Friday, August 29, 2008

Show: Noise on Tuesday, September 2

Update 9/10/08 - show goer Marc Niciu had this to say about the event: click.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - at ArLow:
AVARUS w/Ducktails, and Heaven People


LOCATION:
ArLow
838 Whalley Ave
New Haven CT
$5.00 - 7:00PM

Directions: Click here

AVARUS are a band from Tampere, Finland. They were formed in 2001 by members of The Anaksimandros and Pylon and soon absorbed members of other Finnish bands such as Kiila, Munuaissymposium 1960, Kemialliset Ystävät. Avarus' floating line-up varies between 10 and 20 members. Avarus are considered a key element in the Finnish psych folk scene which emerged in the early 2000s. They are on Secret Eye.

DUCKTAILS is a must-see tropical psychedelic experience visiting us from New Jersey. Psychedelic percussive sweetness grips yr ears like a piña colada brain freeze.

HEAVEN PEOPLE are (amazing! - ed.) a New Haven based duo who destruct and reconstruct the environmental and artificial sounds and energy. They create pulsating spirit drones through modified acoustic guitar, electronics, vocals, samples, music boxes and thumb piano. They await their 1st LP on Ecstatic Peace! and plan to tour thereafter.
JD

Shaki this Sunday

Sunday, August 31th, 2008 - at BAR:
NORTHAMPTON WOOLS w/Noise Nomads and Crooked Hook


LOCATION:
BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven CT
FREE - 9:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click here

Northhampton Wools cometh. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Bill Nace of x.o.4/Vampire Belt/Open Mouth wield their stringed axes in an acro-sound-batic display of sonic interplay.

Ditto for Noise Nomads, who is another Western Mass noise blazer named Jeff Hartford, who is also in Grey Skull. I read he's "a sasquatch hunk, tough-skinned buffoon, broken, brutally embarrassed," and "a no-fi mistake." "He's never content to just play to one schtick as it were, instead, practicing everything from christmas tree impersonation, to hand chime phasery, to all out 4-track abuse." (Load)

Crooked Hook kicks off the melee with their brand of heavy duty old skool riffage psychrock.
JD

Friday, August 22, 2008

Shaki this Sunday

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 - at BAR:
THE VULTURES w/Obits


LOCATION:
BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven CT
FREE - 9:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click here



The Vultures are sure to go ape shit this Sunday at BAR. They're playing with Brooklyn's garage rockers Obits.
JD

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Shows - Panda and Child double whammy

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - at Park on Main Street in Stafford Springs *outdoors: PANDA AND CHILD w/Ar Plovnick & Greylyng

Saturday, Agust 23rd, 2008 - at Rudy's Woodenman Records showcase featuring CIRCLES, BLOARZEYD and PANDA AND CHILD



LOCATION:
Haymarket Square in Stafford Springs
Main Street
Stafford Spings CT
FREE? - 7:00PM - all ages

Outdoor show, nice park, with a nearby bar for us booze bags. Spacey, moody, meaty drones to shake your bones: Ar Plovnick out of Brooklyn and CT's own Greylyng with the freaktastic Panda and Child.

then on the following Saturday

LOCATION:
Rudy's
372 Elm St
New Haven CT
Cost? - 10:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click

Woodenman Records Showcase. Panda and Child's CD release show, featuring label artists: the ever buck wild Bloarzeyd of New Haven and the jazzed out and hooked up Circles of Philadelphia.
JD

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Manic Productions Presents: florida=DEATH, mammoth hunter, and Cold Snap - Aug 24th, 2008







MANIC PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
LOCATION:
Cherry Street Station
491 N Cherry Street Ext
Wallingford CT
Cost: donation$

florida=DEATH
mammoth hunter
Cold Snap

florida=DEATH is a collective of experimental musicians from the Southington area. They have their own label (AMOD Records), their own venue (The New Hawaii), and a penchant for recording elaborate lo-fi noise musiks. They're a fixture in the area and a CT Indie fave.

mammoth hunter is an instrumental duo from New Britain. Back in May, they released a limited edition 7" on Hot Air Press consisting of songs they recorded with Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., Witch, MV and EE and the Golden Road) at Verdant Studio in VT and Bank Row Recording up in Greenfield, MA. They play melodic, 90's-influenced minimalist rock, heavy on the dissonance and fuzz boxes.

Cold Snap is a hardcore band from Wallingford. This show will find them returning from an August tour of the southeastern US.

This show is also going to feature a collaborative improv set with florida=DEATH and mammoth hunter. Who's got the Advil?
KB

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Show - Myty Konkeror, Saturday Aug 16th, 2008

Saturday, August 16th, 2008 - at Cafe Nine:
Myty Konkeror w/Black Helicopter, The Mountain Movers, and Closely Watched Trains



LOCATION:
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven CT
$6.00
9:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click here

An evening of post-punk and stoner metal with elements of 60's psych rock. Twin Lakes Records is launching CD singles for Myty Konkeror and Closely Watched Trains. . . free to the first 20 who pay the cover. Boston's Black Helicopter (Ecstatic Peace) and New Haven's own The Mountain Movers are also on the bill.
KB

Monday, August 11, 2008

Show - Panther, August 14th, 2008

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 - at Daniel Street Club:
PANTHER w/Digital Leather, Fiasco, Eula, Electric Bucket & Murdervan

LOCATION:
Daniel Street Club
321 Daniel Street
Milford CT
$5.00 - 7:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click here

Portland, Oregon's Charlie Salas-Humara is essentially the one-man band Panther, who has toured with the Gossip and Ratatat. Known for his unusual chaotic dancing, his eccentric noodlings involve a melting pot of funk, disco, soul, and electro. Raised in the suburbs of Chicago, he moved to Portland in 1995 with his band the Planet The, who stayed together for a decade. At a solo performance night where people from different bands played acoustic, Salas-Humara sabotaged the night with drum machines. With encouragement from friends, he continued experimenting as Panther. The result was Secret Lawns in March 2007, which includes guest spots from members of YACHT, White Rainbow, Plants, Point Line Plane, and E*Rock. After adding drummer Joe Kelly (formerly of 31 Knots), Panther switched to Kill Rock Stars for 14 Kt. God. (allmusic.com)

Digital Leather take their cues from late ‘70s/early ‘80s synthpunk pioneers such as The Screamers, Nervous Gender and The Units. This Arizona-based one man band relies on just keyboards, drum machines and vocals to set the scene of gloomy electronic desert landscapes and gay night club discotheques. This is the life of Sean Foree, who created a masterpiece in his one bedroom apartment in Tempe, Arizona. Live, he borrows members from The Wongs, Reatards, Lost Sounds and Destruction Unit. His music is sure to appeal to fans of the current rebirth of keyboards in punk... but Digital Leather surely push the boundaries of that.

Fiasco: They’re not out of high school but they’ve already been through the press circus. They’ve never gone on a major tour but their Brooklyn shows at DIY spaces still hit overflow capacity. You could blame it on the hype, but Fiasco never would’ve left their parents’ basement if these kids were just another garage band.

As for Eula (a CT Indie fave), Electric Bucket and Murdervan, we're talking homegrown rock action. Lots of fun here from these high energy garage/punk/pop/noise rock bands!
JD

Friday, August 8, 2008

Shaki this Sunday

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 - at BAR:
ELECTRIC BUCKET w/Judgement Day


LOCATION:
BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven CT
FREE - 9:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click here

Judgement Day are touring the Northeast with Mates of State, but will be playing BAR this Sunday opening for Milford-based Electric Bucket, a noisy garage-punk Energizer Bunny on meth - "The Bucket's unique sound features barbarian spazz drums, fuzzed-out psycho bass lines, bird warrior guitar attacks and girl-on-guy screaming!"


Judgement Day is a string metal band out of Oakland, CA, with a sound surprisingly smack between the Rachel's and Refused. Unlike Apocalyptica and The Section Quartet, Judgement Day is comprised of only violin, cello and drums, and yet they achieve a sound more heavy and raw than either.
JD

Neil Hamburger, August 8th, 2008

Friday, August 8 2008 - at Cafe 9:
NEIL HAMBURGER w/Daiquiri and Peebo Carmichael



LOCATION:
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven CT

$8.00 - 9:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS:
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No locals on this bill, but definitely an oddball show care of Cafe 9 and Manic Productions.

Neil Hamburger: After more than a decade of releasing comedy albums that were bad, wonderful, unsettling, and hilarious all at the same time, the self-loathing and surreal Neil Hamburger -- "America's $1 Funnyman" -- decided it was time to release a Country album. Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners arrives just as the man's career was going into overdrive with his irregular -- in every sense of the word -- interview show Poolside Chats with Neil Hamburger burning up the Internet while his guest spots on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job were introducing him to the young and so hip Adult Swim crowd. Taking full advantage of the momentum, this excellent effort ends up Hamburger's most accessible work to date. With his usual snorts, acid delivery, and lunatic sense of humor, he still stands firmly in the "acquired taste" category, but he's remarkably easier to stomach when surrounded by a backing band that sounds this authentic and so well versed in '60s and '70s country. The bizarre and desolate side of Porter Wagoner's output seems the biggest influence on the album with tracks like "Three Piece Chicken Dinner" ("When his personal life is an estranged wife/And a sullen, ungrateful daughter") and "Please Ask That Clown to Stop Crying" ("I once met a man with no legs/Who asked me to carry him to his grave") making one think Hamburger, or his alter-ego Gregg Turkington, devoured the Omni label's "Mondo Porter" compilation Rubber Room before entering the studio. Wagoner isn't the only well-chosen influence as "How Can I Still Be Patriotic (When They've Taken Away My Right to Cry)" recalls Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" with its narration and military snare drum while the cover version of Mark Eitzel's "The Hula Maiden" is performed like an outtake from Marty Robbins' long lost Hawaii's Calling Me album. Helping realize this rustic dream is an amazing band featuring Tubes drummer Prairie Prince, beloved that dog vocalist Rachel Haden, plus the underappreciated Dave Gleason, all of whom have the utmost respect and an obvious fascination for kitsch country the way it used to be. Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners was an absurdist idea of the highest order the moment that title was born. The end product goes far beyond anything the man's cult could hope for and is arguably the best disturbing country album from a failed and faux lounge comedian that you'll ever find. (allmusic.com)

Daiquiri started in 1999 as a 4-piece rock band, featuring members of Brandon Walsh. Brandon Walsh had appeared on The Tom Green Show three times, becoming good friends with Tom's sidekick, Glenn Humplik. After the breakup of Brandon Walsh, Glenn joined two of the band’s former members to form Daiquiri. Glenn's connection to MTV brought the band loads of exposure in the US but he remains only a part-time member of the band, residing in LA to pursue acting. The remaining two piece continues on, drawing influences from mainstream R&B to Aphex Twin, 80's pop cheese, forgotten new wave, speed metal and novelty bands.

Peebo Carmichael hails from Brooklyn, NY. He is known best for his observational humor and his soft, not-so-smooth approach. He has opened for many musicians such as Blowfly and Kimya Dawson.
JD

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Show - Deerhunter tonight

Deerhunter opening for NIN at Mohegan Sun tonight.


When
Thu, Aug 7th 7:30PM
Mohegan Sun Arena
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd.
Uncasville, CT 06382
For more information Phone: (888) 226-7711
Link to Web Site
Cost:
General Admission Adult: $35-45

The last time Deerhunter came to town, they played at Wesleyan with TV on the Radio. No one off of Wesleyan's campus knew about it until Pitchforkmedia posted their review. Whether or not Nine Inch Nails interests you, Deerhunter once again sneaks into Connecticut opening for NIN at Mohegan Sun. This one may be a bit pricey, and Mohegan Sun a turnoff, but Deerhunter are pretty darn good, and it's frustrating to see them blow through town once again with barely a blip on the indie radar. How many of us average show-goers around here pay attention to who's playing Mohegan Sun? Does this mean that we need to from now on?

Don't know Deerhunter?:
Deerhunter is an experimental noise rock band from Atlanta, fronted by the compellingly odd singer Bradford Cox. Cox's vocal style blends vocal experimentation along the lines of Meredith Monk or Yoko Ono with a more direct and punky howl inspired by the Fall's Mark E. Smith. Cox is also a striking on-stage presence: the exceedingly skinny 6'4" lead singer has Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that gives him abnormally long and spindly limbs. (The late Joey Ramone was another well-known frontman with Marfan syndrome.) Cox often exaggerates his otherworldly look by performing in Victorian-style party frocks and engaging in Iggy Pop-style acts of ritual self-abasement while his bandmates churn out an aggressive mix of industrial-grind guitars and fractured dance rhythms that often recalls earlier Georgia art punks like the Method Actors and Pylon. Deerhunter was formed in 2001 by Cox and drummer and keyboardist Moses Archuleta; guitarists Colin Mee and Lockett Pundt and bassist Josh Fauver completed the lineup over the following years. Deerhunter signed with the local Atlanta indie Stickfigure Records for their 2005 debut: nominally untitled, the album is also known as "Turn It Up, Faggot" (a phrase that doesn't appear on the sleeve), an insult that Cox claimed was often thrown at the band during their gigs. Deerhunter then signed to the higher-profile indie Kranky (Godspeed You Black Emperor!, etc.) for their second album, Cryptograms, as well as the EP Fluorescent Grey. (allmusic.com)
JD/KB

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Tonight at Cafe 9

Ecstatic Peace joins Byron Coley and the entire Ecstatic YOD collective in promoting this ground breaking event: NO MORE BUSH TOUR 2008



LOCATION:
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven CT
8:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS:
Click here

Zaika + Paul Flaherty
Jack Rose
Valerie Webber
50 Foot Women + Axolotl
Byron Coley (Click here for a good interview with Coley)
Matt Krefting
Bill Nace + Jacqui Ham

"Five years ago, in a time of woe for the underground, the country and the world, the members of the Ecstatic Yod Collective organized a tour called More Hair Less Bush. Including a variety of musicians and writers, the tour brought the flame of hope to cities cast into darkness by the hideous secretions of the Bush Twins.
Now, in 2008, as we prepare to enjoy the long-promised fruits of regime change, we felt it was time to bring our show on the road again. But this time, rather than offering balm and apologies to the psychically wounded, we would like to celebrate the pre-dawn of a new day -- a day when the word "cheney" is once more an empty phrase we use to terrify youngsters.
To this end, we have assembled a revolving cast of musicians and writers, all of whom honk the horn of freedom with both hands. We trust it will be a gas.
Trinkets will be available at all shows. Tour schedule and bios follow. Support is being provided by Ecstatic Peace Records & Arthur Magazine."
Info/photos/etc: glasseye@yod.com


NO MORE BUSH BIOS (PERFORMERS APPEAR ONLY AT SHOWS NOTED)

50 FOOT WOMEN (all shows) is a San Francisco-based duo with Jessi Leigh Swenson and Elaine Barry Kahn. Swenson is known for her trance-forming work with the Believers and Duck, Kahn is a wild card. Combined, they create and destroy small forms with the ease of kettle fish. They promise to have several secret weapons up their sleeves.
AXOLOTL (all shows) is the ghost-wolf of New Jersey and all points west. Currently resident in the head of Karl Bauer, this ghost takes many forms, and uses many tools to do its jobs. On this tour, there is a functional involvement with several things. Psychedelic? You bet!
TOM CARTER (Philadelphia only) will be performing outside of Zaika on this evening. See the Zaika listing for further details.
BYRON COLEY (all shows) is a writer from Western Massachusetts. His organizational abilities are dwarfed by his capacity for letting a participle hang. He is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
LOREN CONNORS (New York City only) is one of the great string inventors of our age. Precision stellar blues, played in the Martian style, for the pleasure of all. A veteran of More Hair.
DREDD FOOLE (Florence only) is the legendary Vermont singer, whose power-meditations for throat and fingers more or less defined a secret generation. For this event he will be performing naked and glistening, stripped of everything but his acoustic guitar. A More Hair veteran.
PAUL FLAHERTY (New Haven only) is one of the progenitors of the free New England concept, which is something that he along swung with for many years. Now, finally, heralded as one of the permier sax-thinkers of the era, he prepares himself for action. Paul is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
JAQUI HAM (New Haven only) was a founding member of the No Wave group, UT, whose trajectory across 1980s was a magnificent thing to behear. More recently, she had lead Dial into discordian chop shop jungles with equal applomb. This is a rare stateside gig.
MATT KREFTING (Florence & New Haven only) is a Lou Reed devotee from Western Masschusetts. His projects include Believers, Duck, Son of Earth, Shackamaxon, and so on. A tireless performer and elegant hambone, he will be reading from new work.
DAMON KRUKOWKSI (Somerville only) is one of the best-regarded men of letters in all of showbiz. He is perhaps most lauded for his musical performances, but his writing is an lovely extension of a mind tuned to the Intelligence Network. Tonight, he will rants
WILLIE LANE (Philadelphia only) is a current resident of Pennsylvania, but his teeth were whittled in the snowy wilds of New England's ice clouds. He has involved himself with such combos as Rotch and MVEE's Golden Road. Tonight his blare is of the Gutbucket variety. Power on.
TOM LAX (Philadelphia only) is the guiding light of the Siltbreeze empire - the 'zine, the label, the blog. He is a stone genius and we hope we have convinced him to read this evening. His voice is akin to that of Mel Torme's - golden fog wrapped in a tuxedo.
THURSTON MOORE (Florence only) will be wearing his authorial hat this evening. His writing has been called "tall," by more than one critic. He survived the More Hair tour.
JOHN MORTON (Albany only) is legend that begins in Cleveland, with the Electric Eels and spasmodic guitar art bonged against the arc of the infinite. Later, in Brooklyn, these inpulses devolved into more insanity and writing and art and phlug. Now, here he is again. He promises a theremin. Think fast! A veteran of the More Hair process.
MV+EE (DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia,New York City only) will be a stripped-down duo this go-round. Matt, Erika and Zuma, caterwauling into the dark jug of night. As only veterans of the More Hair tour can.
BILL NACE (Somerville & New Haven only) is an itinerant guitarist in the improv-minstrel mode. His best known projects are Vampire Belt, X.O.4 and Northampton Wools, but he is happy to work without a net in a variety of settings.
GARY PANTER (New York City only) is best known as a visual artist, but his additions to the shelves of writage and music-making are not insubstantial. Not sure tonight if he'll be whistling ot playing ot reading or what. He is no timorous bloke. He is a vet of the More Hair events.
CHARLES PLYMELL (Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City only) is a one of the great writers of our age, and a ferociously talented/opinionated editor, publisher and reader as well. Based for the last few decades in Cherry Valley, NY, Plymell's evil eye and exquisite grasp of language and image are a deadly combination. It's always an extreme pleasure to hear him read. A veteran of More Hair.
ROXIE POWELL (Baltimore only) is one of the great secret poets of the Kansas vortex. A lifelong friend of Charles Plymell, Powell has released only four small books over the years, but each is coated with diamonds and wheat. If he deigns to read, we will all be happy.
JACK ROSE (all shows) is one of the pre-eminent geniuses of acoustic guitar creation and dissemblage. In the years since he left Pelt, Jack has toured and recorded incessantly, inventing moves that would make past masters blush. His fingers are magic fever generators.
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN (Somerville only) is like an organ, waiting to be squeezed by god's own hands. Mutable to an almost insane degree, the music & line-up can vary from electro-krank duo to massed tub orchestra. Whatever will it be tonight?
BOBB TRIMBLE (Somerville only) is the Marc Bolan of Wormtown. His first two albums, recently reissued, are classics of mystery-webbing. The unveiling of his new direction is eagerly anticipated.
KATE VILLAGE (Albany & Somerville only) is one of the most savage guitar players our planet has yet produced. Her most blues-wailing style with Crystalized Movements, Vermonster, B.O.R.B., Magic Hour, Major Stars and solo have made her an ikon to the youth of every nation. Watch her bring it to the masses.
MIKE WATT (Philadelphia only) is going to try to make this date during one of the Stooges' days off. His bass playing is the food of love, his writing a manic blast of frayed orgone trembling. Tonight, if possible, he'll back Charles Plymell.
VALERIE WEBBER (all shows) is a Montreal-based writer whose poetry and prose combines a naive belief in perefection and a wise-ass sneer at its collapsing facade. Her work has been widely published in Canada and the U.S., and her voice has a soft purity, oftimes at odds with its content. She is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
WOVOKA (Albany only) is an upstate channeler of mystery-volk in all its drugged and writhing splendor. Rarely spied except through a cloud of basement smoke, their vibes are their amplifiers.
ZAIKA (all shows except Phildelphia) is a duo comprised of Marcia Bassett and Tom Carter. Both are long-time and very active members of the American underground scene: Marcia with Uns, Double Leopards, Shackamaxon, Hototogisu, GHQ and others; Tom with The Mike Gunn, Charalambides, Badgerlore, Friday Group, Kyrgyz, Spiderwebs, etc. Together, they create very special kinds of silver cloud eruptions.
ZAIMPH (Philadelphia only) is the name under which Marcia Bassett operates as a solo entity. But her reach is so long, she is never alone. She will performing outside Zaika this evening.
ZIAMALUCH (Albany only) represents the bridge between ERL and Burnt Hills in terms of Albany's underground continuum. Unseen in public since opening a gig for Universal Indians, Ziamaluch once again scales the scales.
JD

Friday, August 1, 2008

Shaki this Sunday

Sunday, August 4th, 2008 - at BAR:
HAIR POLICE (feat. Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes) w/Sickness (*Re-scheduled from March)


LOCATION:
BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven CT
FREE - 9:00PM - 21+

DIRECTIONS: Click here


Hair Police: Working with traditional rock instrumentation as well as electronics, tape manipulation, and oscillators, Hair Police builds demonic walls of sound for a result reminiscent of Throbbing Gristle, early Black Dice, and Wolf Eyes. Hair Police formed in Lexington, KY, in January of 2001. The original lineup included Matt Minter and Ross Compton, but the group soon settled on Mike Connelly (guitar, vocals, tapes, noise), Robert Beatty (electronics), and Trevor Tremaine (drums, vocals, tapes). Soon after forming, the group released its 2001 debut, History of Ghost Dad on Gods of Tundra. Blow Out Your Blood followed on Freedomfrom in 2002, and 2003 found Hair Police in an extremely productive mode that produced Movies: Live '01-'02 (a cassette on Animal Disguise), the Mortuary Servants 7", a self-titled cassette on Hospital Productions, Probe Cutting (a cassette on Gods of Tundra), and splits with Cadaver in Drag and Viki -- the latter of which secured the band its widest distribution. In 2004 Hair Police released a new album, Obedience Cuts, as well as a split with Crystal Fantasy. The following year saw two new albums --Constantly Terrified and Drawn Dead--as well as a reissue of their self-titled album for Hospital Productions on CD. (allmusic.com) No Fun Productions will be releasing "Certainty of Swarms." Copies will be available at the show.


Sickness started in the early days of 1986-1987 as a tape-loop/ industrial project. Now, so many years later, it has grown into the infestation you see before you. To further the destruction, Sickness formed its own label, Ninth Circle Music, and it has been around for over six years, releasing special limited edition tape only releases.
JD