To tell you the truth, I don't think I buy enough records. Regardless, these are my tops music wise for 2009.
1. MARKED MEN - GHOSTS
2. SCREAMING FEMALES - POWER MOVE
3. CANADIAN RIFLE - VISIBILITY ZERO
4. ZOMBIE DOGS - LICK YR BRAINS TAPE + LIVE PERFORMANCE
5. RINGERS - HURRY UP AND WAIT
6. P.S. ELIOT - INTROVERTED ROMANCE IN OUR TROUBLED MINDS
7. TEENAGE COOL KIDS - FOREIGN LANDS
8. JOHN K. SAMSON - CITY ROUTE 85 7"
9. FATAL ERECTION - DEMO TAPE + LIVE PERFORMANCE
10. LAURA STEVENSON & THE CANS - HOLY GHOST EP
Some notable runners up:
FOREIGN OBJECTS - 7"
CLOAK/DAGGER - LOST ART
* I also posted this list over at TAKE IT SERIOUS, a message board for NYC DIY shows and happenings. If you're from the NYC area go sign up and post a top 2009 list or info about whatever shows you're booking!
12/30/2009
12/22/2009
HAPPY HOLIDAZE
12/15/2009
LESS CHEEKY, MORE CONDOS
So I never realized that Less Artists, More Condos was kind of a big deal. And I guess when Cheeky played there, I didn't realize it was the first show there either.
12/13/2009
RIOT GRRRL HISTORY
EXCITING NEWS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I will be moderating the riot grrrl panel at Sarah Lawrence College's Twelfth Annual Women's History Month Conference.
Twelfth Annual Women’s History Month Conference
at Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York
Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010
Keynote speaker: Carmen Ashhurst, former president of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Communications, and author of the forthcoming book, Selling My Brothers: The Movement, The Media and Me
Music has long served social movements as a sound track, as a means of communication, and as its own arena for activism. While multiple generations of feminists have used music in these ways, it has played especially vital roles for those born since the 1970s. This conference will explore the ways in which young feminists have defined and expressed politics through music and musical cultures and communities. Among the questions we will ponder are: How does music reflect sites of agreement and conflict among different groups of feminists? How have movements like Riot Grrrl and Hip Hop feminism attracted young women to feminist activism? How do young feminists’ uses of music compare with those of earlier generations?
[Call for Proposals from Sarah Lawrence College]
I will be moderating the riot grrrl panel at Sarah Lawrence College's Twelfth Annual Women's History Month Conference.
Twelfth Annual Women’s History Month Conference
at Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York
Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010
Keynote speaker: Carmen Ashhurst, former president of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Communications, and author of the forthcoming book, Selling My Brothers: The Movement, The Media and Me
Music has long served social movements as a sound track, as a means of communication, and as its own arena for activism. While multiple generations of feminists have used music in these ways, it has played especially vital roles for those born since the 1970s. This conference will explore the ways in which young feminists have defined and expressed politics through music and musical cultures and communities. Among the questions we will ponder are: How does music reflect sites of agreement and conflict among different groups of feminists? How have movements like Riot Grrrl and Hip Hop feminism attracted young women to feminist activism? How do young feminists’ uses of music compare with those of earlier generations?
[Call for Proposals from Sarah Lawrence College]
12/12/2009
ART HAPPENING TONIGHT! 12/12/09
an immediate response
a spontaneous exhibition organized and curated by
Elliot Lessing
with special assistance from Anna D'Agrosa
OPENING PARTY:
Saturday, December 12, 6-10PM
exhibition continues for one day only, Sunday, December 13, 1-6PM
83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B
Brooklyn
DIRECTIONS: L-Train to Dekalb Avenue Stop. Brooklyn.
More info on 19th Nervous Breakdown from NORTE MAAR: here
I'll be working the opening at NORTE MAAR, so come say hi!
XOXO
12/04/2009
MIX TAPE #1: ONSET OF WINTER
The Beatles - Cry Baby Cry
Ben Folds - Golden Slumbers (Beatles cover)
Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
The Chieftains ft. Elvis Costello - St. Stephen's Day Murders
David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
The Evens - Shelter Two
George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
John K. Samson - Heart of the Continent
Madeline - Dumpster Dive Mother
Paul McCartney & Wings - Live and Let Die
Pixies - Hey
Queen - Somebody to Love
The Replacements - Answering Machine
A new thing: I will be posting mixes along with a drawing every now and then.
I'll try for once a month. Here's number one! Just in time for yr favorite season of lovey-dovey times, snowflakes, presents, and stuffing yrself with food. And hibernating... forever. Or tackling mountains of schoolwork with all of that good stuff nowhere in sight. These songs bring about all those mixed up feelings. Nostalgia and longing, dudes! That's what the winter is about.
* e-mail me for a copy!
12/02/2009
STRAIGHT TO HECK
Videos of the last Cheeky shows have surfaced.
courtesy of vinylbob on youtube
New Brunswick, NJ at Pet Cemetery
more here >>
courtesy of vinylbob on youtube
New Brunswick, NJ at Pet Cemetery
more here >>
courtesy of obcwillie on youtube
Brooklyn, NY at Death by Audio
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courtesy of loopyvids on youtube
Brooklyn, NY at Death by Audio
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