The Free Folk Phantasmagory

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Wall of Death take their name from the Richard Thompson song?

[shoot ur shot]

What are the "Pop Faction" bands?

well.. http://www.popfaction.com
 
 

I take it you go to VCU...  

Indeed.
 
   

It seems like you could educate me with the Richmond scene... I live in the Fan but I don't bother because I'm always disappointed and/or jaded. That's why I go to DC ALL THE TIME for shows... tell me what these bands sound like.

hahahahaha EVERYONE I know that's lived in richmond for at least two years is completely jaded and will not hesitate to say so.
 
 I don't know if you care for that muy intenso, but if there's one show to see this fall in the Richmond area, it's Converge at the Alley Katz. Why? They have reached a creative pinnacle. Their new album, You Fail Me, is phenomenal and I've seen them maybe 7 times and they NEVER dissappoint. Plus, Cave In is opening and they are great in their own right.

[shoot ur shot]

not the band, wall of death. I am also well aware that the wall of death did not originate with lamb of god. They pioneered nothing. But you gotta hand it to the hot topic crowd, they have taken the w.o.d. up a notch. Frodus owns btw.

[thirsty moore]

It was a Frodus/Refused show and that w.o.d. stuff looked painful.
 
 BTW, I'm bumping this thread up because this Free Folk show sounds HOTT.
 
 

Originally posted by shoot ur shot:
 But you gotta hand it to the hot topic crowd, they have taken the w.o.d. up a notch. Frodus owns btw.

[nkotb]

Agreed.  I should be there, baring I can reschedule some bullshit work volunteer stuff I have to do.  Work is bogus.
 
 

Originally posted by econo:
  It was a Frodus/Refused show and that w.o.d. stuff looked painful.
 
 BTW, I'm bumping this thread up because this Free Folk show sounds HOTT.
 
   

Originally posted by shoot ur shot:
 But you gotta hand it to the hot topic crowd, they have taken the w.o.d. up a notch. Frodus owns btw.

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[snailhook]

awesome...whoever shows up better introduce themselves! i've already met econo.
 
 nkotbie, the show will go late, well past midnight. if you've got shit to do during the day, come later.
 
 excepter will blow minds. i can't begin to describe what kind of mindfuck performance i saw them do in july. there might just be a little audience participation.
 
 sabir mateen is as good a post-coltrane saxist as any. we don't get much free jazz in DC, so this will be a rare treat.
 
 i've had sharron kraus play in DC twice this year, and whoever sees her ends up buying her CDs. she's that good.
 
 the rest will be a solid variety of finger-picking, folk-psych, and atonal noise.

[snailhook]

Got a few updates.
 
 Daniel McCormick-Martin will not be performing solo, but instead in the debut of Flowers, a guitar/violin improv duo.
 
 Added:
 
 Madagascar
 From Baltimore, featuring Michael Lambright of The Big Huge
 Fashioning gypsy dirges and broken down waltzes from instruments including musical saw, glockenspiel and bowed cymbal.
 
  DJ Panic
 From DC, vinyl and hacksaw improvised explorations
 
 Experimental free improvisation performed through the medium of a vinyl LP played with a hacksaw. The resulting miniature atonal sounds are picked up, amplified and modified through electronic effects. Though atonal, the resulting sounds are strange and provocative. I have developed an extensive vocabulary and several possibilities for syntax, including rhythmic attack, drones and fast-paced chatter.
 Metaphorically, I consider this process to be cutting the residue of commercial death culture from the music and discovering the sound of love on these hardened grooves.
 
 The order of appearance will be (first being last):
 
 Excepter
 Sabir Mateen
 Sharron Kraus
 From Quagmire
 The Big Huge
 Madagascar
 Niagara Falls
 Eric Carbonara
 DJ Panic
 Dense Fog
 Flowers
 
 Flowers will start promptly at 4:30, and there will be mostly continuous music for the rest of the day.

[thirsty moore]

Unfortunately I will have to bow out of this event.  I had some dates confused and will be up in NYC this weekend.  Please let me know how this went!