Nirvana Talking

Psychobuildings appreciates Nirvana for being such goofy pranksters in their band interviews.  The don't take themselves too seriously which is rad.  Here are a few I like:

-Peter LaBier

Talking Nirvana

I've been listening to Nirvana's records lately.  They were a very tight band: powerful sounds!   Talking about them a lot with the whole Psychobuildings gang. 

I've always loved this performance-- Cobain detunes his guitar and sings insanely off key.  Really crazy shit.  It's basically performance art punkness:

   

-Peter LaBier

Miss Jones

Psychobuildings loves Grace Jones!  Lately I've been dancing to her record "Island Life"-- the one with the fantastic, iconic cover art-- (picture below).  

No matter how many times I listen to it, "My Jamaican Guy" always puts me in a special mood.  There are so many great elements at work in this song: the slick, strange, futuristic production of Sly and Robbie, the minimalist lyrics, and of course Grace Jones unique vocal delivery:

-Peter LaBier

Spacey Jam

Bill Murray made some video shorts in the 1990s about basketball and how he was going to try out for the NBA.  They are funny and mysterious in that they don't seem to be  promoting anything in particular-- it's not an add campaign for a specific product.  Supposedly the NBA did not ask him to do it or pay for the videos.  For a strange slice of Americana from the 90's Psychobuildings recommends ordering a pizza and watching Space Jam.   

-Peter LaBier

Art Shows in May

Three friends of Psychobuildings are having solo shows this month.  I'm super excited about their work.  More info below.

Christian Maychack is having a show of his scuptures at Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.  It opens May 3rd.:

http://gregorylindgallery.com/exhibitions/2011/maychack/

Van Hanos is having his first solo show of paintings at West Street Gallery, opening is May 7th:

http://www.weststreet.info/longacre.html

Jackie Gendel is having a show of new paintings opening May 20th at Bryan Miller Gallery in Texas:

http://bryanmillergallery.com/artists/jackie-gendel/

-Peter LaBier