Tonight: Ninjasonik, Wild Yaks, & SHAPES

Goes Cube Tour Dates + New Album

I saw Goes Cube a long ass time ago at Sin-E (remember that place?). They were awesome then and I can only imagine they're 100 times better live by now. In addition to touring they will also be dropping a new album in two weeks.

Goes Cube Tour
05/14/09 Thu @ The Studio at Webster Hall - New York, NY (RECORD RELEASE SHOW) *
05/15/09 Fri @ The Red and The Black - Washinton, DC **
05/17/09 Sun @ Nara Sushi - Richmond, VA
05/18/09 Mon @ Jack Sprat - Chapel Hill, NC
05/19/09 Tue @ Slim's Downtown - Raleigh, NC
05/20/09 Wed @ The Whig - Columbia, SC
05/21/09 Thu @ The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
05/22/09 Fri @ TBA - Nashville, TN
05/23/09 Sat @ The Firebird - St Louis, MO
05/24/09 Sun @ TBA - Kansas City, MO
05/26/09 Tue @ Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
05/27/09 Wed @ Knickerbockers - Lincoln, NE
05/28/09 Thu @ The Picador - Iowa City, IA
05/29/09 Fri @ Earthdiver Collective - Oshkosh, WI
05/30/09 Sat @ Underground Lounge - Chicago, IL
05/31/09 Sun @ Double OO Pub - Redford, MI
06/01/09 Mon @ Howlers Coyote Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
06/02/09 Tue @ The Talking Head Club - Baltimore, MD
06/03/09 Wed @ TBA - Asbury Park, NJ
06/04/09 Thu @ The Oasis - New London, CT

* w/ Jones Street Station, The Austerity Program, Constants, and Red Beard
** w/ Constants

Brooklyn's GOES CUBE will release their full-length debut, 'Another Day Has Passed,' on May 12th via THE END RECORDS. You can catch the band performing their new material as they take their earth-shattering live show on the road in May! The tour kicks off in the band's home town of New York at the Studio at Webster Hall for the official 'Another Day Has Passed' release party on May 14th and then heads south and through the Midwest before heading back east again.

Black Lips & Gza Recorded A Song

As far as rap / rock collaborations go this actually sounds pretty promising. I mean I love Black Lips and the GZA has been the most consistently awesome member of Wu-Tang over the years. So it has to be good, right? Right? Well, it does somehow manage to simultaneously sound like both a Black Lips song and Wu-Tang song. Yet, it still pretty much sucks. I wanted to like this but it's just not very interesting. The chorus is good but the verses pretty much kill it. Take a listen and let us know what you think.

Link:
Spinner - Black Lips/GZA

MP3:
The Drop I Hold - Black Lips / GZA

Tonight: Sigmund Droid, Bonnie Baxter, & More - Free Acoustic Show

Well this is going to be interesting! Sigmund Droid, Bonnie Baxter, and others will be playing acoustic sets at Northeast Kingdom. I'm super curious to hear what Sigmund Droid sounds like acoustic... I mean it's just drum and bass. I have an acoustic bass and it's pretty much useless unless it's plugged in. Also, Jeremy J will be DJing.

Toilet Records presents night of music with no electricity for musicians to plug their guitars, basses, or pedals in to. Features bands that need to creatively figure out how to make this transition. It's going to be a pretty amazing night.
Here are the bands;
www.myspace.com/leilolai (Drum and Bass Duo)
www.myspace.com/redromans (Tape Machine and Guitar)
www.myspace.com/Sigmunddroid (Drum and Bass Duo)
www.myspace.com/Bonniebaxter (Electric Ethereal)
DJ Jeraliscious (Jeremy J Cohen)
DJ Rusala will spin Vinyl (Bass Player from Asa Ransom)
and special secret guests (Aas Mosnar)...Come check it out! It's free.

The L Magazine: 8 Bands You Need To Hear 2009

The L Magazine released their annual list of bands to look out for. The 2009 edition features two bands that are playing our party on Friday, The Beets and Pow Wow! Take a look at the rest and let us know what you think.

Link:
8 Bands You Need To Hear

The Beets

Pow Wow!

Initial Siren Festival Bands Announced

I thought 2008 was supposed to be the last Siren? I guess not, huh? Well, so far it's only 6 bands but really all I need to hear is Monotonix and I'm sold!

New York, NY (April 28, 2009) The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, is excited to announce the initial line-up for the 9th Annual Village Voice SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL™
at Coney Island on Saturday, July 18, 2009 from 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m. Scheduled performers include BUILT TO SPILL, THE RAVEONETTES, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, GRAND DUCHY, MONOTONIX, MICACHU & THE SHAPES, DJs and more to be announced.

Netherfriends Are Cool

A few days ago I got an email about a band from Chicago called Netherfriends. I decided to give them a listen and was pretty impressed. If you haven't heard of them yet then take a listen. Apparently they've made the rounds at SXSW and CMJ so I'm sure I'll be issued a late pass on these guys.

Link:
MySpace

MP3:
Nunya - Netherfriends

Tac Tac (Kitchen Jam)

TAC TAC
by cosignpresents

2009 Capitol Hill Block Party Line-Up

For the most part I hate festivals. It's always hot, the food is expensive, and taking a dump is a nightmare. Plus, let's be honest, you have to sit through four shitty bands to get to one decent one. However, the one festival that never ceases to impress me is the Capitol Hill Block Party. Too bad it's way on the other side of the country.

The 2009 Capitol Hill Block Party
Seattle’s Premiere Celebration of Independent Music
July 24 & July 25th - Seattle, WA

On Sale Friday May 1st 10:00am


Friday July 24
Doors @ 3:00 pm

Main Stage :: All Ages
The Dutchess and The Duke, myspace.com/thedutchessandtheduke
Spinnerette, spinnerettemusic.com
Black Lips, black-lips.com
Deerhunter, myspace.com/deerhunter
The Jesus Lizard, myspace.com/thejesuslizard

Neumos :: 21+
They Live!, myspace.com/theylive206
Hey Marseilles, heymarseilles.com
The Blakes, myspace.com/theblakes
Sleepy Eyes of Death, sleepyeyesofdeath.com
Earth, myspace.com/earthofficial

Vera Stage :: All Ages
Audacity, myspace.com/audacityca
Flexions, myspace.com/flexions
Bow+Arrow, myspace.com/thebowandarrow
Micachu & The Shapes, myspace.com/micayomusic
Past Lives, myspace.com/pastlivesmusic
Starfucker, myspace.com/starfuckerss
Mika Miko, myspace.com/mikamiko


Saturday July 25
Doors 12:00pm

Main Stage :: All Ages
Moondoggies, myspace.com/themoondoggies
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
The Thermals, thethermals.com
The Gossip, thegossipmusic.com
Sonic Youth, sonicyouth.com

Neumos Stage :: 21+
Sportn' Life Show Case feat D.Black, Fatal Lucciauno, Spaceman
Hotels, myspace.com/hotels
Girls, myspace.com/thegirlsseattle
Akimbo, myspace.com/akimbo
The Maldives, themaldivesmusic.com
Truckasauras, myspace.com/teapartiesgunsnvalor
Future of The Left, futureoftheleft.com
Faux Punk, myspace.com/fauxpunknow

Vera Stage :: All Ages
Pica Beats, www.thepicabeats.com
SOL, myspace.com/solzilla
New Faces, myspace.com/newfacesband
Japandroids, myspace.com/japandroids

Video: The Bronx "Knifeman"

The Non-Worker Party @ Red Star Bar, Free Colt 45.

We're having a May Day party at Red Star Bar with our friends at The Music Slut! The economy sucks and we're all broke so we decided to put together a killer party and keep it cheap. For $4 you get The Beets, Wild Yaks, The Subjects, and Pow Wow plus and hour of free Colt 45. Come out and party with us on Friday!

May Day (May 1st)
The Non-Worker Party
@ Red Star Bar, 37 Greenpoint Ave.
w/ The Beets, Wild Yaks, The Subjects, Pow Wow
DJ: Tom (Radio America / Brooklyn Ski Club)
Colt 45 Open Bar 9-10PM
$4

Links:
Going.com/nwp
Facebook

***May 1st is Jose's (The Beets) birthday so make sure you buy him a couple of shots.

Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio Played Gramercy Theatre (Friday Show)

Brooklyn Ski Club contributor Ryan Wilhelm went to the Lou Reed show on Friday at Gramercy Theatre. Here's what he had to say.
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If you’re at all familiar with 1975’s Metal Machine Music you know exactly what this show was like without having to attend. Lou Reed described the album as such: “Well, anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am.”

That’s a pretty badass thing to say. Reason being, Lou Reed is a formidable badass. The dude inspires fear and respect. There’s no question about it. And I wouldn’t say it about many muthers out there.

So, Let’s get right to it.

The show was 40 minutes long and Lou Reed smiled nearly the entire time. So that was kinda nice to see.

I could feel sorry for the people that paid the $100 charge to see this. But I don’t.

They must have known what they were in for, with the show being billed as “a night of deep noise and no vocals.”

This music’s determination to kill all pop and rock sensibilities is respectable. But it never allowed anyone in the audience to relax.

Reed was joined by John Zorn (on sax) and two German guys (on keyboards and sax), whose names are barely pronounceable let alone spellable.

I guess you could say the same thing about the metal machine music.

Experiencing the single set, single song, 40-minute drone of feedback gave me a painful feeling that slowly passed and gone into a dullness that I completely mistrusted.

But it was fun. Maybe a test of fortitude is a more accurate way to describe it. This was music you could feel. Literally. The noise was so incredibly deep, so loud I could feel my throat rumbling. I could feel it in my balls. Kind of the way I feel on a rollercoaster (or of course, when we used to climb the ropes in gym class).

And I can’t really imagine Lou smiling if he was forced to continue to play Sweet Jane and Walk on the Wild Side for drunk concertgoers.

One highlight was Zorn and the other saxophoner battling. Kind of like a cockfight. It looked like one, and it definitely sounded like one. And who dosen’t love a good cockfight? Peck out thee eyes! Peck thee ears! But only half the fun at a cockfight is the violence. The other half is gambling. Who’s taking the bets here? And who wins? So who cares?

I wanna be black
I wanna be Malcolm X
Cast a hex
Over president Kennedy’s tomb
And have a big prick too

They lead us along, as promised, through the noise that tied our standards up in knots. I kept wondering if all this bullshit boils down to him or us. Is this self-righteous nonsense? Is the audience entertained? Is that even the point anymore? Are all these spectators enjoying this music on some primal level that I am cowardly ignoring?

After about 30 minutes I thought, “Can anyone stand this dark wail for any longer?”

Then a wave of “maybe this is fiendishly humorous” passed across me like whatthefuck!
I can’t pretend to enjoy this on any other level. It’s a fascinating decay, but I’m no masochist.

But I know It takes all kinds of mutherfuckers , and mutherfuckers punish their ears in worse ways than Metal Machine Music (insert your worst and most hated band here). So some people deserve to have their ears rot. And I’m sure there is a special place in hell where ears will be severed or filled with deafening puss.

So yeah: fuck the general public.

But what about the faithful? The fans. Fuck them as well? Do they share some kind of passion for a musical art that I am somehow refusing?

Is there a statement being made here? Is this music supposed to be about inner-pain? Modern pseudo-insanity? Like these things, it seemed random, careless, and totally irrelevant.

Still, I don’t think Lou Reed is trying to exploit anyone. He doesn’t have to. He’s Lou Reed for christ’s sake! But maybe he’s afraid to admit he’s washed up.

I asked people their opinions after the lights came up. Maybe I’m not that personable, but with performance enhancing drugs in belly and brain, I tried to be. Still, no one had much to say to me. So the only conclusion I could draw was: if this music is so interesting then why doesn’t anyone have anything interesting to say about it?

Oh yeah, and anyone that doesn’t jerk off three times a day is a square. And squares don't roll.

Lou fulfilled his dreadful oath, thanked the crowd, and disappeared from stage. House lights came on, people went about the rest of their Friday night.

Tonight: Brooklyn Ski Club Presents Sigmund Droid, SHAPES, & More @ Market Hotel (Free Beer)

There's lots to do tonight but you know what I say? Fuck that other shit. BSC is having a party at Market Hotel and that's all you need. This was originally a house party but we had to move it but the deal remains the same - $5 cover and an open bar from 8-9PM. Hell, we even added two more bands (both all the way from Montreal). So gather up your friends and come rage with us tonight.

Brooklyn Ski Club Presents:
Sigmund Droid, SHAPES, Hank & Cupcakes, Blue Lions, Black Feelings
@ Market Hotel, 857 Broadway
Doors 8PM
Free Beer 8-9PM, $2 after
$5 Cover


RSVP:
Going.com/troutman
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