Warehouse Next Door

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More info on the other performers:
 
 Dame Darcy -- Toured with Lisa Suckdog in the '90s in several key performances. She also records and performs under her own name, as well
 as hosting cable TV shows, making cool dolls, and tons of other stuff.
 More info: http://www.damedarcy.com
 
 Alzo Boszormenyi & the Acid Achievers -- has been making improvised, anarchic punk music since 1986. This seven-piece unit includes two guitarists, bass, drums, keyboards, theremin, and the grand madman Alzo himself. City Paper/Washington Post music critic Mark Jenkins once said Alzo sounds like "a Northern Virginia version of the Fall," but you might also hear the influences of Gong, Sun Ra, Funkadelic, Fugs, Fibulator, etc. Nut Music recording artists (and Lisa Suckdog labelmates).
 http://www.nutmusic.com
 
 Mayor Faith & Jude -- Calypso campaign cabaret by DC's longest running mayoral candidate Faith and her irrepressible companion/guitarist/Sinatra sound-alike Jude. Whether wearing see-through body stockings and blowing her trumpet at DC Statehood rallies or appearing at local screenings of the musical film Gypsy (she played the stripper Mazzeppa who taught the young Natalie Wood to "Get a Gimmick"), Faith has more energy than performers half her age. (Lisa watch out!) Did I mention that Faith is a septuagenarian? A DC legend and, therefore, a national treasure.

[Bombay Chutney]

hmmmm....that one's very tempting...

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Thursday, October 27
 $7, all ages
 doors at 8:30, show at 9:15
 
 Dysrhythmia (Relapse Records, from Philly)
 Drugs Of Faith (ex-Enemy Soil)
 Left Unsaid (DC hardcore)
 
 
 Dysrhythmia
 http://www.dysrhythmiaband.com/
 
 "Dysrhythmia can bring the rock. Hard. Itâ??s not willfully complex, or tricky just for the sake of it; the tunes hang together as tunes first and foremost. Everything from sheer hard-hitting rock to ambient trance, from thrash to Melvins-like sludge-jams is put in the kick-ass blender that is Dysrhythmia. Hang on!" (Dusted)
 
 "...the record Sonic Youth would make if they cared more about heavy metal, the record Slayer would do if they were art-school nerds" (The Philadelphia City Paper)
 
 The Philadelphia trio Dysrhythmia are not at all the sort of group typically sponsored by the extreme metal label Relapse. Their blend of post-hardcore bombast and prog intricacy takes cues from the more spastic side of art-metal, but owes just as much to the muscular jazz-noise of the Sonny Sharrock Band or Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society. With their 'stop on a dime' changes, guitar bleats and occasionally furious tempos, Dysrhythmia neatly fit alongside primarily instrumental groups like The Flying Luttenbachers, Orthrelm, Ruins, Sightings, and even Lightning Bolt. Pretest is Dysrhythmia's third release, following 2000's Contradiction and 2001's No Interference. It's little more intricate than No Interference, with riffs building fractally rather than following the propulsive grooves that distinguished the last disc. The two-part "Annihilation" suite is the album's high point, particularly "Annihilation I", where Clayton Ingerson's throbbing, post-punk bassline buoys Kevin Hufnagel's screaming 'space rock meets thrash' guitar. It's unclear how much of this often-astonishing music is notated, and how much improvised, but given the quality of the results, it's difficult to care. If there's a problem with the record, it's that Dysrhythmia don't always have the courage of their convictions. The slow number is a watery jam that goes nowhere, and not in a fun way, like Subarachnoid Space. It's also possible to dispute their choice to hire Steve Albini as engineer. His obsession with huge drum sounds make it almost impossible to hear just how locked-in and unified they really are. Still, on balance, Pretest is a superb record by a wordless group with much to say. (Phil Freeman, The Wire)
 
 
 Drugs Of Faith
 http://www.drugsoffaith.cjb.net/
 
 Here's an incredibly brief promo from the latest project of former Enemy Soil/The Index/Triac grinder Richard Johnson, and it's actually something a little different than what most people might expect. Is it grindcore? Sure, on some level. Probably at its base, perhaps? Though the focus here is thankfully not on senseless speed in the least. Opener "No Sense of Occasion" definitely plows through some intense blasts, but there's also some subtle classic hardcore/punk in there, as well as some caustic Black Flag-esque guitar work in brief snippets...and what about the way the song slows down and gets a little sludgy towards its close? "So Be It" follows and is shorter, though it feels a little longer with its twisted dissonant rhythms and crunchy chord progressions with a much more forceful mi-paced tempo driving its core. Both of these songs are rough mixes so the output levels are pretty quiet and the sound feels a little too raw to do justice to the music, but I can live with that. Things can be overly rugged and somewhat distant at times, definitely sounding like they might have been recorded live in the studio, but you can basically make out all of the instruments, and I like the way the vocals are flat out shouted without going for anything too forcedly "extreme". (Aversion)

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TONIGHT!
 
 The Apes (Birdman, from DC)
 The Modey Lemon (Birdman, from Pittsburgh)
 Chris Brokaw Rock Band (ex-members of Come/Codeine/Rodan/Karate)
 Big Bear (Monitor Records, Boston)
 
 doors at 8:30/$8/all ages

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Monday, November 21
 $7, all ages
 doors at 8:30, show at 9:30
 
 Elf Power
 The Positions

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ARTHUR MAGAZINE, PLANARIA, TRANSFORMER and THE WAREHOUSE present
 a BENEFIT FOR QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT featuring
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 QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT (New Orleans, Louisiana)
 
 with special guest
 
 HARRY MERRY (Holland)
 
 and a special performance and book signing by the amazing art collective
 
 PAPER RAD
 
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 Saturday November 19th
 Warehouse Nextdoor
 1017 7th Street NW Washington D.C.
 202 783 3933/www.warehousenextdoor.com
 $10/all ages/21+ with ID to drink/9:00
 
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 LETTER FROM QUINTRON (after Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana)
 As I am sure you all must know....me and Miss Pussycat got out.....most of our instruments were also evacuated, but the entire electronics lab was destroyed and many Pussycat paintings and puppets were also lost. Also, the house (SPELLCASTER LODGE) is questionable.......the front gable blew off and the whole downstairs (the LODGE) was REALLY the underwater dance club for about 3-4 days. Unfortunately the only things dancing were dead animals, benzine, E-coli, fire ants, and human feces........Our entire building structure being condemned is a real possibility. The good news is that as far as I know all Rhinestone
 Records Krewe are ok......Trachiotomy rode it out along with Strangebone (Jeff Matson), DJ Math Problem (Brian Marchese), Mikey Serabrini, Danger Dan Fusilier (famous painter of Mother in Law), Jamie & Raven, and many others. Antoinette K-Doe (of the MOTHER IN LAW LOUNGE) also stayed and survived but her lounge saw even deeper water than the Lodge. I know that many of you are having various benefits and you should send your money to any place that makes the most sense to you....if you are donating directly to the Lodge please know that the $ will go to replace equipment and to re-build the Spellcaster because we have no insurance of any kind. It will also go to keep the show on the road for many of the above mentioned Hurricane heroes. The reason I am writing this is because I have been asked by benefit organizers to
 explain somehow what is happening and where the benefit funds for Rhinestone Records will go...so, that is my explaination about money........as far as what is happening.......i don't know what the
 fuck is happening.....this is biblical and it is breaking my heart to see New Orleans burnt, flooded, neglected, ethnically cleansed, and
 basically shoved underwater to drown........but we can breathe underwater baby. Cajun Atlantis has just begun to emerge and the moment those fuckers let us back in the gates, we are going straight to the gun store and then to the boat bar for all the free drinks we can drink. Thank you all for everything........ WE LOVE YOU!...............
 sincerely, Mr.Q and all of Rhinestone Records
 
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 ABOUT QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT
 Quintron and Miss Pussycat, are a glamorous swamp-tech, rock and roll, 360° dance party act (with magical puppet show). They make friends and
 fans wherever they go and all who see them fall under their irresistible spell. Mr. Quintron is a concert and nightclub organist, from New Orleans, Louisiana. He plays music on a custom made
 Hammond/Rhodes-combo organ, backed by his own patented invention The Drum Buddy® -- a rotating, light-activated analog synthesizer which is
 played much in the same way that a DJ spins and scratches records. The Quintron and Miss Pussycat experience is one of barely controlled electronic chaos, up-tempo swamp-tech beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories. You can see them perform regularly at The Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans, Louisiana or on one of their many tours around the world. This act somehow has equal relevance in sleazy nightclubs, pizza restaurants, and university
 lecture halls.
 
 Quintron and Miss Pussycat enjoy a cult following in the US where they tour regularly. Their home, on the fringes of the New Orleans French Quarter, is 'The Spellcaster Lodge', a secret underwater dance club where Peaches and Jon Spencer, among many others, have taken part in their spectacular fancy-dress musical extravaganzas. Always violent and interesting, Quintron's exciting clothes, high energy, rawness, and originality never fail to entertain. Extremely creative and colourful,
 Miss Pussycat is not like anything else you will ever see in a rock club. Most famous for her legendary puppet band Flossie and The Unicorns, she sings back-up, plays maracas, and adds unforgettable sparkle. (31G/Skingraft/Tigerbeat/Bulb Records)
 
 "One part Fraggle punk puppet show and two parts synthesized, Le Tigre-level installation rock, the everything-ecstatic performances of Quintron & Miss Pussycat are as engaging visually as they are
 sonically. The duo's Web site, www.quintronandmisspussycat.com, is a good place to start if you want an idea of what to expect. There you will find still shots of Miss Pussycat's freakish felt friends, a link to a faux-mercial for Quintron's patent-pending Drum Buddy (a
 cool-as-hell, light show synth we're not at liberty to explain), and an explanation of what all this means. The story is surprising to say the least.
 
 Born in Germany and raised in...Alabama...Quintron is actually a former staple of the Chicago noise scene, one that actually used to bang out dissonant bliss alongside members of Wolf Eyes and Andrew W.K.'s house band of miscreants. Once he moved to New Orleans in 1996, he met up with Miss Pussycat and was drawn into her Adult Swim-unrated world of Sifl and Olly sock puppets and organ-driven, Jon Spencer-on-speed madness. So, technically speaking, the DVD/CD presentation Electric Swamp is the ninth Quintron record and the first for the duo on kid606's illustrious Tigerbeat6 label. However you look at it, their sensory overload of a show is perfect for Space 1026, the gallery space we proudly present performance art shows at from time to time now. Though it must be stated that there are actual songs behind the spectacle here -- a fire-in-your-gullet blend of electro-blues, like a modernist spin on the rich, mythic musical history of the city Quintron still calls home, New Orleans. Speaking of, the Quintron recording/rehearsal/design compound went subterranean during Katrina, so the group is still recovering. Don't expect a drab vibe here, though. The Quintron cult has grown largely on the strength of the shows, and this tour is bound to be no different: A triumphant return to inspired madness, if you will." (stolen from R5 Productions)
 
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 PAPER RAD
 
 Half art book, half graphic novel, this tome intersperses photographs, drawings, prints, and junk by Paper Rad with two graphic novellas
 (Spaceballz and Alfe) by Ben Jones. Paper Rad's work synthesizes popular material from television, comics, video games, and advertising, and explodes with color, feeling, and good humor. This book, created and designed by the group, will explore the worlds of one of the most vibrant constellations of artists working today. Their website, paperrad.org, is one free Mega-Mall information overload for your soul. A mind-blower, for sure.
 
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 http://www.quintronandmisspussycat.com
 http://www.harrymerry.com
 http://www.paperrad.org
 http://www.arthurmagazine.com
 http://www.planariainc.com
 http://www.transformergallery.org
 http://www.warehousetheater.com

[kurosawa-b/w]

Hey, Snailhook. How much is the cover for the Voxtrot show Saturday night? Here's a  link for anyone that wants to hear them.

[Bags]

Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
  Hey, Snailhook. How much is the cover for the Voxtrot show Saturday night? Here's a  link for anyone that wants to hear them.

Any *general* idea of set times?

[Bags]

At the Warehouse Theater
 
 Thur Dec 15 - 730 & 930
 $6
 FILM
 PANCAKE MOUNTAIN
 Pancake Mountain Episodes 5 & 6, featuring performances and appearances by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Billy Idol, Garbage, Shonen Knife, Widespread Panic, Weird War, Rick Derringer, Chuck Levell, Liz Durret and others.
 
 Pancake Mountain (www.pancakemountain.com) blends child entertainment with performances and appearances by some of the most cutting edge bands and musical artists. Pervious episodes have included The Arcade Fire, Henry Rollins, Scissor Sisters, Fiery Furnaces, George Clinton, The Evens (featuring Ian MacKaye of Fugazi), Vic Chestnutt, Thievery Corporation, Bob Mould, Brendan Canty and many more.

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the voxtrot show is $7. we still haven't determined the order of the bands, but it will probably be:
 
 10pm: ceremony
 11pm: the antiques
 12am: voxtrot

[BookerT]

the voxtrot show is $7. we still haven't determined the order of the bands, but it will probably be:
 
 10pm: ceremony
 11pm: the antiques
 12am: voxtrot  

is this looking more likely to be the order/times?

[snailhook]

this is likely, but not 100%. anyone going to this should see all three bands anyway.

[Jaguar]

I'll be there and can't wait to see Ceremony again. Pure drone in all of it's joy.

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voxtrot canceled. the antiques and ceremony will play as scheduled.

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The Alkem Foundation invites you to join us at the Warehouse Next Door for live music and art:
 
 Saturday December 17, 2005
 1017 7th St NW, Washington DC
 http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
 8pm, $8
 
 http://www.alkem.org/warehouse.html
 
 Alkem is hosting its second annual event to showcase the many talanted artists that make up the Alkem community. Please join us to enjoy the diverse artistic talents of local musicians, artists and more that all work together to build this grass roots DIY endeavour.
 
 Meet and learn more about our community supported foundation by visiting our website http://www.alkem.org. Proceeds from the event go directly to help maintain and expand Alkem's services.
 
 Music: (in alphabetical order)
 The Antiques: http://www.theantiques.org
 Sarah Azzara: http://www.sarahazzara.com
 DCIC: http://dcic.alkem.org
 Kohoutek: http://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek.html
 Lida Husik: http://www.aliasrecords.com/lidahusik.htm
 Pup Tent: http://www.benazzara.com/puptent/
 Shame Girl
 
 Artists:
 Sesow: http://sesow.com/
 Dana Ellyn: http://www.danaellynart.com/
 
 
 About Alkem:
 
 The Alkem Foundation is a privately funded non-profit organization providing free internet resources and support for artists, musicians, and creative visionaries who share the ideals of the Alkem Foundation, and/or who it is felt would further the Alkem Foundation's cause, but lack direct resources, technical ability, or other significant input to the international network, known as the World Wide Web.
 
 Alkem strives to engender communication and discussion of ideas and values of importance and substance in the fields of arts, philosophy and religion, in a forum, free of economic, political or social agendas. The potential altruistic nature of the internet has largely been replaced with hype, commercialism, pornography, and mainstream banality. The soul is not bound by wealth and neither should the creative expressions of those souls who have collected their thoughts on Alkem's servers.
 
 Many artists, musicians and creative visionaries lack the access, financially or otherwise, to fully utilize the inherent advantage of communication over the internet. Alkem will help with the utilization of the most powerful communications tool of the modern age by embodying the forum to facilitate the exchange of understanding and communication in real and virtual space.
 
 The Alkem Foundation can be reached by contacting: info@alkem.org