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What a great show the New Art School put on last nite at Churchill's. I started writing something, but it was boring.

Whistling School for Boys

John Hancock ANR

Awesome Cool Dudes

Stay Hitt

Down Home Southernaires
Live in the studio this Sunday for the Local Show

The Fabulous ShuttleLOUNGE

Auf Wiedersehen Ravelstein

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Posted by Josh on July 20, 2006 | Permalink
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TUESDAY JULY 11
Guajiro at Rain (323 23 St, MB)

THURSDAY JULY 13
John Hancock ANR, Dino Felipe, & Ramburglar at Churchill's (5501 NE 2 Ave)

FRIDAY JULY 14
Cat Power at Studio A (60 NE 11 St)

SATURDAY JULY 15
Down Home Southernaires at Poplife @ The District (35 NE 40 St)

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Posted by Josh on July 15, 2006 | Permalink
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This just popped in the inbox from the New Art School (free show + all ages = cheap pedophiles!)

Saturday
June 24th

Free Show++++All Ages

The Remnants
I Am Stereo
Self Run Will
Sea Swallows

7pm-11pm at
Revolution
200 W Broward Blvd.
Ft Lauderdale, FL

954 727 0950

Actually, I went to see Galactic at the Revolution in January. About halfway through their set it started capital "p" Pouring. They kept playing for awhile whilst most everyone took cover. Then came the thunder and lightning, which obivously took the band off the stage. Squeezed like sardines in the second floor outdoor area and waiting for the storm to pass, we chatted it up a bit. That is, until BAM! Lightning strikes the telephone/electricity pole DIRECTLY outside the main entrance (when they still let you enter and exit thru it) and the thing falls. Sparks fly dangerously close. There's a transformer and live wires in the puddles that recently formed in the street. Mass confusion as images of the Great White fire flash through our collective heads. Then, a worse thought: I'm going to die with hippies. Is this how I will be remembered???????????????????????????????????????????????

Luckily some pushiness led to eventual safety, but damn that was close. In conclusion, don't put electricity wires on a flyer for an event at the Revolution. It gives me bad memories.

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Posted by Josh on June 23, 2006 | Permalink
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CLICK HERE for my beat on Jamie Lidell's show at Poplife on Saturday.

Fisting through a set comprising of Multiply's best, Lidell had the crowd at his robed back as he shifted gears from r&b crooning to layering vocal beats to traditional Warp-ish noise experiments (notably missing from his gig at this year’s M3).

FULL REVIEW @ ignore

Purchase:
Jamie Lidell - Multiply (Warp)
Jamie Lidell - Multiply Additions (Warp)

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Posted by Josh on June 19, 2006 | Permalink
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Photo by bonobaltimore

Radiohead at Tower Theater in Philadelphia, PA on June 1, 2006
Radiohead's first show in the States since May 1, 2004 at Coachella (was there too!) was fucking energetic, loud, pretty crisp, and fun. They played nine of the new songs but none of the new new songs, all of which I've stayed away from till the show. I'm pretty enthused about all of these new songs, especially 15 Step (handclap loop and Bends-era melodic guitars), Spooks (a minute of instrumental wailing somewhere between Pixies and psychobilly), and Bodysnatchers (which might become the ultimate Radiohead tune for driving dangerously fast). It is a bit odd seeing your favorite band and not knowing the words to every song, which I hadn't thought about till it was true. Still, it gave the night a sort of giddy excitement and generally I'm happy I didn't listen to anything before.

As you can see from bonobaltimore's photo, the stage setup was well suited to the small theaters on this tour (the Tower Theater has a capacity of 3,500) with colored spotlights and a field of irregular rectangles hung behind the band like a Calder piece used as projection screens. They began the show with "You and Whose Army?", which, while not the type of high energy song one usually expects a show (or mixtape) to start with, is actually perfect at setting the mood for the show. Brooding but playful, it sets the "us against THEM" mindset present in a lot of Radiohead's work and, since it's slow, lulls you to a safe place before the grand noise that is "The National Anthem" begins the show proper. Arpeggi was great; its grown up a lot since the Ether Festival last year and sounds fully realized with the entire band. The lyrics ("I'd be crazy not to follow / Follow where you lead / Your eyes / They turn me / Turn me on to phantoms / I'll follow to the edge / Of the earth / And fall off") are as haunting as anything in Radiohead's catalog.

Amazingly, people actually shut the fuck up during "Exit Music" and went silent during the quietest parts of the song. I've never been to a show where not a single person yells or whooooo's during even a part of a quiet song and I got chills. Does this ever happen? AND it was followed by "Kid A" which hadn't been played this tour.

The last third of the set, minus "House of Cards" was pretty close to perfect. "Pyramid Song" (with Jonny playing the guitar with a bow) followed by "Myxomatosis", "HoC", "Spooks", "Idioteque", "Bangers and Mash" (with Thom on a small drum kit) and "There There". Thom even threw in the "mafia geeks" line at the end of "Myxomatosis" which hasn't happened since (I think) the shows in Spain in '02.

"Airbag" was flawless and the singalong and cheering with the line "Bring down the government / They don't, they don't speak for us" (which tends to drown out "I'll take a quiet life / And a handshake of carbon monoxide" which is one of their best lines) of "No Surprises" were a great way to start the encore, and the show finished with "AND EVERANDEVERANDEVER" scrolling across the screens as "Karma Police" ended, continuing the "FOREVERFOREVERFOREVER" that moved across the screens during the Hail to the Thief era tours.

Lo-quality mp3s at lders.nl.
Fan reviews and pictures at ateaseweb.
Surprisingly fanboyish review at Pitchfork.
Photopool at Flickr.

Set List:
You and Whose Army?
The National Anthem
2+2=5
Open Pick
15 Step
Exit Music (For a Film)
Kid A
Nude
Arpeggi
Street Spirit
Pyramid Song
Myxomatosis
House of Cards
Spooks
Idioteque
Bangers and Mash
There There

Airbag
No Surprises
Bodysnatchers
Everything in Its Right Place

4 Minute Warning
Karma Police

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Posted by Josh on June 4, 2006 | Permalink
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Okay, I've got your Thursday set up for you. Yes, these events in and of themselves are reason to leave the house. Together, oh my! Thank me later, you ungrateful little (incoherent mumbling)...

First up we have UM's BFA candidates (incl. Sticky Rice) gallerying their senior projects at the C.A.S. inside the Wesley Foundation Bldg on campus.

arcuRADIO event listing

THEN

ignore presents...
Bite Cha-Cha-Cha
A Vampyros Lesbos Dance Party
Studio A - 60 NE 11 St
ignore introduces downtown to Parliament Funkadelic, pop!-pop!-pop! music by FUSIK
RSVP (half-off, $5 dollar) Admission: invite@ignoremagazine.com

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Posted by Josh on May 9, 2006 | Permalink
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It wasn't until I noticed the peculiar looks
from the other men
that I realized
I'd walked into the bathroom
with my camera still 'round my neck.

ignore's got the pics from the opening last nite. Dogma = good; the art = meh; the crowd = blah.

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Posted by Josh on May 5, 2006 | Permalink
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Metro Pictures, Pt. 2 is opening tomorrow (Thursday) at the MOCA. $10 for the arts, beers, dogs, and musics. Not bad, riiiiight?

Also, there are a bunch of new events on the sidebar over
<----there (if you're reading thru an RSS reader click or pretend).
You can click on the word UPCOMINGS for further listings with a calendar on the right.

Does anyone check that listing?
Is it unnecessary, what with ignore's weekly roundup, the currently very weak Miami Music Guide, etc etc? Poorly designed? Indispensible? Discuss!

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ignore Magazine has some of my photos of last Thursday's ANR show complimenting a glowing review. The leftovers are the love, below.

Checkit.

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The Awesome New Republic are making their next-to-last live perfomance tonite. It's their first and only appearance evah at Studio A. OH, THE HISTORY!
BE THERE.

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Posted by Josh on April 27, 2006 | Permalink
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
I should have eaten dinner.

TEXT
Miami's own Modernage opened with a set more melancholy than Joy Division and more emo than The Cure. After CHANGING THE WORLD by playing an anti-Bush tape radio broadcast (see update) over some guitar feedback, lead singer implored the audience on no less than two occasions to dance, apparently not realizing that the only movement the band could possibly induce is sobbing into a pillow.

Onto the 'tween set waiting with hundreds of 'tweens and thick rimmed stalwarts, where I should mention that this show was ALL AGES and SOLD OUT. Say what you want about an all ages show, but these kids were INTO IT with the jumping and the crowdsurfing and the not drinking. I firmly believe that if this were 21+ or even 18+ there would have been little more than head nodding, the occasional toe tap, and changing arm-folding methods.

The Party took stage round 9:35P and jumped into a 12 song set, but before I get into a review of the show let me tell you about these new songs. The first one is pretty much indistinguishable from the Silent Alarm material; it's called Uniform and it's about - suprise suprise - conformity in the indie scene. This last one, Blue Moon, I didn't listen much to the lyrics. Drum loopish sounding percussion; kind of a jangly-(not overtly)disco track. I don't think it really found itself (I have no idea what that means but it feels right) and none of the new tracks were as immediate as, say, Pioneers (my favorite song and they didn't play it).

Overall, Bloc Party ROCKS live. They're sort of like Radiohead in that way. Listen to them at home with headphones and you kinda move about but they're not positive rock anthems. Live the band hammers the shit out of their equip and beat the songs to submission, tossing the perfection of the album versions aside for the primacy of the moment. Most definately a rock concert. Full of energy and whatnot, though they admittedly weren't prepared for the evening humidity (which made the extra long encore break acceptable). They really seemed spent. After all, dudes have been in the studio for awhile and this was their first show in over a month (and first in the states in 7 months) and it seems like there's a certain release for bands when they play some dates during/right after time in the studio. The immediacy of the crowd? The chance to revisit older songs? I'm not a musician so I don't know, but I certainly have gotten that feeling at some of the live blogging concerts I've given. I'm babbling now. Bloc Party is great live and you missed it.

Setlist:
Waiting for the 7.18 (new)
Positive Tension
Banquet
Bluelight
She's Hearing Voices
Uniform (new)
This Modern Love
Like Eating Glass
So Here We Are
Helicopter
--Encore--
Two More Years
Price of Gasoline
Blue Moon (new)
Little Thoughts

(Thanks to azbolden at alwaysnewdepths for the setlist.)

UPDATE
According to commentor ceathbadfordutie, Modernage plays a live radio broadcast and not a tape and thus could not be sure of what would be on.

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Posted by Josh on April 26, 2006 | Permalink
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MUST ATTEND EVENT THIS SATURDAY

Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
presents
Reeve Schumacher
"The State of Reeve Schumacher vs. Florida"
Curated by Akihiro Shiroza

Opening reception Saturday April 22nd from 7.30pm
Video and sound scape by Reeve Schumacher, Akihiro Shiroza and Bob LaDue
With live music by Rehmer, Davies and Robertson

Straight from the DBAC site:

Birthed into a cold world on a colder morning in 1981 was an artist known to few as Snug the Joiner. Although his spirit better resembles a Puck the Miter, most have come to know him as Reeve the Schumacher.
Has he, on his right,
Five fingers that when draw take flight.
His sanctuary, the paper is, he leaded pencil: his exorcist.
No longer played with are mud and fire,
As a taste for the two-dimensional he did acquire.

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As those in the know have been lamenting, dear friend Turner Sparks has all but quit the formerly ubiquitous email updates that kept its recipients ha-ha-ha'ing for more than their complete disregard for spelling and grammar. As if being the person who introduced us all to Robbie Ghan and teaching up the cutest children in the world (Chinese, doye) isn't keeping him busy enough, I've got him researching Brain Failure, a - no joke - Chinese punk band coming to Miami. Lo-and-behold, TFun's got a Space to share his funny with the universe (well at least studentfuckers and Dane Cook). Speaking of, Dick Gregory's episode commentary on the must-buy Wonder Showzen S1 dvd starts off "I was born in 1932 and I never wanted to be young. I thought old black men were so cool. But I look at the news today and for the first time in my life I'd like to be back in grade school or high school [pause] because the teachers is having sex with the children. If that would've happened when I was in school I would've had a perfect attendance record. I can just see my mother now goin' 'Where you goin' with them books on Christmas day?'" Anyway, TS is up to episode 3 of "Casey's New Career" so go on over and checkit.

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Posted by Josh on April 19, 2006 | Permalink
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Wednesday Churchill's brought the metal. Oaklanders Watch Them Die had almost as much energy as volume. Serious intensity, great live show. Headliners High on Fire turned it up to twelve and gave a little musicianship as a bonus. Quotecheck: "That was the most noise I've ever heard three people make." Dudes were grizzly noisy rocking ULTIMATE.

ignore Magazine's got the scoop with my pics (better than the ones below). Checkit.

Links
Watch Them Die official
WatchThemDieSpace (Yes, even metal has embraced Myspace)
High on Fire official
HighOnFireSpace

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FOOKIN' GEEKS!

Miami got four songs from a non-chav'd out Lady Sovereign Saturday nite. Check ignore for a quick review. Not sure if it was so awesome because it was really so awesome or because I'm so geeked on her. Acutally, no, it was so awesome because the crowd was bouncing the whole time and afterwards everyone was seriously like woah.

Links:
Lady Sov live review at ignore Magazine
Lady Sovereign
SOVSspace

Lotsa pics.......

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Posted by Josh on March 28, 2006 | Permalink
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Click on over to the ignore blog for my bestest fotos and quick words on Thursday and Friday. Lady Sov pics coming up soon.

Namechecks:
Turtable Lab
Low Budget for keeping it real as usual Thursday
DJ Sujinho for mixing a hot set to start the Favela Clash
Disco D and the rest of the Braza Musica crew for keepin it sweaty

Here's a few more gems...

Kids having fun. What could be better?



The Juan Maclean eating the mic (You learn terms like that in radio -Ed.) with the ubiquitous cowbell stuffed in his denim (yes, I looked).



Freaks gettin freaky at Studio A's Favela Clash.

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My pics from Langerado are now up at ignore Magazine. BAP!












PS - Check the new LCD Soundsystem bsides and rarities "Introns" on iTunes/7digital/whatevs.

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Prefuse 73 is playing 3 shows this month in Miami during WMC / M3 weekend.

March 23 @ Madiba
March 25 @ Poplife at the
March 26 @ Angel Ultra Lounge

The official arcuRADIO Guide to the Winter Music Conference Weekend (minus the Winter Music Conference) is coming soon (after the Langerado madness cools down).

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I went to see the Yip-Yip last nite at Churchill's. Stoopidly I followed the announced 8PM start time and arrived around 9, which turned out to be a good two hours before the advertised entertainment began. I contemplated leaving around 1015 when nothing was going on but decided against it. Imagine... if I had gone home, I would have missed

and

GAH! Ok, that looks cool, right? Now replace my camera's weak flash with a strobe light and the Lil' Kim you're listening to with this. Yip-Yip look and sound somewhere between Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Edward Scissorhands. And they put on a hell of a show. Definately a "Top 8 Worthy Performance".

PS - Public Image Ltd.'s first two albums are on sale together for <12 pounds in the Warpmart.

Yip-Yip Homepage
Churchill's Pub

UPDATE
I removed one of the photos because it's been picked up by my good friends at Ignore Magazine. See that photo here.

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Jesse Jackson gave us two sets of folky blues (or bluesy folk) rock at the Stop Miami wine bar, south of the Design District. It's a good, mellow, dark, and intimate spot which suits the feel of JJ (drums and, later, guitar) and his band (guitar and two(!) upright basses), and apparently tonite was part of their Sunday residency there. Jackson and company have drawn lots of (deserved) comparisons with Tom Waits, and they do share quite a bit vocally, especially when Jesse sings through a small megaphone as he did on a number in the first set. The lo-fi instrumentation and direct lyrics also give it the AM radio feel of M. Ward and John Vanderslice, and the themes (earnest struggles with relationships and faith) are straight American roots music.

RIYL: Tom Waits, Violent Femmes, M. Ward, Jason Molina/Songs:Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co., T-Bone Walker, John Vanderslice

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ShortNoticeFilter

JesseJacksonSpace

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Yip-Yip - 100 MPH Checker Champ/Pro-Twelve Thinker (mp3)

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