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With the close of Tonic last year, New York City lost a major venue for experimental jazz, as well as one of the last great mid-size clubs to see ANY jazz where you aren’t charged an arm and a leg and a drink minimum (Iridium, Vanguard, Blue Note etc…). People are waiting in lines out the door for great shows at the Stone, 55 Bar, and the Jazz Gallery constantly, but because of the size of those clubs, it becomes an exclusive affair, only available to other musicians, and those in the know willing to spend the time camping out. I believe that in order to create a sustainable jazz community we need to make great jazz more open to the public.

In an attempt to do just that, I’ve started a series at the Knitting Factory called “Search and Restore.” It’s a monthly affair right now, but eventually it will become more frequent. It takes place at the Tap Bar, the middle room in the Knitting Factory, 170 capacity, grand piano. Our shows are always double bills, to provide for a more communal aspect of the live jazz show. No drink minimum, no emptying out after a set. Standing room and seats, and hopefully this more casual jazz environment will foster a setting where people can feel as though they’re part of something.

Enjoy our interactive map which also explains how they will be making the various legs of their impossible journey:

They’ll be touring with Golden Triangle, with whom they played a show in March.

October Tour Dates + Cities

02 Lafayette, LA
03 Houston, TX
04 Austin, TX
05 off
06 off
07 Phoenix
08 Tuscon
09 San Diego
10 Los Angeles
11 San Francisco
12 Oakland
13 off
14 Sacramento
15 off
17 Portland
18 Seattle
19 Boise
20 off
21 Salt Lake
22 Denver
23 off
24 Oklahoma City
25 Kansas City or Tulsa or Wichita
26 St. Louis
27 off
28 Memphis
29 Hot Springs
30 Jackson
31 New Orleans

Friday at Death By Audio was another entertainment4every1 production, with typically varied lineup, this one incorporating fully six out-of-town acts from four different cities (plus a local opener). If there was a loose unifying theme, it was various uses of electronics, but that’s definitely a very loose theme seeing as two acts involved nothing electronic at all.

Those two acts were Family Trees, a twangy drums/guitar/harmonies side project of Brooklyn electric folk outfit Hologram, and Oakland guitarist Brian Glaze (formerly of Gris Gris and the Brian Jonestown Masacre), now in simple classic rock configuration with a bassist and drummer.

[Boys Lie]

[Hot Lava]

In between those bands, the first taste of synthesizer: Richmond, VA’s Boys Lie, who sound like exactly what happened by mid 80s or so, when new wave forgot its debt to punk. Which isn’t really a complaint, as Boys Lie demonstrated a reasonable flair for the pop arrangements of their forerunners. Their stage show, however, left something to be desired by borrowing the karaoke performance approach of Best Fwends without their energy, the three members diminishing in energy, left to right, from “high melodrama” (good), to “restrained but willing to throw himself on the floor for effect”, to “catatonic” (less good). Maybe they just need some more elaborate costumes than southwest-Indian-themed sweaters.

Boys Lie’s “high melodrama” component was also keyboardist for their Richmond tour partners Hot Lava, who kicked things up a bit with more solidly rock-oriented live arrangements of their take on electro-pop, embellished by glossy synthetic flourishes, catchily distinctive vocals, and a surprise appearance by like a Sousaphone or something. (My horn IDing skills are notably lacking.)

Videohippos were the expected following act on the bill, and shortly thereafter delivered their hazy electronica-tinted lo-fi rock. Somehow, even when moving into the upper tempos, as on a selection of apparently newer pieces, they maintain a sort of downbeat dream-feel, amplified of course by their accompanying video collages of hypnotism advice, bits of John Carpenter’s They Live, and arcane cartoons.

[Blue Leader]

But before all that, a sudden appearance by Videohippos’ Baltimore and Wham City ally Blue Leader. Blue Leader is not a band or musician, but more a lecturer, delivering this time a rousing oratory titled “The History of Video Games Part III: The First Person Shooter.” Sort of like a manic army recruitment speech delivered by a halloween/pajamas version of Cyclops, but recruiting its listeners to fight the actual monsters from DOOM, as illustrated via projections on the screen behind him. This appearance was a welcome interlude that no one, not even e4e1 organizers Dave and Edan, saw coming.

[Lymbyc System]

Finally, Lymbyc System finished the night with easily its most accomplished show of musicianship. The two members, brothers from Austin and Phoenix, now releasing on notable electronic/hip-hop label Mush, each surrounded himself with a formidable collection of gear, one with a three synthesizers (two of them full-length keyboards) and a pedal array, the other taking live drums, assorted additional percussion, and xylophone. And while their sound was classic lush electronica in vaguely the Four Tet vein, the brothers seemed to be pulling it all off live. Literally all the major song components, elaborate counter-melodies and evolving breakbeats, were visibly coming out of their instruments right then, with only minor atmospherics and background noise requiring some additional sequencing. Caribou, even with twice the touring members, isn’t quite this good at recreating their warmly electronic arrangements before an audience. And I didn’t even know the Lymbyc System before this show, so this all came as a very pleasant surprise.

[Lymbyc System]

[Lymbyc System]

[Lymbyc System]

[Boys Lie]

[Family Trees]

[Hot Lava]

Words by Uyen Lee
Photos of Jamie Stewart’s home by Xiu Xiu

The street where both Jamie Stewart and Devin Hoff of Xiu Xiu live is one short block, sandwiched between two perpendicular streets in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland. Technically, the street they live on is an alley.

The image of an alley may fit the dark and brooding band persona that Xiu Xiu has, but when I finally meet Hoff and Stewart, along with Caralee McElroy, “dark and brooding” was quickly supplanted by “light and chipper.” Instead of characters out of an Edward Gorey illustration, this three-fourths of a band (fourth member Ches Smith resides in Brooklyn) look more like assorted candies from an Easter basket: Hoff is in pale yellow hoodie, a beanie pulled down to just over his eyes and red fingerless gloves on his hands. Stewart wears a pink hoodie, while McElroy is wearing mint-colored wayfarer sunglasses and aqua-colored gloves, her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She points out how much color they have on collectively, saying that she is making a point to wear as many colors as possible these days.

Hoff’s immediate friendliness is disarming and refreshing. It’s the same sincerity their music displays, especially in Stewart’s lyrics. On the short walk over to a nearby taqueria where we will discuss their sixth and latest album, Women as Lovers, Stewart and I share our non-experiences of living in the nearby suburban sprawl of San Jose, where Xiu Xiu was formed. This non-city is the center of the Silicon Valley, its biggest export being microchips, not the experimental indie rock that Xiu Xiu makes. (San Jose was also once home to Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, who produced Women as Lovers. Stewart was also once a pre-school teacher in San Jose.

At the taqueria, Steward and Hoff order a vegetarian and vegan burrito respectively. When I ask Hoff, a long-time vegetarian, but recent vegan, if their hectic touring is made more difficult by dietary restrictions, he says not at all. Hoff is more grateful for the opportunity to tour. Later McElroy echoes Hoff’s gratefulness when she discusses the ups and downs of touring in Europe. “The biggest reason I don’t like Europe is that we have to drive ourselves, but this time we don’t have to do that,” and as she continues she realizes how this might sound, adding sincerely, “Touring is really emotionally draining and exhausting, but it’s also really awesome because [we] get to play live every night. We’re really lucky to get to do that.”

The title Women as Lovers comes from a book of the same name by the Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek. Critics have already described it as their most accessible album to date. Where Hoff and McElroy attempt to makes sense of why this album might be more accessible than previous records, Stewart states dryly that he does not care about the assessment. McElroy says, “It’s kind of one of those things that I’ve totally lost perspective on. I have no idea anymore because I listened to it so much.”

Xiu Xiu have certainly moved in a different direction, likely the result of the official addition of band members Hoff and Smith. Long-time fans will notice the live drumming on the record. McElroy explains that there were also “more contributing writing factors. Ches wrote a lot on it, and it made a different feeling. There was also no programming for this record. It’s all live drums. In the past, when Jamie would write, he would use a drum sequencer. He tried not doing that for this record — we tried not doing that for this record.”

This is also means a change in their live show. Stewart says, “We had always [had programming in the shows] and we thought it would be an interesting experience to not do it. Every tour we try to add or subtract an element.” While they show obvious excitement about playing live, Stewart expresses a little bit of nervousness considering they’ll start practicing just one week before they go on tour, saying, “God willing, it will work.”

“Ches and I have played together for a really long time, and Caralee and I have [too], so the learning curve that’s the hardest is figuring out how other people play, figuring out how other people feel,” he says. Hoff adds, “It’s going to be a really fun record to play live. It’s going to be really fun — for us at least. Hopefully the audience will think so too.”

What’s most striking about seeing the band members together is the ease they have around each other. Where other bands might make a stranger feel like a lone outsider, Xiu Xiu explain inside jokes and recount their collective experiences. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the explanations because one person will add or embellish while another tries to tell an anecdote. You can tell that they get each other, and that makes a lot sense for band that not many people get. One reviewer of Women as Lovers has called the album pretentious, and many a fan would be loath to agree.

Stewart’s style of confessional lyricism runs throughout this album as on past recordings. I comment that so much of their press makes them out as serious and brooding people. “We are, musically,” Stewart says, and when he pauses, McElroy offers, “Life is about balance. To understand yourself as being totally dark, you have to understand yourself as totally light.” She laughs at how so many interviewers almost always handle Stewart with kid gloves. Stewart offers more concretely, “You know, we really like each other, and you seem like a nice person, so I’m not going to brood at this moment…“ when Hoff cuts in, “brooding has a time and place.”

Much of their brooding takes place on the records. Their songs “are about extraordinarily private things that have happened.…” McElroy expands, processing why their fans sometimes write letters to them about their own personal experiences. “I feel like I understand the darker side of things and connect with darker things, but I can also sit and eat burritos with my friends and laugh about shit.” Hoff adds, “When you listen to music, it can help you get through your day.… Some of the songs Jamie writes can help you get through the day.”

When I ask them how comfortable they are with fans sharing their personal experiences, Stewart responds quietly, “Sometimes fans are very specific with things they are going through. You want to have respect for them opening their hearts to you, but you don’t want to say something inappropriate. It’s always awesome.” Stewart himself knows what it is to be a fan. On the promotional website for the album, visitors are encouraged to download an instrumental track, add vocals to it, and then post it to the site. A version by Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses can be found on the site. “She’s a fan!” Stewart exclaims.

After we finish lunch, Stewart kindly asks if I need a ride. Hoff offers his apartment as a place for me to wait out of the cold. McElroy and Hoff dutifully keep me company and make me feel comfortable. I can tell it’s not so much out of duty, as it is of genuine kindness.

By Jeremy Krinsley

10:32 AM. 11 hours after Indian Jewelry ended a set that clawed through our aural cavities and followed us through two hours of sleep. My girlfriend dreamed of cell phones and computer screens defying the absence of batteries and electricity and light and pulsing with dementia-provoking super viruses. I had Robin Hood Men In Tights’s Carey Elwes costumed and chasing me with a wand through my old college campus. (And did I mention that he could fly.)

I think we all know who suffered the worse night terrors.

In ode to the nocturnal, here are two videos. The first is a cut up to the culprits of my insomnia. Apologies concerning the sound, but it was captured in the Cake Shop bathroom because the microphone couldn’t handle being any closer to the Indian Jewelry cacophony.

This second bit is a sequence from Peaking Lights, who have inspired me to write an independent film about a couple who temp during the day and contact aliens with mountains of analog equipment each night in their basement. No, seriously.

You read the flier right. Along with Mountain Goats, John Oliver, Dave Hill and Rock Plaza Central will grace the Masonic Temple. The $25 ticket’s not even that steep considering 100% of its proceeds go to 60-ish AIDS related charities in the tri-state area.

P.S. I like Supersnack’s spunky ‘tude. It’s like they let the snarky interns hijack their mission statement:

Supersnack is a tax-exempt 501c3-pending charitable organization dedicated to preserving the “fun” in volunteer and the “smart” in community. They have raised nearly 60,000 dollars [sic] for AIDSWalk –raising $33,000 in 2007 alone, with no single gift of more than $500. Their mission is to fight everything bad in the world by working to fund research for cures, stopping cruelty (animal, human, earth), and by letting everyone know that making a difference is just as easy as deciding you’re going to.

We all knew it was just a matter of time. And what a whole lot of time it was, given the bristling pace the Columbians in question set. But don’t blame the imitators, there were a lot of gestures to perfect before they could really get inside the minds of the original revivalists. Puffing and wheezing across the finish line, cardigans snugly tied round their drooping necks, ladies and gentleman, may we present to you the first Vampire Weekend cover band.

Hold on. We’re being told they play their own songs. But they’re called This Is Ivy League. They don’t play African music? But look at those suits!

Exhibit A:

This Is Ivy League, “The Richest Kids”
[See post to listen to audio]

More Beach Boys than Benga Bookends, but listen to those groovy Simon and Garfunkel vocal lines… only 15 years off our zeitgheist’s fading appetite for its Graceland sweet spot. Is this an act of preemption?

Exhibit B:

The ivy leaguers, outdoing themselves again.

The preppy, doo-woppy foppisms probably stir up some pre-fab nostalgia for some listeners but seeing as we are dealing with some serious (seriously expensive) education here, we thought we’d drop our own science. Over whose eyes, exactly, does this Ivy League pull the wool? We did a little experiment, and now we have a GRAPH:

By Armin Rosen

Few bands have been as appropriately named as Black Mountain. Indulge me while I parse this one out: contemporary bands with “black” in their name that aren’t death/black metal bands include The Black Lips, the Black Keys, Black Dice, the Black Angels and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Meanwhile, Mountain was among the more influential hard rock bands of the early 70s—which means that if we forget outliers like Black Kids, Black Rob, the Black Eye Peas, the Mountain Goats and the Clinch Mountain Boys, a band called Black Mountain should logically be a heavy-rocking psychedelic outfit, stuck somewhere between latter-day acid rock and hard-rockin’ late 70s indulgence. Well surprise, surprise. The only way their music would have been less predictable is if they’d worked the word “rush” into their name, least of all for lead-singer Matt Camirand’s Geddy Lee-like vocal range. The album is chock-full of the odd sonic touches that characterized the Vancouver outfit’s trail-blazing compatriots—organs, lasers, guitar effects and other leftovers of 70s prog.

So In the Future is what “the future” sounded like in 1978, and the title could be read as either a clever play on our expectations or a reference to indie rock’s fetishizing sense of nostalgia. Whether this fetishism is a good thing—and whether there’s any intrinsic, artistic merit to it—is another question for another day, although the current glut of psychedelic revivalists has made me pretty tired of asking it. Granted, you can’t do much better than In the Future as far as really bitchin’ stoner rock goes: “Angels” is a slow, druggy masterstroke, and the easygoing “Stay Free” makes me want to grab a lawn chair, slap on some suntan lotion and pass out on my building’s roof. Meanwhile, “Tyrants” is the kind of Zeppelin-style multi-part epic that makes you wonder why songs like that ever went out of style. But In the Future is still little more than a nostalgia trip, as well as a nice distraction before the next Black Angels album drops—but I’ll give it credit for making me go download 2112 on Torrentz.

Words by Blake Gillespie
Photos by Bianca Garza

I was too drunk to remember anything worth writing. Check out these dope photos and drop some comments.

San Temps Morts is Nate Dorr’s weekly New York City events guide. This week with R. Stevie Moore, ICE, Indian Jewelry, Video Hippos, Yea Big + Kid Static, Lymbyc System, Jonathan Kan.

Hello NYC and affiliated boroughs. So I know these weren’t exactly the height of investigative journalism or anything as it was, but at current size and scope, it’s starting to look like I’m going to have to cut back my actual research a bit and make the descriptions briefer and less link-heavy. Deal with it. (Or, having seen me try to be concise in the past, don’t deal with it. Instead, just grin knowingly at the inevitably non-concise product you are by now staring at on the screen, thinking, “never gonna happen.” Oh yeah? Well shut up! Maybe next week.)

(I know you love all this useless explication every week I lack real announcements, too. I will distract you with show listings.)

LOOK:

Wednesday, 07 May ::

Where on earth did the Crystal Stilts spring out of? Well, nowhere all that surprising really, as it turns out they’ve been on the scene for a few years, but I hadn’t even heard of the hazy Brooklyn psych-garage outfit until they got a spot opening for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone a couple weeks ago, and then played the Cakeshop 3rd anniversary party on Saturday. And now they’ll be back at Cakeshop for the Yeti Magazine #5 release party. This sort of sudden exposure spike bodes very well, as do their sparse, fuzzily tuneful songs. With Martin Beeler, Theo Angell, Luc Sante, Pigeons, PG Six and Meredith Brosnan. 152 Ludlow btwn Stanton and Rivington, LES. 9pm doors, $8. And show up early for a Jonathan Lethem reading.

ICETANK VIII: Tres Generaciones - New Music from Mexico. Yup, another International Contemporary Ensemble show (that’s the ‘ICE’) at the Tribeca non-profit artspace the Tank (that’s the ‘TANK’). Actually, ICE themselves have a second ICETANK VIII listed for June, so the Tank may be misinformed about this being part of the series. Either way, it’s ICE at the Tank, which should be plenty inducement for anyone interested in New Music and modern classical. 279 Church Street. 7 and 9pm double set, $5. With a reception!

+Japanther and the Pharmacy at Europa, 98 Meserole Avenue at Manhattan Ave. in Greenpoint. 7pm doors, $8.

Thursday, 08 May ::

The Ecstatic Quartet is experimental cellist (and often noise artist) MV Carbon, bassist Lucian Buscemi (from up-and-coming punk band Fiasco), percussionist Michael Evans, and theramin player Anthony Ptak. For this show at Gowanus experimental music space Issue Project Room, they’ll be pair with “Pillow Talk”, a project combining the talents of artist Gabrielle Senza and poet Marc Zegans, and which, rather than try to make sense of, I’m just going to quote the IPR site at you: “Pillow Talk explores the human comedy through erotic haiku and graphite images drawn with sensitivity and light.” Okay. So go on down to the old cannery for some erotic haikus and drawings and experimental chamber music. 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Gowanus, Brooklyn. 8pm (starts on time-ish), $10.

Psych-fuzz somnambulists Indian Jewelry have a new album coming soon on We Are Free (making them label-mates of Ponytail and Yeasayer) and a relatively infrequent NYC live appearance. With Peaking Lights, the Neokarma Jooklo Duo, and Messages (Tres from Pychic Ills) at Cakeshop, 152 Ludlow btwn Stanton and Rivington, LES. 8pm doors, $6.

There’s some kind of Columbia vs. Princeton electronic music showdown going on at the Tank. One may hope that lasers and antimatter will be involved, given the caliber of academic institutions represented, but various synthetic sound experimentation is perhaps more likely. But the flyer promises both “smarts” AND “stupidity”, which sounds an awful lot like something for everyone to me. At the Tank, 279 Church Street, Tribeca. 9:30pm, $5.

FREE: Midnight Juggernauts DJing at Hiro Ballroom, 9th Ave and 16th St, Chelsea. 10pm, free with RSVP.

+Clinic, Violens (Lansing-Dreiden), and caUSE co-MOTION! at Music Hall of Williamsburg. 8pm doors, $17.
+Foals at Union Hall (Union and 5th Ave, Park Slope). 7:30pm, $12.

Friday, 09 May ::

Lymbyc System are an Austin/Phoenix-based instrumental electronica-tinted post-rock outfit of which Cyclic Defrost says “like Tortoise’s younger siblings, or Boards of Canada’s understudies.” I’ve only just heard them this instant, but they seem promising, and well matched to open for downbeat post-punk Baltimoreans Video Hippos, who continute to chart the “Fantaverse” with fuzzy guitars and keyboards, paired with compelling video collages. With Hot Lava, Boys Lie, and the Glaze at Death By Audio, 49 S. 2nd St. This action is via Entertainment4every1, so even the bands I don’t know are likely interesting at the very least. 8pm doors, $tba.

February: Swans co-founding drummer Jonathan Kane and his current band playing raucous blues-rock. At Issue Project Room, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Gowanus, Brooklyn. 8pm (starts on time-ish), $10.

We’ve already got two days of Tank listings, so why not get a third in there. This time, frail folk-pop from Gregory and the Hawk. Much as I like the Tank, they’re occasionally really weird about describing pop music. Like here, where they stress that GatH has “received much of their attention through internet streaming and downloads (without the help of managers or labels).” Promoting music through the internet without the industry?! Simply unheard of! But like any third third grader knows (or must quickly learn), I tease them because I secretly have a crush on them (the Tank). Anyway, it’s gonna be with the Age of Rockets, Paper and Sand, and Rachel Browne. 279 Church Street, Tribeca. 7:30pm, $10.

+Shy Child and Midnight Juggernauts at Bowery. 8pm doors, $15.
+Fucked Up at the Knitting Factory. 6pm doors, $10.
+O’Death, Ponytail, and USAISAMONSTER at Music Hall of Williamsburg. 8:30pm doors, $12.

Saturday, 10 May ::

This is a Saturday of free shows starting in Greenpoint in the afternoon and running until the early morning back in Greenpoint.

FREE: Jangly post-punkers The Meltdowns have an in-store at Permanent Records, 181 Franklin St, Greenpoint. 3pm.

FREE: Everyone’s favorite living room / gallery / antique shop / bar / coffee shop / venue Goodbye Blue Monday is up to their usual excellent strangeness, this time in the form of some kind of free-noise/-jazz. With SF space drone outfit Rahdunes, jazz guitarist Ninni Morgia, Blue Prostitutes , Third Border, and Newokarma Jookla trio. And you get to drink cheap Ballantine while you watch. 9pm doors, free!

FREE Colt45 Party: Black Ghost and Thunderheist at Glasslands, 289 Kent St at S. 1st. RSVP here. I think actual free Colt45 may be involved, an obvious, though perhaps dubious, motivator.

Not actually free, but the word “free” is in the name: Free Danger presents Let’s Get Weird, a Death By Audio dance party with live performances from Adventure (8-bit Baltimore, Carpark-affiliated ), EAR PWR, narwhalz, thrust lab, and DJ dogdick (also Baltimore, recommend by Cex himself on a prior visit), with DJ Reigns and Rage Mountain on the decks. This is another Entertainment4every1 deal; I’m glad to see them bringing in electronica 49 S. 2nd St.

Flaming Fire at Issue Project Room, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Gowanus, Brooklyn. 8pm (starts on time-ish), $10.

+The Teenagers and Team Robespierre at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ. 9:30pm doors, $15.
+The Apes, CPC Gangbangs, It Lives, and The Golden Error at Don Pedro’s, East Williamsburg.
+Ellen Allien and Sascha Funke at Studio B. 10pm doors, $12.
+EL-P, Dizzee Rascal, and Busdriver at Webster Hall. 6pm doors, $20.

Sunday, 11 May ::

I’ll come right out and admit that my knowledge of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls begins and ends with the occasional benefit concerts they incur. But what better cause than encouraging girls to rock, really. Especially when, in encouraging girls to rock, we get to hear actual girls rocking. As in Vivian Girls are playing, and that is always a good thing. Plus a bunch of other bands, including Each Other’s Mothers, Renminbi, and Honeychild. 152 Ludlow btwn Stanton and Rivington, LES. 6pm doors, $tba. An extra bonus early show has its doors opening at 2pm, also.

FREE: A couple promising shows at Park Slope’s Barbes: rickety electronica (they self-describe as “porch techno”) from the Quavers, who are releasing a new album at 7pm, and gyspy-jazz guitarist Stephane Wrembel at 9pm. 9th St. and 6th Ave, Brooklyn.

+Golden Error and Ryan Sawyer & Nate Wooley duo at Union Pool. 8pm doors, $tba.
+John Zorn improv night at the Stone. E. 2nd and Ave C. 8 and 10pm, $20 each.

Monday, 12 May ::

The Chicago glitch-hop crew of Yea Big and Kid Static (production and rhymes, respectively) have the weird distinctions of working with the seminal plunderphonic label Illegal-Art (home of Girl Talk), having remixed and rapped over the entire new Mae Shi album before it was out, and having sampled the theme from Suspiria (with great success). As well as just being damn catchy. At Union Hall in Park Slope, Union St. and 5th Ave. 7:30pm doors, $10.

+Aa and Foot Village at Death by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St, Williamsburg. 8pm, $tba.

Tuesday, 13 May ::

R. Stevie Moore’s residency at Cakeshop hits week II. This time with unbelievably cheese-infused autotune-and-light-80s-synthesizers soft-rockers Double Wonderful. Whose radically saccharine and inoffensive pop-rock is sufficiently nausea-inducing that I’m starting to believe that it might be sort of genius. Or a harbinger of doom at the hands of soft-and-easy-favorites radio stations everywhere. Hard to say just yet. 152 Ludlow btwn Stanton and Rivington, LES. 8pm doors, $6.

Or, another chance to catch Indian Jewelry’s billowing psych squall at Death By Audio, 49 S. 2nd St, Williamsburg.

Timelapse photography of the immanent future:
14 May :: UnTapped at the Tank: Cornelius Dufallo, Jessica Schmitz, Rusty Limited Company
14 May :: The Death Set, Bonde Do Role, and Holy Hail at Europa
14 May :: Girls of the Gravitron and Necking at Cakeshop
15 May :: Suicide, Aa, and Child Abuse at Europa
15 May :: High Places at Rhizome benefit at the New Museum
15 May :: The Death Set and Bonde Do Role at Bowery
15 May :: Andy D and Macaque at Hugs
15 May :: Bell at Mercury Lounge
15 May :: Vaz at Death By Audio
15 May :: R. Stevie Moore and Girls of the Gravitron at Death By Audio
15 May :: FREE: Elijah B Torn at the Tea Lounge, 837 Union Street at 5th Ave, Park Slope. Two sets, 9pm and 10:30.
16 May :: No Fun Fest!
16 May :: Old Time Relijun at myopenbar TBA
16 May :: The Mountain Goats at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple
16 May :: Big Bear at Cakeshop
16 May :: Slow/Dynamite record release with Say No! To Architecture at Tommy’s Tavern
17 May :: Golden Ghost at Union Pool
17 May :: Fiasco, Chubby Behemoth, and Air Waves at Death By Audio
17 May :: Blarvuster at Issue Project Room
17 May :: No Fun Fest!
17 May :: Slow/Dynamite CD release TBA
17 May :: Beresford/Evans/Lee at the Stone
18 May :: Alva Noto at Issue Project Room
18 May :: No Fun Fest!
18 May :: People at Glasslands
19 May :: FREE: Peter Evans Quartet at Zebulon
20 May :: FREE: Little Women, People, and the Dead Science at Zebulon
20 May :: R. Stevie Moore residency at Cakeshop week III
21 May :: KTL at the Knitting Factory
21 May :: Extra Life with the Dead Science and Kyp Malone at the Knitting Factory
21 May :: FREE: Talibam! and Pesseye at Zebulon
22 May :: Glenn Branca and Paranoid Critical Revolution at Issue Project Room
22 May :: Slow/Dynamite at Office Ops (roof)
23 May :: Lucky Dragons at the Whitney
24 May :: Islands at Webster Hall
24 May :: The Skaters at Silent Barn
26 May :: Pumice and dd/mm/yyyy at Cakeshop
27 May :: R. Stevie Moore residency at Cakeshop week IV, with Skaters
27 May :: Jim O’Rourke (remote form Japan) and Karen Waltuch at the Stone.
31 May :: Ponytail, Thank You, and Wzt Hearts at Knitting Factory
31 May :: Knyfe Hyts, the Carrots, and Hand Jobs at the Silent Barn
31 May :: Slow/Dynamite at Texas Firehouse (LIC)
02 Jun :: Talibam! at Club Rehab
04 Jun :: Talibam! at Union Pool
04 Jun :: ICETANK! VIII: Low-Matic All-Stars
06 Jun :: Four Tet at Studio B
07 Jun :: Lucky Dragons at East River Music Project
08 or 09 Jun :: Jamie Lidell at Bowery
12 Jun :: Extra Life and Liturgy at Death By Audio
12 Jun :: Slow/Dynamite at Fontana’s
13 Jun :: Oneida: The Wedding, at the Kitchen
14 Jun :: Oneida: The Wedding, at the Kitchen
14 Jun :: Extra Life and Evangelista at Mercury Lunge
19 Jun :: 65daysofstatic at Mercury Lounge
19 Jun :: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog at the Prospect Park Bandshell
20 Jun :: Ecstatic Sunshine and Thank You TBA
21 Jun :: Made in Mexico and Curse of the Birthmark TBA
22 Jun :: Child Abuse, Gay Beast, and Corima TBA
23 Jun :: People and Gay Beast at Cakeshop
23 Jun :: Daniel Francis Doyle TBA
25 Jun :: Andy D at Glasslands
27 Jun :: The Woods and Pocahaunted at 66 Hope St.
01 Jul :: Puttin’ on the Ritz CD release w/ Mostly Other People Do the Killing
10 Jul :: FREE: Shellshag at Goodbye Blue Monday
11 Jul :: Oneida TBA
01 Aug :: Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, and Yellow Fever at Cake Shop

Until next week, live without dead time.