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Yes, OK, the last couple events I posted may have been uninspired and uninspiring (I didn't even go to the Bust premiere tonight, mostly because I fell asleep). (This, BTW, is not to say the HQ show isn't worth seeing, because trust me, they always are.) But here's an appearance by a band to which I've not been able to give a shout-out in many moons, Flaming Fire, coming up in just over two weeks:
*RUCKUS at Galapagos
Saturday, April 23
8:30 PM
70 North 6th Street, between Kent and Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211. 718 782-5188
1 AM: Carbon (From Metalux)
12 AM: Haunted Pussy
11 PM: Flaming Fire w/the Dewanatron
10 PM: Breast Fed Yak
9 PM: Squaw
Bands --
CARBON:
http://www.metalux.org/pages/music.html
"If vampire-robots made music to spawn to, I’d have to say Metalux
would approximate that sound. Haunting, challenging and completely
unforgettable, Metalux is re-writing the rules on sound, creating beehive,
insect grooves over electro-ooze. Certainly not for the faint of
heart, but daringly unlike any band you’ve ever heard." - Spin Magazine
HAUNTED PUSSY:
http://www.hauntedpussy.com/
"These local men und women turn spoken-word ghost stories into Diamanda
Galas/Meredith Monk orgasmoans over weird-assed pscho-Frippetronic
guitar-noodling noise for outer-space archery contests. Their hilarious
press release suggests the music's silliness is on purpose." - Eddy,
Voice Choices, Village Voice
FLAMING FIRE:
http://www.flamingfire.com
"...like experiencing your purest visions of heaven and hell while
attending Sunday school wasted on glue...Like a lost synth-prog opera, a
forgotten cosmology laced in rock and roll, this extremely theatrical
second album from Brooklyn's Flaming Fire very nearly defies
description, let alone those facile 'sounds like X crossed with Y' comparisons.
'Songs from the Shining Temple' is like watching Billy Graham with the
sound off, Black Sabbath blasting in the background.” - Splendid,
Jennifer Kelly
THE DEWANATRON:
http://www.dewanatron.com/
"Dewanatron plays live electronic music on analog synthesizers they
design and build themselves, making exciting, unpredictable sounds that
harken back to the Golden Age of electronic music. Cousins Brian and
Leon Dewan have been tinkering with electronic sounds since they were
kids.
Just spotlighted at the NYC Armory Show, this amazing invention from
Leon and Brian Dewan sounds like the Silver Apples, only funkier,
harder and a little more psychedelic (if that's possible)." -- WNYC RADIO
BREAST FED YAK:
http://www.birdmanrecords.com/breastfedyak.html
Birdman Records: Imagine a naked, 350-pound superhero scatting like
Ella Fitzgerald having an epileptic fit (longtime Controlled Bleeding
collaborator Joe Papa) backed by a band of Plutonians (Lemos and Yoshida
Tatsuya of Ruins) who challenge their instruments to defy the
electricity coming out of their 50,000 fingertips. With influences that
include Ennio Morricone, Albert Ayler, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, and spy
movie themes, Get Your Greasy Head Off The Sham mocks classification
that terms such as "soul-pain," "dis-funk," and "Sunset Stripped R&B
spasmcore" try to capture.
SQUAW:
http://sqtr.freeshell.org/
Heralding the onset of the next ice age, SQUAW lurches forth from the
burial mounds with a sound of psychedelic overload. Heavy doom dirge
duo featuring John Lee (guitar) and Henry Till (electronics, bass,
percussion)
I've seen the Dewanatron with Flaming Fire before, and I hear good things about Haunted Pussy (wait, that doesn't sound right...). Definitely recommended for those whose tastes run to the unusual.
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