hey folks,
if you wetted your appetite last night for !!! at their boat party on the East River - come see John Pugh & Gorman's new other band FREE BLOOD play for two bucks in an awesome little space in LIC - THE CAVE. Free Blood is John & Gorman & their friend doing m/f vocals over bass and beats and fucked up old keyboard sounds - in white fur coats.
This Friday night 6/11, all night party at a new space called THE
CAVE - in LIC, Queens. TWO CHEAP DOLLARS @ THE DOOR!
Free Blood & Japanther & Zeke Healy from the Boggs & Sleepy Doug Shaw
& Puttin' On The Ritz will play. WATANABE DEATH DJ CREW djs Ropstyle
& Forestlove'll spin all night before between & after till late late
late. We're bringing in a super bass-y soundsystem so stick around &
dance. STIFF DRINKS, PATIO, AWESOMENESS, CRAVEN DECADENCE,
DRUNKENESS, DANCING
the Cave is this new space in LIC, right over the bridge from
Brooklyn. it's in an ancient building's basement (like 1860's style),
with these rad old schist rock walls, and has this patio back yard
with trees that looks out onto an abandoned rail revine from the
original LIRR Montauk line. it's pretty awesome & cozy & drinks are
really stiff there.
see y'all Friday.
love, Todd P - toddp@t...
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Friday June 11 @ THE CAVE
~ FREE BLOOD (John & Gorman from !!! / aka Chk Chk Chk)
~~~ JAPANTHER
~~~~~ PUTTIN'ON THE RITZ (Big Bj Rubin & Kevin the Shea)
~~~~~~~ ZEKE HEALY (from the Boggs)
~~~~~~~~~ SLEEPY DOUG SHAW
~ Watanabe Audio Death Crew - dj Ropstyle & dj Forestlove
DANCE PARTY TILL LATE LATE LATE
10-93 Jackson Ave downstairs | LIC, Queens | STIFF DRINKS
G to 21st/VanAlst or 7 to Vernon/Jackson | 8pm | $5 | 718.706.8783
[ FREE BLOOD ]
John XI Pugh & Gorman from !!! & their new super trashy bass and
beats white fur funk outfit. Three piece, "bass, busted synth,
male/female vocals. sound like Sexual Harrassment." - Lauren Podis
[ JAPANTHER ]
two guys, bass, drums, tapes falling over awesomeness. the best dance
band in New York. think: "Holiday Road" from the Natl Lampoon's
Vacation soundtrack played super loud with equipment falling and
shirts off and metal tapping bass riffs and totally soulful hip hop
hardcore drumming and crazy samples and drum machine beats on old
cassettes and singing along.
*website: http://www.tapesrecords.com/secretsight.html
[ ZEKE HEALY ]
Zeke also plays in the Boggs, an astoundinbgly great guitar player,
bluegrass / Fahey like songs played super fast with a lot of soul and - right
there under all the fingerpicking - a great ear for melodies. Zeke'll
be playing outside and unamplified under the stars on the patio.
[ SLEEPY DOUG SHAW ]
Doug is from the UK and plays really great bluesy folk guitar and
sings, with touches of noise experimentalism, John Fahey moments.
Doug'll play out unamplified on the patio.
[ PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ ]
it ain't Taco. Big BJ Rubin (x Ferrari Testarossa) & Kevin The Shea
(x Storm & Stress) play the standards. Sometimes dudes take their
shirts off, be warned. drums and vocals and that's it.
[ ** DIRECTIONS TO THE CAVE ** ]
to get to THE CAVE - take the B61 bus (towards Queens) right over the
Pulaski Bridge and get off at the first stop (11th St & Jackson). the
Cave is on the NW side of the intersection, it has a black and white
sign. go downstairs.
OR - take the G train to 21st St - Van Alst, get out of the Subway
onto Jackson Ave, walk down Jackson away from the big blue Citybank
building, to the intersection of 11th St & Jackson. the Cave is on
the NW side of the intersection, it has a black and white sign. go
downstairs.
OR - take the 7 train from Manhattan to Vernon - Jackson and get out
at the front exit of the station. You'll be on the corner of Jackson
Ave & 50th Ave. Walk down Jackson a block and a half towards the big
blue Citybank building. the Cave is on the NW side of the
intersection of 11th St & Jackson Ave, it has a black and white sign.
go downstairs.
OR - take the E or V train to 23rd St - Ely, get out at the
intersection of 21st St & 44th Drive. Walk down 21st street in the
direction of the C-town, walk about five blocks to Jackson Ave, turn
right, walk about 3 blocks, the Cave is on the NW side of the
intersection of Jackson ave & 11th st, it has a black and white sign.
go downstairs.
OR - bike it over the Pulaski Bridge from McGuiness in Greenpoint,
the Cave's right in front of you when you get over the bridge, black
& white sign, NW corner of Jackson & 11st St. go downstairs.
[ this show was organised by BJ Rubin & Todd P ]
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Thursday June 17th @ THE BROOKLYN LYCEUM
-- Downtown for Democracy presents: WHITE HOUSE NOISE --
-- JAMES CHANCE
---- ENON
------ GANG GANG DANCE
-------- EXCEPTER
-- visuals by MIGHTY ROBOT
-- dj Hisham Bharoocha &
-- dj Scott Mou (Other Music / A.P.T.)
227 4th Ave @ President St | Park Slope, Brooklyn | 718.290.9153
R train to Union St | all ages | $13 advance, $15 @ the door | 8pm
BUY TICKETS @ http://www.downtownfordemocracy.org or 718.290.9153
SUPPORT DOWNTOWN FOR DEMOCRACY & GET RID OF DUBYA
[ DOWNTOWN FOR DEMOCRACY ]
"Downtown for Democracy (D4D) is a political action committee
dedicated to engaging the creative community in the democratic
process, transforming cultural influence into political power. D4D
fundraising will support candidates committed to liberty, social
justice, and participatory democracy, and to educate, register, and
mobilize voters. Our special focus this year is on mobilizing voters
in key presidential swing states in order to defeat George W. Bush."
[ organized by Hisham Bharoocha & Downtown for Democracy ]
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Friday June 18th @ TOMMY'S TAVERN
** AFTER PARTY FOR THE BOWERY BALLROOM !!! SHOW **
* NEW TAAFFE * a late late dance party with !!! [ <-- aka Chk Chk
Chk ]
* dj Justin VanderVolgen from !!! & Outhud *
* dj Tyler Pope from !!! & Outhud *
* dj John XI Pugh from !!!, Monger, & Free Blood *
1041 Manhattan Ave @ Freeman St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 718.383.9699
G Train to Greenpoint Ave, $2 cheap, around about 12 midnight
[ NEW TAAFE ]
$2 BEER! A Heaping Plate Of Steaming House, Electrofunk, Disco,
Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, Bounce, Dub, Glam, & Drug-Heavy Freak Zhit!
Starts around Midnight And Will Most Likely Go Until The Wee Hours.
Cheap Cheap Bar, 'allowed' Smoking, Dancing, Loose Morals, Broken
Glass, Illicit Activities, Sweat, Maniacal Laughter, Darkness... This
Is The New City-State! NEW TAAFFE!!!
[ organized by !!! - http://brainwashed.com/!!!/]
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Saturday June 19th @ TOMMY'S TAVERN
.. X27 & Breaker! Breaker! European Tour Kick-Off Party ..
.. X27
.... Breaker! Breaker!
...... Dirty Projectors (Dave Longstreth from New Haven, Connecicut)
........ Thanksgiving (Adrian Orange from Portland, Oregon)
dj tba
1041 Manhattan Ave @ Freeman St | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G train to Greenpoint Ave | doors 8pm | $5 | 718.383.9699
[ X27 ]
"X27 is currently a three-piece headed by the dynamic duo of Chicago
legends Rikkeh Suhtn on Electric Guitar and Boy Voice and Carmen X on
Bass and Girl Voice. In the mid-nineties Rikkeh led the Chicago No-
Wave pioneers Duotron into explorations of microtonal and
polyrhythmic pop music that blurred idiot with brilliance. In X27,
Rikkeh re-creates the prehistoric haunted swamp feel of his childhood
homeland in Mississippi with catchy pop hooks. Carmen's twisted
vocals and Sub-sonic tidal waves on bass drown the screams of
childhood ghosts and rips a gash in the human psyche. Instinct takes
over, time is obsolete...past present and future become one. Current
drummer is simply known as Drummer X. X (Oran Cannfield of seminal,
experimental band Caroliner, and avant- metal band Dig That Body Up
It's Alive) pounds with more ferocity than a wooly mammoth running
across cracking continents. Together, the three members of X27 spew
caveman mojo with screeching sound-these orgasmic blasts ripping thru
metallic skies boasting futuristic electric fear. X27 put their
listeners in a primordial genius state of mind where they're reduced
to single cell ooze, dividing and splitting and dividing again with
each splintering note. X27's brutal assault weeds out the weak and
only the strongest survive. Fans will crawl away from the speakers
battered, bruised and naked but more alive than ever before." -
Narnack Records. Full length out on Narnack.
*mp3: http://www.narnackrecords.com/mp3/nck7005.mp3
*press: http://www.indieville.com/reviews/x27.htm
*images: http://x27labs.com/photos.htm
[ BREAKER! BREAKER! ]
"The dirgy disco beat continues coursing through new indie circuitry
like a spit-slicked finger jamming on a cracked electric socket. Case
in point: Breaker! Breaker!, a lo-fi art punk band pairing vocals
that crackle with forceful dance commanders and riot girl cheers,
adding tinny synths that appear to be a couple clicks away from
shooting sparks and guitars that churn on a spin cycle of effects.
The Brooklyn band's debut on Velocidrecords sounds like it was
recorded in stark basement warmed only by the body heat drummed up in
the songs--so what B!B! lack in a more complicated, textured sound
they make up for with an organic, excitable energy that paints the
trio to be heroes of the DIY dancefloor. And sometimes that's all you
need to get the party started." - Portland Mercury. full length out
on Velocirecords / Thrill Jockey
*mp3: http://www.breakerbreaker.org/music.htm
*press: http://www.almostcool.org/mr/b/b100mu.html
*images: http://www.breakerbreaker.org/pictures.htm
[ DIRTY PROJECTORS ]
Dirty Projectors is Mr. Dave Longstreth, 20, of New Haven,
Connecticut - one time pop crooner now crooning over computerised
experimental beats and sampled found sounds. The resulting
trnsformation is familiar while all the while more textured and
interesting than the straight on pop Dave used to produce. It's still
chilling though, just more restrained and more mature, and way more
out there. "Dwelling within the emotional ambiguities and
contradictions that have always tortured the sensitive ones, the
Dirty Projectors offer songs bursting with melodies that seem to have
been sent from some beautiful and erratic netherworld. The songs
surprise and deceive, constantly defying our expectations of
emotional and musical resolution." - Western Vinyl. Dave has five
full lengthy albums on as many labels. "This is scary, evocative
music, like an Alan Lomax field recording of a dusty, punk troubadour
from the imaginary past; Kid A covered under 80 years of dust and
gloom, only exchange the robots and clones for forests and abandoned
farmhouses. Dave Longstreth is making his own fucked-up version of
American music." - Dusted Magazine
*mp3: http://www.westernvinyl.com/The%20Dirty%20Projectors%20-%
20Track%2011.mp3
*mp3: http://www.statesrightsrecords.com/mp3s/The%20Dirty%
20Projectors-Hazard%20Lights.mp3
*press: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1012
*press: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/dirty-
projectors/glad-fact.shtml
[ THANKSGIVING ]
Portland, OR's Adrian Orange has been playing shows since he was 10
years old, writing songs since before that, but do not take him for
another Connor Oberst or Ben Lee or even a Dave Longstreth. With an
almost possessed intensity, Adrian writes and sings songs with a
healthy touch of morbidity and overwhelming passion, pared down to
just downward strums on bar chords - stretched together by haunting
lyrics that belie more meaning than his unpretentious delivery could
lead you to believe. be not afraid - there's no emo here though,
these are anthems. For comparison's sake, think a solo Young People,
or an un-cynical Kurt Cobain, or an un-self-indulgent Will Oldham
with restraint - who can sing. Completely uncliched intensity and
sincerity that you will stand in awe over rather than wanting to roll
your eyes, Adrian Orange is a rare singer and songwriter who
effortlessly and uniquely sings and writes songs that sound nothing
like a singer-songwriter. Full length on Phil Elverum's new label
forthcoming.
*mp3: http://www.thepoisondart.com/marriage/sound/now%20it%20is%
20all% 20over%20mp3.mp3
*mp3: http://www.thepoisondart.com/marriage/sound/before%20you%
20died% 20mp3.mp3
*image: http://www.thepoisondart.com/marriage/images/tour1.jpg
*image: http://www.thepoisondart.com/marriage/images/ao.JPG
*press: http://www.adequacy.net/reviews/t/thanksgiving.shtml
*press: http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/61r57.html
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Friday June 25th @ TOMMY'S TAVERN
.. Coptic Light
.... Upsilon Acrux
...... Trance and the Arcade
........ Child Abuse
.. the b-keepers dj consort
1041 Manhattan Ave @ Freeman St | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G train to Greenpoint Ave | doors 8pm | $6 | 718.383.9699
[ organized by Todd P & Zs ]
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Sunday June 27 @ SIN-E
-- Octis
---- Upsilon Acrux
------ Voitch
-------- Child Abuse
-- video projection by Kyle Lapidus
-- the b-keepers dj consort
[ organized by Todd P & Zs ]
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Wednesday June 30 @ TOMMY'S TAVERN
-- Nightmerica
---- Drinker's Purgatory
------ Japanther
1041 Manhattan Ave @ Freeman St | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G train to Greenpoint Ave | doors 8pm | $5| 718.383.9699
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Friday July 16th @ Space TBA
-- SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN (tentative)
---- CHRIS CORSANO / CARLOS GIFFONI / GREG KELLEY trio (tent.)
------ HOTOTOGISU (Sunroof! + Marcia of Double Leopards)
-------- DAVID GROSS / LIZ TONNE duo
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Saturday August 28th @ El Bohemio / La Nortena or somesuch
-- NO NECK BLUES BAND (tentative)
---- SIMON FINN
------ ESPERS
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Saturday August 14th @ Venue TBA
== Lionheart Mirth (from SF)
==== Th'iss (Zach Vonjoo, x Alphabet of Daggers, from SF)
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Monday September 20 @ all ages space TBA
|| the Microphones / Mount Eerie
|||| Calvin Johnson
|||||| WOELV (from Canada)
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more to come very soon.
brought to you with love by Todd P
http://www.toddpnyc.com
― todd p, Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
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