Backseat Sandbar

Gig Posters: The Art of Contemporary Music Promotion, a Concert Poster art show at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, opens with this Friday’s Gallery Hop and goes on until May 16th.  The exhibit is free if you go during the first Gallery Hop.

Many of the artists’ works are local or are somehow connected to the Louisville music scene ad have done posters for the community.  One of my personal favorites, Ron Jansin (of MadPixel – above), will be presenting his work and will be available to meet and chat, and will also be screen printing one-of-a-kind posters for the opening night.  Other artists include Alana Twelmeyer, Anna Martine Nilsen, Bangout, Bill Green, Christian Peters, Cricket Press, Brian Turner, Sarah Turner, Dan McCarthy, David Brooks, Gary Houston, Ian Gordon, Jake Early, Jason Munn, Julie Hill, Kraken, Kristen Thiele, Lars Privat, Michael Fluckigeiger, Miles Tsang, Patrick Jones, Remi, Rhys Cooper, Rokitmul Design Studios, Ron Lilberti, Sean Higgins, Stephano Manzi, Steve Mockensturm, The Farm Barn, Tiny Little Horses and some of the gig posters include Calexico, Moonstompers, Caven, Cojones, Skywise, Zippo, Stonebride, Earlimart, Fleet Foxes, Manjongg, Mates of State, Mission of Burma, Rosebuds, Dagobah, Built To Spill, Cat Power, Bonnie Prince Billy, Death Cab for Cutie, Doves, My Morning Jacket, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Old, Crow Medicine Show, Patty Smith, Ringo Starr, Dashboard Confessional, The Aquabats, The Elected, Cake, Neil Young, The Mother Hips, Beck, Deerhunter, Modest Mouse, Forget Cassettes, Nire, Jimmy Eat World, Esquizitos, Thursday, Arcade Fire, Super chunk, Feist, GirlTalk, GWAR, Kings of Leon, Murder By Death, Radiohead, The Black Keys, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Breeders, British Sea Power, Sterolab, Black Diamond Heavies, Mars Volta, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Yonder Mountain String Band, Flaming Lips and Butthole Surfers.

If you’re uncertain just how incredible show posters can be, I strongly advise you to check out GigPosters.com (many of the links above are directly into those artist’s GigPosters portfolio)

Friday is serving up a number of great options, but I’ve made the decision to head to PHT to see British Sea Power, The 1900s & People Noise. The show starts at 7:30pm and costs $15 bucks. Cory is heading to Cincy for The Weakerthans, Liam Finn, and Christine Fellows at the Mad Hatter in Northern KY.  If those shows aren’t your bag, here are a few other options…

Presidente!, Depresbyterians and Bajingo & The Hoo Hoos @ The Rudyard Kipling

Teneia Sanders, Weber, Leigh Ann Yost, Hambone, AOJ Band and Justin Lewis @ Zazoo’s

Ben Sollee @ Hard Rock Cafe

People Noise hooked us up with a link to download their entire album, Ordinary Ghosts (2007) and they want us to share it with you (see link below). Check out the album and then see them live at the Phoenix Hill Tavern with British Sea Power on March 28. Their set starts at 7:30, so be sure to get there on time. The 1900s will also be playing the event. Tix are $12 bucks in advance or $15 at the door. You can pick’em up at the PHT or Ear x-tacy. People Noise will also be playing the Forecastle Fest at the end of July.

People Noise- Ordinary Ghosts (full album – free download)

Album Review:

Alternative Press PEOPLE NOISE
***½
Ordinary Ghosts
Let them haunt you.

Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Zeke Buck was a co-founder of disco-funk dance machine VHS Or Beta, but don’t expect his new project, People Noise, to inspire any sort of discotheque insanity. As the evocative music on Ordinary Ghosts demonstrates, the Louisville, Kentucky, band are the latest addition to a crop of artists (see also: Asobi Seksu, Autolux) who are bringing back shoegazing – a style of music characterized by sculpting beautiful music from chaotic noise. (In People Noise’s case, think early Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead – or ask your parents about Swervedriver and Ride.) The best songs on Ghosts (the molasses-like slow burn *The Killing Fields,* the Muse-meets-Verve title track) temper swirling reverb and fuzzed-out guitars with sections of tranquility; another highlight, the string-sweetened *Turn Around,* is a laid-back slice of psychedelia featuring Buck’s Thom Yorke-esque croons. Ghosts drags a bit in its midsection, but the pair of squall-pop gems (*Harrison Bergeron* and *Sedation*) are the catchiest bits on the album. (SELF-RELEASED) Annie Zaleski

From the UK, British Sea Power will stop right here in Louisville at Phoenix Hill Tavern on March 28 (yep, March again!). They will be promoting their new album, Do You Like Rock Music?, out TODAY in the UK and Feb. 12th in the US. Be sure to check out a few of their tracks below and pick up a copy (this album has been getting great reviews).

Tix are $12 in advance (pick’em up at PHT or Ear x-tacy) or $15 at the door. Show starts at 7:30pm. Chicago’s The 1900s and Louisville’s People Noise are opening.

A few tracks from…

British Sea Power- Waving Flags

British Sea Power- All In It

British Sea Power- No Lucifer