Time to Plug Your Band/Project

phil

how did it happen kate?

We should also have a subscription magazine, a bit like THE CHAP.

We haven't actually tried to play anything yet. WE ARE GRATE!

i don't want to make dance music fit to the current styles, and some synths i have access to don't sound like the classic cliche synth gimmick sounds (unless you really want them to) or the current intelligent dance music type of stuff which in all cases would be boring anyway

ok i'm very lazy, but getting these musicians into position to play the machines has been a step too far from almost anyone i've discussed the idea with

ok i'm probably a horribly argumentative and pedantic person to get on with in any case, but "techno-phobia" on my part (dance music) and others (how does this synth work ?) just means stuff isn't getting done -- ever wonder why it's just the one guy usually doing synth stuff or singer + synth player in "synth duo" ?

honorary exception to duane who can play the synth but prefers the drums qua space dust -- duane simply plays synths intuitively and it works well

dishonorary exception to prats in auckland (a completely different new zealand city on a different island) who collect old synths to no good use except perhaps apeing everything we've heard from london anyway

What we sound like : sort of noisy Factory-pop. Plenty of cheap guitar, shouting and synths.

Best Songs - "Why Does The Hero Get The Girl when The Hero is a Bastard?", "Apologize" and "Back To the Start"

Will play live for the first time for 15 years later in 2002 in some suitably shit London venue. Possibly with Fractured and I, Ludicrous. Hopefully some of you will come see us/throw things/fall over.

cantankerous tumor: (the name we held the longest, although it seemed to change every week or so), tortured the suburban south eastern pa/delaware/nj vfw hall circuit between 1993-1994 by playing copped birthday party moves (being too young and stupid to know they were ripped from the bell of the stooges anyway), while i abused a keyboard and played david yow. (geeta, if yr reading, this is where the now infamous "i threw up on a cross once" took place. i guess this could also go in the "has anyone thrown up on stage" thread too.) there are no recordings extant (thank god.)

fatty arbuckle: burbled to the surface between 1996-99, playing mostly "happenings" (i.e. out of windows, on the street, setting up between other bands sets, birthday parties, etc.) musically we came somewhere between pussy galore/neubauten or the dead c trying to cover throbbing gristle. (this was mostly because of ineptitude and equipment. i doubt any of the other members had even heard any of those bands at that point.) greatest moment: playing halloween 99 as the fall, thereby allowing me to live out one of my only fantasies. there is one demo tape, thankfully mostly destroyed, and a few video tapes. (including one of me in a robot costume which caught on fire. if only we had lived in rhode island, we might have been accepted...)

i also performed as a "dj" opening for my friend alexis' band in nyc a few times in 99 and 00. mostly i would do otomo yoshihide style turntable abuse (no records, playing the stylus directly on the mat or on other "surfaces" [sandpaper, etc.]) and other manhandled consumer electronics. greatest moment: clearning out an entire room full of snotty nyc hipsters with 20 minutes of drone, and then being threatened to "have my ass kicked" by the owner. ingrate.

Thanks -- but please, not in the office. :)

two new tracks

comments appreciated.

I was in a band called The Poconos before that. You can purchase our Jigsaw 7" at Indiepages for $2.00. Jigsaw's Chris seriously overestimated the demand for such a project, which means you the consumer benefit from the surplus. :)

I also do some freelance writing - just had a fairly substantial Langley Schools Music Project interview in the latest issue of Scram - and very occasionally DJ at shows here in Seattle.

Just a one-off for now, but I might do it again. Puts together lots of my recent thorts on the state of pop music in a sort of mad rush of typing.

A local Long Beach coffee bar that I frequent has been bullying me into playing a show there even after repeated warnings that it'll probably be me droning a guitar over a laptop backing track. So I suppose something will come out of this too.

Don't forget the legendary DUI, Chris.

I'd love to hear what you think. In fact to further plug the band :) ... we have a gig this fri in the betsey trottwood near farrington.

We're based in holloway, London and its loadsa fun.

#1:

http://home.earthlink.net/~mosurock/images/shocker_final.gif

(not DJing this time but I am running tings, and it's my birthday party)

#2: Friday, Feb 28th @ Lit (93 2nd Ave., NYC), 11p-4a

#3: Saturday, March 8th @ Pianos (158 Ludlow, NYC), upstairs, all night

#4: Sunday, March 9th @ Starfoods (1st St. btw. 1st & 2nd, NYC), NY Underground Film Fest wrap party w/ Castro and other bands

#5: Friday, March 14th @ Lit, 11p-4a

#6: (tent) Datsuns/Electric Six/D4 show(s) @ the Bowery Ballroom, 3/24(-25)

#7: Friday, March 28th @ Lit

also: www.versioncityrecords.com

We are called The Electric Bubblegum Arkestra and we sound a bit like a cross between Stereolab, New Order and The Monkees. Actually, no, make that we sound a lot like New Order, considering we just spent half the day sampling them.

If you'd like to see us live, and you live anywhere near London, come down and see us this Friday (that would be the 21st February) at the Metro Club on Oxford Street. I think we're on about 8.30, so don't blink or you'll miss us.

Oh, and I think I'm DJ-ing again at the CTCL night on Saturday 22nd at the Buffalo Bars. Don't know what time.

band: the holy molys
girly pop, but with pretty noisy guitars...

hey doug, sorry for not emailing you back, I'll email you today...

Currently:
Chinese Girls
Affection
W/O
Les Attaques
Sewer Horse
The Last Call Band

Previously:
Wilky May
Country Florist
Office Supply Bandits
Ditchwater
Courtney's Love Hole (very, very proud of that one)

disclaimer - the DGF track on the ILX Comp has nothing to do with isolation tanks, Scando installationism and cheap drugs. Swear down.

http://website.lineone.net/~psf/index.html

(and another one we just finished recording on the way.)

http://www.myspace.com/americanaltitude
http://www.americanaltitude.com

Call it post-country or country prog, I guess. Not signed to a label yet, but have started working with a fairly big manager. Have gotten press, including Village Voice, Philly Weekly, Pittsburgh City Paper, Creative Loafing. Have opened for Dickie Betts, Robyn Hitchcock, Nina Nastasia, Clem Snide, Papa M.

www.angelfire.com/electronic2/clonefeed
www.myspace.com/clonefeed
www.purevolume.com/clonefeed
www.download.com/clonefeed

writing: i write a column with sara sherr for XLR8R magazine. also, i write for rockpile. [publicists, send me your bands stuff!]

djing: i dj for WPRB in princeton, nj. creepy old men call me and try to figure out how old i am.

babysitting: i book shows in philadelphia. see: plain parade.

i slice, dice and even make julienned fries.

i dont mind calls from my friends, though.

Mama Digdown's Brass Band is still working up tunes for the next album. We might be doing a Mowtown thing instead of just Jackson tunes, for obvious reasons.

The Cleft & Cloven (my electronic group) record is going really well, if a little slowly because my partner is busy with his other band. There should be a new website very soon. I just finished up a dn'b tune that's pretty crazy and the current in-progress tune is a brass band/dancehall joint with lots of horns and shit.

Eh, I guess I'll bite. These are some songs I've been doing haphazardly in my dorm. When I get back home in the summer, I'm starting up an actual band with some friends which will be some bastard spawn of N.E.R.D. and Primal Scream. And also, a french horn will get worked in there.

http://www.myspace.com/cherry2000

The Village Voice called me a "Russian label whore" (off a particularly snooty press release, though).

the band's in brooklyn, the label's in sydney, but that's only 'cause we were unable to find any labels in brooklyn who had either smudge or sneeze on the roster, which was our entire criteria when seeking a home.

thx - hopefully the music lives up to 'em.

anyone wanna help me book a west coast tour? I find the logistics really daunting, but I don't think there's any better way for people to find out about us.

http://www.emptysetband.com/

Shakey, if you need help getting a Portland show, I may be able to help out.

anyone in LA wanna help us with a show there? anyone? beuller?

if you need a show hook up for nashville... let me know. i can pass on notes to a couple people.
m.

btw, when I say "release" I just mean "print out some artwork and give it to a couple friends."

There are some MP3s on my websitethat I should update sooner or later.

http://www.myspace.com/mapsofnorway

I played bass on all the mp3s and the full-length listed on the site.

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Used to sing and play bass in a band called Fake Cops. You can hear me screeching on the mp3s on that site.

Now I'm figuring out the intracacies of DAW recording so I can get a solo project underway, which will vacilate between:
- pop songs
- kraut/japanese psych rock
- dsp guitar, elongated acoustic drone

download the songs here and then find out more about the band here.

the songs were made to be shared, so tell everyone you know, and feel free to propagate them over any networks you feel fit.

http://www.myspace.com/fauxreal

imagine a band where the first thing was to immediatly make people not want to listen. then, do the exact opposite on the next release.

now, we're back like a bad VD you can't get rid of, just hide from.

It's the project of Dan Smith, a sometime Will Oldham side-man. It's good -- literary, funny, and also kind of creepy. Filling out the band will be the bass player for The Occasion and the guitarist from my band, American Altitude.

E-mail me if you want a track and I'll send you one.

ROCK!

http://www.cadenceweapon.com

My band - The A Forest (www.theaforest.co.uk) though there's not much recorded for you to listen to, we did have a split 7" out at the end of last year. We're part-way through the recording of our album, which should be out at the end of this year or start of next.

We're from Chicago and play out about once a month and we are real, genuine article power pop. Lots of harmonies and lots of melody. Our entire EP is available 4 FREE and located in the "Steal" section and we have a music video as well that was done by the same director of the new Viva Voce video.
Our next show is July 16th in Chicago - come see for yourself if you're in the Dirty Chi!

I encourage you to check the site regularly if you dig it, I and some others are starting to really get it rolling and it will update a lot, hopefully. We don't really enjoy sticking to one style, so there should be a pretty good variety of stuff if one thing don't float yr boat.

www.myspace.com/americanaltitude

(it's in french, though).

you can download some tracks in "propagande".

I like Pullman. It's nice Sunday morning music.

/www.spielerfrau.com

I'm not in it. They're friends. Sorry to plug anyway, but they're fun..and perform in kilts.

1. Prelude -- http://home.earthlink.net/~naiveteenidol/Prelude.mp3
2. Mary Gee -- http://home.earthlink.net/~naiveteenidol/Mary%20Gee.mp3
3. Long Way Down --
http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjweiner/Long%20Way%20Down.mp3
4. Herb Alpert Is God --
http://home.earthlink.net/~goneboy/Herb%20Alpert%20Is%20God.mp3
5. Aside -- http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewweiner/Aside.mp3
6. Red and Black --
http://home.earthlink.net/~goneboyrecords/Red%20and%20Black.mp3
7. Nick Nolte -- http://home.earthlink.net/~goneboyrecords/Nick%20Nolte.mp3
8. Secondhand -- http://home.earthlink.net/~goneboyrecord/Secondhand.mp3
9. Goneboys -- http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjweiner/Goneboys.mp3
10. Smartypants -- http://home.earthlink.net/~goneboy/Smartypants.mp3
11. Guess I'm Dumb --
http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewweiner/Guess%20I'm%20Dumb.mp3

and for the very very curious there's this: ihttp://www.myspace.com/affectionlr

myspace for affection with some other tunes that my bandmate set up for kicks. there's some bloody awful looking pic of me on there, though. beware.

http://www.chemistryexperiment.co.uk/records/melancholydeath/index.html

Really liked your songs, Naive Teen Idol - "Mary Gee" especially.

August 16: The Black Cat, Washington, DC
August 27: Laughing Lizard Lounge, Alexandria, VA
August 28: Continental, New York, NY (first show in NYC; w00t.)
September 17: Staccato Lounge, Washington, DC
October 16: DC9, Washington, DC

For more information than you could really ever want, see http://www.listentothefranchise.com or http://www.cdbaby.com/thefranchise.

(Sound samples on the first site are old and not especially representative--little too folkypoppy. Album songs are closer to what is happening now.)

Click on the mp3 page for three new tracks.

We're just pressing our first album which we recorded in a church hall in cornwall last summer with a good friend. All exciting stuff, well for us anyway :)

The newest mp3's are at http://www.myspace.com/hundredhanded

I guess one might say our influences are Bowie, Roxy Music, Fugazi...
Any comments welcome :)

Two full albums of Techno and Weirdtronica.

That is, my band, the Franchise, is playing at Continental on Sunday, August 28, at 9:45. You could come to the show. Or, you know, not.

FAG : Saturday September 3rd. Fractured and The Shimura Curves

It's fun, usually.

http://www.poisbem.com/portal/mzk/sqetch/body_sqetch_homemade.htm

http://www.igetrvng.com/shop_mx4.html

My band: Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds -- our new album is out next month. It's called "Philosophy and Underwear", out on TransSolar Records. The promos are out in Europe so won't be surprised if it's leaked soon. Fans of Kid's past stuff will be pleasantly surprised, methinks. Touring all over Europe this autumn (hurrah!) -- I hope we get to play Optimo!

We're doing a show as part of the Howl Festival here on NYC this Saturday, the 27th, btw.

The stuff on that page, excepting the Blind Bird demo, is all over two years old. We're recording a new one right now.

http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/index.html

You have to watch an ad but the whole section is worth it - a bunch of well-curated free downloads there.

http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LP0D2VGCWOP435DS9YTC36LGU

Apples
Reynard
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href="http://www.tugboatonline.com/mp3/war_against_silence.mp3">War Against
Silence

http://www.tugboatonline.com

we are thinking of having regular sunday afternoon practices/jam sessions if anyone wants to come over and sit in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVl_aLDbXI&feature=channel&list=UL

I slapped a rekkid up on Bandcamp awhile back. Sort of a hodge podge of power pop, 90s indie and Tropicalia.

http://brookerbuckingham.bandcamp.com

Before the other three people sue me to take this down, here's my pickup band from three years ago. We're doing Robert Pollard's "Subspace Biographies," the Ramones' "Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy," and CVB's "Take the Skinheads Bowling"--just in case it sounds like undifferentiated drone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AteuasGZ7Y&list=HL1353307251&feature=mh_lolz

you played in the Doctor Who minisode?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLsrV1oRze8

Not my band but i'm trying to help them out with a few things in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGpTxiDMCA

Available for gigs, interviews, festivals, etc

Mine too, festivals especially.

Am I the only person who gets an Israeli fascist right wing demonstration video instead of clemenza's band?

I see, from left to right, a drummer, a bassist, a guitarist (whom I think is clemenza), and a guitarist/singer.

bizarre

I see that glass wave video from another thread. I think clemenza's link is showing the last youtube you watched. It's either a mistake, or clemenza is pulling some sort of Time Magazine's person of the year deal.

That's weird--the link works fine for me, and seems to work for snoball too. Here it is again, non-embedded:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AteuasGZ7Y

Am I the only person who gets an Israeli fascist right wing demonstration video instead of clemenza's band?

i get what is apparently a playlist of my recent youtube favorites. as far as i can tell clemenza's band is a mirror that reflects back into your soul?

Did a bit of a half-baked job plugging ¢h@r1i€ $tr@ight earlier so should probably elaborate on YouTube clip. They're a big band in their domestic market (won an MTV Europe award and Czech equivalent to the Brits) but are having to start from the bottom of the ladder elsewhere. I usually have a knee-jerk hatred of Anglophile indie-pop but they are genuinely very good and I think they could fit in quite well on mainstream radio across Europe and particularly in the UK. Aside from a glowing mention in The Guardian in the summer they haven't really had much attention in the press here.

If anyone is interested in booking or interviewing them, let me know. The lead singer is very funny and engaging.

I have a few things out there in the shops right now: HASSAN ( on L.I.E.S. label) and MMT Tapes ( 4 12" records/ unknown label). Electronic things.

a mix of electronic demos and DJ mixes...

http://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless

I'm not trying to brag or anything but my mom will listen to my 2008 joint every now and again. As for my one from 2010 it just rocks too hard for her tastes. Point of reference, she's into Adele, Elton John, Il Divo - that whole scene.
http://moxnoy.bandcamp.com/

:)

Just put out a 7", excerpt here. E-mail me if you want MP3s.