Clavius Productions presents a night of extreme mayhem ranging from electronics and noise to grind-metal and folk/psych. These bands are coming from places like Austin, Boston, Chicago, and Roanoke to get naked and sweat on those brave enough to feel the love. 611 gets pornographic on:
Saturday, April 8
611 Florida Ave NW WDC
8pm, $5 suggested donation
http://www.claviusproductions.org 202-360-9739 for info
BYOB!
Dogme 95 (Chicago solo folk/psych)
http://www.missionlabel.com/dogme95/ Dogme 95 is based out of Chicago and strives to push the limits of sound by combining intricate song structure with honest and moving melodies. To imagine the Dogme project think Smog/Beck meets Kraftwerk in the garden of Motown. I really enjoy old blues and prison chants from the recordings of Alan Lomax, as well as synth oriented artists such as Brian Eno and David Byrne. Then again, I do strive to someway combine these contrasting ideas and the results are thus far extraodinary. I released my first record in May of 2005 called Arcadian Hymns, this record exhibits the diversity in songwriting and multi-layered vocals inspired by 1940's prison chants. In 2006, I look forward to releasing The Reagle Beagle, which is the fictional story of myself on the boat with Charles Darwin during his studies of Evolution, Origin of the Species, and Survival of the Fittest. This record will be out on Empyrean Records. My name is Nick and I am orginally from Dallas, TX. The name is somewhat inspired by the manifesto drafted in 1995 by Lars Von Trier and the officials of Danish cinema. Think of me as the musical extension of those films. Yet, I hope you explore the cinema of Dogme 95:
www.dogme95.dk Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck (Boston noise)
http://www.twodeadsluts.com/ http://www.myspace.com/tdsogf In 2002 the supervillains of Boston's avant-gaydar music scene, Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck, ejaculated pearly white gobs of ultra-violent sex rock all over the faces of unexpecting audiences with the release of "I Stuck My Boner In The Blender" (the pinkest demo ever).. The band's infamous grab-your-ankles live shows always prove to be a splendid orgy of sexually irresponsible catharsis. With their long-awaited self-released 2004 debut 7"/CD "The Homorobotic Adventure Squad Presents: Songs For Blasting Lasers And Fighting Evil-Doers", the jizziferous duo explored any and all perverse subtleties imaginable...in 4 minutes and 19 seconds. After a short tour in 2005, a split 7"/CD with circuit melting Joshua Hydeman was released titled "Split Wide Open" on the Friendship Bracelet label. The sluts have a falll release in the works for Kitty Play Records and a 3" Cd on Apop Records. The band has already contributed to dozens of compilations for labels such as X Died En Route Y and Hung Like A Horse etc. The band plans to release a 12" full length album in 2006 followed by an expansive tour.
The Triumph Of Gnomes (Texas grind/thrash)
http://www.myspace.com/triumphofgnomes http://www.triumphofgnomes.com/ RIYL: The Locust, An Albatross, Daughters
??We are Austin??s new live action train wreck.? A runaway locomotive of sound. Smokestack steaming, fire breathing, a red-hot engine fueled by a thunderstorm of drums and melodies only the devil would dance to. Blending spastic/grind beats, flailing guitar, and electro/synth key slammin?? noise, Triumph of Gnomes have arrived. Releasing their latest concoction of sounds, Fear Not, My Wolf Machine, a four-song EP, provides four tracks impossible to dance to.
$onic $uicide $quad (DC WTF jamz, mem. of Ca$h $lave Clique, ex-No-Fi/Radon Ensemble)
http://www.cashslaveclique.com/ http://myspace.com/cashslaveclique Make no mistake about it, DA CA$H $LAVE CLIQUE is not the rock 'n' roll of yesterday, but the forward moving revolution of today and tomorrow. Their zealous passion incinerates today's gimmicky knockoffs, leaving pretenders in a dust storm of reckless rock upheaval.
Snake Hips (Roanoke improv psych/noise/drone)
http://www.myspace.com/fucksnakehips Harm*Stryker (Richmond electronics/noise duo)
http://www.harmstryker.org http://www.804noise.org/harmstryker/ Harm Stryker is a politically and socially motivated electronic experimental noise venture. The intention behind Harm Stryker is to help increase awareness for different radical issues that deserve attention through various forms of independent media. We believe that in order to provoke action against oppression there must be a strong enough feeling of dissent towards the oppressor. In order for this to happen, people must feel educated and empowered to make a change. Harm Stryker intends to fuel the revolutionary flame by providing an outlet for radical ideas through literature, art, and experimental music that encourage people to take matters into their own hands. While We realize that some direct action tactics are not for every one, Harm Stryker supports creative alternatives that help increase awareness as well. Some of these ideas involve art, music, wheat pasting, screen-printing, shadow box collages, event organizing, etc.
sc.all (of Kohoutek, solo electronics)
http://scarcelight.org/ Will sc.all play the Fources or will the Fources play him? Or will the Fources play the Fyrall? Perhaps sc.all will leave his blinking lights at home and debut his vocal fugue in B minor.
Piasa (mem. of VOG/Pastures/Tree Wizard, Northern VA noise terrorists)
A dadaist/experimental/sociological music experiment, these guys have been known to play sheet metal, garbage cans, harmonicas, transistor radios, smoothie blenders, and barking puppies...all at once. And one of them is over seven feet tall.
Variously described as a flying dragon, monster bird, and aerial demon, the Piasa has endured through the past three centuries an an Indian legend confirmed only by its reproduction as recorded by various observers.
Bunny Rabbits (Richmond no wave)
http://www.myspace.com/thebunnyrabbits http://www.cnprecords.com/bunny_rabbits.htm Weird, art-damaged, dancy post-punk with wiry, meandering guitars and spacy, reverb-drenched vocals or not.
The Bunny Rabbits formed back in '96 in Las Vegas, Nevada. John Swart was living out there with an exotic dancer and part-time porn actress (just when they were using too much blow) named Veronique. He got to know David and Mat when they were working on a project with Veronique, a take-off of the similarly titled Clint Eastwood film, Midnight in the Garden of Bootiliciousness and Cockrings. John was pretty jealous at first but after hanging around with the guys for a while and realizing that they were only fucking his girl for money (well, and the glory), and since he was recouping a good bit of that money at the poker table, no foul. And once they realized their mutual admiration for Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla's Love Lines talk show, they knew they had to form a band. After going through every drummer in tiny Richmond VA where the boys had relocated after Veronique's father opened up Velvet in Shockoe Bottom, they settled on John Thursday, a drum machine adapted from the CPU of a diddling robot some silicon valley nerd developed for Veronique after he saw her in Sperminator III. Apparently he had ripped the processor from a Roland drum unit to begin with. All's well that ends well and look for the Bunny Rabbits at a venue (or birthday party) near you.
Upcoming 611 Florida events: 4/14: Kohoutek/Little Howlin' Wolf/La Otracina (mem. of Owl Sounds/Lust Ionics/Blizzards)/Tall Firs (Ecstatic Peace folk/psych)/Pigeons (mem. of Sea Donkeys)/Life Partners (Twisted Village, mem. of Major Stars)/Keith & Catfish (of No Neck Blues band)/Pepi Ginsberg
4/29: Tarantula Hill benefit w/ Ultimate VAG (mem. of Kohoutek/To Live And Shave In L.A.)/Scott Allison & Andy Hayleck/The Cutest Puppy In The World/DJ Dogdick/Jesux (mem. of Facemat)/The Plums SpanOrb Orchestra/Sean Peoples/Hugh McElroy/Rebecca Mills and more
5/19: Mike Tamburo (Music Fellowship)/Keenan Lawler/Nick Schillace
6/18: Will Soderberg/Roxanne Jean Polise (Chicago noise)/Adam Mokan
6/25: Andrew Lafkas (bass) & Bryan Eubanks (electronics)/New American Wing
