Static Radio nj + The Rolemodels + The Debunks @ No Radio

STATIC RADIO NJ (Chunksaah Records), The Rolemodels, and The Debunks TONIGHT 12/18!
No Radio Records
312 E Seneca St
Ithaca, NY 14850
$5 7PM

Some info on SRNJ:

"In 2002 Static Radio started inconspicuously enough: four friends who grew up going to shows and listening to all types of music got together, wrote some songs, and played any show they could get their hands on. Initially, the band reflected much of what had drawn them into punk: simple, aggressive guitars, angry vocals, and speeding drums. As a relatively young band, they cut their teeth on the New Jersey scene the hard way; painstaking trial and error, and above all an unrelenting energy and desire for experiences. Over the years these experiences seeped themselves into the way the band crafted their songs; although they never strayed from hardcore punk their material began to take on additional elements, nuances reflective of their years as a band. Somewhere along the way, two things happened; someone on the opposite side of the country unleashed their legal team upon the band in order to protect the image of their bar-band/ puppet-show/God-knows-what (at which point Static Radio became Static Radio NJ) and more importantly, the band somehow decided that the progression and growth of the band would become the member’s main priority. Static Radio NJ don’t plan on stopping anytime soon because they simply love what they are doing and couldn’t imagine doing anything else but playing to anybody that wants to listen."

http://www.myspace.com/staticradio

Print out flyers!
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/11/19/2192629/SRnjcopy.jpg

Local punks The Rolemodels (Ithaca) and The Debunks (Lansing) to open!! Come out and get your punk rock on.

IU Newsletter #11 - THE BIG 2009 ANNOUNCEMENT

[[insert drumroll, blast beat, white noise squall, oi oi oi, etc of your choice]]

I'd like to proudly announce ITHACA UNDERGROUND ALL AGES SATURDAYS AT THEHAUNT!!!

Yep, you read that correctly. Starting Jan. 31st, the last Saturday of every month you can mark on your calendar for a great show. Check each show for start time but all shows will end by 10PM (like the Cobra Skulls show in November) to ensure making these all ages, all the time.

You all have really turned heads with your enthusiam and continuing support of underground music. Others in this town are starting torecognize the necessity of encouraging and nurturing what you all have started. I'd like to give a huge shout out to Chris Mazer for his support of all ages shows, DIY, and of Ithaca Underground as a collective group of people, artists, and bands for making this possible.

To repeat, mark 1/31/2009, 2/27, 3/27, and onward on your Calendar for ALL AGES AT THE HAUNT. If there are bands you'd like to see play [especially, but not limited to, acts from the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse,Binghamton, Albany, Brooklyn/NYC, Philly, Wilkes-Barre and surroundingareas] let me know and we'll see what we can do!

***ATTENTION LOCAL BANDS***-

Any Ithacan or surrounding area band/artist/group on this list, please let me know your availability for the last Saturday of the month so we can start booking bands. These will run similarly to what we have been doing at No Radio - encouraging national acts to play Ithaca and giving local and surrounding area talent opportunity to support. I'm sure there will be dates where it is Ithaca and surrounding talent alone supporting theshow. So please, let me know your availability.

...>>>what does this mean for shows else where??<<<...

We will still be doing basement shows and shows in other spaces as we do now and just as frequently. We wanted to give you all a time and placeyou can count on for a show. Please continue to support these shows just as strongly since some shows we do don't translate well to the size, setup, or location of The Haunt.

Check back for updates as we book for this!!

SHOWS SHOWS SHOWS + ZINE

Hey! Thanks for everyone coming out to Bermuda Triangles/Charlieboy/Bone Parade/Coma. We all had a great time and look forward to seeing everyone back soon!

ZINE!!! So, everyone has their copy of FREE!, right? If not, go down to No Radio or Volume and pick up a copy. If they're out. Let me know!

***GET YOUR SUBMISSIONS IN ASAP FOR THE NEXT ISSUE!!!*** I want to see this one packed with all sorts of stuff. Having everything emailed or in hand by Dec 21 would rule but we can push it out if you need more time, just let us know.

Looking ahead.... 2008 isn't done yet! Two more shows! Plus two already for 2009!

12/15/2008
Fox Trotsky (Atlata, GA)
Duskquee
Glad Rags,
Tyler Rodkey
@ No Radio Records
312 E Seneca, Ithaca, NY 14850
7PM $5
ALL AGES
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35170858142
Punk, Folk Punk, Accordian Punk, and Folk Rock for your enjoyment!

12/18/2008
Static Radio NJ [Chunksaah]
The Rolemodels
The Debunks
@ No Radio Records
312 E Seneca, Ithaca, NY 14850
7PM $5
ALL AGES
http://www.myspace.com/staticradio
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36492349182

****2009****
-just a taste of the awesomeness that is coming next year-

01/17/2009
Sinaloa [Level Plane]
The Rolemodels
Rejouissance
Swath
@ The (Ithaca Underground) Pirate House
505 Cliff St
Ithaca, NY 14850
8PM $5
- Directions to be posted soon. Message us on myspace if you have any questions.
http://www.myspace.com/sinaloa

02/21/2009
Zs [31G/Planaria]
American Sphinx
Chris Knight
@ ABC Cafe
308 Stewart Ave Ithaca, New York 14850
9PM $8
www.myspace.com/zstheband
**WOW! ZS!! You do not want to miss this show. Like nothing you've ever heard and absolute MUST SEE live. Come out to ABC and join us!

...much more TBA soon! We love you all and keep supporting the underground!

Bermuda Triangles Interview

**THIS FRIDAY - 12/5 @ NO RADIO**

"Taken from "FREE!" issue DEC 2008 #1"

Interview with Bermuda Triangles’ Jason Hodges
By Bubba

Bubba: For those uninitiated, can you give us some background on who you are in regards to Bermuda Triangles and CNP Records?

Jason: I started C.N.P. as Chaotic Noise Productions, it was a tape label, in Roanoke, VA. It was 1992....we released tons of cassettes from weirdos worldwide and my own bands Suppression and Rectal Pus. In 1998 I moved to Richmond, VA and started putting out CDs and vinyl under the name C.N.P. Records and played in Kojak (RIP), Suppression (2-piece line-up), Amoeba Men, Silver Ninjas, Yes Sirs, and when 3 years ago I was practically given a 4-track Bermuda Triangles were formed.

What is your favorite piece of gear used on this album/tour?
Either my cheap-o DD-20 drum machine (Bill has one too) or my delay pedal (keys and synths sound great through it).

How has it been transitioning this from a solo studio work to taking the project on the road?
We now have band practice instead of me just hitting record on my 4-track. Some of the songs that I did by myself with these really "bassed-out" drum beats just don't work live....my song "Cosby Sweater" kind of sounds stupid in a live band setting.

Who all is on this tour with you?
I did 4 shows by myself playing over prerecorded beats on my iPod and using a sampler but it had no "juice," so I asked my old friend and label partner Bill Porter, also from Roanoke, and my weird Louisiana friend Jared Young to join. Jared was recently in a duo called Can't Kill It but they're not doing anything at the moment. Bill was in Hallelujah! for years and then HO-AX (Horrible Axidents) but both are now defunct. Bill's solo-project is called Big Eats which is all electronic, cut up and choppy, weird Dr. Phil samples....he's also in a new improv duo called Blood Banks.

As with Bermuda Triangles, you've worked with many people on your various projects (Suppression, Amoeba Men, The Skin) any best of/worst of stories associated with them?
I have nothing but great things to say about the guys in those bands. The drummer in Amoeba Men, Barry Cover, is amazing and we've been playing together almost 10 years...the guitarist, Chris Conrad, was one of my favorite guitarists before we were in the band together. Ryan Parrish in Suppression is another amazing drummer who, after 8 years of traveling and making music, I've never had one argument with. There are many ridiculous drunk, weird, nude stories with all of those guys. Once at a Suppression show in a tiny room in a house Ryan was naked and called someone on his cell-phone to talk to his balls and I got duct-taped until i couldn't move so i just fell on my bass (there were people under me), my friend Adam fell backwards out of the window during this...luckily we were on the first floor. I'm very fortunate to have these maniacs as friends.

What was the shining moment for you while working on the new album, Terror In The Tropics?

Getting to use a "Drum Buddy" on the track "Melting Your Brains." My friend Derek Jones in Roanoke bought one of Quintron's Drum Buddy oscillator drum machines and let me, Bill, and our friends Mattress Fox and John Chambers play with it and record one day and we took one of the tracks and made a song out of it.

Any personal reasons you chose these cover songs for this album or were they just tracks you thought you’d like to fuck with?

I covered "Syd Barrett's "Terrapin" b/c he'd recently died and it was a tribute kind of thing plus I wanted to attempt to make it ugly and yet still sound a little pretty...everything else on the record is really abrasive so I wanted to ease up on the listener a bit. I covered "2:35" by Spacemen 3 b/c I like how dirgy that song is and I thought with my cheap electronics I could maintain that while simplifying it and making it heavier. But most of all I did those songs for the fun of it.

For your previous release, the Tickley Feather/Bermuda Triangles split, was the artwork a spoof of anything? It looks vaguely familiar. If not, what prompted that shoot?
Annie (Tickley Feather) had a concept in mind for the cover, she was going for the 60's style record covers like Donovan...so she had her friend Kimber take her photo and she emailed it to me...she said she wanted me to do something similar so I went to the thrift store and found some funny clothes and went to my girlfriend Susan's house and she took my photo.

As a unique act, it's harder for some to describe your sound. What’s the most ridiculous or flat our wrong way a promoter/someone has attempted to describe your sound?
Luckily I promoted almost all of the shows we've played so far so that hasn't been a problem, I've been booking shows here in Richmond for years. We were called Bermuda Triange on one flyer.

Any encouragement or discouragement for people starting out looking to do the "one-man" project?
DO IT!

Any words for fans and adversaries before they show up on Dec 5th?
Uh, yeah...definitely....SHOW UP!!!!! [and] we have videos up at www.youtube.comterrortropics23 and music at www.myspace.com/bermudatriangles. Thanks Bubba!!!!

BONE PARADE INTERVIEW

**PERFORMING THIS FRIDAY - 12/5 @ NO RADIO

Interview with Kevin Johnston and Erica Sparrow of Bone Parade
By Bubba Crumrine

This question may come up frequently but, how did a group from Albany end up with lyrics sung in German?

Erica: (Laughs) I study voice classically so a lot of what I do outside of Bone Parade is Lieder from the 18th century so, I sing a lot of songs by Schubert and Brahms. It’s a repertoire that I already know and am pretty intimately related to. When we began, it turned out that Kevin had a book of poetry which used to be songs and that’s how we got the text for our first song in German, Der Erlkoenig, which is also done by Schubert. It’s just looking back to old text. A lot of our sources are, in actuality or in spirit, old things.

Where did you study?

E: I currently study with a woman whose name is Karen Rannan, here in Albany and she’s got to be about 83 or 84 and she is a real amazing teacher with a very unique approach to the technique. Her work has been the song repertoire, like the Lieder and the French song. We focus on poetry as song. To me they are more moving than, say, an opera, which is very melodramatic. The songs are things unto themselves and therefore very powerful.

Earlier you brought up the song, Der Erlkoernig also the title of your latest album. Are the tracks themed around the Goethe poem as a concept?

Kevin: The one EP we have out now isn’t so much a concept album as just two singles (I use the term loosely) that we put together. The new album we’re working on that we have recorded and are mixing this week is more united in themes, but concept album might be a bit too lofty.

What kind of gear do you rely on – found objects, analogue synths, digital instruments?

K: We bought a sampler that really helped us out.

E: When we lost our drummer, we primarily thought it would be a drummachine but now we use it more for sonic samples rather than percussion

K: For the samples, I have an analogue keyboard that I like a lot, different scrap metals… any type of a strange sound we can rework and reprocess to weave into sonic collages. Seems to work pretty well.

Is there a favorite piece of gear that you’re using now or have used in the past with Bone Parade?

K: Yeah, my favorite is these little finger cymbals – we’ve gotten a lot of sample use out of those. They lend themselves nicely to a ritualistic air.

I can definitely see that. That’s a great sound source! In your influences you mention greats like Einsturzende Neubauten, Swans, Godflesh - were these groups you both grew up on or found later on and were inspired by?

K: The heavier groups were ones I grew up on or discovering in recent years. We both come from pretty different schools of music.

E: I had some friends who were into noise music so I was familiar with some of them and definitely liked the idea. I have really broad tastes and Kevin played me a Swans album and it was so slow in developing – I loved it! He was surprised because most people he played it for would just be like “when’s it going to do something?” but the subtle textures just grabbed me right from the beginning. It’s not anything I grew up with but it’s something that immediately appealed to my ear.

K: We both like music that comes to a slow boil. Its similar with a lot of classical works, many parallels can be drawn.

I agree. Back to the literary references we were discussing before like the EP, does the moniker “Bone Parade” come from written works as well?

K: Actually yes, in part in comes from a series that aired on PBS, originally from BBC I believe, called Mystery, hosted by Diana Rig. They had mysteries and ghoulish turn of the century English stories. There was one series called Cad File and ironically enough both Erica and I watched the same series growing up. One episode entitled A Morbid Taste For Bones, about a Benedictine monk who solved crimes I loved that title and I adapted it. It really captured the feel I was going for.

Always great to hear a group with a back story to their name! Has there been a favorite part of the recording, writing, or releasing process as Bone Parade?

E: My favorite part of our creating music together is that it’s really seamless and organic for us. We don’t spend a lot of time hashing out songs. It’s a matter of simmering daily in our subconscious that comes out in a flash of inspiration one of us or both of us.

There was a song on the 5 song where I had come up with a part and Kevin had just come up with a part two days prior and they meshed so seamlessly. Much of our creative process is like that. It’s intuitive and it just falls in so naturally. The music is not necessarily challenging for us because it just arises as a part of us, so performing and recording the material were very comfortable and exciting process. It’s really pretty amazing for me. I’ve never created music, I’ve been a performer for a long time, but I’ve never been in a creative venue where I’ve been able to make music. It’s amazing to work with Kevin and have it just form in the way it does.

Do you play off that organic nature of how you mesh together in live improvisation?

K: We don’t do as much improv live as we used to. When we first got together and it was just Erica and I, we ended up getting tossed out of a lot of bars for doing improv that just went on and on. It was really loud, and honestly, not very good.

E: It didn’t have the strength our current projects do.

K: It was organic but not as cohesive as the current and new material. Most of our improv comes when we write things. The song she was talking about we actually wrote on a car ride. It felt like we were a mouthpiece for something, like something was singing through us.

That’s amazing! I have to say, I’m a bit jealous.


In regards to Albany, how’s the scene? Any band or clubs we should check out next time we’re up there?

K: In general, Albany suffers, as many towns do, where live music is supported fully.

E: Especially original live music. But, The Albany Sonic Arts Collective, which is comprised of some friends of ours, is celebrating its one-year anniversary so there are people who are appreciative and the interest is growing.

K: there is a small undercurrent of original and interesting music starting to grow; music that you would want to hear and that affects you. It’s pretty grass roots, which is how is should be, generally.

Is there anything that you would like to extend to the people showing up to the show on Dec. 5th?
K: Gratitude!

E: Bring ear plugs!

We’ll have to check it out. For the next release I saw you're looking to release it on vinyl. Any pitch you'd like to make for any labels or benefactors who may be reading this?

E: Its really good and you’ll want to release it!!

FREE! Zine released today!!!

Stop down to No Radio or Volume Records for your very own copy of the first issue of FREE! (an Ithaca Underground zine). Look for interviews with The World/Inferno Friendship Society (thanks Sarah!!), Fox Trotsky, Bermuda Triangles, Bone Parade, and - the latter two will perform at No Radio this Friday. Let us know if they run out and we'll print more.

Also included are upcoming shows, a poem, a recipe for home made lemon beer (don't drink if you're not of age, pay your taxes, blah blah blah...) AND the first installment of the graphic short Job Does Not Make The Girl!

If you missed this months deadline, start thinking now and get it to us as you can!! Email contact at ithacaunderground dot com with subbmissions.

...in other news, SUBMEDIA will be at the Ghost Cat Co-op tonight 514 N Aurora St at 7PM
WWW.SUBMEDIA.TV

See you tonight or this Friday!