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Brian Heater
Episode 165: Adam Green
1 hour 17 minutes Posted Apr 19, 2016 at 12:54 am.
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Aladdin is a crowd-sourced paper mache fever dream. It’s both

completely singular in Adam Green diverse portfolio of work and
perfectly representative of an artist who has made a career or tearing
down the barriers between conception and execution. After first
making the scene as one half of the seminal anti-folk act The Moldy
Peaches, Green has released a steady stream of terrific solo records,
marrying a crooning singing style with often hilarious stream of
conscious lyrics. In 2011, he made his feature length directorial
debut with The Wrong Ferrari, employing an impressive cast of
contributors, including Macaulay Culkin and Alia Shawkat, along with
fellow musicians Devendra Banhart and Har Mar Superstar — all of whom
also star in Green’s latest. Green and I met in his Brooklyn art
studio, surrounded by hundreds of his paintings, to discuss the film,
his music career, and the nature of creativity.