Backseat Sandbar

So my brother over at We Listen for You and The Pass are at it again and have another great music video for our enjoyment.  This time it is part of a WLFY contest.  See the details below.  BSSB makes a number of appearances in the video in our acting debut!

VIA WE LISTEN FOR YOU:

A few weeks ago the up and coming Louisville electro pop band The Pass told me their idea to create a found footage or unofficial video for each of their songs to act as way for people to stream their new album BURST (out Sept 21st).  Instead of going on myspace and streaming the album, you would go to youtube and be able to watch eleven videos and hear the entire album (see the first track video stream HERE).

I immediately told them I wanted to take a crazy dream I had and put it into moving images.  The dream consisted of me showing up at a crazy party to find that all the people are life like takes on the names of music blogs.  As you know, there are a lot of clever names for music blogs and the goal of the video was to transform the name of music blogs into human/prop representations.  An example of this would be the music blog “I Guess I’m Floating”…you would see a guy floating and then shrug with indifference.

To make this even more fun, I’m holding a contest to see who can identify the most music blog/music site references.  We managed to reference over thirty sites.  To prevent people from listing every blog they know, if you guess a blog that isn’t featured in the video you get –1 points….one right you get +1.  The person with the most points win.  E-mail to answers to guesstheblogs@gmail.com.  Please don’t use the comment box to guess…they will not count.

The winner will receive a 50 dollar gift certificate to Insound and a cd copy of The Pass debut BURST.  If someone manages to get a perfect score, I might throw in something extra.  This was a lot of fun to make and I hope you have as much fun watching what has to be one of the craziest house parties ever.

HERE IS THE VIDEO:

Another7Astronauts
The Gallery Singers

Friday, Sept. 3rd
Glassworks Rooftop

$8
8pm
21+
Full Cash Bar
Indoor Space available in case of rain

Glassworks Rooftop Concert Series
A Louisville is for Lovers Production

Drummer JC Denison (Lucky Pineapple) started Another7Astronauts as a basement recording project.  Built from layered keyboard loops, samples, and live percussion, the music began to develop, blurring the lines between experimentation and composition.  A7A first reached an audience when Denison was asked to gather an ensemble of musicians to perform several of his recordings live at the Out of Sound: An Aural Experience exhibit at Zephyr Gallery in May of 2008.  Denison enlisted four close friends, and the group played a set of semi-improvised rhythmic noise, capped off by a spoken word piece, based on Terry Riley’s “In C” and dialogue from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which left the crowd speechless.  Since then, Another7Astronauts’ music has appeared on several small-run self-released CDs as well as the 2010 Louisville is for Lovers compilation.

2010 finds A7A preparing for a much different kind of performance.  Dan Moore (trombonist, Lucky Pineapple) has joined Denison and taken on co-writing and arranging duties.  Utilizing his skills in composition, performance, and arrangement, Moore has fleshed out the minimalist, tribal recordings Denison made over the last year, breathing new life into them.  This new music has taken on a much more orchestral feel than that of A7A’s past.  Coupled with the pair’s mutual respect and admiration of modern classical music and large ensembles, this led to the idea of creating a small orchestra to perform the music live.  They have called upon the services of some of the brightest and most talented classical, jazz, and electronic musicians in Louisville, including all the members of the original 2008 ensemble, to perform these new compositions.  The 15+ piece ensemble includes members of Lucky Pineapple, 23 String Band, Ut Gret, Invaders, OK DeeJays, Maiden Radio, OK Kino, the Commonwealth, Squarewell, Softcheque, Sapat, and more.

The group performs live for the first time as part of the Glassworks Rooftop Concert Series on Friday, Sept. 3rd.  Opening the show will be Gallery Singers, led by Louisville is for Lovers curator and producer John King.  Though they are longtime veterans of Mr. King’s Valentines compilations, this will be the first time the band has performed live.

The show starts 8PM and admission is $8, which includes a free 7″ vinyl record featuring both bands for the first 250 people.

Oh, thought we had posted this already. You probably already know about it, but if not, then here it is. Built To Spill are coming back to Headliners! Last time they played here it was quite an enjoyable time.

There. Now you know. So get a ticket and go. Info below.

Via Production Simple:

WFPK presents
and
erockster.com welcomes

Built to Spill
with
Chikita Violenta
Headliners Music Hall
Sunday, August 29 @ 8pm
$18 adv / $20 day of show (all ages)
Tickets are on sale now at ear X-tacy, CD Central (Lexington),
www.ticketweb.com or at the door the night of the show.

Buy your ticket now on TicketWeb ( http://bit.ly/9PdpDh) and be
entered to win limited edition copies of “There is no enemy”,
“You in reverse”, “Keep it like a secret”, “Perfect from now on”
and a signed copy of “Conventional Wisdom” on 180 gram vinyl!
…thanks to www.erockster.com…

For more info on this and all of our shows and for chances to win
tickets, please visit www.productionsimple.com

Support your local independent record store and public radio
station.

Built To Spill – Car

*Note: Someone please send me their cover of This Night Has Opened My Eyes. See you at the show.

Second Story Man will return to the stage on Saturday, August 28th at Zanzabar (2100 S. Preston) for their first show with new bassist Michael Snowden. SSM will be teaming up again with labelmates Straight A’s for this show along with the excellent Lee Van Cleef. LVC will be releasing their new album “Terror, Blood” (Dunkenstein Records) at this show as well. At 3pm on the day of the show, Second Story Man will be performing a special acoustic set at EarXtacy as part the newly relocated record store’s anniversary celebrations. A purchase of SSM’s Screaming Secrets album at EarXtacy during the instore will get you free admission to the Zanzabar show later that night plus a free copy of their 2006 release Red Glows Brighter.

Louisville is for lovers founder John King’s elusive group The Gallery Singers are playing a rare show on Friday September 3rd on the glassworks rooftop with Lucky Pineapple member JC Denison’s 15 member contemporary orchestra, Another Seven Astronauts, along with special guests OK DEEJAYS.  it is the last show of the summer rooftop music series, and a special one too, everyone in attendance will receive a free split 7″ with exclusive work by Another 7 Astronauts and The Gallery Singers. this record will only be available at the show, a must have for fans of either band.

info:Glassworks Rooftop $8 8pm 21+ indoor space reserved for rain.

next weekend the 6th annual LOUISVILLE ZOMBIE ATTACK explodes onto Bardstown Road and into BEARNO’S Highlands Pizza.

visit ZOMBIE ATTACK WEBPAGE for more information.

Just saw this announced and couldn’t wait to post about it.  This fest has always been a great experience down in Lexington, and this year is no different.  Just check the line-up out and you’ll be sold.  Louisville is represented well by Lucky Pineapple, Phantom Family Halo, R. Keenan Lawler, Sapat and more…  Tickets should be available soon.  We’ll keep you updated.

WRFL’s BOOMSLANGFESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2010
Lexington, KY
Weekend Pass $40, Various range from free – $25

WRFL presents second annual 3-day experimental music and art festival

HERE ARE THE INITIAL DETAILS:

LEXINGTON, KY – WRFL 88.1, the University of Kentucky’s college and community radio station
is excited to announce that Lexington will host the second-annual Boomslang: A Celebration
of Sound & Art during the weekend of September 10-12. Boomslang is a 3-day multivenue
festival extending WRFL’s mission to bring innovative, non-commercial music of various
genres to central Kentucky, and the line-up will include a mixture of national, international, regional
and local musicians, as well as a number of satellite events celebrating experimental art
of all forms.

Artists Performing at This Year’s Festival Include:

Full line-up at HERE.

Additional events will include haute couture art installation, film screenings (including the Kentucky
premiere of “Secondhand Sureshots”), literary events, a kid’s music event, an interstellar
cosmic journery orchestrated by Everyone Lives Everyone Wins, and the eclectically-curious,
always exciting Boomslang Carnival.

Tickets for various events will range from free to $25, with weekend passes available for $40.
Hold your horses, tickets will soon be available at www.boomslangfest.com.

WAND (from Lexington, on Young God Records)
LITTLE GOLD (from NYC, on HeartBreakBeat Records)
INOCULIST (from NYC, on HeartBreakBeat Records)
STATE CHAMPION (from Louisville/Southern Indiana, on Sophomore Lounge Records)

Saturday, August 21st
at SKULL ALLEY
1017 E. Broadway, at the corner of Barrett
8 PM, $6, ALL AGES!

James Jackson Toth has been playing and recording (and releasing) music for over a decade, most notably as leader of the now-defunct New York-based collective Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice. After a solo album in 2007 on Rykodisc, and Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label and the Mad Monk label, he continues under the name WAND with his new release on Michael Gira’s Young God Records label with Death Seat, due this October . Abandoning the psychedelic wail of WW&VV for a starker, more direct songwriting style, WAND’s most recent tunes are harrowing and hellaciously good. Michael Gira writes that Toth is “a passionate singer and guitar player and inhabits the songs as he performs them with straightforward, unpretentious, and confident gravitas. I’ve been listening to this record over and over for the last several months—we went through dozens of equally compelling songs before choosing the line up of tracks—and the more I listen, the more honored I am to be associated with James Jackson Toth.”

Former Woods songwriter and Meneguar member, Christian DeRoeck is back with the Completely Fucked! 7″, his second release as LITTLE GOLD. Vastly different from the melancholy country of LITTLE GOLD’s debut LP On the Knife (2009), these two songs are brimming with fuzzy guitars, sweet harmonies, and what sounds like youthful exuberance. DeRoeck’s lyrical content is morose as ever, but on this record it comes packed in two and a half-minute pop songs. The most immediate difference is the addition of Brian Markham on bass and Pat Broderick on drums, both of Brooklyn psych-rockers Ancient Sky, and Broderick of beloved DC hardcore outfit Majority Rule. Released in an initial run of 300 on NYC label HeartBreakBeat Records, this record is a taste of what’s to come. Little Gold heads back into the studio this year to record the follow-up to On the Knife.

Watch Little Gold – “Bird’s Eye” – Le Loft Rooftop from DUKE STREET on Vimeo.

Through harmony and intricate musical arrangements, INOCULIST crafts an uncompromising scape of eerie pop, jazz progressions, and the swing of old world rhythm and blues. Started as the home recording project of John Hunter (guitar, vocals) in 2005, INOCULIST is a band constantly in the mode of creation. INOCULIST currently operates as a four-piece with Ashlyn Davis (keys,vocals), Ethan Schmid (drums, banjo), and Marc Merza (bass). Their new album Spells has just been released on HeartBreakBeat Records.

STATE CHAMPION started in 2006 as a moniker for the early acoustic experiments of Ryan Davis. It has since evolved into a rock n’ roll band with a Chevy van and a vinyl record. Having created a sound that is a product of its upbringing, with Sweetheart of the Rodeo on the radio, Bleach idle in the tape deck, and a Smog song stuck in its head, Davis & Co. drive through forty minutes of sincerely howled, sloppily executed, stripped down garage-country on their full-length debut, Stale Champagne (released this year on Sophomore Lounge Records). “The band is an under-the-radar phenomenon in the making, the classic style of quality band that Louisville overlooks… The tone is just right for this type of subtle rock. A bit earnest, a bit funny, a bit smart.” – Joseph Lord, Velocity Weekly.

Check out the Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108166219238444.