Swedish singer, Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson, who you probably know as the lead singer for The Knife is releasing an album for her solo project called Fever Ray in March. It has been released digitally, for your listening pleasure.
That's the music video for the song "If I Had a Heart." I suggest watching it in a dark room with the volume of your speakers turned way up. It's spooky, dark, Swedish, and above all, beautiful.
This is quite the (welcome) departure from The Knife's sound. I really need to go to Sweden.
Tehching Hsieh's One Year Performance: 1978-1979 is currently on view at MoMA:
He locked himself in this cell in his Hudson Street apartment for one full year. A friend brought him food and took a photo of him on a daily basis. He was not allowed to communicate with anyone while he was there, including his visiting friend.
Emily Haines is the leading lady of Toronto-based bands Broken Social Scene and Metric, and she recently put out a solo album called Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, but this is not about the music. It's about the clothes.
I have a majorly obsessive crush on that outfit. It's perfect. I want it and I want to rock it, but I'd probably wear heels instead of those wedges because I take cabs everywhere that's not work and don't perform (except for nights alone in my bedroom or when I play Guitar Hero at weird hours like waking up at 8am on a Saturday morning, but that's a different story altogether...).