If you’re in NYC tonight, you should swing by the Issue Project Room to see Peg Simone and Wrekmeister Harmonies. Here’s some additional information, laboriously cut-and-pasted from the venue’s web site:
Peg Simone, out of NYC, employs the slide to bone-chilling effect, fracturing raucous rock choruses and sepia-toned ballads into ghost images with its off-tuned eeriness & pure blues tones stuttering across hectic post-punk rhythms. Her upcoming release “Secrets From The Storm” is due in February/March 2010 & will be released on Table of the Elements. Peg is also a guitarist in Jonathan Kane’s February and collaborated with Kane on the upcoming album for their own 22 minute version of When The Levee Breaks titled “1927/Levee” with intro narrative written by Holly Anderson.
Chicago-based sound artist J.R. Robinson has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US and Europe over the past two years-including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and The Art Center Berlin.
Robinson has injected these recordings into collaborations with some like-minded heavy hitters from the noise, post-rock and jazz worlds such as David Yow (Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid), Mark Shippy & Pat Samson (US Maple), Azita Youssefi, John Herndon & Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Keefe Jackson, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Ken Vandermark. The result (dubbed Wrekmeister Harmonies), is a distinctive hybrid of sound art and avant-garde musics, evoking the essences & influences of masterworks like Joe McPhee’s Nation Time, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music and the sound collages of Stockhausen
Peg Simone and Wrekmeister Harmonies at Issue Project Room Tonight
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Some people have asked if the New Year’s Eve show in Chicago was definitely the last show by the Jesus Lizard. The honest answer is, I don’t know. We don’t have any plans to play any more shows right now, but who knows what might happen. I’m a never-say-never guy to core of my being. If somebody asked us to take a big bag of money to play shows in Japan and Australia, we’d probably grab that bag with both hands. Hell, I’d probably go to those places for free.
People have also asked about how to get their hands on the shirts and posters that were on sale at the 2009 shows. The t-shirts are easy: use the power of the World Wide Web to go to the Kung Fu Store and purchase the three attractive designs shown above.
The posters are a little trickier. A few of them are on sale at the Secret Serpent Store. If you can’t find the poster you want there, search for the artist’s web site. I tried to note the artist where I had the names, but I probably let some slip through the cracks. Sometimes the artist name is in the text of the post, and sometimes you can see it by mousing over the image. If there’s a poster you want in a blog post that doesn’t have the artist’s name, post a comment or shoot me an email and I’ll try to track it down. Finally, we’ll also have an online store of our own up in a few weeks that will have some posters.
Merchandise links:
Secret Serpent Store
Kung Fu Store
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No 941: Chicago, IL
December 31, 2009
Chicago, IL
Metro
the Jesus Lizard
Disappears
Top poster by Jay Ryan
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Happy Hanukkah
Todd Levin answers some of the most common questions about Hanukkah:
There were 12 tribes in ancient Israel, six on the National team and another six on the American team. The menorah holds nine candles, with each flame representing one of the nine tribes that anyone cared about. Sincere apologies to the tribes of Levi, Dan and Expos. Maybe you should have worked harder on your bullpens.
QUESTION #4: DO JEWISH PEOPLE REALLY JUST WISH THEY CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS?
No, but Jewish people do wish they celebrated Easter instead of Passover. Consider the contrast between chocolate bunnies and unsalted matzo, and try to convince an eight-year-old child that he’s one of the chosen people.
Read the whold post: The Myths of Hanukkah
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No. 940: Chicago, IL
November 28, 2009
Chicago, IL
Metro
the Jesus Lizard
Triclops!
Poster by Diana Sudyka
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No. 939: Chicago, IL
November 27, 2009
Chicago, IL
Metro
the Jesus Lizard
Model/Actress
Poster by Dan Crosshair
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No. 938: Pontiac, MI
November 25, 2009
Pontiac, MI
Crofoot Ballroom
the Jesus Lizard
Easy Action
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No. 937: Milwaukee, WI
November 24, 2009
Milwaukee, WI
Turner Hall
the Jesus Lizard
Ifihadahifi
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No. 936: Baltimore, MD
November 20, 2009
Baltimore, MD
Sonar
the Jesus Lizard
Animal Hospital
Double Dagger
Top poster by Brad Klausen
Bottom poster by Nolen Strals
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No. 935: Washington, DC
November 19, 2009
Washington, DC
9:30 Club
the Jesus Lizard
Noveller
Poster by Jay Ryan
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No. 934: Philadelphia, PA
November 18, 2009
Philadephia, PA
Starlight Ballroom
the Jesus Lizard
Noveller
Poster by Dave Hunter
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No. 933: New York, NY
November 17, 2009
New York, NY
The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
the Jesus Lizard
Noveller
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No. 932: New York, NY
November 16, 2009
New York, NY
The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
the Jesus Lizard
Skeleton Key
Poster by Stainboy
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No. 931: Boston, MA
November 14, 2009
Boston, MA
Paradise
the Jesus Lizard
Animal Hospital
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No. 930: Montreal, QC
November 13, 2009
Montreal, QC
Le National
the Jesus Lizard
Grand Trine
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No. 929: Toronto, ON
November 12, 2009
Toronto, ON
Phoenix Concert Theatre
the Jesus Lizard
Brides
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No. 928: Austin, TX
November 7, 2009
Austin, TX
Fun Fun Fun Festival (Black Stage)
the Jesus Lizard
Face to Face
Fucked Up
7 Seconds
Melt Banana
Sword
Russian Circles
Nightmarchers
Young Widows
All Leather
Coliseum
Rat King
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No. 927: Atlanta, GA
November 6, 2009
Atlanta, GA
Variety Playhouse
the Jesus Lizard
All the Saints
Poster by Richie Goodtimes
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No. 926: Carrboro, NC
November 5, 2009
Carrboro, NC
Cat’s Cradle
the Jesus Lizard
Hex Machine
Poster by Lil Tuffy
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We’re going to play New Year’s Eve with Disappears at the Metro in Chicago. This is absolutely, positively the last 2009 show that is going to be added. Ticket go on sale this Saturday.
These are the shows that have been confirmed so far:
| May 9, 2009 | ATP Festival | Minehead, UK |
| May 10, 2009 | ATP Festival | Minehead, UK |
| May 11, 2009 | Forum | London, UK |
| May 27, 2009 | Villette Sonique Festival | Paris, France |
| May 28, 2009 | Primavera Festival | Barcelona, Spain |
| July 14, 2009 | Exit/In | Nashville, TN |
| July 17, 2009 | Pitchfork Music Festival | Chicago, IL |
| July 24, 2009 | Capitol Hill Block Party | Seattle, WA |
| August 21, 2009 | Pukkelpop Festival | Kiewit, Belgium |
| September 11, 2009 | ATP New York Festival | Monticello, NY |
| September 14, 2009 | Paradiso | Amsterdam, NL |
| September 15, 2009 | Festsaal Kreuzberg | Berlin, DE |
| September 16, 2009 | Tavastia Klubi | Helsinki, FI |
| September 17, 2009 | John Dee | Oslo, NO |
| September 18, 2009 | Debaser | Stockholm, SE |
| September 19, 2009 | Spazio 211 | Turin, IT |
| September 20, 2009 | Locomotiv | Bologna, IT |
| September 21, 2009 | Circolo degli Artisti | Rome, IT |
| September 22, 2009 | Button Factory | Dublin, IE |
| October 14, 2009 | Casbah | San Diego, CA |
| October 15, 2009 | Henry Fonda Theater | Los Angeles, CA |
| October 17, 2009 | The Fillmore | San Francisco, CA |
| October 22, 2009 | Crystal Ballroom | Portland, OR |
| October 23, 2009 | Neumos | Seattle, WA |
| October 24, 2009 | Commodore Ballroom | Vancouver, BC |
| November 5, 2009 | Cat’s Cradle | Carrboro, NC |
| November 6, 2009 | Variety Playhouse | Atlanta, GA |
| November 7, 2009 | Fun Fun Fun Festival | Austin, TX |
| November 12, 2009 | Phoenix Concert Theatre | Toronto, ON |
| November 13, 2009 | Le National | Montreal, QC |
| November 14, 2009 | Paradise | Boston, MA |
| November 16, 2009 | The Fillmore at Irving Plaza | New York City, NY |
| November 17, 2009 | The Fillmore at Irving Plaza | New York City, NY |
| November 18, 2009 | Starlight Ballroom | Philadelphia, PA |
| November 19, 2009 | 9:30 Club | Washington, DC |
| November 20, 2009 | Sonar | Baltimore, MD |
| November 24, 2009 | Turner Hall | Milwaukee, WI |
| November 25, 2009 | Crofoot Ballroom | Pontiac, MI |
| November 27, 2009 | Metro | Chicago, IL |
| November 28, 2009 | Metro | Chicago, IL |
| December 31, 2009 | Metro | Chicago, IL |
(Photo: Achim Friederich)
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No. 925: Brooklyn, NY
October 31, 2009
Vice Magazine 15th Anniversary Party
Titus Andronicus & Children
Bad Brains
the Jesus Lizard
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From The Guardian:
Sopo, who arrived in the US in about 2003, made a living selling roses in Seattle nightclubs until, according to prosecutors, he moved on to bank fraud. He apparently drove a rented car to Mexico in late February after learning that federal agents were investigating the fraud scheme.
Investigators scoured social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace but initially could find no trace of him and were unable to pin down his location in Mexico.
Although Sopo’s profile was set to private, his list of friends was not. Scoville started combing through it and was surprised to see that one friend listed an affiliation with the justice department. He sent a message requesting a phone call.
“We figured this was a person we could probably trust to keep our inquiry discreet,” Scoville said.
Proving the 2.0 adage that a friend on Facebook is rarely a friend indeed, the former official said he had met Sopo in Cancun’s nightclubs a few times, but did not really know him and had no idea he was a fugitive. The official learned where Sopo was living and passed that information back to Scoville, who provided it to Mexican authorities. They arrested Sopo last month.
Link to story in the Guardian.
(hat tip: Schneier on Security)
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No. 924: Vancouver, BC
October 24, 2009
Vancouver, BC
Commodore Ballroom
the Jesus Lizard
Womankind
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No. 923: Seattle, WA
October 23, 2009
Seattle, WA
Neumo’s
the Jesus Lizard
Black Elk
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No. 922: Portland, OR
October 22, 2009
Portland, OR
Crystal Ballroom
the Jesus Lizard
Black Elk
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