Monday, March 29, 2010

TO Valley or NOT TO VALLEY (feeding tube vs EMPAC) (EHO vs TROY) (Silk Flowers vs Josephine Foster)

THIS FRIDAY APRIL 2nd:

Show at Feeding Tube in Easthampton:
Silk Flowers
Infinite Body
Watering Can
Earn

OR if you feel like changing it up & leaving the valley:


http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/newnothing/foster/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=315379639624&index=1

PERFORMANCE
New Nothing: Josephine Foster & Victor Herrero
Friday, April 2, 8 PM
Concert Hall
$15/10/5

In the final New Nothing of the season, two unusual composer/performers offer different, lush takes on the construction the song. Josephine Foster (“a Grace Slick for the 21st century” - Arthur magazine) transforms the spartan poems of Emily Dickinson with her otherworldly soprano. And Victor Herrero performs his wordless songs for the Spanish guitar.

Two sample videos
Josephine Foster: http://vimeo.com/7769724
Victor Herrero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXB2J5eXX7s

Josephine Foster bio:
Josephine Foster is a singer-songwriter from Colorado whose music evokes everything from opera to Tin Pan alley to the folk music of what Greil Marcus calls “the old weird America.” Her albums include There Are Eyes Above (2000), Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (2005),This Coming Gladness (2008), and Graphic as a Star (2009), a song-cycle based on the poems of Emily Dickenson.
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Double Banger

Tonight, Friday March 26th: two houses, two shows, two towns, pretty close.

SEVEN O'CLOCK at DAD CITY 665 west st. amherst
White Crime, Water Golden Girls, Gas Station

NINE O'CLOCK at TOPPING HOLLOW 90 bay rd. belchertown
DJ Dog Dick, Vapor Attack (jeff hartford), Cave Bears, Human Shield, Laura Warholic

this happy camper is going to both

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

last minute poetry alert!!!

Mark Ge & Eliot's Cardinaux are reading tonight at Bishop's Lounge in Northampton
Slamming!

Flier for Sunday Matinee

If you can repost, please do!


Monday, March 22, 2010

a bunch of shows from the Topping Hollow Gang

This Friday March 26th At Topping Hollow (90 Bay Rd Belchertown)

More Madness at the house where ghosts lay--

DJ Dog Dick
Sewn Leather
Vapor Attack
Laura Warholic

April 3rd Red Barn Hampshire College

Mark McGuire (Gtr God of Emeralds, super psych)
Sam Goldberg (Anudder Clevey drone lord)
Telecult Powers (Twin drone freak out from the Clever)
Normal Love (Philly Freak-Rock)
Idea Fire Company (Seasoned W.Mass Synth Slayers)
The Great Drought (Associated with the Great Depression, side part of The Dust Bowl)

April 11th Saga Hampshire College

Perispirit (Boston Droned out Duo)
Brendan Murray (Droned out Laptop Wrangler Shipping Up From Boston)
Jack Callahan (Localed out one man drum soiler)
one more to be announced soon...

April 24th Hampshire College Tavern

The Second Annual Up In Smoke Fest

Round two!

Vialka (France)
Satanized (Philly)
White Suns (Brooklyn)
Pfisters (Baltimore)
Wayward (Baltimore)
Holy Sheet (Providence)
anuder local to be announced soon

Plan Your Sunday Accordingly

Next Sunday the 28th offers:

First, at 2 pm at John Doe, Jr in Greenfield:

Niao - hypnotic synth melodies heavily supported by poly-rhythmic percussion and the voice as an instrument. Comparable to traditional trance/possession ceremony.The group mainly works on experimentation through original composition that is committed to creating its own unique transcendental environment

Spiral Bodies - Enchanted, hazy melodies. Serpentine rock and roll meditations.

*!* North Pole Tapes (Loop-drone and thumb pianos, GFLD's very own!)

!*! Astral Plane Junkies (Hill Town Dementia, psychedelics and slasher flicks)

0, 00 egg, eggs - Drop them and it makes a big mess.

Then at 5 pm at the Elliot St Cafe in Brattleboro:

Tracey Trance, Taterbug, Big Kids + special guests

Finally at 8pm at Diamond Junction Bowling Lanes in Palmer, MA:

"!!!!!!!!!"

----- MAGIK MARKERS (NY)
----- NORTHAMPTON WOOLS (B.Nace defs, T.Moore maybs)
----- MATT KREFTING BAND
----- JACK CALLAHAN

$9 per human. Tell your friends. Do not miss.

Internets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdyuX6r8N2E&feature=related
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/artist.php?id=25

Why not see all three?

Suggested day plan: Arrive at 12:30 at the Hope & Olive in historic Greenfield for a leisurely brunch, etc. You know you wanna.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Double Trouble x 2

Tonight (Saturday, March 20) offers:

Randall Colbourne (drums) / Paul Flaherty (saxes) John Messmer ( dbl bass ) , Kazu Sato (dbl bass ) at: AMHERST UNITARIAN MEETING HOUSE Amherst , MA. , usa. 8:00pm BYOB - for the parking lot.$5

and also:

Grey Matter Books (47 east street hadley mass)
at 8pm


Seijiro Murayama
(one half of ANP with KKNull, recent collaborations with lionel
marchetti. jean-luc guionnet)
Jake Meginsky
Liz Tonne
Jack Callahan

Then on Monday:

At 8, at Grey Matter:

"Mother of Fire contacted me out of the blue from the Midwest and they sound like a mean fuckin' band. Made up of violin/vox, bass, and drums the stir a heady brew of Banshees inspired psych/punk/glam/freakout. New record coming out on De Stijl. http://www.myspace.com/motheroffiremusic


Ancestral Diet is Clare (Caethua, (D)(B)(H), Sports) and Andy (Impractical Cockpit) http://www.saxwand.com


Sord is Brattleboro, VT's ever shifting agenda band. http://www.myspace.com/sordord"

And also at 8 at the Hampshire Dining Commons:

Lucre (Vic Rawlings, Bryan Eubanks, Chris Cogburn)--Big dudes with muscles pounding out instruments that aint quiet right. They from all over the country.

Chris Cooper/Liz Tonne Duo-Big mighties connecting song and dance to rejoice. Singing and guitaring.

Dave Gross--grizzle my shizzle iz a lizze too fizzle.


Make your choices, take your lumps.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Performance/Readings Friday 3/19 @ APE

Cotner, Fitch, Glaser, Otting
Friday, March 19, 7 p.m.
A.P.E. Arts, Ltd. 126 Main St. Northampton

Notnostrums, minutes BOOKS, and UGLY DUCKLING PRESSEnts

A performance by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch with readings by Rachel B. Glaser and Nathaniel Otting to celebrate the respective releases of

Cotner's & Fitch's TEN WALKS / TWO TALKS
& Glaser's HEROES ARE SO LONG

From uglyducklingpresse.com: Ten Walks/Two Talks updates the meandering and meditative form of Basho’s travel diaries. Mapping 21st-century New York, Cotner and Fitch tap their predecessor’s collaborative tendencies in order to construct a descriptive/dialogic fugue. The book combines a series of sixty-minute, sixty-sentence walks around Manhattan and a pair of dialogues about walking—one of which takes place during a late-night “philosophical” ramble through Central Park.

From HEROES ARE SO LONG:

here’s some romance (!)
go stuff your face

("My electric guitar got soft over time")

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Sweet Exorcist Returns Friday 3/19 (With Guests)


Come hang at the People's Pint in downtown Greenfield for our March edition of our monthly Sweet Exorcist. DJs Andujar, B-COMING, 12XU and special guest DJ Urthquake from (New Jersey) will be throwing down funk, garage, soul, reggae, bugalĂș, afro, psych, rap and whatever else is in the crates. The records roll at 10pm, the event is FREE and all ages. It will close at 1 am. That's this coming Friday, March 19th.

More info? bombasticos@yahoo.com

photo by Malik Sidibe

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Tonight at Sierra Grill(e)

Dan writes:

"Hiya ev'rbody!

A little while back Mark Sheehan, the impresario of the Sierra Grille, floated the notion of lining up a Manor-esque bill over yonder on Strong St. A few days later Viking Moses and Redwing Blackbird separately dropped me lines hoping to set up some gigs and, well, I think you know where this is going....

Yes, it gives me great pleasure to announce that tomorrow night (Thursdee) the following folks'll be appearing at the Sierra Grille:

Viking Moses - Mr. Brendon Massei has touched countless lives since dropping out of high school to pursue musical life on the road. Not only has he collaborated with such folks as Vetiver, Orion Rigel Dommisse, Nat Baldwin, Paul Oldham, Greg Weeks, Otto Hauser and countless others, he was also there to bring Jana Hunter on her first tour and gave John McCaulley III a full-blown case of tour AIDS. Joining him on this swing through western MA will be the eternally charming Ms. Laura Goetz of Golden Ghost. Serious soul shall abound!

Redwing Blackbird - Composed of the core duo of one Austin Wright/Eric Gagne and accompanied by an ever shifting array of musical friends, RWBB will manifest itself as a quartet this outing. You may be pleased to learn that Christine Hayward, who melted hearts and loins at the Manor last month, will be lending her voice to the cause on this outing. And there'll Jeff Murphy's standup bass stylings rounding out the mix. Huzzah!

Out Like Lambs - I don't know much about these cats, but they hail from New Jersey and, from the sounds of it, they'll kick out some expansive jams.

Tongue Oven - Me, Desi and Mark Hanson (Hornworm, Jow Jow, Supreme Dicks, Bunwinkies) will redfine the meaning of folk power trio before your very ears. It's also rumored that one Ms. Candace Hope will be lending some newfound cello skills to the mix.

Show starts at 10 sharp and it's 3 bux at the door.

You can find the shindig at 41 Strong St., Northampton

See you tomorry!

Dan"

Saturday, March 6, 2010

TONIGHT IN GREENFIELD

Whyte Kastles
Sound of Pot (Conrad Capistran)
No Sound (Ted Lee)
Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth

John Doe Jr. Records
269 Main St. Greenfield
7:00 PM

come by earlier, have a drink/burger at the people's pint, browse records and soak up the love of greenfield

Thursday, March 4, 2010

too much nautical almanac

So apparently, according to Ben:

"Hey here is a listing for Nautical Almanac on the 11th. I think on the site it now says the show on the 11th is at the Yod, that show is on the 12th. Here is the show on the 11th:::

Nautical Almanac
Weyes Blood
Bill Nace/ Chris Cooper duo
Family Treasures
The Great Drought
Daryl

At Topping Hollow: 90 Bay Road, Belchertown, MA 01007.
Starts at 7:30. March 11th

Be ready for ghosts"

Thanks, Ben.

Monday, March 1, 2010

CRANK STURGEON / NOT THE WIND, NOT THE FLAG / SHEA MOWAT

Feeding Tube Records
150 Pleasant St. suite 235
Easthampton, MA
Wednesday March 3rd
come at 8:00pm

Crank Sturgeon - performance and contact mic form Maine

Not the Wind, Not The Flag - free jazz/noise/psych from Toronto

Shea Mowat - wackiness from Strange Maine founder and current Buckland, MA resident

also live projections by Ted Lee

bring bucks for tourers yo!

http://www.cranksturgeon.com/
www.myspace.com/notthewindnottheflag
http://smoothassailing.blogspot.com/2007/10/shea-mowat.html
http://www.kraag.org/shea/
feedingtuberecords.com