From DennisCraigLee at aol.com Thu Jan 1 09:52:08 2009 From: DennisCraigLee at aol.com (DennisCraigLee at aol.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:52:08 EST Subject: Introduction Message-ID: In a message dated 12/30/2008 1:22:33 AM Atlantic Standard Time, manny at garfieldartworks.com writes: > Masochrist is a thrash-punk/powerviolence band. Not goth. > Shrike Beats Bee are powerviolence, too. > You are correct as usual, Manny. Sometimes I get confused by the image more than the sound. I thought one of them was wearing guyliner, but it turned out to be an actual black eye! ever, - - ==D e n n i s ************** New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) From manny at garfieldartworks.com Thu Jan 1 13:46:58 2009 From: manny at garfieldartworks.com (manny at garfieldartworks.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:46:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: Introduction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49444.70.17.189.151.1230835618.squirrel@webmail2.pair.com> No problem. For the future remember- there is a subgenre of hardcore punk called "Powerviolence" and the Greensburg-Latrobe area has had some obsession with it for quite a while (often linking up with the equal obsession some of the Mr Roboto crowd has with it, as well). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerviolence I know about the Keynote Cafe - last month I did a CP column on Dropdead Productions, a promotion company run by 2 high school teens who do some shows there (there are actually a lot of these young kid promotion companies using Myspace to build their little show empires- i think it's cute). What actually intrigued me about Dropdead was that they had the balls to rent the Irish Center, which hadn't been used for years and even back in the day was pretty much just the purview of rave promoters. But along the way I found out a bit more about suburban venues and how these kids operate their shows deep in the sticks. And the other day, when I was trying to find a place to relocate a Victory Records band so I wouldn't have to do a show for them the night of the AFC Championship, I talked to Jill (Keynote Cafe booker) herself on the phone - you will rarely find a nicer person. She kind of reminded me of Mama Jo from Howler's. But I also know the relative lack of sophistication of the kind of acts that play far out in the burbs. These are not kids who read Pitchfork every day. For example, Jill was talking up some female singer songwriter phenoms who played at the Keynote recently - these are teenage girls who sound like Alicia Keys or Jewel. And the dudes all play either in poppy emo with names like Famous Is What We Want to Be or grindy screamometal bands called And the Ashes Rise Amidst The Flesh of The Dead or whatever. They know what they see on Myspace and that's it. No one's sophisticated enough out there to imitate, say, Sisters of Mercy or Front 242, etc. Goth for them is Amy Lee and Rammstein. -mt > In a message dated 12/30/2008 1:22:33 AM Atlantic Standard Time, > manny at garfieldartworks.com writes: > >> Masochrist is a thrash-punk/powerviolence band. Not goth. >> Shrike Beats Bee are powerviolence, too. >> > > You are correct as usual, Manny. Sometimes I get confused by the image > more > than the sound. I thought one of them was wearing guyliner, but it turned > out > to be an actual black eye! > > ever, > - - ==D e n n i s > > > ************** > New year...new news. Be the first to know > what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) > _______________________________________________ > pgh-goth-list mailing list > pgh-goth-list at listless.org > http://www.listless.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-goth-list > From brian.j.parker at gmail.com Fri Jan 2 10:09:24 2009 From: brian.j.parker at gmail.com (Brian J. Parker) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:09:24 -0500 Subject: free CDs Message-ID: Since I'm largely out of the DJing business, and running out of room on even my massive CD shelves, I've decided it's time to clean house. So I'm giving away (that's right, for free) a pile of CDs. It's a drop in the bucket but it does make room for more. Many of these are promos, if that's an ethical problem for you. (Personally, I won't sell promos, but I'll give them away.) If you want them, there are only a few conditions: (1) Getting them is your problem. I'll meet you in downtown, uptown, Oakland, Squill, or Regent Square. (2) If you don't want more than a few, I'm going to give you a bunch of CDs similar to the ones you are taking. You will smile and pretend to want them, even if you plan to throw them away without listening to them. (3) You promise not to sell them. You probably can't get much for these anyway. But if I think you're just taking them to sell them, I reserve the right to just keep them and sell them myself. I also have a LOT of empty jewel cases (from CDs transferred to sleeves), of which you can take as many as you want. Anyway, here's the list, with compilations at the end; feel free to ask questions. I want these in a good home. 16 Volt - The Dreams That Rot In Your Heart / Two Wires Thin Acumen Nation - Unkind Adaptive Reaction - Salvation Aghast View - Phasenox Arkam Asylum - Running With Scissors Backlash - Impetus; Lodestar EP Barbez - (self titled) Battery - Momentum Behind the Scenes - Homeless Cesium 137 - The Fall; Advanced Decay Christ Analogue - In Radiant Decay Christian Death - Pornographic Messiah Clock DVA - The Hacker Coil - Scatology; Unnatural History Consolidated - Play More Music Control Theory - Reactor Count to Infinity - Undertow Culture Kulture - DNA Slaves Cut Rate Box - New Religion; Dataseed Daf Dos - Stimme Des Herzens Dead Artist Syndrome - Prints of Darkness Decoded Feedback - Mechanical Horizon Delerium - Flowers Become Screens; Euphoric; Heaven's Earth (1 & 2); Falling In Love (1 & 2) Delien - Rust Dessau - (self titled) Dia - Integration Die Artze - Goldenes Handwerk Die Laughing - The Temptress EP Diva Destruction - Exposing the Sickness The Dreamside - Faery Child Durtro - Brainscans The Echoing Green - The Evergreen Annex - remix addendum; She's Gone Tragic The Electric Hellfire Club - Empathy for the Devil Emergency Broadcast Network - 3:7:8 Endanger - Motion Eskimos & Egypt - Come Together; Wonderland Funker Vogt - Revivor God Module - Viscera Godhead - 2000 Years of Human Error Gridlock - Further Paul Hartnoll feat. Robert Smith - Please Heavy Water Factory - Translucent Amber The Hungry Ghost - (self titled) I, Parasite - Turin Inertia - No Defect; Positive Angel Ionic Vision - Prophecy; Homo Sovieticus; Homo Sovieticus limited promo; MaschinenAngst Kevorkian Death Cycle - A+O Kontinuum - I Believe The Last Dance - Staring At the Sky; Whispers In Rage Lavish Blue - PVCTV Leech Woman - Uncertainty Device # 26573 Love Like Blood - The Love Like Blood EP Lowsunday - Elesgiem Luxt - Disrepair MC 900 Foot Jesus - Hell With the Lid Off The Mission (tribute) - Songs from the Wasteland Nils Peter Molvaer - Khmer (ltd ed w/bonus remix CD) Moonshake - remixes More Machine Than Man - covers and remixes promo CDR Numb - Suspended; Desire/Blind Painbastard - Nyctophobia (part of Klangfusion vol. 1) Parallel Project - Fusion Paralyzed Age - Empire of the Vampire Pristina - So Alive Project-X - All Systems Dead EP; Fearless Pulse Legion - Evolve; One Thing Qntal - I; II; O, Tristan Receiver - Chicken Milk Recoil - Unsound Methods SIDT - kreuz:gang (part of Klangfusion vol. 1) Sister Machine Gun - [R]evolution 5.1 / Smash Your Radio SMP - Hacked; Ultimatum Sneaky Bat Machine - Boneshaker Snog - Remote Control; The Future Soil & Eclipse - Archetype; Meredian Soman - Revenge Spahn Ranch - Architecture; Beat Noir; Retrofit EP Star Industry - New Millenium EP State of the Union - Black City Lights The Strand - In the Trench Suicide Commando - Mindstrip S.V.D - Big Bad City System22 - Somewhere Nowhere The Tear Garden - To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide T.H.C. - Consenting Guinea Pig THD - Under a Statik Sky Theatre of Loneliness - Trishna Transylvanian Terror - Angel of Sorror Voltaic - Shock/Emission Compilations: Chemical Warfare (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) - Invisible Collective_Consciousness Cyber-Tec America Cryogenic Studio Dark Assembly volume 1 Dark Techno One/Nine-Nine Death for Life Digital Wings 1 Distention - Alterculture Records Drug Test Three - Invisible Records Electricity - An Electronic Pop Sampler - Ninthwave Records Emerge Recording Fall Sampler 1998 #A Empire One - Tinman Records Essential Selection volume 1 mixed by Fatboy Slim & Paul Oakenfold The Gothic Sounds of Nightbreed Interiors: A Sentrax Corporation compilation - Invisible Records Resurgence - Doppler Effect Spiritual Vibes- Hypnotic Records Static Landscapes vol.1 - DSBP Synthphony 2000 the remixes Taking Notes No 1 - Tonedef Records Tinman 21 The Unquiet Grave vol. 1 - Cleopatra Unsung Hero vol. 1 Vinyl Conflict 1 - Tonedef Records Virion Sequences - Gashed! From jdecay at att.net Fri Jan 2 15:27:31 2009 From: jdecay at att.net (jdecay at att.net) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:27:31 +0000 Subject: Girl Talk, THD, etc... In-Reply-To: <102420081518.12549.4901E744000A059E0000310522243323629B0A02D29B9B0EBF970E0C0A0B06@att.net> References: <669443.76941.qm@web59810.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <102420081518.12549.4901E744000A059E0000310522243323629B0A02D29B9B0EBF970E0C0A0B06@att.net> Message-ID: <010220092027.9053.495E78B200047ED50000235D22228869349B0A02D29B9B0EBF970E0C0A0B06@att.net> Okay, so I try to keep my word. The next issue of the Burnt Library is coming out soon, and below is the (un-proofed) concert listing: 1/2 TheBurning Path, Patricia Wake @ Excuses (Goth Rock, Ethereal Folk) 1/3Wreckcreaction @ Your Inner Vagabond (Industrial Rock) 1/9- HiTEC @ New Hazlett Theater (Experimental / Avant-garde) 1/9Phat Man Dee @ Pegasus (Eclectic Torch Songs) 1/10Elliott Sharp, Sirius String Quartet @ Warhol Museum(Experimental / Avant-garde) 1/10Lucidity, Communist Necktie, Leprosy, Bonfire Night @ 31st Street Pub (Metal, DeathMetal, Cimmerian BattleGoth) 1/11Tatsuya Nakatani, Michael Johnsen, Margaret Cox, Steve Boyle, Dave Bernabo,Matt Wellins, Burnout Warcry, Edgar Um Bucholtz and Greg Pierce @ Monk?s ArtSpace (Experimental Drumming) 1/12Repo! The Genetic Opera @ The Harris Theater (Okay, so it?s not a show; runsthrough the 15th) 1/15Una De Luna @The WYEP Community Broadcast Center (Trip-Hop) 1/21Eliot Lipp, Big Hurry, Xanopticon, Ekofield @ Garfield Artworks (IDM, Post-Punk, Breakcore) 1/23Blitzkid, The Cheats, Under a Nightmare, Children of October @ Belvedere?s (Horrorpunk) 1/23Una De Luna @ Altar Bar (Trip-Hop) 1/28No Triangle @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (German Improv Noise) 1/31Motorpsychos @ 31st Street Pub (Metal) 2/6 LarkinGrimm, Mike Tamburo @ GarfieldArtworks (Dark Folk) 2/7Psycho Devilles, The Walking Corpses, The Forbidden Five @ Thunderbird Caf? (Rockabilly,Zombie Punk, Psychobilly) 2/12Death Vessel, Jennifer O'Connor, Pairdown, Kevin Finn @ Garfield Artworks (Dark Folk) 2/13Legendary Shack Shakers, O'Death @ 31st Street Pub (Gothic Country) 2/13Bonfire Night @ Excuses (Cimmerian BattleGoth) 2/21Debutante @ Bloomfield Bridge Tavern (Trip-Hop) 2/25Martin Bisi @ GarfieldArtworks (Moody Psychedelic) 2/27Voltaire @ TBA (This time with the full band) 3/9Chuck Owston @ North Versailles AARP (DarkFolk) 3/14Red Theory, Bonfire Night @ The Smiling Moose (Hard Rock, Cimmerian Battle Goth) 3/17Morrissey @ Carnegie Music Hall (Umm, theMorrissey-sound? I?m not a fan, but I think we all know what he sounds like.) 3/21Debutante @ Your Inner Vagabond (Trip-Hop) 4/4Al and The Black Cats, The Arkhams, The Bessemers@ Thunderbird Caf? (Rockabilly) -------------- Original message from jdecay at att.net: -------------- Finding out about shows isn't that difficult, but it does take diligence..... > > And that's not including all the shows I already have on the calendar. > How about this - the next time I put an issue out, I swear that I will also post > the full concert listing here and on LJ? > > J > > -------------- Original message from "Sc'Eric (aka sc'Que)" : > -------------- > > But what doesn't make sense is what Batz and I have pointed out on numerous > occasions: why must we always hear about events long after the reasonable window > of time in which to make plans? If there are 10 online blogs and email lists > which serve the Pgh music scene (or even state-wide), a person should be able to > > read about it 10 times in the month before it actually happens... that at > least. > > > _______________________________________________ > pgh-goth-list mailing list > pgh-goth-list at listless.org > http://www.listless.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-goth-list From mord.prod at gmail.com Fri Jan 9 21:08:00 2009 From: mord.prod at gmail.com (mord.prod at gmail.com) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:08:00 -0500 Subject: Fwd: Email or Text Promo Voltaire 2009 Message-ID: <49680335.24015a0a.3abc.3f1e@mx.google.com> VOLTAIRE and his FULL BAND come to Pittsburgh at Mr. Small's. Specials Guests Agnes Wired for Sound and Burning Path. Friday February 27th at 8:00PM. All ages welcome. Tickets $13 in Advance. $20 at the door or $18 with flyer (or this email). Hosted by Mordant Productions. Visit www.mordantproductions.com for more details. Don't miss Agnes Wired for Sound as they host their CD release for Revenant. Burning Path open the evening with their original goth stylings. Special Appearances by Master of Ceremonies SPAZ and go-go dancing by EP Eccentric Dancers. Music provided by DJ Eclipse. That's right, for the FIRST time in Pittsburgh, Voltaire brings his entire band to entertain and to tempt us at the best venue available. Forward this email so people do not miss this unique show. If you would like to join the street team, email us at mord.prod at gmail.com If you are an artist or vendor and would like a presence at the show or on our promotional materials, please email us at mord.prod at gmail.com. Get your tickets at www.ticketweb.com/mrsmalls or 866.468.3401. Tickets available by Jan 16 at Mr. Small's ticket outlets, plus Slacker (Southside) and Hocus Pocus (Oakland). Mr. Small's is at 400 Lincoln Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15209. Listen to the bands: Voltaire www.myspace.com/voltairenyc or www.voltaire.net Agnes Wired for Sound www.myspace.com/agneswfs Burning Path www.myspace.com/theburningpath Other links: EP Eccentric Dancers www.myspace.com/elisesplayground DJ Eclipse www.myspace.com/ashhawthorn Best wishes, Joe Mordant Productions From manny at garfieldartworks.com Sun Jan 18 14:20:00 2009 From: manny at garfieldartworks.com (manny at garfieldartworks.com) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:20:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: advance notice: MARTIN BISI @ Garfield Artworks Wed Feb 25 Message-ID: <49804.70.17.175.120.1232306400.squirrel@webmail6.pair.com> Here's advance notice for what is going to be a very cool show. Besides the string of production credits below, you might want to note that this guy is also responsible for 1) producing both of the legendary Of A Mesh EPs. (!!!) [which as you know were responsible for the beginning of Pgh's goth scene...] 2) producing the recent "Force of Light" album by Barbez on Tzadik Records (if you caught Barbez's great show at the Warhol this past Friday...). and his new album has a song called "Goth Chick '98". (!!) Wed Feb 25 8 pm all ages $8 Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Avenue famed NYC producer & songwriter with his new album "Sirens of the Apocalypse" on Contraphonic MARTIN BISI with his band http://www.myspace.com/theendcredits http:/www.martinbisi.com with special guests ((microwaves)) [duo version. mining that Swans/Godflesh vibe] Gangwish [Sam Pace of Centipede etc on drums+ electronics] and Midge Crickett [neo-cabaret songstress with cello] Martin Bisi, has been an influential NY rocker since the 80s, not only with his own songs and musical creations, but also recording classic albums by Sonic Youth, Material, Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Afrika Bambataa, The Dresden Dolls, Swans, John Zorn, Helmet, White Zombie, Cop Shoot Cop, Foetus, Serena Maneesh and Ex-Models. In his own band, Martin Bisi [band], he plays guitar and sings. His new album veers between moody, psychedelic, poppy and harder rock. The sound is mostly dense and rich in instruments and multiple vocals, but then also edgy and quirky. Bisi's persona can be raw and confrontational, as well as funny and self effacing. The songs are mostly entertaining vignettes of love and obsession in NYC. The multiple female characters in the songs inspired the elaborate artwork in the 20 page booklet, and the album title Sirens Of The Apocalypse. From jdecay at att.net Mon Jan 19 14:19:35 2009 From: jdecay at att.net (jdecay at att.net) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:19:35 +0000 Subject: advance notice: MARTIN BISI @ Garfield Artworks Wed Feb 25 In-Reply-To: <49804.70.17.175.120.1232306400.squirrel@webmail6.pair.com> Message-ID: <011920091919.29771.4974D246000CDD270000744B22243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970E0C0A0B06@att.net> Indeed, this guy has a host of credentials - most recently, he's working with Black Tape for a Blue Girl on their new album. As is, I might add, Brian Viglione of the Dresden Dolls. Quite curious to see how that will turn out. But Martin Bisi's own music does seem quite interesting as well. -------------- Original message from manny at garfieldartworks.com: -------------- > Martin Bisi, has been an influential NY rocker since the 80s, not only > with his own songs and musical creations, but also recording classic > albums by Sonic Youth, Material, Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Afrika Bambataa, > The Dresden Dolls, Swans, John Zorn, Helmet, White Zombie, Cop Shoot Cop, > Foetus, Serena Maneesh and Ex-Models. In his own band, Martin Bisi [band], > he plays guitar and sings. His new album veers between moody, psychedelic, > poppy and harder rock. The sound is mostly dense and rich in instruments > and multiple vocals, but then also edgy and quirky. Bisi's persona can be > raw and confrontational, as well as funny and self effacing. The songs are > mostly entertaining vignettes of love and obsession in NYC. The multiple > female characters in the songs inspired the elaborate artwork in the 20 > page booklet, and the album title Sirens Of The Apocalypse. > > > _______________________________________________ > pgh-goth-list mailing list > pgh-goth-list at listless.org > http://www.listless.org/mailman/listinfo/pgh-goth-list From brian.j.parker at gmail.com Tue Jan 20 09:03:04 2009 From: brian.j.parker at gmail.com (Brian J. Parker) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:03:04 -0500 Subject: advance notice: MARTIN BISI @ Garfield Artworks Wed Feb 25 In-Reply-To: <49804.70.17.175.120.1232306400.squirrel@webmail6.pair.com> References: <49804.70.17.175.120.1232306400.squirrel@webmail6.pair.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > 2) producing the recent "Force of Light" album by Barbez on Tzadik Records > (if you caught Barbez's great show at the Warhol this past Friday...). Anybody have any idea how this compares to their self titled debut album? (I picked it up when the label compared them to The Dresden Dolls, and didn't hear the similarity at all.) Also, seriously, does the Warhol have a friggin' mailing list? I've missed so many shows there because I didn't know about them. We're damn Carnegie museum members and still don't hear about these things (unless they're getting lost in the mail). From manny at garfieldartworks.com Tue Jan 20 12:50:02 2009 From: manny at garfieldartworks.com (manny at garfieldartworks.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:50:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: how to evaluate Barbez with some frame of reference In-Reply-To: References: <49804.70.17.175.120.1232306400.squirrel@webmail6.pair.com> Message-ID: <49470.70.17.187.168.1232473802.squirrel@webmail9.pair.com> Although they have some Kurt Weill-type influences, Barbez at this point is not nearly as 'cabaret' as comparisons to the Dresden Dolls would have you believe. Which is good, because frankly, although they're certainly good musicians, the Dolls' overdramatisms are tiresome. (Most of whatever respect i have for the Dolls simply comes from the fact that the only time I saw them, they were *opening* for Edward Ka-Spel at Club Cafe...). Barbez is essentially a very darkly tinged postrock/chamber rock band. They have Eastern European influences, and a great theremin player to be sure. But Dan Kaufman's guitar work is not that different from the playing of say, Efrim Menuck of Godspeed and David Pajo of Slint, etc. Plus, there's the whole 'Radical Jewish Culture' angle of being on Tzadik Records and hanging with Zorn and doing that tribute to Paul Celan. So, if you like Barbez, you have to appreciate the amalgam of Eastern European, Jewish, cabaret, and postrock that the band is. In other words, drop preconceived desires for simplistic gothiness, and approach the music from a nuanced, multi-faceted perspective. In addition to being on the unbelievable roster of Tzadik, Barbez's first two releases are on Important Records, a label that never fails to advertise in magazines like The Wire or Signal to Noise. Important Records has some other music you might enjoy: Coil - the Ape of Naples LP Andrew Liles - Nurse with Wound associate Larsen - recorded with Annie Anxiety, toured with Jarboe, also on Young God. Eleh - a really good Coil imitator. Julia Kent - of Rasputina, and Antony & the Johnsons. Merzbow - ultimate industrial noise champion. Angels of Light - LP version of Michael Gira's CD. the list just goes on and on and on. just go over and check their website. they are easily one of the finest American labels. In other words, grok the complex, sophisticated side of 'darkness' and the appreciation of Barbez will be fairly straightforward. > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > >> 2) producing the recent "Force of Light" album by Barbez on Tzadik >> Records >> (if you caught Barbez's great show at the Warhol this past Friday...). > > Anybody have any idea how this compares to their self titled debut > album? (I picked it up when the label compared them to The Dresden > Dolls, and didn't hear the similarity at all.) > > Also, seriously, does the Warhol have a friggin' mailing list? I've > missed so many shows there because I didn't know about them. We're > damn Carnegie museum members and still don't hear about these things > (unless they're getting lost in the mail). > From manny at garfieldartworks.com Thu Jan 29 13:36:39 2009 From: manny at garfieldartworks.com (manny at garfieldartworks.com) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:36:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Wed Feb 4: Noise Nacht / Fri Feb 6: Larkin Grimm (Young God) Message-ID: <49742.141.151.189.20.1233254199.squirrel@webmail5.pair.com> Hey. Two interesting and cheap shows coming in the next week that may be of interest. Both of these are all ages, at Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Avenue. 1) Wednesday February 4 "Noise Nacht" - an evening of powerful harsh sounds from Michigan featuring Ben Hall of Detroit noise powerhouse Graveyards (a Wolf Eyes offshoot) TRAUMA http://www.myspace.com/criigs with Trogpite (member of Lord Bird Golden Cobra) Gnarled Horse Throat (8 Cylinder + Vasculator) Mind Tiger (aka Syne Lapse Variate) 8 pm $5 2) Friday February 6 new recording artist on Young God Records (the label run by Swans' Michael Gira. track record of Larsen, Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Mi and L'au, etc.) LARKIN GRIMM http://www.myspace.com/larkingrimm with Mike Tamburo 10 pm (after Unblurred) $6 "Michael Gira says: Larkin is a magic woman. Her voice is like the passionate cry of a beast heard echoing across the mountains just after a tremendous thunder storm, when the air is alive with electricity. She is the sound of the eternal mother and the wrath of all women..." So perhaps if you'd like to hear a younger version of Jarboe :), then check her out.