We’re sooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to announce that singer-songwriter Eleanor Friedberger — she of Fiery Furnaces fame — is coming out to Marfa for a weeklong residency this March, culminating in a special performance on March 24, 2012. While she’s here, Eleanor will record a limited edition 7” for us (Grouper did the inaugural one for us last year). Read more about the show here — and check out Eleanor’s song “Inn of the Seventh Ray” off her first solo record, Last Summer, which was released last July — the part around 3:04 is so good.

Friend and Arthur alum Dan Chamberlin just told us about the new Grouper cover of (legendary Pacific NW punk band) Dead Moon’s “Demona,” taken from an exclusive 7″ that comes free with the new issue of YETI Magazine. Liz did a residency with us back in May of 2010, where she played an amazing show and recorded two tracks for our very first Ballroom 7″ (which sold out overnight). She also just scored Weston Currie’s new movie, The Perception of Moving Targets, which was featured at Sundance this year. And she has a new collaboration with Tiny Vipers — under the name Mirrorring — coming out March 19 via Kranky.

Total hero.

Check out both Grouper’s and Dead Moon’s versions below, and head over to Yeti to get more info about the 7″. –NICKI

Download: Grouper “Demona” (Dead Moon cover)

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Cass McCombs performing his latest single, “Bradley Manning,” on Democracy Now!

First, Cass McCombs is returning to Marfa tomorrow night, and all Marfans, and all visitors in town, must attend. We’re huge fans of Cass, and we were lucky enough to have him play here last July. Presented by our great friends at Marfa Book Company, the show starts at 9 pm at Padre’s.

Second, our favorite art photographer, Fredrik Nilsen, who’s taken the photos for all of our recent visual arts exhibitions, happens to also be a member of the LA art and music collective, The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). This Saturday, The Box kicks off their new exhibition, Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music: The Los Angeles Free Music Society ‘1972-2012,’ which presents a history of the collective, with nearly 40 years of LAFMS artwork, self-made musical instruments, recordings, ephemera, film/video, and installations. Opening reception this Saturday, from 6-9 pm, in the Box’s new space at 805 Traction Avenue in Los Angeles.

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Ballroom alums Balmorhea, who played for us back in 2008, just debuted this new, untitled song from a session with SerialBox Presents, a new-to-us project that asks performers to play alternative arrangements of their songs, then captures the performance via a multi-cam, multi-track, one-take video. Very interesting. You can hear the audio companion to Balmorhea’s full session here, and read an interesting interview with founders Michael Muller and Rob Lowe here.

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This weekend, don’t miss our third annual silent film/new year’s extravaganza, which goes down this Friday, 30 December (we’re starting the holiday celebrating early this year)

We’ll be screening Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), followed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s short experimental film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), with a live soundtrack by Shahzad Ismaily

We’re super excited for both films (you can watch the Chaplin trailer here: trust us: tears will roll), and doubly thrilled to have composer and performer Ismaily here from New York (he wrote the score for Frozen River, which won the grand jury prize at Sundance in 2008)

So if you’re in Marfa on Friday, let’s just say: your plans are set

(Also: we’ll also have a little New Year’s Eve gathering at the gallery on Saturday from 4 to 5 pm, with snacks and portraits drawn by locals

True story! Stop by to share the merriment!)

We present “The Kid” and “Meshes of the Afternoon,” with a live score by Shahzad Ismaily, on 30 December 2011 at the Crowley Theater

Doors at 7 pm; show begins at 7:30 pm

Entry is free, and seating is general admission

More info here

A while back, I heard Shannon and the Clams on Terre T’s show on WFMU, and I can’t stop listening to them (Tyler Jon Tyler, who also played that day, are also great, especially if you like scrappy rock & roll)

Their record Sleep Talk is awesome, I’m hoping they can swing by Marfa and play next summer

Fun time trash party ’50s punk greatness

And don’t forget: tonight we’re hosting the first installment in our AutoBody Film Program, David Cronenberg’s Crash at the Crowley Theater

Show starts at 6:30ish at the Crowley Theater

Please note: the film is rated NC-17, so mature audiences only

–NICKI

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Just got the photos back from Tinariwen — so great. You can check them all out here. Special thanks to Fred Covarrubias for his concert photos (Fred dragged out ladders mid-show to get some of the shots), and Alex Marks, who continues his amazing musician Polaroid series for us (the rest of which you can see here, here, here, here, here, and here).

And if you’re in New York, please head to C L E A R I N G to see “Great Desks and Chairs,” featuring new works by Ballroom alum and awesome friend, Linda Matalon, as well as Ryan Foerster and Viola Yesiltac. The exhibition runs from 9 November 2011 – 8 January 2012, and is open by appointment at 505 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11237. Call 1 347 383 2256 for more details.

We still can’t believe that Tinariwen will be playing Marfa next week — really is a crazy miracle. In the words of our friend Tim Johnson at the Marfa Book Company, “Minds will blow.” Watch this longish and mesmerizing video of the band playing a flat in Paris (incredible), courtesy of La Blogothèque. (Click the image above to begin video.)

Tickets to the Tinariwen show on November 3, 2011 are only $10 — buy now.

One of our favorite designers, Paul Fucik of Arts and Recreation, just shipped off the posters for Tinariwen, which are real beauts. They’re three-color screenprint on 20″ x 26″ heavyweight paper, in an edition of 80. You can buy the poster here, and if you haven’t bought your tickets to the Tinariwen show yet, do it now (they’re selling quick!).

So much going on here in Marfa with Chinati Open House weekend! But just wanted to give a shout out to Sarah Cain’s exhibition, Forget me not, which opens officially today, and runs through 4 December 2011. Part of LAND‘s multi-site, multi-artist exhibition Nothing Beside Remains, happening throughout 2011 and 2012 throughout Marfa, Cain has created a site-specific installation for the first floor of the former Masonic Lodge (generously provided by Jeff Fort). In a series of new paintings, this installation explores, in both concept and imagery, the forget-me-not flower — a Masonic symbol later co-opted unknowingly by the Nazis. Conceptually, Forget me not deals with themes such as belief systems and doubt, double meanings and faith, and investigates physical, emotional, and psychic space. For viewings, please contact LAND to make an appointment.

And people of New York: Come to our first public performance in New York: Atom Fables, a performative work of experimental filmic sequences by artist Laleh Khorramian set to live soundtracks by Shahzad Ismaily. It’s all happening Monday and Tuesday, 10 and 11 October, at 8 pm at the 14th Street passage of the High Line. It’s free, so there’s really no excuse. The program is presented in collaboration with Friends of the High Line, and it’s going to be amazing! More details here and here.