhem, alcohol induced insanity and demon-ridden debauchery!” Live music provided by heavy metal bands Creature of Exile and Koroidia. Apparitions by Koroidia Community Yoga at Tim Faulkner Tim Faulkner Gallery $5…
Forecastle Day 3 Recap: PJ Harvey, Weezer and the greatness of Charles Bradley
Lara: On the third and final day of Forecastle, I started the day correct by visiting with Charles Bradley & his Extraordinaires at the main stage. A scorching afternoon never felt so cool with that guy and his sassy band on stage — a brief sound blunder easily smoothed over by their slick momentum. Bradley…
Julius Friedman, local and national art legend, has died at 74
One of our local art greats is gone. Designer/photographer Julius Friedman, 74, has died from leukemia. I always thought of Friedman as a lovely curmudgeon, a man who could smile while scowling. He didn’t sugarcoat Louisville, stating it wasn’t an easy place to be an artist or to sell it. But he was passionate about our visual art community. Highlights…
Forecastle Day 2 Recap: LCD Soundsystem, Beach Slang, Lucy Dacus and a day of great sets
Syd: The Port Stage is home to the underdog, the kind of modest indie who has yet to make a big wave, but bands who’ve certainly made a splash or two. Ages and Ages has that kind of poppy ease that grants them a wide accessibility. Be it by design or happenstance, there is something…
Forecastle Day 1 Recap: Louisville vs. the world, Run The Jewels and the countdown to PJ Harvey
Scott: “These songs are being remixed by the heat of nature,” Mary Liz Bender, drummer/singer of Twin Limb said from the main stage, during their 3 p.m. opening set of Forecastle, talking about the couple of technical difficulties they had at the beginning. But, the thing is, despite the few hiccups, Twin Limb showed how…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (7/14)
FRIDAY Forecastle Late-Night Shows Headliners Music Hall, Belle of Louisville and Mercury Ballroom Prices vary | 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 14 Real Estate will play its “warm, hazy style of indie rock with breezy melodies” at Headliners with local dream/noise pop band PRJCTR; Bear Grillz will play his upbeat, silly style of EDM at Mercury…
Harmony in Homebuying: NAGLREP Arrives in Kentucky
The process of buying or selling a home can be exciting, but it can also bring about challenges and anxiety. For many in the LGBTQ community, that anxiety is compounded when encountering discrimination or unfair practices. However, a growing organization exists that allows homebuyers and sellers to find an expert who is receptive to the…
Modern Design: Four ways to improve your home
Lay It Down “In the world of tile, there’s huge variation in pricing. If you’re remodeling a bathroom and want to keep things on the less-expensive side, consider using solid, inexpensive plain tile for the majority of the space, then splurge on a 1-by-6-inch decorative accent piece in a bright color or a pattern to…
Trouble Comes Running: A Conversation With Spoon’s Alex Fischel
Earlier this year, the Austin-born experimental pop-rock ensemble Spoon re-emerged with Hot Thoughts, a fun and futuristic LP. Of late, they have become busy promoting that release at home and abroad. In preparation for their upcoming performance at Forecastle, we caught up with the band’s multi-instrumentalist (and newest member) Alex Fischel. LEO: You mentioned that…
Aesop Rock contemplates his future
As Aesop Rock continues to tour on 2016’s The Impossible Kid, he realizes that as a rapper who is now past 40, he doesn’t have much company in pursuing his goal to stay relevant. “I have very few role models in rap that are still not only going, but really trying to push what they’ve…
Expanding places and perspectives: A conversation with Adia Victoria
Adia Victoria recently took a dynamic turn. From her grimy, Delta blues-saturated debut album, Beyond The Bloodhounds, to her latest EP covering classic French pop songs, How It Feels, the 30-year-old South Carolina native, Nashville transplant has moved on without abandoning her roots. Forecastle will be her second Louisville appearance, after an electric performance at…
The Louisville-born ?co-producer on all three Run The Jewels records
Torbitt Schwartz, aka Little Shalimar, is one of the producers behind the curtain for Run the Jewels, the hip-hop super duo featuring El-P and Killer Mike, who play this weekend at Forecastle. A Louisville expatriate, Schwartz and his brother relocated to Brooklyn, meeting El while performing in their band Chin Chin. They hit it off…
Six Forecastle bands to catch before 6 p.m.
Like most festivals, Forecastle is loaded with headlining crowd favorites and up-and-comers alike. When the sun is out, the names you might not know are trying to show you why you should know them. But, like with so much in life, it’s hard to keep track of bands on the rise, so we compiled a…
The GOP and the Plutocracy, a long history
Recently we saw the unveiling of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Senate version of the Republicans’ plan to “repeal-and-replace Obamacare.” Some commentators were stunned by its audacity in shifting hundreds of billions of dollars from the nation’s poorest citizens, only to give it to people making over $200,000 a year. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Love won… again, please | Rose Crusading lawyer Dan Canon has decided to run for Indiana’s 9th Congressional District in 2018. Finally, a Democrat who won’t water down progressive ideas in hopes of winning GOP votes. Canon has a long record of championing civil rights, but he may be best known for helping win the…
Looking for Lilith Lifts Unheard Voices
In celebration of 15 years of creating theatrical experiences that center and lift up the voices of women and nonbinary individuals, Looking for Lilith Theatre Company brings you UNHEARD [outloud]. From July 13 through July 23, the Clifton Center will house various plays, staged readings and workshops that explore topics of intersectionality, identity and social…
Forecastle art, not just for collectors
The 15-year-old Forecastle Festival bills itself as a music, art and environmental activism festival. The music, well, I’m sure you know about that. And the Forecastle Foundation is hard at work “protecting the world’s natural awesome,” as it likes to describe the environment. But you may not be as familiar with the art. The highlight…
Comedian Drew Thomas on being black in the south
Comedian Drew Thomas tends to deconstruct inherent juxtapositions that exist in everyday life. The male experience versus the female experience. The differences between white people and black people. Or “Evil Drew” versus “Good Drew.” He has been seen on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and Fox’s “Laughs.” Thomas returns to Louisville this weekend. He took some…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Justice League’ and ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’
Written by Dan Abnett Art by Ian Churchill Review by Meredith Harris of Great Escape I haven’t enjoyed an issue of Justice League since the end of the New 52. DC Rebirth has not been kind to what should be a flagship title for their comics. Writer Brian Hitch just doesn’t get it, and it…
At Cuvée Wine Table, it’s the wine… and great food
I’m a wine geek. Or you could call me a wine nerd. But please don’t call me a snob. Look, I’ve enjoyed wine since I was a teenager, Chianti diluted with 7UP with Italian-American friends in Brooklyn. Later, I found out about this cool place called Napa Valley, where you could get free wine, long…
Very Italian Fourth of July
The Fourth of July was weird this year. Not bad, just a bit unorthodox for my usual Independence Day celebration (commonly spent on a boat, or by a pool and draped in stars and stripes in some way). On the Fourth, all the weather apps predicted a storm, I randomly had four days off in…
Tessie strikes again, more Rare Wood, ebay wtf?!
Mile Wide Beer Co. released a Northeast IPA a few weeks back called Tessie, and it took the Louisville beer scene hostage, with people lining up to buy the stuff by the pint and by the crowler. When Mile Wide announced recently it would release Tessie and another beer, Catalina Breeze (a West Coast-style IPA)…
Savage Love: Scrubs
Q: I’m a gay medical student with a medical fetish, and I can’t even open up to my therapist about this. I think the fetish started when I was young; I was once in the hospital and given a suppository for a fever. Then one time I was given a Fleet enema. I don’t think…
No more silence
To what do you give voice? Do you lend it to further social justice goals, or for your own economic gain? Do you speak out to increase your political or social leverage, or to escape discomfort? Do you talk or write truth to power, or are silence and neutrality the way for you? Consider this…
Doctors, farmhands, gun nuts, dropping trou and… forecastle beards
Terrible, all of these conventions pulling out of Louisville just because the rest of Kentucky feels icky about the gays, is it not? I don’t believe that for one second. Or at least I don’t believe that anyone was about to sign on the line that’s dotted and decided against it because of California’s travel…
No amount is enough
I knew that economic inequality is at the heart of America’s institutional racism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew it, too, which is why he marched and fought for civil rights and economic equality. Yet, admittedly, I did not understand the full scope of this inequality until I saw the Raoul Peck documentary, “I Am…
Modern Experts: A Q&A with Barry Wooley, president/CEO, Barry Wooley Designs
If you don’t necessarily have an eye for design, moving into a new space can become a bit daunting when it comes to how you’ll decorate it. Barry Wooley, president and CEO of Barry Wooley Designs, is renowned in the community and beyond for his creativity and comprehensive design acumen. To help those of us…
Modern Vows: Angie & Rachel Miles-Merrick
Angie & Rachel Miles-Merrick May 22, 2017 Venue: Wedding – Romara Place Park; Reception – Saratoga Woods Pool and Clubhouse Officiant: Judge Anne Haynie Rings: Davis Jewelers Food: Divinity Fine Catering Music: DJ Jazzy Debbi Photographer: Wales Hunter “From the beginning, we knew we were meant to be together forever. Everything about our relationship was so…
