no wave ain't dead or are the magik markers not as good as they sound like on first listen?

I don't think that there are other bands like this. Full of shit or not, they aren't like anything else I've ever seen.

They're not no wave. They're no good.

check it out
http://circusoffools.blogspot.com/

they're great, IMHO, by the way

So, it's not just Harry Pussy + Lake of Dracula or something again? (Just going off of what I heard on the mp3 and saw on the video now.)

The video: kind of embarrassing, though the bass player looks like she's on her way to an art history class at Smith, which makes for a nice contrast with the rest of the group. I'd guess that the lead singer saw Darby Crash in Decline of Western Civ. once. I love the indie geek in the front row studiously recording all the "craziness."

Sorry.

The bassist is Leah, she attends Concordia here in Montreal, but I don't think she's attending the art school, maybe lit?

Sorry, I was just fooling around anyway. I haven't heard them.

http://www.magikmarkers.com/movies/MM7-25-04.mov

seems more promising.

they were different the first time I heard them; more like the record, by your descriptions {though i haven't heard it yet)--with more of a post-punk vibe.

AND GIVE ME THE URL WHERE YOU BUY IT, COS IM TOO LAZY TO GO SEARCH FOR IT!!!11ONEO!NE

THE MAGIK MARKERS set release date, track list for new Ecstatic Peace album, BOSS

The Magik Markers are Elisa Ambrosio and Pete Nolan. The band will release its first studio album, BOSS via Ecstatic Peace on Sept. 25, 2007. The album was produced by Lee Ranaldo. The Markers will tour the US starting October 1 joined by Willie and Lester.

VIDEO: Lee Ranaldo talks about the making of BOSS - http://youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac

THE MAGIK MARKERS
“…It is like walking around with a gun in your pocket. Know what I mean? When you have the energy of the universe burning through your meat, you have to be quick on the grill with a good rub or marinade because you know that you can explode at any time; you can take care of anything on any level and be so intense that people would just be blown back from you and have a heart attack in a parked car. So you have to be cool; it's like Superman ice cream, with legs, walking around.” Margot Kidder, 1995

When confronted with an example of magnificence in nature, such as a waterfall, Jane Goodall reported that the chimpanzees she observed were captivated, as if in awe of the beauty of the world. On BOSS, the Magik Markers have tried to capture the awe of Brooklyn. A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previous recorded material is present on BOSS, a high concept record tackling the political career of late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. "The linear progression from experimental rock to world beat was mapped out by David Byrne, we're just sailors on that ship now," said frontwomyn Elisa. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the broads like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Buddy Guy, or the black hole rhythms of Visage. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; BOSS is that vision made manifest. The tug of war the Markers enact, the way they are fully prepared to start yanking their world apart as they find themselves losing their place in, makes moot possibilities of greatness or mediocrity. It makes them unapologetic soothsayers with their ears pressed to the ground, waiting for footsteps. Drummer Pete Nolan adds, "Hit points aren't attained by just rolling a 15-sided die".

With Nolan, we finally hear what Steven Hawking would have sounded like had he sallied with the drums instead of getting seduced by the easy praise of brainiac status. Like Phylicia Rashad squeezed into the capri pants of Kim Gordon, Nolan drums like there are hell hounds at his heels but he just can’t be bothered. Here both laconic and frenzied, Nolan’s drumming arms reach out like an octopus’s: playing Playstation 3, frantically searching for a hitter, building a Elvin Jones effigy for the next Burning Man. As a pianist, Nolan reminds us that the piano is a percussive, sounding very much like a limbless Bruce Hornsby. Nolan is easy to underestimate, but finally, here is high fidelity record of the strange soul of one of America’s most natural and quizzical musical mimes.

In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, “I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on pants and focus on beards." BOSS stands as the Markers’ first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. Ambrogio is not easy to categorize.

Nose deep in Evan Williams Bourbon and frequent trips to H&M, Ambrogio’s lyrics are like a transcription of a lunchtime argument at Ruby Tuesday between Ann Wedgeworth and Richard Kline. A guitarist whose notes form question and hatchet marks with equal measure, a musical humility to the point of ingratiation fused with all visible seams to grandiose self-importance speeds through her playing. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Glenn Tipton wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of P.O.D. and LEN, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like she avoids telling people about her HPV. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full blown revival show with an audience of awkward dudes in their late 20s; it is Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel’s horn, and a merch table with a mountain of CDRs for sale. Art Alexakis wrote: "Things changed back in 75, we were all growing up on the in and the outside, we got in trouble with the police man, we got busted gettin high in the back of my friends van."

The Magik Markers were there.

THE MAGIK MARKERS - BOSS TRACK LIST:

1. Eagles
2. Desperado
3. On The Border
4. One Of These Nights
5. Hotel California
6. Everybody's Trying To Feed My Baby
7. The Long Run
8. Hell Freezes Over
9. Sonic Youth

Press photo:
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/studentorgs/sube/resources/photos/10-3-06%20(Capital%20One)/crowd.JPG

Ecstatic Peace artist page:
http://www.astradur.is/menu/kynsjukdomar/images/herpes.jpg

Memo to PR writers: please stop trying to copy me because you can't do it. It's like Roger Kitter doing McEnroe.

Is the record cover one of the girls just passively laying there while a guy is punching her in the face?? Yeah, that's cool. Way to set feminism back 20 years.
-- samy (Elisa), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:14 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Were these fake Elisa posts, I recall her posting her but, er, hardly at all

I guess it was her, she apparently to my post about them at Noise Against Fascism on this thread: DC tonight: NOISE AGAINST FACISM

Memo to PR writers: please stop trying

FIXEDD.

http://www.dragcity.com/news/775

new album! 'surrender to the fantasy'

is that track-listing for real up there? they are big eagles fans?

i still have never heard them i don't think.

Magik Markers were really good last time I saw them. Much more slow-burn psych than the old bludgeon, and it suited them well. Interested to see what the record will be like.