Sunday VG MILL Matinee

show will be at the VG MILL in Holyoke
5:00pm bring some dinner
email chris dooley dj12xu@yahoo.com for address/details

Big Kids - feral VT hardcore rippers...new guitarist from Moscow Mule
Punk Rock Boys - on tour from Germany/five vocalists/cover band/wild card
Zebu! - western mass/nyc - 28'' kick drum: oooh loud!
Crystalline Roses - nice!
one more act too i think....


do Germans take dollars?
JA!


later....

TOINIGHT

tonite sat 11.28
bank row studios
4 federal street
greenfield, MA

the warblers
manuel mota
mv & ee with the golden road (corsano/rongoose)
witch

7:30

Witch

Hey in case anyone does not know, Witch is playing with a few other bands at the Elevens on Friday night. Hope y'all had a happy Turkey Birthday Party.

Wednesday Night Jams!

www.peaceandrhythm.com

I'll be filling in for the esteemed Victor Signore on "Tabula Rasa". I've been long a fan of this eclectic radio show broadcast Wednesday nights at WMUA.org. Victor mixes up various ideas on sound, from abstract percussive avant-garde to "ethnic" folk the world over, with some saxophone blowouts, heavy grooves of all sorts and various nuttiness. I'll be doing an extended version starting at 530pm (ET) and running it until 8. Yulin's show "No Enemy" precedes and "Auditory Magic" follows. Expect to hear some local noise, international psych, Xenakis, death metal, free jazz, Oum Kalthum and other surprises. The playlist will be posted to this blog. Thanks Victor for allowing me the pleasure.



And how about the dancing crowd!!!! There will be a serious killer jam at the Hope & Olive at 9pm. I'll be joined by DJ 12XU for some all-vinyl enlightenment. The Hope & Olive is a real fun place with a good crowd. Enthusiastic and supportive...and a great beer menu I might add! We'll be bringing all vinyl (as usual!) of your favorite classics and some underknown records that are great for dancing. This will be a gem of a night, no doubt. We'll be spinning funk, bugalú, funky hip-hop, new wave, salsa, Motown, garage, afrobeat, some punk & reggae...and who knows what else! It's no cover and a cool spot with plenty of parking. And Happy Birthday to Jim, Sarah, and the other three or so birthdays that I'm sure I'll be toasting Wednesday night. Cheers!



And for those that feel the Turners side of things, keep in mind the trip that is the Montague Phantom Brain Exchange (#23...the pre-Thanksgiving Relaxation Station) will be transmitting with a special local DJ hobknob featuring MPBE curator Cloaca, Rob Forman, Ansel (from upstairs) and more. Interested parties should come thru with wax in hand. That'll be running from 9 til 1 at the Rendezvous in Turners Falls (3rd St & Ave A).



So there's lots of options for your holiday preparation. And no, I don't do that thing.

Tonight @ John Doe Jr.

Friday November 20th
John Doe Jr. Records, Books & More
269 Main St. Greenfield, MA

If you haven't been up here yet, there is no excuse anymore. Totally unhip, completely bizarre records that you will not find anywhere else plus local noise LPs and tapes (bring your own for consignment). Show starts around Eight PM or whatever, for real.


White Limousine, Impatient Truck plus Special Guest
Chris Cooper, Jess Goddard & Joshua Vrysen

Rotten Apples
members of Dreamhouse & Exusamwa from Boston

Child Bride
she does spooky samples, beats & noise....frome B'more

Cave Bärs
multi-generational talent show tonite only! music I hope

Sord
sharp songs ultra lo-fi piano and drums from Brattleboro


Feel free to BYOB

MOVIE POSTERS FROM GHANA - EXHIBITION

Hand Painted Movie Posters from Ghana
Storefront Project Room
80 Race Street, Holyoke MA
by appointment through Dec. 5, 2009
Closing reception: Saturday Dec. 5, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Contact: Nancy Sachs 413-330-4505

Three Holyoke exhibition spaces: The Storefront Project Room at 80 Race Street; The Parsons Hall Project Space at 360 Dwight Street; and the Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College are pleased to present hand painted Ghanaian movie posters from the collection of Michelle Gilbert.

In conjunction with the closing reception on Saturday Dec. 5, 7:00 - 10:00 PM, additional posters and a video will be exhibited next door at The Parsons Hall Project Space, 360 Dwight St., Holyoke. (413)-265-8321- holyokeresearch@verizon.net
http://parsonshallprojectspace.blogspot.com/

Starting in the 1980s, entrepreneurial operators traveled with video recorders and TV sets to rural Ghanaian villages. Creating makeshift movie houses, often in tents or open air cinemas, they showed violent and often bloodthirsty films on televisions run with generators. Though many were films from America and Asia, most of the posters seen in this exhibition were created to promote the Nigerian made films. Hand painted on the backs of flour sacks by local Ghanaian artists they combine elements of traditional African art and modernity. The artists, in their own styles, often painted these posters before seeing the film themselves. Sometimes they referenced images from the accompanying tape jackets to create these bold and often gruesome advertisements. Many of the images are purely from the artists imagination and may not appear in the film at all. The more shocking the poster, the more likely a show would sell seats. The canvases are tattered and faded from their use to promote the movie as it traveled from village to village. Some of the flour sacking labels bleed through to the front, and some have stitching or patches of odd cloth. This intriguing twist on form and function only adds to the beauty of this dying art.

Today mass- produced paper posters are replacing the hand-painted posters in Ghana. This exhibition offers a peek into that disappearing art form as well as an opportunity to purchase the work. Each poster will be available for sale for $350.00.

Michelle Gilbert teaches anthropology and art history at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY. Since 1976 she has done fieldwork in an Akan kingdom of southern Ghana on art, religion and politics on which she has written many articles.

Because Friday's the beginning of the weekend

There's also this.

the Epicureans LOVE YOU---Fo Real

Boston Sex Sax Transplant Dave Gross Brings It With Two Current Bostonians Ricardo Donoso and Ryan McGuire.

Ohhh the deets, you want? Yeah got those.

9 PM Friday November 20th Hampshire College Tavern (893 West St. In Prescott Mods)

The Epicureans
Landlords (heavy industrial/power electronics)
Family Treasures (Danny Moore's Trippy Noise Ambiance)

Maybe some locckals to be annouced

FREEE

FLYWHEEL WORK PARTY weekly

Hello Friends and Acquaintances,

Just a reminder of the Flywheel weekly work party this Thursday the 19th at 7:30pm.

For those of you who don't know, or have forgotten, we are having weekly work parties every Thursday night at 43 Main Street in Easthampton at 7:30pm until we open again.

Tasks for this week....
There is still plenty of painting to do and some other small things. Attendance has slipped since our first painting party a few weeks ago, so please come along, and bring a friend, so we can knock out the painting and get the floors done next! With most of the professional work done, getting Flywheel open is mostly in our hands. Lets do this y'all.

WMUA Fall Vinyl Sale

click for larger poster

www.WMUA.org

"Aaltra" this Sunday @ Hampshire College, 7pm

Every Sunday at 7pm in the new film/photo building at Hampshire College I show an installment of the Contemporary French Cinema series. Sadly, next Sunday is the last one, but it's going to be good! The film is a strange comedy by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. I was introduced to these two by a cinema professor in Paris. He encouraged me to go see their newest film, "Louise-Michel." But he cautioned that it was "un peu trash." The same goes for their first film, "Aaltra."

Dan H

http://danhblog12.blogspot.com/

Hey Hampshire College Friday Night

Early Show (Should be near rapping up around the time the Carsick Cars Show Starts) 6:30 Sharp Centrum Gallery on Top of Donut 1 in Greenwhich... 7 Dollars
Wham City Crew Rolls Through Deep

Dj Dog Dick
http://www.myspace.com/thedogdick

Adventure
http://www.myspace.com/adventuresound

Ed Schrader
http://www.myspace.com/edwardhenryschraderiii

Later Show at Dining Commons

NIGHT OF CHINESE POST-PUNK

CARSICK CARS (China)
WHITE (China)
POP. 1280 (NYC)
PINK REASON (NYC)
+TBA

8 PM
$7

Awesome, right?

Sweet Exorcist...This Coming Friday with Guests DJs 12XU and Victor

www.peaceandrhythm.com

We'll be returning Friday the 13th, 10pm to the People's Pint, downtown Greenfield for our monthly all-vinyl bash. DJ B-COMING is out of town still, so Andujar and Snack Attack will be joined by DJ 12XU and WMUA's Victor Signore (Tabula Rasa). It's free, all ages (21+ to drink), all vinyl and starts at 10pm. Ends at 1. Kitchen closes at 10 so come early to eat.

(click poster to see it big)

Grooves: funk, soul, afro, bugalú, rocksteady, garage, maybe a l'il psych, maybe a l'il hiphop, maybe a l'il punk...we'll see!

For more info: bombasticos@yahoo.com

poster by George Myers, who has a new podcast episode up here.

Capoeira Fundraiser Tonite

Omulu Guanabara Capoeira presents:World Beat Dance Party!
Saturday, Nov. 7th, 2009
We'll start the evening off with a short Capoeira Roda, if you haven't seen Capoeira this is the time!
Roda Starts at 8:30pm. Bring your friends
Our featured DJ will spin music from all over the world

WHEN? 8PM, Nov. 7th.
WHERE? at the North Star building, 135 Russell St., Hadley MA
Preshow Tickets call 413-386-8316
$5 donation, dress to impress, come early/stay late.
Beverages and snacks too.

Weds 11/11 - Comfort Systems reading/playing

at the United States / Turners Falls Rendezvous institution
Wednesday, November 11, 8:30 PM "sharp"

READERS
-- PAUL JENKINS
-- KYLE FLAK
-- QUENTIN MOORE
PLAYERS
-- RACK RASH etc.
-- WE LOVE YOU (dave gross, mike bullock, polly hanson)

come to it! $5 recommended donation!

Flywheel Record Fair this Sunday 10-3

43 main st street, easthampton, come early, bring money!

Co-Op Valley! Event at Food For Thought

Title of Event: Co-op Valley! The Worker Co-operative Movement in the Connecticut River Valley
When: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: Food for Thought Books Collective
Description:
A Book Presentation & Fundraiser
with old-time music by Sweaty Buttons

Are you looking for a dose of economic hopefulness and good news? Come learn about the growing critical mass of worker co-ops in our region and globally, as described in the forthcoming book, CO-OP VALLEY! THE WORKER CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY.

Written by a five-person team of researchers and members of the Valley Alliance of Worker Coops (VAWC) (the authors are Janelle Cornwell, Julie Graham, Michael Johnson, Adam Trott, and Karen Werner), CO-OP VALLEY! describes the past and present of the worker co-operative movement while spotlighting existing Valley Co-ops. The book also includes steps for building a fair trade cooperative economy, drawing on the inspiring examples of Mondragon, Quebec, and the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

To raise funds for the book's production, we will be selling advance purchases at the event. CO-OP VALLEY! is an engaging read, a strategic tool, and a movement builder -integral to VAWC's mission, which is to serve as a development organization for worker co-operatives in our region, growing new co-ops, providing technical know-how, and helping to build a vibrant democratic and co-operative economy.

Sweaty Buttons, an old-time band made up of members of the local worker co-op Pedal People, will play its unique blend of melancholy and toe-tapping tunes.



www.foodforthoughtbooks.com

This Thursday, Nov 5th

Layne Garrett on tour from D.C. will be performing works for prepared guitar.

Belltonesuicide will me performing works for prepared racket.

Barn Owl will have a timpani and chalk dust.

Serivtor will be using children's toys, pots, pans, and a loop pedal.

@ grey matter books, 47 West St. Hadley MA
8pm doors. $5

www.greymatterbookstore.com