Should I Go #2

Yes, you should. It's healthy. Don't hold it in.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA = BONER

dude - they covered TONE FLOAT

JEWELLED ANTLER presents:

COLE PALME
THUJA
VERDURE

thursday, october 7, 9pm
at amnesia
853 valencia St at 20th
(formerly the chameleon)

Cole Palme has been involved in many great bands over the years,
Factrix, Ohm-a-Revelator & now Spirit Gun, but at the core of all
these projects is his genius songwriting. His cracked
garage/folk/rock meditations performed on voice & Vox bass evoke
everything from Skip Spence & Sky Saxon to Marc Bolan & Red Crayola
up through the Screamers & early Cabaret Voltaire.

Thuja plays sticks & pine cones & flea-market folk-instruments.

Verdure is the solo-moniker for Donovan Quinn (also of Jewelled
Antler groups the Skygreen Leopards & the Cantilever Rainbow).
Verdure spins brilliant surrealist psych-folk/blues epics. His latest
CD Telescope Dreampatterns, released on Camera Obscura this year was
described by one reviewer as "the incompetent ramblings of a madman"
& the "exploration of a deranged and paranoid-schizophrenic mind with
too much time (and too many drugs) on its hands."

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I was so hoping that these were euphemisms for going #2. Especially "Eyes and Arms of Smoke", though "Pengo" gets an honorable mention.

Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core joined Eyes and Arms of Smoke for violin drone jam. Mike Shiflet played dull powerbook drone. Pengo FUCKING cranked their amps to 11 and destroyed everyone in the room with a death knell power noise number (best performance by far). And The SB...shit. Let me just say it must be numbingly boring to be a member of The SB. I think I saw one of them playing with his cell phone during their set, the most entertaining part of which was the drunken fella that kept wanting to shake the little maraca egg thing.

Side Notes: The Noize Show was delayed because everyone wanted to watch some TV program called The Debate (???). Anyway, this waiting period was punctuated by annoying remarks by audience members wanting to know What He Is Talking About and What Does That Mean. I saw who gives a F and let's rock.

The Incredible String Band, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Alasdair Roberts 8PM.

burning star core/pengo in approx. 1 hour. but it will cost me a five dollar and it's like a 23 minute drive. is it worth it.

I can't imagine why not, but warn me if it isn't gonna be worth the drive.

a night of RE-knowns. reconfigurations, new configurations, tons of short-burst performances, something for everyone. all to benefit A|V.

featuring:
fagottista
Ed and Ian Downey (of Blood and Bone Orchestra)
Oni Gosen
Chad Oliveiri, David Merulla (autumn in halifax) and Joe Tunis (pengo, hilkka, joe+n, etc)
Joe+N vs. DummyDestroy
Jon and the Whiteys (members of the Grievants)
and more!!!

Laundry Room Squelchers - www.squelchers.com
The second night got off to a dizzying start. Laundry Room Squelchers, a Florida collective made up of least 15 members (many of them likely temporary), scattered themselves around the fringes of Northsix's main space. After friendly warnings to those unfortunate enough to be standing in the proximity of strategically placed amps, the band attacked their gear. Noisemaker-bearing instrumentalists wove their way through the crowd, dragging audience members into the fray with their trailing cords. The music amounted to little more than a sustained roar, and it all crashed into a splay-legged and unkempt-hair pile in the middle of the floor. To be in the crowd was to not know which way was forward or backward while being swept up in a chaos that had, despite its illusive tameness, moments of real menace. (New York Press / No Fun Fest 2004)

The Squelchers were entertaining, no doubt. But to call it fucking amazing seems absurd to me. Wanna see a bunch drunks with no inhibitions? It's not hard, in fact get drunk sometime and find out how easy it is. Now, if the Squelchers were stone cold sober and acted like scientists or zen priests all night, and THEN the show was exactly like it was, I would call it fucking amazing--that would be a treat. (Quacky and Pidgeys big huge club 4/7/00)

Just a couple days ago I was overhearing these two co-workers talk about music. Hey, it's all music! I can appreciate all types of music, I've got an open mind about it." Oh great, I'm thinking, you've got an open mind! Well, I've got some shit you can borrow by Caroliner Rainbow Stewed Angel Skins, or how about some mp3's by The Laundry Room Squelchers? Or no, no, you've gotta check out this Ilhan Mimaroglu record....What's that, you're not familiar with the 1960s Turkish 'compositions for magnetic tape' scene? Well, it should be perfect for an open-minded music lover like yourself!

Lou Reed did a feedback record that lives on as one of the most reviled discs in the history of rock. Neil Young did one that was, surprisingly, a bit more musical. What makes Laundryroom Squelchers think that anyone would be interested in the same shit without any name recognition? There's nothing musical about a wall of feedback.

An embodiment of obliterated rock and roll from Miami Beach. A disharmonic convergence is derived from traditional instruments, bizarre electronic gadgets, and anything else that might help create some of the most unusual junk sounds this side of a train wreck.

Xela Zaid - website
Xela Zaid is an artist like no other. "A spooky mix of speaking, speak-singing and singing; deep droning, clanging electric guitars; psychedelic accordion; and an unsettling throb" (Jim Santo's Demo Universe)

Leslie Keffer - www.lesliekeffer.com

Coffee
"Coffee are principally David Cross and Tim Poland, an improvising duo who have previously played alongside the likes of Arthur Doyle and Wolf Eyes' John Olson. On Pissing Contest they are joined by Joe Sorriero for an unadulterated squawk session in the tradition of late 60s and early 70s free jazz at its zenith. Recorded in 1996, this storming howl of liberated lung power is massive and impressive. The flip Space 1988 (a piece for electronics, rec. that year) is equally rewarding. Poland and Cross lock into a warbling synthesized duet, into which they float the sound of a treated trumpet to produce a musical hybrid that's part jazz, part Kosmique music" --- Edwin Pouncey (The Wire-December 2004 issue 251)

TUESDAY, JUNE 28
HIVE MIND, WORKBENCH, MALOCCHIO, MR. NATURAL, & APPLE SNAILS: 9 pm, Angle of View, $5

the squelchers came a few days ago. missed it.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
COMETS ON FIRE W/GROWING, ARIZONA DRAINS & DAVE CLOUD'S GOSPEL OF POWER: 9 pm, The End, $8

i'll probably miss hivemind for the cometsonfire/growing/davidcloud joy. i'm going to see the minutemen movie this next week as well.

if you need more info or a tour guide... let me know. gygax and hstencil can vouch that i have no major tentacle lamenesses.
m.

I WISH THEY PLAYED "WHERE TEH FUCK IS IAN JOH5ON?"!!

why can't i help but think of mudhoney?
m.

Still a good term for taking a shit, imo.

The Red And The Black*
O.D.'d on Life Itself
Burnin' For You
E.T.I.
Shooting Shark
Buck's Boogie
Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll
Then Came The Last Days of May
Godzilla
Don't Fear the Reaper
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Hot Rails to Hell
Dominance and Submission

*I can't believe they didn't open with "Stairway to the Stars"! They ALWAYS open with "Stairway to the Stars"!! Kind of a truncated set though; no "ME262" no "Career of Evil" no "Joan Crawford". I actually found myself enjoying "Shooting Shark" a fairly lame song from the crappy Revolution By Night lp; this new kid they got playing drums is great, he really made the song.

normally i would say, "hellnoareyoudumbmsp?"

but i've been thinking... ozzy's gettin old. i may not get to see sabbath except through ozzfest. it'd be fun to see maiden. and then there's MASToDon. most of the rest of the bill can eat a pita, but...

eh. dang that's a lot of dough. washed up?
m.

the lineup is pretty dire...

if i could see sabbath, maiden, and mastodon... the crap/lawn seats would be an okay price.
m.

my head is obviously in the sand.

somebody shoot me.
m.

eh, maybe the tour is a gag. ?

that would be almost fitting actually.
m.

?

crowd was 90-95% noize dudes, I think