The Emotron: Aug 5th @ The Shop!

Greetings from the underground!

Great show this Wednesday at The Shop featuring The Emotron, Who Goest There?, Perfect Future, Ballistic Shit Circus, Agog. Doors at 8PM – we’ll get started shortly thereafter!

The Emotron (Philadelphia, PA)
Who Goes There? (Pittsburg, PA)
Perfect Future (MD)
Ballistic Shit Circus
Agog

Wed August 5th

The Shop
312 E Seneca St
Ithaca, NY
8PM $5

**UPDATE: Mose Giganticus's guitarist is unable to tour at this time. Their entire tour has been cancelled. The show will go on and we were able to add another tour to support The Emotron on this date!!

http://www.myspace.com/perfectfuture
http://www.myspace.com/whogoestherepgh

Once again on tour with Mose, is the infamous THE EMOTRON. Jeez, how the hell am I supposed to describe this… OK, so what would you do if just after seeing The Berettas and The Rolemodels play you saw a man with huge creep-o glasses, a cowboy hat, an American flag shirt, black jeans tucked in his boots and a big ol’ pot belly. Just stand there? That’s what pretty much everyone did, except me who was in the corner maniacally laughing because I knew what was about to happen. Enter in cheesy 8-bit programming, freak-out dancing, singing, screaming – and you realize, “Holy crap. 80s and 90s pop has just been cornholled.” This dude is one of the best performers around, I swear. 7 outfit changes (including a leotard and zebra striped tights) and a crotch fire later we’re all sweaty and out of breath from dancing and smiling to classics like “As Your Teenage Vagina Bleeds,” “1989,” and other things that can probably get you arrested.

The Emotron has a new album all finished up that will see the light of day in the fall. Prep yourself for new tracks, new costumes (troll clothes?), and the next level of offensive. If you’re good he might even play “Michael Jackson’s Dead.” So leave your political correctness at the door, get ready to dance, and don’t be a Hellen Keller or The Emotron will call your ass out!! Still don’t get it? Think Human Host or Atom and His Package crossed with GG Allen and Cher. Oh hell I don’t know…
http://www.myspace.com/theemotron

Stoked for this show is the awesomely named BALLISTIC SHIT CIRCUS. Last seen supporting the Red vs. Black tour kick off show leaving everyone’s jaws on the floor (inc RvB) at their stellar first live performance of their spazzed-out squelchy punk madness. This gets stuck in my head all day long.
http://www.myspace.com/ballisticshitcircus

Also last seen at the RvB show, the mighty one man punk force – AGOG. Soon to be a trio, this man shows you what great music can come from voice, a guitar, and a socially and politically conscious mind.
http://www.myspace.com/555spout

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June Madrona (Olympia, WA)
Christopher Bell (Jamestown, NY)
Rye n' Clover
Fight A Scary Dog

Wed August 12th

The Shop
312 E Seneca St
Ithaca, NY
8PM $5

We'll get things started as shortly after 8PM as we can muster!

FOLK night! This ain't yo mama's folk night though. Hailing from Olympia, WA we've got June Madrona carting in guitars, melodica, banjo, glockenspiel, vocals and more. Headed up by DIY master and Bicycle Records owner, Ross Towman, these folkers are here to present their newest material, hopefully coming this fall. They've also got half a dozen previous releases to pull from as well! Look for the interview it the coming 9th issue of FREE!
http://www.myspace.com/junemadrona

Christopher Bell. I love when I get knocked off my feet unexpectedly. This fine gentleman brings a very unique spin to the one-man-folk-band table. Extremely talented, Christopher crafts clever lyrics ranging from sweet to dark humor, while playing cello and/or banjo, sometimes looping one and switching mid-song! A lot of fun and very catchy. Caught him at the Snip Das CD release show and immediately started setting up this show.
http://www.myspace.com/thechrisbell

Rye n' Clover is back in town and back playing shows with IU. See what new tricks and old goodies he's got up the sleeves of his black hoodie. He’ll close out the show with his banjo pluckin’ folk punk excellence!
http:// www.myspace.com/ryanclovermusic

Fight A Scary Dog return after their excellent first performance at the Ailments tour kick off gig. Four members all heavily vested in the IU circuit playing on guitar, banjo, bass and switching off vocal duties and styles constantly and seamlessly. They do a sick Choaking Victim cover too. Folk punk to the max! These fine folks will kick of these sweet night of great tunes.

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Open Star Clusters
Bahh Black Box
+TBA

The Shop
312 E Seneca St
Ithaca, NY 14850
Monday, August 17th
8PM $5 ALL AGES

Open Star Clusters (Connecticut)
www.myspace.com/openstarclusters

Bahh Black Box (Connecticut)
http://www.myspace.com/bahhblackbox

Both bands are part of a CT based music/art collective known as Tape Reels
For Eyes. http://www.tapereelscollective.com

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NOTE VENUE & TIME CHANGE. You won't want to miss this one!

Battlefields (Translation Loss - North Dakota)
Overmars (Crucial Blast Records - France)
Makeshift
Hiroshima Vacation

Plus acoustic intermissions by imadethismistake (Seekonk, MA) and Neil Sutherland (ESSEX, United Kingdom)

The Shop
312 E Seneca St
Ithaca, NY 14850
8PM Doors $5 ALL AGES

Performance to begin shortly after 8PM.

BATTLEFIELDS
http://www.myspace.com/battlefieldsdoom

If you haven't heard of Battlefields yet, you will soon. Their debut full length on Translation Loss (same label as Rosetta) gained rave reviews from the metal community and are the next chapter in the expanding sludge/doom/post-metal scene. Far beyond Neurosis/Isis worship (while still wearing the influence on their sleave) this is perfectly composed slowness that crushes you with epic climax and drags you back down.

OVERMARS
http://www.myspace.com/483439351

Even more exciting than landing Battlefields for a basement show is landing OVERMARS for a rare U.S. excursion. For those unaware, the underground French metal scene has been spewing out highly skilled, mutant metal for years now including Gorjira, HKY, Year of No Light, and of course, our guests OVERMARS. Here's some kind words from the awesome folks at Crucial Blast Records (where I first heard about the band) on their latest album:

"One of my favorite albums of 2008, Born Again is the new full length from France's Overmars, and it shows the band moving into a new sonic realm that leaves behind much of the epic Isis/Neurosis comparisons that dogged their previous releases. Previously released through the French imprint Appease Me, the label overseen by members of Blut Aus Nord, Born Again is a single album-long piece that descends deep into themes of self-immolation, horror, and rebirth, and becomes a harrowing narrative as it moves through a series of different musical moods. Overmars have already established their atmospheric, electronically-tainted sludge-metal sound on their excellent 2005 album Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo and all of the previous splits with Donefor,Iscariote, Fugüe and Icos, but Born Again is something new from the band; this forty-minute epic moves from pulverizing industrial dirge blanketed with heavily textured layers of processed guitar and fearsome guttural roars intermixed with captivating female vocals, to passages of haunting dark ambience and bottom-heavy churn, and a magisterial finale that stretches gloom-ridden moody riffage, vaporous electronics and dramatic male/female singing across the song's final fifteen minutes, a tense, slow buildup that erupts into an earth-shaking crescendo of super heavy riffage. Immensely bleak and heavy, Born Again brings together elements of Godflesh's industrial pummel, black metal, tribal dirge , the violent nihilism of Swans, doomy death metal, and even some black strains of psychedelia into a monumental metallic black hole .

As soon as I heard this album, it became one of my new favorite records. I've been a fan of this French sludge group for a couple of years and loved their last album, which I thought was an interesting variation on the Neurosis/psychedelic sludge sound with its heavy use of electronics. And if you liked that album as much as I did, I'm pretty sure that you'll be blown away by this darker new form that the band has taken" - Crucial Blast Records

Imadethismistake is also the owner of The Cottage records which put out Mose Giganticus’ last 7” – which is how they heard of us! He’s helping us how to handle the situation with The Pirate House so let’s give him lots of support for supporting us! Turns out he’s a huge Battlefields fan. They were in need of an Aug 19th gig on the two month tour with Neil Sutherland from the UK, so they’ll provide awesome acoustic interludes between bands.

http://www.myspace.com/imadethismistake
http://www.myspace.com/neilsutherlandandfriends

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Thanks for all you support!!! Huge thanks again to Phoebe for letting us switch all of our shows at the house to The Shop.

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~Bubba