Wednesday, Oct 17 - Front Room
CMJ 2012: Northern Spy & LQQK
Wednesday, Oct 17
8:00 pm in the Front Room
21+ w ID, $10
In Order of Appearance:
+ Thurston Moore and Loren Connors
+ Hubble
+ PC Worship
+ Diamond Terrifier
+ The Dreebs
+ Devin, Gary, & Ross
Thurston Moore is … Thurston Moore. While best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth, he has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore has collaborated with musicians including Maryanne Amacher, Lydia Lunch, William Hooker, Daniel Carter, Christian Marclay, Mike Watt, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, etc.
http://www.facebook.com/ThurstonMooreOfficial
Loren Connors is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. He is a prolific collaborator who has worked with artists including Alan Licht, Jim O'Rourke, bassist Darin Gray, John Fahey, Keiji Haino, Jandek, Suzanne Langille, avant garde poet Steve Dalachinsky, Chan Marshall, and others.
http://www.fvrec.com/lorenconnors
With Hubble, Greenberg of Zs and The Men has exploits the guitar for its ulterior qualities, displaying a true love for the instrument. It’s an apocalyptic, beat-less quasi-electronic music, conjuring Terry Riley’s pulsing minimalist structures and Gregg Ginn’s aggressive, avant-garde rock. “[Hubble]...is where the measured precision of downtown minimalism meets the unhinged aggression of Brooklyn loft noise–truly hypnotic and truly New York.” – Christopher R. Weingarten
http://missionhubble.blogspot.com
PC Worship kick it dense and heavy with a damaged crude DIY psych edge that often transcends into totally catchy melodic and repetitive jammers, so they say.
http://pcworship.bandcamp.com
Diamond Terrifier is the saxophone & electronics solo incarnation of ZS’ Sam Hillmer. Sam is here concerned with the potential positive qualities of destruction as mediated by noise/drone sheets of sound music. Ben Ratliff of The New York Times describes a set: “...he turned a saxophone tone into the sound of chimes or cracking ice, and, later, bagpipes or an animal roar. And after about 25 clean and questing minutes, he was done.”
http://www.diamondterrifier.com
Hazy & harsh no wave noise-pop surrounds you. A triumphant thunder-punk roars throughout your local valley, as crafted by Adam Markiewicz, Jordan Bernstein, Shannon Sigley, known together as The Dreebs.
http://thedreebs.blogspot.com
Last but not least: Devin, Gary, & Ross! Brooklyn’s Emilie Friedlander said it best in Altered Zones a while back: “Instantly smitten with this ramshackle psych-folk number by New York's Devin Gary & Ross, the visually inclined trio of cartoon animator Devin Ross, photographer and sign painter Ross Goldstein, and illustrator, designer, and all-around Renaissance weirdo Gary Panter, perhaps best known as the art director for "Pee-wee's Playhouse." Pete Nolan of Spectre Folk is putting out their debut EP, Four Corners Bounce, on his own Arbitrary Signs imprint, and we can definitely hear the family resemblance. Think Velvet Underground-era VU meets Alexander "Skip" Spence meets the equally LSD-infused solo output of Germany's Juergen Gleue, only WAY more deadpan.”
http://www.northern-spy.com
http://www.LQQK.org
http://www.publicassemblynyc.com
