DOWNLOAD: WOOM - The Hunt (MP3)

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WOOM is Eben Portnoy and Sara Magenheimer, a duo who splits time between Cali and NYC and used to be called Fertile Crescent. Both were in the band Flying, the other third of which is now in Glass Ghost. Last night WOOM played Cake Shop with "Bees Are Flowers" aka These Are Powers. Tonight (5/19) they perform at Death By Audio with Shooting Spires (BJ from Parts & Labor), AcHT(eN) (ex-The Good Good) and Family Trees.

At the end of May Woom goes to Europe for a three-week tour with Xiu Xiu. They'll be back at the end of June for shows as part of the Northside Festival (and a pair of dates in July too). Their debut, Muu's Way, comes out June 28th on BaDaBing Records (a track from it is above).

All tour dates, a video trailer for tonight's show, and live WOOM videos are below...

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Sam Hillmer (left) playing with Zs @ the Yard (more by Sarahana)

You Are Here (The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio from September 10 - October 2, 2009. Emphasizing the sprawling and interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the maze offers a peak inside NYC's diy art/music scene. A meditation on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end as his or hers.

The lineup and installation is being put together by TROUBLE (Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris). Acts in the three-week schedule include Calvin Johnson, Screaming Females, Mick Barr, Ty Segal, Grooms, Extra Life and others.

Skeletons kick off the first night of the festival on September 10th as the Skeletons Big Band, a 12-piece band (expanded from their usual four) that's also playing September 7-9th at Roulette. There they'll be performing "New Works for a Larger Ensemble" which includes "excerpts and new arrangements from their record in progress "PEOPLE," a long form piece based around conversations in Greyhound busses and stations, and beyond..."

The full schedule for the Maze (and the lineup for Skeletons Big Band) is below...

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DOWNLOAD: Shooting Spires - Right (MP3)

Shooting Spires @ Pete's Candy Store, Sept 2007 (Jason Glastetter)

Shooting Spires is the bedroom art-pop project of BJ Warshaw, bassist and vocalist for Parts & Labor. Retreating from the Brooklyn stalwarts and their extroverted noise-punk, his self-titled debut album is an agoraphobic mix of soaring choruses and tormented electronics, fueled on Brian Eno, Boredoms and Peter Gabriel.

Get an MP3 above. Listen to more good songs at MySpace.Go see Shooting Spires on his/their first-ever tour. There will be guitar (Mat Lynch), bass (Emily Varlas), and drums (Jeff Ottenbacher). There are shows at Bard College, shows with HEALTH, a show with Genghis Tron at Market Hotel, shows at SXSW, and more.....

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