Filed under: MUSIC | Tags: 2011, after, amy, and, ASTRAL, bassist, bloody, bunnymen, california, carbon, cure, dave, division, down, drummer, Echo, forever, francisco, han, joy, matt, mowatt, my, october, orchids, poh, post, punk, raining, records, revivial, rio, robert, rosenoff, san, shawn, shoegaze, slowdive, smith, the, valentine, vibraphone
Described as maintaining a “rightful place at the crossroads of the shoegaze and post-punk revival” Astral’s 2011 release, “Forever After” from Vibraphone Records feels like a fast ride through a field full of flowers. The band currently lives in San Francisco and frontman, Dave Han took a moment to talk to Matt Mowatt about the project.
Filed under: THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND | Tags: 1976, 3, 5, 6, 7RUDE, 8, 82 Art, Alrealon, and, august, Bennett, drum, Dwinell, electronics, Experi, festival, Folk 10, Folk and FORMA, george, graphics, Lam, MENTAL, musique, PAS, pm FORMA Mark, pm Spectre, present, programming, punk, Punk/Post, RECKLESS, Sophie, Spectre, stone, synths, the
Spectre Folk and FORMA @THE STONE:
Saturday
8 pm Spectre Folk
10 pm FORMA Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam (synths) George Bennett (drum programming, electronics)
PAS and Alrealon Musique Present: Experi-MENTAL Festival 3 August-5, 6, 7
Curated by Robert L. Pepper (PAS) and Valerie Kuhne (Prehistoric Horse)
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, New York, NY
J Train to Kosciusko St
(Full Line up.)
http://goodbye-blue-monday.com/
Logo and poster design by Jesse Fairbairn at http://www.thegluemill.com
Filed under: WRITING | Tags: 22, adam, apple, art, artist, artists, ayala, brooklyn, Eve, gala, garden, lunar, magazine, new, ny, nyc, poetry, punk, rock, sella, technology, the, writing, york
Eve once fed me
an apple from her garden.
Its name was Gala
and I was wearing
large green mittens
and dirty cream shoes
descending a long escalator
in the city
after Eden.
Adam wasn’t there
and we were both
pregnant smoking
cigarettes without tar
and drinking tall silver
cans of Japanese beer
after the night of the
lunar eclipse.
I think Adam was
off somewhere
reading about Socialism
and punk rock on the toilet
(but we weren’t sure.)
Ayala Sella is a writer, living and working in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Born in Israel, she moved to the United States at the age of four, and has spent the past years traveling between these two countries. Her first book, a collection of poetry entitled soliloquies of a crosswalker has just been released by Wasteland Press. Her first interview will be published in the KGB Lit Magazine in August and her work is forthcoming in the New York Quarterly. She will be participating in the monthly storytelling series at The Bodega on Sunday, August 7th, at Bluestockings Bookstore on August 18th and at Cafe Orwell on August 28th.
Filed under: THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND | Tags: "Beyond, 2010, 2011, a, Alejandro, ALL'S, and, annual, Argentina, art, art Jeff, artist, arts, as, “doom, BALLAD, band, based, big, bill, bird, blue, blues, book, Boundaries"Scared, Brotzmann, burns, california, Can's, center, Center Joseph, Chaskielberg, Cradleduende, Czukay, DALEY, dance, dancers, dark, dave, Deadlock, delta, dixon, Dustin, earth, ENDS, Ensemble avant-garde, ENSEMBLE UNIVERSITY, Fest, festival, films, folk”, Follow, for, forum, Freedman, from, gallery, Go!, Going, GOODBYE, Grey-Blue, gypsy, Hernandez, high, Holger, homeless, i, in, Inc16th, innovative, into, iraq, Irmin, jason, JASPER, JAXON, jazz, joe's, Joel, johnson, Joseph, klezmer/flamenco, lavelle, littlefield, lush, Marine, matt, max, MEASURE, Medieval, megan, Miller, Milo, monday, monk, MOSHE, music, new, now, O'Halloran, O’Haire Bill, of, old, orleans, PAN, park, party, people, peter, photography Paraná, place, poetry, poets, presents, pub, punk, QT:, river, robert, ross, Ruche, Rye:, Schmidt, screen, Screening, SHAKESPEARE, slate, Snyder, sounds, SOUNDTRACKS A, spectacle, streets, style, sweet, swing, that, the, theater, tide, timey, TIN, to, tom, Tones, TONES ENSEMBLE, Tor, two, U.S., UNIT RAS, up, vision, visual, we, Well, will, world, Yochai, Yossi, you, Zlabinger
June 5-11
Arts For Art, Inc. presents the 16th annual Vision Festival, New York City’s premier multidisciplinary celebration of innovative jazz music, dance, poetry, and art, held for its third year at the Abrons. Critics have described it as “arguably the most important free-jazz fest in the U.S.” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader), and stated that “avant-garde jazz culture has no better colloquy in this country than the Vision Festival” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times).
Each year, the Vision Festival honors the achievements of one living artist who has greatly influenced the world around them and paved the way for other innovators to move forward. On Wednesday, June 8, Arts For Art and The Vision Festival will celebrate a Lifetime of Achievement by Peter Brotzmann. This great improviser was one of the first practitioners of the Free Jazz movement in Europe. Brotzmann has programmed his own evening in such a way that it would reflect his ongoing pursuit of musical innovation. This 70-year-old artist is not interested in looking back — only in looking forward and being as creative as possible in the present.
Visit visionfestival.org for more information and listings of Vision Festival events at satellite sites. (SEE FULL SCHEDULE.)
Filed under: INTERVIEWS, MUSIC | Tags: 22, 7, Alquezar, american, blues, Boule, brooklyn, CBGB, chroncicle, Cramps, double, england, Eugénie, fairweather, france, Frederique, inch, interview, Jim Carroll, Jim Yu, Kryznowek, Legs, Little Bob, Lou Reed, mad, magazine, matt, mowatt, new, Noire, noise, ny, nyc, paris, parlor, peter, polorodi, punk, records, retro-rock, rock and roll, rugged-out, shoe-gaze, snakes, the, vinyal, york
I met up with Eugénie Alquezar (the singer/keyboardist) and Peter Kryznowek (the guitarist) of the Parlor Snakes last week at a Parisian bar in the 11th quarter, and they are very much the embodiment of rock and roll music. Peter with his cool rockabilly swagger and Eugénie with her stylish and energetic demeanor, it’s difficult to find this certain purity of rock and roll today without the adulterated elements of Macbooks, alligator sweaters, or the ironic pair of glasses. No slamming the indie circuit, but it’s refreshing to see, well, rock and roll once again. After seeing the Parlor Snakes play live, I was convinced that I was back in the heyday of New York City rock music (where Peter lived and was heavily influenced by). On the other hand, labeling the Parlor Snakes retro-rock, nostalgic for the drugged-out days of Lou Reed, Jim Carroll or the Cramps would be a grave mistake. They bring their own twist of space-out and shoe-gaze as much as any young band today – mixing both high-energy with calm-down beer time. A perfect combination for cellar-dweller rockers thirsty for the times of CBGB’s but also ready for some fresh sounds as well.
The 22 Magazine: First of all I’d like to thank you for this interview with The 22 Magazine.
The Parlor Snakes: Thank you for inviting us.
Filed under: THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND, WRITING | Tags: 22 magazine, brooklyn, brothel, Karen, Lee, Madam, naughty, new, ny, nyc, poetry, punk, reading, steampunk, stream, surreal, tarot, the, twist, york
Filed under: MUSIC | Tags: &, 22, a, badger, be, blair, brooklyn, buffalo, building, cold, custardpaws, dance, fence, freezy, gritty, jeff, LP, magazine, mr., new, ny, nyc, out, pop, punk, pyschedelia, sepcific, still, synth, the, wells the, york
Go to the Custardpaws & Mr. Freezy page on Bandcamp to preview and purchase the album:Custardpaws & Mr. Freezy (a.k.a. Blair Wells and Jeff Badger) have reunited to release The Buffalo, the followup to our self-titled LP recorded way back in 1999. The new album was recorded over two weekends in 2010 and features fourteen songs that span from sun-drenched psychedelia to gritty punk to earnest folk to synthy-dance-pop, all rendered in the (soon-to-be-considered) classic CPMF style.
Filed under: ART | Tags: art, artist, back, city, drawing, FL, flordia, goth, hair, head, jono, my, new, ny, of, painting, punk, rock, styles, stylist, tampa, the, vaughan, york
