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Published: Jun 16, 2009

I can barely stuff myself into the backseat of a hatchback so I'll never understand how Kate Watson-Wallace pulls off such bendy-body feats as her 2008 Live Arts première CAR. This year WaWa's moved on from moving vehicles to bubbles: She choreographed the throbby Animal Collective video Summertime Clothes, in which bodies jolt and jerk inside what look like giant eyeballs. Catch her Saturday at 122 Arch St. for a summer fundraiser (katewawa.com for more information), where dancing in weird places is inevitable. The girl can't help it.

- Carolyn Huckabay

That I didn't know about Not Given Lightly — a new tribute to the creepy, murky 1980s/'90s New Zealand alternative scene (my all-time favorite music scene) by bands on Morr Music (my favorite German downtempo electronica label) — is troubling to me. Thank god Tarwater's cover of the Verlaines' "Death and the Maiden" was playing at AKA when I stopped in last week.

- Brian Howard

I like reading lit journals, but sometimes that feels like too much work. Which is why I dig Michigan's MonkeyBicycle — the current issue features Ryan Boudinot, Matt Bell and Laura van den Berg — who always supplement their poems and stories with podcasts and videos at monkeybicycle.net.

- Patrick Rapa

Elvis Perkins can make the most dour of lyrical subjects seem not so bleak. On 2007's Ash Wednesday he sings about the death of his parents in a way that feels more cathartic than depressing. With the help of his stellar backing band, he re-creates the magic on the recently released Elvis Perkins in Dearland (Beggars XI). Take "Doomsday": With its brassy horns and nah-nah-nahs, it's one of the bounciest, most romantic songs you'll ever hear about the apocalypse. Catch Elvis and the whole gang Friday at Johnny Brenda's.

- Molly Eichel

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