News for: 07/2009
MV+EE get a mention in this nice musing on Neil Young's citizenship by Alexandra Molotkow over at The Walrus Magazine's The Haulout blog. Read it here then google "honey slides" for the 15-minute meal recipe Rachel Ray is sleeping on.
Parasites and Sycophants disseminate some Barn Nova info here.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon are already stoked for Oct. 13th's Barn Nova: "Chances are--and we like to speak for everybody because that's what webzines do--you will find that your collection won't be complete without Barn Nova. Rightfully so." Read more.
The folks over at Electronic Voice Phenomenon dig love, but none of that sitcom junk. Samara Lubelski's upcoming Future Slip provides the love, dig: "Lubelski is a master of mixing the best of pop mores into her bubbling brew of mild psychedelia, with just a hint of folk. Her ideal of Future Slip has nothing to do with make-believe love but rather good music that deserves to be loved by you." Read more.
Large Hearted Boy has "Evolution Flow," a track off Samara Lubelski's Future Slip, available for your listening pleasure. Check it out.
Cannibal Cheerleader is picking up what Jemina Pearl is putting down: "'I Hate People' featuring Iggy Pop(!!!) on backup vocals [...] combines girl-group hooks with the menacing titular lyrics, Pearl seems poised to usurp her status as punk-rock frontwoman to solo rocker superstar." Read more.
Fri 7/31 @ The Elevens
140 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA
Eats Tapes
MNDR
Eric Hnatow
Golden Mold
9pm
Sun 8/2 @ The Elevens
140 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA
Graveyards
Matt Krefting Band
Grey Skull
9pm
Jemina Pearl has unleashed the first single from Break It Up. It's a duet with this guy Iggy Pop and it's called "I Hate People." Pitchfork and Stereogum have the details and download links. You can also cruise over to her MySpace and listen to "I Hate People" and three additional tracks.
Prefix Magazine says, "'I Hate People' should apparently be amended to 'I Hate People Who Aren't Iggy Pop,' because the grandfather of punk rock duets with Pearl on the track, lending his brassy vocal range to the choruses." That suggestion's more of a suffix, you guys.
The FADER has a preview of "Lookout!", The Entrance Band's first single off their forthcoming album. They're calling it, "[...]a beefy doozy, but more Mudhoney than Sabbath. Still gonna sound good when you listen shrouded, just make sure the blacklight is bright enough that you can see your hands when you air guitar shred the sweet solo." Read more.
Waylon Hatchet has a fine aperitif for MV + EE w/The Golden Road's Barn Nova. Read it here.
Montague Phantom Brain Exchange #20
Wed 7/29 @ The Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA
Daily Life
Liz Tonne
Crespo / Schneiderman Duo
lecture by Lily Sage
ADDJ
9pm
$5
70 Colby Street
Medford, MA
Oneida
Sunburned
Big Bear
Glenn Jones
8pm
All ages
Sun 7/26 @ BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven, CT
Oneida
Sunburned
8pm
Free
Sun 7/26 @ King St. Manor
113 King St.
Northampton, MA
Dredd Foole
Redwing Blackbird
Annikki Dawn
King St. Manor
8pm
$5
Wand's Hard Knox continues to gather sparks:
RCRD LBL's Samuel Duke says, "WAND's humble and magnificent new record for Ecstatic Peace, Hard Knox, seems like so much more than what it is–a collection of demos. We say that because its as cohesive–if not more so–than most of the basement folk offerings we've heard this year." Read more.
brandon at Stereogum is giving Wand the close listen again, talks "Trails". Read it here.
Noah Sanders at Side One: Track One separates the good from the "tripe sandwiches." Wand's "Chrome" falls firmly in the good. Read more.
John Agnello talks about his career as a producer, shares some insight into recording with Sonic Youth and Jemina Pearl, and reveals that his 3-year-old has excellent taste. Read it here.
Peter Margasak at the Chicago Reader discusses Okkyung Lee: "Lee looks well beyond the constraints of the cello, using it as a multifarious sound device, and springs sonic surprises on us at every turn." Read more.
Brian Leli at Gapers Block reports back from The Entrance Band's July 16th show at The Hideout: "Accentuated tonight in the songs 'Pretty Baby' and the set-closing 'Grim Reaper Blues,' their fusing of free-spiritedness and precision is that which sets the mind and body ablaze." Read more.
Perry Julien at Creative Loafing Atlanta got some live shots of The Entrance Band opening for Sonic Youth on July 13th at the Variety Playhouse. Take a look.
Fri 7/24 @ Paragon Arts and Industries Building
150 Pleasant St.
Suite 235
Easthampton, MA
"Multimedia show at Ted Lee's (the man with the camera) Feeding Tube Records
featuring live projections in the filmic medium and sound by:
Duck That
Cave Bears
We Love You
No Sound
Go up to the second floor, find the coolest door, numbered 235. The show will celebrate Mr. Lee's return from musical fun in Germany. Bring some money for Duck That who are traveling from Boston, but there is also a bunch of cool stuff for sale...like at a record store."
WAND out on tour including an AMAZING NIGHT in Florence, MA with Dredd Foole, Matt Krefting, John and Anna, + Lord Jeff.
Rest of the tour looks like this:
7/22 Pilot Light-Knoxville, TN
7/23 River City Grill-Fairmont, WV
7/24 Metro Gallery-Baltimore w/Crazy Dreams Band
7/25 Issue Project Room-Brooklyn, NY w/Michael Gira
7/26 Webster Hall Studio-New York, NYw/Larkin Grimm
7/28 Artifacts of the 20th Cent.-Northampton, MA
7/29 Valentine's-Albany, NY
7/30 Apohadian Theatre-Portland, ME w/South China/Seymore/Fire on Fire
7/31 Paradise Rock Club-Boston, MA w/Destroyer
8/2 Rhumba-Columbus, OH
8/3 Russian Recording-Bloomington, IN
8/5 Empty Bottle-Chicago, IL
8/6 Daytrotter-Rock Island, IL (session and show)
8/7 Magic Stick-Detroit, MI
8/8 Sneaky Dee's-Toronto, ON w/Woods
8/9 Green Room-Montreal, QC
8/11 Rock + Roll Hotel-Washington, DC w/Akron Family
8/12 Cat's Cradle-Carrboro, NC w/Akron Family
8/13 E.A.R.L.-Atlanta, GA w/Akron Family
8/14 The Bottletree-Birmingham, AL w/Akron Family
140 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA
Whyte Kastles
Bunwinkies
*7pm
$5 adv/$7 door
Fri 7/17 @ Montague Bookmill
440 Greenfield Rd.
Montague, MA
Crystaline Roses
Justin Pigott
Peter Bonneman
Fri 7/17 @ Issue Project Room
232 2rd St, 3rd Fl
Brooklyn, NY
C. Spencer Yeh
John Wiese
Homegrown: a loose psych fest
Thu 7/16 - Sun 7/19 @ Church
69 Kilmarnock Street
Boston, MA
Thursday 6pm $10
11:15 Major Stars
10:30 Alex K Redfearn & The Seizures
9:45 Colin Langenus Orchestra
9:00 Magic Magic
8:15 Truman Peyote
7:30 Head of Horns
6:45 Ice Dragon
6:00 Double Awake
Friday 6pm $10
12:15 Sightings
11:15 Bobb Trimble and His Flying Spiders
10:30 Life Partners
9:45 Infinity Window
9:00 Reports
8:15 Gary War
7:30 Doomstar
6:45 Peace, Loving
6:00 Quits
Saturday 6pm $10
12:15 Blues Control
11:15 Kurt Vile
10:30 Sunburned Hand of Man
9:45 Mmoss
9:00 Titan
8:15 Needy Visions
7:30 Bezoar
6:45 Many Mansions
6:00 Mind Yeti
Sunday 5pm $10
11:15 Debo Band
10:15 Fat Worm of Error
9:30 Prince Rama of Ayodhya
8:45 Geoff Mullen / Keith Fullerton Whitman
8:00 Omon Ra
7:15 Exusamwa
6:30 Baby Yaga
5:45 Concord Ballet Orchestra Players
Hey everyone--
Little Claw is planning a tour of Europe in September/October of this year.
We may need some help with some shows...
Do you want us to play your town? Can you help with a show?
For European booking, contact Afonso: afonso@filhounico.com
Thanks!!
~LC~
Lots of nice shots of Jemina Pearl's JELLY Pool Party performance:
Stereogum
Metromix
Above the Fold
Brooklyn Vegan
And a couple choice Flickr streams:
eatsdirt
rockographer.com
18 Meadow St.
Florence, MA
Sightings
Fat Worm of Error
Kieran (solo set from Horse Spirit guitarist)
more TBA
Son of Earth Improvements Album Release Show
Fri 7/17 @ Market Hotel
1142 Myrtle Ave @ Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
Metal Mountains
Son of Earth
Spectre Folk
8pm
$7
Sun 7/19 @ The Montague Bookmill
440 Greenfield Rd
Montague, MA
Blues Control
Kurt Vile & the Violators
Phased Out
8pm
$8
Wand is going on tour!
7/22 Pilot Light-Knoxville, TN
7/23 River City Grill-Fairmont, WV
7/24 Metro Gallery-Baltimore
w/Crazy Dreams Band
7/25 Issue Project Room-Brooklyn, NY
w/Michael Gira
7/26 Webster Hall Studio-New York, NY
w/Larkin Grimm
7/28 Artifacts of the 20th Cent.-Northampton, MA
7/29 Valentine's-Albany, NY
7/30 The Apohadian Theatre-Portland, ME
w/South China/Seymore/Fire on Fire
7/31 Paradise Rock Club-Boston, MA
w/Destroyer
8/2 Rhumba-Columbus, OH
8/3 Russian Recording-Bloomington, IN
8/5 Empty Bottle-Chicago, IL
8/6 Daytrotter-Rock Island, IL (session and show)
8/7 Magic Stick-Detroit, MI
8/8 Sneaky Dee's-Toronto, ON
w/Woods
8/9 Green Room-Montreal, QC
8/11 Rock and Roll Hotel-Washington, DC
w/Akron Family
8/12 Cat's Cradle-Carrboro, NC
w/Akron Family
8/13 E.A.R.L.-Atlanta, GA
w/Akron Family
8/14 The Bottletree-Birmingham, AL
w/Akron Family
Here's some pretty righteous live footage of that Awesome Color Market Hotel show. Shot by un:ART:ig.
Bao Nguyen at Brooklyn Vegan got some excellent shots of The Entrance Band and Sonic Youth's July 3rd show at the United Palace.
Check out The Entrance Band artist page for a whole mess of vids. This one (via Crawdaddy) from '08 is particularly premium.
You're So Fine (2/27/08)
Matt Krefting's "I Couldn't Love You More" and Little Claw's "Human Taste" (among most of our recent discography) are available for download. Follow those links and give this emerging technology a look.
Jemina Pearl is going to be playing the July 12th JELLY Pool Party at East River State Park with Mission of Burma, Fucked Up, and Ponytail. The sun damage begins at 2pm. Check out the full schedule of shows here.
Tonight 7/9 @ 145 South St.
Northampton, MA
Wet Hair (ex-raccoo-oo-oon)
Dead Luke (dark synth punk from minneapolis, supposed to be excellent live!)
Caboladies (heavy melodic synth drone from kentucky)
Bunwinkies (western mass fern dwelling free folk / pop)
Crystalline Roses (western mass old time / banjo jams)
8pm
$5 donation
Friday 7/10 @ West Nile
285 Kent Ave. #2
Brooklyn, NY
10pm Aki Onda slide show
10:45 Lori Napolean
11:45 Bill Nace and Okkyung Lee
12:15 Metalux (Load, 5rc)
1 am Jim Slay (Canada)
$6
Free popcorn, BYOB
Monday 7/13 @ The Elevens
140 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA
Tatsuya Nakatani / Jake Meginsky Duo
Bill Nace solo
Schurt Kwitters
9pm
$5
Chris Ruen at TinyMixTapes wrote a poignant article on music piracy sure to provoke your thoughts. Read it here.