Never Records at Tower Records
Part of No Longer Empty’s “Never Can Say Goodbye”
Opening: Friday, January 15, 7:00 pm
Price: Free

If it looks like the old Tower Records on Broadway and West 4th is back in business today, you’re partly correct. Artist and musician Ted Riederer is opening a new shop called Never Records—though you won’t actually find records to buy. This is a multi-artist installation designed to look like a functioning record store, complete with record bins, cash registers, poster racks, large reproductions of fake album covers, and a statue of a record-store employee. Artists participating in the show include X frontlady and collage artist Exene Cervenka, Dee Dee Ramone, and Marilyn Minter, whose recent work involved models licking glass. Tonight, for the opening party, artist Brent Birnbaum will give an in-store performance as Vanilla Ice and sign reproductions of Tom Sanford’s painting “Ice Ice Maybe.” Depending on your age, it could be either a fun nostalgia trip or a history lesson.

This is an excerpt of an article published by The Village Voice. Click here for the full text.

You have 30 days to make your album. Hometaping begins Sunday 1st November and ends Monday 30th November.

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Ted and Ben at Bennington College

Original score for Ted Riederer’s The Resurrectionists, 2007.

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Siemens Corporate Orientation CD ROM score for Tank Design, 2003.

The New You recorded three original songs for the This Is Berlin Not New York soundtrack.

This documentary traces the journey of fifteen young, talented New York Artists to Berlin. They meet and join forces with their German counterparts. Together, the American and German artists explore the artistic ideas and concepts while collaborating on original projects that push the conventional boundaries. Original musical scores and animated artwork complement and enhance this provocative examination of western contemporary art and the ongoing tension between commercialism and creativity for its own sake.

This Is Berlin Not New York on YouTube.

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“This film should be shown at art schools or to anyone passionate
about art.”  - Arturo Vega, Artistic Director, the Ramones.