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Dev Hynes On Blood Orange’s New Cassette: ‘Here’s Me Handing You Some Music’

December 10, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

(Dev Hynes/Twitter)

If you happen to have Dev Hynes’s number, you may want to hit him up: the musical force behind Blood Orange has a new album out, but you won’t be able to find it on Spotify. “I’ve just been recording music in my apartment and I’ve been recording them to tapes and I’ve been dubbing the tapes and giving them to whoever wants them,” he said.
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Tags: Art Basel, Arts + Culture, blood orange, dev hynes, East Village, florence and the machine, miami art week, solange knowles

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When Solange Plays a Laundromat, This Guy Makes It Look Fresh

August 2, 2013 By Kristy Ann Muniz

Alan Del Rio Ortiz painted by Caris Reid.

What do Florence and the Machine, St. Vincent, Smith Westerns, Drowners, and Spector have in common? Alan Del Rio Ortiz has directed videos for all of them. (Also, they are all insanely talented.)

You probably saw the clip of Solange performing at a laundromat near Barclays Center earlier this week. Yep, Del Rio Ortiz shot that one too. While the 30-year-old filmmaker specializes in music videos, his portfolio also includes live concerts, tour videos, a documentary special on Blood Orange, and several short film collaborations with Slutever’s Karley Sciortino. He’s spending his summer shooting a series of live performances (including the Solange one) as part of the Uncapped series for Vitaminwater/The Fader.
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Tags: alan del rio ortiz, Arts + Culture, barclays center, blood orange, david byrne, drowners, florence and the machine, slutever, smith western, solange, spector, st. mazie, st. vincent, vitaminwater, Williamsburg