The Audiozine

The move to NYC is imminent, I'll be up there by this Tuesday. New chapter and all that; I'm excited.

In the meantime, just noticed a theta blast from the past on the internets. Enjoy!

“I’ll see y’all in 366 days.”

TONIGHT:
ADAM SMITH + THOMAS DEAN DJ DJ DJ @ THE BOX
NO COVER
10PM O'CLOCK -- 02 AM O'CLOCK STYLEZ
DO A THING, MOVE A STUFF.

ALSO:

WE MADE IT!!!

Orange Drink: Narcolepsy EP, released today. If yr in Chicago, then hit up the release party. Props Drew, the jams are hot.

Liars wanna strike again.

Tonight at the Teahaus:
DBB Plays Cups
CJ Boyd
The Don't Tell Darlings
cover is probably $5, show probably starts around 9 PM, we probably go on at 11 PM.

Thanks to you wonderful people for coming out to all the shows we've been playing over the last year and for sticking with us [because of vs. despite] our oscillation between tunes and chaos. We were just as confused and lucid as you were.

OH SCHNAP (thanks for the heads up, Farsheed):

MOTH. +. WOLF CUB.

...I Can Head Home Tomorrow. Another Cville Saturday night awaits, among the last I'll have for a while.

Almost a year ago I saw one of the very first in a string of reunion gigs put on by Polvo, one of the so-called math-rock (WTF does that mean?) bands of the 90's. If the crappy math-rock label already makes you wanna dismiss em, you should reconsider. Polvo were not into the kind of pointless virtuosity, bombast, and intricacy associated with the math-rock tag. Instead, they played guitar in strange tunings, approached melody as a series of tone centers rather than individual notes to be played in perfect tune, and managed to exude perfect calm and maelstrom simultaneously.

Anyway, I found some really old notes I had taken quickly after the show that were originally meant to be turned into a post; there are also some really murky but interesting bootleg recordings from the show that I made using a mic that fits into one's iPod. School/work interfered with the post, but I just found the old notes and recordings lying around and figured they're worth a post.

UPDATE: you can download a .rar file of a few recordings of Polvo playing at the Black Cat in DC here.

Notes after the jump:

Farsheed beats me to the punch again, but I'll reiterate here:
1) Check out Grown Kids Radio, which is Spinnerty and a whole slew of other incredible Bay Area DJs laying down a really wide variety of beat-based music. When I get back to VA and have my iPod handy I'm definitely gonna load up their podcasts and become a compulsive listener.

2) New Orange Drink tracks on a weekly basis. Press play sucka!

Otherwise, still in NYC and since Wednesday I have seen the following: Ratatat, Jandek, a few chiptunes associated cats (including some French cat whose moniker translates roughly to "I Became A DJ 3 Days Ago" or something), Invisible Hand(s)...and I remain effectively homeless in this city. It's an adventure. I'll fill y'all in on these and other events when I get a bit more time. Enjoying my time up here but def looking forward to returning to Cville and riding out my last days there.