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92 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.17 ARTS 3 X 2 Artists as critics 1 2 1 2 3 COVER STORY False Omega, Dream Eye Color Wheel Ben Traughber, writer-singer-arranger for the lo-fi band Dream Eye Color Wheel, recorded the New Albany group's recently released second album, False Omega, in his home. "I have a small room filled with recording gizmos and gadgets, tape players, various stringed instruments and other oddities," he says. All of which can be heard throughout the whimsically ominous folk album with waltz timing. The album's cover art presented itself in this "subterranean cubicle." "I was trying to figure out what to do when the tape holding (an art print) to the wall became so weak that it gave up," Traughber says. "I watched it float to the floor and I knew in that moment that it had to be the cover." Louisville artists Matt Dobson and Tyler Deeb created the print of blue and pink pastels using an old drawing of eye measurements from a filing cabinet in an abandon building. Traughber's wife gave it to him as a gift, and it hung on the wall for years before falling. "False Omega was created as an attempt to make sense of themes in life that everyone shares," he says. "Taking note of meaningful coincidences can be your own personal foreshadowing if you let it." — Katie Molck Shadwick Wilde is the frontman of Quiet Hollers, which will release Amen Breaks July 7 and play Forecastle a week after that. Madeleine Dee stars in her new web series, The Seasoned Cynic's Guide to Entertaining, and owns Fond (2520 Frankfort Ave.), which hosts private dinners on Friday and Saturday nights. What do you think of the Wyandotte Park basketball courts restored by Grammy-nominated Louisville R&B; singer Bryson Tiller? "I'm amazed he found the time to lay all that asphalt between stadium gigs! It looks like the Possibility City folks might have helped with some of the design elements, but it's a great-looking court all the same. It's a beautiful thing that someone is spending the time and money to improve things in our underprivileged communities." "I wanted to find something cynical or critical to say, but pairing up with Nike to restore basketball courts in your hometown is really cool." Read the first page of People Over Politics, by former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear. Would you continue reading? (First sentence: "If it weren't for Teddy Roosevelt, I might never have been governor.") "This page could serve wonderfully as a bio, but if you're trying to capture the attention of a reader for the long haul, you need to grab them with a good story. I'm afraid this first page reads too much like a Wikipedia entry." "Old Ted gave me these wise words for entertaining: 'Host smartly and carry a big steak; you will go far.'" The Louder Than Life Festival (Sept. 30 & Oct. 1) recently announced its lineup. Thoughts? "I would be excited to watch members of Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy onstage together as Prophets of Rage. Would also be interested to see Mastodon and Eagles of Death Metal. As for the rest of the lineup, I'll keep my mouth shut and let the people have their nostalgia! I'm sure many headbangers would react with equal indifference or antipathy about the lineups of most of the festivals I'm playing this summer." "Even Ozzy Osbourne screeching onstage with Zakk Wylde is better than listening to the guy who shows up to your party with an acoustic guitar."