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NMW Ensemble subtractions (4): simultaneity greg stuart a roomful of composers, improvising Thursday, May 17 2012 8:00pm 1 hour 5 | ||
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PAN
~~~ FORGET THE TIMES
~~~ BR'ER
Often compared to Explosions in the Sky, PAN is a primarily instrumental band that focuses on writing uplifting music for the masses. Post-Rock is the genre most likely to pigeonhole Pan, but their goals are to transcend genre itself and instead present a concept of immersive musical fulfillment. Post-Post Rock? You may not be far off. We hope you enjoy.
FORGET THE TIMES is a free improv/psych/noise/drone rock collective from Kalamazoo, MI. We have music out on Already Dead Tapes & Records.
BR'ER is primarily a recording project for Philadelphia native Benjamin Schurr. Br'er became a functional band with the addition of harpist/multi-instrumentalist Darian Scatton in July of 2007, and after several line up changes, now usually contains Benjamin Schurr, Darian Scatton, & Roger Alejandro Martinez.
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Carey Murdock
~~~ Post Timey String Band
~~~ Justin Thompson
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Coma Cinema
~~~ Nomen Novum
~~~ Leighton Alexander
Coma Cinema will be exploding your mind with newly expanded bass lines and freestyle interludes straight from the pages of the highly anticipated "School Shootings" and library classic "Blue Suicide"
Nomen Novum will grace our ears with samples, guitar, hi/lo-fi beats, clicks, clacks and noises along with strong melodies stringing their way from their native Hotlanta! http://nomennovum.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-look-for-it-its-there
Leighton Alexander : Lose yourself in beautiful guitar loops fading into and out of each other and hang on every melodious word!
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PILESAR
~~~ BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT ~~~ HULLCOGAN ~~~ CANCELLIERI
Twisted experimental rock and mutant psych noise from DC and SC
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FAUN FABLES
~~~ WASTED WINE ~~~ THE GOOD WITCH
"Oakland's FAUN FABLES aren't really a folk group, but there's no adequate name for the music Dawn and Nils make together, music that is so total, otherworldy, and heretical a vision of traditional music that it can only be compared to THE RESIDENTS' version of rock 'n roll. Frykdahl's instrumental virtuosity is strictly in the service of making every sound you've ever heard unfamiliar. This band has the uncanny ability to blow through original songs, ancient ballads and European avant garde numbers in a set without a single note seeming out of place. Even if you don't like traditional music, avant garde music, or music at all, you still need to hear McCarthy's voice, which will kill you dead." - LA Weekly
WASTED WINE is a ramshackle band of bizarre sounds and baffling lyrics. Based in South Carolina and New York, the band consists of multi-instrumentalists / co-lead vocalists Robert Gowan and Adam Murphy, and fellow musicians Buck Dollars on electric guitar and knives, bassist Lou Buckingham, Jane Kemp on drums. Their music is weird, dark, sad, funny, theatrical, self-recorded, and employing countless "exotic" instruments. Depending on when you catch them, they are a mix of Rock, Eastern European Folk, Klezmer, Cabaret, and more.
THE GOOD WITCH is era elizabeth on vocals, guitar, piano, and/or drum
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Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in classical trumpet. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music, jazz and composition. As a performer, Evans has been working to broaden the expressive range of his chosen instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of players and composers. Current bands include the Peter Evans Trio, Quartet and Quintet, Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), duo with trumpeter Nate Wooley, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance.
Saxophonist and Composer Travis Laplante is highly active in New York City's experimental music scene, and is quickly becoming known as one of the most powerful young voices in improvisational and structured sound. Laplante has recorded and performed with Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Andrew Cyrille, as well as the experimental rock bands Extra Life and Skeletons. His band Little Women has toured internationally to high acclaim. Tiny Mix Tapes describes Laplante's music as "a timely battle cry for both the unstoppable force of experimental music and the fact that no mode of domination can ever fully conquer the wild energy and potentiality that blooms inside the body, waiting to explode out into the world and shatter that which must be shattered." The Chicago Tribune simply claims that his music "might change your life, indefinably."
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GARRISON STARR
~~~ DANIELLE HOWLE
~~~ A FRAGILE TOMORROW
Not so long ago, GARRISON STARR hit the road supporting Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Melissa Etheridge. No surprise, then, that she's learned a thing or two about crafting a great story. Starr regularly pinches a sleight of hand or passing sound bite and turns it into a rich character assessment. Starr's genuine, earthy songwriting approach makes it easy to keep rooting-fists clenched and shaking for more artistic evolution. Her songs seem effortless, absolutely unselfconscious and suggest the next time out she might reach the sky again. "This is really how I feel," Starr sings through on "Spectacle" from her last release, The Girl That Killed September", and I'm gonna scream until it's real."
DANIELLE HOWLE is a woman with a great story to tell: a raconteuse extraordinaire. She weaves her soul into the fabric of her music in a manner that ultimately envelopes and lifts your mind, body, and spirit. Those that have seen her live performances know that they are a genuine offering of her heart: her humorous prattles are filled with insight, inquiry, and wonder, and speak of true romanticism tempered with a healthy dose of cynicism. Her latest release, Swamp Sessions, was recorded deep in the Francis Marion National Forest in a solar powered swamp house on a piece of high ground next to the Echaw Creek. Swamp Sessions is the first solar powered recording in South Carolina, and the first album recorded at Echaw Creek. The presence of the swamp pervades these recordings, and gives them a texture and grittiness that is free from the shackles of modern, over-produced and over-sanitized music.
Based in Charleston, SC, but raised in upstate NY, the guys in A FRAGILE TOMORROW are making a name for themselves all over. They've become known by fans as a high energy power pop band with solid songs and tight harmonies.The musical genre of A Fragile Tomorrow has never been easy to pinpoint, though, as the band uses the cities, musicians, and culture that they come across while on the road as inspiration for their songwriting. Fans have time and again compared their music to the likes of Teenage Fanclub, The Smithereens, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Big Star, The Jayhawks, The Lemonheads, The Posies, and more. Their unique original material has been noticed by many industry legends over the years, including Amy Ray of Indigo Girls and Vicki Peterson of The Bangles, both of whom asked AFT to tour with their respective bands. With 3 studio albums, one acoustic EP, and a live album under their belts, lots of grassroots touring, and a consistently solid stage show, A Fragile Tomorrow is a band that has made a permanent spot for themseles in the music industry.
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Plowman will be opening for Nate Hall (of uber-awesome band US Christmas) who will be playing material from his upcoming solo album, "A Great River"
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Jacob Johnson
~~~ Chris Compton and The Ruby Brunettes
Hailing from South Carolina,
Jacob Johnson
is a one-of-a-kind solo acoustic performance artist who specializes in a style of guitar playing he calls "Neo-acoustic folk/funk." In live performance, his off-the-cuff sense of humor and tongue-in-cheek sensibility disarm the audience and leave them completely unprepared for the multi-layered guitar masterworks he unleashes. Jacob thumps, taps, and slaps his acoustic guitar into submission, weaving a musical tapestry that usually climbs to sonic frenzy whilst never losing its balance or control. His lyrics, thoughtful and realistic, are delivered with the wry sort of charisma that makes you wonder if he isn't just making it all up as he goes. And sometimes he is.
Chris Compton and The Ruby Brunettes play a form of music loosely called Baroque folk-pop; an unassuming strain of emotionally unsettling lounge music for lost souls, lone wolves and the disenchanted, with an emphasis on narrative in the lyrics and ornamentation in the melody. The absence of any rhythm section (no bass or drums) allows for a certain ambient quality in the music that makes it at once unique and difficult to define in terms relevant to rock and roll club owners and dance hall party goers. These are songs for the enlightened but with enough hooks in them to reel in the even Damned and the Dumb. Think Burt Bacharach meets Tom Waits meets Ryan Adams.
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Pan
~~~ Young Mumbles
~~~ Dear Blanca
~~~ Jason Herring & the Mystery Plan
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Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
DRINKS, DAMES, and DRAWING! Lola La Rouge presents: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School! Featuring and Welcoming to Columbia: Dixie Dupree Doors open around 7, sketching begins around 8. Alcohol will be FOR SALE for those of age.
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Hope For Agoldensummer
~~~ Dave Michelson
Hope For Agoldensummer is a family band from the fine town of Athens, GA. For eons they've traveled the USA creating rusty, angelic melodies with a slide guitar, banjo, jangly percussion, glockenspiel, and a bowed handsaw, all overlaid with the gorgeous sibling-soul-choir harmonies of Claire & Page Campbell.
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The Magnetic Flowers
~~~ Judas Horse
The Magnetic Flowers come across as a gloriously overstuffed indie rock force of nature, with its band members trading instruments and vocals with abandon as they deliver their highly original, melodically layered, and hyper-literate songcraft. The influence of groups like Okkervil River, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists and The Hold Steady are evident in the band's sound, but are inadequate in capturing the group's exuberant energy and vocal abandon. What is truly amazing about the group, however, is how often they go from careening rock n' roll to subtly layered vocal harmonies or delicate guitar picking, from garage rock fervor to moments of chamber pop bliss. There seem to be no rules or limits to the band's sound, only a willingness to follow each and every song down the proverbial rabbit hole.
Judas Horse is an experimental folk indie psychedelic shoegaze southern gothic violin/guitar/bass trio, formed in 2008 in Asheville, NC. It features members of U.S. Christmas, Enoch, Serpents, Descolada and Birds on the Ground.
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Ahleuchatistas
~~~ The Unawares
~~~ Andy The Doorbum
8:00pm until 11:00pm The show will feature sets from Asheville's Ahleuchatistas, Columbia's The Unawares and Charlotte's Andy the Doorbum, as well as 25-30 music videos culled from Independent Carolina artists.
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Chris Knight
~~~ Todd Mathis
~~~ Paisley Marie
Ages 18+ Doors open @ 6:00 pm Tickets available online @ ETIX
Chris Knight @ 8:30
Todd Mathis @ 7:45
Paisley Marie @ 7:15
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What can you go in just about any venue in America or in the world and find? Music! Whether it is being played over a speaker in the ceiling or some one is performing live. There is music. On April 23, 2012 Good Clean Fun brings to Conundrum (albeit) Music Hall the ANTI-music Show with comedy, skits, poetry, absurdist theatre etc. and NO music. Join us on Monday April 23 for this unique event! And Musicians this event is for you. Come in, relax, chill and be entertained unless you are "grinding" for we all grind to make things happen! See you there! In the house, Adam Cook and featuring from G-Vegas:
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THIS IS MUSIC Festival!
I Am Carpenter (10:00 - 10:45)
Intermission (6-7)
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*please remember this is a fund raiser for our next comp to be put out on cassette tapes flyer credit to Lee Milsaps there will be no guest list, only band members will get in free
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Sons of Young
~~~ Lamb Handler
~~~ Mason Jar Menagerie
~~~ Fishing Journal
On March 4th the Jam Room invited 4 bands into the studio to hang out and track two songs a piece. Twelve hours later, a Jam Room Party Compilation was born.
Sons of Young (Columbia, SC)
Lamb Handler (Charlotte, NC)
Mason Jar Menagerie (Fountain Inn, SC)
Fishing Journal (Columbia, SC)
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The Lovely Few
~~~ We Roll Like Madmen
The Lovely Few "Uniquely charming electronic folk pop" -The Free Times... Mike Mewborne leads an ever-changing cast of friends and family on electronic folk-pop adventures.
We Roll Like Madmen: Sonic futurists of the Southeast, We Roll Like Madmen are a distinctive crossbreed of electronic dance production, emotive songwriting, and energetic live performance. Standing at the cusp of controllerism and auditory-visual manipulation, WRLM delivers an immersive experience like no other. Their music is firmly rooted in electronic dance genres while focused on song crafting and a vocal-centric aesthetic. Bridging the gap between DJs and musicians, they are equally at home in the club and on the stage, on the dance floor and at the dive bar. We Roll Like Madmen bring an unparalleled energy to the Southeast, driving music forward with a radical collaborative vision. "All dreamy processed vocals and gurgling synths, We Roll Like Madmen's electronic dance music is full of glittering, shiny surfaces, braising Animal Collective's celestial soundworld with Passion Pit's shimmering synth-pop hooks."
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Josh Berman
~~~ Fred Lonberg-Holm
~~~ Christoph Erb
For more than ten years, cornetist, improviser, composer and music presenter Josh Berman has been an essential contributor to Chicago's active improvised music scene. His work encompasses both developing opportunities and forums for presenting improvised music - as co-founder of the critically acclaimed Umbrella Music Group and as vice president and co-curator of the Emerging Improvisers' Organization - and performing in a variety of highly collaborative formats - including as bandleader of his own groups, Josh Berman's Old Idea and Josh Berman and His Gang, and as co-leader of the Chicago Luzern Exchange. In Down Beat Magazine's 2010 and 2011 Critic's Poll, Berman was voted Rising Star, Trumpet. In addition to his work as bandleader, Berman has performed and recorded with some of the most internationally respected improvising musicians and composers in jazz and improvised music: Bill Dixon, Ab Baars, Ken Vandermark, Rob Mazurek, and Jeb Bishop. He is also a frequent collaborator with dance artists; his most recent collaboration with dancer Ayako Kato and musician Jason Roebke was awarded a CROSSCUT grant for New Collaborations in Sound/Movement from Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall. He has toured the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan.
Fred Lonberg-Holm has studied composition with Morton Feldman, Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Bunita Marcus and Noah Creshevsky and cello with Orlando Cole andArdyth Alton. He currently lives in Chicago where he works with a wide variety of musicians in as many situations as possible. Current and ongoing projects include the Valentine Trio (with Jason Roebke and Frank Rosaly), the Peter Broetzmann Chicago Tentet, Joe Mcphee's Survival Unit III (with Michael Zerang), Friction Brothers (Colligan, Lonberg-Holm and Zerang), The Boxhead Ensemble, Horses Ha (Janet Beanand Jim Elkington), ADA trio (w/ Broetzmann and Nilssen-Love) Vox-Arcana, Sherpa, Stirrup, The Fast Citizen's, Ballister as well as numerous one off projects. He has appeared in numerous festivals on several continents. Improvisors he has worked with include Clare Cooper, Charlotte Hug, Andrea Neumann, Shelly Hirsch, Carrie Shull, Carrie Biolo, Birgitte Uhler, Rachel Wadham, Mary Halvorson, Joelle Leandre, Joanne Powers, Zeena Parkins, Judy Dunaway, Lotte Anker as well as a number of guys. He also leads a revolving cast large ensembles under the name Lightbox Orchestra. His extensive discography includes free improvised and free jazz recordings as well as new music, pop, rock and noise.In addition to composing and performing he has made a number of sound installations including recently at the Lincoln Park Conservatory, Joymore and Geschiedle Galleries.
Christoph Erb is a tenor saxophonist / bass clarinetist, improviser, composer and music presenter. He's born in 1973, in Zürich, and lives in Lucerne, Switzerland where his own label, veto-records, is based. He organized his own festivals including, veto-records Laa
bel-Festival and Erb's Impro Festival. In 2006 he won the ZKB Swiss Jazz prize with his group erb_gut. In 2007 he was awarded the culture prize of the city Lucerne. 2009 brought the Scholarship of the city and canton of Lucerne for a four month stay in Chicago as an artist in residence where he recorded several sessions: Erb/Baker/Zerang, Erb Alone, Erb/Lonberg-Holm/Roebke/Rosaly, and a duo with cellist Lonberg-Holm. He leads his own bands: Lila, Veto, BigVeto and erb_gut. Erb has performed and recorded with some of the most internationally respected improvising musicians and composers in jazz and improvised music: Jim Baker, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jason Roebke, Frank Rosaly, Jason Stein, Christy Doran, Urs Leimgruber, Daniel Humair, Harald Harter, Peter Scharli, Christian Weber, Christian Wolfahrt and many others. As a sideman he has collaborated with Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6.
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This month we will come together to Celebrate Selah's Birthday!!! Also - A SCRIMAGE SLAM: Columbia's own THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS V. upstate poets' slam team POETIC ROCKSTARS Bugsy Calhoun will be on the 1s & 2s Its going to be a party!! Can't wait to see you ALL!!! UUUU ESSSSS!!!!
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Liron Peled
~~~ Alternacirque
~~~ Rio
Opening Show of the April insanity tour! The Electric Dumbek and distorted Tuvan throat singing? One-Man Acoustic Metal Band on a Middle Eastern drum set with a double bass pedal?? After touring the world with Raquy & the Cavemen since 2005, Liron Peled is coming out with a new solo project combining his Middle-Eastern upbringing, the intensity of heavy metal and the epic, transcendental sound of Tuvan throat singing mixed with his "Let's Party!" attitude, to create a sound that can be described as Meditative Acoustic Metal Dance Party, all performed by a one-man-band always featuring the best of local talent, with dancing by Rio, who's wigglin has been featured with groups such as Vagabond Opera, Copal, Fishtank Ensemble, This Way To The Egress, and more! This project is hitting the road on the "Insanity Tour", blazing into Columbia on April 15 for a night of true insanity. Featuring Alternacirque (from Columbia)
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Modern Man
~~~ People Person ~~~ Cement Stars ~~~ Daddy Lion
South Carolina bands are coming together to raise funds in support of PETS, Inc.! Featuring
Modern Man , who will be celebrating the release of their new EP;
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GOOD CLEAN FUN
MC: poets: Comics:
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Contortionist Jazz Exotica
~~~ Sylvester Alone
~~~ Special Guest
come get rowdy
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ENDANGERED BLOOD Trevor Dunn (bass), Chris Speed (tenor), Oscar Noriega (alto), and Jim Black (drums) ...an uncommonly well-balanced collective at work... they play fast, looping, dynamically even and entwining lines, laying bebop over clanky grooves...
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SEX BRUISES
~~~ DROMEZ ~~~ CAVEDWELLER ~~~ BRANDON X
Harsh-noise rockers from Austin, TX visit for a party; featuring: SEX BRUISES: Harsh noise lovers. Brutal electronics, fucked guitar, blisters, bruises, total dysfunction
DROMEZ: Earsplitting, distorted feedback loop chaos. A girl, an amp, and hearing damage
CAVEDWELLER
also appearing: BRANDON X
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Cecil B. DeMille's "King of Kings"!
Benefit Screening for our homeless community.
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King Cotton and the Remnants ~~~ Bare Knuckle Champions C. Mims
King Cotton & The Remnants rockin' and rollin' at Conundrum Music Hall in West Cola Town. Playing tunes from "Borderline Brilliant" (2008) and the brand new "Misery Index" (2012).
Also with local Indie-Americana-Folk-Grass, Bare Knuckle Champions headlining.
And Chuck Mims opening with his solo acoustic set.
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Hawaiian Shirt Day
~~~ Signs of Iris
~~~ Sightline
Ska/Pop Punk/Hiprocktronica/ errrr Dance party.
Hawaiian Shirt Day (Columbia, SC)
Signs of Iris (Greenville, SC)
Sightline (Columbia, SC)
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The Queens of Poetry Ladies First Open Mic
Hosted by Queen Campbell.
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Wolter Wierbos
~~~ Great Architect
Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world's leading trombone players. He has played throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Asia. Wierbos has many awards to his name, including the Podiumprijs for Jazz and Improvised music and the most important Dutch jazz award, the VPRO Boy Edgar Prize.
His interests range from precise chamber jazz to throbbing post punk and contemporary composed and improvised music. Described as "a phenomenon, both a humorous importer of every style into his template-free, fat-backed sound, and a tireless spy in the house of brass", he is equally at home using the classic trombone vocabulary or enthusiastically giving a round-trip tour of his horn, from buzzing mute mutations and grizzly blurts to purring multiphonics. He is also "a very good instant composer, good at keeping it moving and not taking it too seriously".
Great Architect was formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2009, as an improvising group intent on exploring the fringes of all musics with an urgency and focus reflective of the modern condition. Originally a quartet, the lineup expanded to a sextet in early 2010.
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Jeffrey Lewis
~~~ Those Lavender Whales
~~~ Silent Spring Ensemble
Born and raised Lower East Sider Jeffrey Lewis Jeffrey Lewis leads a double-life, as both a comic book writer/artist and a musician (or is that a triple-life?). His band Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard also has a schizophrenic existence, ranging between contemplative folk narratives and distortion-fueled garage rock. Live shows incorporate "low budget videos," Jeff's large illustrations displayed to accompany certain songs, such as Jeff's educational multi-part "History of Communism" or flights of fancy like "The Creeping Brain."
And Those Lavender Whales play sweet, poppy indie-folk songs straight out of your backyard.
Silent Spring Ensemble plays beautifully patient minimalist chamber-y pop music. Keyword "beautiful."
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THE FRESHNIZ
FEATURING: Izms of Art presents The FRESHNIZ: Stay tuned for more details...
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Shaun Conley and Adam Cook (hosts) ~~~ Mason Kazer, Ron C, Mary Simpson, Justine Thompson, Camilo Potes, Jenn Snyder (comics) ~~~ John Starino (poetry) ~~~ The Post Timey String Band (musik) ~~~ Rhett Pilgrim (musik)
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The People Speak
For its March monthly movie, the SC Progressive Network will feature THE PEOPLE SPEAK, a 100 minute documentary film inspired by the books A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People's History, which chronicles the lives and experiences of ordinary Americans who, through their words and actions, changed the course of our history. THE PEOPLE SPEAK is a powerful new film inspired by Howard Zinns groundbreaking books A Peoples History of the United States and Voices of a People's History of the United States. THE PEOPLE SPEAK brings to life our nations rich history of dissent and shows its importance for todays movements. Check out the trailer, see your favorite performers and get a different take on U.S. history. Free entrance, free popcorn. A fine selection of beer, wine, and sodas will be available for purchase. View trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUQ657XR7Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player. Background and study material at: http://www.history.com/shows/the-people-speak
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Sharks Parlor Reading Series
Graduate students and faculty from the MFA program at USC reading poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
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The Noise is Love
~~~ The Lovecrafts
Post-Commie Dance-a-billy meets Corporate Rock! Performances, madness and at least one game of twister Many updates to follow as we get closer. (got a suggestion for something cool? Post it!)
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Smoking Nurse
~~~ Forest Tourist
Smoking Nurse is Bill Warden, Joan Monaco & Charlie Finch. We play interstellar rock music with guitars and drums. They are from Knoxville Tennessee.
Forest Tourist began as a collaboration between musicians Edward Burroughs and Marco Frey during the humid summer of 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina. This collaboration began with a mutual fascination with tape recording that eventually manifested itself into their dreamy self-titled debut EP, recorded in Marco's bedroom, now available on Bandcamp. Eventually Forest Tourist adopted close friends Kyle Brown and Trey Cooper and evolved into a four-piece indie act recognized for their refreshingly energetic stage presence fueled by catchy melodies, off-the-grid humor, and drunken lust. Self described as 'Trash Pop', Forest Tourist continues to play shows, and plans to record a follow-up EP this winter.
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Classical Revolution
Columbia's own Classical Revolution kicks off their first event of the year at Conundrum Music Hall! You will hear fabulous performances by: Alma Sehic
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EARTHSLEEP
~~~ ANCIENT SUNKEN NAVIES
~~~ TAMARIN
Special acoustic performance with Ancient Sunken Navies.
Also featuring the indie pop stylings of Tamarin, from Philadelphia
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THE FLOW ~ A POETIC MOVEMENT
Where we come to celebrate the art of spoken and written word. featuring poets: musical guest: featured vendor: contact info:
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Reggie Sullivan's New Rock Band!
This will be our first headlining show in Columbia, SC and we are so excited for you to hear our new material. This band features Zach Bingham on Guitar, Nick Brewer on Keys, Brendan Bull on Drums/Vocals, and me on Upright/Electric Bass, Lead Vocals, Hype, Craziness..... I am also glad to have Nashville recording artists Mike Willis and Clay Evans on the show with me. These guys will open the show and their songwriting in incredible. A must see/hear! So make plans to show some support. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door! You can buy advance tickets here
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Young Mumbles
~~~ M is We
~~~ Dead Surf
Save the date and get your dancin' shoes ready!
Young Mumbles (Columbia's sing-along manufacturing project) will be joined by Myrtle Beach's New Wave synth-pop band M is We, and the always wonderful indie surf sounds of Columbia's Dead Surf. Invite your friends. Invite your families. Invite your bartenders, taxi drivers, and dentists. Invite people you pass on the street. Come sing and dance with us and watch as Trey and Kelsey have a battle to see who can wear the outfit with the most sequins!
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Saint Patricks Day Bash with MIX MASTERSON!!!!!!
Come join the celebration @ Conundrum with Mix Masterson bringing the best party to West Cola!! Uplifting and high energy top 40, house, electro, and trance beats mixed to perfection all night long!! Wear your green and first 50 recieve a free CD of Mix Mastersons newest DIMENSIONS 9!! This is definitely a party you dont want to miss!!!! http://soundcloud.com/mix-masterson/mix-masterson-dimensions-8
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Dylan & Dayne
~~~ Dear Blanca
~~~ Paleface
~~~ Cameron Gardner Trio
~~~ Elvis Depressedly
The WUSC Music Office has put together another kick ass show at Conundrum Music Hall on Friday, March 16.
Dylan & Dayne Lee are just wonderful song writers, a heart meltingly classic folky dueling vocals act. Simply gorgeous and a real rarity to catch in Columbia. They stole our hearts years ago and we are lucky enough to convince them to join the show!
Dear Blanca is Dylan Dickerson's newest project consisting of Evan SImmons from Magnetic Flowers on bass, Marc Coty of Old Canoe on drums, Damien Herring from Horrendous and Eddie Newman from Ape Bastard in the horn section. It is a much more atmospheric experience than Dylan's solo act but boy is it pretty. It's exciting to hear this jubilee of Columbia musical genius in one act.
Paleface is our forever touring band that we at WUSC adore and are pleased to bring back to our city. Paleface composes folk music in earnest, with a bluesy vocal delivery that portrays a feeling of something genuine and well-intentioned.
Cameron Gardner Trio is one of Columbia's music scene's treasures and veterans. Consisting of members of Heist and the Accomplice and more, these guys are brilliant song writers and musicians. They put a whole new edge on bluesy epic rock.
Elvis Depressedly (also known as Coma Cinema) is one of Columbia's coveted acts. A brilliant fuse of bedroom pop and drone. A really amazing act to close up our show!
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Murder of One
~~~ Old Curiosity Shop
~~~ Post Timey String Band
Quite an interesting bill here, folks. Some heavy indie/psych rock sandwiched in between some true americana. This ought to be good folks!
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LE REX
LE REX: Four wind instruments and a drum - this is Le Rex, the ultimate mixture of groove, harmony and juicy melodies with an unmistakable addiction to the unexpected. Last summer, the band, which has been founded in 2008, retreated to Corsica to literally rehearse in the bushes, record a CD at the beach and busk spontaneously within a fortnight. The music of Le Rex reveals a spectacular kaleidoscope of crispy popgrooves, balkanese horn riffs, intoxicating and frisky rhythm 'n' blues parts and the sweet bitterness of leaden ballads. Even though the five musicians play without any electricity, they definitely are electrifying at all times.
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Projexorcism
~~~ Roomdance
~~~ Bellhop Collective
Spawned in 1999, Projexorcism was begun when Ed Cooper acquired two Bell & Howell 2592 auto-shred projectors and 200 educational films. By 2003 Projexorcism had defined a unique flavor of experimental hyperactive expanded cinema & has since been pushing the boundaries of cinematic weirdness. Projexorcism uses a quad 16mm projector array suspended from a light pole - the projectors are controlled with a 4-channel sound-actuated variable speed lighting controller and the projected images are split, inverted and bent using silver reflective CD-R's. In May 2005 the Catawba Council for the Arts awarded Projexorcism an Innovative Project Grant to add a Film-to-Video Regurgitation Array to their quad 16mm setup. Partially unhinged from the linearity of film, the 16mm setup is now augmented with real-time video capture, manipulation & projection devices. The film is manipulated using various techniques to create new contradictory action sequences and dialogue. Films are chosen to reflect relevant, irreverent or nonsensical themes --- black history, presidents, Gila monsters. Film often breaks or passes through the projection gate in a manner inconsistent with film preservation, much to the dismay of Jedi film preservationists. The kinetic swinging and shaking of the film tree will warp reels and melt film - CDs fall to the ground - the shriek of optical sound feedback as dust clogs the sound bulb - the randomly choreographed accidents of brilliance & stupidity - a space armada of keyboards scoring a photonic overture.
Roomdance is emotionally unstable wave, and appears on Space Idea Tapes
Bellhop Collective is a project by Mr. Chris Johnson
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APHATOS
~~~ collapse.
~~~ HOODED EAGLE
~~~ DITCH EEL
APHATOS: Columbia post crust
collapse.: Tampa melodic crust
HOODED EAGLE: Charleston doom metal
DITCH EEL: Florence stoner rock (ex graves of valor)
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The Restoration
~~~ Elonzo
~~~ Company
Come out to celebrate the release of SceneSC's 2012 compilation featuring 21 of SC's finest artists. Three of the bands featured on the compilation will be performing including The Restoration (Lexington, SC) All of these bands were also featured on last years sampler, so check them out there today.
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Junior Astronomers
~~~ Sea Wolf Mutiny
~~~ Brick and Mortar
Junior Astronomers is high-fructose pop from a shambolic, hook-laden universe
Sea Wolf Mutiny puts out an ectstatic sound that draws the listener into the world they are creating
Brick and Mortar represent the underground, the oppressed, the disillusioned, and voiceless. Fusing driving percussion, grooving bass, eclectic samples, and anthemic vocals
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Chemical Peel
~~~ Dope Body
~~~ Dustin Wong
~~~ They Eat Their Own God
~~~ The Clap
Chemical Peel - Columbia, SC... girl fronted punk with sick bass lines & a drummer with a nice head of hair
Dope Body - Baltimore (Drag City Records)... noisy post-punk quartet... listen heres
Dustin Wong - Baltimore... guitar & loops = super pretty
They Eat Their Own God - Columbia, SC... metaLLLL! also: these guys are nice & basically rule.
The Clap - Atlanta, GA... I like what I've heard. Maybe you will too!
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In The Beginning There Was The Word
Demallo and Black Phoenix Salil Wynette is your musical guest.
Mr. Fantastic is your host.
We will have an open mic.
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MEGA RAN
~~~ WILLIE EVANS, JR.
~~~ ADAM WARROCK
The VS Tour Starring: Mega Ran, Willie Evans Jr, Adam WarRock Featuring: The ThoughtCriminals, Tribe One, cecilnick Random and Willie Evans Jr will travel from town to town doing damage to not only microphones, but to controllers as well, on the new video game Street Fighter X Tekken, hitting stores March 6, 2011. Random is a Street Fighter fan, and Willie is a Tekken maniac, so expect some wild times on the road. Every venue will be equipped with an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 for players anxious to get their hands on the new game, as well as previous iterations of Street Fighter and Tekken for the classic gamers.
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Antidrive ~~~ Robot Plant ~~~ Broken Innocence Lost In The Middle
Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Coma Cinema
~~~ Slowriter
~~~ Falling Off A Building
Coma Cinema sings the hits of the '70s, '80s, '90s, the aughts, now, and the future! Come one, come all for a night to remember! Sponsored by awkward looks from old people at Cracker Barrel, John Travolta's riveting performance in "Battlefield Earth," and the cassette single "Cannonball" by The Breeders!
Slowriter is a lovely band out of Atlanta, Georgia, featuring Bryan Taylor (from The Chariot) that will warm your soul, free your inhibitions, and take care of your pets during the show...all while lacing up the dancing shoes of your mind! Sponsored by David Lynch's hair, puppy pads, and merriment in general!
Falling Off A Building is Adam Cullum (from Magnetic Flowers/Can't Kids) refusing to use either The Magnetic Flower or The Could Kid as the name for his solo project that is backed by members of Magnetic Flowers. Sponsored by Dixon Ticonderoga pencils, latitude, longitude, and free association!
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Inside Job South Carolina Progressive Network Movie of the Month
Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon. The film is described by Ferguson as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption." In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis. Inside Job was well received by film critics who praised its pacing, research, and exposition of complex material.
The film was screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May and won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Graduate students and faculty from the MFA program at USC reading poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
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Singer Songwriter Night!
Joshua Gale (Myer) Thanks so much to Devin VanTatenhove from "The Music Initiative" for the flyer!!
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Haley Dreis
~~~ Emily Hearn
~~~ Carey Murdock
Haley Dreis will be returning to Columbia, SC for a full-band concert at Conundrum Music Hall on Friday, February 24th! All ages There will only be 90 seats available - guarantee your seat and get tickets here Very much looking forward to seeing you there! :)
with Emily Hearn with Full Band
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Jim Ivy is an improviser and composer currently residing in Apopka, FL. Here he will be performing his latest work THE FORTUNE, along with Lucy Bonk on electronics and percussion, and Keaton Orsborn on electronics and visuals. Two days after their performance at Conundrum, |
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Eye of the Monkey String Band
~~~ Jubil's Kin ~~~ T-Claw
Eye of the Monkey String Band is an old-timey dance band based out of Orlando, Charlottesville, and Nashville. They can be seen in houses, halls, garages, barns, lofts, community centers, truck beds, and backyards throughout the Southeast and Midwest. This five-piece outfit plays music you can't not dance to (really, it is required). They play traditional old-time music, but you will feel the rock. And Roll.
Jubil's Kin is a nationally-touring group based out of Orlando, Florida. They have been touring non-stop after releasing the band's debut Grammy-nominated album in 2010. Through a gambit of tours, the chemistry of the live shows has really become their calling card. Drawn by the honesty of their songs, fans at shows and festivals alike connect to the music. Their real music bares its soul on stage like the brothers and sister they are. Sometimes performing with pedal steel and drums on stage, they most often tour as a simple but full sounding trio. Deftly pairing stark indie folk and old-time flair the band has been labeled "Appalachia-infused Cosmic Americana."
T-Claw grew up in Nashville, TN playing mostly punk and metal. When he moved to the NW he fell into a thriving and vibrant old time music and dance scene. First banjo, then fiddle, then everything else. Calling came pretty intuitively after a couple years of dancing and a decade of organizing. He can be seen getting strangers and beginners to have a time, invoking more per capita joy than any other part of their life. Hold fast and never let go!
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Hawaiian Shirt Day
~~~ Marry Me Joanna
~~~ Demon Waffle
~~~ Scrap Kids
Hawaiian Shirt Day - Columbia's most handsome ska/punk ensemble
Marry Me Joanna - Columbia Pop Punk
Demon Waffle - Ska from Tennessee
Scrap Kids - Pennsylvania Acoustic punk/ska
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Space Coke
~~~ Torture Town
~~~ The Pilgrim
~~~ Slow Bull
If the amp don't smoke, it ain't Space Coke
Torture Town is a reflection of the absurdity of fear, control, masochism, and the self imposed prisons the human animal calls home.
The Pilgrim is heavy psych rock from Baltimore.
Slow Bull is a 7-piece, also from Baltimore, and featuring Tonie Joy. Come see if they can fit on our stage!
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Shaun Conley and Adam Cook (hosts) ~~~ Matt Davis, Justin Thompson, Camilo Potes, Jenn Snyder (comics) ~~~ Jamal Bugsy Calhoun Washington (poetry) ~~~ The Old Curiosity Shop (musik)
Shaun Conley and Adam Cook (hosts) will be hosting the event.
Matt Davis, Justin Thompson, Camilo Potes, Jen Snyder (comics) will be saying funny things.
Jamal Bugsy Calhoun Washington will be poetizing.
The Old Curiosity Shop will play some music.
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Silent Spring Ensemble
~~~ Trioscapes
~~~ Hectagons
Silent Spring Ensemble is an apolitical hardcore chamber trio.
Trioscapes is prog/jazz/rock fusion featuring Dan Briggs (of Between The Buried And Me) on bass with members of Eyris, Brand New Life, & Casual Curious on drums/electronics & saxophone/flute. high energy syncopated instrumental compositions. new album hopefully out by February.
Hectagons is an instrumental thrash/jazz/punk/prog/metal/experimental quartet featuring members of Zeus, Appalucia, Mr.Invisible, AndyTheDoorBum, Dominant7, PigMountain, TheVagabondBros., Clavius, HellOrHighWater, BredForDisaster, ThePelicans, etc...
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Tatsuya Nakatani
~~~ Thomas Helton
Tatsuya Nakatani is a contemporary percussionist, originally from Osaka, Japan. He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
Thomas Helton enjoys music in all of its guises, be it bebop, heavy metal or avant-garde. Whether swinging with his Birth of the Cool tribute band, or utilizing extended techniques while in dialogue with a temperamental computer, elitism is not a part of Helton's M.O. Like many contemporary musicians these days, Helton is exploring new and creative ways to share and promote his music. His latest project is a DVD created in collaboration with Houston's Binarium Productions, featuring a solo bass performance by Helton filmed in a variety of raw and unfinished spaces. Shot by videographer Jonathan Jindra, who is also a fine electronic musician, Helton's meditative and ritualistic performance is complimented by eerie and imposing environments of pockmarked concrete, exposed air ducts and piles of bricks. Throughout the video, Jindra interjects his own abstract organic visuals complimenting shifts of texture in Helton's music. Nakatani and Helton will each perform solo sets (Helton's will feature projected excerpts from his new video.)
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Col. Bruce Hampton and the Pharoah Gummitt
Col. Bruce Hampton has been making music since he formed his first band in 1963. The Colonel has been
in constant motion ever since leaving a trail of memorable live performances with his many bands, including The Late Bronze Age and Col. Bruce Hampton and The
Aquarium Rescue Unit. Along the way he appeared in the movie "Sling Blade" as the poet and band manager Morris and starred in Mike Gordon's cult classic "Outside Out" as a mystical guitar 'out'structor. The Colonel's band features Lawson Feltman, Duane Trucks, and Kevin Scott. Still rolling down the road, Col.
Bruce continues his quest for the tonal center at each exit #6.
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Gottheit
~~~ Doomslang
~~~ Cave Dweller
~~~ Roomdance
~~~ Kosmokop
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Daylight
~~~ Overlooked
~~~ In Regret
~~~ Discourse
~~~ Vice Grip
Conundrum is a small space with soundproofing panels lining the walls, so no moshing! The show is full.
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Steamboat Bill
~~~ Kenosha Kid
Steamboat Bill is a silent film masterpiece by the comedic genius Buster Keaton. This performance will feature live musical accompaniment by the ensemble Kenosha Kid. Led by bandleader/guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid has been described as "some kind of as yet unlabeled jazz" (All About Jazz), as music "played through an Andy Warhol filter and served up Thomas Pynchon style", (Savannah Now), and as "jazz as if Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis never came along to ruin the genre's mainstream" (Flagpole Magazine).
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Helix Collective
~~~ Marina Alexandra & Steve Sloan
21 Sounds presents an eclectic evening of new music ranging from contemporary American guitar music to klezmer and Bollywood.
Headlining the concert is L.A.-based ensemble The Helix Collective. The ensemble - comprised of oboist/composer Phil Popham, pianist Meghan Schaut, flutist Sarah Robinson and percussionist Marc Widenhofer - is known for its fresh, exciting performances mixing classical, popular and world music. In a review of the group's 2009 CD All In, the magazine Audiophile Audition praised the group for its "fine musicianship and beyond-the-ordinary programming." Its program, called World Dance Club, will include music ranging from klezmer (in Stephen Dankner's Dance Emigrations) and Bollywood (Mark Weiser's 3 Bollywood Dances) to a four-movement original work by Popham, The Mixer Dances, which features such movements as "The Knight's Ho-Gals" and sounds like early music kicked in the ass by a rock drum set. Also on the program is Finale Enratonado by a young Venezuelan composer and guitarist, Victor Marquez Barrios, who has written for a wide range of instrumentation that often crosses traditional rock-classical boundaries.
Guitarist Steve Sloan kicks off the evening with music by local Columbia composer Brian Bemman, Nashville composer Roger Hudson, and John Doan, a music professor in Oregon known as a master of the rare 20-string harp guitar. Sloan will also perform works by Muriel Anderson, Lawrence Long and Wayne Gratz, along with his own piece, Salvation.
Next up is the acclaimed Russian guitarist Marina Alexandra. Of Alexandra's talent, Classical Guitar Magazine wrote, "She is of the elite class of musicians where technical assuredness is just taken for granted," and Finger Style Guitar called her an "amazing player that commands the guitar with world-class technique and musicianship that is uncommon." Alexandra will perform Andrew York's Sunburst and Nikita Koshkin's Tristan Playing the Lute.
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Jessica Skinner
~~~ The Post-Timey String Band
Jessica Skinner:
The Post-Timey String Band features Kelley Mclachlan and Sean Thomson
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Scream Out Loud
~~~ Burns Like Fire
Scream Out Loud's interests include Taco Bell, Touring, Cooking Out, and Girls Girls Girls
Burns Like Fire is Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed Punk Rock from Athens, Ga. A quartet of musical dissaray, a hard rock and punk spirit, That will leave you Flat on your Face rolling with the rats. Featuring members from Karbomb, GuFF, and Celerity. A band looking Forward to a Party!
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4th REEL Black Pix: Global Afrikan Film Series
Mind Gravy Presents a Poetry Slam Session (8:00 pm - 10:00 pm), featuring some of the best Poets in Southeast, including:
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Mikal kHill
~~~ Tribe One
~~~ cecilnick
~~~ Shane Hall
Mikal kHill of the ThoughtCriminals is amazing. He is the man. His raps are known to induce labor. And fight crime. His beats are known to cause temporary dementia as a result of the rapid mental expansion that occurs for the listener.
Tribe One: the progenitor of all the NOCORE that you're hearing today.
cecilnick: NOCORE fiend, hipster nerd, professional troll, pretty cool guy.
Shane Hall is a songwriter/rapper/producer/performer/poet type of person who does things, and hopes that you like them - or that you dislike them enough for it to bring you pleasure.
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Left With Ashes
~~~ Boolow
~~~ Deleveled
Left With Ashes
Boolow
Deleveled
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Hannah Miller
~~~ Kyshona Armstrong
~~~ Lindsay Holler
~~~ Hannah Thomas
~~~ Emily McCollum
~~~ Paisley Marie
~~~ Katlyn Redfern
A former tradition of The White Mule finds a new home, brought to you by original White Mule owner Travis Maynard and Conundrum proprietor Tom Law. This show will be in the round/song swap format, first set will be Emily Mccollum, Paisley Marie, and Katlyn Redfern, second set Hannah Miller, Kyshona Armstrong, Lindsay Holler, and Hannah Thomas.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
~~~ Signs of Iris
~~~ Panic Manor
~~~ Atrium
~~~ Daniel Harris
The Old Curiosity Shop: Rock/Indie Pop/Jam (Nick Sweat as Nick Sweat - Vocals, Gui
tars, Synthesizers; Chuck Potts - Vocals, Guitars, Synthesizers, Piano; Matt "Coffee Hands" Crumpton - Bass, Vocals, Organ, Piano; Adam "The Gum" Crumpton - Dr
ums, Vocals, Gummage)
Signs of Iris: Alternative, Electronic, Rock, Indie, ALTERNAFUNK-HIP-
ROCKTRONICA (Cassie Posey - Synth/Guitar/Vocals, Jared Burger - Drums/Vocals, Johnny Puleo - Lead Guitar, James Litzie - Bass)
Panic Manor: Pop/Rock
Atrium: Rock/Alternative (Emily Allen - bass/vocals, Paul Ward - guitar/vocals, Chris Suter -
guitar, Taylor Stalfort - drums)
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Netherfriends
~~~ Cassangles
~~~ Dead Surf
Netherfriends is the never ending touring and recording one man band machine. A rare loop pedal dude who doesn't just get louder and thicker but opts instead to weave elaborate, beautiful pop songs overflowing with hooks and sentimentality. About 4 minutes into his set, when he starts dancing like James Brown, you'll be hooked for life. Netherfriends (AKA Shawn Rosenblatt) recently finished a year long project where he wrote and recorded a song and performed in all 50 states.
Dead Surf: Combining catchy pop hooks with intertwining male and female vocal harmonies, these surf-inspired jams are perfect for any spontaneous road-trip to the beach, or equally spontaneous liquor run.
"Cassangles are a lot like Superman: Drummer Logan Goldstein is faster than a speeding bullet, the basslines are more powerful than a steaming locomotive and Joshua McCormick's spiraling guitarlines are able to leap buildings in a single bound. This is truly instrumental rock of the highest order."
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The Uprising of '34
The Uprising of '34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The incredible historical footage shows the aftermath of 6 South Carolina mill workers being gunned down in Honea Path and provides insight into how SC workers became afraid of unions. SCETV refused to air this film when it was first released in 1995, until protests by the SC Progressive Network resulted in a late night broadcast. The free showing will be followed by discussion, and then we'll watch Obama's State of the Union address, live on the big screen.
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Sharks Parlor Reading Series
Graduate students and faculty from the MFA program at USC reading poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
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EYEWITNESS GAZA
A new documentary movie (Run time: 60 min) about Gaza thru the photography of Skip Schiel. Between 2004 and 2010 he visited Gaza five times, shortly before and after Operation Cast Lead, the unrelenting Israeli assault on a virtually defenseless people trapped in the Strip and under siege since 2006. Because Israel justifies its ongoing attacks by citing the rockets fired by Gazan militants into Israeli civilian areas (Schiel opposes any attacks on civilians, and generally any use of violence by any party for any reason, an element of his Quaker and Christian beliefs), Schiel visited one of those towns, Sderot. less than 1 mile from Gaza. During two recent trips he has gained first-hand experience of life among Israelis, assessed trauma, and supported Israelis who contest some Israeli policies. Directed by Tom Jackson of Joe Public Films, the 60 minute movie strives to open eyes and hearts to the reality of life in occupied Palestine. We dedicate our movie to the youth of Gaza, infancy to young adulthood, in hopes that they will soon experience,freedom, peace with justice, and the reality of "All we want is to be ordinary," in the words of Mahmoud Darwish. Movie website: http://eyewitnessgaza.net/index.php
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Shaun Conley and Adam Cook (hosts)
~~~ Matt Davis, David Hamiter, Jen Snyder (comics)
~~~ Rhett Pilgrim (music)
~~~ Of Hoof and Horn (music/puppets)
Shaun Conley and Adam Cook (hosts) will be hosting the event.
Matt Davis, David Hamiter, Jen Snyder (comics) will be saying funny things.
Rhett Pilgrim (music) will be playing some music.
Of Hoof and Horn (music/puppets) will be doing what a puppet stoner metal band does
whilst hosting a comedy show.
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THOLLEM MCDONAS solo concert
Thollem McDonas "...takes the taut, swirling trills of de Falla and flaming chords of Scriabin and multiplies them into a supercollider centrifuge of innumerable disasters, a churning black caldera bespattered with beautiful madness. It seems beyond the capacity of one human being to contain so much densely-packed creative energy ... putting aside for the moment the perplexing question of how Thollem manages to put out all that donner und blitzen on the keyboard without smashing himself and/or the instrument to bits."
"Thollem's keyboard flights unleash cascades of notes of seemingly impossible velocity and no matter where he goes tonally, it always seems right, fresh and satisfying. As an improviser, he inhabits a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and formally. A true original."
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This is a workshop that explores group collaboration, large ensemble improvisation (structured, conducted and free), egalitarian group dynamics consensus decision-making, and communication skills. Discussions can include the implications of improvisation, collaboration and active listening from everyday life to global political dynamics. It is open to anyone with these genuine interests regardless of age, language skills, perceived artistic abilities. Participants will leave the workshop with a greater ability to work collaboratively with others and to see their own ideas and projects through to their full realization. This practicum is specifically designed to empower individuals long after it has finished. Utilizing everyday sound sources, found objects and objects that already naturally exist in the space, the workshops also incorporate voices, traditional musical instruments, non-traditional instruments and ambient sounds that are occurring outside of the group and everything possible that we discover as an ensemble throughout the process. Overall, the emphasis is not necessarily on individual creativity but on the ability to listen and collaborate with others. This workshop encourages participation by anyone regardless of their musical experience, age, or language. Most importantly, the workshops develop organically from the input of the participants, a natural progression, a structured improvisation of its own.
Participants will be granted free admission to Thollem's concert that evening, and are also invited to take part in a short set to open the concert.
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Flow Monthly Poetic Movement
Hosted by: Monifa "SelahthePoet" Jackson
This month's feature:
GUEST DJ: CHAKMA will be there spinnin' straight FUSION!!!
but wait-there's more---------
TRIBE JASMINE and ROSE FOR YOUR SPIRIT!!!
@Martyne will be there giving readings...THA BOMB (...you'd better ask somebody)
FOR YOUR COMMUNITY!!!
FOR YOUR POCKETS!!!
PLEASE COME OUT AND JOIN US!!! THIS IS A MOVEMENT!!!
A portion of this month's proceeds will go to OCCUPY COLUMBIA!!
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A Troop of Echoes shelves the self-important melodrama and delivers finely-crafted rock songs with addictive melodies, informed by exploratory harmony and the noisy experimentalism of Providence, RI. The bizarre meets the beautiful.
PAN: "Skinny drums sound like pristine home recordings and, delightfully, with snares that are warm and dissipating instead of ringing and abrupt (something that annoys me about some post-rock bands). Guitars are layered without trickery or complication, and bass is merged within them as a proper frequency placeholder. The whole sound reminds me of Thursday nights in the late 90s - of bands like Slingshot Episode and Hot Water Music, but with some smoother transitional elements (like The Get Up Kids sometimes adopted), that really allow the record to flow and leads to humbly shine."
Appalucia: real raw country music & hillbilly liberty pickin' with a punk rock aesthetic hailing from the West Bank of The Catawba River in North Carolina 2013 Wolves: Charlotte/Mt.Holly, North Carolina apocalypse-rock/southern-hardcore/destructo-punk/satanic-gospel duo featuring Neal MF Harper with Battlin' Bobby Childers of OverMountainMen/ TroubleWalkers/ AndyTheDoorBum/ ModernDonJuans
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Those Lavendar Whales
~~~ Young Mumbles
~~~ Cameron Gardner Trio
~~~ Pussy Wizard
Come celebrate the release of Those Lavendar Whales ' first full-length, "Tomahawk of Praise," with us!
We'll be joined by a slew of our friends including...
Cover will be $5.
We're very, very proud and excited about this album and are crazy excited to share it, so please come celebrate with us and get yourself a copy on the cheap! And if you can't make it, you can still order it...
We love all of you! We couldn't do this without you!
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Bamboo Forest
~~~ Sons of Young
~~~ Hawaiian Shirt Day
Bamboo Forest: Myrtle Beach alternative/punk
Sons of Young: Columbia punk/rock n' roll
Hawaiian Shirt Day: Columbia ska/pop punk
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DOLFISH
~~~ DADDY LION
~~~ CONCRETE ANIMALS
DOLFISH is the handle of Max Sollisch, a 22 year-old Cleveland-born country songwriter currently residing in Columbus, OH.
He writes sad, bitter, humorous country songs only to bang them out in two minutes or less in balls to the wall garage-rock fashion. It's weird, we know, but it is completely bad ass. Since Dolfish's inception in late 2010, he has shared the stage with Southeast Engine, The Gay Blades, David Dondero, Franz Nicolay, Sore Eros, Joe Pug and Strand of Oaks among others. His debut, Your Love is Bummin' Me Out shreds through 5 tunes in just over 8 minutes and has called "Country Music from 2030." Comparisons range from Daniel Johnston to Robbie Fulks to The Mountain Goats to Guided by Voices, but he's just trying to sound like Neil Young. Watch him closely, or he will come to your house and watch you.
DADDY LION: "A pleasant surprise... hearty, fuzzy guitar-rock, full of introspective and tortured travelogues, breakdowns and reminisces." - NPR
Hailing from Florence, SC, CONCRETE ANIMALS tread the delicate balance between art rock fury and pop sensibility. Despite their short existence, they have made the rounds regionally and garnered praise in local press. Their debut album, Resonator, was recorded in 24 hours at Face of God in late August 2011 |
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MAGNETIC FLOWERS live and work (but mostly live) in Columbia, SC. They enjoy playing literary pop. They just finished their second record, "What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About".
A duo formerly known as Dawn Shredder, CAN'T KIDS is a Southern-Gothic-Depression-Era-Cheerleader-Metal band that formed in a frenzy & a series of ongoing fits of lunacy during November 2010 when members Adam Cullum & Jessica Oliver moved into an extra giant old house with their friend Brielle. All three tenants are now convinced that aforementioned house is indeed haunted.
JEREMY DAVIS is a member of Elonzo, a four piece family band who is named after two of the members departed father. They write songs to, for, and about the people and places that have or will mean something to them. The band's sound can sound can transform from stripped alt-country to a richer, more expansive vision that reflects the meaningfulness of the ties that bind us together. Mostly, it sounds like rock and roll.
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JANE JANE POLLOCK ELVIS DEPRESSEDLY SILENT SPRING ENSEMBLE
Jane Jane Pollock is an experimental-pop quintet. They border hop for slumber party practices in a comfy trailer hidden in the woods of Thomasville, GA. The sound of their music ranges from a haunted carnival to a hyper moldy children's toy marching band. They use pots and pans, bells, mandolin, space echo, Wandering Genie organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, guitars, drum machines, and vocals.
Elvis Depressedly is a solo project by Mat of Coma Cinema.
Silent Spring Ensemble is an apolitical hardcore chamber trio.
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SOFIA TALVIK NOAH BROCK
Sofia Talvik is the next rising star from the Sweden. She has emerged like a Lady of the Forest, bringing a new interesting side to folk music. Where other artists surrender to the mainstream, Sofia makes her own paths through the musical underbrush of today. Her soft and airy music has been recognized by music lovers and critics all over the world, letting her tour the US several times and making her the first-ever Swedish female singer to play at the Lollapalooza festival. Having released four full-length albums since 2005, Sofia is embarking on an extensive tour in the US, starting in December 2011. Leaving her backing band at home, she is performing instead with video art that brings her stories and the mystical world of Scandinavia to life.
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