Britt Julious

Recently:

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:32:05 -0600

My latest post for Dossier is about New York and Chicago apartment galleries. I decided to write the post based on a recent article published in the New York Times about the emergence of apartment galleries in New York. In Chicago, however, apartment galleries have a longer, more complicated history within the larger art “scene.” More thoughts are located here.

Record reviews for Death and Taxes Magazine:

On Volcano Choir

On YACHT

On Destroyer

On El Perro del Mar

On Ciao My Shining Star

I am a writer and critic currently based in Chicago and this...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:10:00 -0500

I am a writer and critic currently based in Chicago and this website stands as a collection of some of my work now available online. My work primarily focuses on independent and avant garde music, art and culture of local, national, and international standing.

In the past, I have written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago, and Death and Taxes, among others.

I am open to new writing opportunities and can be contacted at: bnjulious [at] gmail.com.

PROJECTS:

BRITTICISMS - an online music, art, fashion, and essay-driven project I curate on the Tumblr platform and updated on a daily basis.

The Leanover - A collection of essays and vignettes updated on a weekly basis.

I Love My Wife - an online radio show focusing on indie, noise pop, noise rock, and all music weird-related.

Some Things I've Written:

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:40:00 -0500

ALARM Magazine

Broken Social Scene Dazzle Chicago

Donkey by CSS

Eyes at Half Mast by Talkdemonic

The Fantomas Melvins Big Band: Live from London 2006

Hercules and Love Affair

Interview: Calexico Discusses Beautiful New LP Carried to Dust

Miami Ice by Icy Demons

Migration by Takka Takka

Pitchfork Music Festival

The Watson Twins: A Melting Pot of Sounds on New LP

Beyond Race Magazine

Body Language Vol. 7 by Matthew Dear

Drone, Drugs and Harmony by I Love You

Dossier blog

Ay Ay Ay by Matias Aguayo

I Love Hot Dogs

Newcity

Review: Diverging Matters” at Finestra Art Space

Review: Barbara Wakefield at Dubhe Carreno

Review: “The Telephone Show” at Barbara & Barbara Gallery

Review: “Kay Rosen” at Gallery 400

The New York Times

I took a day off life to see the world in a better way

Sadie Magazine

The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century

This Recording

Familiar Contortions (on New York No Wave)

More Talented Than Jane Birkin (on Francoise Hardy)

Reading Ishiguro in Chicago (on Kazuo Ishiguro)

So Summer (On summer songs)

A Spike Lee Grew in BK (on Do the Right Thing)

A Sound Once Forgotten (On nu disco)

The Top 20 Albums of 2008

TimeOut Chicago

A cure for the summertime group show blues?

“Feminist Interrogations” asks tough questions

Outside the MCA, Peace Salon gave customers a buzz

VenusZine

Band of the Month: Frauke

Band of the Month: Her Girl Friday

Beach House shows Chicago a “lovelier” evening

Box of Bees by The Arch Cupcake

Buzz kill

Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles

Danielia Cotton emerges as the tremendous Rare Child for a stale scene

Genre clashing is the standard for Brazil’s Telepathique

Glamorous punks The Long Blondes won’t “drive you home”

Holy Hail makes music to reflect on in a “post-Obama” world

Hospice by The Antlers

It’s OK to be a little confused by Free Blood

Leader of the pack

LP by Discovery

Miike Snow by Miike Snow

No “broken hearts” here

No “small” feat

Post-Nothing by Japandroids

A pre-Thanksgiving “Bamboo bangaa”

Quisqueya Henriquez

Reader of the Week: artist Anna Christina Trotter

Reader of the Week: musician Josie Outlaw of Philadelphia

Satellite Party: A party built in space

Shattered glass

A stormy dance party welcomes Australia’s Cut Copy

Stuck on Repeat EP by Little Boots

Super Animal Brothers III by EAR PWR

Sustainable style

Sydney-based techno-pop duo the Presets knows how to please “my people”

Three-dimensional design

Troubled, Shaken, Etc. by Sian Alice Group

Unconventional comfort

Yelle: The feisty French electro-pop singer tells it like it is

Archives of the radio show I co-host on Brooklyn Radio, I Love...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:39:00 -0500

Archives of the radio show I co-host on Brooklyn Radio, I Love My Wife, are available here. Below, a description:

Aside from scones, weirdos with guitars are the favorite things for Chicago-based music writers Britt Julious (aka “Wife Material”) and Arianna Stern (aka “Tough Love”). Throw in a couple of ear-bleeding yelps, the eclectic use of electronics, and heavy distortion and you’ve got “I Love My Wife.” We’re Listening. Maybe you should be, too.