Eric Wareheim’s sense of humor allows him to push buttons others sometimes only caress. He hasn’t gotten too bloody, but perhaps that’s not his aesthetic…as we watch his music videos develop from dance jam to, well, busting animated nuts. He had us at Flying Lotus—that video’s amazing but we have to take you off-site to [...]

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It was easy to forget that there was a band onstage during tonight’s
Troubadour set by Black Moth Super Rainbow. With what may be best described as a half-man, half-ape prancing around in the foreground and an array of absurd videos projecting on a screen behind them, the four players seemed content to labor in relative obscurity. Their fuzzy riffs, heavy beats and vocoder-ized vocals were a fitting—although perhaps a bit homogeneous—soundtrack to the psychedelic sideshows that competed for the audience’s
attention.

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