3 Shows This Weekend!
Happy Halloween!
Some completely different genres, spaces, and people this weekend. Not one, or two, but THREE shows.
First, Leisure Class Records and The Wailing Wall have helped us set up an awesome, completely FREE show in the Lower East Side, at this great little clothing store-turned-venue called Travessia, run by Hiroko Rodriguez (Steve Rodriguez’s wife - If you don’t know he started one of the most DIY skate companies out there, 5Boro).
Then, on Saturday, we’ve got a benefit show to seal the Icarus Project’s Mad Gifts week, which has been going on all through Halloween. If you don’t already know, The Icarus Project is run by Sascha Scatter (from Choking Victim, which became Left Over Crack) and aims to raise awareness about mental illness as a skill - something one can use to pursue creativity to it’s highest potential - instead of a disease that must be stifled.
And THEN, just to make our minds pop, FUTURE ISLANDS is playing at Micheline’s on Sunday. If you were at the OCDJ + Dan Deacon show at Death By Audio awhile back, you’ve already gotten a taste of their electro-dance-justplainweird-freakouts. And the bill’s packed to boot - 8bitpeople’s Anamanaguchi, good friend Air Waves, Chubby Behemoth’s tour homecoming show, and Future Island’s tour-mate Tron Valdez will be keeping you in the basement all night long.
See you out!
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*Band info at bottom
[ FREE FOLK SHOW IN L.E.S.! ] <--- Friday
--> Vio/Mire
—-> Liz Isenberg
——> The Wailing Wall
——–> Adrienne McCann (aka Adron)
–> Leisure Class Records <--- http://leisureclassrecords.com/
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7PM / FREE! / ALL AGES! <--- EARLY SHOW!
Friday, November 2nd
@ Travessia <--- http://travessia-nyc.com
176 Stanton, LES (btwn Clinton/Attorney)
[ FJMZ > Essex/Delancy / V > 2nd Ave/LES / BD > Grand St ]
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[ ICARUS PROJECT BENEFIT! ] <--- Saturday
--> Le Rug
—-> Michael Jordan
——> Donkey Flamingo
–> The Icarus Project <--- http://theicarusproject.net
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8PM / $5-$10 Sliding Scale / ALL AGES!
Saturday, November 3rd
@ Micheline’s
1124 Broadway, Bushwick (@ DeKalb)
[ J > Kosciuszko ]
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[ ELECTRONIC DANCE SPAZZ SHOW! ] <--- Sunday
--> Future Islands
—-> Anamanaguchi
——> Chubby Behemoth
——–> Air Waves
———-> Tron Valdez
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8PM / $5 / ALL AGES!
Sunday, November 4th
@ Micheline’s
1124 Broadway, Bushwick (@ DeKalb)
[ J > Kosciuszko ]
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[ ARTWORK. ]
[ Matt McCann made this amazing poster! It’s the first time someone’s put, not just a rat, but an one of the actual Rats Of NiMH on a poster! Check out SleepWhenDeadNYC (<--- http://sleepwhendeadnyc.com/) for more info about this and many other upcoming DIY + all ages shows out in Brooklyn. ]
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[ CALENDAR. ]* <--- http://sleepwhendeadnyc.com/calendar
11/9 —> Archaeopteryx / Never Heard Of Zeppelin (rekkid release aprty!) / Bad Advice / Bomb The Music Industry @ venue tba - FREE!
11/16 –-> Vincent Black Shadow (Baltimore) / White Hills / LIVEFASTDIE / Hollywood @ venue tba
11/25 –-> Austin Lucas (PRAGUE!) / Aaron Stout @ The Silent Barn
12/12 –> Dinowalrus @ Death By Audio
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[ INFO. ]
[ VIO/MIRE ]
“Delicate fingerpicked guitar, mournful vocals, gentle electronic surges, mmmm, good stuff. Think Microphones, Gravenhurst, or Low if they played more notes on their guitars.” - AS220 (Providence, RI)
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/viomire
[ LIZ ISENBERG ]
Seeport, Seaport, Seeport’ was ranked the #5 record of 2006 by Indie Folk Forever: “A totally immersive and intimate album of miniature epics from Liz Isenberg, full of great melodies, incredible texture, and an elastic, inscrutable voice that makes every line into an aside you maybe shouldn’t hear. Fans of Lou Barlow’s Sentridoh, Mirah, Julie Doiron and early Cat Power are all missing out if they haven’t got their hands on this.”
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/lizisenberg
[ THE WAILING WALL ]
“The Wailing Wall” is a Bronxville, NY-based collective centered around Jesse Rifkin’s songwriting. Drawing from a wide pallette of musicians and influences, The Wailing Wall can vary from gentle acoustic ballads one night to chaotic noise the next. They have already released a self-titled EP and a 7″ single which feature the warmer, folkier side of the project, and saw them compared in reviews to Neutral Milk Hotel, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, The Microphones, and Beirut. They are now very close to finished with their debut full-length album, which focuses in on the darker side of Rifkin’s writing. At Travessia, the band will consist of Rifkin on electric guitar and vocals, Luke Bace on bass guitar, and both Chris Roush and Ethan Meyer on drum kits.
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/jesserifkin
[ ADRIENNE MCCANN (AKA ADRON) ]
“Adron is the eponymous debut and stage moniker of nineteen year-old Adrienne McCann. Influenced by late ‘60s Brazilian Tropicàlia, Adron has infused her debut with an international texture and a remarkably vintage sound. She adds to her songs a unique array of embellishments, whistles, and mouth-clicks, and a lyrical sensibility both intelligent and whimsical. Adron plays her nylon string guitar with the casually adept flourish of a Bossa Nova maestro twice her age. This becomes more impressive when we learn that the majority of these songs were originally written when she was fifteen and sixteen years old. There’s a double-awareness in Adron’s music that eludes many songwriters; a sense of self-identity and astute observation that allows her to combine the earnest yearnings of a teenage American girl with the classic melodies and rhythms of a musical movement that began in another country, more than twenty years before she was born. Her youthful exuberance and adroit musicianship together form a style both distinctive and pleasing, but it is her rare ability to meld genre, geography, and musical epochs that reveal the true breadth of Adron’s talent. One can easily sense that this debut is but the first notable stirring of an expansive musical journey to come.” -courtesy of New Street Records
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/adriennemccann
[ LE RUG ]
A pop music exorcism. Ray Weiss (also from Hundred Dollar Elephant and The Medics) channels post-punk fire from somewhere mysterious inside of himself. He must be hollow, because it couldn’t possible fit anywhere else. Double-drum dance solos, electric keyboard freakouts, tearing apart his guitar until he looks like he’s going to vomit… Le Rug starts off every set by doing a nose dive off the roof’s edge, and just keeps gaining speed until the whole room goes splat.
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/lerug
[ MICHAEL JORDAN ]
“The Thermals & The Hold Steady at NYU with shitty openers the Michael Jordan. I mean, come on. Get a less ironic, more appropriate band name guys. Or, get off the stage already.” AND “This was…different: loud, dissonant, abrasive noise from a quintet of NYU’ers. As my friend remarked the bass and (dual) drumming wasn’t bad, but the frenzied guitar, squeaky violin, and mildly irritating vocals made for the most painful set I’ve ever experienced.” —– WHAT? They’ve played with a violin? Shocking. Don’t fuck with MJ, seriously, these guys are a Dirty Jerz powder keg.
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/michaeljordanbulls
[ DONKEY FLAMINGO ]
Wimbledon –> Pomeranian / Plentyface –> Donkey Flamingo. All you need to know.
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/donkeyflamingo
[ FUTURE ISLANDS ]
“Future Islands are a synth-rock group based out of the rural plains of Greenville, North Carolina. There, they’ve established a fairly strong local following, highlighted by their bizarre yet addicting live shows, particularly their shows under their former moniker “Art Lord and the Self-Portraits” (frontman Sam Herring would lock into character as Art Lord Locke Ernstfrost, dressed in all white, speaking in a German accent). It’s a funky collection of synth-driven tracks touching on elements of dance punk and new-wave throwbacks alike.” — They’ve toured with Dan Deacon a bunch of times, and are sure to make you spazz out tweak-style!
MySpace —> http://www.myspace.com/futureislands
[ ANAMANAGUCHI ]
Anamanaguchi combines the raw, electronic tones of the NES sound chip with driving, melodic guitars in an indie rock/powerpop fashion. NYU Music Technology student Peter Berkman began experimenting with the console in late 2003, swapping songs with friends from his hometown. Looking for a way to perform the 8-bit songs live, he got together a band including bassist James DeVito from New York, and Spencer Casey & Chalie Hankin from Baltimore to play guitar and drums (respectively) along with the NES. Since then they have been very active playing PulseWave concerts in New York and various shows on the east coast. In August they released their debut Power Supply on 8bitpeoples.
MySpace —> http://www.myspace.com/anamanaguchi
[ CHUBBY BEHEMOTH ]
“Brooklyn-based thrash-jazz”
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/chubbybehemoth
[ AIR WAVES ]
“Most new acts with a footing in the folk tradition tend to embrace the serene and the fragile, but one gets the feeling that Brooklyn’s quirky Air Waves broke away from the pack long ago. Singer/guitar player Nicole Schneit tears through her stilted, acoustic punk like a bull in the china shop—more than a languid fairy on a lily pad—and that suits me just fine.” JOSH BLANCHARD (Portland Mercury April 2006)
MySpace —> http://myspace.com/airwavesmusic
[ TRON VALDEZ ]
Tron Valdez is a band that is made up of two guys (Chris and Mike) who were in a band called Spader.That band broke up, Chris and Mike kicked around doing their own projects, but a plan to release a 12″ with their good friends Future Islands proved too irresistable to pass up…..they hung out for a bit, wrote some songs and really liked playing together again. Mike drank moonshine, Chris played Warcraft. People rejoiced. Tron Valdez is all about dreams and how they come true.
MySpace —> http://www.myspace.com/tronvaldez
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Come out and get sweaty!
Peas,
The Rats Of NiMH
[ PHOTOS! ] <--- http://sleepwhendeadnyc.com/photos
––> End-Of-Summer Music + Games Fest! (photos by Libby Gills)
[ VIDEO! ] <--- http://youtube.com/user/RatsOfNimh