Thursday, April 28, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Sorry for any slowdown of late, my laptop may or may not finally be dead (After 6 and a half years! What a trooper!).
ART PARTY TONIGHT!
The annual fundraiser for Appendix Gallery is tonight and should be great. A ton of great art is going to get raffled off (you could win a piece of art for 5 bucks!), everyone is going to be drunk out of their gourds, the Woolen Men are going to play, and then there will be a dance party. There will also be tacos. Insane.
Appendix is in the alley between NE 26th and 27th, just south of Alberta.
From 6ish until 7ish will be a silent auction for the art pieces, the raffle at 10ish, partying begins when raffle ends.
Come and buy raffle tickets and go home with a piece by:
Brennan Conaway, Carlos Gonzalez, Charissa Niles, Container Corps, Dave Griess, Edward Sharp, Gary Wiseman, Laura Hughes, Michael Reinsch, Midori Hirose, Molly Cooney-Mesker, Nathan Dinihanian, Oregon Painting Society, PISS, Sean Patrick Carney, Terence Duvall, Zach Rose
ART PARTY TONIGHT!
The annual fundraiser for Appendix Gallery is tonight and should be great. A ton of great art is going to get raffled off (you could win a piece of art for 5 bucks!), everyone is going to be drunk out of their gourds, the Woolen Men are going to play, and then there will be a dance party. There will also be tacos. Insane.
Appendix is in the alley between NE 26th and 27th, just south of Alberta.
From 6ish until 7ish will be a silent auction for the art pieces, the raffle at 10ish, partying begins when raffle ends.
Come and buy raffle tickets and go home with a piece by:
Brennan Conaway, Carlos Gonzalez, Charissa Niles, Container Corps, Dave Griess, Edward Sharp, Gary Wiseman, Laura Hughes, Michael Reinsch, Midori Hirose, Molly Cooney-Mesker, Nathan Dinihanian, Oregon Painting Society, PISS, Sean Patrick Carney, Terence Duvall, Zach Rose
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
BRIDGET HAYDEN - A SIREN BLARES IN AN INDIFFERENT OCEAN LP - KRAAK
Well, Dusted beat me to the punch with their write-up of this record this morning -- got copies of it a couple weeks ago and it's been in pretty heavy rotation since. Stark, meditative, completely blasted and completely beautiful. Noise Music is possibly one of the most hermetic genres, rarely accessible by any other terms than it's own. (It's telling that the recent diaspora into drone and synthesizer music has been a clean break.) This LP is remarkable for the unrelenting waves of frayed guitar that none-the-less allow suggestions of voice and song to glimmer beneath the surface. I don't hesitate to call this album beautiful -- and one of the most beautiful I've heard all year -- but that doesn't mean that it's not also abrasive and repetitive. It's a difficult record but well worth the engagement. I recommend it highly. $15
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Hi.
So I have:
One copy of the Alien Observer LP by Grouper.
And one copy of the Dream Loss LP by Grouper.
They are $17 each. Here's the thing, you have to pinkie swear me that you are really, really going to listen to them. There's going to be a repress, anyway, I would bet.
OTHER NEW LPs OF NOTE:
Concern - Truth and Distance - Digitalis - $15
Ignatz - Selected Songs From Cassettes 2005-2009 - KRAAK - $15
Bridget Hayden - An Indifferent Ocean - KRAAK - $15
Marisa Anderson - The Golden Hour - Mississippi - $10
So I have:
One copy of the Alien Observer LP by Grouper.
And one copy of the Dream Loss LP by Grouper.
They are $17 each. Here's the thing, you have to pinkie swear me that you are really, really going to listen to them. There's going to be a repress, anyway, I would bet.
OTHER NEW LPs OF NOTE:
Concern - Truth and Distance - Digitalis - $15
Ignatz - Selected Songs From Cassettes 2005-2009 - KRAAK - $15
Bridget Hayden - An Indifferent Ocean - KRAAK - $15
Marisa Anderson - The Golden Hour - Mississippi - $10
Monday, April 11, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
New in stock from Mississippi Records:
Chalk Circle - Reflection LP - Mississippi Records
A previously unknown group to me -- and probably to many -- Chalk Circle were a brief, bright anomaly in the early D.C. punk scene, squeezing in two years of activity('81-'83) before the orthodoxy of male hardcore bulldozered them out of the way. This LP is the first retrospective of their work, and their first non-various-artist-compilation release ever, I believe. So not a "lost album" but rather the document of a feverishly creative group of young women shooting sparks in just about every direction. As such, it's a scattered listen -- audio fidelity, quality and mood varying quite a bit from track to track -- but what it lacks in cohesion it more than makes up for in stand-out tracks, even if they sound like they could have been recorded by half a dozen different groups. The easy reference for most of these songs is LiLiPUT in their herky-jerky exuberance, but "The Look" works lively, pre-Beat Happening naivete, "Easy Escapes" is lithe like the Au Pairs, with shimmering guitars and acrobatic bass, "High Stress" shows the influence of the D.C. punk scene. It's fair to say that if they had released a handful of these tracks as 45s in the early 80s, Chalk Circle would be legendary by now. This LP has its ups and downs but should be essential listening for fans of the Neo Boys or anyone interested in early American regional punk scenes. Comes with a full color, interesting(the Chalk Circle girls were friends with young Henry Rollins and pre-Minor Threat Ian MacKaye) if not enlightening booklet with many photos and press clippings. $11
Chalk Circle - Reflection LP - Mississippi Records
A previously unknown group to me -- and probably to many -- Chalk Circle were a brief, bright anomaly in the early D.C. punk scene, squeezing in two years of activity('81-'83) before the orthodoxy of male hardcore bulldozered them out of the way. This LP is the first retrospective of their work, and their first non-various-artist-compilation release ever, I believe. So not a "lost album" but rather the document of a feverishly creative group of young women shooting sparks in just about every direction. As such, it's a scattered listen -- audio fidelity, quality and mood varying quite a bit from track to track -- but what it lacks in cohesion it more than makes up for in stand-out tracks, even if they sound like they could have been recorded by half a dozen different groups. The easy reference for most of these songs is LiLiPUT in their herky-jerky exuberance, but "The Look" works lively, pre-Beat Happening naivete, "Easy Escapes" is lithe like the Au Pairs, with shimmering guitars and acrobatic bass, "High Stress" shows the influence of the D.C. punk scene. It's fair to say that if they had released a handful of these tracks as 45s in the early 80s, Chalk Circle would be legendary by now. This LP has its ups and downs but should be essential listening for fans of the Neo Boys or anyone interested in early American regional punk scenes. Comes with a full color, interesting(the Chalk Circle girls were friends with young Henry Rollins and pre-Minor Threat Ian MacKaye) if not enlightening booklet with many photos and press clippings. $11
Thursday, April 7, 2011
After a delay, here's the last of the three new Gift Tapes:
Matt Carlson - Gecko Dream Levels - Gift Tapes $7
Zero-gravity synthesizer music from half of Golden Retriever. These tracks bubble and wobble, lurch, skitter, tumble and hiccup. Super weird, super deep. If you're (also) tired of easy-breezy synth noodling, or if you're interested in music that rewards serious engagement, then this tape is for you. I mean, isn't the best synthesizer music all about realizing the zonked alternate-universe in one's mind?
Eggy mail-order.
Matt Carlson - Gecko Dream Levels - Gift Tapes $7
Zero-gravity synthesizer music from half of Golden Retriever. These tracks bubble and wobble, lurch, skitter, tumble and hiccup. Super weird, super deep. If you're (also) tired of easy-breezy synth noodling, or if you're interested in music that rewards serious engagement, then this tape is for you. I mean, isn't the best synthesizer music all about realizing the zonked alternate-universe in one's mind?
Eggy mail-order.
Matt Carlson - Bird Level from Brenna Murphy on Vimeo.
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