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June 23 lineup
We are pleased to announce the full lineup for the first show of our summer 2007 season:
- Ex-Models (myspace|homepage)
- S-S-S-Spectres (myspace|homepage)
- Hundred Eyes (myspace)
- Mikey Bones (myspace)
Doors at 2 PM; located at the East River Amphitheater. Thanks to Secret Project Robot and The Social Registry.
>>EX MODELS
From the press release for 2005’s Chrome Panthers:
“Everybody loves lumping bands into genres. But the EX MODELS has effectively birthed a genre of its own with its Troubleman Unlimited debut: the band calls it “Fundustrial” — a sort of blend between the mechanistic fury of bands like Cop Shoot Cop and Einsturezende Neuebauten crossed with the chaos of punk rock and the cosmos of hard psych. …Much of the duo’s new material is not just the typical quiet lull drone thing that other bands fall upon, it’s more like a noise freakout part that just goes on and on, repeatedly turning in on itself. Like a Steve Reich composition, Terry Riley piece or Oneida outing (whose drummer, Kid Millions lent his drum skills to the recording of the album and subsequent tape loops used in the duo’s live shows)… rhythms cascade from within the repetitious mantras of guitars and drums, subtly shifting and mutating the song as it goes on.”
website: http://www.exmodels.org/
audio: http://www.myspace.com/exmodels
press: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/ex-models-featuring-kid-millions/chrome-panthers.htm
>>S-S-S-SPECTRES
Via their label’s bio:
“A band of charlatans, magicians, mediums and scofflaws claiming to be “S-S-S-Spectres” surfaced in Brooklyn in early ‘05. Since then they have been frequenting the meaner night-time establishments throughout the New York Isles and beyond, conjuring up and putting questions to the spirits of “The Contortions,” “Bush Tetras ,” “The Fall” and “The Birthday Party.” Some rubes taken in by their performance have also claimed to have felt the chilling touch of “Six Finger Satellite,” “Erase Errata” and “Old Time Relijun”! Their spellcraft is simple enough: jerky percussion and skittish bass riding waves of gang vocals and chants amidst a squall of shrieks from a home-built 12-string guitar. Through photo-comparisons and tireless cross-checking, we are fairly certain their members have previously been implicated in incidents of unholy music and mischief in Providence, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and even Austin, TX! Today, these blackguards have united into one single-minded, seething mass, and they have been plying their trade along the coasts in company with the likes of Country Teasers, Magik Markers, Deerhunter, No Things, Meneguar, Cause Co-motion and assorted other fiends and groups. ”
website: http://s-s-s-spectres.com/
audio: http://www.myspace.com/sssspectres
>>HUNDRED EYES
They played in London last year at the Yeah Yeah Yeahs-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, and boast members of the acclaimed Tall Boys. From a review of their set at ATP: “Another new NY band who are very much my thing actually, Hundred Eyes kick up a formidable sand-storm for a sparse crowd as the opening act upstairs. Deeply rooted in the more abrasive aspects of the No Wave tradition, this two boy / two girl gang fronted by a guy dressed as a Middle Eastern nomad and wrenching howling open string noise from a battered custom guitar are an instantly exciting prospect. Things begin in the same ballpark as the neurotic urban crush rocked by Theoretical Girls and The Static, with the singer delivering incomprehensible bursts of tourettes over frantic, dissonant unchording, but things start to get really special as the noise spreads out and begins breathing deep, finding it’s way into the meditative headspace hinted at in the no wave dub of Sonic Youth’s debut EP before escaping the clutches of the city altogether, slowly reconfiguring the sound of deconstructionist art-rock until it no longer speaks of subway trains, syringes and breakdowns but instead explodes outward into blinding hallucinatory desertscapes, as no talent punk approximations of Eastern modes crash down over scything sheets of white noise.” (http://stereosanctity.blogspot.com/2006/05/yeah-yeah-yeahs-day-although-i-was-too.html )
website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/hundredeyes
>>MIKEY BONES
Mikey Bones is an ensemble of musical geniuses from some of New York’s most legendary bands, including Jah Division, Home, White Magic, and Oneida… They are newly formed as a sort of musical experiment, but they are promising to soon be one of the city’s most elusive rock legends.
website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/littlemikebones