Mike Nobody has uploaded some vintage 1990s Brown Cuts Neighbors video to his YouTube Channel. First up is the video for X Simple X (above), from 1995’s Squeeze Out Another Twinkle EP on Nose Hair Records. It takes a few seconds for the show to get going, but it is worth it. Mike also...
Read moreJason Martin Live at TIDE POOL – Sara Meltzer Gallery Tonight
Tonight, January 5, 7PM. Jason Martin will be doing a live music performance for TIDE POOL art show @ Sara Meltzer Gallery – ongoing installation, performances, and a shop curated by Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt, of the Apartment Show. Sara Melzter Gallery is located at 525–531 W...
Read moreCaptain Beefheart – Best Batch Yet
Former Magic Band drummer Robert Williams posted this to his MySpace blog this morning. It is an astounding performance. If you can wrap your head around it, then you might get a bit why people can get so crazy about the music of Captain Beefheart. I love how chunky the bass is in this.
Read more‘Sound Sculptor’ Susan Philipsz wins Turner Prize
2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings are only available to listen to in the environments...
Read moreMusic Monday: Nuisance – Attractive Nuisance demo
It’s not a big secret that I am a huge fan of Nuisance. I booked them twice for shows in Western Massachusetts. Once at a spectacularly disastrous warehouse show in Florence (at the Arts & Industry building, now home to Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod, then the home to Wow Cool, Al Columbia...
Read moreJason Martin Adirondack Power & Light LP
“Brooklyn-based musician and visual artist Jason Martin records on 4 track near his upstate NY home in a haunted cabin by a lake that used to be a valley of towns and Indian settlements. Some of them were his ancestors. This album crashes through deconstructed folk, gospel-tinged noise, a...
Read moreTuesday Morning Link Dump
Go get these on for yourselfness Aaron Smith – of Scientific Maps, nickname: Rebel, Stars of Rock and Evolution Revolution fame – has been mixing it up on the wheels of steel on the Bat Terrible show, Thursdays at 4pm, on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York. He’s been spinning...
Read moreMusic Monday: Kill Your Pet Puppy
So… you’ve read Rip It Up and Start Again, and Simon Reynolds follow-up Totally Wired, and are ass-deep in post-punk lore and legend and spend your days wandering the record stalls humming “She Is Beyond Good and Evil” by the Pop Group. And you start to wonder…...
Read moreLightning Bolt John Peel Session
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. This was way the long ago. Gibson’s hair suggest the 90’s, even. Cosmic. The awesomeness. Enjoy! Video found via beadyface. In other news – not so super unrelated – Atari Teenage Riot has released their first single...
Read moreThe Bitterest PiL (I Ever had to Swallow)
Having just recently logged a show where dredging up tunes of a bandtime gone by happened to happen, I don’t think I could be very pious on the subject of rehashing old band tunes from times gone by. But, I was never in Public Image, Ltd. Why those few songs on the first couple of
Read moreAuthor & Punisher Bleak November East Coast Tour
The must-see show this season for those of you in the frigid northeast is the Bleak November Micro-Tour 2010. With stops in Wallingford, CT, Somerville, MA, Albany, NY, Philadelphia, PA and Brooklyn, NY from November 19-27. Basically, close enough to get to for anyone between Philly and Boston...
Read moreMusic Monday: DUSTdevils
DUSTdevils made some amazing sounds. I first became aware of them from hearing their version of the Fall’s Hip Priest on the radio. A couple of their releases trickled into my collection over the next couple of years. I eventually heard much more about them from Steven Cerio, who provided...
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Jason Martin ‘Adirondack Power & Light’ Record Release Show this Monday
Monday, November 8, 2010 7:00pm at Zebulon, 258 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, NY, USA 11211 Celebrating the release of Jason Martin‘s “Adirondack Power and Light” 12″ Vinyl LP. Recorded in a cabin in the Adirondacks. Site-specific folk songs and noise, channeling stories and...
Read moreBrian Eno Interviewed in the Depth
I agree with everything he says. Especially the part. Sorry if we’re a little late on this. Control issues. You know. Involving milk. And nostrils.
Read morenickname: Rebel returns to Albany on Sunday
I hope to see each and everyone of you tomorrow night nickname: Rebel returns to Albany, Sunday, October 24, downstairs at Valentine’s 17 New Scotland Ave, Albany NY; 518-432-6572 Doors at 7pm. show at 8pm. Thee lineup is: Joggle, Wow Cool recording artists nickname: REBEL and from...
Read moreYour 2010 CMJ Schwag Report
OK. I’m in New York, at the CMJ2010 Music Marathon & Film Festival. Attending panel discussions, checking out the Exhibitors’ Loft & Registrants’ Lounge, grilling colleagues on this and that, hopefully checking out some of the approximately eight thousand bands playing this week...
Read moreKitty Little/Scientific Maps Split 7″ Release Show Today
Haul your ass down to Valentine’s 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, New York, on Saturday, October 2nd to see Kitty Little and Scientific Maps celebrate their new split 7″ record release on Peterwalkee, with help from Complicated Shirt and Man Scouts. More info and sample tracks on the...
Read moreDirty Dirty Dirty Showbiz
“I had an imaginary band and it turned into a real band”, or some words to that effect, was how Colleen Martin (aka Lady Starlight) described how her and her brother Jason’s childhood band Brown Cuts Neighbors, took on a life of its own some 20 years ago. I was in that band for...
Read moreReport from 01SJ/AbsoluteZero
Benoit Maubrey/ Audio Gruppe’s The Audio Ballerinas (2010) use light sensors that enable them to produce sounds as they dance. Friday, September 17th, during AbsoluteZER0. San Jose, California. AbsoluteZero is a street art fair with a heavy DIY tech vibe. It’s a spin-off from the...
Read moreYou going to be near Albany, NY or Kittery, ME on Saturday? Go to these shows!
Saturday, September 18, 2010 – The Autumnal Equinox Albany, New York Joggle: Mike Lopez, Paul Geluso & Mitch Elrod at The Drama Cup, 1038 Madison Ave., Albany, NY, USA 12208. Mike and Paul were two thirds of 5Chin400. Mike was also in Brown Cuts Neighbors. To list the rest of their...
Read moreLink’s Labour’s (Day) Lost
An further installment in the series of clearing out thee interesting tabs from thee browser before thee coming several weeks of much excitements and announcements of profound import. Missed it Dept.: Bryan Young at Huffington Post has an exclusive eight-page preview of Mat Johnson and Simon...
Read moreBlonde Redhead – 4AD Session Taster
While checking in at Wow Cool East in Brooklyn this week I’ve managed to catch a taste of Blonde Redhead‘s upcoming 4AD Session. It was recorded and is being mixed by our resident multi-track wrangler Mr. Andrew Gerhan. Andy has done some nice work on upcoming releases from nickname...
Read moreEvidence Royal/T Show Reviewed in LA Times Culture Monster
Josef Woodard, AKA Culture Monster had this to say in today’s Los Angeles Times about last night’s show at the Royal/T in Culver City with Evidence and Vibration Institute Orchestra. Their hour in the spotlight was more cerebral, an evocative canvas of sounds at once abstract in...
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