Hey, tonight

tonight, 8-10pm @ the basement
we will be jamming a healthy holiday noise show with:

M Ax Noi Mach (philly's phinest)
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase (cooper solo prepared guitar)
Keiren Lally (horse spirit penetrates)
and Sharkee Katz on the mic.

afterwards, 10pm-2am Dan and George will be spinning
funk, soul, motown and 'oldies' (a new weekly night)
and it'll be a great time.
hope to see you there!

the basement is downtown, northampton,
next to/behind the police station. 21+ no cover (donations!)

why be bored?

wed 12/3...Rumba Psicodelica! salsa, funk, afro, reggae, cumbia, soul, bugalu, etc....with djs andujar & studebaker hawk. 9pm until 1am. $3, 21+...at the Rendezvous, 78 3rd st, turners falls...info: bombasticos@yahoo.com

sun 12/7...comedy open mic, hosted by shawn smith, 8pm (sign-up by 730). free, at the Rendezvous, 78 3rd st, turners falls...this is a monthly event, the first sunday of every month. december's featured comic is bill murphy. for more info call: 413-330-1055

thu 12/11...parts & labor, ampere, greyskull and others at hampshire college red barn....more details please?!

fri 12/12...Flashlight dance party...disco/funk/afrobeat with the cohen brothers and special guest andujar. 9pm until 1am. $3, 21+...at the Rendezvous, 78 3rd st, turners falls...info: bombasticos@yahoo.com

fri 12/19...Sweet Exorcist...funk, soul, afrobeat, reggae, etc with djs snack attack and andujar (plus one TBD). 10pm until 1am. all ages, free (donations encouraged). at the people's pint, federal st, downtown greenfield. great beer made by the venue!! info: bombasticos@yahoo.com

don't forget weekly radio shows:
clandestino...WMUA.org 91.1 fm, umass...hard funk/salsa dura/afrobeat/dub/soul/etc. every monday 230-430pm hosted by andujar. on air phone line 413-545-3691. playlists at www.myspace.com/peaceandrhthm, listen at www.wmua.org or at 91.1

the alter-destiny...with andujar and ben. underground sounds--garage/noise/psych/avant/punk and more. every monday 6-8. send in yr music for play. WMCB 107.9 greenfield low-power community radio serving greenfield, turners falls, and deerfield area. more info: www.myspace.com/alterxdestiny or bombasticos@yahoo.com


and while we're talking g-field radio...can't forget this excellent program...
"5th world radio", every monday 4-6pm on WMCB greenfield. hosted by sem dente focussing on local happenings, as well as international sounds--afrobeat, hip hop, afro-cuban, jamaican and more! info: www.wmcbfm.blogspot.com

Record fest, record fest

With the holiday season quickly approaching, WMUA 91.1fm offers the greater Amherst community an opportunity to find the perfect gift for the audiophiles in your life. On December 6th, WMUA will host our 1st Annual Record Fest, featuring vinyl vendors and labels from all over New England and the East Coast selling quality records, CDs, movies and ephemera. A wide selection of new and used genres and price ranges will be offered, so whether you're a casual listener looking to dust off the old turntable or a vinyl enthusiast searching for that obscure, out of print title, there will be something to satisfy your tastes. And as our gift to you, there will be free, live musical entertainment and DJ sets throughout the day, including performances by electronic artist Eric Hnatow, post-punk from Rabbit Rabbit, psychedelic pop courtesy of Brown Recluse Sings, and drums and drones from Baltimore rockers Teeth Mountain.

The 1st Annual Record Fest will take place on December 6th from 10am - 3pm in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union Center at UMass Amherst. Proceeds from this event will benefit WMUA 91.1fm, UMass Amherst's not-for-profit student and community-run music, sports and news radio station. Give the gift of hi-fi music to your friends, family or yourself this holiday season, and support college radio in the process!

Likely pretty neat

Ain't we got fun?

Connecticut Valley Improvisers League
Reuinion Show!

Rich McGhee and Cliff White-reeds
J. Starpoli-trombone
w/special guest Ben Karetnick-drums

all ages-donations appreciated
Tuesday, Nov. 25th 10pm at the Peoples Pint federal st. Greenfield

& also

Comedy Open Mic !


Hosted by Shawn Smith
First Sunday of every month
8 pm


At The Rendezvous in Turners Falls
78 Third Street


Starting December 7th 2008

Sign up starts at 7:30 pm

Dec.7th Featuring Bill Murphy
Jan.4th tba

Take that, fascists! Socko! Wham!

screening w/ filmmaker presenting @ Amherst Cinema

Filmmaker John Gianvito in Person!
at Amherst Cinema
Plays Wednesday, 11/19 at 7:00 only
With introduction from the director!

"A note at the end of John Gianvito’s Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind cites A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, as the film’s source and inspiration. But while Mr. Zinn’s book is a passionate and partisan chronicle of American radicalism, Mr. Gianvito’s 58-minute documentary strikes a quieter, more elegiac tone. There is no narration, and virtually no living human beings appear on screen. Instead Profit Motive contemplates the violence and struggle of the past by examining the markers and monuments that turn up in graveyards and roadsides across the country. The calling of birds and the rustle of trees provide most of the commentary, and the effect is somehow to make history more mysteriously distant and more concrete — a matter of stone and weathered plaques inscribed with the records of half-forgotten deeds." - A.O. Scott, NY Times

Director John Gianvito, 2007. 58 mins.
(This screening is a DVD Projection)

Presented in cooperation with the film studies seminar on 1968 and the Social Change Colloquium: 1968 at UMass Amherst

weeken' Freakin' NOV 14 - 17

Junk for the Valley:

FRI NOV 14
10pm @ People's Pint. Federal St Greenfield, MA
Sweet Exorcist: DJ's Andujar & Snack Attack spinning hard funk afrobeat reggae w/ special guest MoCro.

or

all over Northampton: THIS STUFF

or

8pm ish @ King Street Manor, 113 king st Northampton, MA
Heaven People, Jow Jow the Death Knell Rung, Janel & Anthony.

Heaven People - Glide yer canoe on a mirror-smooth twilight lake and furcate yr mind in eight shimmering realms of perfect symmetry. With a forthcoming album from Ecstatic Peace these cats are awesomeawesome-oh-by-giddly-gawd-awesome.

Jow Jow the Death Knell Rung - Locally grown strains of Bunwinkie, Red Favorite, Feather, and Whyte Kastle barley reaped by way of International Harvester then fermented and filtered in the kindly counter-cultural tank of Easthampton's Time Machine. Imbibe of the magic antler!

Janel and Anthony - A solemn soundtrack for a slow-motion world in flames, throes of rebirth or some transfigured, entwined and living transmission of both radiating with graceful aplomb.

SAT NOV 15
9pm @ Purple House 109 Bridge St. Northampton, MA
Little Women, Yukon, White Suns, Skinny Vinny, AO Groupuscule

LITTLE WOMEN (members of ZS, Extra Life)
"Little Women is terrifying. Their first full-length, Teeth, is the kind of stuff that haunts Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor in their worst nightmares. The Brooklyn quartet's saxophone bleats, beyond-angular guitar lines and purposeful, spastic drumming commands attention...you'll find incredible form and structure and even hints at traditional bebop tonality within Little Women's incredibly dense walls of sound, which effectively separates them from the bulk of free jazz/noise acts...Anyone who has seen this live has first-hand knowledge of terror." - Impose magazine

YUKON (members of Extra Life)
Three-piece masterpiece from Baltimore. Tight as fuck, loud as shit. Engagingly 90's in all ways. The last time Yukon came to Hampshire it snowed two days later...

WHITE SUNS
NME thinks that White Suns sounds like "wolf eyes covering 'confusion is sex'-era sonic youth". But anyway, it's really epic music from Wesleyan and the apts. of Brooklyn. BYOB

SKINNY VINNY
The duo of Skinny Vinny has been making music and playing together since 2002. Inspired by speed chess, fast art, and all things Duchamp, Josh Jefferson and Andrew Eisenberg work together to define, refine and otherwise extend their understanding of music. Andrew Eisenberg plays percussion on an assortment of modified drum parts that he has reduced and eroded thru a process of playing and breaking them. Josh Jefferson plays alto sax and bass clarinet.Over the years he has focused more on abstract sounds and extended techniques and is always in constant pursuit for the abstract unknown.

STARPOLI, BONOS, YOUNG (AO Groupuscule)
Jeremy Starpoli, Peter Bonos and Neil Young. Trombone, trumpet, percussion.

SUN NOV 16
8ish? @ Tinderbox, Brattleboro, VT
Little Women, Yukon, Fat Worm of ERror

MON NOV 17
5:30pm @ Hampshire College Main Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Greil Marcus Lecture on "Masters of War"

and then

8ish? @ Tinderbox, Brattleboro, VT
Uke of Spaces Corners

two art shows worth checking up thru dec...

group show at Umass Amherst AND Bauhaus Modern show, both up until December 7th, 2008.

Angela Zammarelli, (pictured installation) will be performing in the space on Thurs afternoons..
check angela's work at flickr.com/photos/azammarelli

The gallery is called Hampden Gallery and it is located in the Southwest Residential Area. The hours are noon to 5 Monday - Thursday and Sunday 2 - 5. I will be performing on Thursday afternoons for the duration of the show. The show was juried by David Gibson and Klaus Postler. The other artists in the show are Cortney Andrews, Matt Bollinger, Willson Cummer, Liz Chalfin, Lisa Elmaleh, Meghan Gordon, Asia Ingalls, Deb karpman, Elizabeth Kellogg, Sara Klar, Jamie M. Lee, Dot Szemiot, Ruth Waldman

and at the Smith Art Museum, some historical goodness w/ the Bauhaus Modern show, info:

http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions/bauhaus/

THREE! shows in Amherst this weekend

FRI NOV 7
9pm $5
hampshire college prescott tavern
893 west st amherst ma 01002

KURT WEISMAN (Important Records. formerly of Feathers)
EVENINGS (Detroit's Miles Hainey, TAPEWORM TAPES head honcho)
SLITHER (Chris Pottinger and Heath Moreland of SICK LLAMA/FAG TAPES fame)
BELLYBOAT (something poplike)
WAVEHEAD (No Shirt Lifters)
and more...

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SAT NOV 8
7pm donations
Mystery Train Records
178-A n Pleasant Amherst, ma 01002

DREDD FOOLE (returns to the valley-solo-!)
MUSHMOUTH (George Myers)
PAK ( both finally back from Europe...)
ZEBU ("Bag of Sand" lp release)

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SUN NOV 9
6PM Free
Earthfoods Cafe Umass Amherst

RELICS
BELLTONE SUICIDE
THE EAR THE EYE THE ARM
TIME FENCE

psycho grooves

in TF, brilliant beats & supreme ear expansion w/ knowledgeable selectors.

...or, if you're down in northampton, you could scope these live canoodlings: