Opening this Sunday February 17th, ENTRANCE will host a week of services provided, in the gallery, by artist Alex Schmidt. For one week only, Schmidt will create an installation of drawings and furniture and offer yoga classes (for kids and adults), therapy sessions, a reading hour, and stick-and-poke tattoos. Appointments are encouraged and a detailed schedule is available at the gallery. The exhibition begins with a celebration this Sunday (2/17) at 8 pm. Email Alex at [email protected] for questions or appointments. All services open to all and offered by donation at ENTRANCE 107 S Dean St. Marfa, Texas.

If you’re looking for good times in Marfa this Saturday night, you’ll be hard-pressed to top last night’s Gary P. Nunn party — featuring a decadent cupcake buffet and a dance floor of whirling cowgirl dervishes — but you can’t go wrong with Sunset at Chinati — an opportunity for an “evening viewing of Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum and 15 untitled works in concrete Saturday, February 16 from 5:30 – 7:00 PM.” Free for locals and members, $10 for everybody else.

And before that, artist-in-residence K. Yoland will be giving a talk at 4pm to mark the final night of Then There Was Land, her weeklong exhibition at Marfa Contemporary. For more information, visit Marfa Contemporary.

The Lost Gonzo Band featuring Gary P. Nunn, performing his “London Homesick Blues” in 1974 at Willie’s Second Annual Independence Day Picnic in College Station, Texas. HISTORY.

Don’t miss Gary with Primo Carrasco & Friends here at Ballroom Marfa tonight! 7pm doors; 8pm show. Tickets $10 at the door. [en español]

The feast of Saint Valentine is upon us, and while there’s plenty of classic rusticated music on the way — the Hogwallops in Valentine today, Gary P. Nunn and Primo Carrasco tomorrow — we can’t live by country and western alone. With that in mind, here’s Hudson Mohawke‘s annual Valentine’s mix, bridging the gap between astral electronics, trap music sound effects and “straight-to-the-room“-style R&B in the manner that one might expect from a dude co-signed to Warp and G.O.O.D. Music. [via self-titled]

If you’re more of an “all-day lover” type, tune your internet over to Rdio where Questlove is in the process of compiling “Pro Creation Nation,” a 24-hour playlist suitable to, in his words, “play in the background while you procreate. Or sleep. Or spoon or whatever.” There’s lots of Prince in there. [via AV Club]

And finally, to make your Valentine’s Day a full-spectrum multimedia experience we recommend picking up the latest edition of Real News. The February issue just hit the newsstand at the Marfa Book Company, and it’s basically the small town ‘zine equivalent of a slow jams playlist.

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Here at Ballroom we’re busy preparing for next weekend’s Valentine’s Dance with Texas country music legend Gary P. Nunn, spreading the word about this special night of Valentine’s romance.

But that’s not the only thing happening this week in the Trans-Pecos to commemorate the Feast of Saint Valentine …

If you’re eager to get an early start on the festivities, Marfa Public Radio is hosting a Sweethearts Ball and silent auction at the Hotel Paisano this Saturday, 9 February 2013. Tickets are $35 in advance, $50 at the door, with proceeds going to benefit public radio in West Texas.

On the big day itself, Big Bend Brewing Company is hosting a beer-tasting from 4-8pm in Valentine, TX at the “Old Mercantile Building in the middle of town,” featuring performances from The Doodlin’ Hogwallops and Andy Schneider. If you catch the Hogwallops performing their hit single “Valentine Texas” in Valentine, Texas on Valentine’s Day you’re guaranteed some kind of good luck in love in 2013, right?

And then of course we’ll be capping off this most romantic of weeks with Gary at Ballroom Marfa on Friday, 15 February 2013. Doors open at 7pm, show at 8pm. Tickets are $10 at the door.

As Blues Control, Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho create a righteous blend of space rock, spiritual jazz and New Age music that sounds like little else. The Coopersburg, PA-based duo has been making albums since 2007 for top shelf labels like Siltbreeze, Not Not Fun, Woodsist and Holy Mountain. In 2011 they issued an absolute classic of contemporary cosmic music in collaboration with zither guru Laraaji, best known for his Brian Eno-produced album from 1980, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. Artist Kathy Rose directed their latest video (see above) for “Opium Den/Fade to Blue.” [Video via artinfo]

They’re on tour now in support of the excellent Valley Tangents album on Drag City, and they’ll be delivering their astral guitar/electronics/keyboard jams for FREE at the Lost Horse this Monday (11 February 2013).

Check out a live performance of “Iron Pigs” on Drag City Limits after the jump …

Join me — Daniel Chamberlin, Ballroom’s new Communications Coordinator — and my co-host David Hollander of CineMarfa, tonight on KRTS for the Big Bend’s only known post-Super Bowl chakra cleanse. Inter-Dimensional Music is our monthly broadcast of classic New Age and contemporary cosmic ambience, transmitting from the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas since 2010.

If you’re fortunate enough to live out here in the Trans-Pecos, tune your radio to 93.5FM from 9-11p (CST) on the first Sunday of each month. We’re streaming live for everyone else at marfapublicradio.org.

Playlists, videos, New Age documentary footage and guided meditation available at our website, interdimensionalmusic.wordpress.org.

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Entrance, the “24/7 art space” operated in part by Ballroom’s Exhibition & Programs Coordinator Rosa McElheny has something for your Marfa weekend …

ENTRANCE announces “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,” a solo exhibition by Marfa artist Michael Roch. The show features new paintings that explore Roch’s interest in surface, craft and childlike subject matter. Rabbits, bears, penguins and abstract marks playfully inhabit these canvases amid the flat, exacting environment of joint compound, latex paint, color and form.

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens” opens with a reception from 6 – 8 pm Friday, February 1. The show remains on view 24 hours a day through February 15. ENTRANCE is located at 107 S. Dean Street.

Read more about the show over at Big Bend Now.

Border politics, violence and complicated class dynamics have been touchstones of Marfa’s film culture from the days of Giant through Meredith Danluck’s Ballroom-commissioned North of South, West of East to No Country For Old Men, which features our beloved local bank president as the first of many assassinations …

So when Larry Clark chose our high desert town as the setting for his latest exploited-teen bummer trip — the straight-to-internet Marfa Girl — he was in good company.

Various artifacts from Clark’s career are going up for sale this weekend in Los Angeles at “Larry Clark Stuff,” an exhibit co-curated by Boo-Hooray and Clark as part of the Printed Matter Art Book Fair at MOCA. Most of the Marfa Girl-memorabilia was sold out last we checked, but there’s still plenty of skateboards and T-shirts up for grabs online (it’s Larry Clark so of course NSFW) or if you stop by the show in LA.

Photo of a snowy Prada Marfa, courtesy of Kate Mason (and old pal Hunter Oatman-Stanford).

We just had a snowstorm in Marfa last night, and woke up to 10″ or so of snow (random guess) (could’ve been 4″). Check out this lovely Ballroom snowman that our fine friend Henry Wotowicz crafted. Ready to sweep!

In other non-snow news, we’ve been perusing best of 2012 lists, and our first stop was WFMU, which always has unknowns and discoveries, especially Liz Berg’s Top Picks of 2012, which is available at WFMU and the Free Music Archive (truly a cool project, read about it here). Already it’s great, and have only heard one song (Sharon von Etten’s “Leonard (Live at WFMU)”).

Download the mix here, and support WFMU and Free Music Archive forever!