June 15 WMUA 91.1fm Free Summer Kick-Off Concert: These Are Powers, Golden Cities, Hadoken & Fossil Mtn.

WMUA 91.1fm is launching off the summer season with a free avant-garde rock concert on Monday, June 15th at the Earthfoods Cafe in the UMass Campus Center. The line-up features UMass' resident soundscapers Hadoken, the debut performance by Amherst instrumental punk melody-makers Fossil Mountain, psychedelic post-rock from Houston's Golden Cities, and is headlined by Brooklyn's experimental dance-deconstructionists These Are Powers. Fresh off their tour of China and now traversing the East Coast to promote their latest album All Aboard Future, These Are Powers combine elements of noise, electronic, psychedelic and punk into a heavy sonic assault that promises a memorable live show.

The show will start at 8pm, doors will open at 7:30. Mark your calendars and help us spread the word about this free, exciting evening of underground rock and roll. Please contact publicity@wmua.org or visit www.wmua.org for more information.

These Are Powers
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website: www.thesearepowers.com
press kit: http://www.deadoceans.com/press/thesearepowers/thesearepowerspress.php

Golden Cities
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website: www.myspace.com/goldencities

Fossil Mountain
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website: http://www.myspace.com/fossilmountainband

Hadoken
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www.myspace.com/surgefist

Phantom Brain Exchange #18

Montague Phantom Brain Exchange #18
Wednesday, May 27th, 9pm Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376

Chris Corsano
Exusamwa
lecture by Dr. Abby Drake
DJ Angela Weirdo Sawyer
videos by Carrie Bren

Running of the Lampreys season is upon us and that means the american
shad, atlantic salmon, grey sloped seasquid, rite aid shopping carts,
& rare vhs tapes are valiantly bumbling up the Connecticut River in
search of some sexual healing. You've got until June to climb into
the Fishway Viewing Facility, so don't miss it:
http://www.firstlightpower.com/stewardship/fish.asp

after that, put on your helmet & come out to see this spectacle:

Percussion wunderkind Chris Corsano will delight you with his
multi-tentacled razzmatazz for drumkit, tubes/reeds, bells/bowls,
bows/strings and whatever friggin crap he decides to alchemize for his
golden arsenal against evil. Yeah he's played all over the world in
wild and wooly improvising combos of countless illustrious
freejazzers, sonic youthers, merzbowers, & bjorkers, but the real out
of body rituals happen when he stirs the tornado solo.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22chris+corsano%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Ukulele powered synth drum pop performance splatter club force beast
warrior from untold dimensions, Exusamwa, have a name that their own
members refuse to pronounce correctly. What we know is that they hail
from Boston/Cambridge area, have members of such grand units as Fat
Day, Goat of Arms & Life Partners AND that one of them, Angela Sawyer,
runs the very swell Weirdo Records shop & mailorder. She will be
multitasking this evening by also playing odd vinyl selected by a very
bossy episcopalian cockatiel.
http://home.comcast.net/~exusamwa/Exusamwa.html
http://www.weirdorecords.com/

Dr. Abby Drake will present her talk "Hopeful Monsters: The
Evolutionary Biology of Dogs," where she'll discuss species concepts,
evolution, skulls and love. Dr. Drake got her PhD 2004 from Umass
Amherst, did postdoc work at the University of Manchester (UK), and
more recently taught for two years at the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. Get your woof on.

Lastly but not leastly, wmass hilltowner Carrie Bren will present a
few of her short video works detailing the chattery decaying spaces of
digital video downloads, with spectacularly smearing colors from
grotesque representations & maligned pixels.

uh, Yeay!

2 show listings!

when: May 22 9pm
where: The Elevens (140 Pleasant St. Northampton MA)
description:
THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS - "sad songs about running away to, and from, cold geographic locations."
http://www.myspace.com/theeverydaytrialsandtribulationsofaltar

SLOWEST RUNNER - "...an intricate, rollercoaster sort of noise, noise that spits and buzzes and murmurs and trills, and to create it, they use cello, piano, cymbals, bass, guitar, harmonica, and long, spiraling electronic loops."
http://www.myspace.com/slowestrunnerinalltheworld

HADOKEN - ". . .contemplative; this ensemble rise and fall with grace, and dwell thoughtfully, meditatively within each step of each journey. careful and pleasant at times, violent and hair-raising at others"
http://www.myspace.com/surgefist

DUST SAVIOR (ella longpre) - murder chain gang gospel. Emotionally exhausting and bittersweet. If Flannery O' Connor was a corn-husk-voiced songsmith... well I guess it probably wouldn't sound like this.
http://www.myspace.com/ellalongpreasherself

THE ACCIDENT THAT LED ME TO THE WORLD - clarinet-upright bass-guitar-banjo Appalachia tinged with an underlying grimness, always threatening to spiral out of control, but somehow always kept barely at bay...
http://www.myspace.com/tatlmttw


21+
5 bux





when: May 25 9pm
where: The Elevens (140 Pleasant Street Northampton, MA)
description:

TRACHYPITHECENE ENTITY - lofty Portland, ME gobbling. "roughness, spewed forth by a post-ape, warped, convoluted regurgitations of predetermined musical antimatter."
http://www.myspace.com/trachypithecus

SYLPHID - Twitching beats and twinkling dreamscapes fashioned from soda cans, celery sticks, broken lampshades, analog synths, xylophones, glockenspiel and whatever else they feel like bringing
http://www.myspace.com/sylphidband

HORNWORM - the itchy sound of being quietly, slowly, eaten from the inside out. A rare live set from Dan Kandel.
http://www.myspace.com/theehornworm

TWENTY-THREE - breathlessly minimal but somehow kaleidoscopic web of icy, throbbing. Foreboding but captivating. Think Philip Glass circa Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.myspace.com/23theband

THE AWFUL DIN - fuzzed out nostalgia. The sound of bittersweet memories, all rough edges rounded and smooth, like a photograph in the attic eaten by insects and faded by the sun.
http://www.myspace.com/wmexistmusic

21+
5bux

Multimedia Show Thursday, 5/14 at Easthampton Mill

featuring solo sets by:

Vic Rawlings/Chris Cooper Duo
Cellist from BSC without Cello + Coopertronics

Steve Norton - Reeds
Saxophonist from Either/Orchestra

Peter Bonos - Trumpet

Film/Art/Sound by Ted Lee/No Sound

Film by Zach Iannazzi

9pm
$2 Donation

Feeding Tube Records
Suite 235 (2nd Floor)
Paragon Arts and Industry Building
150 Pleasant St.
Easthampton, MA

TONIGHT

You know what else? The Unnamed Ones, the Techno Band Shrouded in Mystery, They Who Don't Understand Why No One Dances at Their Shows Until They Listen Back to the Recordings, Pantherboobs, White Candyland, Josh V Jess G and Chris C, whatever you want to call it...

we're adding our own lemon garnish to this slice of springtime freshness:

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WHOARFROST will be performing @ 61 pelham road in Amherst (zip code 01002) on Saturday, may 9th. There will be a keg. There will be cups for purchase @ $5 a piece. This party will begin at 9 pm. There will be other bands. These other bands include (but aren't limited to):

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW: a vocalized sax ROCK LOVE sesh myspace.com/tomorrowtomorrowtomorrow

Bibleoteca: Amherst local sloppy prog (fuck tight prog like dream theater) myspace.com/bibleoteca

There will also be a few DJ sets and as always, you can get down (to get up) on the motherfucking trampoline in our backyard!

NOISE NOMADS LIVE ON VALLEY FREE RADIO 103.3 FM TONIGHT

NOISE NOMADS on 103.3 FM VALLEY FREE RADIO at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. Streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org

listen in.