SPEEDY ORTIZ, THE CHRIS BROKAW BAND, 1 more TBA at DREAMLAND, Sunday, June 15th

(flier by Carrie Neumayer.)

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

SPEEDY ORTIZ (Boston, MA; on Carpark)

THE CHRIS BROKAW BAND (Seattle, WA and Louisville, KY; members of Come, Codeine, Rodan, Second Story Man, Julie of the Wolves, Early Age)

MURALS (Louisville, KY)

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 15th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
Doors open at 7 PM, $10 Advance tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/590341-speedy-ortiz-louisville/.
$15 day of show.

From their start as a full band, SPEEDY ORTIZ found a warm reception in the Bay State’s rock underground, from Boston’s basements to Western Massachusetts’ experimental scene. In March 2012, the band recorded and self-released a two-song single (“Taylor Swift” / “Swim Fan”) with Paul Q. Kolderie (Pixies, Hole) and Justin Pizzoferrato (Chelsea Light Moving, Dinosaur Jr.). Establishing both creative momentum and a fanbase earned through near-constant U.S. touring, they continued with the Sports EP, a loosely conceptual 10” released on Exploding In Sound that June. Their debut album Major Arcana, named Best New Music by Pitchfork, saw the evolution of SPEEDY ORTIZ from a lo-fi project into a wholly collaborative effort, marked by Darl Ferm’s thick bass lines, drummer Mike Falcone’s boisterous fills, and the counterbalance between guitarist Matt Robidoux’s anti-melodic playing and frontwoman Sadie Dupuis’s angular riffing. The end result is a band able to distill their influences and impulses into something at once dissonant and melodic. This show is their Louisville debut, coming on the heels of their appearance at the Bonaroo Festival.

(photo of Chris Brokaw by Sven Gielen.)

CHRIS BROKAW is perhaps best known for his work as the drummer in Codeine and the guitarist in Come, who made several albums in the 1990’s for the labels Sub Pop and Matador that are considered landmarks in American independent rock music. Since 2001, Chris has focused primarily on his work as a solo artist, making numerous albums of vocal and instrumental music. This has ranged from full-on rock, to explorations of the 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitars, to the experimental and abstract. Throughout, Chris has maintained an active solo touring schedule in the US, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and Russia. He has composed original music for the following films: “I Was Born, But” (Roddy Bogawa, 2004), “Road” (Leslie McCleave, 2005, which received the award for Best Original Score at the Brooklyn International Film Festival); “Sospira” (Lana Z. Caplan, 2011); “Taken By Storm” (Roddy Bogawa, 2011); and “Now, Forager” (Julia Halperin/Jason Cortlund, 2012). The latter two films screened in 2012 at MOMA in New York City. Chris has also performed and recorded as an accompanist to Thurston Moore, Evan Dando, Christina Rosenvinge, Jennifer O’Connor, Rhys Chatham, Steve Wynn, Alan Licht, GG Allin, and Johnny Depp. He has composed music for the Dagdha Dance Company (Limerick, Ireland) and Kino Dance (Boston); collaborated with playwright Rinde Eckert and director Robert Woodruff on the opera “Highway Ulysses” (2002, American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Mass.); performed as one of 77 drummers in the Boredoms’ “77 Boadrum” in New York; and performed as one of 200 guitarists in Rhys Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail” at Lincoln Center, New York. His band Dirtmusic (with Chris Eckman and Hugo Race) performed at the Festival In The Desert, in Essakane, Mali, and collaborated with the Touareg band Tamikrest on an album recorded in Bamako, Mali.

As a special treat, CHRIS BROKAW will be accompanied for this performance by Louisville, Kentucky residents KEVIN COULTAS (Rodan, The Chris Brokaw Band on Incredible Love) and CARRIE NEUMAYER (Second Story Man, Julie of the Wolves, Early Age). The rarity and uniqueness of this performance cannot be overstated!

With sizzling bass that digs like a rusty spoon against a prison cell wall, dueling guitars, which shimmer like dragonflies skating over the community pool, honey-salted voicings, plucked from the highest branch of a tree in the last moment before a fall to the ground and a broken arm, and drums that pound faster and harder than a flock of kids chasing an ice cream truck, MURALS’ sound is distinct, tantalizing, and tasteful.

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NINNIE, R. KEENAN LAWLER, and JOE DUTKIEWICZ with Special Guests at DREAMLAND, Saturday, May 24th

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

NINNIE (Louisville, KY)

R. KEENAN LAWLER (Louisville, KY)

JOE DUTKIEWICZ with Special Guests (Louisville, KY)

Saturday, May 24th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
Doors open at 8 PM, $7
Advance tickets available here: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/585167-ninnie-r-keenan-lawler-louisville/.

Cynthia Norton is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky. Influenced by folk aesthetics and the history of her surroundings, Norton’s work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country-music alter ego NINNIE, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South, specifically of her native Kentucky. While often combining these mediums, Norton uses the portrayal of the traditions, readymade sculpture, storytelling, and technology. Her works often have a “homespun” quality — from self-made musical instruments, constructed from suitcases and tennis rackets, to liquor stills that consist of buckets, copper tubing, and pressure cookers — while her music ranges across blues and country classics sung in a warbling voice, to haunting dirges that recall the mysteries of mountain culture. These makeshift elements combined with her quirky persona — complete with old-timey Southern costumes fit for the country music star — all attest to Norton’s creativity and inventiveness. Fascinated by the culture of fictional celebrity that pervades amateur Country Music contests in the South, Norton employs NINNIE as a surrogate to address the struggle for women to be seen and heard while her ingenuity transcends ordinariness and revels her to be the Everywoman of Country and Blues. Norton’s most recent solo project opened at PAFA on March 2, 2012 in the Historic Landmark Building using paintings in the collection as sounding boards for a group of four video/song works, two installations, and four prints, which reflect variously on issues like the historic portrayal of women in art, paternalism and colonialism, and the vernacular forms of folk culture. Mixing high and low art, the exhibition creates a counterpoint between PAFA and its fine art collection and the cultural and musical history of the artist’s Kentucky home. Much like her performances of altered country and blues songs, the project is not an attempt to satirize these histories but, instead, to critically-and sometimes humorously- engage with ideas about myth, power, and identity. Cynthia Norton received a BFA from the University of Kentucky and an MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the past decade, Norton has exhibited and performed extensively in the USA, Europe, and Asia. In 2005 she was included in the exhibition Nowhere during the Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz, Austria, and in 2008 her work was featured in the exhibition The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

Watch “Ninnie Naive Documentary 1994” here:

R. KEENAN LAWLER is a guitarist who has collaborated or performed with a wide range of forward-thinking musicians and mavericks including Rhys Chatham, John Butcher, Eliott Sharp, Charalambides, Ignaz Schick/Perlonex, Kaffe Matthews, Burning Star Core, Jason Kahn, Ut Gret, Kevin Drumm, Helena Espvall, Ian Nagoski, Alan Licht, Taksuya Nakatani, Bhob Rainey, Eric Carbonara and Joseph Suchy.

Watch a performance by R. KEENAN LAWLER here:

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MAN FOREVER and JON LORENZ at DREAMLAND, Saturday, May 31st

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

MAN FOREVER (Brooklyn, NY; on Thrill Jockey)

and

JON LORENZ (Cincinnati, OH)

Saturday, May 31st
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
Doors open at 8 PM, $10
Advance tickets available here: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/583577-man-forever-louisville/.

(Photo of Kid Millions by Lisa Corson)

MAN FOREVER is an exploratory percussion project helmed by John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions), one of New York’s most versatile and critically-lauded musical collaborators, and a founding member of Oneida. Since its inception in 2010, MAN FOREVER has hosted an impressive list of guest performers, but few have been as specially qualified to perform Colpitts’ technically challenging meditative workouts. Colpitts continues to be one of the most in-demand drummers in New York. Throughout 2013 he toured as a member of Spiritualized, performed in duos with Greg Fox and Jim Sauter, recorded a record with Akron/Family, released an album with People of the North on Thrill Jockey, and performed with Rhys Chatham as a member of Oneida. So far in 2014 he has recorded an album with Rick Moody and has performed with William Basinski at the Ecstatic Music Festival in March.

Cincinnati, Ohio-based saxophone improviser and experimental artist JON LORENZ has been heavily involved in Cincinnati’s experimental scene for many years, running the Art Damage Lodge from 2007-2011, and presenting shows then after under the moniker Dome Presents.  He may be best known for his heavily amplified sax/ clarinet duo, Wasteland Jazz Unit, but also plays in numerous other projects including Public Housing, Early Tunnels, and Ohio Unsemble.  He has also played in or collaborated with the likes of Burning Star Core, Rhys Chatham, Ryan Jewell, Fred Lonberg-Holm, C. Spencer Yeh, Mike Shiflet, Darin Gray, Dylan Posa, and many others.  Solo, LORENZ combines amplified sax smears with tape loops, homemade electronics, and oscillators.

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NAT BALDWIN (of Dirty Projectors), PILLARS AND TONGUES, and TWIN LIMB at DREAMLAND, Sunday, June 1st

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

NAT BALDWIN (Brooklyn, NY; on Western Vinyl)

PILLARS AND TONGUES (Chicago, IL)

TWIN LIMB (Louisville, KY)

 

Sunday, June 1st
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
Doors open at 8 PM, $10
Advance tickets available here: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/583757-nat-baldwin-louisville/

(photo by Lindsay Metivier.)

After studying avant-garde jazz and improvisation with jazz legend Anthony Braxton, NAT BALDWIN started writing songs featuring double bass and vocals.  In 2005 he joined Dirty Projectors.  In addition to his work with Dirty Projectors, he has performed on Grizzly Bear’s Shields, Vampire Weekend’s Contra, and Department of Eagles’ In Ear Park. His new record, In The Hollows, is his followup to 2011’s People Changes. Despite his busy schedule recording and touring as the bass player for Dirty Projectors, Nat found time to write and record his most soulful and ambitious collection of songs to date. “…whether BALDWIN is singing with his throat or his bow, there’s a thrilling felling of freedom to it all.” – Pitchfork.

Listen to the title track from In the Hollows here:

Watch a live video of the title track from In the Hollows here:

 

Although from Chicago, Beth Remis, Ben Babbitt, and Mark Trecka of PILLARS AND TONGUES have spent much of the last few years traveling, performing music in a wide variety of contexts, exploring the severe and sublime landscapes of America, and returning to or refusing to return to variations on the theme of home . . . The work allies with the darker, stranger side of the pop realm, evoking the drama and atmosphere of Dead Can Dance, and the art-prog experimentation of Peter Gabriel’s 4. [H]armonium and violin blend with enveloping synths, undulating loops and gated rhythms of hazy origin. Pitchfork conceded in 2010 that “it’s difficult to talk about influences or genres with PILLARS AND TONGUES, and almost as hard to talk about their sound.” And The Chicago Tribune has said that the group “defies easy categorization, unless you’re looking in that bin marked ‘essential.”  While affinities may be noted with contemporaries like Julia Holter, Liars, and others working creatively with tone, texture, and ambience, in the context of voice-driven songwriting, PILLARS AND TONGUES cuts a singular path through the contemporary musical landscape.

Listen to End Dances by PILLARS AND TONGUES here: http://emptycellarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/end-dances

Watch videos of PILLARS AND TONGUES here:
“Points of Light” by Randy Sterling Hunter http://vimeo.com/76863229
“Knifelike” by David Sampson http://vimeo.com/74683874
“Dogs” live in Santa Fe by At 7000 http://vimeo.com/49461709

 

“[TWIN LIMB are a ] dog friendly chamber folk duo. They’d be like the wedding band in a universe contained within an Edvard Munch painting.” -Alex Glasnovic

“I’ll be real: I have no idea what TWIN LIMB sounds like. I can tell you based on the above picture that they will feature ladies, probably of the singing variety, and an accordion, but I can’t tell you anything beyond that. So I’ll make it up. Hailing from an alternate reality where accordions are the universal language, TWIN LIMB are the heroes of their dimension. Originally high school do-nothings, the two were met by a lovable, time traveling so-and-so who via a series of misadventures involving the duo themselves time traveling, taught the pair to “be excellent to each other.” This wisdom was imparted on the world after the great Battle of the Bands that TWIN LIMB won, at which time hover boards and jet packs were widely distributed to the citizens of Earth that everyone may be equally radical. Twin Limb were stranded on our plane of existence shortly after they defeated the quantum bear invasion of 2028, and hope that through their gift of excellence to the planet that they can find a way home.” –Never Nervous, 11/5/13

Recommended if you like: Chelsea Wolfe, Sybille Baier, Zola Jesus, Bat For Lashes, Old Baby, The Fervor, Ali Farka Touré, Junip, Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Amiina.

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PETER BRÖTZMANN, HAMID DRAKE, WILLIAM PARKER TRIO at DREAMLAND, Saturday, June 7th

The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, DREAMLAND, Louisville Experimental Festival, and The Other Side of Life are proud to present a very special performance by:

PETER BRÖTZMANN (Wuppertal, Germany)

HAMID DRAKE (Chicago, IL)

WILLIAM PARKER (New York, NY)

Saturday, June 7th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
8 PM, $25 (seated)
Advance tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/576941-peter-broetzmann-hamid-drake-louisville/.

UPDATE, 5/20/2014: Hey friends, as of today physical tickets are now on sale for Brotzmann/Drake/Parker at DREAMLAND on Saturday, June 7th! You can purchase them at The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Guestroom Records, Modern Cult Records, and Astro Black Records (fees may vary). And a limited number of tickets will be on sale at DREAMLAND starting with this Thursday’s screenings of “Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brotzmann.” You can also win free tickets to the concert at those screenings!

It’s safe to say that PETER BRÖTZMANN is one of the most revered jazz musicians alive today. A saxophonist as well as clarinetist, BRÖTZMANN has released over fifty albums as a bandleader, and has appeared on over one hundred albums total. His1968 recording Machine Gun is considered one of his many classics within the realms of free jazz and European free improvisation, but he certainly didn’t stop there. BRÖTZMANN has also recorded or performed with a gigantic roster of musicians as diverse as Han Bennink, Fred Van Hove, Derek Bailey, Frank Wright, Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Conny Bauer, Joe McPhee, and his son, Caspar Brötzmann, a notable guitarist in his own right.

HAMID DRAKE is widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free-jazz improvisers around the world, including trumpeter Don Cherry; pianist Herbie Hancock; saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Fred Anderson, Archie Shepp and David Murray; and bassists Reggie Workman and William Parker.

A native of The Bronx, New York’s WILLIAM PARKER is certainly no slouch in the company of BRÖTZMANN and DRAKE. Indeed, the bassist began his career in the 1970s playing with Cecil Taylor, and released his first album as a leader, Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace, all the way back in 1981. He has played with David S. Ware, Jimmy Lyons, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Charles Gayle, Wayne Horvitz, Roscoe Mitchell, Matthew Shipp, and in the group Other Dimensions in Music. The main force behind New York’s Vision Festival, PARKER is also an avid poet and author.

It is an absolute pleasure and an honor to bring musicians of this caliber to DREAMLAND!

Additionally, DREAMLAND is screening the documentary SOLDIER OF THE ROAD: A PORTRAIT OF PETER BRÖTZMANN on Thursday, May 22nd at 7 and 9 PM. Each screening is $10, and tickets are available here:

7 PM Screening — http://www.ticketfly.com/event/573901-soldier-road-portrait-louisville/;
9 PM Screening — http://www.ticketfly.com/event/573905-soldier-road-portrait-louisville/.

Attendees at each screening will be entered to win two tickets to the BRÖTZMANN/DRAKE/PARKER performance at DREAMLAND on Saturday, June 7th, a $50 value!

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MARTIN BISI, INVISIBLE THINGS, and VISITING NURSE at DREAMLAND, Tuesday, May 27th

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

MARTIN BISI (Brooklyn, NY; on La Société Expéditionnaire)

INVISIBLE THINGS (Chicago, IL; on Porter Records)

VISITING NURSE (Louisville, KY)

Tuesday, May 27th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
Doors open at 7 PM, $10
Advance tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/579691-martin-bisi-invisible-things-louisville/.

(Photo of Martin Bisi by Nicole Copobianco)

MARTIN BISI, a New York indie rock performer and record producer, has been at the crossroads of indie, punk, avant garde, noir/cabaret rock, and electronic music since the early 1980’s in New York City. At the B.C. recording studio he started in 1981 with the help of Brian Eno, MARTIN BISI has helped to realize albums by Sonic Youth, Swans, Dresden Dolls, Cop Shoot Cop, John Zorn, Africa Bambaataa, Material/Bill Laswell, Boredoms, Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” White Zombie, Foetus, Helmet, Unsane, Serena Maneesh, U.S. Maple, Christina and Jon Spencer’s Boss Hog, and countless other indie, experimental and post-punk records. His most recent solo album, Ex Nihilo, was released on April 1st, 2014 by La Société Expéditionnaire records.

Watch the trailer for the upcoming documentary on B.C. Studios, Sound and Chaos: The Story of B.C. Studios, here:

The duo INVISIBLE THINGS consists of Mark Shippy (ex-U.S. Maple) and Jim Sykes (ex-Parts and Labor, Grooms), who met in 2008 when they backed Marnie Stern supporting her This is It… album, touring the U.S. with Gang Gang Dance and sharing bills with Quasi, Sic Alps, Talk Normal, and others. After this they began collaborating as a duo, sporadically, as Sykes was touring with Grooms and living in London, but still managed to play Steve Albini’s PRF BBQ and similar such events. INVISIBLE THINGS‘ debut, Home IS the Sun, was released on Porter Records in fall 2012. The new INVISIBLE THINGS album, Time AS One Axis, was recorded by MARTIN BISI (Swans, Sonic Youth, Herbie Hancock) at BC Studios in Brooklyn, New York.

Comprised of electronic drums, keyboards, bass, and effected guitar, VISITING NURSE features long time collaborators Jon Hill, Mike Seymour, and Syd Bishop creating music that seems to somehow straddle the gap between the organic and inorganic, a cyborg pastiche of jazz influenced composition, and rigid structures. For fans of Boards of Canada, Clams Casino, and Biosphere.

Video of Visiting Nurse’s first-ever show is available here:

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MARISA ANDERSON and WOODEN WAND at DREAMLAND, Friday, May 23rd

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

MARISA ANDERSON (Portland, OR)

and

WOODEN WAND (Lexington, KY)

Friday, May 23rd
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
8 PM, $10
Advance tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/574713-marisa-anderson-wooden-wand-louisville/.

Combining  boundless creative imagination with a deep reverence for American folk, blues and country music, MARISA ANDERSON‘s guitar playing is fluid, emotional, dexterous and original. Signal to Noise magazine calls Anderson’s guitar work “Utterly fabulous”, TIme Out London refers to her playing as “Stunning…haunting and evocative”, Pitchfork calls her latest record, ‘Mercury’,  ”Brilliant” and Wire Magazine says, “Her sound has strength in restless variety…Anderson’s playing is heartfelt and utterly American, free from grandstanding and steeped in respect for the old tradition.” Before going solo in 2009, Anderson played guitar in the Dolly Ranchers and the Evolutionary Jass Band. In the past two years, Anderson’s music has landed her festival appearances in Europe and the United States and opening slots for artists including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Devil Makes 3 and Sharon Van Etten. In August 2013, KBOO Community Radio released a split 7″ featuring Anderson and Elizabeth Cotton. Anderson’s music has been featured on NPR and on soundtracks including ‘Smokin’ Fish’, ‘For the Love of Dolly’, ‘Girls Rock’, and ‘Gift To Winter’. Her writings on music and activism  have appeared in Bitch Magazine, Leaf Litter, and in Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, the book. Her new album, Traditional and Public Domain Songs, is now available from the Grapefruit Record Club.

Listen to Traditional and Public Domain Songs here: http://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/traditional-and-public-domain-songs-2.

Watch an interview with Marisa Anderson here:

For WOODEN WAND‘s new album Farmer’s Corner, James Toth decided to try something different: instead of spending a week in a studio with the same people, the same engineer, the same equipment and the same state of mind, he would record in fits and starts, whenever – and WHEREever – he felt like it, recording new songs as he wrote them. Over six sessions in four studios spanning three states, he began amassing tracks. Toth then chose his favorite ten songs for Farmer’s Corner, which is, remarkably, the very first self-produced Wooden Wand album. Toth is abetted on the majority of the tracks by electric bassist Darin Gray (On Fillmore, Jim O’Rourke, Grand Ulena, Dazzling Killmen), and guitarists William Tyler (Lambchop, Silver Jews, Yo La Tengo) and Doc Feldman. Toth also called on friends in St Louis, Nashville, and his current home in Lexington, KY to produce an album that splits the difference between the protracted psych of his work with the Vanishing Voice and the World War IV and the more lonesome, bucolic styles of his more recent albums with Michael Gira and the Briarwood Virgins.  The result is the most “Wooden Wand” album in the Wooden Wand discography, reflecting Toth’s omnivorous musical and narrative obsessions. The arrangements — think Little Feat covering Neil Young’s Harvest Moon — only serve to highlight his capabilities as both a songwriter and storyteller. The collected songs form an easy entry into the ever-growing Toth output, where outlaws on the run, epic landscapes, endless travels, agitated insomniacs and ditch-digging memory-evaders lurk behind every turn.

Listen to “Dambuilding” on Farmer’s Corner here:

Read an interview with WOODEN WAND here: http://fracturedair.com/2014/05/14/chosen-one-wooden-wand-2/.

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XOX, DEGREASER, and CYANIDE TOOTH at DREAMLAND, Saturday, May 17th

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

XOX (Louisville, KY)
DEGREASER (New York, NY)
CYANIDE TOOTH (New York, NY)

Saturday, May 17th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
8 PM Doors, $7
Advance online tickets available for purchase here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/573853-xox-degreaser-louisville/.

XOX is a band from Louisville, Kentucky in which layers of synth smother a drum and bass hypno-fury while screams, grunts, and gasps desperately escape the miasma.

Crawling out of the deep, dark hole they dug for themselves on Bottom Feeder (2011) and Sweaty Hands (2012), New York City’s premier psychedelic swamp rock unit DEGREASER are set to take an unsuspecting and tepid rock scene by storm. Courtesy of NYC’s Ever/Never Records, their new record Rougher Squalor is DEGREASER 2.0. The band has evolved from their previous caveman dirges into a true power trio, heavy on the muscle and out for blood. Drawing inspiration from classic bands like Blue Cheer, The Groundhogs and Coloured Balls, to outer-limits rock deconstruction reminiscent of the finest Japanese ensembles such as Mainliner and High Rise, DEGREASER are able to satisfy the need to bang your head, and also the desire to immerse said head in glorious waves of wah-wah pedal abuse. The ‘squalor’ part of the title is no joke, as main ‘Greaser Tim Evans – formerly of noted Aussie band Bird Blobs – drenches the proceedings in a sheen of speaker-shredding noise that would make the likes of The Stooges’ James Williamson sit up and take notice. Anchored by the granite-solid rhythm section of drummer John Coates and bassist Kristian Brenchley (Woman/Ballroom), Evans is free to blast his surroundings with all manner of ear-piercing and –tickling tones.

Listen to Rougher Squalor‘s lead track “Words In Your Mouth” here:

Former singer of Brooklyn post-punk bands Family Curse and Golden Error, Erick Bradshaw H dives into the deep end of primitive electronic squall and suitably paranoid vocal manipulations with his new project, CYANIDE TOOTH. Recalling early masters of the exposed nerve — Cabaret Voltaire, Whitehouse, Sprung Aus Den Wolken — CYANIDE TOOTH reminds you that the Cold War is still raging and our destructions are all mutually assured

Listen to a live set by CYANIDE TOOTH here:

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A Benefit for the Louisville Outskirts Festival with MARISSA NADLER, DANE WATERS, and TAL SOUNDS, at DREAMLAND, Saturday, May 10th

The Louisville Outskirts Festival is proud to present:

MARISSA NADLER (Boston, MA; on Sacred Bones Records)

with

DANE WATERS (Louisville, KY)

and

TALSOUNDS(Chicago, IL)

Saturday, May 10th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
8 PM, $10 — additional donations also encouraged
Advance tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/553067-benefit-for-louisville-louisville/

MARISSA NADLER wastes no time in cutting close to the bone on July, her latest album and first for her new North American label, Sacred Bones. Nadler lays the listener — and herself — on the line with July, her sixth full-length album in nearly a decade; it floats freely in the pop cosmos somewhere between gauzy shoegaze, unvarnished folk, and even a hint of metal’s doom-and-gloom spirit. Recorded at Seattle’s Avast Studio, the album pairs Nadler for the first time with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Wolves in the Throne Room). Dunn matches Nadler’s darkness by creating a multi-colored sonic palette that infuses new dimensions into her songs. Eyvind Kang’s strings, Steve Moore’s synths, and Phil Wandscher’s guitar lines escalate the whole affair to a panoramic level of beautiful, eerie wonder. July is the kind of release that reminds you why NPR counts Nadler’s songwriting as so “revered among an assortment of tastemakers.” This is a singular achievement for the artist, a record she couldn’t have made earlier in her career because, as every songwriter knows, she didn’t just write these songs: she lived them.

DANE WATERS is one of Louisville’s brightest musical talents. As a member of SAPAT and SOFTCHEQUE, she displays an impeccable melodic sensibility, and has a voice so wonderfully haunting, it sends chills down your spine.

TALsounds is Canada-born, Chicago-based experimental musician Natalie Chami. In her solo performances, vocal loops and drifting tones of analog synths swell and accumulate across long sessions of drone. As part of duo l’eternebre, or in collaboration with Chicago experimentalist Passerby, TAL’s sounds collude with glacial electronics and processed strings. In trio Good Willsmith, TAL’s arsenal of synths, oscillators and electronics collides with massive bass and looped guitar noise.  When she’s not droning, TAL teaches music at Chicago High School for the Arts and in her private studio.

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Record Store Day after-party with VICTORY OVER SOUND (record release show), BRETT EUGENE RALPH’S KENTUCKY CHROME REVUE at DREAMLAND, Saturday, April 19th

(flier by David Wright)

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

A Record Store Day after-party with

VICTORY OVER SOUND(record release show — Brooklyn, NY)

and

BRETT EUGENE RALPH’S KENTUCKY CHROME REVUE (Kentucky)

Saturday, April 19th
at DREAMLAND
810 E. Market Street (in the alley behind Decca Restaurant)
8 PM Doors, $7
Advance tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/548839-record-store-day-after-party-louisville/.

VICTORY OVER SOUND is the project of Louisville native D.W. Box, whose new album There Is No Here or After Here will be released on April 28th, 2014.

BRETT EUGENE RALPH’S KENTUCKY CHROME REVUE is a revolving cast of pickers, players, and singers who animate the songs of poet Brett Eugene Ralph with the spunk and sparkle of outlaw country, Southern soul, and plenty of punk rock attitude. The band’s self-titled debut album, available from Noise Pollution, features contributions by 21 country gunslingers, indie icons, and punk rock desperadoes, including Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Freakwater’s Catherine Irwin, and members of Slint, Sebadoh, Silver Jews, Royal Trux, and A Perfect Circle. A second full-length album, made at Bloomington, Indiana’s Russian Recvording, is finished and awaiting release.

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