KING KRULE
“Dum Surfer” off new album, The Ooz out now on XL Recordings/True Panther Sounds. Performing Nov. 5 at the Vogue Theatre. Nardwuar vs. King Krule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgOd8QG0Gn8.
DAVID BOWIE/MARIA SCHNEIDER
“Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)” from Blackstar. Schneider performing at Capilano University tonight.
TEGAN AND SARA
NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, Nov. 26, 2016. Tegan and Sara performing at Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 28.
ANGEL OLSEN
“Special” from Phases out Nov. 10 on Jagjaguwar.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Iconic Deep South photographer releases a collection of music, Musik, on the Secretly Canadian label, made in the 1980s on a Korg OW/1 FD Pro synthesizer.
SONGHOY BLUES
Born and raised in Timbuktu but based in Bamako, Mali, after Jihadist extremist groups banned music in the north, Songhoy Blues are featured in Johanna Schwartz’s documentary They Will Have to Kill Us First. The band play tunes from their new album Résistance at the Biltmore on Oct 27. “Bamako”: youtube.com/watch?v=xUPVVLxVX9w.
ARTURO RIPSTEIN
Time to Die/Tiempo de Morir (Mexico, 1966). Special screening at Cannes for Ripstein’s debut film. Among other things Ripstein worked on Luis Buñuel's 1962 film The Exterminating Angel/El ángel exterminador.
SERGEI EINSENSTEIN
Mexican footage excerpt from ¡Que viva México! The Cinematheque is including some of Eisenstein’s work in major retrospective, Revolutionary Rising: The Soviet Film Vanguard, running in November.
CONLON NANCARROW
Mexico City composer devoted his work to player piano pieces.
MALCOLM LOWRY
Spent several years writing his novel Under the Volcano on the Dollarton waterfront with his wife Margerie Bonner. The story takes place over the course of November 2, 1938, the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos).
