Drew Peterson and Kristina Paabus are hard at work installing their Formidable Flat exhibition in our First Amendment Arts gallery. This one is really shaping up to be something serious.
Here are a couple of shots of Drew painting right on the walls.
The show opens this Saturday, May 30th from 7-10pm.
1101 Stinson Blvd (corner of Broadway and Stinson in NE Minneapolis)
We’ll be screenprinting the last color of Drew’s new art print LIVE at the opening!
Stick around for a live performance by Doomtree’s Cecil Otter, freshly signed to Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records! Here’s the video for his song “1999.”
Third year in a row we’ve (FAMILIA Skateshop) been doing this. Come out and celebrate another release of “True Heads” decks. Nominating 4 more dudes that have helped out the Twin Cities skateboard scene in big ways. DJ Millions Billions will be tearing apart your ear drums all night with a mega party mix for all ya’ll. Let’s help support these dudes, and help support local skateboarding.
Holy crapola there’s a lot of stuff going on this weekend.
THURSDAY
The OFFICIAL Santigold afterparty! Once the First Avenue show is over, swing on through Bedlam Theatre for our gigantic dance party featuring some excellent out-of-town talent and local favorites.
DEVLIN & DARKO – DJs for Spankrock and Amanda Blank (Santi’s opening act). Hittin’ you with electro fun, weird disco, Afro-funk, and oldies jams. TROUBLE ANDREW – Santigold’s other opening act spinning some tracks. We don’t know what to expect but it’ll be fun! JIMMY 2 TIMES & PLAIN OLE BILL – the keepers of the cryph! MIKE 2600 – takin’ you to rap city, funkytown, and the electric kingdom
10pm – 2am / 18up / $3 with Santigold ticket stub, $5 without
FRIDAY
The Bedlam party continues with BRLSQOTHEQUE’s monthly dance jam BOMP. This time around features… DJ ZEBO – the homie from Chicago comes to blast you with Bmore club and electro bangers SHANNON BLOWTORCH – our co-conspirator at Bomp goes hard MOON GOONS – we think they’re from outer space WZZ WNSHP & MIKE 2600 – they make posters and make you shake your butt
Plus speciall all-vinyl sets in the side room from ATTITUDE CITY – street sounds swirlin’ through their miiiiinds JIMMY 2 TIMES & PLAIN OLE BILL – the kings of the beats gonna rock the place!
10pm – 2am / 18up / $5
SATURDAY
A new art show opens up at First Amendment!
1101 Stinson Blvd (corner of Stinson & Broadway in NE Minneapolis)
FORMIDABLE FLAT featuring:
- new artwork from Drew Peterson & Kristina Paabus
- musical performance from Doomtree rapper Cecil Otter
- LIVE screenprinting! We’ll be putting down the final color on a brand new art print designed by Drew Peterson. Come watch it happen live during the art opening.
This show will run until June 23rd, 2009.
As always, the opening will be from 7-10pm.
Free admission and all ages are welcome!
We’re proud to announce to the world the release of Aaron Horkey’s brand spankin’ new poster for Flight of the Conchords! Designed for the New Zealand duo’s US tour stop in Los Angeles, this print will be going on sale THIS THURSDAY at 2:00pm Central time!
She’s 6 colors, one of which is a metallic purple, on French Poptone Pink Lemonade paper.
17.5 x 32.5″
Signed, numbered, and stamped edition of 500 (split betwen Flight of the Conchords and Burlesque)
$60 plus $5 shipping and handling in the US, $10 international
After months of waiting, they’ve finally arrived! We were fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to turn the letters from my alphabet poster into an entire series of vinyl keychains for our friends at Kidrobot.
Kidrobot fully knocked it out of the park, sparing absolutely no detail! They came fully correct with the tiny little nuances in the printing on the keychains, the quality of the packaging, everything is A+ on this.
The boxes are super tiny!
Jodi and Peter pick through the letters.
P is for princess Petey!
The packaging design also appears in a brand spankin’ new art print we’ll have available in our online store starting at 2:00pm today! This one is SUPER BRIGHT!
Celebrate the release of the keychains with us tonight at ROBOTlove! The party continues after that as our very own DJ Wes Winship throws down a guest set at SLAP! at Kitty Cat Klub alongside Tendercakes and Millions Billions. Oh yeah – it’s all FREE!
This past weekend, Burlesque took part in the Walker Art Center’s Don’t Sleep On It, a 24-hour artmaking marathon for the kids of WACTAC (Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council). Between the hours of 3-6am on Saturday morning, we transformed a room of the California Building into a massive rave explosion of lasers, video projections, fog, flashing lights, a mosaic mural built out of LP jackets, a gigantic cardboard soundsystem façade complete with with screenprinted speaker graphics, and of course our very own very real DEF FROM BELOW sound system, enhanced with Wes’ brand new dual 18″ subwoofer cabinet. BOOOOOOM.
The room filled with visuals and kids dancing their butts off.
DJ Apt One of the Philaelphyinz rockin’ it. Wes and Joe set up lasers and video projections in the back corner.
Carrying a fake cardboard speaker through the bright fog.
DJ Skinny Friedman and Apt One of the Philadelphyinz.
The kids eventually wore themselves out dancing, so we rearranged the room and projected some slides onto the laser-soaked cardboard speaker castle.
More fun with slides.
A quick snippet from our jam.
We wanna thank everyone who helped us make this happen: Witt, Chantz, Evan, Emmanuel, and the rest of the WACTAC crew, Joe and Yui from Puny, Moon Goons, Philadelphyinz, the Slim Jim corporation, and all of the kids who came out and got down!
One of the best-looking online stores just got even better looking. Burlesque homies since day one Turntable Lab have just unveiled their newest website. What is this, the 5th one? Click on over and have a look. Be sure to check out the special Burlesque section for all of our posters, shirts, and sticker packs the Lab has available!
Also, don’t miss the classic Life Sucks Die Office Check!
