Just Announced

azaghal1981 wrote:
Aphex Twin
12/17-18
Day For Night Festival
Houston


No I'm not going to go through the other JA threads and check if it was posted there.

your lack of effort is disappointing

SidebySide wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
Aphex Twin
12/17-18
Day For Night Festival
Houston


No I'm not going to go through the other JA threads and check if it was posted there.

your lack of effort is disappointing

How many of us will be at that one?

Space wrote:
How many of us will be at that one?

Barring an east coast date being announced before November, I will set the over/under at 3.5.

Not sure how I missed this one, but in case others did too:

Pylon Reenactment Society w/ Dressy Bessy
Iota
Sept. 22nd

2/15
The Radio Dept.
@ Black Cat

YES!

killsaly wrote:
2/15
The Radio Dept.
@ Black Cat

YES!

The Radio Dept. are related to such genres as alternative rock, dream pop, indie pop, shoegazing and twee pop.  Their album Lesser Matters was ranked No. 9 on NME's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2004. The album received an 84/100 (Universal acclaim) on Metacritic from a total of five reviews.

Their upcoming album is also their first album since 2010. 

DC's Gauche will be opening. Might go just for them….hey Azaghal ??

bearman wrote:
Not sure how I missed this one, but in case others did too:

Pylon Reenactment Society w/ Dressy Bessy
Iota
Sept. 22nd

10/29
Morbid Saint, Revolta (Revoltura), Vorator
@ The Pinch

Tony Bennett
Dodd Auditorium (Fredericksburg)
12-16

Michael Chabon
6th and I
12-6

Deadhead wrote:
Michael Chabon
6th and I
12-6

Kavalier and Clay is great but I loathe everything he's written since. Yiddish Policeman's Union is one of the worst reads ever.

Julian, wrote:

Deadhead wrote:
Michael Chabon
6th and I
12-6

Kavalier and Clay is great but I loathe everything he's written since. Yiddish Policeman's Union is one of the worst reads ever.

only book of his I ever managed to finish was the first one.. I think its called Mysteries of Pittsburgh…. I tried the one about the record store a bunch of times… to me he is an incredibly overrated writer but I know he has his fans…

I went to the Ian McEwan thing last night… I had to leave after a few minutes as they were talking all about the plot for a book that came out like  a day or two ago and we were picking up there? I really can't stand having the plot spoiled.. I guess I'm just different from other people.. everyone seem enraptured..

Julian, wrote:Kavalier and Clay is great but I loathe everything he's written since.

It is good to know that I have only read his good book…

11/2
G.L.O.S.S.
@ Black Cat

Kristin Hersh
Jammin' Java
December 14th

Yim Yames (cape included) - 11/19 - Washington, DC at Warner Theatre

11/2
HONUS HONUS and guests TBA
@ the Ottobar
https://www.facebook.com/events/288702571516426/

When Man Man cut their seemingly endless record/tour/write/repeat cycle short to take a well-overdue break, Ryan Kattner AKA Honus Honus AKA Man Man?s main man decided to make something he?d avoided for the past 13 years?a solo album under the apropos name ?Use Your Delusion.?

Now that a few songs are out, it?s safe to say a lot has changed since Man Man?s last LP, ?On Oni Pond.? For one thing, Kattner has lived in Los Angeles since 2013, splitting his time between songwriting and side projects like screenplays, a long-outlined graphic novel, music supervision gigs (Fox?s ?Exorcist? reboot, Super Deluxe), a new Mister Heavenly album, a bizarro children?s record called ?Booger Bubble,? original scores for plays and TV pilots, a monthly Talkhouse column, even a little acting and directing (his own ?Heavy Jesus? and ?Will You? videos for the JASH channel Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Reggie Watts, and Tim & Eric founded on YouTube). Why not right?

Let?s just say there?s more than a whiff of the city?s fallen angels at play here. Think of ?Use Your Delusion? as a love letter to LA?s lost souls, sealed with a pop-savvy sucker punch instead of a kiss. Fuck it. The kiss is there too.

?I wanted the vibe of the album to be upbeat and carefree even if the storytelling ran against the grain,? explains Kattner. ?Like most creative people, I?m forever influenced by where I?m at in my life. There?s an unbalanced energy in the air I wanted to feed off here. I love how you can walk a block off Sunset Avenue at night, in the middle of a teeming city, and run right into a couple of coyotes trolling the neighborhood for tiny cats to eat. Sure, LA is known for attractive, traffic obsessed people and unattainable lifestyles but there?s also a lotta weirdos, a lotta darkness, and a real rich, disturbing history in the mix. Dreams being made and unmade every day. And all of it under a canopy of perfect weather and towering palm trees that are about to topple from either the drought or the next big earthquake.

He continues, ?It?s not a concept album. You don?t need to drink from the LA River to appreciate the content. I mean, you?d probably die if you drank from the LA River. Or become invisible.?

OR maybe you?ll start to see things through Honus Honus eyes, enough to make sense of the dizzying ?Use Your Delusion? universe, from the down-and-out summery dub of ?Oh No!? and barbaric death-metal breakdowns of ?Red Velvet? to the poison-tipped synthpop of ?Santa Monica? and mood-setting melancholy of ?Vampires in the Valley.? There?s even some gymnastic guitar solos courtesy of producer/right hand man King Cyrus King (see also: several Adult Swim shows, Super Deluxe, and the power trio Hot Karate). He?s but one crucial piece of a complex puzzle that includes contributions from comedian Jon Daly (slaying the sax), drummer Joe Plummer (Mister Heavenly, Cold War Kids, Modest Mouse), polymath Mary Elizabeth Winstead (last heard alongside Dan the Automator in the avant-pop duo Got a Girl and seen in ?10 Cloverfield Lane? and ?Swiss Army Man?), and singer Shannon Shaw of Shannon and the Clams.

?The parameters were simple,? explains Kattner. ?Don?t overcook the cake. Short ?n sweet, lean hard into the hooks. I also wanted to explore sounds I?d never messed around with before, diving headlong into the cheesiest sounding synths?the type of keyboards and pads most people skip over?and mixing that with outdated drum machines and real drums and then stirring in my songwriting style. Dystopian Pop.?

?Use Your Delusion? is more than just a mere one-off record, too. It?ll be supported by a full-on tour, one that lives up to Kattner?s wild-eyed reputation.

?This ain?t some ?Honus strums a sad ukulele? thing,? he says. ?Sorry if that?s what you want but I?m just too restless a spirit to do that right now. I?ll implode if I don?t get the energy out and with all the great players I have onboard, the ceiling for the wildness factor to bloom is immense. That?s the most exciting part of all of this for me. Discovering our live footing as a new band. It reminds me of what it was like when I first started Man Man back in the day. There will always going to be serious side to the lyrical narrative but ultimately I just want to have the most engaging and fun live show possible. That?s not much to ask, right??

http://www.sunshinemusicfestival.com

Yada wrote:
http://www.sunshinemusicfestival.com

Eww.