Arctic Monkeys @ Terminal 5 in 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* Evillive
* Ursa Minor @ Joe's Pub
* Bettye Lavette @ Club Carlyle
* Shadow Trio @ The Stone
* Prester John @ The Stone
* Tracy Bonham @ Joe's Pub
* Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes
* Tell Your Friends @ Lolita Bar
* Elvis Costello @ Beacon Theatre
* Booker T. Jones @ The Bell House
* The Everymen, Killer Whale @ Cake Shop
* Eivind Opsvik's Overseas @ Zebulon
* Arctic Monkeys @ Central Park Rumsey Playfield
* Raquel Bell, Springs, Holler @ Pete's Candy Store
* Bernard Fowler, Hollis Brown @ Highline Ballroom
* Cloud Cult, The Wilderness of Manitoba @ Maxwell's
* Concert Black, Peter Evans, Zs, Hubble @ Littlefield
* Ex Humans, The Barreracudas, Daddy Long Legs, Games @ Fontana's
* Pisser, Brass Knuckle Evangelists, The Nuclears @ Bowery Electric
* Miasmal, Innumerable Forms, Impalers, Internal Rot @ The Acheron
* Patrick Cleandenim, Pablo Picasso, TV Baby, Phonetag @ Glasslands
* Wolf Eyes, Illusion of Safety, Dysgenix, Nonhorse, Diablo @ Silent Barn
* Sea Lions, McDonalds, The Honey-Dos, Teardrops, Young Boys @ Brooklyn Fireproof
* Company, Filmstrip, Rifle Recoil, Space Lions In Outer Space @ Bruar Falls
* The Elected, Jarrod Gorbel, David Dondero, Pine Mouth @ Mercury Lounge
* La Dispute, Defeater, Native, Former Thieves @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* French Miami, Netherfriends, Ghost Town Hall, Huntronik @ Death By Audio
* John Madera, Robert Lopez (Bob Dylan 70th Birthday Celebration) @ Cake Shop
* Jesse Harris, Sheri Miller, Johanna and The Dusty Floor, Jocie Adams @ Rockwood
* She Keeps Bees, Ivana XL, Little Insects, Today the Moon Tomorrow the Sun @ Cameo Gallery
* The Little Death, Bo Bruce, Tituss Burgess, The Lifted Crew, DJ Wayne Williams @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Dred Scott Trio, Rich Hinman, Bri Anne Michelle, Dani Elliott, Eliza Rickman, Nancy Magarill, Rosabella Gregory @ Rockwood Music Hall
* John Medeski, Billy Martin, Steven Bernstein, Club d'Elf, Wicked Knee, Marco Benevento, Marshall Allen (Japan benefit) @ Brooklyn Bowl

Happy Birthday Bob Dylan.

E-Book company Copia is offering a free download of "Revolution in the Air - The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973", a 482-page, song-by-song guide to Dylan's work from 1957-1973 by noted Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin. I am told that "you have to sign up for an account but otherwise no strings attached."

Sea Lions are still here.

Bettye LaVette begins her residency at Cafe Carlyle.

The Daemonia show at Santos Party House tonight is cancelled. Wolf Eyes plays Silent Barn instead.

We're giving away tickets Stornoway's upcoming show at Music Hall of Williamsburg, on Facebook.

La Blogotheque released a new Take Away Show with Battles who recently released a sorta-NSFW video for "Ice Cream". You can watch both, below...

What else?

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Toro Y Moi at Bowery Ballroom (more by Toby Tenenbaum)

Shortly after enjoying a relatively leisurely summer compared to his year so far (SXSW, Bowery Ballroom, Mercury Lounge) , Toro Y Moi will hit the road after Labor Day for a string of U.S. dates that will include a stop at Webster Hall on 9/14 with Ava Luna. Tickets for Chazwick Bundick's biggest NYC show yet go on sale at noon on Friday (5/20).

Toro Y Moi welcomed the Underneath The Pine LP in February, and will follow it up with the Still Sound Remix 12" via Amazing Sounds on June 13.

Toro Y Moi recently made a mixtape featuring awesome names like King Tubby, Dorothy Ashby, Ennio Morricone, and Goblin. In related news, Goblin's Claudio Simonetti will play Santos Party House on May 24th as part of Daemonia, his metal band that updates classic songs by Goblin. They'll be joined by Wolf Eyes and tickets are still available.

All tour dates and some video is below.

Continue reading "Toro Y Moi announces tour dates (Webster Hall included) & new 12" +++ Daemonia playing Santos w/ Wolf Eyes"

photos by Greg Cristman

Richard Pinhas at Secret Project Robot

Wolf Eyes performed with an altered lineup, subtracting Nate Young, while adding Aaron Dilloway and the legendary Richard Pinhas (of Heldon) known to many as the "Father of electronic music in France", whose influence was palpable throughout the set. The music itself was composed of parts collected from across a broad, sweeping palate that spanned the experience and knowledge of every person onstage, with each member contributing recognizable aspects of their own sensibilities, while deferring to the enigmatic vision of the whole. Beforehand, many in the crowd wondered what the combination of the serrated edged sound of Wolf Eyes and the usually measured Pinhas would actually sound like. The result turned out to be something that sat comfortably between the two stylistically, while pushing the conceptual boundaries of both. -[Pendu]

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Phosphorescent (sort of) in Toronto (more)

tonight in NYC
* Michael McDonald @ Caroline's
* Mary Halvorson Quintet @ Roulette
* Coliseum, Burning Love, Tournament @ Europa
* The Rondelles, The Love Loves @ The Rock Shop
* Stornoway, Dinosaur Feathers @ Mercury Lounge
* Garage A Trois, The Dead Kenny G's @ Maxwell's
* Charred Walls of the Damned @ Gramercy Theatre
* Minus The Bear, Everest, Keepaway @ Webster Hall
* Phosphorescent, Dawes @ Pier 54/Hudson River Park
* Smoosh, The Beets, German Measles @ The Bell House
* Red Wanting Blue, Honor By August @ Mercury Lounge
* Kid Sister, D.I.M., JDH & Dave P @ Santos Party House
* Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Roseanne Cash @ City Winery
* Dinowalrus, Deleted Scenes, Hume, Family Trees @ Glasslands
* Delorean (DJ), DJ Raspberry Jones, DJ Treeboy @ Littlefield
* Pterodactyl, YellowFever, Dream Diary, The Numerators @ Cake Shop
* Imaginary Icons, Corita, Supermajor, The Prices, Hilli @ Fontana's
* Run DMT, Tonstartssbandht, Speculator, Jeremy Smoking @ Silent Barn
* Itutu: Armitage Gone! Dance w/ Burkina Electric @ Celebrate Brooklyn
* Old Soul, Christine Martucci, Heavy Weather, Eli Cook @ Knitting Factory
* TKA, Corina and Noel : The 30th Anniversary of Fever Record @ Crotona Park
* My Teenage Stride, Secret Twins, Knight School, Bad Indians @ Death By Audio
* Andrea Parkins/Tom Chess/Peter Evans, Rhyton, Marc Orleans/Tom Carter @ Zebulon
* Kool Bob Love, DJ Spinna, Waajeed, Rob Swift, Rhettmatic @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Mexican Institute of Sound, La Bien Querida, Isa GT, Los Rakas, Afro Cuban Punk, Moderatto @ Bowery Ballroom
* Los Punsetes, Sol Okarina, Alex Cuba, La Bien Querida, San Pascualito Rey, The Pinker Tones, Furland, Locos Por Juana, Jumbo (LAMC Acoustic Showcase) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

YellowFever didn't make it to South Street Seaport, but they are scheduled to play Cake Shop tonight as planned.

Tonight is your first chance to check out at show at the Rock Shop.

Phosphorescent and Dawes for free tonight. MP3s of both bands for free at Insound.

Wolf Eyes played Secret Project Robot last night with Black Dice and Growing. Video below.

Coliseum play Europa tonight. Check out a recent BBG interview.

Zoroaster play the Studio on Friday. Their new album, Matador, comes out 7/13, but you can stream the whole thing, and check out their new video for "Red Eyes, Black Skies", below...

What else?

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DOWNLOAD: Growing - "Camera84" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Growing - "Hormone" (MP3)

Wolf Eyes @ McCarren Pool's last show - August 2008 (more by Lori Baily)

Wolf Eyes, Black Dice and Growing will be playing a Wednesday, July 7th show at Secret Project Robot. Already 300+ people have confirmed on the gig's Facebook page, so getting there early is probably a good idea. Wolf Eyes and Black Dice don't appear to have any other shows scheduled at the moment.

Growing, whose only other scheduled show is ATP in the UK in December, just released a new album, Pumps, in April on Vice Records. Two tracks from that are above. VBS.TV interviewed the band about their history and live show. That's below with a flyer and more videos...

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"For 4 years now Wham City has been organizing the WHARTSCAPE. What started as a summer warehouse party turned into a much bigger, multi-day outdoor festival with thousands of bands, performers, and folks traveling to Baltimore from all across the US and Europe.
Since, we organize this festival out of pocket and in our spare time, it is important for us to keep it comfortable and enjoyable for us to do. One thing we talked about at the end of last year's festival was shrinking it down slightly and having it feel more community based and familiar.

This year isn't focused around headliners, but mainly performers and friends that make up the community we tour, work and live in.
We are also greatly reducing the number of MEGA-PASSES (the 3 day pass ticket that grants you entry to every show and every day).
ONLY 300 Mega-Passes will be sold; this is the only guarantee that you can see all the shows.

Tickets will be sold to the individual shows, but it is strongly suggested that you buy a Mega-Pass, as it saves you money and assures you take in the entire poo-poo.
Whartscape will take place July 10-11-12 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art Studio Center Parking Lot, and Load of Fun.
We will begin selling tickets at 12 Noon, Monday, June 29th.

Continue reading "Whartscape - 2009 Wham City festival dates & lineup "

photos by Lori Baily

When Lee Ranaldo is playing with David Watson and Tony Buck, it's called Glacial. When Lee is playing with Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and Steve Shelly, it's called Sonic Youth. If it's Lee and Alan Licht (and friends), then it would be Text of Light, and that's who played Knitting Factory in NYC earlier this month with Demons (Nate Young of Wolf Eyes) and Nancy Garcia..

The Text of Light group was formed in 2001 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage's film 'Text of Light' was the premiere performance and namesake of the group). The original premise was to improvise (not 'illustrate') to films from the American Avante-Garde (50s-60s etc), an under-known period of American filmic poetics. [SonicYouth.com]

Continue reading "Text of Light (Lee Ranaldo & Alan Licht), Demons (of Wolf Eyes) & Nancy Garcia @ Knitting Factory, NYC - pics"

photos by Lori Baily

The poster says "McCarren Pool Bye Bye" because Saturday's show (August 30, 2008) was billed as the last show ever at McCarren Pool. If the city has their way, that statement will be true for McCarren Pool, to quote Thurston Moore, "as we know it". That may not be 100% true though because the current renovation plans include some type of "performance space" along with the water. More pictures below....

Continue reading "Sonic Youth, Vivian Girls, Times New Viking & Wolf Eyes @ McCarren Pool's last show (as we know it) (probably) - pics"

It's almost over - McCarren Pool - Aug 13, 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)

FINAL SHOW EVER AT MCCARREN POOL!

SONIC YOUTH
With
Wolf Eyes
Times New Viking
Vivian Girls

Saturday, August 30th
McCarren Pool
Doors: 4pm

Tickets available through ticketmaster.com, the Nokia Theatre box office (44th & B'way), and Earwax Records.

"the Dead C are a New Zealand based noise rock trio made up of members Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats." [Wikipedia]

...The Dead C have announced a brief Stateside visit, kicking off in Philly on the 12th and wrapping just a few days later in the Chi. All kinds of noiseniks and other weirdos are coming out of the woodwork to support the Dead C on this trek, including Thurston Moore's Northampton Wools project, Wolf Eyes, Six Organs of Admittance, and Sightings.

So what's the occasion for this rare overseas voyage? Why, a new Dead C record, naturally. Secret Earth packs in four presumably long tracks and arrives October 14 on CD and vinyl thanks to Ba Da Bing.

But that's not all! Ba Da Bing is also teaming with Jagjaguwar to reissue on vinyl a pair of Dead C classics originally released by New Zealand's legendary Flying Nun label (the Clean, the Chills, the Bats, the Verlaines, etc). [Pitchfork]

Continue reading "The Dead C - releasing music, touring, playing w/ Thurston"

by Black Bubblegum

Wolf Eyes

Detroit noise anti-heroes, Wolf Eyes have unleashed the latest in a long line of limited ed. tapes, lathe-cut LPs, split LPs, 7"s, and CD-Rs (come on guys, no player-piano scrolls?)...... a new collabo LP with Sickness. Out on Hospital Productions, aka Dominick Fernow's label and store of the same name, I would imagine you can probably pick up copies at their (meaning Wolf Eyes, Sickness, AND Prurient, Fernow's project) show this Saturday, April 5th, at Cake Shop.

Tonight (April 4), Wolf Eyes are scheduled to open for newly reformed dark electronic godfathers Absolute Body Control (their first US show EVER) (and who have TWO records out now on Daft) along with Martial Canterel at a shindig curated by and also starring Carlos Giffoni (of No Fun Productions and No Fun Fest fame).

Tickets are still available.

No Fun Fest details were recently released.

Wolf Eyes tour dates and ABC flyer below.....

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