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mmm uh huh thassrite me solo with the electrical guitar and vocal chords n some other stuff and the one and only HEAVY CREATURES plus the illustrious One For The Team, n watch out for the Mirakil Whip u know you like it so dont be a square you dig? im probably on 1st thats who. - Jason Martin

Thursday, September 25, 2008
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St
New York, NY

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((((( EVIDENCE RELEASE PARTY/BOXED DANCES )))))

Aug. 14, 2008: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Issue Project Room at the (oa) can factory

232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Admission: $15

Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) celebrate the release of their new CD “Receiver” (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 035), created through a residency at Wave Farm, with a re-imagined performance of the original installation. (See Evidence - Airtime performance under related events.) Bring a radio with batteries! A limited number will be provided. Evidence will be joined by the modern dance company The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians, performing a new work, “Boxed Dances.”

For more information see: http://www.free103point9.org/events/1957/

Hey Everybody,
Steven Cerio here. TOY TOKYO just released 2 different figures of my toy designs that I created based on The Residents.

Go to my site and check out photos, info, specs and ordering info right on the splash page.

Oh…and…if your around NYC on Aug 22….I’ll be showing with Leigh Barbier and Homer Flynn at THE SHOWROOM NYC on 2nd ave in the East Village.

and…I’ll be signing figures and prints in Detroit and Chicago in the same month (I’ll get back to all of you about the exact dates)

Best, Steven Cerio

Sometimes nice, sometimes harsh, mostly at the edge of available frequency response, it’s a mashed-up mix of some sketchpad pieces gathered on the road towards the nickname: Rebel vs. Offset Needle Radius 12″ in progress.

Listen and Enjoy: “The Truth About Charlotte”

Recorded in the Charlotte, NC Hilton this June.

Yup, we will have new shirts from Marc Arsenault and Simon Gane at HeroesCon this weekend. But, just to recap, first, there will also be: Ian Lynam’s Parallel Strokes, Marc Arsenault’s new Book “Adventures in Excitement”, new CDs from Offset Needle Radius and nickname: Rebel, lots of books by Simon Gane and Steven Cerio. So come look for the Wow Cool sign and the spaceman in Indie Island, where Marc will be drawing pictures and Joshua Baker will be making music.

OK, T-shirts. Each is available in sizes S, M, L, XL. They are on super high-quality 100% cotton shirts. They will be very reasonably priced. First up, brand new from Vertigo’s Vinyl Underground artist Simon Gane, is this super-stylish 2-sided promotional shirt for his book with Ian Lynam and Kim Fern: Sap.

And, even more confusing is this also stylish number from Marc Arsenault made especially for this event. Let them know you’ll never be retconned again!

And there will be much, much more at the show, free stickers, garage sale specials, costumed surprises, tigers, Brown Cuts Neighbors, The Doris book, a big box of “last copies” going back years… See you there!

The Wow Cool crew (Marc and Josh) will be at the Heck Yeah Coffee Hub after 8pm for what looks like a fairly awesome show. Calabai Yau, Megafaun, and Yardwork. See you there!

OK. I’ve finally had a [minor] breakthrough on setting up the new Wow Cool online shop [7 months in the making!] So I feel a little more confident to do this announcement thing. Wow Cool is moving back to California and regular operation after nearly a decade of slagging off in New York and Tennessee. By August, 2008, there will be a new Wow Cool office somewhere in Santa Clara County, the web shop will be gloriously relaunched, and hopefully I can make a preliminary announcement about new releases [music, books, video] that will be rolling out. Stay tuned, dear reader. Buy me a drink at the Hilton bar during Heroes Con if you want more dirt. Or just stop by the table.

Thank you everyone,
–Marc Arsenault

ps. I am actively seeking an intern. Other employment opportunities may follow.

Yes its time to get rid of a bunch of stuff. Academia makes me go to Big Apple. Help me have more money and less things.

THIS SUNDAY JUNE 8
FROM 2 - 4PM SHARP
@ 51 3RD STREET TROY NY 12180
+ SOME KIND OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE at 4pm! Show up and buy your way into an improvised band.

So heres the stuff:
* electronics of various kinds in various states of working (some working, some need a little work, and others are best used for parts)
* a few pieces of furniture
* some instruments

I do not have detailed list of what is available. Can’t respond to individual requests about gear. Come to the sale.

Over n out
Jason

Finally got it together to put the Rebel sound up on Last.fm. There is the mini 5-song version of the R is For Riot EP available as free downloads. You can get the whole 10 song thing for free, of course, as one big 30MB download. The MySpaceship has 3 more tunes. The n:R cover of a Sexual Milkshake song is still available as part of a Teen Beat Records tribute called Relax Brother, Relax up on the Internet Archive. Two more cover tunes are on the old DeptEx Sounds page, for you completists. There, that’s it, that’s all of them. Now you know. Now you know… there is a hell.

I hate to beg, but, you know, vote for me. Can’t resist a contest. I put Radiohead through a dub grinder. I’m pretty happy with it… actually prefer it to the original. Hard to touch that vocal. I guess given time and inclination it could have been seriously sliced and diced.

Visit nickname: Rebel’s MySpaceship

OK, it’s out there to hear. As I’ve been blathering on about here, I spent February recording a new nickname: Rebel joint for the RPM Challenge. You can now hear that whole thing on the RPM Jukebox. Also up there and well worth a listen are the contributions from Rebel guest guitarist Rev. Joshua Baker recording as Not Square with Zero and Kamikaze Heart Matthew Loiacano.

In other news, nickname: Rebel and Wow Cool main guy Marc Arsenault (me) is laying down the guitar as part of Thee Froggss for a benefit for the Pilot Light in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also appearing, the mighty GUNN CLUUB and the GERRMMS - April, 1 2008 at The Pilot Light 106 E Jackson Ave, Knoxville, 37915 Cost : $5.00

It was amazing. Pere Ubu tore it up. I am in fucking awe. They did Sonic Reducer and I completely went fucking mental. It was all a million times better then I deserved to expect. Best damn Easter basket ever. See my choicest shots here.

Made the plunge. Wow… is it almost one AM? Anyway, feel free to friend us on the MySpaceship or fan us on the Facebook. See this post, if you are not sure what a nickname: Rebel is.

Be seeing you.

OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now scattered to the four corners. I was talked into this mad venture by the Rev. Joshua Baker (God Hates Computers, Chased and Smashed, childhood friend) who is in a similar boat up in Maine. We’re both also trying to figure out how new digital audio deals work on our respective underpowered laptops. The very last tune I finished was the one we had worked on together, and probably the most successful - check out Ouroboos (4MB MP3). If this sounds at all like something you want to hear, you can have the whole thing for free (30MB zipped MP3 files and cover in PDF). It’s called R is for Riot and is by nickname: Rebel. There are just 10 songs. It’s 21 minutes. A few songs have words, they concern micronations with solar powered submarines, lab accidents, Ernest O. Lawrence, and tactful ways to tell someone they’re being cheated on. I got done just in the proverbial nick… getting it in the mail 9 minutes before deadline. nickname: Rebel RPM Page | Josh’s Not Square with Zero RPM Page

What I learned

• Get a taller drum throne. I cannot believe how much my legs hurt.
• That old saying, never mix the same day… oh yeah. These actually sound ok a day or 2 later.
• I’m not loosing my mind now that there are just a few days left… that already happened yesterday.
• Always record every take, even the practice warm up one. Some things are hard to nail. Had two perfect solo runs lost to time. All the ones I got down… eh.
• I have recorded none of the songs I wrote or planned in the first week.

Thanks,

Marc Arsenault
http://wowcool.com/engine

Yes folks, its all about me. But heck, I don’t do these around town too often anymore… so dig this:

Two sets: one set electric guitar freakout improv, and the other solo acoustic guitar and voice (that means singing a bunch of new songs and re-worked covers such as my hybrid deer/human dylan song)

Total run time: 8pm to 930ish. Short intermission in there somewhere. Gonna flip a coin right before show to decide which set goes first.

Details:
Thursday, February 28, 2008
POINT 5 (also occasinally referred to as CDFI)
383.5 Madison Ave
Albany, NY 12202
- just a little ways down from Lark street going in the direction of Albanys old red light district, now the Empire State Plaza. Thats what theyre callin it these days.

Cheers,
Jason

Just a half-hour to go and then album frenzy kicks in. Stay tuned for updates.

5 years till the end of days party

FRIDAY DEC. 21ST at 51 3rd st. TROY, NEW YORK

SCIENTIFIC MAPS
ROSS GOLDSTEIN
JASON MARTIN
With special guest: DJ JESSE STILES

9pm b.y.o.b.

December 21st, 2007 marks the beginning of the 5 year countdown to a 2012 Armageddon, long ago foretold by Mayan soothsayers as “the end of man”. The forces of fate will converge this Friday in the city of Troy, NY at 51 3rd street as musicians, artists, and heathens make merry to mark the beginning of the end.

SCIENTIFIC MAPS headline this extravaganza of sight and sound. Part anglophile pop, part clever wordplay, The Maps create a sonic concoction that makes the listener wonder: “what if Ray and Dave Davies HAD strangled each other on stage? Would they be up in heaven listening to The Shins?”

ROSS GOLDSTEIN is a man with a band, playing cosmic space cowboy
ballads that marry Bowie with Gram Parsons. A fuzzy rocket of
keyboard pop takes off for the stratosphere.

JASON MARTIN opens the show with deconstructed pop, pedals, and effects. A Hudson Valley veteran of the scene, Martin’s performances promise to be unpredictable and engaging.

After the bands, the dance machine that is DJ Jesse StIles comes
online. Expect to sweat.