it feels like forever since the last show; hope everyone had a great time at captain ahab, sure looks like noah did
Next week’s show will be amazing; those who saw indian jewelry last year will know. I am also very stoked for tan dollar as well as psychic ills and the light rays.
anyone remember last summer’s shows?
strobe out
see you there!
so after failing bbq i’ve thrown that mystery disc from last post into itunes. turns out it’s a band called You Fantastic! which is an enviably great band name. the album is “riddler ep” and all the tracks are untitled. it’s on skingraft.
here’s a taste:
you fantastic! - untitled 9 - riddler ep
what else, what else; stoked to see the dirty projectors this wednesday. i look forward to the tall npr-ites! or, maybe i need not be so negative and instead expect a thorough dance party, capitalizing on every beat heavy second of their set. this video’s been blogged to death but it is quite charming:
ok, work 9-5 is killer, hello fake adult world!
anyone been to the ST VINCENT DE PAUL thrift store in laguna / el toro? they had this insane sale last few days in honor of the USA. i picked up a way too much stuff for way too little coin, so great! it’s cheaper and better organized than the neighboring goodwill and sal-army, so i plan on frequenting it anyway. found a neato stash of CDs today — picked up 3 discs — a wire album, a his name is alive promo CD, and an album that has ridiculous art without any artist / album title / label info. i put it on in the car: it was ambient noise with no regard for utilizing a cd’s fundamental “track” property. that is to say that “songs” would start and stop within tracks on the cd, and i’m pretty sure track 6 was ~10 seconds of silence into some more silence on track 7 with noise starting up again some time deep in. all in all a rousing success. i’ll find some info on theat mystery disc and post it up here. i also picked up a grandma-exercise VHS.
his name is alive’s always been way interesting to me (and by always i mean the relatively short time between my virginal encounter w/ and now); their fondue approach, wait that metaphor doesn’t really work, let’s just go with the cliché, melting pot sound is somehow really organic yet mildly “2001.” their records end up sounding sort of like genre compilations that transcend era, people, and fads. to produce such an output, a certain degree of proficiency with writing and recording is totally needed, resulting in a shifting sound that never sounds…wrong? but never sounds forced, or worse, gimmicky.
his name is alive - bad luck girl - stars on esp
i also ate at hollingshead’s delicatessen. now that is something any resident of orange county needs to do: choice as fuck sandwiches in a cozy market atmosphere. if you like beer, the deli/market doubles (triples?) as a pub: you can get all manner of small-time slash imported beer on tap not to mention that the majority of the ‘market’ component of the store is essentially a pantheon of beers, like a mini-bev mo with a family-owned element that cinches the deal.
tight shows in a few weeks. electro-dance jammer mid-june was sweaty and so fun. thanks to the wizards who fueled the evening’s audio.
ok so i’m done, rad!
recap: last night with surf and math and post-everything at the cross cultural center was awesome. thanks to jon from capillary action for being so on top of everything and making sure that show happened. those dudes have been on tour around the entire world for basically 4 months so do check their nutty chamber-pop tunes out. gestapo khazi tore shit apart at the 11th hour too! paul’s first show as fuzzy knuckles was totally tight and by sunlight brought the shimmering post-roque.
TONIGHT brings with it the most anticipated show of the young summer: the heroes of tongue-firmly-in-cheek (or is it?) sleaze-rave, captain ahab, headline a literally electric evening starring (dashing member of XBXRX vice cooler’s) hawnay troof, the cheerleader spunk of ear pwr, and the bah-roque nes bloops of adventure. $5, beall center, 8pm
things on the horizon: summer shows! a lot of good stuff from now til september. one of my faves, the mighty lone star staters, indian jewelry! made in mexico (ex-arab on radar!) with all leather (locust’s justin pearson!)! other fun stuff!
indian jewelry - walk through fire - we are the wild beast
made in mexico - viva la luz - guerillaton
more: LIFE’S BLOOD will be alive soon. check that! tapes and vinyl and cds forthcoming. groovy!
even more: i start working at ATLUS USA soon. i worked there last summer playing video games all day and writing bug reports. it will be fun probably and a decent amount of $$ = lifesblood etc stay alive.
beyond this: the fall may hold the surprise of a lifetime.
by the way: have you heard the new dirty projectors? that is some quality.
dirty projectors - remade horizon - bitte orca
that CHORUS! that guitar breakdown. it’s so amazing, it sounds like nothing else, so broken up and so slight yet intricate, complex, and fully immersive. the vocals of course, rousing and invigorating. those dirty projectors sure are a cute bunch too…
what else what else what else? who’s sick of pitbull? also, god i hate jamie foxx’s music. F that s. tonight though!
Compilation video I put together with a bunch of bands that played at Acrobatics Everyday during the Winter and Spring of 09
Time band:
00:00 Infinite Body
01:01 Cole ‘Moldy’ Milner
01:33 Au
02:17 Blevin Blectum
02:34 Wonder Wheel
03:05 Sasqrotch
03:24 Robedoor
04:07 Ryland Bouchard
04:58 Drew Danburry
07:18 The Endless Bummer
09:31 No Kids
11:43 Oorutaichi
12:42 Parenthetical Girls
15:16 Italic Indian
16:39 Moon Pearl
18:30 Railcars
20:31 Bleubird
21:13 Astronautalis
god-damn, 3 nights of live music, in so many settings! thursday saw the happy hollows and big whup shred all over the weird arts complex amphitheatre. friday, i went to club avalon and felt out of place, but the field was incredible, SO MUCH BASS. 4 song set, which is totally lame, and yeah, F that weird and obnoxious MC/hype dude up in the DJ booth. the juan maclean started slow; 4-on-the-floor, check, handclaps, check, woah, THEREMIN SOLO, okay neat but the fourth time, getting kind of ooooold. but they had an epic epic epic closer (”7 gates of hell” ?) that blew me away (though it could have just been the fucking bass, holy shit, it was like el niño). dudes in 59fiftys trying to grind up on under-21 honies with no shame, sashaying around and casually, no, accidentally! getting a little touch as their hands danced stiffly up and down the sides of totally (?) disinterested ladies. smoothly spinning around the cap, NOW ur kool dude!
yesterday INK-N-IRON at the queen mary in long beach to see THE SONICS play their only southern california show ever. 3 wall-to-wall floors of tattoo artists from around the world on the boat, some two hundred classic cars all over the place in their chopshop low-riding sparkledust glory, a lot of babies! and live music no one watched. until the woggles, who are like garage rock superheroes who have all the right moves. see them should you ever get a chance; the fuzztones schlocked their way through an hour of garage-honk that was not unlovable but was unmemorable. cut out some of the cheese, dude, rudi! maybe in berlin waxing on and on, wearing a joey ramone haircut, about lovin sex and drugs is not so dated…
and yes, the goddamn SONICS, nearly 50 years later, playing their first ever southern california show. in their 60s right? old. jerry roslie looked really old. but SHIT the guy can still deliver that shrill and destructive howl. STRYCHNINE, ya, YA! they’re going to be back in august, 2 dates in la at the echoplex and sunset junction + somewhere in san diego. be there! all the hits, every last one. if you are curious as to the setlist just grab your sonics record and check off every goddamn track! lo-fi, no-fi, garage rock, whatever-the-hell–it exists because this band wanted to destroy everything before everyone else. unfamiliar–myspace picks up the ball. check out the gnarly graffiti font! summer jams. life-affirming, amazing. shredding amps.
sidenote: graduation is 6 days away. what’s it anyway, just a new hat!
here’s a disc i found laying around the station a while ago. “explosion” by some berkeley no-fi freak-punks called coomers. can’t find antyhing on the internet about these dudes. on the super 8 label, i think, if i remember correctly.
coomers - zombies - explosion
tight stuff that would never exist were it not for the sonics. okay, long post over and out!
if you need more impetus to download the record:
coomers - crowd pleaser - explosion
this is like the first time i have made a ‘mix’ for the purpose of potentially playing sound director in a night-life social situation. i think it’s neat and fun and has enough twists and turns without being too obnoxious.
it’s sort of a big file, so if you’d rather download it, the file is located here.
for the sake of ‘fun’ i’m not gonna reveal the tracklist. if you want to know, though, just ask.
in other news–stoked to say that a couple of really neat artists have just confirmed instudios on my KUCI radio program POSITIVE CONFUSION - june 12th with “so cow” from ireland, playing spunky medium-fi pop, sometimes in korean (?) and june 19th with “chicken little” from nashville, jamming folk punk. if you have a farm animal in your band name and want to play on june 26th, let me know. just kidding?
Here is a video clip of ponytail playing a new song at the PONYTAIL/I HEART LUNG/MOON PEARL show that was on may 16th in the social science trailers
okay so it’s been quite some time without a post here @ acrobatics everyday headquarters. with this in mind let me say that this blog will hitherto be at no loss for content. content always!
firstly, to answer the ever-present question of WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ACROBATICS EVERYDAY since i (sam) am graduating: nothing. while i am going to attempt to draw up some sort of ‘divison-of-labor’ thing so as to ensure that irvine stays on the concert-map for as long as people in irvine want to see good music, in the short-term, nothing is changing.
this thursday JUNE 4, acrobatics everyday will be presenting a free show on behalf of the UCI arts department quarterly BOXED art event. this begins at 6pm with free food and an art opening at the university art gallery. music will start at about 7:30, and will feature BIG WHUP and THE HAPPY HOLLOWS, two mostly-LA based indie-pop bands. probably one of the more accessible-type shows we’ve done in a long time, but given that it’s an outdoor deal that is meant to seamlessly integrate with the art events around…didn’t want to bring the noise for posterity’s sake. not to say big whup and happy hollows are gonna tip toe around their distortion pedals…
a couple of shows post-grad will probably fill out june–a relaxed banger DOS (feat. mike watt + kira roessler) and CAPILLARY ACTION on june 15th and an off-the-fucking-chain face-destruction dance party with CAPTAIN AHAB, HAWNAY TROOF, EAR PWR, and ADVENTURE on june 16th. stay tuned for locations for those two.
with that let me share with you an excellent find i came across some moons ago. aaron dilloway of the ever-relevant wolf eyes recorded this music in 2005 in nepal while his wife did research on something or other. it is the sounds of street performer musicians, sort of like the kinds you see at 3rd street in santa monica except they are fucking snake charmers. it is a BEAUTIFUL and enchanting album, fittingly titled SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER by the Nath Family. It is out on HANSON RECORDS (though the LP is sold out).
nath family - untitled 2 - sounds of the indian snake charmer
i’d say if you dig this, buy the CD version from hanson. or petition for a vinyl repress!
