For the final episode of Arthur Radio we bring you a live set by Baltimore’s Lower Dens, filmed and recorded in glorious hi-fi at Swan 7 Studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn, co-presented by Newtown Radio | Swan 7 Studio Sessions, and cushioned by an excerpt from a 5 hour DJ set recorded one joyous night in the depths of winter by Hairy Painter, Ivy Meadows and friends, re-broadcasted and cycled through a tunnel of radio feedback last week in the Newtown Radio studio.

We would like to say THANK YOU to the many guests who have graced the show with their talents (in backwards chronological order): Lower Dens, Salvia Plath, Gustav Ernst, Bryce Hackford, Laurel Halo, Saadi, Evie Elman, Mountainhood, kA, Mia Theodoratus, Spectre Group, A R P, Alice Cohen, Sonny Smith, Messages, Ami Dang, Ramble Tamble, James Ferraro, Up Died Sound, Prince Rama, Thomas (Ted) Rees, Nonhorse, The Beets, DJ Ron Like Hell, Gabe Soria, Bow Ribbons, Love Like Deloreans, Blondes, Overture Brown, Bobby Bouzouki, Excepter, The Holy Experiment, Visitation Rites, Chocolate Bobka and Tyler McWilliams. All episodes can be found in the Arthur Radio archive.

Ivy Meadows will continue to record radio shows with Arthur’s universal mutant Will S. Cameron, to be released in a similar format over at Perfect Wave Magazine.

+~+++~ One Love !+~+++

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #40 w/ LOWER DENS

Timeline below…

Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows DJ @ 00:00

Lower Dens live set @ 54:44

interlude: glory girls (of lower dens) – tour cd-r, track 4

Hairy + Ivy continue @ 1:11:25

In this second-to-last episode of Arthur Radio, Gustav Ernst (host of experimental documentary radio show Tesla Effect on Newtown Radio) joins Ivy Meadows for an extended Buddhist prayer remix, after which Salvia Plath, host of Rats Live On No Evil Star, historical figure and documentarian, spins songs from Tibet via internet, treads the waters of Brazil, and shares field recordings from Brooklyn and Baltimore, keeping all vinyl running at a steady 33rpm while staying true to the phase shifts in her synesthetic life. She invites musician and sculptor Cammisa Forrest to share the studio. Forrest’s transitions between Salvia’s tracks create an immersive audio reality of wordless harmonic overtures.

“Our language is classical, and we do our best to apply it to quantum mechanics.” Neils Bohr

Cammisa Forrest is working on multiple creative projects. She is currently constructing a frequency sensitive color mixer as part of the ExiTrip project.
She also has a forthcoming documentary about the performance space ParlsLondonNewYorkWestNile. You can see the trailer below.

Photo by Will Crofoot

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio #39 w/ SALVIA PLATH 2-20-2011

Timeline below…

Ivy Meadows + Gustav Ernst DJ intro @ 00:00

Javanese court gamelan / Margaret Dygas / Eliane Radigue / T.J. Lawrence (Hubble edit)

SALVIA PLATH live set + DJ @ 20 mins

Ivy Meadows DJs @ 1 hour 29 mins

Corridors / Eklin / Zonotope™ / Katie Deacon / Laurie Anderson

Staring into the open end of a computer circuit, we suddenly find ourselves evaporating into a sparkling stream of 0′s and 1′s. In a swirl of stars and blue lights, we feel ourselves becoming weightless; like a magnetic force, the circuit sucks us into it with a single breath and we enter a mirror world where technology reigns, and to our delight we realize that we have once again left our physical bodies behind us. There we meet our very special guests, who one by one guide us through what we can only hope is life after the singularity.

Our first host Bryce Hackford (of Behavior) begins our journey by leading us into a shiny field of electrified plasma, where the local time is set to no higher than 33rpm. We dance in slow-motion leaps and bounds, taking our time to spin and roll in the air, spreading and condensing as the music changes.

After around 45 minutes, we encounter our second host, known on Earth as electronic solo songstress LAUREL HALO, who appears in a flash as a flickering face above a bank of silver clouds. The image mouths to us to follow her into a stream of white lasers, which is pointed directly upwards, disappearing into the unknown. All sense of memory–past, present, and future–is wiped.

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DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio #38 w/ Laurel Halo + Bryce Hackford DJ sets 1-09-2011

Back in the human realm, you can catch Bryce’s transcendence-inducing DJ night STEPS with Kyle Garner on the last Monday of every month at Home Sweet Home in NYC.

You can follow Laurel’s tour schedule and happenings here, and if you are in New York in April you can see her perform alongside Harald Grosskopf, as well as past Arthur Radio guests Arp and Blondes, at the monumental debut of Grosskopf’s 1979 Synthesist reissue on RVNG Intl (more info here). Look out for her upcoming 12″ Hour Logic, to be released in May of 2011.

Timeline + Bonus Laurel Halo DJ set below…

[ Bryce Hackford DJs @ 00:00 ]

[ LAUREL HALO DJs @ 45 mins ]

And @ 2:00:12 …..

BONUS LAUREL HALO DJ set:

DOWNLOAD: LAUREL HALO Bonus DJ Set

Recorded on a whim days before Hairy Painter left for Thailand, this episode of Arthur Radio is a celebration of all possible futures; roads that we choose to take, for whatever reason, that ultimately lead us to another, and yet another. Whether life is a choose-your-own-adventure or a fated journey is unknown to us, but it is empowering to believe that we mold our own destinies.

The positive energy created by special guests SAADI (Boshra AlSaadi of Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang with Tim Wagner)’s performance was tangible in the Newtown Radio studio, where we stayed after hours to dance with christmas lights in the dark. White-saged into the present, we returned to the streets with a sense of newness in every passing moment.

Photo: Alberto Milazzo

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio w/ SAADI 12-05-2010

Timeline below…

Hairy Painter & Ivy Meadows DJ @ 00:00

SAADI DJs @ 1:00:00

SAADI live set @ 1:32:50

Arthur Radio wants to say We Love You. A Lot. Joining us in this sentiment is special guest DJ Evie Elman, whose documentary Spiritual Lasagna about her grandmother, artist and lover of life Gemma Taccogna (featured on Arthur a few summers back), will cause even the most icy heart to thaw.

Evie’s solo show “Untied” opens tonight, February 14th at Brewers Mansion gallery in Brooklyn with a happening involving “Ancient craft, and sacred ritual via throw pillows, drums, dance, and audience participation” at 8.30 pm, and runs through Friday, February 18th with a closing performance at the same time.

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD:
Arthur Radio Transmission #36 w/ Evie Elman & Ivy Meadows

Playlist after the jump…

~♥~ Evie Elman DJs @ 00.00 ~♥~

Tweedy Brothers
Angelo Spencer- Now!
The Master Musicians Of Jajouka- Double Medahey
The Roches- Losing True
Dan Deacon
The Radio Dept.- Heavens On Fire
Black Sabbath- Am I Going Insane
White Hinterland- Huron
The Byrds- Draft Morning
The Kinks- Lola
Television- Glory
Angelo Spencer- La Pinaille
The Magnetic Fields- Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Black Sabbath- Sabbath Black

~♥~ Ivy Meadows DJs @ 1:06:30 ~♥~

Mother Of Fire – tendrilled mass
Can- vernal equinox
Robedoor- pacific drift
Lower Dens- batman
Ducktails- paisley pattern
Fungi girls- owlsey knows
Bjorn Torske- gullfjellet
Silver Summit- music in the afterlife
Pigeons- the paradise
Sore Eros- giraffe’s kiss
Gladys Knight- it’s better than good time (walter gibbons mix)
Ursula Bogner- expansion
Harold Budd- dark star
Daniel A.I.U. Higgs- are you of the body?
Leslie Q- don’t remind me
Hans-Jochim Roedelius- johanneslust
Taken By Trees- wapas karna
Robert Wyatt- at last I am free
Pink Floyd- see-saw
The Shining Path- take you so low so you can fly so high
The Turbans- valley of tears

For this episode of Arthur Radio, our dear friend Michael (aka warbling troubadour Mountainhood) left his woodland home in northern California and trekked across the vast continent to join us in wet, grey Brooklyn. His live set, recorded in Hairy Painter’s living room, somehow captures the dewy green landscape he inhabits out west; the quiet of the wind rustling the treebranches, the feeling that a four-legged creature may be watching from nearby, protectively…

Mountainhood’s songs capture a sense of both solitude and oneness with nature that is for the most part difficult to find in the concrete jungle of New York City. Michael, however, feels at home in both environments– and is more than happy to share his stories, songs and artwork with friends new and old alike, wherever his journey takes him.

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #35 w/ MOUNTAINHOOD 11-07-2010

Timeline below…

Hairy Painter n’ Ivy Meadows intro DJ set @ 00:00

Live set by Mountainhood @ 57:43

I. Lace of Ectoplasmic Cum
II. Wild Animals
III. Owl Lazr the Nocturne

Outro DJ set @ 1:13:53

One year ago on this day, Hairy Painter and Ivy Meadows launched the very first episode of Arthur Radio. Hairy is currently on an extended mind-pilgrimage through Thailand, Cambodia, Tibet and beyond, so we dug up this dusty pile of wax from our secret archive to celebrate the occasion. Many thanks to Newtown Radio for hosting the show, and to the many bejeweled special guests who have joined us to grace the internetwaves with their gifts!

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #34: Surf Anniversary

[ Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows DJ set @ 00:00 ]

kA is the project of Brooke Hamre Gillespie (The Holy Experiment) and Santiparro Alan Scheurman (Santiparro,) two earthbound celestial beings who together create joyous, transcendent songs that lift the spirits, allowing them to soar through forests and fields, over oceans, up through the clouds and into the ever-expanding universe, where the planets are always singing. In between songs, the pair stops to reflect…

Brooke: That song came from the forest of Michigan. A lot of these songs come from the forest of Michigan.

Alan: Not just the forest, but the fire, the trees…

Brooke: The stars, all the animals… the purple beetle!

Alan: The spiders…

Brooke: The spiders. The spider water!

Alan: And the dragons.

Brooke: And the real dragons!

kA live on Arthur Radio from Arthur Radio on Vimeo.

In recent months, kA traveled to the West Coast to perform in an Alice Coltrane Tribute concert organized by friend Kyp Malone (Rain Machine). Alongside playing shows, they both lead ceremonies and music circles at Golden Drum, a Greenpoint, Brooklyn-based healing center whose practices are rooted in traditions of indigenous medicine healers from around the world.

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #33 w/ kA 10-23-2010

Timeline…

Hairy Painter & Ivy Meadows DJ multi-layered intro @ 00:00

kA plays live set @ 54:00

(outro) Eliane Radigue – Adnos I

Just in time for the upcoming days of end-of-year festivities and quiet moments of snow-gazing reflection, Arthur Radio brings you an old-timey variety show featuring a smattering of very special guests, starting with the dazzling Mia Theodoratus who joins us in the studio to perform an intimate live solo set on classical harp, followed by the very first episode of Rats Live On No Evil Star, a recycled cassette tape mash-up interview series hosted by Salvia Plath, and ending with Arthurmag.com contributing entity Spectre Event Horizon Group DJing a whirlwind set straight from the endless vaults of YouTube. Turn on your virtual fire, and rejoice with us in the gifts that every hour, every day, and every new year brings…

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #32 10-10-2010

Timeline below…

@ 00:00 IVY MEADOWS DJS MULTI-LAYERED INTRO

@ 24:25 MIA THEODORATUS PERFORMS LIVE SOLO HARP SET

@ 42:10 HAIRY PAINTER INTERVIEWS MIA THEODORATUS

@ 49:00 SALVIA PLATH (AKA CAMMISA FOREST) INTERVIEWS TURTLE AMBULANCE ON RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR, EPISODE NO. 1

@ 1:00:30 SPECTRE EVENT HORIZON MIXES IN YOUTUBE DJ SET

When you close your eyes, music emanating from speakers takes on its full 3D form. Physical vibrations reach your muscles in invisible waves, aiding in relaxation. The laser arc of a new sound being introduced pierces your mind’s eye and opens visions; it is possible to recreate an entire scene, part imaginary, part from memory. An isolated ocean in a desert, palm trees swaying against an open horizon. Circuits producing not only the sound of wind, but the feel of it brushing up against your skin, the filling of a vast expanse of sky…

Above: A teaser from this episode’s live set by special guest ARP (aka Alexis Georgopoulos), who recently released his LP The Soft Wave on Norway’s Smalltown Supersound. Order it in the US here.

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #31 w/ ARP 9-26-2010

Playlist below…

☾☾☾☾☾☾☾ Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows DJ set @ 00:00 ☽☽☽☽☽☽

Hans Appelqvist – #11
Terry Riley – Lisbon Concert 1995 (excerpt)
john cage – song, derived from the journal of henry david thoreau
Charlemagne Palestine – Strumming Music
YOSHIHIRO SAWASAKI – Ginjo Onsen
Susumu Yokota – Yumekui Kobito
claus oldenberg – june was / panodramdra
terry riley – in c
White Rainbow – Major Spillage
balanescu quartet – computer love / autobahn
Neu! – Wave Naturelle
penquin cafe orchestra – penguin cafe single
steve reich – four organs

☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾ A R P live set @ 47:37 ☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽

☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾ Interview @ 1:23:07 ☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽

☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾☾ A R P DJ set @ 1:30:40 ☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽☽

Malcolm Mclaren – Obatala
Holger Czukay – Persion Love
ARP – Pastoral Symphony (Version by Studio)
Aphex Twin – Ptolemy
Biosphere – Nook & Cranny
Dadawah – Zion Land
Date Palms – Psalm 7

Alice Cohen is a musician-animator, a wearer of various brightly-colored hats who has traversed many a terrain over the past 30 years, from Philly r&b songwriter to new wave frontwoman (of The Vels) to the present, where she is both a one-woman-band (her most recent LP “Walking Up Walls” was released on Olde English Spelling Bee in 2009) and the creator of many magical worlds in her meticulously collaged stop-motion animations, which draw from a palette of art deco interiors, vintage women’s fashion magazines, early hollywood memorabilia, abstract shapes, insects, birds, the moon, dream spaces and beyond.

She is currently working on music videos for Weekends, Linda Hagood, and Vomit Heat, and her video piece “Ear Candy” will be shown (in full big screen glory) as part of an experimental animation night at Anthology Film Archives on December 1st in NYC.

Above: Animation still from Alice Cohen’s “Ear Candy” on Vimeo.

STREAM IT:

KEEP IT: Arthur Radio Transmission #30 w/ ALICE COHEN 9-18-2010

[ Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows deejayin @ 00:00 ]

bruce haack – cherubic hymn
Tracey Trance – “Fountain” cassette
psychic tv – stolen kisses
prince far i – you i love and not another
bubonic plague – sal’s tropical depression
future pigeon – el dub
Lazer Zeppelin – “Pyramid Echo” cassette
moebius & plank – rastakraut pasta
c.o.m.b.i. – pgb
Wanda Psychs – Quiet
Secret Colors – Hammock Vibe

[ Alice Cohen live in-studio session @ 36:35 mins ]

[ Interview w/ Ivy Meadows @ 59:19 mins ]

[ Alice Cohen deejayin @ 1 hr 10 mins ]

Pete McCabe – Feelin’ Lonely
Danielle Dax – Bed Caves
Nash the Slash – The Chase
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Mais ou sont passees les Gazelles?
Bloodless Pharaohs – Bloodless Pharaohs
Joey Wilson – Underground (reprise)/ Going Up
Bunnydrums – On the Surface
Fantastic Planet Soundtrack – Deshominisation (parts I and II)
David Microwave – I Don’t Want to Hold You
Christian Death – The Glass House
Equals – Sunday Morning

…………:In which wanderlusting scribe, Sunsets’ smith, and all around luminous luminary Sonny Smith lands a jet plane in the Newtown laboratory/public swimming pool just in time to solo-ly saturate the airwaves with new tales of color, youth, wooing, and woe.

…………:In which prior airwave-saturators Ramble Tamble return to rotate a mighty fine short stack of vinyl diskettes at all the right speeds.

…………:In which Ivy Meadows unfurls a comfy sonic tablecloth upon the dewy green grassy grass grass for all tomorrows’ picnicings and dreamings.

…………And Hairy Painter rolls in the closing curtains with an iridescent cloud of sonic dust.

Above: Sonny tuning in the Newtown Radio studio.

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DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #29 w/ Sonny Smith 8-15-2010

Playlist below…

[ Ivy DJs @ 00:00 mins ]

Assemble Head In Sunburst Cloud – The Chocolate Maiden’s Misty Summer Morning
Sun City Girls – Space Prophet Drogon
Sharon Van Etten – Love More
Woody Guthrie – Grassy Grass Grass (Grow Grow Grow)
Alps – Black Mountain
MV & EE – Tea Devil live @ Bank Row, Greenfield, MA
Sonny Sharrock – Three Portraits Of Linda, All Black
Them Natives – Nighttime Whispers & Ginseng
Magic Lanterns – Underwater Dynasty
Saddar Bazaar – Shamsa (Sunburst)
Neil Young – Vampire Blues

[ Live set by SONNY SMITH @ 44:55 mins, w/ interview by Evie Elman ]

Quix*o*tic – I’m the Light of This World

[ BONUS DJ set by Ramble Tamble @ 1:13:17 mins ]

Sun City Girls – My painted Tomb
John Lee Ziegler – Unknown
SCG – Helwa Shak/Moment of a Million Lands
Hoyt Axton – California Women
Yes – Sound Chaser
India National Sitar Ensemble – Suite for 2 Sitars & Indian Folk Ensemble~pt. 1
Lee Hazlewood – Pour Man
Marvin Rainwater – My Brand of Blues
gnawa tape – Unknown
Tom T Hall – Pay No Attention to Alice
Jerry Reed – Ko Ko Joe

[ Hairy DJs @ 1:43:37 mins]

General Strike – Interplanetary Music/Interplanetary Dub
The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World
Harry Nilsson – Many Rivers to Cross
Arturo Stalteri – Here Come the Warm Jets

Dronulational heavies Messages, recently spotlighted on the new arthur comp. BLACKOUT, stop by the newtown radio studio to zoom in and out through the infinities of the universe via some holy vinyl documents. Members three – Taketo Shimada, Spencer Herbst, and Tres Warren – each have their shining talk with the turntables and set out a multitudinous and numinously meandering path for ye noble arthurians to walk – enjoy! and treat yourself right by seeing them when they perform next, with past arthur radio guests Excepter and Up Died Sound at Coco66 in Greenpoint on October 27th. Zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Arthur Radio Transmission #28 w/ MESSAGES live DJ set 08-08-2010

SETLIST BE BELOW

hairy (@0:0:00) –
iggy pop – the endless sea
moolah – crystal waters
ex-cocaine – klondike

taketo (@0:12:30) -
muslimgauze – audio nl 004
la monte young + marion zazeela + pandit pran nath – tamburas 07
matsuo ohno – astroboy OST
vizusa – high frontier
phillipe besombes ragga country
leonard kwan – akaka falls
lee howard & the all stars – hula rock
lino – clouds
tommy james – crimson + clover
audre tschakowski – orchestral tension b
urival – blind speed pipe for yujo sueta
j.a. ceasar – ten seitan
maki asakawa – akai hashi

spencer (@0:45:00)-
butthole surfers – kuntz
brast burst – debon part 1 (excerpt)
faust – it’s a rainy day, sunshine girl
hijokaidan – takutaku
crass – nagasaki nightmare
embryo – es ist wie’s ist
chrome – zombie warfare

tres (@1:21:30) -
leon russell – acid annapolis
the shadow ring – man
ustad abdul karim khan malkauns – piran jani dekh
rolling stones – gomper
spirit – girl in your eye
don cherry/latif khan – rhythm 58 1/4
destroy all monsters – double sextet, part 2
ry cooder – tamp’em up solid
moussa kassimi – traditional
charlie nothing – the psychedelic saxophone of charlie nothing

Hailing from Baltimore, MD, a bubbling pot that continues to churn out a rainbow fog swirl of new and exciting bands (Crazy Dreams Band, Lower Dens) as well as experimental music and new media festivals (Whartscape, Transmodern), Ami Dang seems to exude the creative energy that is pouring out of her hometown. Her upcoming full-length album (due out in December on Ehse Records), was crafted from an intersecting background of classical sitar and composition, experimental electronics and visual performance, combined with a deep love for ’90s dance beats and a fuzzy memory of megaphones blaring Indian pop songs into the streets of New Delhi.

If you’re in the area next week, catch Ami performing along with many other artists at Baltimore’s High Zero festival on September 23rd and 24th, 2010.

Photo of Ami Dang by Bad Brilliance/Andrew Strasser

STREAMING:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #27 w/ Ami Dang 8-1-2010

Playlist beneath the…

~~~~~Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows DJ set~~~~~
eight lamas from drepung – invoking the spirit of kindness through sound / masaki batoh and helena espvall – until tomorrow / Arp – High Life / pearls before swine – another time / durutti column – prayer / Lower Dens – Blue & Silver / Pigeons – En Rêve (slooowed downnn arthur radio dub) / Prince Rama Of Ayodhya – Aeolian Divine / philip k dick – the divine invasion (excerpt)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Live set by Ami Dang @ 50 mins~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~Ami Dang Baltimore DJ set~~~~~

SUMMER GAMES – married
Polygons – “loverboy”
cex – “ebyday”
Health – “Eat Fleisch (Mark Brown Remix)”
white life – “second look”
Schwarz – “Let Yrself Down”
Soulja Boy ft. Gucci Mane – “PRETTY BOI SWAGGGG (Schwarz RMX)”
Ayako Kataoka – “we love you to the end of the”

This week’s episode of Arthur Radio begins with a late summer breeze, wafting between blades of bright green grass under a saturated blue sky, not a cloud in sight. Saturday morning cartoons creep out of an open window, on the other side of which the smell of hot cornbread begins to fill an empty kitchen. Beyond billowing white curtains, a lonesome gray-haired wolf rambles through the rolling meadows, whistling a nostalgic tune… in the distance, a soaring note begins to accompany his song, which soon escalates into a full-on bittersweet dirge of emotion.

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STREAMER:

DOWNLOAD ‘ER: Arthur Radio Transmission #26 w/ Ramble Tamble 7-25-2010

O’er the fence and through the field…

@@@[ HAIRY PAINTER DJ SET ] @@@ 0:00:00
pauline oliveros – pathways to grandmothers
beat happening – tiger trap
sister clara hudmon – stand by me
elizabeth cotten – ruben
richard fariña and eric von schmidt – christmas island
jonathan richman – you can have a cellphone that’s ok but not me
jeffrey lewis and the junkyard – bugs and flowers
peter orlovsky – all around the garden
beach boys – vegatables
sesame street – i love trash
lee hazlewood – go die big city
beck – steve threw up
little wings – come along
michael hurley – tea song
lavender diamond – song of impossible occurrences
brigid st. john – the body breaks
smog – inspirational
sibylle baier – driving

~~~~~[ RAMBLE TAMBLE LIVE ] @ 1:15:00 ~~~~~

Tune in from 9-11pm EST, http://www.newtownradio.com/

Flipping sonic channels on a cosmic TV, we begin this episode of Arthur Radio as sound traveling through an electrical conduit, crackling back and forth between fragmented news stories, advertisement jingles, and satellite static. At the end of the wire we are released into a gaseous, airy atmosphere, where we mutate into Krypton floating in a fluorescent purple light bulb. It is in this alien terrain that we meet our otherworldly special guest James Ferraro @ 55:55 mins, who slowly takes a human form before our eyes.

Manning the helm of a translucent convertible, he drives us down an interstellar slide until we eventually land on Highway 1, blaring an 80s hit grittily at top volume on the car radio, an orange pink and yellow sunset sparkling above the horizon. Many miles away, at the top of Mount Everest’s K2, an avalanche begins to rumble, stirring the perfect sea of snow below. We are everywhere at once; all possibilities exist simultaneously. Traversing between them has never been easier.

Explore more.

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DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #25 w/ JAMES FERRARO 7-18-2010

playlist ☛☛☛

[IVY MEADOWS DJ SET]
harry roche constellation – spiral
white rainbow – gnar (remix of gnar)
judy jaeger – light leaks light clings (side a)
…alpha binaural beats…
sensations’ fix – nuclear war in your brain
akiane – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQlZv29E4_0
josh burke – sea of miracles / gliding (aguirre records)
dimensions – tomato side a (I)
m2 – tone exploitation
robert A.A. lowe & rose lazar – Ŭyndham-a Horloĝo
the samps – F.X.N.C. (33rpm)
brian eno – dunwich beach, autumn 1960
sesame street – seahorse song
la düsseldorf – rheinita
wicked witch – electric war

☛☛☛ JAMES FERRARO LIVE SET + DJ @ 55:55

“Heat lightning,” those soundless, electrified lines that sometimes fill the sky on hot summer nights, are actually an indication of a faraway storm which may or may not be moving your way. While the accompanying sound of thunder is too distant to hear, the unholy light show remains visible from rooftops for many miles, providing a dazzling and magnificent omen of the oncoming deluge.

This week on Arthur Radio, Brooklyn’s Up Died Sound creates the sonic inverse of this experience; eyes closed, we listen as warm cascades of sound fall around us, giving the impression that the storm is now here, and this time the lightning can be heard, but not seen…

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DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #24 w/ Up Died Sound 7-13-2010

If you’re currently in the NYC area, you can see Up Died Sound perform live this Thursday 7/29 at Zebulon w/ Mother of Fire & Bow Ribbons. Watch out for their upcoming self-released LP, available August 2010.

songs spun this episode…

[HAIRY PAINTER + IVY MEADOWS DJ SET]
paul labrecque & valerie webb – ‘moon reflections on 3 deep pools’
zonk – ‘head’ (from subliminal sounds comp. ‘tripping in the basement‘)
los llamarada – ‘another big come down’
zomes – ‘crowning orbs’
vivian goldman – private armies
herbie hancock – earth beat
implog – holland tunnel dive
ucok aka harahap – minta kawen
lee dorsey – everything i do gonh be funky (from now on)
sweet smoke – ‘silly sally’
tshe-tsha boys – ‘nwampfundla‘
sejayno – ‘spirit of the mulberry’
los dug dugs – ‘world of love’
doronco gumo – ‘iede syoujyo”
eric gale – negril sea sunset

☾☾☾☾☾☾☾ UP DIED SOUND @ 52:25 mins ☽☽☽☽☽☽

himangshu biswas – ‘raga siva ranjani’
the glass orchestra – s/t LP (side a)
international hello – ‘arise superslide‘
dirty filthy mud – ‘the forest of black’
les rallizes denudes – ‘night of the assassins‘

At the center of a wind tunnel, we find ourselves stuck between perspectives. Is the world moving at a million miles around us, or are we the ones who are flying? This week, join hands with Hairy Painter and Ivy Meadows as they plunge into the unknown, fortified by Prince Rama of Ayodhya‘s ancient primordial howls, growling synthesizer moans and consciousness-melting pulsations, which swirl like electrified streams of sonic debris in the positively charged atmosphere… “Give yourself. Lose yourself.”

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DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #23 w/ Prince Rama of Ayodhya 6-27-2010

playlistum lyeth beneathio…

[HAIRY PAINTER + IVY MEADOWS DJ SET]
keiji haino – look, darkness and light both begin to copy
clara rockmore – the swan
conrad schnitzler – electric garden
s.d. batish – raga tilang alaap
far east family band – live in l.a. 1978
seltaeb – nug mraw a si ssenippah
alejandro jodorowsky – tarot will teach you/burn your money
arthur russell – the name of the next song
robert johnson (on speed? <—–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_musician Playback_issues_in_extant_recordings) – - hold my body down
rusty santos – feel radio signals (botanical mix)
pocahaunted – time fist
julian lynch – topi garden 2
mawan te dhiyan – surinder kaur & parkash kaur
sun ra – celestial road
albert ayler – the wizard
sonny sharock – black woman
nagane aki – the wind that flows through the trees
paul metzger – the uses of infinity (side a)

——-=====live set by PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA @ 1:05:00=======——–

sun araw – ma holo
james ferraro – blacktop tumble weed
terry riley – in the summer
grateful dead w/ bo diddley – i’ve seen them all

Our collective lack of sun worship has brought its bright and might down upon us – here, again, to cook up any unbikini’d nether region left out too long. Awoken from its slumber, The Shiney One’s appetite is seemingly unquenchable and it will stop at nothing to make your flesh more palatable. Come, get dehydrated, and join Ivy Meadows and Hairy Painter as they go on a magical and woozy journey through your skin, with fire!

STREAM:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #22: Sunburn!

this week’s playlistism:

[HAIRY PAINTER + IVY MEADOWS DJ SET]
max ochs – ‘ain’t nobody high raga’
neu! – ‘weissensee’
spacemen 3 – ‘when tomorrow hits’
neil young – ‘like an inca’
d.r. hooker – ‘forge your own chains’
saicobaba – ‘berimbou man coming’
white rainbow – ‘tuesday rollers and strollers’
tickley feather – ‘rain bucket’
maya – ‘helium’
dunes – ‘handle’
lexie mountain boys – ‘siren’
arp – ‘grapefruit’ (from upcoming LP “the soft wave” coming out in september on smalltown supersound)
lucky dragons – ‘wander birds’
unknown – ‘sorban palid’
john lennon – aspen flexidisc
ya ho wa – ‘journey through an element’
jandek – ‘naked in the afternoon’
sun araw – ‘ma holo’
stellar om source – ‘trilogy select’ LP (side b)
trolls – ‘alone’
sleep ∞ over – ‘your world is night’ 7″
chubby checker – ‘if the sun stopped shining’
opal – ‘grains of sand’
annabee-nox – ‘always on my mind’
dimensions – ‘essential love life’
wooden shjips – ‘summer of love’
blue cheer – ‘doctor please’
little wings – ‘the shredder’
charalambides – ‘i bid you goodnight’

Excerpt from “filth-scape,” a manuscript of poetry by Thomas (Ted) Rees:

The Fence Dream
Goes like this: God is a burglar rob you straight out of the womb. Yes, God is a burglar rob you straight out of the womb. Oh, God is a burglar rob you out too soon and drops you on a wide boulevard. Air is full of money, collapsing coarseness. The new agora strokes your nipples and laces its fingers through your belt loops. Resulting constancy of blue balls drives the pursuit of plasticity, solace. You walk, electricity caresses every step, blink, a new sensation of blankness. As touch screens don’t touch back. Visibility is created by wallet thickness and frequency of use, so no one can see your body as you meander. Burgled of corporeality, you sense a smile on your unseeable visage. Beyond the city, another, never-wavering polis of compulsory paper-shuffling, turning in on itself. Praise the world’s pollyanna for gifting you, unseen. See.

STREAM IT:

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #21 w/ Thomas (Ted) Rees 6-13-2010

This week’s playlist…

[DJ set by Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows]

including:

David Grubbs & F.S. Blumm – Back To The Plants 7″ (side a)
Joseph Beuys -Ja Ja Ja / Ne Ne Ne
Woods – Til The Sun Rips (excerpt)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Brain for the Seine
Lydia Lunch – What it is
Fursaxa – Poppy Opera
Yoko Ono – (Aspen Flexidisc)
Range Rats – Blues Coming Down
John Lee Zeigler – Who’s Gonna Be Your Man?
Diamanda Galas -Eyes Without Blood
George-Edwards Group – Planets and Stars
The Beach Boys – Cool Cool Water
Cisco Houston – The Dying Cowboy
Laurie Anderson – The Big Top / It Was Up In The Mountains
Alan Watts – Love You
Charles Plymell – 100 Flies on an Airplane Flying Around The World
Family Band – No Sound
Crazy Dreams Band – Asian Rollers
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes – Ame Debout
Popol Vuh – Schon Bist Du Vor Menschensohnen
…

[Thomas (Ted) Rees reads "filth-scape" at Perfect Wave Gallery June 12 2010] @ 1hr 05minutes

[Ira Cohen reads "The Majoon Traveler" in echo chamber] @ 1hr 35minutes

Ramble Tamble
Pauline Oliveros / Deep Listening Band

OIL FUTURE HEAT OUTPOOST DOCUMENT 20 STOP

TO TIMES QSQIUARE TOPPLED METAL)))) SANDAL OUTSIDE OVERDOME, SITE INVOCATION OF SCUM HEAT AND NEON SHATTERED AND ABSORBED BY IGNEOUS ASPHALT OF HISTORY

FOR TO STREAM:

FOR TO DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #20: Disco Sigil w/Nonhorse

PART 1: In which our heroes call upon the dosed horn of John Coltrane, the open time slots of Fela Kuti’s studio, and the hallucinatory mojo of Kathy Acker to remove the barricades for to invoke a dance sigil in service of the psychic liberation of times square: hub of consumption, barometer of culture, shrine of empire. Use Your Feet For The Feat Of The Defeat Of The Demons Feasting On Your Future!

PART 2: In which comrade to the cause Nonhorse finds space amidst his beyond-mere-mortal-multitaskings to build a roomy nest of codified cassettery from which to deliver a highly prismatic and severely discorporating live tape manipulation set. Abridged here, the fulllll badass 2.5 hour tilthabreakadawn extent can be siphoned from the bountiful tank of the Newtown Radio archives. HEAVY

This week’s playlist…

DJ SET BY HAIRY PAINTER @ 0:00

cosmic jokers – im reich der magier
pauline oliveros – pathways to grandmothers
john coltrane – om
martin rev – temptation
king yellowman – zungguzungguguzungguzeng
bohannon – foot stompin music
kathy acker – i was walking down the street
doris ebong – boogie trip
brian eno and robert wyatt – plague of flies
lou reed – follow the leader
the jb’s – you can have watergate just gimme some bucks and i’ll be straight
pax nicolas and the netty family – na teef know de road of teef
bernard heidsieck – canal street
los corraleros de majagual – cumbia campesina
donna summer – need-a-man blues
curtis mayfield – think
bulgarian state television female vocal choir – polegnala e todora
king sunny ade – synchrosystem
messages – shruti box
religious knives – the sun (resin version)
velvet underground – follow the leader
helen adam – cheerless junkie song

LIVE SET BY NONHORSE @ 1:13

LIVE STUDIO BANTER @ 2:00

Swimming out from the Subterranean Melodic Fancifalities Exploratorium onto dry land, amorphous and amphibious flaneurs Hairy Painter and Ivy Meadows find the Newtown Radio garden has sprung us The Beets! We catch Brooklyn’s noble busybodies – not to be confused with The Beets, nor The Beats, The Beat, Beat, or The Beatles – in a brief hometown interlude betwixt their South North American (with German Measles) and North North American (with The Mountain Goats) tours, with just enough time for them to stomp us up some radio gold. The live set – abundant with garage harmonica, amp humping, flute solos, toy theremins, sing alongs, set-up banter, and a newly balanced gender distribution – is then followed by a bonus set of the band spinning recent favorites from the road into the wee small hours. Viva!

Stream:

Download: Arthur Radio #19 w/ live set by The Beets 5-23-2010

A portion o’ playlist awaits beneath…

[DJ SET BY HAIRY PAINTER + IVY MEADOWS]
Los Saicos – Ana
Moe Tucker – That’s B.A.D.
Neil Young – Fuckin’ Up
Meat Puppets – Climbing
Mabel Cawthorne – Tom Watson Tune
Bongo Joe – I Wish I Knew How to Sing
Daniel Higgs – Say God (side a)
John Holt – Can I Trust You 7″
Psycho Baba – Raga Gurjhari Todi
Dub Narcotic Sound System – Spaghetti Feed
Section 25 – Friendly Fires
Karl Blau – Kill The Messenger
David Candy – Play Power LP (side a)
West Coast Experimental Pop Band – I Won’t Hurt You
The Modern Lovers – The Sweeping Wind
Sandwiches – Grey Wizard
Wooden Shjips – Vampire Blues
Index – You Keep Me Hanging On
Sunburned Hand of Man – Sunrad’s Command
Henry Flynt – Stoned Jam

LOS BEETS LIVE SET @ 1 hr 18 minutes

BONUS BEETS DJ SET @ 1 hr 40 minutes

What? ESP-disk is back in busy-ness, whoda thunkit, right? right.  Enjoy a night of Bernard Stollman’s legendary precedent definings with intergenerational ahead-of-their-timers TOTEM>, Alan Sondheim, Okkyung Lee and Nate Wooley. Additional music by DJ Whistle Punk and your free cd. 21+

Date and Time: Sunday, Jan. 25th, 8PM
Venue: Zebulon
Address: 258 Wythe, Brooklyn
Directions: L to Bedford, J/M/Z to Marcy
Price: Free

The ESP-disk webbed home: http://espdisk.com/catalog/Front.html

The Guggenheim Museum presents The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia. Broken into 7 thematic wedges, the show compiles 100+ years and 100+ artists to express essentials of our trans-continental dialogue. Highlights include the temporary reinstallation of La Monte Young’s Dream House, live performances by Laurie Anderson and Meredith Monk, talks with Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham, and the featured work of all the heavies:  John Cage, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin,  Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas, and Adrian Piper. Wowowow. All Ages.

Date and Time: Jan. 30th – Apr. 19th, Saturday to Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. Closed Thursday.
Venue: The Guggenheim Museum
Address: 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
Directions: 4/5/6 to 86th St.
Price: Free/Donation on Fridays after 5:45, otherwise, Adults $18.00, students/seniors (65+) $15.00, members and children under 12 free. Admission includes audio guide tour.

For more info: www.guggenheim.org

Growing! Arp! Noveller! Go to Space Church to help Space Church! Braid and dye your ear hair!

Date and time: Thursday thee 15th, Party:30
Venue: Death by Audio
Address: 49 s 2nd St b/t Wythe and Kent
Directions: L to Bedford, JMZ to Marcy

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Sometimes You Wake Up and It’s Different: Statement on Brandon Darby, the ‘Unnamed’ Informant/Provocateur in the “Texas 2″ Case from Austin, Texas

As part of the wave of government repression against activists protesting at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota in September, 2008, the FBI arrested two men from Texas, Bradley Crowder (22) and David McKay (23), and indicted them for allegedly possessing molotov cocktails.

Crowder and McKay have been in jail since the RNC. They have not been granted bail and their trial has been postponed indefinitely. They are facing 7 to 10 years in federal prison.
As outlined in the affidavit against Crowder and McKay (found here: http://media. houston. indymedia. org/uploads/2008/09/090808_mckay_affidavit. pdf), the case was built almost entirely on the statements of two informants covertly working with the FBI, identified in the affidavit as “Confidential Human Sources” or just “CHS”.

One of these informants was working in the Minneapolis/St.
Paul area (“CHS
2″ in the affidavit) and has been previously identified as Andy/Panda by people familiar with the situation and the informant.

This statement ends speculation and anticipation concern about the identity of the other informant who was operating in Texas and Minnesota.

Using FBI documents previously unknown to us, but recently provided by one of the defendant’s defense teams, we have positively confirmed the identity of the unnamed informant (“CHS 1″ in the affidavit) as Brandon Michael Darby of Austin, Texas, based on the following evidence:
1) The FBI documents detail private conversations between Darby and several individuals named in the documents, including scott crow and Lisa Fithian, who have closely reviewed the documents and confirmed that they had the conversations in question with only Darby.
In addition they can confirm his participation in events reported in the documents.

2) In verbatim reports from the informant to the FBI, the language, personality, skills, and interests of Darby are readily apparent to those who know him.

3) Cross-referencing the time line provided by the FBI in the documents with people familiar with the situation and course of events shows that Darby was in a position to have the incriminating conversations with McKay referenced in the affidavit.

4) In all of the documents Brandon Darby’s name is conspicuously absent from any and all meetings and events which he attended and was involved in. In fact Darby’s name only appears at the end of all the documents in a confession made by David McKay upon his arrest in Minnesota.

Numerous people familiar with both Brandon Darby and the legal situation of Crowder and McKay have verified this information.

Over the years Brandon Darby has established strong ties with individuals in many different radical communities across the United States.

While it is not yet clear how long or to what extent Darby has been acting as an informant, the emerging truth about Darby’s malicious involvement in our communities is heart-breaking and utterly ground-shattering to those of us who were closest to him.

Darby operated in and around the Austin community for about 6 years, and this is the same Brandon Darby who participated in the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans during 2005-2006.

Based on the evidence we have, Brandon has been giving the state information since at least November 2007, but there is also information that suggests his informant activities may go back further, at least to 2006 or earlier.

In the documents, Darby makes numerous remarks that are inflammatory and often untrue or grossly taken out of context.
There is also compelling evidence to suggest that Darby, more than just reporting on Crowder and McKay’s activities, was actively encouraging, enabling, and provoking the two men to take illegal action.

We recognize that suspicions and accusations of Darby have been circulating for some time now, including one corporate media article by David Hanners in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on October 29, 2008.

Our aim in releasing this information is to clear the confusion that has circulated in the last few months.

We want to point out that while the conclusions of these suspicions and accusations turned out to be correct, these conclusions were not based on any verifiable facts, and thus, their public airing was inappropriate and irresponsible.

When these accusations surfaced, we did what we could to quash them, trusting what we believed to be true about people in the absence of any compelling evidence to the contrary.

Having been presented with new evidence, we are acting on it promptly and deliberately.

Through the history of our struggles for a better world, infiltrators and informants have acted as tools for the forces of misery in disrupting and derailing our movements.

However, even more dangerous to our communities than setting people up, turning them in, or gathering information, informants sow seeds of fear, paranoia, and distrust that fester and grow in paralyzing and destructive ways.

We must be forever vigilante against deceptive, malicious and manipulative actors, while we defend the trust and openness that give our communities cohesion and power.

Now we must get on with the work of supporting the “Texas 2″. In light of these revelations and what we know about Brandon Darby, we believe they were set up and that the charges should be dropped.

We urge you to join us in a campaign to “Free the Texas 2″

In solidarity,
The Austin Informant Working Group

For questions , comments or concerns please contact us:
texas.solidarity@gmail.com

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Brandon Darby admits to working with FBI

Fwded message:

To All Concerned,

The struggles for peace and justice have accomplished significant change throughout history.

I’ve had the honor to work with many varying groups and individuals on behalf of marginalized communities and in various struggles.

There are currently allegations in the media that I have worked undercover for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

This allegation no doubt confuses many activists who know me and probably leaves many wondering why I would seemingly choose to engage in such an endeavor.

The simple truth is that I have chosen to work with the Federal Bureau of investigation.

As compelling as the natural human desire to reason and express oneself can be, regardless, I must hold my comments at this time on certain aspects of the situation.

That said, there are a few statements and generalizations I will make relating to my recent choices.

Though I’ve made and will no doubt continue to make many mistakes in efforts to better our world, I am satisfied with the efforts in which I have participated.

Like many of you, I do my best to act in good conscience and to do what I believe to be most helpful to the world.

Though my views on how to give of myself have changed substantially over the years, ultimately the motivations behind my choices remain the same.

I strongly stand behind my choices in this matter.

I strongly believe that people innocent of an act should stand up for themselves and that those who choose to engage in an act should accept responsibility and explain the reasoning for their choices.

It is very dangerous when a few individuals engage in or act on a belief system in which they feel they know the real truth and that all others are ignorant and therefore have no right to meet and express their political views.

Additionally, when people act out of anger and hatred, and then claim that their actions were part of a movement or somehow tied into the struggle for social justice only after being caught, it’s damaging to the efforts of those who do give of themselves to better this world.

Many people become activists as a result of discovering that others have distorted history and made heroes and assigned intentions to people who really didn’t act to better the world.

The practice of placing noble intentions after the fact on actions which did not have noble motivations has no place in a movement for social justice.

The majority of the activists who went to St. Paul did so with pure intentions and simply wanted to express their disagreements with the Republican Party.

It’s unfortunate that some used the group as cover for intentions that the rest of the group did not agree with or knew nothing about and are now, consequently, having parts of their lives and their peace of mind uprooted over.

There is no doubt in my mind that many of you reading this letter will say and feel all possible bad things about my choices and for me.

I made the choice to have my identity revealed and was well aware of the consequences for doing so.

I know that the temptation to silence or ignore the voice of someone who you strongly disagree with can be overwhelming in matters such as this one; and no doubt many people will try to do just that to me.

I have confidence that there will be a few people interested in discussion and in better understanding views different from their own, especially from one of their own.

My sincere hope is that the entire matter results in better understanding for everyone.

Many of you went against my wishes and spoke publicly in defense of me.

Those involved were correct when they wrote that I wasn’t making my choices for financial reasons or to avoid some sort of prosecution.

They were incorrect that my ideology didn’t support such choices.

One individual who publically defended me stated that they didn’t believe I was working undercover because the government would have used my access to take down a more prominent activist if the allegations were true.

If indeed the government or I was interested in doing so, it could have happened in such a manner.

However, the incorrect notion that the government was out to silence dissent was the cause for the mistake made by that person.

In defense of the individuals who openly did their best to do what they thought was defending me, they did not know the truth and they had no way of knowing the truth due to their ideological and personal attachments to me.

It’s unfortunate that the truth couldn’t have come out sooner and that the needed preparations for such a disclosure take time.

I really did mean it when I said that I didn’t want to discuss it and that I didn’t want folks addressing the allegations.

Again, I strongly stand behind my choices in this matter.

I’m looking forward to open dialogue and debate regarding the motivations and experiences I’ve had and the ethical questions they pose.

In Solidarity,

Brandon Michael Darby

All are welcome to contact me via email.

Please understand if it takes me awhile to respond.

brandonmichaeldarby@gmail.com

Paul Laffoley: The Sixties

Kent Gallery showcases 10 constructs, diagramatic footprints left during the earliest leg of Laffoley’s spiritual and intellectual journey in the hollowed-out halls of thee Boston Visionary Cell…think of the pieces as intricate, cosmic post-it-notes to himself…maybe.

Date and Time: January 8th – February 21st, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Venue: Kent Gallery
Address: 541 West 25th Street, Second Floor, New York NY 10001
Price: Free for all the ages

If the devil were to come to this plane, it really would make sense to come as Bowie. I don’t think I need to explain any further, but…

Uniters-not-dividers Lucky Dragons, Soft Circle, Bow Ribbons, and Donald Beaman give us this small, happy, free get-together at NYC’s favorite Parisian firepit Zebulon. Expect glowing things, your skin becoming translucent, etc.

Date & Time: Wednesday, Jan. 14th, 9PM
Venue: Zebulon
Address: 258 Wythe, Brooklyn
Directions: L to Bedford, J/M/Z to Marcy
Price: Freeee

venue: Glasslands

address: 289 Kent

directions: bedford L, marcy J

price: 5$

Golden Triangle, Suckers, K-holes (ex-black lips) bust it out, while Ian Svenonius and Jonathan Toubin dj it up. Get up, Get down.