NYC: Sans Temps Morts

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.)

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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.

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