Category: Lets Go

Saturday March 24th, 11pm
Another dance party (in the key of CK)
at the House of oh Dang (corner of 6th & Adams)
Dress up as someone awesome (you)!
BYOB

BASILICA, Harlots, and more.

Wild, ecstatic music for dueling violins, heart-wrenching vocals, searing
guitar and fragmented drums.

My friend Theo really likes Hope for a Golden Summer.  I heard their CD and thought it was pretty good, spooky, haunting.

Monday March 19th
Hospital
1021 S. Walnut St.
Doors/Show 8:00pm
$5.00

*Drakkar Sauna* (Lawrence, KS, Marriage Records) —
http://www.drakkarsauna.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/drakkansasauna
If you haven’t caught this band in Bloomington yet then you’re a bad
catcher. And not catching this band is as bad as not catching a
National League pitcher’s weak line drive to center field that will lose
the game for you. I’ve tried so many times to describe what these two
men do — the close harmonies, the Louvin Brothers melodies, the Talking
Heads-ish lyrics, the loneliness, the humor, the one-man-bandness, the
beards, the mustaches… but usually I just describe them as my favorite
band in America that sounds like classic country written by a crazy
street prophet, or acid-damaged Every Brothers with a one-man band
sitting in, or something. They will make you love life again — and if
you haven’t stopped loving life, you’ll love it more. Here is a great
Daytrotter article about them —
http://www.daytrotter.com/article/78/drakkar-sauna-to-fear-the-murder-ballad-is-to-not-know-the-murder-ballad

*Dark Meat* (Athens, GA, Orange Twin Records) —
http://www.myspace.com/darkmeats
Dark Meat is a big band. “We call it a family band,” says bassist Ben
Clack. “It’s kind of a weird association with old psychedelic bands.
Every single person in our group, regardless of contribution, is equally
important. This is what we want to share with people. The aesthetic of
the ’60s, the whole environment is what we want to recreate. We don’t
want to make music that is reactionary; we want to make music that
expresses our love for each other. That’s the bottom line.” Dark Meat
started two years ago as a four-piece Neil Young cover band. But when
people kept coming over to listen when the group practiced, Clack says,
it felt really natural to have them join in. A month later, Dark Meat
had 12 people. Last month they had 18. Dark Meat is: Dr. Cal Barfton,
T.J. Onions, Richard “Cheese” Mangana, F. Dartanion Bougnier and The
Spirit Bird, with Turkles Embrochure, Melville Honeytoast, Roosevelt
“Chirps” Cantrell, Theodore “Tedd” Hep, Quebeque Dinero, Barbi
Barbituate, John Fernandes and Harley McIllvaine as the Vomit Lasers,
and O.C. Toshira as the Energy Center, and Duter “XXX” Anomie as He Who
Wears The Coat and Lil’ Tomato. There’s also Alice B. Tokas, and Hairy
Airy Ola as the Sub-Tweeters. Among the aforementioned, members of
Vicariously Through Cats, Hope for Agoldensummer and The Olivia Tremor
Control are in the band. Expect epics at every turn, and get there early
to find a place in the room.

*Hope for Agoldensummer* (Athens, GA)
http://www.myspace.com/hopeforagoldensummer and
http://www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/
In trying to find some stock reviews for this band all I was
successfully able to drum up was an intense desire to see how great they
must be live. Three women making timeless, southern, creepy, beautiful
music, is the best I can describe what I’m hearing at their MySpace
page. Amazing harmonies, incredible instrumentation (they list slide
guitar, bowed guitar, saw, accordion, slide whistle, etc.), and
incredible songs. They will, most likely, open the show — so get there
early. This is from an old review, and despite a recent change (it
seems) in personnel, the review captures what I’m hearing. “Hope For
Agoldensummer have a stage set up that resembles a musty corner of a
time worn attic; it’s(a little)dark,

quiet and stuffed with eclectic
items certain to entertain and amuse. A wooden crate full of
old-fashioned glass Coke bottles languishes at the drummer’s feet while
off to the right, a saw awaits its turn to sing. To the left,a dinner
bell beckons the listener to sit down for a musical stew hearty enough
to satisfy the ears and the soul,chockfull of throaty blues,
exhilarating familial harmonies and lilting cello accompaniment…
[V]ocals come primarily from [Claire] Campbell and her sister Page, by
day an independent film maker, whose voices weave together to complement
each other in a hauntingly resounding way that befits their shared
blood. …So, besides vox humana, how many instruments do they handle?
“Probably around 15 different ones”, says Claire, “but that’s not
counting the whistles and bells we just add, a lot of little toys we
travel with”. Will Taylor (formerly in Grace) is a classically trained
cellist who dabbles in pennywhistle, while Deb Davis (formerly in The
Josh Joplin Group) alternates between guitar, accordion, xylophone and
the aforementioned dinner bell. Percussionist Jamie Shepard plays a wide
variety of percussive instruments (including trap drums, bells, and
those Coke bottles) and occasionally banjo and concertina.”

This show will be amazing. See you at 8pm on Monday.

 

General Info

• Saturday April 7^th
• A split benefit for Boxcar Books and Community Center and the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project (more info at www.boxcarbooks.org and www.pagestoprisoners.org)
• Doors at 9:30pm
• 21 +
• At the Bluebird
•  $6 per person/ $10 couple

 Random Info

• Dress to Impress!!
• Contests for best dressed, best themed costume, best drag
• Photo booth
• Drink specials

Bands

• Blondie (Secretly Canadian’s best)
• The Pixies (members of Kentucky Nightmare and The Delicious)
• Tina Turner (members of The All-Girl Summer Fun Cover Band)
• Iggy Pop and the Stooges (members of Puppy vs. Dyslexia, Green Fuzz Society, One Reason)
• DJ’s Justin and Derrick (I’m waiting to hear back if they have a name they’d like to use)

Join BLUG for a magical evening of Linux goodness.  Tuesday's
presentation will be by Scott Blaydes on Virtualization on the Linux
Desktop.  We will take a look at some of the options to help users
replace Microsoft Windows on their desktop.

After the short presentation we will have an open discussion for
everyone to talk about what is going on in the Linux world and to get
advice on problems.

I would like to also talk about ways to generate interest in the BLUG
and get the attendance up.  Bring your ideas.

*NOTE: I will not be discussing Xen.  Xen deserves a whole presentation
for itself...and I haven't had the time to get it working on my laptop.

BTW: I need a projector for this meeting, so if someone could be nice
enough to bring one, I would really appreciate it.  (hint hint Simon...)

Question is a hardcore band from Minneapolis.  I think that locals Gourmet Scum are playing too.

Tonight at the Art Hospital! Art! Music! Humans! Electricity! Indoor
Plumbing!

Hello to Everyone from the Art Hospital!

On Friday, March 9th there will be a show and silent art auction to benefit
two of your friendly neighborhood art organizations. Your Art Here and the
Art Hospital.
The event starts with the auction @ 7pm.
Bids will be taken until 10 pm.
The auction will feature work by:

Robb Stone
Mperfect Designs
Owen Mundy
John Clark
Lou Joseph
Stephanie Dotson
Victoria Calabro
Liz Leslie
Andrew Maxson
Knee Shy
Jeremy Kennedy
The Staff of the Art Hospital
plus many more!

At 10pm-12:30am will be the music of:
Racebannon
Mouthbreather
Dixie Fried Diablo

Admission to both the art auction and the show is 5$.

The address of the Art Hospital is
1021 South Walnut Street
Bloomington, IN 47401

Please come out and support your local music and arts community.

** HELP US CELEBRATE OUR 1 YR ANNIVERSARY WITH THIS AWESOME SHOW **

Saturday, March 3rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music – $5 – ALL-AGES!

Charalambides (Kranky)
– http://www.wholly-other.com/
– http://www.kranky.net/
Primordial Undermind (ex-Crystallized Movements, Vienna, Austria)
– http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind
The Ten Thousand Things (Bloomingtopia)
– http://myspace.com/things10thousand

To say that the words “unique” and “singular” are over-used in describing
music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created
by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides
over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are
numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist’s work
would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken
new ground in the primitive / folk / mystic / improv / psych valley in
which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; “…here is a truly
21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and
stasis… in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th
century discovered amplification, noise and speed.”

Primordial Undermind is led by ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric
Arn. Active for more than a decade in different forms and in different
cities. Dark, spiritual, yin-and-yang paisley… These aren’t just
burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. They’re paranoid burnouts playing
loud, distorted psych. Behold the swirling madness and tranquility. From
streams of molten electric guitar sputtering geysers of fluid ectoplasm
into the air, to high desert country influenced elements left to blister
and bleach in the sun… so utterly gorgeous in places it’s like a long
view of paradise.

The Ten Thousand Things is a common phrase found in Taoist and Buddhist
writings to connote the material diversity of the universe. It represents
the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of
everything in the universe. Lao Tzu, for example, writes in the Tao Te
Ching:
Tao produced the One. / The One produced the two.
The two produced the three. / And the three produced the ten
thousand things.
The Ten Thousand Things is also the pen-name for Wes Covey. He is a kind
soul who is into finger-picked guitar loops, drones and eastern
instrumentation. This will be his debut performance so please be kind.

MP3:
Charalambides – Spring –
http://www.brainwashed.com/common/sounds/mp3/charalambides-spring.mp3
Primordial Undermind – Akaknow –
http://www.latinobuggerveil.com/ejmp3s/Akaknow.mp3