Hey! Tonight!

Make it your business to be at this show tonight. I would have posted about it sooner, but I've been in a windowless basement listening to The In-Kraut, Vol. 3: Hip Shaking Grooves Made In Germany 1967-1974 for the past couple of hours.

Wednesday, September 17th (that's tonight, genius)
Thurston Moore (playing his Psychic Hearts album in its entirety)
Eat Skull (yeah, Siltbreeze!)
Little Claw (fuck yeah, Siltbreeze!)

at the Pearl Street Clubroom (10 Pearl Street), Northampton, MA
8:30pm, $13 at the door

The Jams Don't Stop.

What an awesomely ridiclous week for shows. If you're not flat broke yet, y'all should make it out to both of these happenings.


Thursday, July 31st
The Autonomous Battleship Collective presents:
Vetiver
Kurt Weisman
at the Montague Bookmill (440 Greenfield Road, Montague)
8pm, $10

Friday, August 1st
Hair Police
Sunburned
Thurson Moore/Kate Village Duo
Paul Flaherty/Jeff Hartford Duo
at the Florence American Legion Hall (63 Riverside Drive, Florence)
9pm, $7

Happy Birthday, Son of Sam.

In addition to it being David Berkowitz's birthday, there's a really great noise show happening on June 1st in Florence.

John Wiese (of Bastard Noise, Sissy Spacek, etc.)
C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core, among other things)
Grey Skull (from Noho) + Thurston Moore (duh)
Sondulla (doom-rockin')
Sickness (CT's finest noise guy)

Sunday, June 1st
8pm, $7
Florence VFW Hall (18 Meadow Street), Florence, MA

Last Minute Weekend Plans.

Uh, yeah. This one's a big one.

Ecstatic Peace! presents
FESTIVAL ECSTATIQUE(11/16-18)
curated by Byron Coley

11/16 FRIDAY/YOD SPACE (221 Pine Street #441, Florence MA 01062 ph: 413-587-9400) 6:00 – 12:00 with Vegetarian Two Bean Chili, Brown Rice, Green Salad, Chilled Beverages

8:00 (m) John Oliver Simons reads 1 (10)
8:15 (m) Richard Krech reads 1 (15)
8:35 (m) Charles Potts reads 1 (15)
9:20 Thurston Moore/Byron Coley/Valerie Webber read (10)
9:35 Traum Ecke (ducktails) plays (20)
9:55 (m) Mike Watt reads (20)

11/17 SATURDAY AFTERNOON/RED BARN (Red Barn at Hampshire College on Rt. 116 in S. Amherst.Red Barn is next to admissions office, about 1000 feet north of main entrance to college) 1:00 – 5:00 with beverages/food

1:00 Byron Coley reads (10)
1:15 (m) Gown (Andrew McGregor) plays (20)
1:40 (m) Bree reads (10)
1:55 (m) Rick Beaty reads (15)
2:15 (m) Corrine De Winter reads (10)
2:30 (m) Yomul Yuk play (20)
2:55 (m) Sara Jaffe reads (15)
3:15 (m) Valerie Webber reads (15)
3:35 (m) Charles Plymell reads (20)
4:00 m/m/m/m/m Slander Puff plays Conrad Capistran/Anna Klein/John
Shaw/Joshua Burkett/Dan Ireton (30)
5:00 break

SATURDAY EVENING 7:00 – 12:00 RED BARN with beverages

7:00 (m) Bill Nace/Sara Jaffe play (15)
7:20 (m) John Oliver Simons reads 2 (20)
7:50 (m) Richard Krech reads 2 (25)
8:20 (m) Charles Potts reads 2 (25)
8:50 Mirror/Dash (Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon) plays (15)
9:10 (m) George Wallace reads (15)
9:30 (m) Marci Denesiuk reads (15)
9:50 (m) Matt Krefting reads (15)
10:10 (m) Angela Jaeger reads (15)
10:30 (m)/(m) Hair Wars (Paul Flaherty/Kate Biggar) play (20)


11/18 SUNDAY 12:00 – 6:00 YOD SPACE with East African Sweet Pea Soup, bread/bagels, coffee, tea

1:15 Dredd Foole plays unless his Peterborough gig is too early (20)
1:40 Emma Young reads (10)
2:00 Joshua Burkett plays (20)
2:25 Wesley Eisold reads (10)
2:40 Grant Hart plays (20)
3:05 Byron reads (10)
3:20 J Mascis plays (20)
3:45 Thurston Moore plays unless he's in NYC recording

Yes, Mike Watt, as in "the guy from the Minutemen that I refuse to believe was involved with that last Stooges album". Yes, Grant Hart, as in "one of the dudes in Husker Du who didn't have the amazing moustache":



And as if that wasn't enough to keep you busy all weekend, this just popped up on my radar as well:

Saturday, November 16th
OM (Southern Lord Records, 2/3 of stoner-rock legends Sleep, etc.)
Grails (releases out on Temporary Residence, Important Records, Neurot Recordings, etc.)
Witch (ever want to see J Mascis play drums for a psych-metal band?)
Jack Rose (psych/drone from a member of Pelt.)
at The Loft (Cotton Mill Hill) in Brattleboro, VT.

Check it out, friends.

OM, live in Brooklyn.


Grails - "More Extinction"


Witch - "Seer"

Moore Thurston

Thurston Moore is doing a show at the Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton tonight following whenever the last movie screening of the night ends (I'm told around 9:30 pm). Cost is ten bucks.

Plumber

Maybe you've seen some flyers around the Valley talking about a "record release party" for Thurston Moore's newest solo release Trees Outside the Academy that's taking place at the Eagles Nest in Northampton this Saturday. It turns out that's partly true. Thurston Moore IS playing, but not solo or part of some record release party. Apparently, there was some miscommunication on that. But the good news is, Thurston Moore is playing. Thurston, his brother Gene [Moore, doy] and John Moloney form like Voltron to become Hustler Collage and word on the street is they'll be doing some good ol' improvisational tunage.

The lineup:

Hustler Collage
Dredd Foole
Radioactive Prostitute
Jow-Jow the Death Knell Rung

Show starts at 8 pm and costs only $5