Hey Bologna-Boppin’ Beyonders,
I’m happy to announce that this week Beyond Beyond is Beyond will welcome So-Cal bent rockers, the Growlers to the show. I’ve been diggin’ these guys ever since Everloving sent me their new Are You In or Out? record. I lifted the ‘bent sound’ description from the Everloving website because it really fits the Growlers’ sound nicely:
…this “bent sound” has been perfected in their live act that some onlookers call “groovy” and or “sick”. The groovy unexcelled value in Lo fidelity sound is their stock and trade.
So get yourself further acquainted below with the “Something Someone Jr” video and then bring your ears to the far out reaches of Beyond Beyond is Beyond on East Village Radio on Thursday, 2/18, from noon to 2 EST. Here’s how to get there…
If you’re in NYC, catch their show at Piano’s…
Feb 18 2010 11:00P
Pianos w/ Treasure and Magic Magic New York City, New York
Feb 20 2010 8:00P
RONY’S BAR chicago, Illinois
Feb 21 2010 11:30P
Replay Lounge Lawrence, Kansas
Feb 22 2010 8:00P
Hi Dive – The Growlers w/ Astrophagus Denver, Colorado
Feb 23 2010 9:30P
Belly Up Aspen w/ Backyard Fire Tire Aspen, Colorado
Feb 26 2010 8:00P
Noise Pop at Café Dunord San Francisco, California
Mar 27 2010 9:30P
East of Eden w/ Mikey Selbicky Monterey, California
…on Beyond Beyond is Beyond, Thursday February 4th at noon eastern, live on East Village Radio.
Fresh from his Guinness World Record for longest live piano performance by any individual (27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds), his piano battle with Andrew WK in New York, and a sold-our run at London’s La Pigalle Club, Paris-based pianist and showman Chilly Gonzales crosses the Atlantic for four “Piano Talk Shows” in New York City in February.
The self-proclaimed “Entertainist” will play every Thursday at Joe’s Pub, finally giving NYC a full-on taste of his futuristic cabaret performance. Each show will feature a guest from Gonzo’s extended musical family, each promising to bring fresh surprises of their own!
Feb 4 w/ guest SIA
Feb 11 w/ guest Andrew WK
Feb 18 w/ guest DJ A-Trak plus surprise guest
Feb 25 w/ guest Princess Superstar
Chilly is currently celebrating two new releases: a spellbinding 7” piano remake of Erol Alkan and Boys Noize’s club banger “Waves” (coupled with a spoken music lesson on the B-side) and his 4-album live Guinness World Record set “The Works” (released through Believe digital). Listen to the “Waves” remake here!
Meanwhile, the Grammy-nominated arranger/producer’s collaborations continue to multiply: he’s co-writing and producing the major-label debut of Thecocknbullkid, co-writing songs with Jarvis Cocker for “Get Him to the Greek” (a Russell Brand rock-movie spoof) and shooting new episodes of his cult web-TV show “SUPERPRODUCER” (presented exclusively with DailyMotion). Watch the hilarious sketch with gay British rapper Dorian (ahem) Gay here.
Best of all, Chilly is currently putting the finishing touches on his new full-length, Ivory Tower, will is expected to be released in the US later this year.
Having already bagged the (also self-proclaimed) title of President of the Berlin Underground, Chilly Gonzales can now add another notch on his belt after successfully challenging Andrew WK to a piano-off at Joe’s Pub in New York last September and premiering his Jarvis Cocker collaboration “Francophobia” at London’s La Pigalle Club in November.
For a taste of the musical mayhem and unique extreme entertainment in store for Chilly’s upcoming New York City shows, check out his piano dual with Andrew WK here (or here).
All Piano Talk Shows will feature PianoVision, a video installation created by Nina Rhode, aka Ninja Pleasure. Reminiscent of a silent movie, PianoVision allows the audience to see a video projection of the piano’s 88 keys, along with the master’s finger work.
So tune in to Beyond Beyond is Beyond on East Village Radio on Thursday at noon eastern-time, and listen to us shoot the shit. I’m bringing a Casiotone keyboard in hopes that Chilly will tickle our ivory fancies a bit!
See ya then…
Cheersy!
Mike
Hey there, psych-friendly Beyonderz,
The Entrance Band, the psychedelic rock trio hailing from Los Angeles who recently signed to Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace Records and who I love to play on Beyond Beyond is Beyond, is stopping off on their tour this Saturday, January 30 at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory…and you can win a pair of tickets right now. Here’s how to enter to win (choose from the following):
a) Email me at beyondbeyondisbeyond (@) gmail (dot) com, with your favorite sandwich in the subject line, OR the preferred method…
b) Twitter a sentence using all the following components: @EVRadio, @BBiB, @theentranceband, and the word ‘fuck’ used politely
Good luck and I hope to see you at the show. Look for me. I’ll be the guy with the face.
Cheers then!
Mike
P.S. >>>> LISTEN LIVE AT NOON TO BBIB on East Village Radio! <<<<
(Dig this…)
…twas amazing to witness live!
HOLA, BEYONDERS!
Check out this special BBiB edition with the Reigning Sound that I’ll be doing on Friday, 11/20. Should be a blast. Come along, um-kay? Deets follow:
This Friday starting at 2pm we’ve got a special edition of Beyond Beyond Is Beyond with Reigning Sound, who are in town for a Nov. 19th show in New Jersey at Maxwells and a Nov. 20th show at Brooklyn’s Southpaw, with The Swingin’ Neckbreakers and The Jay Vons. The band will be in the booth for an interview and hopefully EVR’s Mike Newman will squeeze a couple acoustic tracks out of Greg Cartwright.
Listen Live, Friday @ 2-4pm ET.
Founded by Memphis blues-punk legend Greg Cartwright — a former member of the Oblivians, the Compulsive Gamblers, and ‘68 Comeback — Reigning Sound fuse the hot-wired energy of garage rock with the deep emotional resonance of classic soul music in a manner that suggests a cross between the early Rolling Stones and the Sonics. Featuring Cartwright on vocals and guitar, Jeremy Scott on bass, Greg Roberson on drums, and Alex Greene on keyboards and guitar, Reigning Sound made their recorded debut with a three-song 7″ in May of 2001; their first full-length album, Break Up Break Down, was released a month later on Sympathy for the Record Industry.
In August of 2002, the group upped the rock quotient on its second album (and first for In the Red), Time Bomb High School. Alex Greene dropped out as a full-time group member by the time 2004’s Too Much Guitar was released, though he did appear on the disc as a guest musician, and the band followed its release with more touring, both as a headliner and once again as opener for the Hives.
In September 2005 Reigning Sound released Home for Orphans through Sympathy for the Record Industry. It featured reworked versions of Too Much Guitar material along with some unreleased tracks. They also recorded and released two live albums in 2005, Live at Maxwell’s and Live at Goner Records. After a long break from recording under their own name (though Cartwright and the new lineup of bassist David Wayne Gay, drummer Lance Wille, and keyboardist Dave Amels backed ex-Shangri-La Mary Weiss on her 2007 album Dangerous Game), the band resurfaced in 2009 with a new studio record for In the Red, Love and Curses. [From AllMusic]
Are you in New York and need some good live rockin’ in your life, and ASAP?
…everybody’s got a CMJ story, right? So here’s mine.
Thursday afternoon, I was lucky enough to have two bands (The Amazing and The Blakes) on my East Village Radio show. Both bands played a couple live tunes and sounded fan-fukkin’-tastic! Actually, you can check out the post-show roundup via this here link… The Amazing and The Blakes on Beyond Beyond is Beyond on 10/22/09 (there’s even a couple great YouTube videos of the two Amazing songs).
Then, Thursday night, the good folks at Kemado/Mexican Summer Records were kind enough to have me out at their soiree in my old neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, where I got nice and toasted with the guys from The Amazing. ‘Twas a blast of a time. And Farmer Dave Scher played a pleasing set to an intimate group of pretzel-eaters.
Friday night led me to some great adventures. Mind you, my CMJ path is anything but typical…as I never even saw Surfer Blood play once! Not only that, I typically have to work weeknights, so I just can’t be doing that shit all week long. Not to mention that my liver wouldn’t be able to handle more than the 3 days that I did!
Read on to find out how Chris Squire fits into this equation…
Hey Beyonders,
CMJ madness is in full swing here in NYC this week and East Village Radio is a proud radio sponsor. And I’m very happy to be welcoming two bands who are in town for CMJ to the next BBiB show on Thursday at noon, eastern time. First up, I’ll be talking to Mexican Summer’s-own The Amazing, who are made up of two members of Dungen (guitar & drums), plus two other bros. And they’ll be kickin’ out some jams for us live…and I can promise now it will be a lot of healthy sound!
Sample an Amazing jam on Fader
See the Amazing at the Mexican Summer/Kemado Showcase on Saturday
And if that weren’t enough, I’ll also be welcoming Seattle kick-ass power-rock trio The Blakes to BBiB! The Blakes will be playing at the Crash Mansion on Friday at 9:15, and of course on Thursday at noon on BBiB!
They just released their brand-new Souvenir album, which I think is fantastic, and have plenty more tour dates:
Tour Dates
Oct 14 – Haileys – Denton, TX
Oct 15 – Sticky Fingerz – Little Rock, AR
Oct 16 – Firebird – St. Louis, MO
Oct 17 – Rock Island Brewing Company – Rock Island, IL
Oct 23 – CMJ @ Crash Mansion – NY, NY
Oct 27 – Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON
Oct 28 – Pike Room – Pontiac, MI
Oct 29 – Cafe Bourbon St. – Columbus, OH
Oct 31 – Thunderbird Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA
Nov 1 – M Room – Philadelphia, PA
Nov 3 – Glasslands – Brooklyn, NY
Nov 5 – Club NME @ Bowery Electric – NY, NY
Nov 6 – The Brighton Bar – Long Branch, NJ
Nov 7 – Boot – Norfolk, VA
Nov 8 – The Red & the Black – Washington, DC
Nov 9 – Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
So tune in to East Village Radio at noon (eastern time) on Thursday to go Beyond CMJ on Beyond Beyond is Beyond! And listen live to East Village Radio all week for lots of killer CMJ coverage!
Cheers!
Mike
Thursday at noon, eastern time, FAUST will be on Beyond Beyond is Beyond on East Village Radio! They’ll be warming up in our studio for their Williamsburg Music Hall show Thursday night. This should be awesome, to say the least.
*photo by Bettina Herzner
Remaining U.S. tour dates:
10/1 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY WFMU Festival
10/3 Pop Montréal Festival Montreal, QC daytime workshop followed by
evening performance
10/4 The Polish Combatants Hall Toronto. ON
10/5 Detroit Museum of
Contemporary Art Detroit, MI workshop
10/6 Detroit Museum of
Contemporary Art Detroit, MI performance
10/7 Empty Bottle Chicago, IL
10/8 Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, OH
10/9 Buster’s Lexington, KY Boomslang – WRFL’s Festival
10/10 40 Watt Club Athens, GA presented by AUX
10/11 venue TBA Athens, GA workshop, presented by AUX
*photo by Ole Tommy Pedersen
Steve Hall and I went to Madison Square Garden last night to see the one and only Sir Neil Young…and boy did he not disappoint. Maybe there was a bit much (and too many in a row) of new stuff, but it is evident theat Neil has not lost a step from his younger days. This guy was rockin’ hard, jumping around, rippin’ out some killer distorted and crunchy guitar solos. There were a lot of highlights, but I loved starting out with “Love and Only Love” from the oft-overlooked 1990 album, Ragged Glory, and a blistering “Cowgirl In The Sand”. But man, that “Rockin’ In The Free World” had people in a frenzy, and the “A Day In The Life” encore was amazingly raucous.
As you can see from this crappy iPhone pic, our seats weren’t so great (since we’re only middle class..and this was after we snuck down another level), but we had a great time and the sound was very good at MSG.
Anyway, definitely go see Neil on this tour if you have the chance. The guy is a true legend, who sounds as good as he always has. Here’s the setlist:
NEIL YOUNG & HIS ELECTRIC BAND
1. Love And Only Love
2. Hey Hey, My My
3. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
4. Powderfinger
5. Spirit Road
6. Cortez The Killer
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Oh, Lonesome Me
9. Mother Earth
10. The Needle And The Damage Done
11. Light A Candle
12. “Cough Up The Bucks”
13. Fuel Line
14. “Hit The Road And Go To Town”
15. Unknown Legend
16. Heart Of Gold
17. Old Man
18. Get Back To The Country
19. “Off The Road”
20. Just Singing A Song
21. When Worlds Collide
22. Cowgirl In The Sand
23. Rockin’ In The Free World
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24. “Get Behind The Wheel”
25. A Day In The Life
…East Village Radio