TREEFORT 2016

PHOTO: Christine Birkinbine / Treefort Music Festival Head Photographer

PHOTO: Christine Birkinbine / Treefort Music Festival Head Photographer

Was fun rocking out at Treefort Music Festival . Thanks to all who came out to hang during my set.

And when we took over the street!! Photo from Band Dialogue V composed by Seth Olinsky/ Cy Dune. Fun playing with you all: Built to Spill, Sun Blood Stories,   TUFT, 安 AAN, The Western Mystics,  SugarCandyMountain, Invisible Hand, Animal Eyes, Religious Girls, American Culture, Terrible Light, Marshall Scott Poole, C.j. Boyd, BATTLEHOOCH, HiHazel, and Unconditional Arms.

NPR SONGS WE LOVE!!!!!!!

THANKS NPR for your amazing review and having me up on your site along other wonderful artists!! Could not be more honored and stoked!!!! Read the full article Here.

"At times, the record recalls Patti Smith's ragged and desperate punk, the Flat Duo Jets' animalistic rockabilly played super slow, or Cat Power's cigarette-chewing soul — yet, even with such high-profile reference points, Beletic holds her own."  - LARS GOTRICH, NPR

"Ali Beletic's Debut is one of the most refreshing rock albums I've heard in a while"   - LARS GOTRICH, NPR

 

L I G H T N I N G F/W 15

AMAZING review of upcoming Lightning F/W 15 up on Tiny Mix Tapes.  Read the Full Article & Check out Music Streams HERE.  So proud of our whole team!!

There is a growing body of creative channels in America, relief for the young people frustrated by the country’s lack of sexual inertia and impulsive “rock & roll” spirit (not to mention nostalgia for a time when creating music that sounds like a Coke ad wasn’t subversive or even ad-worthy — it just sucked). Lightning Records is one such outlet, a “modern multi-media channel” — a tape label, print magazine, apparel company, “adventurous” event planner, and counterculture journal of bold photography and narrative journalism — launched in 2012 by Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family, Cy Dune) and his group of cool friends who surf and bike and do other rad shit.

TMT has the pleasure of helping Lightning announce its F/W 15 releases, a set of five tapes + print magazine that continues its 20 Artist Series, where the channel asks musical peers to contribute work from a “unique side project or edge creative statement.” This season puts an emphasis on noisy folk songwriters from ‘murica, and the forgotten dynamism of an imperfect guitar. All the artists in this batch are known for their strong creative impulses, certified in Rock & Roll CPR. There’s nihilistic, crusty jams from Pontiak and Algae & Tentacles, pariah-dog porch music from Chris Forsyth and Sam Amidon, and bitter, sugary punk from American Culture, who are either lazy suburban stoners or a Silicon Valley startup. 

The business of curating an aesthetic is a fickle one — today’s discerning listener has a better bullshit detector than Chris Hansen, but Lightning’s collaborators are veterans to raucous, experimental rock, and they know their audience well. They sell a $1000 surfboard alongside a custom (black) fuzz pedal. They’ve even started a mixtape pen-pal project! And if the good vibrations weren’t enough to make your denims warm and wet, this season’s magazine has interviews with Southern Lord Sir Richard Bishop alongside ultra marathoner Dominic Grossman. There are so many folks in on this that I wish they were my friends. I’m reevaluating my entire young adulthood. It’s electrifying stuff. THERE, I said it.

Fundraiser for Palm Springs Art Museum's Artist Council

Honored to be participating in a fundraiser of Palm Springs Art Museum's Artists Council. The images shown are created by celebrities as well as artists around the world on 5 x 7 canvases and signed on the back. The canvases are sold anonymously in an annual event at the Riviera Palm Springs Hotel.  For more information:   Fine Art America.

REPPING BOOKER NYC

Couldn't be more stoked to announce that I am working with BOOKER this month to create awareness of their new line. The company is founded by an amazing NYC female motorcyclist named Jameelah based on bringing together style and function. Moto …

Couldn't be more stoked to announce that I am working with BOOKER this month to create awareness of their new line. The company is founded by an amazing NYC female motorcyclist named Jameelah based on bringing together style and function. Moto Babes go get one of their amazing jackets and ride safe. Also it's the weekend, so get out there and #shred!!! Follow @bookernyc for updates, releases and giveaways!!!!! #bookernyc #booker

Domaine Home names Ali among 30 Emerging Artists You Need to Know

Thanks Domaine Home for including me!!!! You can preview and purchase works for the Unicef Next Gen Art Party. Also including works from Alex Israel, James Franco, and Alexandra Grant!!!! Thanks to Chelsea Neman from Tappan Collective for curating.

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