east river music project

Information on our Paper Thin Walls-curated season-ender and post-season benefit follows:

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8
1 PM | Free | East River Amphitheater
*Made Out of Babies
*Dälek
*Clockcleaner
*Despot
*These Are Powers

FRIDAY, SEPT. 14
7 PM | $8 suggested donation | Sound Fix
*Emperor X
*Excellent
*Blood City Shack Up

–9.8.07–
MADE OUT OF BABIES
via their bio: “On stage, caterwauling front-woman Julie Christmas paces the floor, yelping with a bewitching intensity that defies her charming beauty and (occasionally) cherubic whispers. Meanwhile, towering guitarist Brendan Tobin coolly strangulates leaden sheets of guitar strata from his battered six-string, bassist Cooper lunges in time as his instrument rumbles and slithers around Matthew Egan’s relentlessly churning rhythms and blood-splattering drum fills. There’s no rock machismo in the sounds of Made Out of Babies, which just might be what makes it so unsettling and unique. Instead, the group bears a mysteriously unified all-out visual and aural aesthetic assault reminiscent of mid-period Black Flag. And yet, there’s a certain curious glamour to MOoB that gives it a monolithic appeal.”
website: http://www.madeoutofbabies.com/
audio/myspace: http://www.myspace.com/madeoutofbabies

DÄLEK
“Dälek don’t do concessions: For the past nine years, the New Jersey duo has done its will alone, label-hopping from tiny local Gern Blandsten to the free-range Ipecac to the predominantly metal Hydra Head with intervening stops at a half-dozen international experimental outlets for collaborations, splits, and remixes. They count Faust, the Last Poets, and Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick as partners and pit virulent, unflinching free verse against a production sense mostly indebted to 20th century art music (Robert Ashley, Merzbow, Tony Conrad) and very loud rock (My Bloody Valentine, the Mute usuals).” (Pitchfork)
website: http://www.deadverse.com/
audio/myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dalek

CLOCKCLEANER
“Clockcleaner play music in the great Scratch Acid tradition of not giving a fuck about the listener. It’s a feedback-heavy, midtempo march from start to finish, with little to no regard shown for conventional-song-structure silliness like having a chorus.” (Vice)
audio/myspace: http://myspace.com/clockcleaner
press: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=15203

DESPOT
via the label bio: “Born and raised in Queens where he currently resides, Despot learned very early on in life how to shake his head at things. A full length is in the works with the majority of the production being handled by Blockhead along with a few ultra special guests. An upstanding member of the Lo-Lifes crew, Despot does his best to stay fresh and will make a mark that will be very difficult to wash off. The lyrics are the ones you would have thought of if you stood on a corner for ten years, and the voice is much bigger than the man.”
audio/myspace: http://www.myspace.com/despotroast

THESE ARE POWERS
“Brooklyn noise-rock trio These Are Powers fittingly call their tribal gonging and bouncy screech “ghost punk.” Atmospheric and spooky, the barely-hinged, spiritualized clutter is sorta what you’d expect from ex-members of Knife Skills and Liars, ‘cept like, way cooler. Relentless old-school-punk tom-toms roll along surf-rock, except with all the goth-guitar chirps and third-eye-bleeding axe quivers what’s being summoned ain’t Dick Dale or the Ventures, but friggin’ Cthulhu! Or at least one of the more minor Ancient Ones like Yog-Sothoth (nonetheless some über-evil H.P. Lovecraft stuff).” (Paper Thin Walls)
website: http://www.thesearepowers.com/
audio/myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thesearepowers

–9.14.07–
EMPEROR X
“If Emperor X has been sitting quietly, garnering critical acclaim and waiting for the right time to break out and sell a bunch of records, putting out a limited pressing EP is probably not the way he’s going to do it. But Dirt Dealership does show Chad Matheny’s lo-fi one-man band going in a slightly different direction. He’s shelved the toy keyboards that adorned his last couple full-lengths, bought a banjo and settled down with his inner Will Oldham. The five-ish songs here are mostly comprised of acoustic guitars, handclaps, and group vocals. Of course, Matheny’s songs were always affecting before his clever production kicked in, so the shift doesn’t actually mean much. His strangely detailed personal narratives and his preoccupation with people in transit are still at the core of every song, but the
newfound organic touch just makes it apparent that Matheny can make a good song sound just about any way he wants it to.” (L Magazine)
web/audio: http://www.emperorx.net
press: http://www.thelmagazine.com/4/1/musicology/feature6.cfm

EXCELLENT
Maybe you saw these guys with the Narrator or Oxford Collapse earlier in the year; maybe you didn’t. Suffice it to say, a man whose opinion I trust greatly compared them to a beatific fusion of Thin Lizzy and The Feelies; what’s not to love about that? They’re a rock band, and a fine one at that. Also, ex-members of Diamond Nights and Jiker.
audio/myspace: http://www.myspace.com/excellenttimes

BLOOD CITY SHACK UP
“Remember those mid-90s basement shows? Remember standing next to a kid named Henry in a Hoover T-shirt? Emo was new and hardcore was an unrequited love that nobody cared about…. The drums drive us through a succession of dangerous dead man curves. While the bass sets us off on a pulp adventure of ass kicking proportions. The vocals and guitar screech out a story of *Circus Lupus b-sides and post modern hip shaking. Enjoy this hot shot of coffee to the face.” (The Five Minute Convo)
website: http://www.welcometobloodcity.com/
myspace/audio: http://www.myspace.com/bloodcityshackup

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