Wednesday, December 9, 2009

oh fuck...get ready

An Albatross, White Mice, Scroa✝s
Friday 12-11//Eclectic//10pm//Free w/WesID
Get ready kids, this is gonna be a good one. Last year, An Albatross left the Wednesday-night crowd at Eclectic bruised, bloodied, covered in sweat and other fluids and yet begging for more of AA's hyper-manic psych-thrash spazzings, for one more visit from the Lazer Viking. And finally, we're getting what we asked, nay, begged for. If you already know, you're already gonna be there; if you don't it truly behooves you to find out, this type of thing doesn't happen every day.
I could say the same about Providence's White Mice. This is a band whose performances, despite all the cliches that flit around blogs like this one, are truly unlike any other. These are mad scientists with giant, light-up mouse heads, specialized in the chemistry and physics of aural overload. Guitar, drums, and oscillator conjure a sonic sludge of crushing doom-noise that will silence all those who don't believe that truly awesome sounds from the depths of hell can be produced by a group of dudes in mouse costumes, who just put out a new record called Ganjahovadose.
And finally Scroats. I can't say too much about this band cuz it's my band and I'm a bit bashful about such things, so I'm gonna take the coward's way out and re-post from the facebook event. "No-frontal-lobe, stripped down punk rock, played by Max Lavine '10 and Ben Seretan '10. They threw out all that tired old shit and are rebuilding it with sweat, and broken drums. Simple music for pissed off simpletons." Come let us hurl abuse at you.
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can't say no...

YES GIANTESS
Thursday//12-10//Eclectic//9pm//Phree
The first set I ever saw anyone play at Wesleyan was watching a band called The Reading play in MoCon. Ever since that (at best) half-remembered evening, I've thought of Wesleyan's relation to synth-pop in a similar light to how a pack of half-starved wolves relates to the sudden presence of raw meat: the slightest scent will send them running from all corners to expertly locate and consume its source with gusto and relish.
It is with this in mind that I am willing to guess Yes Giantess will have those in attendance at Eclectic tomorrow night losing their shit. Featuring recent alum Zach Fried, YG is the musical equivalent of hyper-concentrated candy...that you can dance to. Tunes packed to the gills with pretty-sad lyrics of romance gone awry, bouncy-ass beats for the bouncing of asses, and most importantly, enough late-80's/early-90's dance-music-worshipping hooks to leave even the most inveterate dancefloor warriors begging for sweet, sweet mercy.

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Bottle Up & Vote






NYC Deli (numba one fan of all musical things big in the apple) has announced that Bottle Up & Go is running for the current NYC artist of the month.








How crunchy and delicious, NYC Deli. 
Bite into this snack and  
vote HERE

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

all growed up

Alum Rock
with Bear Hands, Bottle Up & Go, and Apache Kid
Thursday, 12/3, Elcectic, 9pm, $$free w/wesid$$
It seems hard to avoid the phenomenon of WesTunez these days. When I was but a n00b at this place, MGMT's "Kids" was unknown outside of its rabid following of young dance partiers. But somewhere along the way, America drank the *ahem* Kool Aid and the shit was everywhere. So Thursday night is a night to rest on our laurels, believe our own hype, and sample the tunes of former fellow students who went on to bloody up eardrums and shake asses across the land.

Kicking things off are hype-machine-beneficiaries-to-be Apache Kid will be showering the Eclectic house in their Animal Collectivist psychedelectric pop. Next up, tortured blues rock for those who prefer the mind-altering effects of Old Crow to designer hallucinogens: Bottle Up and Go. The band that made themselves synonymous with booze-soaked mayhem and distortion-injected, punked out blues riffs comes roaring back to debauch and humiliate. And finally, the groove-laden indie pop of Bear Hands will round out the night with sawngs that seem quite at ease rocking ye olde Williamsburghtowne as hard as they rocked Middletown.

[sorry about the size. blogger decided to be an asshole tonight.]
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Belly Boat and Last Good Tooth/Buhddhist House/9pm

Surprise!!!!!

Belly Boat
Last Good Tooth
Buhddist House
9pm
Tuesday, December 1st


Belly Boat, a once-upon-a-time fixture of our beloved music scene, will make a triumphant return to campus this Tuesday. That's tomorrow.

Actually, the chances are pretty good that you have heard Belly Boat already. Like I said, they've played campus a bunch of times and their spooky-attic-tinkle music gets around. But, for the uninitiated...

Belly Boat makes a kind of music with singing, accordion, and piano that fully utilizes the secret language of little kids - based in words, but also full of scents, impressions, syllables, and lucid dreams. Their music walks the various lines between unintelligible, delicately coded, totally engaging, and pristinely bizarre. As far as a reference point goes, I'd say that they land comfortably between the Amelie soundtrack, Captain Beefheart, and, like, Meredith Monk. You can hear more at their impressive myspace.

Also joining Belly Boat will be Providence, RI darlings Last Good Tooth, the project of a deep-voiced rambler type named Penn. Last Good Tooth played at Earth House in the spring semester, but I'm not entirely sure what the instrumentation/setup might be tomorrow. Just know that you can expect some pretty guitar fingerpicking and a voice almost in the style of Lee Hazlewood. Last Good Tooth also has a myspace.

Additionally, both or one of these musical groups will be appearing on WESU tomorrow night. They'll be on my show Wild Wild Live which airs 7:30 to 9pm.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Duchampion & Jugbone/Sidewalk Cafe/New York/Nov29

Sidewalk Cafe in New York City
94 Avenue A
Show starts at 8pm
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goin' postal

nüband----->Electric Wolf
The fresh-faced (I assume...) lads of new Wesleyan booty-shaking machine Electric Wolf are currently drooling like their namesake at the prospect of rocking you til the break of dawn with their moody-yet-funky indie dance jamz0rz. Combining the ethereal bumpity-bump of college-student standards like The Postal Service and Ratatat with a moody vocal style distinctly reminiscent of Why?, EW provide a musical forum for pretty young people to acknowledge their pretty young problems in the course of dancing them away. Some of the most apropos "Wesleyan music" I've heard in a bit.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

break distraction projekct: para-admissions


hey, guess what? that's me freshman year! even though this isn't directly music-related, i think it can definitely be seen as an attempt to represent aspects of life on this campus that are a good deal more fun, more unseemly, and less antiseptic than dropping simpsons quotes or "surfing the library."
here's the deal: if you think the new admissions site is totally fucking stupid, condescending, and more than a bit disingenuous (i'd count myself amongst this number if you were wondering), you can create your own alternative! find your favorite wasteyface, shit-disturbing, or otherwise seedy photos of yourself and then head on over to icanhascheezburger.com. once there you can use their "advanced lolbuilder" to caption anything you want...however you want...in that iconic lolcat font we all love.
SO, AURALWES IS HAVING OUR FIRST CONTEST EVAAR!!!11! (omfg)
Make your BEST para-admissions picture and send it over to auralwes@gmail.com. make sure its something you'd be ok with having posted on the internet though, cuz the top 3 will get their very own, extra-special auralwes posts for the world to see how witty and beautiful you are!
GO FORTH AND PARODY, WE$LaaaYinz
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