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Hey Everyone, Michael and I want to let you all know that we’re no longer posting new material...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:21:00 -0400

Hey Everyone,

Michael and I want to let you all know that we’re no longer posting new material on our website, Low Log. It was a defining project for both of us for the past two years and now it is time to put it to rest. We’d like to extend our warmest thanks to all our of contributors, readers, and supporters. Low Log is yours; the product of your creativity, and your brave willingness to share your work with us and the world. Also a huge thanks to Molly Goldman, who was monumental in helping to shape the poetry section of the site.

Thank you, people! See ya on the flip side.

Ida J. Griesemer (idajane at gmail.com / twits / other blog)

Michael J. Pollock (michaeljpollock at gmail.com)

EDITORS IN CHIEF

PEACE PIPE

BYE

grouptightenerblog: Press for new Dead Gaze track “It’s Not...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:37:00 -0400

grouptightenerblog:

Press for new Dead Gaze track “It’s Not Real” !

FADER

ALTERED ZONES

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW!

Read the press for Dead Gaze, the upcoming release from Group Tightener, and listen to the track “IT’S NOT REAL.”

You might remember this label from the profile by LL’s designer/editor, Michael Pollock.

Brooklyn Rail

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:29:57 -0400

Brooklyn Rail:

Amazing review of the show our friends Tisch, Dakotah, and Jashin of AH HOLE AH HOLE curated as part of the series presented by ART BLOG ART BLOG.

Featureless Ghost - “See Through” When a band has...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:25:00 -0400

Featureless Ghost - “See Through”

When a band has “Ghost” in their name, describing their music as haunting may seem painfully obvious, but in this case it’s unavoidable. The synthetic tones and collaged images in the video weave a pervasive digital blanket that captures and enshrouds its viewers in a mostly-purple tinted space-scape. Lyrically, the song doesn’t take on a traditional form of dedicating itself to an actual being (lover, hater, stalker, whatever) but instead opens a gate to distant dreamworld where the speaker transforms into something he doesn’t recognize. It’s as though all his familiar human elements are replaced and he emerges not a person, but a translucent body. His voice remains, deep and spooky, and eventually alternates with a woman’s voice, eerily serenading unwelcome observers with a repeated statement of awareness that leaves the listener shuttering with discomfort: I’m watching you. Watching me.

Halfway through the song the there’s a shift that - if you’ve channeled the part of you that’s weird and dark enough to be captivated by the first three, bleak minutes - offers an exciting development. The key changes and the pace picks up, and if the song-ghost was ever a singular ghost (some white sheet or plume of smoke) it’s now something even less tangible. The haunting feeling begins to emanate from countless tiny ghost-needles, starting at your toes and creeping up your feet, ankles, legs. Each one is like a memory, a moment from your past, and together they are covering you, threatening to encapsulate you in a dangerous nostalgia. And then you have two options. You can become paralyzed by the tragic moments of long-dead history, forever stuck in a cycle of useless longing and harrowing regret. Or you can confront the problem of the ghost-needles by creating a new context for them to exist in, making yourself the grateful beneficiary of a futuristic acupuncture treatment, one that allows you translate the fragments of the past into a new kind of strength that shuttles you to unexpected realms. For a while, you’re still. The tingling pins creep past your waist, relentlessly begin to prod your ribcage. Don’t be weary now, the song-ghost says. Slowly, you begin to move.

This video was made by Claire Elise Tippins, one of the members of Featureless Ghost. Her collage, White Walls, is on LowLog.com today.

thewiremagazine: Dolphins Into The FutureKe Mirning Pu’uwaiThe...

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:00 -0400

thewiremagazine:

Dolphins Into The Future
Ke Mirning Pu’uwai
The Voice Of The Silence
Ke Ala Ke Kua
Cetacean Nation Cassettes, Malaki 2011

Trio of cassettes from Dolphins Into The Future on Cetacean Nation. The recordings are a collection of collages, field recordings and ‘meditations’.

Housed in cream plastic cases, with blue and lilac covershots. Sun-bleached colour scheme with plain blue, unmarked cassettes.

Read the LL interview from April

Emma Barrie

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:04:45 -0400

Emma Barrie:

lovestampede:

It’s hard sometimes, to want people to like you. You pride yourself on not caring anymore, doing your own thing, fuck you guys, blah blah blah. And then you have to spend a week in a beach vacation town with his parents and three siblings and you remember what high school felt like. Be funny, be…

Emma wrote this about being on vacation with her boyfriend’s family. I love reading Emma’s stuff. Is Emma my favorite writer? Here are the three things she wrote for Low Log.

Rebuilding the Silent Barn: Kickstarter

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:32:00 -0400

Rebuilding the Silent Barn: Kickstarter:

Click the link above to contribute any amount (starting at $5) to help the Silent Barn fund a full-fledged renovation including new sound systems, roof reconstruction, and increased fire safety and security standards.

It’s incredible that through Kickstarter’s method of crowd-sourced funding, a tragic event can become an inspiring opportunity. Sam’s project that I mentioned yesterday was fully funded within 24 hours and they’re now hoping to double their goal. That’s one small example of how quickly good-intentioned ventures can acquire support once organizers send out a thoughtful email to people who could potentially care.

LL contributor Joshua Abelow shares 5 artists he admires with...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:26:13 -0400

LL contributor Joshua Abelow shares 5 artists he admires with Progress Report (via @Artwrit)

Silent Barn

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:14:29 -0400

Silent Barn:

A venue that we really like got ransacked. As some people have already suggested, it seems like a Kickstarter would be a good way to raise money to restore the space and replace the equipment. Everyone knows what Kickstarter is, right? Our buddy Sam Lipshcultz is helping coordinate this documentary project about real food, which needs help.

Opens Tonight

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:57:00 -0400

Opens Tonight

Big news, guys. Big News Big News Big Deal. Michael Pollock, who...

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:04:01 -0400

Big news, guys. Big News Big News Big Deal. Michael Pollock, who came up with the concept for Low Log and enlisted me to co-edit the site, has a piece today on Altered Zones. That’s a Pitchfork-funded website that aims to “highlight…the more overlooked narratives in contemporary music.” The story is about Group Tightener, an independent Brooklyn record label run by Jamie Granato and Sam Hockley-Smith. They have an intern (me) who chose the theme for their new tumblr blog. That’s where all the previews of jams and updates about Group Tightener events will be, so if you’re interested hearing about that kind of thing from people with exquisite taste, why not follow?

Hey LA friends

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:28:17 -0400

hannahmight:

Remember Star 98.7? Well it’s not Star anymore, it’s just 98.7. Also if you tune in now you might here my brother’s song “Speed Trap.” Geared up to recreate that scene from “That Thing You Do.”

Rock Dove was on the radio! Go Hank!

Read the May sibling interview that was on LL last April. Can’t believe it’s been over a year!

I wrote about my dating life for Low Log.

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:26:57 -0400

I wrote about my dating life for Low Log.

SLMBR PRTY MAGAZINE: RBRT LGRRTA/CHCNO WDDING

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:51:00 -0400

SLMBR PRTY MAGAZINE: RBRT LGRRTA/CHCNO WDDING:

slumberpartymagazine:

Performer, activist, and self-described “political art piece,” Robert Legorreta / Cyclona was active in the Chicano movement in the 60s and 70s and the gay liberation movement and AIDS politics in the 70s and 80s. Yet his work, from the start, has challenged the restrictions and exclusions of…

Check out a new project, the lit & culture blog/quarterly SLMBR PRTY MAGAZINE.

Also dive back into our archives and read her badass story, “Off the Menu.”

Dear Fellow White Ladies

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:33:52 -0400

Dear Fellow White Ladies:

Anti-racism must become a key tenet in feminism. We need to be comfortable being uncomfortable. We need to learn to shut up. We need to learn to step back. We need to accept that feminism, if it is to continue and be successful, must change in its goals, its organization, and its leadership. We must be flexible. We must make our spaces safe and welcoming, but we must not expect anyone to want to work with us and we absolutely cannot expect to be allowed in every space. Accessible, but with no expectations.

This is a short-notice announcement for fast-thinking/impulsive...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:12:25 -0400

This is a short-notice announcement for fast-thinking/impulsive people.

Our friend Friendship Bracelet is co-presenting and DJing this show that starts 1 hour from now at Cameo Gallery.

He wrote this nice story about our website last fall when I made a nice mix that he asked nicely for.

rosekohl: Peaking Lights video for Amazing &...

Tue, 31 May 2011 07:50:00 -0400

rosekohl:

Peaking Lights video for Amazing & Wonderful.

(Via GvsB)

Stevie Weinstein-Foner loves this band.

Our talented bro Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch chatted me some youtubes...

Thu, 26 May 2011 12:57:39 -0400

Our talented bro Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch chatted me some youtubes that he’s been digging lately. I asked him what he had to say about Blood Orange and he said, “They make me want to go to the mall and shop as well as pursue my ambitions to break into fashion.” Then he told me to look up the video of Prince kicking Kim Kardashian off the stage because it is funny as hell.

Max has some upcoming work for a site that Bloomberg sort of owns and also more new stuff going up on LL in the next few weeks! Stay tooned.

yvynyl: Grimes - Crystal Ball I’m jumpin’ on the Claire Boucher...

Wed, 25 May 2011 14:25:13 -0400

yvynyl:

Grimes - Crystal Ball

I’m jumpin’ on the Claire Boucher bandwagon. Her sound is so freaky good. This video makes Canada look colder than, well, shit, no Canada is cold. So despite the blossoming springtime in the great white north, the snow fits the brooding mood.

Directed by Tim Kelly. Nab that Darkbloom split with d’Eon here.

Check out Durga’s interview with Boucher right here.

“I think my sound is post-Internet…”

shaqwaker: 3 years have passed but this is still so crazy to...

Wed, 18 May 2011 12:12:00 -0400

shaqwaker:

3 years have passed but this is still so crazy to me

This is the tumblr of Zach Baker, author of the freshest piece of work on LL, titled “the homie.”

Poem is killing it