hey y’all!
due to popular demand, we’re bringing it back!
last august, the whitehaus family record threw “weirdstock” – a three-day 50-band festival in honor of the 40th anniversary of woodstock(c). it was a major, successful conglomeration of weird new england art.
this summer, we are hosting “weird stalk, too”!
the event will be on friday, august 20, from 8pm til sunrise,
at temple sound and stage, 670 centre street, jamaica plain, ma
the following is a partial list of performers.
BLEVIN BLECTUM
of Providence, RI: Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) is an electronic musician and multimedia composer. Her performances are often loose narratives incorporating live interactive electronic sound, manipulated field recordings, film, action and costume. Her last two records were released on AAGOO. She is one half of the recently reformed digital duo Blectum from Blechdom, and was a member of the audio/visual band SAGAN with Lesser, Wobbly and Ryan Junell.
http://blevin.lsr1.com/info.php
blevin’s myspace
KURT WEISMAN
of brattleboro, vermont: ex-feathers, gnomonsong, important records, autumn records, member of witch w/ j. mascis, toured europe extensively, beautiful rare new england songbird, poet and glitchwizard
GREY SKULL
free improv for the heavy metal mindset; taking stock of the minutiae of grooves and breakdowns present in the genre; hammering it all in to hypnotic effect? or just un-godly noise? you decide. one of the more longstanding western massachusetts traditions is the awkward and indescribable set by grey skull
http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/grey+skull+.html
DEAD WESTERN
of Sacramento, CA: Discorporate Records, Altin Village, Weird Forest … a deeply marsh mellow crooner w/ scary paint stuff on his face – so scary!
dead western on myspace
www.discorporate-records.com
www.altinvillage.de
http://kdvsrecordings.org/11.php
www.weirdforest.com
PREGGY PEGGY AND THE LAZY BABYMAKERS
of Cambridge, MA: Angela Sawyer, owner/founder of Weirdo Records, a true staple in the Boston music scene. Member of Excusamwa, Duck That, Human Hairs. Preggy Peggy has been released on great Belgium record label Ultra Eczema
http://www.weirdorecords.com/
http://www.ultraeczema.com/releases/
CLOUD BECOMES YOUR HAND
of Bushwick, NY: Stephe Cooper of the band “living things” and member of the dan deacon ensemble. a delicious musical omelette sure to tickle and excite all of your senses. upcoming release on canada goose tapes.
http://www.myspace.com/stephencoopermusic
http://www.canadagoosetapes.com
ASHCAN ORCHESTRA
of Brooklyn, NY: The ashcan “Orchestra” is simultaneously the work of composer p. spadine, a large collection of toy and real instruments, and a revolving performance ensemble. at weird stalk, too, there will be a cast of 8 performers.
http://www.myspace.com/patspadine
FORBES GRAHAM
of Boston, MA: Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. He has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Rakalam Bob Moses, Steve Lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, Jim Hobbs, The One Am Radio, and Luther Gray. His composition “Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence” was commissioned by the Greenwall Foundation and world premiered at the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet. Forbes has also written music for the new music/rock ensemble Normal Love. He has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero and The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music. His work incorporates many genres including drum n’ bass, jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and hip-hop.
http://www.myspace.com/forbesgraham
http://www.polyrhythmatics.net/
METAL AND GLASS ENSEMBLE
of Boston, MA: Metal & Glass Ensemble is a Boston-based improvisational group with a rotating membership who create acoustic drone-based music with bowed cymbals and other metal objects, and glasses tuned to a just-intoned 23-note octave.
http://www.myspace.com/metalandglass
KID ROMANCE
of Jamaica Plain, MA: Honest, unafraid, sexy classic rock. 7″ out now on Captured Tracks.
http://www.myspace.com/kidromance
JIMMY HUGHES
of Jamaica Plain: as one half of the popwhizkids duo Turtle Ambulance, Jimmy has been getting booties shaking for years. He also puts out many great releases through Breakfast of Champs Records and lives at the Whitehaus. He’s a founding owner of MEDIA OUTLET, the new JP record store. And he’s a sick clarinet player!
http://breakfastofchampsrecords.com/
http://www.myspace.com/turtleambulance
CAVE BEARS
of Turners Falls, MA: Cave BEARS started as a few disparate “pipe” cells which gradually formed clumps and clots and eventually there was the first finger which died and was used by the second finger as a pick to play the third guitar.
http://cavebears.suchfun.net/
cavebears on myspace
feedingtube records . com
OMNIVORE
of Providence, RI: Omnivore is Glenna Van Nostrand, a performance artist with a focus on sound art and early telecommunications.
http://www.myspace.com/omnivoresounds
double awake
will mayo’s “thick drone, vocal based and stuttered out with abrupt volume shifting” (Anti-Gravity Bunny)
double awake on myspace
MOUSE QUEEN
of Boston, MA: quiet noises duo featuring members of Moon Climb the Wall, Rat King, Asteroid M
http://thefmly.com/tag/mouse-queen/
MORGAN SHAKER
of Jamaica Plain, MA: “Mr. Shaker has been called gregariously reclusive and omnipresently invisible, but he prefers “a man’s man”. He has simple tastes, is disturbed, driven, burning, and well loathed and loved equally.” Member of rock band French Cops as well as a founder of peace, loving and the whitehaus.
http://www.myspace.com/morganshaker
MANY MANSIONS
of Jamaica Plain, MA: Many Mansions is the ongoing recording and performance project of Shane M. Donnelly. inflection-inspired dream perspiration.
http://www.myspace.com/manymansions
many mansions on daytrotter
PEACE, LOVING
of Jamaica Plain, MA: compositions for aromatics (w/ 3 professional chefs), dances for handheld tape recorders, working as set designers, video artists, performance poets, instrument builders, and becoming infamous for having a major rotating cast doing all these things at once.
http://whitehausfamilyrecord.com/blastzone/artists/peace-loving/