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Brainwashed | Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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May 18th 2008, at St. Mark's Church in New York City, marks an evening where decades of experimental performers from around the world will gather to buoy the spirits of their friend, 2-year-old Myat Moondog Haggart. Confirmed acts include Little Annie, David Grubbs (Squirrel Bait, Gastr Del Sol), Captain Sons and Daughters (Drew McDowall of Coil and artist Kara Bohnenstiel), and DJ J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus, Steroid Maximus, Manorexia). |
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November 21, 22, 23: Boston, The Regent Theatre
This year plays host to old friends, local heroes, and a special day honoring 15 years of KRANKY!
The lineup: Meat Beat Manifesto, Matmos, Stars of the Lid, A Place to Bury Strangers, Little Annie, The Reformed Faction (of Zoviet France), Andrew Liles and Jonathan Coleclough, Nmperign feat. Jason Lescalleet, Marissa Nadler, Glenn Jones, His Name Is Alive, Gary Wilson, Rivulets, Strategy, Nudge, Boduf Songs, Charalambides, To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, Baby Dee, Lichens
Tickets are once again $75 for the entire weekend and they're now available at the Brainwashed Commerce page. See brainwavesfest.org for details on travel, accommodations, and other stuff. |
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Notable collaborations this week include Andrew Liles w/ Fovea Hex and Keiji Haino w/ Masami Akita. Other new releases are due from Terry Riley, Russian Circles, 16 Horsepower, EPs from Four Tet and Animal Collective, and of course we can't overlook Matmos' new full-length. Reissues include several albums each from Polvo, Spoon, and Ornette Coleman. |
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Strange Attractor, the group featuring Neils from Legendary Pink Dots has a new release coming out with guest vocals from Graham Lewis of Wire and He Said. That and other new tracks can be heard on their Myspace page. |
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 The inevitable fallibility of magnetic media can, while being frustrating as all hell to an artist, provide the impetus for an even better creation. Oxide represents such a creative disaster: old cassettes and reels of tape had been accidentally subjected to moisture damage. Instead of tossing them, Scott Konzelmann strung them up and pulled what he could off of the decaying tape and built this new work out of the remnants in his first full length release in quite awhile. |
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 As intimidating as it is impressive, this third and final collaboration between Norway's BJ Nilsen and the Icelandic duo (of Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson) is exceptional. Combining the sort of dynamic and dramatic soundscapes of The Hafler Trio with a darker and less directional approach, the trio have made the sort of uneasy listening that is difficult to bring oneself to listen to but is inescapable once it starts. |
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There is the old adage that "brevity is the soul of wit" which, in some cases, may be true. However, in the case of 16 minute EPs such as this, brevity is more of a frustrating tease than a positive quality. This four track EP, recorded while Bailiff was touring Europe is such a purely compelling piece of work that it makes me wish it was a little bit longer. |
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This delightful vinyl single celebrates the occasion of the inauguration of The Embassy of The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland in Mexico City on 30 August, 2002. It is a perfect demonstration that few things are more serious than well-spun yarns and few things unravel as amusingly as seriousness. |
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 The Independent Film Festival of Boston opened this week at the Somerville Theatre with this new Brad Anderson film. Anderson has a pretty good record so far, with Next Stop Wonderland, Session 9, and The Machinist, so I was rather excited to see his new work. |
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 This is a documentary focusing on gamers who play Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs). It follows a few small groups of gamers distributed around the country, all playing either World of Warcraft (WoW) or Everquest II (EQ2). All are rather committed to their games, some consider themselves addicted, with one entering himself into a 12-step program to try and break is addiction. |
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 Believe it or not, the title only gives a taste of the irony put to tape here. Over the course of 19 songs, Lazy Magnet rummages though almost every form of popular music, sometimes covering several genres in space of a few seconds. Band leader Jeremy Harris and company have the musical chops to pull off such a scatterbrained project, but the silly lyrics and non-stop pastiche get to be wearing. |
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 Body and voice, the two oldest iinstruments known to humankind, are the only ones featured on this album. The group, which is all female by the way, uses rhythmic call and response chants to give archaic stylings to contemporary performance art. The concept in of itself is great, but the Boys' rejection of songwriting makes for a repetitious listening. |
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This Alabama-raised Atlanta-based trio impressed Killer Pimp late last year and we put out plenty of people and feelers in the area. We got them on the same bill as APTBS in Atlanta and Athens and reports were all positive. They've definitely got the loud thing going on but they know both how to arrange songs and how to arrange an album. Fire On Corridor X was produced with Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, P-Diddy, Christina Aguilera) and sounds fantastic. But don't take our word for it: two MP3s are being given away from the album at killerpimp.com and the group is about to embark on a small East Coast US tour to coincide with the release (read on for dates and locations). |
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Jan St. Werner should be no stranger, he's 1/2 of the core of Mouse On Mars and a full time member of Von Südenfed and Microstoria. Mound Magnet pt. 2: Elevations Above Sea Level will be released by Killer Pimp on May 27th. The limited vinyl edition (300 copies) is available through Sonig.com and the MP3s are available from fina-music.com. The CD version by KILLER PIMP contains one bonus track however. |
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 The tenth studio album by Jack Dangers' main musical outlet takes a maximalist approach, combining apocalyptic dubstep and industrial-strength breakbeats with the assimilative spirit of a beat hacker. In the process, he creates an album true to the MBM legacy: one foot in cyber-age cross-genre multimedia assemblage, and one foot firmly planted in the timeless psychedelic ocean of sound. |
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 Having made themselves a household name with their drone collaboration with Sunn O)))'s Altar album, as well as their "breakthrough" (ugh) album Pink, the overly prolific trio have set the bar high with this new full length album. They manage to keep the quality high, though they still don't stray far from the template, and are perhaps heading more and more into conventionality. |
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 The immediate aftermath of Jane's Addiction's disbanding yielded an even split of its membership into two unusual projects. Flamboyant frontman Perry Farrell and drummer Stephen Perkins formed Porno For Pyros, darker and even more psychedelic than their former band. With far less popular success, bassist Eric Avery and guitarist Dave Navarro started Deconstruction, a one-time project with the former taking on vocal responsibilities. |
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 The Public Eyesore label has been extremely prolific in recent years, bringing out some of the most abstract and out of left field works from artists that are either extremely obscure or simply getting their start in the world of sound art. Bob Marsh's disc therefore definitely fits in the raison d'etre of the label, as it is almost impossible to classify, yet has the sense of experimentation and even some sonic similarities to some of the most abstract of the early industrialists. |
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Over a decade since his weeded out, hip-hop tinged hit “Herb Fi Bun” and the corresponding dancehall-geared solo debut Stand Out, the man known to his mom as Everold Dwyer fully extols a sincere love of Jah with this above-average collection. |
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Not just another British dance rock import, this Oxford-based ensemble imbue and invigorate the sagging subgenre with virulent, playful hooks that feel so natural they ought to shame the DFA Records stable in immediate, unconditional retirement. |
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 Cloudland Canyon deliver on the promises of a kraut-rock epic hinted at by their previous releases with their full length debut on kranky. The album traverses a breadth of sounds, embracing funky treadmill grooves, swelling synthesizer baths, and bucolic psych jaunts. |
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 This slice of progressive folk music from the summer of 1970 is a charming recording by the duo of David McNiven and Angie Rew augmented by a rhythm section of Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, on loan from Pentangle. What's so funny about youthful possibility and childhood memory? |
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Current 93, "Nature Unveiled"
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Current 93, "Dogs Blood Rising"
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Nurse With Wound, "Images/Zero Mix (Deluxe Edition)"
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Nurse With Wound, "The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums"
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Flower-Corsano Duo with Thread Pulls
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New Matmos site and video
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Brendan Murray, "Commonwealth"
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Directing Hand, "What Put the Blood"
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The Jimmy Cake, "Spectre & Crown"
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Buck/Fuhler/Zaradny, "Lighton"
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Alessandra Celletti, "Way Out"
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The Gutter Twins, "Saturnalia"
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TBA, "Size And Tears" and Tusia Beridze, "The Other"
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Thomas Brinkmann, "When Horses Die"
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Valet
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White Rainbow
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Aranos, "Mother of Moons Bathing"
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Val Denham & Oli Novadnieks, "Raw Powder"
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Badgerlore, "We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits"
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Sam Shalabi, "Eid"
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The Lines, "Memory Span"
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Alan Licht & Aki Onda, "Everydays"
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The Breeders, "Mountain Battles"
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Pan Sonic, "Kuvaputki"
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New Wire, Bruce Gilbert replaced by Margaret Fiedler live
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Exclusive Art-Document for Organum
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Diamanda Galás, "Guilty Guilty Guilty"
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Section 25, "Dirty Disco (Best of)"
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Andrew Liles & Fovea Hex, "Gone Every Evening"
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Religious Knives, "Resin"
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Excepter, "Debt Dept"
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MGR, "Wavering on the Cresting Heft"
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Starving Weirdos, "Summon with Electronic Sorcery"
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Mouthus, "No Canal"
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Seven That Spells, "The Men From Dystopia"
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Mono, "The Sky Remains the Same as Ever"
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Jack Dangers, "Music for Planetarium"
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Bomb the Bass, "Butterfingers"
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Brainwaves Festival 1 DVD 1 Now Available
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Brainwashed Sponsorship Now Available
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