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NOV 29, 2008
Blues Control MUSIC
Blues Control

Don't be misled: Blues Control won't be grinding out rote Muddy Waters or Willie Dixon covers. Rather, the Queens duo works in more hazily indefinable strata. Their self-titled 2007 album ran myriad avant-rock tropes through mutational and cosmic processes. This year's Local Flavor elevates Blues Control's game even higher, soaring into glorious Popol Vuh–like mantras and purveying a rarefied brand of dub that's unfathomably aquatic and deeply spacious. This paradox spotlights the distinctiveness of these atypical New Yorkers. (Funhouse, 206 Fifth Ave N, 374-8400. 9:30 pm, $7, 21+.) by Dave Segal

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this show has hidden easter eggs. click on the radio for a surprise
Posted by the fixer on November 29, 2008 at 11:17 AM · Report
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Actually, this show sucks ass. You Stranger writers are out of your god damned minds.
Posted by Rick Bailey on November 29, 2008 at 11:50 AM · Report
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To say the folks starting NCTC are "sick of theatre" seems a gross mischaracterization; if they were truly "sick" of it, they probably wouldn't be doing it any more.

Without meaning to put words in their mouths, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say they're sick of the way some other companies do theatre in this town: the lack of risk-taking; the sublimation of local actors in favor of out-of-towners; the de-emphasis of the actor as the primary focus of theatrical performance, etc., etc.

And yes, this production does indeed kick you in the face, and doesn't stop kicking, metaphorically at least, until the curtain call.

Go see it. Bring some friends. Make it possible for NCTC to do more of this kind of work.
Posted by COMTE on November 29, 2008 at 11:52 AM · Report

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