An Afternoon of Failure, Part II by US Girls




Triple Canopy show

Summary: On April 2, 2011, Triple Canopy and <a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Dalkey Archive Press</a> presented <a href="http://ps1.org/calendar/view/275" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">an afternoon of failure</a> at MoMA PS1 to celebrate the release of <em>The Review of Contemporary Fiction</em>'s "Failure" issue, guest-edited by Joshua Cohen and available for purchase <a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100883990" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. <br><br> In this recording, <a href="http://www.siltbreeze.com/usgirls.htm" target="_blank" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">US Girls</a> plays a set of refracted, mangled pop songs. The melodies are (mostly) intact, but they're down in the substratum and cranked through a pile of junk.