COMING THIS WEEKEND at THE WAREHOUSE (1017 7th St., Wash DC)
Saturday, Tomorrow, 05/29
TWO IF BY SEA (Post-punk rock infused with the spirit and sensibility of late
70s/early 80s new wave from Baltimore.)
KIMONE (Beautiful, magisterial, slow-build rock filled with depth and emotion
from Boston.)
PAUL MICHEL (DC's own fuses airy pop with an urgency and heaviness, making for
lush soundscapes.)
Monday, 05/31
HELLA (insane guitar drums duo from Sacremento, 5RC/ Kill Rock Stars,
www.hellaband.com) NEED NEW BODY (Philly??s oompa loompa funk, tape-spliced gibber babber, File-13
Records)
MAKE BELIEVE (x-Cap n' Jazz, Owls, Joan of Arc doing some crazy King
Crimson-esque noise, Flameshovel Records)
Tuesday, 06/01
ET AT IT (record release party!)
SHARON CHESLOW (x-Electrolettes, Red Eye, Suture... former DC resident)
YELLOW SWANS (Improvisational electronic processing from S.F. / Oakland)
HITS (DC wonders)
Wednesday, 06/02
DYSRYHTHMIA (Philly??s insane prog metal band)
BEHOLD... THE ARCTOPUS (Philly??s odd and difficult metal band, cd soon on Mick
Barr??s Vothoc/ Troubleman Unlimited)
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Baltimore's TWO IF BY SEA blends ambient electronics, guitars, live and
triggered drums, and voices to create an original post-punk rock infused
with the spirit and sensibility of late 70s/early 80s new wave.
KIMONE are five multi-instrumentalist from Boston with absurdly developed
musical proclivities- creating stunningly beautiful, magisterial, slow-build
rock filled with depth and emotion.
DC's own PAUL MICHEL fuses a unique combination of airy pop with an urgency and
heaviness, making for lush soundscapes and thoughtfully crafted songs that are
both distinctive and highly inventive.
YELLOW SWANS Improvisational music, primarily using electronic instruments and
processing, with respect to the methodology of international
underground musics and DIY culture. Musically comparable to a distillation of
American hardcore, Free improvisation, Dub, Hip Hop, Noise, Industrial,
and Modern Composition. Interested in full spectrum tonality, sonic exploration,
the opening of new doors of perception, spiritual journey, and the
establishment of new, meaningful shared cultural experience in the tradition of
folk and native musics from around the globe. Interested in full spectrum
tonality, sonic exploration, and free form musical construction.
HELLA If you believe one particularly virulent message board thread, Hella is
both as powerful as Hitler and responsible for ruining music for all
right-minded, God-fearing folk. Which can surely only be a good thing. For a
band not yet five years old, Hella polarizes plenty of opinions by daring to try
something as radical as only having two members and no vocals, and deviating
from a strict 4/4 time signature. When floundering attempts at comparison
mention such disparate entities as Lightning Bolt, Oxes, Primus and the good
Captain Beefheart, you know you must be doing something right. Drummer Zach Hill
and guitarist Spencer Seim storm the conventions of math-punk through a hefty
discography from their debut, "Hold Your Horse Is" up to their current EPs. San
Francisco. 5RC/Kill Rock Stars
NEED NEW BODY Unlike many of the bands currently scoring cool points in the eyes
of the media, Need New Body relies almost completely on spontaneity. Formed by
the members of the short-lived Bent Leg Fatima, the band has struggled since its
inception to avoid some of the same trappings as its predecessors. The band's
self-titled debut marked a complete change in direction, steering away from the
psychedelic sounds for a darker and more chaotic sound. Although the songs were
being created mainly with standards instrumentation, the songs were anything but
traditional. Rooted partially in the improvisation and experimentation of Kraut
rockers like Can or Faust, a live NNB show can now invoke echoes of anything
from the rhythmic cacophony of Dog Faced Hermans to the organ-laden drone of
Stereolab. With the release of a second album, UFO (File 13), NNB demarcates the
difference between Captain Beefheart and the drunk guy who raps at parties.
MAKE BELIEVE featuring Tim Kinsella from Owls, Joan of Arc, Cap N Jazz etc. Make
Believe is 2003s touring version of Joan of Arc. After 3 months of touring
solidified their playing together, they returned home and decided to follow this
impulse and write new songs with a more aggressive approach. But they all knew
it had to be something different than Joan of Arc. For it to be represented as a
true collaboration and reflect itÍs totally different approach to songwriting
and speak for itself it had to shake whatever connotations the band name Joan of
arc had acquired.
DYSRHYTHMIA Progressive rock, heavy metal, indie-rock, avant-jazz and ambient
mesmerism are combined through the high-energy music of Philadelphia-based trio,
Dysrhythmia. Formed in March 1999, Dysrhythmia represents the vision of
guitarist Kevin Hufnagel and bassist Clayton Ingerson, a former music major at
the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Friends since high school, they
worked together, in the mid-1990s, as members of Grey Division Blue. Dysrhythmia
marked a creative expansion for the Relapse Records roster, Pretest consisting
entirely of instrumentals with no death/grind buzzsaw guitar tones or blastbeats
?? or anything too "metal" at all, actually ?? in sight. Instead, Dysrhythmia
explores vaguely prog avenues lined with jagged, angular Jesus Lizard-esque
riffs, odd time signatures, and Sonic Youth-styled dissonance and lyrical guitar
doodles; the latter smartly used to draw the listener into a fracas that would
otherwise be a cold, detached listening experienc!
e. Arrangements usually start off sparse and build to climaxes that are more
cerebral than emotional, but engaging nonetheless.
