Friday February 29th
2042 Main St. Apts. 3 & 6
Three Rivers, MA
6pm, Donationz
Windmill
Zac Johnson & the Yankee Entertainer
belltonesuicide
Radioactive Prostitute
The Ear The Eye The Arm
Saturday March 1st
Tinderbox,
Brattleboro, VT
9pm, Some dough.
belltonesuicide
The Chris Dooley Experience
Mind Control
Cave bears
Zairz
Zapruder Tape
We have CDRs and Tapes that will be available at these shows.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sian Alice Group/ Mike Bones/ American Hornets/ Belly Boat
March 1, 9 pm Hampshire Red Barn
SIAN ALICE GROUP (ex Jesus and Mary Chain) -
Excellent new improv rock from the UK.
"The word 'epic' is thrown around quite a bit when speaking of London's Sian Alice Group, and with good reason." - PITCHFORK
"...our favorite new British band." - VICE
"...something as beautiful as this atmospheric, so-long-it's-split-over-two-sides slice of six-in-the-morning wonderment..." - NME, Vinyl of the week
MIKE BONES -
Mike has previously played guitar with The Mighty Flashlight, Damon McMahon and Lizzie Trulie. He's currently in Soldiers Of Fortune, who also include members of Oneida, Home and Oakley Hall.
AMERICAN HORNETS -
Members of Vio/Mire, Cassette Concrete, among others. Come, it's so good!
BELLY BOAT -
Mostly comprised of two voices, some dime store guitar, piano and the breathy squeeze of an accordion, Belly Boat is the sound of joyous inexperience; and where others drown themselves in layers of perfection, Zoe and Silvie let their rough edges charm you until you let them fall away and reveal the pop gems at their center. "
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myspace.com/sianalicegroup
myspace.com/littlemikebones
myspace.com/americanhornets
myspace.com/bellyboats
SIAN ALICE GROUP (ex Jesus and Mary Chain) -
Excellent new improv rock from the UK.
"The word 'epic' is thrown around quite a bit when speaking of London's Sian Alice Group, and with good reason." - PITCHFORK
"...our favorite new British band." - VICE
"...something as beautiful as this atmospheric, so-long-it's-split-over-two-sides slice of six-in-the-morning wonderment..." - NME, Vinyl of the week
MIKE BONES -
Mike has previously played guitar with The Mighty Flashlight, Damon McMahon and Lizzie Trulie. He's currently in Soldiers Of Fortune, who also include members of Oneida, Home and Oakley Hall.
AMERICAN HORNETS -
Members of Vio/Mire, Cassette Concrete, among others. Come, it's so good!
BELLY BOAT -
Mostly comprised of two voices, some dime store guitar, piano and the breathy squeeze of an accordion, Belly Boat is the sound of joyous inexperience; and where others drown themselves in layers of perfection, Zoe and Silvie let their rough edges charm you until you let them fall away and reveal the pop gems at their center. "
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myspace.com/sianalicegroup
myspace.com/littlemikebones
myspace.com/americanhornets
myspace.com/bellyboats
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Great Snowball Tour TONIGHT FEB 15
Tonight!
9pm Friday, Feb 15th at 9:00pm
Spring Garden Music and the Creative Music Collective Present:
The Great Snowball Tour
Andrea Neumann/Jack Wright/Vic Rawlings
Barn Owl
Starpoli/Young/Bonos/
Hampshire College Red Barn
Co-Sponsored by Stadtkreis Berlin
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details:
Andrea Neumann - Inner Klavier, Mixing Board,
Jack Wright - Saxophones
Vic Rawlings - Cello and Electronics
As the snowball rolls around the east coast it picks up players who
then melt off, and new additions are joined. For this date, we will
see a one time only appearance of andrea and jack playing with vic
rawlings. We can expect some subltly strange combinations of tones and
sounds coming from a bleated/bloated reed, scraped strings, and
garbled sticks and slips.
Andrea's appearance is made possible with the support of Stadtkreis Berlin
Barn Owl - Matt Weston, Chris Cooper and Andy Crespo. Only sleep
during the day, have excellent sense of hearing, swoop down upon
unassuming field mice, letting out a bone-chilling shriek.
http://www.myspace.com/barnowlrocks
J Phloyd Starpoli - Trombone
Neil A. Young - Percussion
Peter Bonos - Trumpet
From the Mustard cave to your dome. Bring a blanket and a squeeze toy.
9pm Friday, Feb 15th at 9:00pm
Spring Garden Music and the Creative Music Collective Present:
The Great Snowball Tour
Andrea Neumann/Jack Wright/Vic Rawlings
Barn Owl
Starpoli/Young/Bonos/
Hampshire College Red Barn
Co-Sponsored by Stadtkreis Berlin
//////////////////////////
details:
Andrea Neumann - Inner Klavier, Mixing Board,
Jack Wright - Saxophones
Vic Rawlings - Cello and Electronics
As the snowball rolls around the east coast it picks up players who
then melt off, and new additions are joined. For this date, we will
see a one time only appearance of andrea and jack playing with vic
rawlings. We can expect some subltly strange combinations of tones and
sounds coming from a bleated/bloated reed, scraped strings, and
garbled sticks and slips.
Andrea's appearance is made possible with the support of Stadtkreis Berlin
Barn Owl - Matt Weston, Chris Cooper and Andy Crespo. Only sleep
during the day, have excellent sense of hearing, swoop down upon
unassuming field mice, letting out a bone-chilling shriek.
http://www.myspace.com/barnowlrocks
J Phloyd Starpoli - Trombone
Neil A. Young - Percussion
Peter Bonos - Trumpet
From the Mustard cave to your dome. Bring a blanket and a squeeze toy.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Montague Phantom Brain Exchange #2
Says Neil:
Wednesday, February 27th, 9pm Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376
Christopher Weisman
Barn Owl
Pattern Diver
lecture by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Clumsily hosted & Dj-ed by Cloaca
please, read on:
Chris Weisman
New England guitarist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist music teacher Chris Weisman writes pop songs, instrumental music, and improvises, drawing from the radical harmonic invention of The Beatles, Barrett, and jazz; the minimal (not Minimalist) aesthetics of Satie, Calder, Jarrett, Lacy, Japan (as imagined), and Ben Jones (just squint or step back); the fury and unpredictability of Nicholson, Hopper (in Blue Velvet), and Jarrett (again); and the lyrics of Arto Lindsay, Veloso, Robyn Hitchcock and Steely Dan. He also utilizes various music-theory-level limitations such as Limited Pitch Collections other than conventional scales and arpeggios including Nonmusical Patterns (look for his book Nonmusical Patterns and their Musical Uses on Radical Readout), his system My Alphabet, as well as Messiaen's Modes of Limited Transposition. He is currently working on two Beatles books: Tuned to a Natural E (Beatlemusic for Guitar), and Beatles Windows, co-authored with Carlton Davulis. His label (primarily cassette releases) is called Tomorrow Tapes Tonight, a name there are at least three ways of hearing which contains a loose reference to Children of Men and the feeling of Barack Obama.
Barn Owl
Western mass's favorite electro-acoustic improv power trio have been kicking around the pioneer valley for quite some years now. Their sound is full of invigorating and unexpected textures, wild plot twists, and moments of confusing beauty. Matt Weston - tympani/percussion & electronics, Andy Crespo - electric Bass & ample glops of rosin, & Chris Cooper - prepared guitar & electronics.
Pattern Diver
Mike Burakoff a.k.a. Pattern Diver, makes pastoral drones and spare clicky beats while stirring melting digital video projections. He is an avid tinkerer of both soldered-together junkware as well as MAX/MSP + Jitter software. He will invariably will poking at his laptop while your eyes will be glued to the screen.
Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno will be giving a brief talk about the Mayan Calendar & the End of the World Prediction, followed by a reading from his translation of the prophetic Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. An author, translator, painter, & wannabe anthropologist, Christopher has been writing all kinds of stuff about all kinds of things for a very long time. He also probably knows a few secret Montague handshakes as well. ask him.
John Schneider at Hampshire College
Monday, February 18, 2008 7:00pm - 10:00pm Music & Dance Building
Featuring Microtonal music by Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, Terry Riley & Schneider to be performed on Just Intonation Classical guitar, Baritone/Adapted Viola, Electric guitar, National Steel Guitar, and Pythagorean Classical guitar.
Pre-concert lecture/demonstration at 7pm
Featuring Microtonal music by Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, Terry Riley & Schneider to be performed on Just Intonation Classical guitar, Baritone/Adapted Viola, Electric guitar, National Steel Guitar, and Pythagorean Classical guitar.
Pre-concert lecture/demonstration at 7pm
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Friday Feb 29 Leap Year Noise Party
Kites
BenGeorge7
more
sometime that night, prolly early, some $ for bands.
Media Mansion (private residence) South Street Northampton.
BenGeorge7
more
sometime that night, prolly early, some $ for bands.
Media Mansion (private residence) South Street Northampton.
Friday Feb 22nd Bunnies, Fat Worm of Error, Severe Severe & one more TBA
Friday February 22, 2008
Bunnies
Fat Worm of Error
Severe Severe
DEFNEG
10ish, $5ish, 21+, Elevens, Northampton, MA
Bunnies
Fat Worm of Error
Severe Severe
DEFNEG
10ish, $5ish, 21+, Elevens, Northampton, MA
LITTLEWOMENKURTWEISMANPETERBONOSCHRISCOOPER
At Hampshire Tavern, 9pm, February 9:
LITTLE WOMEN - myspace.com/littlewomensounds
(live review) Little Women is a great sort of punk-jazz quartet. The band--2 saxes, guitar and drums--often works with jagged, proggy rhythms. For the improvisations, the band atomizes, constantly splitting up into different mini groups. The guitarist Ben Greenberg (of ZS) plays with a crazy snarling tone and extreme volume, giving the music a real attack feel, and the saxists just completely go for it as well. Tenor player Travis Laplante has an absolutely huge sound, with an apocalyptic-free-jazz meets R&B kind of vibe. the set ended with this amazing coda: the two saxists--the other being the excellent Darius Jones--took off their mouthpieces and just started basically ranting/moaning/emoting into their horns, using the keys to fuck with the sound. It was unsettling and beautiful.
KURT WEISMAN - myspace.com/kurtweisman
Kurt has played with Feathers, Witch, Devendra Banhart and god knows who else. Pitchfork's review:
Sometimes music can sneak up on you like the answer to a prayer you didn't know you had uttered. This self-released CD-R EP on the Vermont collective Feathers own inhouse label is a case in point: it's got the sure, steady acoustic folk fingerpicking and gender-hurdling helium-tinged vocals you might expect from that crew, but it's also got some startling, heavily chopped and processed sound design that refracts the performance into a spectrum of jarring, dazzling shapes. As the melody telescopes in and out of reach behind him, Kurt doesn't just whisper about "a sad, broken heart." He breaks the whisper into pieces, and builds it back. Whoa!
PETER BONOS - www.myspace.com/peterbonos
Hampshire College Div III student Peter Bonos fucks us up with mind-shaking creativity and the presence of a ghost.
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase - Chris Cooper of "Fat Worm of Error" surprise cameo! Elastic strings, warbly moustache.
Be there & square.
LITTLE WOMEN - myspace.com/littlewomensounds
(live review) Little Women is a great sort of punk-jazz quartet. The band--2 saxes, guitar and drums--often works with jagged, proggy rhythms. For the improvisations, the band atomizes, constantly splitting up into different mini groups. The guitarist Ben Greenberg (of ZS) plays with a crazy snarling tone and extreme volume, giving the music a real attack feel, and the saxists just completely go for it as well. Tenor player Travis Laplante has an absolutely huge sound, with an apocalyptic-free-jazz meets R&B kind of vibe. the set ended with this amazing coda: the two saxists--the other being the excellent Darius Jones--took off their mouthpieces and just started basically ranting/moaning/emoting into their horns, using the keys to fuck with the sound. It was unsettling and beautiful.
KURT WEISMAN - myspace.com/kurtweisman
Kurt has played with Feathers, Witch, Devendra Banhart and god knows who else. Pitchfork's review:
Sometimes music can sneak up on you like the answer to a prayer you didn't know you had uttered. This self-released CD-R EP on the Vermont collective Feathers own inhouse label is a case in point: it's got the sure, steady acoustic folk fingerpicking and gender-hurdling helium-tinged vocals you might expect from that crew, but it's also got some startling, heavily chopped and processed sound design that refracts the performance into a spectrum of jarring, dazzling shapes. As the melody telescopes in and out of reach behind him, Kurt doesn't just whisper about "a sad, broken heart." He breaks the whisper into pieces, and builds it back. Whoa!
PETER BONOS - www.myspace.com/peterbonos
Hampshire College Div III student Peter Bonos fucks us up with mind-shaking creativity and the presence of a ghost.
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase - Chris Cooper of "Fat Worm of Error" surprise cameo! Elastic strings, warbly moustache.
Be there & square.
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