Earth Stood Still / Consider the Source / HI Red Center / NONLOC @ Micheline’s
On Thursday, we helped Dan Deacon blow out our speakers. On Friday, we helped The Bikes In The Kitchen destroy Uncle Paulie’s (we love you Paulie!). And then on Saturday, Pall Mall Jetpack and The Lungs came over to our place (the legendary “Crown Fried Cafe”), for some fried chicken and punching-holes-through-the-wall, computer-table-stage-diving fun. Now that my better half (and fellow Rat) Joe is on the road to Austin, it’s time to clean up and get ready to go back to Micheline’s for some more basement rock. For all of y’all who couldn’t make it out to Todd’s free SXSW festival this year, we still have some fucking ruckus for you this coming Friday evening. Our good friends Earth Stood Still and Consider the Source are throwing it down with some new acquaintances, HI Red Center and NONLOC. - [Phil]
This one is going to blow our speakers apart… again.
[THE BANDS!]
- Earth Stood Still
- Consider The Source
- HI Red Center
- NONLOC
[THE SPOT!]
Friday, March 16th
8pm, $5
@ Micheline’s
1124 Broadway (btwn DeKalb and Kosciuszko)
[ Take the J to Kosciuszko, and it’s directly beneath the train tracks… ]
[ Photos gonna be on lock by Ben Shapiro ]
[ Thanks to Todd P. for listing our show… ]
[ **VERY IMPORTANT** We need more houses. We dream of un-confiscated forties, shit-cheap liquor off a plywood bar, smoking inside, bands in the backyard, in the basement, in the bathtub. Out of necessity, we do shows at venues that are pretty lenient by New York standards, but in a perfect world every show would happen at home (in this city of eternal roommates). To get to the nitty-gritty, if you have a space, and think music forcefully shoved inside might work for us both, drop us an email (RatsOfNiMH@gmail.com). We can use all shapes and sizes, from pretty little alleyways or back porches for an acoustic kind of good time, or an industrial-looking basement for around 100 kids to spazz the fuck out in - Joe ]
[EARTH STOOD STILL]
“Born out of fire and desperation, out of the need for a savior in rock music, Earth Stood Still comes hurdling out of the abyss with a sound both bound in the past and portentious of things to come. The sounds are familiar, even traditional, at first: Lisa Apatini’s banshee wail and bluesy growls, Gabriel Marin’s thunderous and vivid guitar, Lou Miller’s apocalyptic drum grooves and Evan Burke’s spine-mangling bassisms. Echoes of Soundgarden, Zeppelin, at first comforting and familiar…but then things become clearer. Songs as dense and thematically grandiose as classical music, serpentine melodies and blazing solos soaked in Middle Eastern mysticism, and an earth-shaking funk capable of taking full possession of the booty even in the midst of heartbreaking verses. Lyrics that are both intensely personal and abstractly fantastical. Humor and sorrow. Joy and rage. Forgiveness and revenge. Earth Stood Still have come for your hearts, and your minds. All we ask is that you come to rock.”
[CONSIDER THE SOURCE]
“Three musicians converging on an epic plateau of sound and reflex. Three conscious minds communicating on subconscious levels. Consider the Source is one voice born of three distinct personalities. Their music is aggressive and yet serene, powerful, and honest. They play what they feel and demand your full attention. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the one thing they won’t let you do is ignore them. Since its inception, the band has performed throughout New York and much of the east coast. Consider the Source was as well received opening for Wyclef Jean as they were at Klezmer jams on NYC’s lower east side. Together they’ve traveled to the middle and far east to open their ears and expand their musical palate’s. Their spicy blend of progressive ethno-fusion proves to be truly genre-bending. On stage, the members embrace and express their deep love and appreciation for their music and influences. From Eastern-European folk melodies and Indian rhythmic cycles to funky rock riffs and break beat drum & bass, audiences can’t decide whether to mosh, rave or belly dance.”
[HI RED CENTER]
“Hi Red Center can be described as experimental, prog, textural and noisy, yet still contagiously melodic - much in the same way Deerhoof could be described as all of these things. To say they sound like Deerhoof is not giving the Brooklyn, NY quartet nearly enough credit; they use a variety of instruments (drums, vibrophones, guitars, synths etc.) and embrace a wide range influences to create a rich, polyrythmic and challenging sound, both structurally and sonicly. Driving rhythms, quirky changes, krautrock psychedelia, prog rock riffs, explosive, post- punk outbursts and you can still dance to it. These musicians are masterfully skilled, yet they don’t alienate the listener. For a band to combine so many influences and styles and not be sloppy about it is no easy task. Hi Red Center have done it with a smooth maturity that begs for multiple playbacks.I would say that fans of Deerhoof and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 will really appreciate this CD.” - Daniel Huffman of Good Records
[NONLOC]
Guitarist and instrumentalist Mark Dwinell of BRIGHT [http://myspace.com/brightsounds]… new album “Between Hemispheres” on its way May 2007 on Strange Attractors [http://strange-attractors.com]…