Monday, August 23, 2010
Weird Stalk Was Awesome
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Peace, Loving Video :: Weirdstock!
This is a pretty sweet video from boston.com with interviews by the mythmaker, Brian S. Ellis, that captures Peace, Loving pretty well.
Weirdstock 2 is happening on August 20th at the Temple in JP!
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Weirdstock 2.0!! :: August 30th, 2010
This month is the return of Weirdstock!! Last year Weirdstock was a three day mental annihilation of psych art to honor the 40th anniversary of Woodstock.
Friday, August 20th, 8PM to sunrise.
@ Temple Sound and Stage, 670 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
This year, grab the Weird Stalk by it's roots and put it in a hot cup of water for just the right mind melting sensation.
whitehausfamilyrecord.com
The Players:
BLEVIN BLECTUM
of Providence, RI: Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) is an electronic musician and multimedia composer. Her performances are often loose narratives incorporating live interactive electronic sound, manipulated field recordings, film, action and costume. Her last two records were released on AAGOO. She is one half of the recently reformed digital duo Blectum from Blechdom, and was a member of the audio/visual band SAGAN with Lesser, Wobbly and Ryan Junell.
http://blevin.lsr1.com/info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
KURT WEISMAN
of Providence, RI: Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) is an electronic musician and multimedia composer. Her performances are often loose narratives incorporating live interactive electronic sound, manipulated field recordings, film, action and costume. Her last two records were released on AAGOO. She is one half of the recently reformed digital duo Blectum from Blechdom, and was a member of the audio/visual band SAGAN with Lesser, Wobbly and Ryan Junell.
http://blevin.lsr1.com/info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
KURT WEISMAN
of brattleboro, vermont: ex-feathers, gnomonsong, important records, autumn records, member of witch w/ j. mascis, toured europe extensively, beautiful rare new england songbird, poet and glitchwizard -
DEAD WESTERN
of Sacramento, CA: Discorporate Records, Altin Village, Weird Forest ... a deeply marsh mellow crooner w/ scary paint stuff on his face - so scary!
www.altinvillage.de
http://kdvsrecordings.org/11.
PREGGY PEGGY AND THE LAZY BABYMAKERS
of Cambridge, MA: Angela Sawyer, owner/founder of Weirdo Records, a true staple in the Boston music scene. Member of Excusamwa, Duck That, Human Hairs. Preggy Peggy has been released on great Belgium record label Ultra Eczema
CLOUD BECOMES YOUR HAND
of Bushwick, NY: Stephe Cooper of the band "living things," a delicious musical omelette sure to tickle and excite all of your senses. upcoming release on canada goose tapes.
ASHCAN ORCHESTRA
of Brooklyn, NY: The ashcan “Orchestra” is simultaneously the work of composer p. spadine, a large collection of toy and real instruments, and a revolving performance ensemble.
METAL AND GLASS ENSEMBLE
of Boston, MA: Metal & Glass Ensemble is a Boston-based improvisational group with a rotating membership who create acoustic drone-based music with bowed cymbals and other metal objects, and glasses tuned to a just-intoned 23-note octave.
KID ROMANCE
of Jamaica Plain, MA: Honest, unafraid, sexy classic rock. 7" out now on Captured Tracks.
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
CAVE BEARS
of Turners Falls, MA: Cave BEARS started as a few disparate "pipe" cells which gradually formed clumps and clots and eventually there was the first finger which died and was used by the second finger as a pick to play the third guitar.
OMNIVORE
of Providence, RI: Omnivore is Glenna Van Nostrand, a performance artist with a focus on sound art and early telecommunications.
http://www.myspace.com/
http://vimeo.com/7944421
MOUSE QUEEN
of Boston, MA: quiet noises duo featuring members of Moon Climb the Wall, Rat King, Asteroid M
http://thefmly.com/tag/mouse-
of Providence, RI: Omnivore is Glenna Van Nostrand, a performance artist with a focus on sound art and early telecommunications.
http://www.myspace.com/
http://vimeo.com/7944421
MOUSE QUEEN
of Boston, MA: quiet noises duo featuring members of Moon Climb the Wall, Rat King, Asteroid M
http://thefmly.com/tag/mouse-
of Jamaica Plain, MA: "Mr. Shaker has been called gregariously reclusive and omnipresently invisible, but he prefers “a man’s man”. He is has simple tastes, is disturbed, driven, burning, and well loathed and loved equally." Member of rock band French Cops as well as a founder of peace, loving.
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
MANY MANSIONS
of Jamaica Plain, MA: Many Mansions is the ongoing recording and performance project of Shane M. Donnelly. inflection-inspired dream perspiration.
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/
PEACE, LOVING
of Jamaica Plain, MA: compositions for aromatics (w/ 3 professional chefs), dances for handheld tape recorders, working as set designers, video artists, performance poets, instrument builders, and becoming infamous for having a major rotating cast doing all these things at once.
http://whitehausfamilyrecord.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Weirdstock Presented By The Whitehaus Family Record
The Whitehaus Family Record is an impressive DIY artists collective/record label/music venus/nonsense anonymous based out of Jamaica Plain. They've got some amazing bands that will be storming the country very soon, including Many Mansions, Gracious Calamity, Manners, Peace, Loving and many many more. I'm going to do a feature on them soon.
For now, I've got some news about an upcoming annual experimental, noise and psycadelic festival called Weirdstock. The event will take place on the 40th anniversary of
Woodstock weekend, and will feature 50 experimental acts from
different parts of New England and beyond. Three days, fifty bands, all ages.Aug 14th-16th
YMCA Theater
820 Mass Ave.
Cambridge, MA
$7 for one day, $12 for two days and $15 for three days.
Here's the semi-official line-up and set times:
FRIDAY AUGUST 14
6:00 Jacob Mashak S
6:30 TBA
7:00 George Myers S
7:30 Skeletons Out F
8:30 Behavior S
9:00 White Limousine and Impatient Truck with Special Guest F
(chris cooper of Fat Worm of Error)
9:30 Harry Merry S
10:00 Julian Lynch S
10:30 Mudboy F
11:00 Keith Fullerton Whitman + Geoff Mullen S
SATURDAY AUG 15
1:00 Grass Tower S
1:30 Dick Heaven S
2:00 Psych Fam F
2:30Casey Rocheteau S
3:00 The Great Valley S
3:30 Invisible Circle F
4:00 The Hard Nips S
4:30 Tooth Ache F
5:00 Son of Salami/Psychic Vagina S
5:30 Many Mansions F
6:00 INTERMISSION
6:30Eat Cloud S
7:00Guatemala City F
7:30Lord Jeff S
8:00 Quilt F
8:30 Tempera S
9:00 White Light S
9:30 Sore Eros F
10:00 Kurt Weisman S
10:30 Harmonizer S (Greg Davis)
11:00 Dreamhouse S?
SUNDAY AUG 16
1:00 Concord Ballet Orchestra Players F
1:30 Ppalmm S
2:00 Fractillian F
2:30 Color Guard S
3:00 Cave Bears F
3:30 Sacred Harp S
4:00 Metal and Glass F
4:30 Omnivore S
5:00 Duck That F
5:30 Robert Stillman S
6:00 INTERMISSION
6:30 Goat of Arms S
7:00 Cursillistas S
7:30The Human Hairs F
8:00 Ricardo Donoso S
8:30 Peace, Loving F
9:00 Radio Wonderland S
9:30 Truman Peyote F
10:00 QFWFQ Duo S
10:30 Animal Hospital F
11:00 Devil Music Ensemble S
http://whitehausfamilyrecord.com/
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