Friday, April 24, 2009

Hear Here for April 24 - 30

FRIDAY:
Club Helsinki: Frank Carillo & the Bandoleros (9pm)
Mahaiwe: Rufus Wainwright, Sloan Wainwright (8pm)
Main St. Public House: Abby Lappen (8:30pm)
Castle St.: BTUs
Dream Away Lodge: Rosewood Thieves
Mission: Jenee Halstead with Donovan Roberts (8pm)
Iron Horse: Junior Brown, The Lonesome Brothers (7pm)
Pearl St: Granola Funk Express, Elijah Divine, DJ megha (9pm)
The Elevens: Jackhammer Soul (7-10pm)
Hampshire College Tavern: Jets and snakes, the Government, boomsnake, hawaiian boyfriend (8pm)
21 center st. basemenet noho: Lord Jeff, prince rama of ayodhya, truman peyote (9:30pm)
Valentine's: The Erotics, Demons Alley, Hijinx, Roller Rockers (8pm)
Northern Lights: Tesla, The Leo Project, Damage
Red Square: Boombox, Peace Stormwind & Jeff Bujak (8pm)
Revolution Hall: goodship Offical Unofficial TNO Afterparty w/ the Jerks (back from japan + jenks), McGillicuddy
The Linda: Justin Townes Earle
Caffe Lena: Red Molly

SATURDAY:
Mahaiwe: Close Encounter With Music: Beethoven and Shostakovich (6pm)
Club Helsinki: The Overtakers (9pm)
Castle St.: Mike Schiffer Duo
Dream Away Lodge: Chris Merendia, Milton
Mission: Mark Erelli (8pm)
Rebel Sound Records: The Damaged, White Boys Can't Jump, This Name is Taken (7pm)
Iron Horse: The Nields (7pm)
Iron Horse: Gokh-Bi System (10pm)
The Elevens: Space Captain, Our Mothers are Gods, Color, The Devil's Moses
Valentine's: Machete, Problem with Dragons, Vermin Feast (9pm)
The Egg: Mark O'Connor (7:30pm)
Northern Lights: Burning Human, Skinless, Brick by Brick, Ashes of Atrocity, The Viking
Red Square: Psylab, Synewave (8:20pm)
Revolution Hall: Moon Boot Lover, Eric Margan and the Red Lions, Matt Durfee
Caffe Lena: Tom & Thomasina Winslow with Nick Katzman
Albany Sonic Arts @ Upstate Artists Guild: Corridors, Benny Nelson/Jay Sullivan, Delicate Sen (8pm)
Brass Cat: Angry Johnny and the Killbillies
Bistro 186: SPF-4

SUNDAY:
Club Helsinki: The Styx County Fair (8pm)
Iron Horse: Ponytail, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Rabbit Rabbit (8:30pm)
The Elevens: The Trials & Tribulations, Dame Satan (SF), Saint Solitude (NC), Sore Eros, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (ME)
Caffe Lena: Anais Mitchell

MONDAY:
Club Helsinki: Yellow House Jazz Band (7pm)
The Elevens: Bunnys A Swine, Whoreafrost, Technoir MA, The Static, Amargosa
Valentine's: Hjertestop, Anal Warhead, Reagan's Still Dead (7pm)

TUESDAY:
Iron Horse: Sara Walkins of Nickel Creek, Brooke Brown-Saracino (7pm)
Northern Lights: Gavin Rossdale, Endless Hallway
Red Square: Ninja Academy (8:20pm)

WEDNESDAY:
Iron Horse: Allan Holdsworth Trio (7pm)
Rendezvous (turners falls): QFWFQ Duo, K Olive McKeon (+Lily Gold), Kate Rainy, Gerald Clark III
Valentine's: The Deadbeats (10pm)
Northern LIghts: Family Force 5, 30H!3, The Maine, Hit the Lights, A Rocket To the Moon

THURSDAY:
Iron Horse: Smokin' Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King (7pm)
Valentine's: The Dirties, The Whack Jobs (9pm)
Northern Lights: Eve 6, Young and Divine, Last Minute Letter
Red Square: Sugarproof, Deja (8pm)

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Hear Here April 8 & 10 2009

Friday April 10

Helsinki
MOTHER FLETCHER - play girlfriend

Flavours
Chris Merenda -- Play Pretty Girl Medley

Dreamaway
Luke Bob Bates
http://myspace.com/poorbecketrebels
Play PBR's Becket

Elevens
HAUNT - "You Are Loved"
w// THE DIG / THE BRASS / BLIZZARD OF 78'

Valentines Down
ROOT-A-RAMA #3
RED HAIRED STRANGERS/DIEGO/TERN ROUNDERS/
BUFFALOBUFFALOBUFFALO - Play all in this together from FREE Phobiaphilia EP

Valentines Up
THE FELICE BROTHERS - Big Surprise
WILLY MASON

Castle Street Cafe
Lincoln Mayorga Duo, Piano; Otto Gardner, Bass

Mission Bar
Bernice Lewis

Railway Cafe
Garnet Rogers

Saturday April 11

Helsinki
SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES with Ryan S. Arnold
Play - SB Do it for Free from new Stars are Out CD
Play - RA Hollywood Hills

Mission Bar
Chris Veccia - Play Change this world

Iron Horse
Jeffrey Foucault, -- Play Speed of the sound of lonliness (John Prine cover record)
Rusty Belle -- hell in the consolation prize

Dreamaway
Bernice Lewis - Play She undoes

Mass MoCA
Harriet Tubman
Play Adapted

Brass Cat 9:30
THE EXCUSES and NO INTENTION

Calvin Theater
Gaelic Storm - What's the Rumpus
movie Titanic "Steerage band"

Castle Street
Vince Prudent Duo, Trombone

Monday April 13

Elevens
GEORGE MYERS PRESENTS EXPERIMENTAL BANDS AND DJS:
CHILD BRIDE (from Baltimore) - play Acid Sin Too
more TBA

Wednesday April 15

Mission Bar
Jess Hume

April 16

Firefly 8pm
Justin Allen Solo

Thursday, Apr 16, 2009
The Bookmill: 440 Greenfield Rd. Montague, MA
http://www.montaguebookmill.com/
\An Evening with Dr. Eugene Chadbourne At The Montague Bookmill Thursday, April 16, 8 pm Since recording his first record in 1976, Eugene Chadbourne has oscillated determinedly between the worlds of free improvisation, modern composition and the broad tapestry of American popular music that wall-papers his musical imagination. Initially inspired by rock n roll guitarists, Chadbourne quickly outgrew the limitations of the form, and instead chose to refuse the sorts of idiomatic constraints that tend to place an artist into a cul de sac of easy categorization. Collectively, Chadbourne's discography is an orgy of compulsive improvisation, serial collaboration, pranksterish humor, radical critique, psychedelic overkill and loving homage to the same set of musical edifices that he's spent more than thirty years demolishing. These are characteristics equally applicable to his live performances undertaken on guitar, banjo and a number of electrified household and/or stringed implements. Even at his most demented Chadbourne has never been less than relevant, and more often than not these musical detonations provide perfect counterpoint to his relentless critique of a world gone mad.

THURSDAY APRIL 16th
8pm http://www.albanysonicarts.blogspot.com/
UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
Area C - play Composition Journal
Mudboy - Play Mudbeats Vol III side A excerpt
Holland Hopson

Area C is Erik Carlson, a composer, media artist and architect based in Providence, RI. His work examines sound as an evocative presence, often acting as a marker, in the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. Since 2002 he has been recording and performing under the name AREA C, whose compositions work with timbre, texture and live loops, exploring cyclical relationships and the details of their decay over time. Improvisation plays an important part in both recordings and live performances, encompassing extended explorations of minimal rhythm and melody, drawing on remnants of other times and places, outdated and untested technologies, signals sent out but never received

Mudboy is also from Providence RI, and has been described as a "doctor of experimental organomics", a patch-cable conjurer, and a shadowy avant provocateur. Musically he casts a hypnotic spell that should not be missed.

Holland Hopson is a founding member of ASAC. He is also a composer, improviser and electronic artist. As an instrumentalist, he performs on soprano saxaphone, clawhammer banjo, and electronics. He has performed at ASAC numerous times, and each time has wowed audiences with his musical mastery. He was last seen swimming in the "River of Drone", a 12-hour live drone performance at the Upstate Artists Guild in November 2008.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Hear Here April 1 and 3, 2009

Friday, April 3

The Spring Folly Apr 3 8pm-12
(St Joe’s HS Gym)

The ultimate April Fools Day bash. Costume ball/ dance party extravaganza amidst a museum of bizarre curiosities, with gypsies, jesters, stilt-walking and more. Performances bBella’s Bartok (extreme klezmer/gypsy punk/folk) and skits by “Those Two Guys.” DJ, cash bar, popcorn, cotton candy, and surprises.

Bella’s Bartok - Satan's Song

Pearl Street
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Asteroid #4 - Play Hold On

Colonial Theatre
Inca Son: Music and Dance of the Andes
Play Suenos from 2008 Ascope, Tierra del Amanecer

Valentines
ERIC MARGAN AND THE RED LIONS - play Ocean Blue
JETS AND SNAKES/THE GROWN UP NOISE/
ASHLEY POND BAND - play never seen your own face
JARED FUNARI

Helsinki
Matt Smith Band - Play Junkie for your love

Main Street Public House
Headcase - Play Did You Say

Castle Street
Francesca Tanksley Duo, Piano

Flavours
Rev Tor


Saturday, April 4

Helsinki
ALCHEMYSTICS
Play Ive got your number

Dreamaway
Mark Miloff and Sit Down Baby
www.myspace.com/sitdownbaby
Play Baby Please Dont Go

Iron Horse
The Bad Plus - Play Heart of Glass
Wendy Lewis

Bogies
Red Sky

Castle Street
Rob Kopec Duo

Red Square
Mirk and the New Familiars
PLay Forbidden

The Noble Fool (Concert Performance)
The Berkshire Museum Apr 4 3pm; Apr 5 4pm
Soprano soloist and concert director Shana Blake Hill will joined by pianist Alexander Rothvang and guitarist Lawrence Glatt in a journey in song through the many facets of the fool from the silly clown to the village idiot to the fools we make of ourselves in love or striving for social status. Jazz, opera, music theater come to life in this program full of nostalgia and child-like wonder.


Sunday April 5

A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Copperworks Pittsfield April 5 7:30PM
Mixing Eastern European lumbering folk with experimental jazz the group has a facinating sound. From his early beginnings with the now legendary Neutral Milk Hotel, to collaborating with Beirut and Bright Eyes, to mining the music of the world, Jeremy Barnes has been at the forefront of musical experimentation over the last decade.
Play - the way the wind blows

The Egg 7:30
The Lee Shaw Trio with special guest John Medeski
Play - For Now

Monday April 6

Pearl Street
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Play at the Carnival
Cloud Cult Ice Palace - play Trampolining

Helsinki
Evan Randall