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Floris Vanhoof
vanishing voice + non horse + jelle crama's hammer costume + dolphins/slime2012 decorations at helbard halloween, den haag
dinosaurs w/ horns in hasselt, brussel and amsterdam
tony conrad with mv carbon & guests: 45 years on the infinite plain at argos fest, bozar brussel
space cactus, aaron dilloway + vorex campaign at hard gaan, hasselt
eliane radigue, volcano the bear at pauze, vooruit, gent
art & language painting at sound of music, kortrijk
films/performances: bruce mcclure, malcolm le grice (horror film 1) and peter tscherkassky at filmfestival rotterdam;
joost rekveld at vooruit gent; tony conrad the flicker at filmmuseum brussel; jack smith evening at muhka-media antwerp


Heather Leigh Murray | Volcanic Tongue
1)Tight Meat with Sonny Simmons-Glasgow/CCA
2)Thurston Moore Group-San Fran, London and Paris
3)Richard Youngs-Glasgow University
4)Paul Hession/David Keenan Duo-Glasgow
5)Lamborghini Crystal-Brighton/Colour Out Of Space
6)Henri Chopin-Brighton/Colour Out Of Space
7)Diamanda Galas-Newcastle/Music Lovers
8)Junko/Masayoshi Urabe-Newcastle/Music Lovers
9)Orphan Fairytale-Glasgow/ABC
10)Family Battlesnake-Glasgow/CCA


Matt Krefting | Torch Singer Stud
1. Justin Timberlake - Boston
1. Ramleh - Brooklyn
2. Emeralds - Easthampton
2. Josh Burkett behind a tarp - Amherst
2. Tarp - Everywhere
2. Thurston Moore Group - Northampton
2. Scott Foust - Amherst
2. Noise Nomads - Amherst
2. Festival Ecstatique - Florence/Amherst
2. Sam Goldberg - Northampton
Plus I'll bet Jamie and I watched The Last Waltz 20 times this year -- easy.


shaun pryszlak
1) Art Brut - C2, Brighton
2) Sonic Youth - Roundhouse, London
3) Earth, Boris & Sunn 0))) - Forum, Brighton
4) Terminal Screwdriver - Brighton
5) Metronomy @ Loop Festival - Brighton
6) Silver Mt Zion ... - Komedia, Brighton
7) Howe Gelb - Hanbury Ballrooms, Brighton
8) Vic Chessnut - C2, Brighton
Top 2 Missed Gigs
1) Thurston Moore - London
2) Yellow Swans - Brighton


Lars Gotrich | Thor's Rubber Hammer:
1) Slayer @ 9:30 Club (Washington, DC)
2) Daedelus @ Next to Last Fest (Athens, GA)
3) Borbetomagus, Lexie Mountain @ Floristree (Baltimore, MD)
4) ICP Orchestra @ Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
5) Boris @ Black Cat (Washington, DC)
6) Animal Collective @ 9:30 Club (Washington, DC)
7) Low @ 9:30 Club (Washington, DC)
8) Charles Gayle @ Twins Jazz (Washington, DC)
9) His Name is Alive @ Black Cat (Washington, DC)
10) Long Legged Woman, Garbage Island, Cat People + Telenovela, better people, etc. @ Secret Squirrel (Athens, GA)


Luke Younger
1) Rush - Wembley Arena, London
2) Merzbow + Keiji Haino + Incapacitants + Painjerk -
No Fun Fest, NY
3) Bloodyminded + Emeralds - The Flowershoppe, Chicago
4) Bill Nace - Time Machine Records, Easthampton
5) Brutal Knights + The Shitty Limits - The Cross
Kings, London
6) The Fall - Norfolk
7) Junko + " " [sic] GOLDIE/Philip
Best/Mattin + Slither - Shop Basement, Berlin
8) Sightings - Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia
9) Skullflower + Kevin Drumm + Pulse Emitter + Sarah's
Charity/Family Battlesnake - Lygten Station 2,
Copenhagen
10) Colour Out of Space - Brighton (Usurper, Jaap
Blonk, Raionbashi/Kutzkelina, Henri Chopin, Blood
Stereo...)


moosejawaka | noise nomads, grey skull, buddyship, moosethrone
1) the entire buddyship/blueshift tour down to INC. and many amazing
performances there
2) bastard noise @ florence ma. vfw
3) kites / russian tsarlag / halves and thirds / lazy magnet / god willing
4) northampton wools
5) hardline elephants in lowell
6) PAK in various locations
7) paul flaherty
8) gladtree : byron coley, ben hersey, sara jaffe, lightbulb, laudible pus,
group hug, id m theftable
9) fatwormoferror @ mercy house upon their return from eurotrippin
10) roger stella in providence and holyoke


Steve Hauschildt | Emeralds
1. C Spencer Yeh - various
2007 was unequivocally "the Year of the Yeh" ... standout collabs were conrad/yeh @ issue project room, wiese/yeh @ silent barn, mackenzie/yeh @ cafe bourbon. fave solo style was @ pa's lounge in boston .. fave haircut = mid-late december 2007
2. Bloodyminded - The Flower Shoppe - Chicago, IL
Now this was insane..friday night gig in chicago w/ tha hometown heros, surprised the greenhouse didn't burst into a million shardz..killer burritos down the street too
3. Princess Dragonmom - DAAC - Grand Rapids, MI
Good ole gin in the lava lamp thing that is lit up never gets old..
4. Glass Organ - The Church - Minneapolis, MN
So depressing the place ended up getting fucking dozed/replaced by a shitty childrens hospital parking lot or whatever.. fuck that
5. Nautical Almanac - Skylab - Columbus, OH
Twig & Carly held it down w/o Max and were somehow even trippier fucked up feedback flute glowing shapes than before
6. Sightings - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
Dudes played the best set of their lives to like fucking no one, simultaneously humiliated guitar center strobelight mediocrity of the opening Drycleaner band or wutever
7. Raionbashi & Kutzkelina - The Hook - Brooklyn, NY
I like it when a set can metaphorically toss your expectations out of the window hyperbole of a moving vehicle in a good way
8. The Skaters - 37 Fair St. - Northampton, MA
Even the splendor of an Olsonian vocabulary can't convey the inside-magnificence of "Vatos"
9. Tusco Terror - Pat's in the Flats - Cleveland, OH
This was the most krazed/memorable Tusco gig ever, EVER..lasted maybe 5 minutes? a fucking milestone. a private prison riot with your roommates and lazy magnet dude. footage of this exists on someones cellphone somewhere
10. Birds of Delay - Don Pedro's - Brooklyn, NY
The epic closing gig of the summer tour w/ sunburned taylor jamming john's MS-10 and Warwick, after building impossible drone on a casio with 3 keys left on it, out of nowhere jumps on whofuckingknows drumset on the stage starts blasting birchville beats except fast, meanwhile luke is shimmering diaper electronics after an emeralds set where all of my shit just straight up broke...


Conor Dunphy | VESID
1. Little Wings, Wooden Wands, WOODS // Cinders, NYC
2. The Mongoloids // Knitting Factory, NYC
3. Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether // Reena Spaulings, NYC
4. Redd Kross // Southpaw, NYC
5. The Howling Hex // Bar, New Haven, CT
6. Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly // SNL, NYC
7. Wordisbon // Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC
8. Amina & Amiri Baraka // The Stone, NYC
9. Dan Deacon // Silent Barn, NYC
10. Elohim Marino // Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Alan Lien"
Date: January 1, 2008 1:49:57 AM EST
To: poll@ecstaticpeace.com
Subject: 2007 Ecstatic Peace Live Performance Poll


aljen lien l fountain bloom/ sand rattle kins/ misty odor /chinatown
1)avarus - baltimore @ floristree
2)fuyuki yamakawa - baltimore @ floristree
3)mangina tent @ my house baltimore
4)smegma @ no fun
5)keiji haino @ no fun
6)vodka soap in my imagination
7)idm theftable @ high zero
8)black dice baltimore
9)ficara pacchu in my imagination
10)abdul karim khan


Aaron Phillip Tate | Mirabile Dictu | Ithaca Experimental
1) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Brooklyn)
2) Sleepwalkers Local 242, Stone Baby, Century Plants, Mirabile Dictu,
Antique Brothers - No Radio Records (Ithaca)
3) Mouthus, Sunburned, Gown - a basement in Ithaca
4) Tim Feeney & Vic Rawlings - No Radio Records (Ithaca)
5) Incapacitants - No Fun Festival (Brooklyn)
6) Bill Nace - Helderberg House/Flipped Out Records (Albany)
6.5) Dead Machines - Helderberg House/Flipped Out Records (Albany)
7) Sunburned w/ Paul Flaherty - Festival of Endless Gratitude (Brattleboro)
7.5) Heathen Shame - Gladtree Festival
8) Charalambides & GHQ - Soundlab (Buffalo)
8.5) Ike Yard & Lexxus - Lost Dog Lounge (Ithaca)
9) Aki Onda & Alan Licht - Cornell University (Ithaca)
10) Century Plants & Burnt Hills - anywhere and everywhere


THE NIGHT RIDER
1)SUNBURNED-MONTREAL
2)AURTHERED MYTH-WAVE FARM
3)SUNBURNED-GREENPOINT CHURCH FESTIVAL
4)FRANKLINS MINT-JOHN SINCLAIR-YIPPIE MUSEUM NYC
5)GOWN-BAR-NEW HAVEN CT
6)NO NECK BLUES BAND-BARD
8)EMERALDS-(THE MISTAKE BY THE LAKE)E
9)EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND-KNITTING FACTORY
10)BUNNY BRAINS-HUDSON OCT31


R sutherland
VODKASOAP set at IFMH in oakland
so you get the influence from.....and sit down and watch this shit trip
Skaters gangSY DAYDREAM show in brooklyn didn't
go in but ate food 3 blocks away to the sounds BLOW OUT!


Sarah & Guillaume | Ecstatic Peace Label fans
1) Sonic Youth @ La Villette Jazz Fest, Paris (August)
2) Boredoms, Dirty Projectors, M. Gira @ Sonic City, Kortijk, Belgium (September)
3) Joanne Robertson, Sunburned & Jackie o motherfucker @ Soy Fest, Nantes, France (October)
4) Thurston Groop & Heather Leigh Murray @ Trabendo, Paris, France (November)
5) Patti Smith @ Olympia, Paris, France (May)
6) Beastie Boys @ Le Zenith, Paris, France (June)
7) Sonic Youth playing Daydream Nation @ Roundhouse, London, UK (September)
8) Arcade Fire @ Olympia, Paris, France (March)
9) All shows @ Instants Chavires, Paris, France (all the time)
10) The Melvins @ La Maroquinerie, Paris, France (April)


Sick Llana (Burnt Hills > Helderberg House > Albany NY)
1) Bill Nace
2) Burnt Soil
3) Century Plants
4) Dead Machines
5) Demons
6) Hardline Elephants
7) Harrius
8) La Otracina
9) Sightings
10) Tom Carter
11) Wovoka


Craig Stewart | Emperor Jones Beef Settlement LLC
1) Michael Hurley & Ralph White @ Shawn and Steph's house (Austin TX)
2) Freddie King Jr and other scuzzy blues bangers in the wee backyard of a gallery on Magazine St (New Orleans LA)
3) Three Six Mafia at Stubb's (Austin TX)
4) Pink Reason and Psychedelic Horseshit at Sound on Sound Records (Austin TX)
5) Rahdunes at Queerland (Austin TX)
6) Cowtown Blues version of Jandek w/Susan Alcorn & others (Fort Worth stockyards, TX)
7) UGK @ 401 Guadalupe parking lot (last UGK show ever, R.I.P. Pimp C) (Austin TX)
8) Mr. Pookie and Mr. Lucci @ Visions (Austin TX)
9) The Dicks @ Emo's (Austin TX)
10) Roky Erickson @ Paramount Theatre following debut screening of You're Gonna Miss Me (Austin TX)


Sam Goldberg | Cleveland Dude
1) fat worm of error on the roof @ embassy (played on the roof, vidz on youtube)
2)tony conrad / c. spencer yeh collab. @ issue project room
3) the skaters @ 37 fair street basement in northampton
4) SKIN GRAFT (every show was amazing this year)
5) taiwan deth in there own basement in nashville, mid summer
6) circle @ the grog shop
7)demons @ diamond shinerz r.i.p.
8)greg cartwright @ pass out records
9) deathroes @ diamond shinerz r.i.p.
10) lilypad @ now thats class


dennis tyfus | ultra eczema
Top Ten Live Performances of 2007: in random order!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (*_*)
1) HENRI CHOPIN at colour out of space fest in brighton!
i got booze gums when he stood up from his wheelchair and swinged his arms around like a maniac!
2) the complete WOLF EYES euro tour in spring and the acoustic(!!!) WOLF EYES show at the edge of the world! and of course the popcon afterparties of these shows which u can see here; http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJdEpEUplWw
3) WERNER HERZOG's lecture at muhka media in antwerp
i could hear this guy's voice all day whether his stories are true or false doesnt matter!
4) HELICOPTERE SANGLANTE at hard gaan fest.
this french croisant belongs in a mental institute
(consumer electronics, white mice, kris vanderstraeten etc were all great too there!)
5) VOGUE and DAMAGED GOODS at envers soi/ antwerp
a new wild antwerp HC band and steven tuffin's oldskool slamdance band together in the tinyiest basement in town! upstairs from the basement is a church. some nutcase woman squizzzed my arm and told me god told her he loves me, i was lucky!
6) BILL NACE the guitar molester and PEACEMAKER at scheldapen/antwerp
had a great time when these western mass loverboys stayed here for 2 weeks!! all antwerp girls miss bill and still ask for his phonenumber. also the whole HARDLINE ELEPHANTS tour with BILL and CHRIS COOPER was a blast!!!
7) HEAVY INDIANS, LUDO MICH AND FAMILY (with kati heck) at AIR/ antwerp.
best summer party of last year, heavy indians played in the garden underneath a tiny plastic tarp, rain was poring down, everything was covered in water, and everyone stayed dancing till 6 in the morning to the ramones, red zebra, cambodian rocks, sun city girls etc..
8) LITTLE HOWLING WOLF at radio centraal/antwerp
some drunk woman broke into the studio in the midle of a story about LITLE HOWLING WOLF being the inspiration for the A TEAM.. wolf kicked the drunk woman out and told her she should read the bible..
9) NO FUN FESTIVAL in new york!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( kutzelina and raonbashi, DEMONS, LUDO MICH with the polly shang girls, and especally LESLI KEFFER WITH ROGER STELLA!!!!!!)
probably the best family party of the year
10) IDM THEFT ABLE at rotkot/ antwerp
IDM kept repeating anything in dutch/flemish for a solid half hour. people went banana's!
11) number 11 is a extra list of gnarly times!! i already forgot what a great year i just had!!
LIEVEN SEGERS daning on stage while daniel johnston is playing!
the SUBLIME FREQUENCIES dj set at scheldapen!
the WHITE CIRCLE CRIME CLUB at charlatan in ghent!
the anti racist open air event at st paulusplaats/antwerp (with damaged goods)!
AARON DILLOWAY in rotterdam!!!!!!!!!!!
radio sessions by GIFFONI and HIVE MIND, HENRI CHOPIN, ANTI EAR, LIZ ALBEE, ORPHAN FAIRYTALE, et.. at radio centraal!
NOISE NOMADS with PAUL FLAHERTY in some school in w mass!!!
ALL BUDDIES (nace and cooper duo) SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
visiting SCOTT FOUST in his house!!
visiting JACOB BERENDES second hand store!
crashing BREAKING WORLD's house!
eating sausages etc with sundried elephants!
THE BOREDOMS in kortrijk!!!!
JAC BERROCAL in ghent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ERIC THIELEMANS solo snare drum piece in mechelen in a giant hall!!!!
CASSIS CORNUTA, ORPHAN FAIRYTALE and WHITE CIRCLE CRIME CLUB at kopstoot in amsterdam!
SONIC YOUTH and BURPS OF DELAY in berlin!!!
HEATHER LEIGH at AB in brussels!!
LUCAS ABELA in berlin!
KUUPUU and PAMI at colour out of space!!!
BOROKOV BOROKOV at ward's benefit party / antwerp!!
PAX TITANIA at radio centraal!
i hope this isn't too much, i can't decide what was best!
best wishes
dennischhhhhh


Peter Agoston | Knitting Factory
1) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation NYC - Summer 07
2) Awesome Color as Dinasour Jr - Hallowwen Brooklyn 07
3) Spencer Doran live in Tokyo @ O-Nest - May 07
4) Taylor McFerrin live @ Knitting Factory - Oct 07
5) DJ Thanksgiving Brown DJing Knitting Factory X-Mas partee last nite.
6) Aids Wolf - CMJ
7) Chromeo @ Studio B Summer 07
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9) Brand Nubian - live in Bozeman, Montrana - Sept 07
10)


Ryan Kuehn | WCSB RT 956
i vote for EMERALDS


Andrew Wilson | Artists' Television Access, San Francisco CA
1) Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, Jana Hunter, Scary Mansion, Michael Leviton @ 21 Grand, Oakland CA
2) Sightings, Axolotl, Bulbs, Lemon Bear @ Uptown Nightclub, Oakland, CA
3) Dirty Projectors, Yacht, White Rainbow @ Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA
4) Jack Rose, MV & EE @ Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco CA
5) Man Man @ Transit, Philadelphia, CA
6) Jessica Rylan, Naomi, Captain Ahab, Gowns @ 21 Grand, Oakland CA
7) Sunburned, Zaika, Holy Experiment, Steve Gunn & Johnny T @ ORT, Brooklyn, NY
8) Sunburned, Gown, Year of the Pig, White Mice @ Nightlight, Chapel Hill, NC
9) Magik Markers, Axolotl, Rahdunes @ Amnesia, San Francisco, CA
10) MV & EE, Thurston Moore @ Iron Horse, Northampton, MA


jason martin | troy, http://www.myspace.com/evolutionrevolution
- a group of musicians from india who stopped by an open mic after a performance nearby, and taught us this chant that shot energy out our crown chakras while they played
- thurston moore, paul flaherty, chris corsano and friends, with crowd surfing amps
- bob dylan n elvis costello
- aids wolf
- yomlyuk with brooke c on gtr
- a particularly killer set from the older gentleman who plays blues at the farmers market
- dropdead
- solo acoustic dan bunny in his parking lot
- flaming fire
- latitude longitude


Andre Foisy | Locrian/Unlucky Atlas
1) Prurient @ The Flower Shop, Chicago
2) Mouthus @ The Empty Bottle, Chicago
3) Envenomist/Mark Solotroff, @ The Red Room, Kalamazoo, MI
4) Number None @ Danny's, Chicago
5) Michael Gira @ The Lakeshore Theater, Chicago
6) Haptic @ The Fugue State Festival, Chicago
7) The Fortieth Day +Noise Crush @ The Fugue State Festival, Chicago
8) Aaron Dilloway, Mark Solotroff @ Columbia College Chicago
9) Lambsbread @ the Flower Shop, Chicago
10) Warmer Milks @ the Empty Bottle, Chicago



Pete Matthews | Feast of Music
1) Berlin Philharmonic: The Rite of Spring at the United Palace Theater, 11/18/07
2) Karlheinz Stockhausen: world premiere of "Cosmic Pulses" at the Auditorium Della Musica, Rome, 5/7/07
3) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, Cond., Carnegie Hall, 3/7/07
4) Audrey Chen: Issue Project Room, 3/16/07
5) Nico Muhly and Sigur Ros at Wordless Music Series, 10/5/07
6) Paul Jacobs, Messiaen's Livre du Saint Sacrament, 10/8/07
7) Konstantin Lifschitz, Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Books I and II, 5/28/07
8) Emerson String Quartet, Complete Beethoven Quartets, June 2007
9) Austin City Limits Festival, 9/14/07
10) Bang on a Can Marathon, World Financial Center Wintergarden, 6/2-6/3/07


Brian Turner | WFMU
Magma, Clup Europa in Greenpoint
Clockcleaner/Rusted Shut/Snake Apartment, Raven's Den in Ridgewood
Redd Kross at Southpaw, Brooklyn
Alan Vega at Southpaw, Brooklyn
Lexie Mountain Boys, WFMU record Fair in NYC
Tinariwen, in-store at Other Music, NYC
Roky Erickson & the Explosives, Bowery Ballroom, NYC
4 nights of the Clean, Cake Shop NYC and Maxwells, Hoboken
Theo Angell, Cake Shop, NYC
Sightings, Cake Shop, NYC
Blues Control, everyplace
Assorted awesome live sets hosted at WFMU this year: Sic Alps, Cadaver Eyes, Steve Mackay & the Blue Prostitutes, Major Stars, Circle, To Live and
Shave in LA, Brown Wing Overdrive, Koenjihyakkei, Black Mayonnaise, Z'ev,
Sikhara, Blues Control, Psychedelic Horseshit.


john moloney I sunburned, michael flower band, golden road
in no order:
1) warmer milks - bookmill, montague, ma
2) thibault delferierie / athyr myth'd - louvain-la-nueve
3) franklin's mint - free 103 wave farm, acra, NY
4) amolvacy - bard college
5) flaherty / nace / corsano / moore / hartford - basement show,
northampton, ma
6) birds of delay - nom d' artiste, boston, ma
7) the taco bells - tampere, finland
8) dan higgs - berlin
9) pengo - bug jar, rochester, NY
10) boredoms - 77 boadrum, brookyn
11) sonic youth - daydream nation, brooklyn
12) sightings - non d'artiste, boston
13) vibracathedral orchestra - newcastle, england
14) charalambides - bookmill, montague, ma
15) burnt hills - brattleboro,vt


Tiffany Anders | Anders & Woods
1) Tinariwen
2) Richard Hawley
3) Valerie Project
4) Dinosaur Jr
5) Animal Collective
6) Mark Fosson
7) Bolero
8) Redd Kross
9) Mark Fosson
10) Black Dice


Nate Rulli
1)Magik Markers
2)Heavy Winged
3)Time Life
4)Human Adult Band
5)Mouthus
6)Yo La Tengo
7)Raccoo-oo-oon
8)Slasher Risk
9)X04
10)GHQ


Jim Fahy | CIMS
1) boris (bottletree - Birmingham, AL)
2) battles (bottletree)
3) douquette johnson and ann marie hearst (bottletree)
4) sharon jones and the dap kings (in battery park. the apollo show was pretty good too)
5) sonic youth (daydream nation at mccaren park pool)
6) damon and naomi (with kurihara) (bottletree)
7) dead confederate (the nick - birmingham, al -- they played a great sonic youth cover set, too, at the 40 Watt)
8) chuck prophet - somewhere in Nashville
9) glossary - bottletree
10) electric mountain (final show) / deadly fists of kung fu (the nick)


Corey Charron | Music Director WMUA 91.1 UMass-Amherst
1) Spank Rock at the Filmore in NYC
2) Wolf Parade at the Tweeter Center in Boston
3) Mission of Burma at Pearl Street Clubroom in Northampton, MA
4) Man Man opening for Modest Mouse at Lupo's in Providence, RI
5) Islands/Saturday Looks Good to Me at the R-Bar in NYC
6) Of Montreal at the Avalon in Boston
7) The National at the Middle East in Boston
8) Sonic Youth and Wooden Wand at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA
9) Xiu Xiu at the Blender Theater in NYC
10) Arcade Fire at the Orpheum Theater in Boston


James Derdock
1) Bill Frisell Trio @ Ram's Head in Annapolis
2) Deathroes @ Velvet Lounge (tour of the summer?)
3) Circle @ DC9
4) Insect Factory (awesome set) /Blues Control @ Velvet Lounge
4) Jack Rose/Glenn Jones/Black Twig Pickers @ True Vine
5) Om @ Rock N' Roll Hotel
6) Graveyards @ Velvet Lounge
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MATTHEW WASCOVICH | Thee Scarcity of Tanks:
1) HA HA LA - Town Hall, Chagrin Falls, OH
2) D.B.H. - Bela Dubby Cafe, Lakewood, OH
3) Woman's Worth, Matt Baumann, Skulllab, Cincinnati,
OH
4) Sic Alps - Pat's in the Flats, Cleveland, OH
5) Daniel Higgs - Velvent Lounge, Washington, DC
6) Andrew Klimek - Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, OH
7) Plastic Crimewave Sound - The Hideout, Chicago, IL
8) Fat Worm of Error - Parish Hall, Cleveland, OH
9) Scraping Teeth - Now That's Class, Cleveland, OH
10) Mikey Wild selling paintings - Bobo's,
Philadelphia, PA
11) These Are Powers - Tower 2012, Cleveland, OH
12) Jenna Barvitski & Kyle Farrell - Visible Voice
Books, Cleveland, OH
13) Paul Metzger, Tim Kaiser - Visible Voice Books,
Cleveland, OH
14) Theodore Vril - True Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
15) Terminal Lovers, AV-aerie - Chicago, IL
16) Chris Grier - trainhopping in America
17) Abbas's Garage - New Brunswick, NJ
18) Sublime Frequencies label - Seattle, WA
19) Smegma Recorrds - Portland, OR
20) Pufftube recordings - Cleveland, OH
21) RIP in 2007: Charles Gocher Jr, Benoit
Sonnette, Donald Ayler


Steve Marreyt | (K-RAA-K)3
Top Ten Live Performances of 2007:
1) Comets On Fire, Brussels
2) Witchcraft, Tilburg
3) Traed Graes Och Stenar, Tilburg
4) Volcano The Bear, Gent
5) Little Howlin Wolf, Hasselt
6) Acid Furious, Gent
7) Laserquest, Den Haag
8) Sic Alps, Gent
9) Jos Steen, Brussel
10) The Ex, Opwijk


Rob Spampinato
1) iggy & stooges - united palace
2) daft punk - keyspan
3) spiritualized - apollo
4) grinderman - MSG [opening for white stripes]
5) os mutantes - lincoln center
6) boris - music hall
7) ooioo - knitting factory
8) neil young - united palace
9) panda bear - bowery
10) explosions in the sky - the concert hall
Honorable mentions
Tinariwen
Arcade Fire - Judson church
Rhys Chatham guitar trio all-stars
Jarvis Cocker
Beirut w/ Final fantasy - normally horrific live, this was a great night
Sonic Youth - daydream nation live
Animal Collective
Dirty Projectors
Deerhunter
Weird Al Yankovic
Morricone @ Radio City


Giancarlo Bracchi| Thick Wisps, Mangoon
1) Incapacitants Live at No Fun Fest
2) Tony Conrad and Carbon live at La Superette 12/14
3) Bunnybrains live at Free103point9 Wave Farm Tune Out 2007 07/07/07
4) Raionbaishi and Kutzkelina live at No Fun Fest
5) Panda Bear at Bowery Ballroom 06/18/07
6) Pissed Jeans at Death by Audio 9/14/07
7) Pauline Oliveros @ Lincoln Center 8/21
8) Elliott Sharp @ D22, Beijing China 4/20/07
9) Psychic TV @ PS1, 8/4/2007
10) Talibam! @ St. Mark's Church, 5/10/07


Josh Ferrel | Fan, artist, musician
1) THE THING - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT, MI
5) THOLLEM MCDONNAS AND GUESTS - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT, MI
6) TONY CONRAD W/ MV CARBON, WOLF EYES - MOCAD, DETROIT, MI
4) MAGIK MARKERS - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT, MI
3 ) TATSUYA NAKATANI AND DAVID STAKANAS - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT
10) REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT
9) SUN RA ARKESTRA W/ MARSHALL ALLEN - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT
7) AMIINA - MAGIC BAG, DETROIT, MI
8) JACK ROSE / GLENN JONES - BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME, DETROIT
2) YOKO ONO W/ THURSTON MOORE - PITCHFORK, CHICAGO, IL


Hans van der Linden
1) Circle - MS Stubnitz (Amsterdam)
2) Comets On Fire - Recyclart (Brussels)
3) Daniel Higgs - Kraakfestival (Hasselt)
4) Low - Primaverasound (Barcelona)
5) Traed Graes Och Stenar - ZXZW (Tilburg)
6) Burial Chamber - Recyclart (Brussels)
7) Tarentel - Tanned Tin (Castellon)
8) Vic Chesnutt - 4AD (Diksmuide)
9) The Ex - Nijdrop (Opwijk)
10) Volcano The Bear - Pauzefestival (Gent)


Carlos Giffoni | No Fun Productions
1) Incapacitants at No Fun 2) Merzbow at No Fun
3) Enema Syringe at No Fun
4) Religious Knives at No Fun
5) Ramleh P.E. performance in Brooklyn
6) Demons with Twig at Tonic
7) Sonic Youth at McCarren Park Pool
8) Hive Mind at the Hague in Netherlands
9) Spencer Yeh + John Wiese all tour
10) Emeralds in Cleveland during giffoni/burnign star core/prurient tour


Nate Dorr | Impose Magazine / Popmatters.com / Flavorpill NYC
1) Cardboard Records CMJ Showcase (Big Bear, Gowns, Flying, High Places, Shooting Spires; Cakeshop, NYC)
2) Whartscape 2007 (Dirty Projectors, Cex, Ponytail, Dan Deacon, Spank Rock; Baltimore)
3) Todd P's Roosevelt Island Springtime Free Accoustic BBQ (Aa, High Places, Dirty Projectors, etc)
4) Magik Markers and Racoo-oo-oo-oon (Silent Barn, Brooklyn)
5) Lightning Bolt, DMBQ, Aa, the Apes (Above the Auto Parts Store, Brooklyn)
6) Parts & Labor, Matt & Kim, Death Set, Best Fwends (unnamed Moore st. space, Brooklyn)
7) Dirty Projectors, Spectre Folk, and Effi Briest (Death by Audio, Brooklyn)
8) Zs and Excepter (Issue Project Room, Brooklyn)
9) Girl Talk, Pterodactyl, Parts & Labor (Studio B, Brooklyn)
10) High Places, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, the Punks (Silent Barn, Brooklyn)


Marcy Saude | Zayante Spoils
1) These Are Powers- Diamond Days Festival, Brooklyn, NY and Practice Space, Ames, Iowa
2) Binges and Silver Daggers- Practice Space
3) Weasel Walter improv avec fireworks and Sword & Sandals in front of John Benson's big white bus, best July 4th ever, San Francisco
4) Woman's Worth- Practice Space
5) Magik Markers- Picador, Iowa City
6) Gowns- Practice Space
7) Leslie & the Lys on a flatbed truck in front of the smoke-billowing downtown Ames power plant at sunset
8) Jandek- Grinnell College, Iowa even though the bitchy ticket girl almost wouldn't let me in for being 3 minutes late to a free show and all the Grinnell kids bailed after one song
9) Garbaj Kaetz- in the cosmic consciosness
10) All the other amazing bands who took the time to come to Ames, Iowa


Jason | www.7inches.blogspot.com / looserecord.com
1) 77Boadrum / dumbo
2) the fucking champs / studio b
3) these are powers / death by audio
4) matt & kim / siren
5) battles / deerhunter / S. St. Seaport
6) fucoustic / don pedro's
7) coathangers / death by audio
8) the books / whitney
9) lightning bolt / northsix
10) handsome furs / mercury lounge


Joel Hutcheson | Horny Toad (Owner of Static Age Records)
1) John Waters - Live at UNCA, Asheville, NC
2) Circle - Live at Static Age Records, Asheville, NC
3) Witchcraft - Live at the Joli Rouge, Asheville, NC
4) Black Lips - Live at the Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
5) Zoroaster - Live at Static Age Records, Asheville, NC
6) Pink Reason - Live at Static Age Records, Asheville, NC
7) Baroness - Live at Static Age Records, Asheville, NC
8) Damo Suzuki - Live athe the Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
9) Ken Vandermark - Live at Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
10) Just Die! And Double Negative - Live at Gourmet Perks, Asheville, NC

Also, the Thurston Moore and Magik Markers are probably going in my top 10 albums this year!


Tom Smith | Miami Beach
Best-of lists are counter-intuitive hippie paradigms. Death to Oldth!


Pascal Hector | Meudiademorte Recs / Datashock / Tavatare
No particular order to it...
Vodka Soap @ Helbaard, Den Haag
Sunburned Hand Of The Man @ Juz Saarlouis
Cones @ Bremen, Zakk
Growing @ Juz Saarlouis
Cloudland Canyon @ Kassel
Marcel Tuerkowsky @ Jan Toropstraat, Amsterdam
The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden @ Juz Saarlouis
Yellow Swans @ Juz Saarlouis
Memorize The Sky @ Juz Saarlouis
Skull Defekts @ Juz Saarlouis
and maybe Ignatz @ Fleischmarkthalle Karlsruhe but i was to drunk...


jeff | insect factory
1) kohoutek with damo Suzuki & c spencer yeh
2) eddie current in dc
3) mouthus/yellow swans in dc
4) blues control at velvet lounge in dc
5) om in dc
6) acid mamas + mammatus at the KF in ny
7) alasehir, wooden Wand, GHQ, gown (backed by Sunburned Hand) amherst, april 07
8) avarus, cutest puppy in the world in dc
9) insect factory in kyoto, japan in august (sorry for the self promo)
10) seeing/playing with heavy winged + religious knives in ny at the silent barn



Ren Schofield | God Willing
hendrik @ zorba in paris, france early feb..weirdo pool noodle flute ensemble performance..fucked up.
blue shift @ INC in miami. totally insane to see someone get on stage with just one thing, in this case a violin, and totally kill it..
haircut mountain transit @ movie theatre, pasadena, ca. sometime in march..awesome. table full of gear over the head, 2 dudes screaming into the same mic. heavy.
everyday lonliness @ the smell. la. may 1st. didn't see this one coming. calm and mindblowing. left a crowd stunned sitting on the floor in silence when it was over...slow clapping.
tourette on the bus in oakland..may something..this ruled.
occasional detroit @ the curio. albuquerque, nm..early june.
left the 10 people there totally confused. singing into wooden blocks, faking seizures, etc...
leslie keffer @ deep montrose nashville, tn july 21st or something..
just plain weird sounding.
work/death. privy seals. @ lofires philadelphia. sept 1st.
never seen a privy set like this one...weird psyched out loops, and a verse of screaming...like he was singing a song or something, sounds gay, but it wasn't. followed by work/death stripping to plastic wrap underwear and hauling the PA around the room on his back.
tile @ muscle beach. allentown, pa. sept 3rd.
best rock band i've seen in a LOOONG time....guitar player lays down during the last song, leans over and punches some pedals, slowly gets up and starts raging again. excellent.
chris corsano + john olson @ some shed. ypsilanti, mi. sept 10th.
solid sax and drums jam. left both players looking satifsied.
unicorn hard on @ pehrspace. LA. early october.
HARSH.
lazy magnet @ my front lawn in nashville. late october.
"so weird to be so wrong so often"
kyle h mabson @ house house murfreesboro, tn.
somehow segways into "listen to your heart" techno jam, dancing around the room with his mouth wide open. keffer pours a beer down his throat, and we all know mabsons got the edge...dude spits it back in her face and goes in for the make out session.
talent.


ben parrish //// the punks / krs/5rc office/ numberoneblogdog.blogspot.com / every label ever
01) blues control at don pedro's nyc
02) telepathe at le voyeur olympia, wa
03) wooden wand + sonic youth at toad's place new haven, ct
04) marnie stern, hornet leg, the moms at le voyeur, olympia
05) dan deacon, lightning bolt at studio b brooklyn
06) yo majesty at holocene portland
07) raccoo-oo-on, yellow swans, binges, old time relijun at holocene poirtland
08) white magic at holocene
09) the moms / foque mopus at valentines portland
10) black dice at someday lounge


Adam Richards | house of alchemy/ the circle and the point
(no real order aside from #1 being mostestest)
1) Bottled Smoke Festival 2007- Echo Curio LA, CA- Mindblowing sets by (VxPxC), Thousands, Tarentel, Starving Weirdos, Antique Brothers, North Sea, Xela, Theo Angell, Heavy Winged, Robedoor, Ilyas Ahmed, Greg Kowalsky and so many more......
2) Gown & Sunburned- Mohawk Place- Buffalo
3) Charalambides & GHQ- Soundlab- Buffalo
4) Sleepwalkers Local 242/Antique Brothers/Century Plants/Stone Baby- Soundlab- Buffalo
5) ICP Orchestra - Hallwalls- Buffalo
6) Lightning Bolt- Soundlab- Buffalo
7) Wolf Eyes- Soundlab
8) Sleepwalkers Local 242/Antique Brothers/Century Plants/Stone Baby/Mirable Dictu- No Radio- Ithaca
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10)


gown | maccan welcome wagon
(in no real order)
1)sunburned is columbus, spring
2) magik markers, houston spring
3)mirror dash, hampshire...fall
4)calvin johnson, sackville...summer
5)charalambides, austin, spring
6)mv/ee, austin spring
7)matt krefting, all the time, but especially hampshire fall
8)lambsbread, a few times,
9)religious knives, winter
10)dredd foole, everytime


Steve Ritchey | Reckless Records Mailorder Dept
1) Paul Metzger @ Elastic Arts
2) Major Stars- @ Empty Bottle
3) Air Conditioning @ Flower Shop
4) Peter Broetzmann with Marino Pliakas & Michael Wertmueller @ Empty Bottle
7) Grinderman @ Metro
5) Magik Markers @ Shubas
6) Burning Star Core/ Prurient/ Carlos Giffoni @ Flower Shop
7) Grinderman @ Metro
8) Sunburned @ The Hideout
9) Nina Nastasia @ Shubas
10) Charlie Louvin @ Shubas


Kek
1) OM at Supersonic 07, Birmingham UK, July 07
2) Sunburned Hand of The Man at The Croft, Bristol, UK, Nov 07
3) Geitevuyst at Yeovil Snooker Club, UK, June 07
4) Shit and Shine at Supersonic 07
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j bearcat | mystery train records
1. boots & baby -house party
2. xo4- issue project room madness
3. deluxx & friends night at the eagles
4. michael hurley/ans(o'reilly/brooke) in ny
5. conrad's musique concrete clothes pin playback
6. fest of endless gratitude(ron-fest) brattleboro will never be the same...
7. bromp treb show at fitzwilly's yoga-land //plus the thurston band at pleasant st(same night...)
8. wind through branches heaviest deep woods noise jamz
9. jandek/pete nolan show -brooklyn, ny
10. 'scary t' kaustic's haunted piano haunting the answering machine(and hopefully haunting some wax grooves real soon)
 Be sure to check out the 2007 Charts at Volcanic Tongue.



Rey Diego | HexBreaker, music fan/collector
Earth - Brookdale Lodge, deep in the Santa Cruz mountains
Sword Heaven - House Party, Santa Cruz
Fursaxa/Family Underground/Axotol & Inca Ore collabo/Tomes - Thuja Space, Berkeley
Bottled Smoke Festival (highlights were: Starving Weirdos, Ghosting, Tarantel, Robedoor, White Rainbow) - Echo Curio/Mr. T's, Echo Park/Los Angeles
Whitehorse - 21 Grand, Oakland
Sonic Boom - The Attic, Santa Cruz
Old Time Relijun - Blue Lagoon, Santa Cruz
Rahdunes - Cafe Pergolesi, Santa Cruz
Akron/Family - Crepe Place, Santa Cruz


Chris Madak | Bee Mask
1) ohio experimental music festival, columbus/delaware, oh: fluxmonkey, iovae, shane mackenzie & kathy o'dell
2) gladtree festival, amherst/easthampton, ma: hototogisu, id m theft able
3) no fun fest, brooklyn, ny: raionbashi & kutzkelina, incapacitants, negative approach
4) ohio export/expat jams in/around cleveland: tusco terror at compound fest, thursday club at parish hall, skin graft in his laundry room, jason zeh & david reed at the embassy, hot air balloon ride at the language foundry, 16 bitch pile up at the tower, leslie keffer at the embassy, plasma tv-era emeralds in general
5) spencer yeh & tony conrad at issue project room, brooklyn, ny
6) new pledgemaster at raven matt's, ypsilanti, mi
7) birds of delay at parish hall, cleveland, oh
8) keith fullerton whitman at pa's, boston, ma
9) phill niblock at experimental intermedia, new york, ny
10) deathroes at diamond shiners, akron, oh


anthony decanini | binges
tent city @ the smell, la
brain transplant & lambsbread @ spooky action palace, st. louis
panicsville - live soundtrack to the brothers quay's "street of crocodiles" @ northwestern
university
accent of the future @ the practice space, ames iowa
woman's worth @ boris karloft, chicago
fat worm of error @ enemy, chicago
daniel higgs @ the empty bottle, chicago
unicorn hard-on, leslie keffer @ mr. city, chicago
sonore (brotzmann/vandermark/gustafsson) @ the hideout, chicago
friction brothers (zerang/colligan/lonberg-holm) @ the empty bottle, chicago
philip jeck @ lampo, chicago
piss piss piss moan moan moan @ hotti biscotti, chicago
mayor daley @ the flowershop, chicago
haptic/mark solotroff collaboration @ heaven & enemy, chicago
gianni gebbia @ the hideout, chicago
joe colley @ lampo, chicago
lucky dragons @ che cafe, san diego
mi ami @ the knockout, san francisco
patrick from montgomery ward's unnamed guitar freakout @ organ haus, minneapolis
french quarter, foot ox @ some house, chicago
kerbaj/lonberg-holm/zerang @ the hideout, chicago


Sean Casey | valleyarts.blogspot.com
the steamrollers @ the basement
milo jones @ king st manor
jandek @ ica boston
the missoula oblongata's two plays
the nightingales @ the abbey lounge
tumble cat poof poofy poof / ben hersey @ the yoga place


Brady Sansone | Heavy Winged, Lonely Ghost:
1) Nels Cline + Elliott Sharp Duo - Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
2) Sonic Youth doing Daydream Nation - McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn
3) The Vandermark 5 - Union Hall, Brooklyn
4) Thurston Moore Coalition - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
5) Two Foot Yard - Mo' Pitkins, NYC
6) The Thing - Tonic's contingency, NYC
7) Glenn Kotche Solo/Nels Cline Solo/Glenn Kotche + Nels Cline doing KAREN KOLTRANE - some big ass church, NYC
8) Carla Kihlstedt playing Lisa Biewala's Kafka Song Cycle - Roulette, NYC
9) Robedoor - some bowling alley-turned-noisehole, Bottled Smoke Festival, LA
10) William Hooker + Ted Daniels - a bit smaller big-ass church, NYC



Brian Miller | Deathbomb Arc / Foot Village / Gang Wizard
In no particular order:
* Sword Heaven / Kevin Shields california tour: 10 dates, all in
California. Using a PA designed for Broadway musicals (which means the
loudest, clearest noise anyone has ever performed). Kevin Shields was
so insane through this PA that even Scolaris in San Diego, a venue
known for being noise-friendly for years now, unplugged her in a total
freak out rage by an employee there.
* DJ Dog Dick @ Pehrspace in LA; DJ Dog Dick / Matt Brinkman collab @
Hyperion Lounge in LA: noise and hiphop brought together in that way
the kids love nowadays. Angst and moshing at the hipster-populated
Hyperion Lounge was perfect conflict.
* Social Junk all los angeles tour dates: The greatest universal rock
band in the nation. Complete mastery of
this-shouldn't-really-work-let-alone-be-repeatable lo-fi thrift store
frankenstein gear. Magic is in their hands.
* Realicide / Vankmen / tik///tik 3-way collab @ Pehrspace in LA: Over
an hour of completely engaging noise-gabber that kept the audience
moving like almost nothing in LA can (and considering that this is the
home of Ravesploitation, that is saying a lot).
* Rale / Monsturo tagteam set @ Pehrspace in LA: opening for Demons
and Smegma meant a ton of hippies in the audience, all of which were
totally bummed on these dudes' sounds. Completely threatening.
* Mincemeat Or Tenspeed @ Pehrspace in LA: Feedback that the entire
audience dances to. There is a reason that Dan Deacon listed this guy
on his Pitchfork top 10.
* Winners @ Women in LA: Xmas Gabber, the anime version of Laibach.
Part of the new-dumb-hope here in LA.
* Captain Ahab @ Rhinoceropolis in Denver: New software set allowing
for non-stop music and improv mashups along side the usual homo-erotic
nu-metal meets rave music insanity these guys always belt out, plus
the love of a large sweaty audience made this show perfect.
* Married In Berdechiev @ the Smell in LA: The stereotype of women in
noise is that they just moan through a line-6 pedal. And unfortunatly,
that is just too often too true. But here is a lady that takes that
simple approach, combines it with a well trained voice, and amazing
technical/compositional expertise to write songs unlike anything
you've ever heard. Part noise, part K-Pop, all enchanting.
* Robin Williams on Fire any show, anywhere: As hip sounding as XBXRX
with a total post-Hairy Pussy thrash that brings a chaotic thrash to
kids much younger than most experimental rock has access to. No band
was better in California this year.


Dylan Nyoukis | Chocolate Monk/Blood Stereo
some smooch have have enjoyed this year, in no particular order:
+Richard Bishop inPau, France. great set, but especially his rendition of Charlie Gochers 'The Ballad of (D)Anger'
+Slither in Pau, France. even though i was in a different room on child watching duties i could vibe off the heavy smoked out reeds and homebrewed electronic brain fart.
+Alex Drool & Dora Doll at Levontin 7, Tel Aviv. Monged out psych tape noise which gave the barmaid a real looong face.
+Henri Chopin at Colour Out Of Space Festival, Brighton. yes!
+Lambourghini Crystal at Colour Out Of Space Festival, Brighton. I enjoyed so many sets this year at the fest, but this one comes to mind, i think because i was at my most stoned, and the gongs were just ripe.
+The Polly Shang Kuan Band at The Westhill Hall, Brighton. Dug a lot of there shows this year, but this one was really creeped out.
+Tomutonttu & Kuupuu at Fitzherberts, Brighton. 2 out my my 3 favourite Finnish trolls. They always deliver the juice.
+Om at the Baltic, Newcastle. christian rock.


John Fell Ryan | Excepter
Top Ten Live Performances of 2007:
1) Wedding band @ Valparaiso, IN
2) 77BOADRUM @ Empire Ferry Park, NY
3) Daft Punk @ Coney Island, NY
4) NNCK @ Greene Naftali, NY
5) Damo Suzuki's Network @ Monkeytown, NY
6) NNCK @ Club Midway, NY
7) Incapacitants @ No Fun, NY
8) SS Porkchopolis @ FURR CITY, Space
9) Lake @ Glasslands, NY
10) Ghost Exits @ Gowanus, NY



Jessica Rylan | Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT:
1) Naomi
2) Alas, Alak, Alaska
3) Realicide
4) Black Dice
5) Ernst Karel
6) a weird girl playing guitar in Oakland
7) Gowns
8) Tent City
9) Costes
10) Behalf


sean | VISUAL BASIC
01. 77boadrum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
02. EARTH
03. Genghis tron
04. No age & Double Dagger
05. Clockcleaner
06. Detroit electronic Music Festival
07. 65daysofstatic
08. A a
09. Daft punk
10. Japanther


Mihai Cucos | The See Throughs - London
1) Sunn O))) / Boris - The Forum London December 10th - Sunn O)))'s show was actually chilling, check out the You Tube
2) Om - ATP Festival Minehead December 8th - tremendously intense and rocking live even in a fucking Butlins
3) Black Mountain - Cargo London December 5th - more than the sum of their parts
4) Martin Klapper - Literaturhuset Copenhagen July 10th - noise bringer
5) Glenn Branca - Hallucination City Roundhouse London October 12th - a heavy heavy show
6) Mika Miko - Luminaire London June 22nd - scruffy girls onna punk vibe
7) quiet guitar guy - Gramaphone London September 11th - the quietest ever
8) Minus - Rejkyavik July 14th - an audience member with spider on face tattoo was actually chilling
9)Philip Glass Ensemble - Music In 12 Parts Barbican London 21st October - boring as hell in a great way
10) Grey Daturas - Barden's Boudoir 18th September - OK, starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel tho


Zac | Long Beach, California
all shows in Los Angeles area...
Om/Earthless/Mia Doi Todd @ The Echo
Locust/Cattle Decapitation @ Chain Reaction
Smegma/Demons/Wiese @ The Echo
Mudhoney/Melvins/Flipper @ Henry Fonda
Nurse With Wound @ Amoeba
Mars Volta @ Troubadour
Anthony Shadduck with Nels Cline & Lyn Johnston (Red Krayola) @ Record Store whom-shall-not-be-named
Maritime Academy (RocketFromTheCrypt Tribute) @ Prospector, Long Beach
**No Fun Fest @ Hook, Brooklyn, NY
**Negative Approach finale = moment of the year.


Chris Dooley | $ tree wrex
1.) Negative Approach, Aaron Dilloway, Rodger Stella/Leslie Keffer, Northampton Wools at No Fun Fest
2.) Rock The Bells Nyc with Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Rakim, Mf Doom, Black Star, Pharoahe Monch, Boot Camp Clique, Living Legends.
3.) Sonic Youth McCarren Park Daydream Nation show. fun skate spots in that neighborhood too.
4.) Bastard Noise, J.Randall/Sickness, Barn Owl, Diagram A/GreySkull. at Florence Vfw
5.) Wolf Eyes, Northampton Wools, Fat Worm of Error, dj12xu Hampshire dining Hall
6.) Demons, Sightings, Mirror/Dash, Kendra @ Flywheel
7.) Witchcraft in Brattleboro
8.) Black Pus, Kites, Russian Tsarlag, Noise Nomads in Olneyville
9.) Diagram A, Phloyd, Grey Skull, Ducktails, y yo soy.@ Vg Mill
10.) Emeralds, Birds Of Delay, Bill Nace, P.G. Six, Duck Tails, Tusco Terror dude @ Time Machine Records
11.) the Flaherty, Moore, Nace, Hartford, Corsano quintet, Emeralds, Krefting /Shaw, 3 Legged Race, Caboladies @ Fair st. Fortress
12.) the entire weekends of Gladtree and Festival Ecstatique
more 808's for 08!
Rey Diego | HexBreaker, music fan/collector
Earth - Brookdale Lodge, deep in the Santa Cruz mountains
Sword Heaven - House Party, Santa Cruz
Fursaxa/Family Underground/Axotol & Inca Ore collabo/Tomes - Thuja Space, Berkeley
Bottled Smoke Festival (highlights were: Starving Weirdos, Ghosting, Tarantel, Robedoor, White Rainbow) - Echo Curio/Mr. T's, Echo Park/Los Angeles
Whitehorse - 21 Grand, Oakland
Sonic Boom - The Attic, Santa Cruz
Old Time Relijun - Blue Lagoon, Santa Cruz
Rahdunes - Cafe Pergolesi, Santa Cruz
Akron/Family - Crepe Place, Santa Cruz


Jon Lorenz | Art Damage Lodge/Skull Lab, Wasteland Jazz Unit
1) Deathroes @ Skull Lab, Cincinnati
2) Yellow Swans + Mouthus @ Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati
3) Silver Apples - Lexington
4) Rhys Chatham w/C. Spencer Yeh, Roesing Ape, Keenan Lawler, etc etc + Times New Viking @ Skull Lab
5) Sword Heaven @ Cafe Bourbon St - Load Release Party
6) Art Damage NoiseFest in downtown Cincinnati - Death Beam reunion, Carly Ptak + C. Spencer Yeh, etc etc
7) Frode Gjerstad Trio - @ Pepper Distillery in Lexington
8) Z'ev @ Skull Lab
9) Larry Marotta @ SkyLab - Ohio Experimental Music Fest
10) MV + EE w/ C. Spencer Yeh @ Skull Lab


Christopher Smith | MTV News Producer
single performances affecting skin and mind
1) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Mercury Lounge - January 24 - only time they had balls to play much from their terminally underrated Some Loud Thunder - 2am on a wednesday night at the merc....
2) Deerhunter @ Bowery Ballroom - July 11 - the perfect blend of presentation (read: crazy) and music.
3) LCD Soundsystem @ Bowery Ballroom - March 31 - set the bowery aflame like no other.
4) Sunset Rubdown @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - October 8 - Spencer Krug, man with the midas touch.
5) Animal Collective @ Webster Hall - October 1 - making up for the lackluster night before.
6) Sufjan Stevens @ BAM - November 3 - simply majestic.
7) Spirtualized @ Apollo Theatre - November 16 - walking in heaven.
8) Dirty Projectors @ Silent Barn - April 27 - the glorious cacophony.
9) Grinderman @ Madison Square Garden - July 24 - powering through the jeers from the cheap seats.
10) Panda Bear @ Bowery Ballroom - June 23 - stunning combination of music and video.
11) Wolf Parade @ Warsaw - August 19 - surprisingly mature - they're coming again!
12) Arcade Fire @ Judson Memorial Church - February 17 - pushing through pneumonia on the 5th night in the church.
13) The Good, The Bad and the Queen @ Webster Hall - March 12 - Albarn's subtle urbania masterpiece.
14) Ryan Adams @ Hiro Ballroom - June 26 - the boy can sing - best vocal performance all year.
15) Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings @ Apollo Theatre - October 6 - playing right where she belongs.
16) Feist @ Mccarren Park Pool - August 29 - the perfect summer night show.
17) Beirut @ Bowery Ballroom - May 6 - bigger, faster, stonger.
18) The National @ Bowery Ballroom - June 1 - boxer let loose.
19) Black Lips @ a tiny dive bar in Austin killing their 15th something show at SXSW.
20) Parts & Labor @ any show with Christopher Weingarten.


Ryan Wynns |fan, collector, third wheel
Not really in any particular order ...
1. Michael Gira - Highline Ballroom, Manhattan, NY, September 14th
Don't know what it is, he just has it. When he starts playing those bare-bones chord progressions and bellowing those singular melodies (or chants or intonements or hollers), I'm enthralled by every single utterance.

2. Visitations - King Street Manor, Northampton, MA, February 17th
First time hearing this band. For whatever reasons, their name to me evokes "celestial drone", so I'm expecting something sort of like Stars of the Lid or Emeralds or maybe Windy and Carl ... Their set begins with feedback, drones, etc., so I seem to be vindicated ... but then comes folky acoustic guitar strumming, and suddenly they're singing a three-part harmony, but it's psychedelically twisted inside and out and ... oh my, that's the most beautiful, ghostly voice I've ever heard. This to me channels the spirit of things like Comus and Silmaril. I don't know how they get away with singing about Jesus and UFOs (and what's more, nearly moving me to tears in the process), but they do.

3. Wooden Wand / Gown / Alasehir / Kohoutek / GHQ - Unitarian Meetinghouse, Amherst, MA, April 27th
Every single one of these bands just scorched. It was a scorched, scorching night.

4. Visitations / Jow-Jow the Death Knell Rung / Kurt Weisman - Time Machine Records and Books, Easthampton, MA, March 31st
A very cool record store's grand opening party was a complete blast, and a real moment of congealing in the Pioneer Valley's scene. Visitations were as charming as ever, and Jow-Jow's dozen-people, psyched-out jam was an organic manifestation from the bowels of the earth.itself.

5. MV+EE with the Bummer (or was it Golden?) Road / Charalambides / GHQ / Warmer Milks - Montague Bookmill, Montague, MA, June 14th
I'd never heard MV+EE this heavy. Erica was radiant on "Death Don't Have No Mercy". I tend to favor Charalambides at their most dissonant and pained, but Christina singing (sans guitar) melodically while Tom shredded in a dizzying-but-graceful way was nothing short of majestic. GHQ, once again, scorched, realizing one of the closest approximations of aural perfection in the universe.

6. Dredd Foole - Weathervane Music Hall, Brattleboro, VT, July 28th (part of The Festival of Endless Gratitude)
Dan appropriates standard guitar chords, attunes his voice to them (and sometimes erupts into his trademark vocal freakouts), and just gives you himself, totally straight, no bullshit. During this performance, he seemed especially possessed by his songs/worlds - as, in turn, was I.

7. Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, Primordial Undermind, Greg and Amanda -Flywheel, Easthampton, MA, Feburary 18th
Off-the-wall jazz, yet more scorched psych rock, and lost tribes channeled.

8. Black Forest/Black Sea - Time Machine Records and Books, Easthampton, MA, October 13th
The songiest set I've seen them do. Just excellent guitar and cello playing, and singing, all around. From a traditional song to a Grateful Dead cover, they were just on.

9. Spires That In the Sunset Rise - Eagles, Northampton, MA, July 15th
Spires. How to explain Spires, how to explain a Spires show? I don't know. But I like it.

10. Tatsuya Nakatani / David Stackenas / Bill Nace + Chris Cooper + Liz Tonne - Jones Library, Amherst, MA, 11/9
It made perfect sense that Nakatani and Stackenas were touring together. Both approached sound freshly and with uncanny, prodigy-like nuance. Likewise for locals Nace and Cooper, joined by Tonne, who's not of this world.

11. Okay, at the Valley Worm Fest at the Elevens in Northampton, MA on September 29th, there was this duo: a guy playing relatively technical, clean (as in not distorted) electric guitar that teetered on the line between dissonant and melodic, and a guy named David (who I'm told used to be in a band called Audible Puss) singing in a way that was quite disturbed and disturbing, like a mental patient in a trance, at times losing whatever was holding him back and breaking into a sustained falsetto wail. It was awesome.

12. Barn Owl / Cousin Id - Time Machine Records and Books, Easthampton, MA, April 28th
With considerably different approaches (Barn Owl like mad scientists, Cousin Id rocking out - albeit weirdly - on guitar), both bands created churning chasms of sound.
13. Paul Metzger - Yod, Florence, MA, November 13th
Maybe ... harsh raga? I dug it.

13. Moore + Flaherty + Corsano + Nace + Hartford / Emeralds / Sam Goldberg / 3 Legged Race / Cabolaides / Matt Krefting + John Shaw at a house on Fair Street in Northampton, MA, December 17
Sadly, I showed up late and missed a couple of these acts. Of what I did see ... some of them couldn't have been more different. But really good all-around. Mr. Goldberg was pleasantly quiet and thoughtful. Emeralds were doing something less like "ambient drone" than the previous two times I'd seen them and more like "electronic music". As for the five-piece noise supergroup (I jest) ... I expected it to be psychotic. It was. Great final show of the year.

13. MV+EE with The Golden (or Bummer?) Road / Thurston Moore (w/ John Moloney on drums) - Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA, January 31st
Green Blues had just come out, and I was still trying to get a grapple on Matt and Erica's new direction. I was sort of confused, but in hindsight, what's not to love about "East Mountain Joint" and "Canned Happiness"? "Death Is My Friend" was great -- I don't know, there's just something about Erica singing about death, it's always really good. Thurston and Moloney mostly played what turned out to be songs that would be on Trees Outside the Academy -- I think this was before they'd even been recorded. I dug 'em right away ... the guitar licks and voice melodies were already just totally ablaze (it struck me that they were pure Thurston, they just had his touch, but were also something new), and Moloney's drumming was very tight, just totally dead-on. (I kinda wished he ended up on the album more, though absolutely no complaints about Steve Shelley.)

I could go on ... of course, each of the following was the Event of Events in its own right: Gladtree, The Festival of Endless Gratitude, Shannon's Wickermania test pattern in Goshen, and Festival Ecstatique


Thurston moore | ecstatic peace label creep
1. Incapacitants - No Fun fest NYC
2. Leslie Keffer/Rodger Stella - No Fun fest NYC
3. Emeralds - Time Machine records basement Easthampton, MA
4. Heather Leigh Murray - Trabendo club, Paris France
5. Scorces - Great American Music Hall, S.F. CA
6. Ramleh - Death By Audio, Brooklyn NY
7. Three Legged Race - basement 37 Fair St., Northampton, MA
8. Orphan Fairytale - ABC1, Glasgow Scotland
9. Slander Puff - Festival Ecstatique, Hampshire College, MA
10. Bill Nace / Aaron Dilloway - every fucking gig these fuckers play fucking rules


Tom Derwent | Lost Treaures Of The Underworld
1) Birds of Delay / Emeralds Summer Tour @ Skylab & Lambs Den (Cols.OH)
2) Sunburned Hand Of The Man / Gown @ Cafe Bourbon St. (Cols.OH )
3) Family Band (Emeralds / Lambsbread collab.) @ Lambs Den / Skylab (Cols.OH)
4) Envenomist /Brad Griggs/ Wasteland Jazz Unit /Jon Bennett @ Legion of Doom(Cols.OH)
5) Wasteland Jazz Organs @ Ohio Noise Fest / Skylab (Cols. OH)
6) Rejuvenation Trio @ Milo (Cols. OH)
7) Twink Bully / Sword Heaven / Face Place @ various spots (Cols.OH)
8) Bee Mask @ LambsDen / Skylab (Cols.OH)
9) Leslie Keffer @ LambsDen / Skylab (Cols.OH)
10) Mike Shiflet & Ryan Jewell Duo @ LambsDen (Cols. OH)


Aaron | Tall Firs
1) GZA at ATP
2) Knyfe Hyts at Glasslands
3) USAISAMONSTER as Judas Priest at Glasslands
4) Dan Deacon at Silent Barn
5) Daydream Nation Everywhere
6) Shellac cross Europe
7) Black Mountain at ATP
8) Emily Haines across North America
9) Meat Puppets at Stubbs
10) Eye Contact at Silent Barn
11) Celebration at Union Pool


charlie shavers
Fuckwolf - every live show of theirs slay the devil, all the way down to the green speedos.
T.I.T.S. - stepford witch psych suicide cult never sounded so... well, that.
Burmese - most over looked band ever. always explode equipment and faces.
Trouble vs Glue - at france. Best example of deranged ying yang in existance.
Deerhoof -at europe. c'mon, them live blows holes into heads. constant reinvention!
Randy H.Y. Yau at terminal. very well groomed harsh noise human murders celery! well!
Noel Von Harmonson at everywhere, so many jamables! This guy parties naked!
Mutators at ata best vocalist in music! harsh on point perfect!
John Wiese / C. Spencer Yeh at compound. i see a sitcom a brewin'
Devin the Dude at red devil lounge. what else is there to sing about? nothing!


Charlie Salmon
1. Jandek@center of the universe( T.O)...realizeD..--we like form(to sig. extent)---Jandek played the same song oN CHINTZ.. TONE KEYBOARD w/tonal shift,aid abet.. from CCMC & AFFILIATES--still a great show 'cause it kept me on serious edge.
2. GOT TO BE 2ND SHOW SEEN ALL YEAR(getting out a MUST...maybe). ROBIN HITCHCOCK.. acoustic & electric @(Mod club--T.O.)..R HITCHCOCK plays acoustic like a motherfucker and electric like a gentle sultan.


darryl norsen | poster artist / saucony
-no order-
1) konono no. 1, sunburned hand, & major stars - mid east down, may 07
2) wooden wand/vanishing voice, gown/sunburned, ghq - pas lounge, april 07
3) mv/ee & golden road - pas lounge, feb 07
4) bark haze, sunburned hand, matt krefting, keith fullerton whitman -pas lounge, march 07
5) dinosaur jr, mv/ee - paradise, nov 07
6) mv/ee, kurt weisman - mid east up, sept 07
7) The Mucca Pazza Band - the hideout, sept 07
8) our wedding - the humpty dance


Mike Shiflet
1) Fluxmonkey - 12/1 - Ohio Experimental Music Fest, Columbus
2) Aaron Dilloway - 11/3 - Cock Pit, Ypsilanti
3) Testicle Hazard - 2/25 - Loopline, Tokyo
4) Emeralds - various - Columbus
5) Eddie Marcon - various - Cafe Ease, Himeji
6) Greg Davis - 9/21 - Wexner Center, Columbus
7) The Rita - 6/8 - Namba Bears, Osaka
8) Yellowman - Alrosa Villa, Columbus
9) Dave Reed & Jason Zeh - 12/1 - Ohio Experimental Music Fest, Columbus
10) Brainbow - 10/27 - LOTR Halloween gig, Columbus


nico mazet - sister iodine
1) Incapacitants - no fun, ny
2) daft punk - new york
3) Thurston Moore - no fun,ny
4) mr oizo - studio b, brooklyn
5) beastie boy - brooklyn
6) demons - brooklyn
7) MV/EE lyon france
8) Wolf eyes - Antwerp,belgium
9) gal costa, new york
10) keiji haino - no fun, ny


Tom De Ridder
1)OM
2)Earth
3)Battles
4)Akron/family
5)Tunng
6)Comets on fire
7)David Sylvian
8)Tortoise
9)White Circle Crime Club
10)Creature with the atom brain


Christelle Gualdi | Stellar Om Source, Mean Motion, Kieselgurh
1)Trad Gras och Stenar @ Helbaard, Den Haag
2)Skullflower@ Scheldapen, Antwerpen
3)Jokklo Duo@ CCA, Glasgow
4)NNCK @ Helbaard, Den Haag
5)Vizusa @ Cakeshop, NYC
6)Fish&Sheep @ZDB, Lisbon
7)Headsick@Helbaard, Den Haag
8)Warmer Milks@ Kraak, Hasselt
9)Jos Steen @ Ancienne Belgique, Bruxelles
10)Rahdunes with Aaron VTB @ Cakeshop, NYC
Begin forwarded message:
From: "ryan sawyer"
Date: December 21, 2007 12:09:30 PM EST
To: poll@ecstaticpeace.com
Subject: 2007 Ecstatic Peace Live Performance Poll


Ryan Sawyer | Tall Firs, Stars Like Fleas, Eye Contact, Lone Wolf
1)Boredoms "77 Drummers", Brooklyn
2)White Mice, SXSW, Austin
3)Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation", McCarren Pool, Brooklyn
4)Sonny Rollins with Roy Haynes, Carnegie Hall, New York
5)Green Milk From Planet Orange, SXSW, Austin
6)Turbo Fruits, Zebulon, Brooklyn
7)Knyfe Hyts, Glasslands, Brooklyn
8)Deerhunter, SXSW, Austin
9)Awesome Color "experimental set", Glasslands, Brooklyn
10)Suzanne Rogaleski "Angel of Death" trapeze act, Union Pool, Brooklyn


ilyas ahmed
can't remember dates or places very well, it's been a blurry year...
christina carter
grouper
yellow swans
joshua burkett
gang gang dance
mv/ee/willie lane
scorces
tara jane o'neil
ghosting
valet
white rainbow
charlambides



carly ptak | heresee
1)carlos gonzalez=russian tsarlag/bmore
2)kites/bmore
3)crystal village/oakland
4)chris grier solo/dc
5)gastric female reflex/toronto
6)cars will burn/holy ghost /bmore
7)i love presets/ chicago
8)magic is cuntmaster/chicago
9)rahdunes/detroit
10)needlegun/bmore


Kimberly Chun | San Francisco Bay Guardian
1) Grinderman, Slim's, San Francisco, CA
2) Psychedelic Horseshit, SXSW, Austin, TX
3) Tinariwen, Palace of Fine Arts, SF
4) Marnie Stern and the Gowns, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
5) Polyphonic Spree, Great American Music Hall, SF
6) Breezy Days Band, Lucky Dragons, and High Places,
21 Grand, Oakland
7) Federation, SXSW, Austin, TX
8) OOIOO, Independent, SF
9) Darondo, Rickshaw Stop, SF
10) Howling Hex, Hemlock Tavern, SF


Cory Rayborn | Three Lobed Recordings
1) Sir Richard Bishop - 5/31/07 Ship to Shore shop, Asheville (NC)
2) Sunburned Hand of the Man - 3/22/07 Night Light!, Chapel Hill (NC)
3) Magik Markers - 3/11/07 Night Light!, Chapel Hill (NC)
4) Wooden Wand - 4/7/07 Green Bean, Greensboro (NC)
5) Jack Rose - 4/3/07 Square One, Greensboro (NC)
6) Mouthus - 10/14/07 Harvest Records, Asheville (NC)
7) MV+EE - 2/5/07 Harvest Records, Asheville (NC)
8) Yellow Swans - 10/14/07 Harvest Records, Asheville (NC)
9) Gown - 3/22/07 Night Light!, Chapel Hill (NC)
10) Miss Coote's Confession - 2/21/07 Lagerhouse, Greensboro (NC)


David De Corte | drummer of Steamer Cry Wolf
1) Part Chimp at Farmfest (Oalbeke, Belgium - 07/07/07)
2) Sonic Youth performing Daydream Nation at Pukkelpop (Belgium - 08/18/07)
3) Shellac at Vooruit (Belgium - 05/24/2007)
4) Slint performing Spiderland at Ancienne Belgique (Belgium - 05/23/07)
5) Thurston Moore at Ancienne Belgique (Belgium - 12/10/07)
6) San Francisco Jazz collective at Blue Note Festival (07/16/07)
7) Penguins Know Why at Frontline (Belgium - 11/29/07)
8) John Wiese at Croxapox (Belgium - 09/26/07)
9) The Young Gods at De Centrale (Belgium - 10/11/07)
10) Bloc Party at l'Aeronef (France - 04/24/07)


Jon Winfield Nicholson | Excepter
Top Ten Live Performances of 2007 in no particular order
1) Yellow Swans @ the Silent Barn, Queens NY.
2) Japanther @ the Pawn Shop, Miami Fla.
3) Freddie Mas @ The Knitting Factory, Manhatttan NY
4) These Are Powers @ NYU, Manhattan NY
5) Lake @ Glass Lands, Brooklyn NY
6) Psychic Ill's @ Cake Shop, Brooklyn NY
7) NNCK @ Greene Naftali, Manhattan NY
8) Dog Meat @ Silent Barn, Queens NY
9) Led Er Set @ Home Sweet Home, Manhattan NY
10) Boredoms 77 Boa Drum, Brooklyn NY


Benoit Chaput | L'Oie de Cravan
Seems like this year i took a kind of Performance Sabatical
Nevertheless, managed to see some beauties....
1) Luigi Nono percussion concert in Montreal, january.
2) Kendra, somewhere in Keene, january
3) Alejandro Escovido at La Java, Paris, may
4) A romanian Gypsy singing and playing accordeon in the streets of Cefalu, Sicily, may (best performance of the year!)
5) Maurico Kagel directing Exotica, Paris, June
6) Patti Smith with Silver Mont Zion at the Ukrainian Federation, Montreal. September.
7) Chris Corsano, any time, anywhere.
8) Michel Doneda with Alex Saint-Onge and Michel F Cote at Casa del popolo, September
9) Luc Paradis' new band, i believe it is called Anemona, at Sala Rossa in October.
10) Mirror/Dash at the Festival Ecstatique, Amherst, November.


Natasha Li Pickowicz | Arts Editor, Ithaca Times
1) Gown; Sunburned + Mouthus collab at Von Cramm co-op, Cornell University, Ithaca
2) Bill Nace; Burnt Hills; Harrius at Flipped Out Records basement, Albany
3) Sonic Youth for Daydream Nation tour at McCarren Pool, Brooklyn
4) Tim Feeney + Vic Rawlings; A.P. Tate at No Radio Records, Ithaca
5) House of Alchemy tour with Stone Baby, Sleepwalkers 242, Mirabile Dictu, Century Plants; Antique Brothers at No Radio Records, Ithaca
6) Incapacitants; Mouthus + Axolotl collab; Religious Knives at No Fun Fest, Brooklyn
7) Ike Yard at Lost Dog Lounge, Ithaca
8) Charalambides; GHQ at Soundlab, Buffalo
9) Yellow Swans + Mouthus collab at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
10) Aki Onda + Alan Licht at Cornell University, Ithaca

CLOSE CALLS! (Are we allowed to do this?)
Daniel Higgs + Chiara Giovanda at Noyes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca
Sic Alps; Mirabile Dictu at No Radio Records, Ithaca
Sunburned at Festival of Endless Gratitude, Brattleboro
Heathen Shame at Gladtree Festival, Western Mass.
Zaimph; Sunroof at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn


Sean Creen
1) Sonic Youth -Roundhouse, London, August
2) The Who - Marley Park, Dublin, July
3) Whitehouse - Laverys, Belfast September
4) Glenn Branca - ATP, Minehead, December
5) Sunn o))) - ATP Minehead, December
6) The Boredoms - The Village, Dublin, November
7) Nick Cave - ATP, Minehead, May
8) Einsturzende Neubauten - ATP, Minehead, May
9) Silver Apples - ATP, Minehead, December
10) Earth - ATP, Minehead, December
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Bruce W. Siart"
Date: December 22, 2007 5:12:34 PM EST
To: poll@ecstaticpeace.com
Subject: 2007 Ecstatic Peace Live Performance Poll


Bruce W. Siart | sidemouse.com / brucesiart.com / eggfart.com
1) Joe Buck Yourself / Pulp 45 @ Ralphs - Worcester, MA - June 12, 2007
2) The Young Leaves / Herman the Great @ the Compound - July 6, 2007
3) Charlie Chesterman @ Vincents - Worcester, MA - September 7, 2007
4) Banyan @ Pearl St. - Northampton, MA - May 11, 2007
5) Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 @ the Iron Horse - Northampton, MA - March 29, 2007*
6) Sebadoh @ Pearl St. - Northampton, MA - March 29, 2007*
7) Minutemen / Black Flag tribute bands w/ 33 1/3rd "Double Nickels on the Dime" author Michael T. Fournier @ Ralph's - Worcester, MA - October 25, 2007
8) Brett Dennen @ the Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI - September 18, 2007
9) The Casual Lean @ Ralph's - Worcester, MA - June 22, 2007
10) Pillow Man / Sandra Storm / Hulk Out @ Ralph's - Worcester, MA - May 24, 2007
* #5 & #6 were both on the same night in Northampton.... an awesome evening of club hopping to see some AMAZING live acts.
Photos from all of these shows can be found @ brucesiart.com
Photos from #7 are at eggfart.com


Kayla Cohen | MD @ WNYU Radio, New York, NY
1) Panda Bear at First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
2) Jandek at Abrons Art Center, NYC
3) Lightning Bolt at 3rd Ward
4) No Age/Deerhunter at Shangri La
5) BOADRUM
6) Jakob Olausson at the Silent Barn
7) The Vanishing Voice at silent barn
8) Zaimph at death by audio
9) shows at my friend's space, Baghdad
10) all the shows I should have gone to but didn't


Omar Abdel-Wahab
1) The RUINS @ Death By Audio (Brooklyn, NY during CMJ weekend)
2) Gang Gang Dance @ the Yard (Brooklyn, NY at the Social Registry anniversary party)
3) Sightings @ Death By Audio (Brooklyn, NY during CMJ weekend)
4) Health @ Death By Audio (Brooklyn, NY during CMJ weekend)
5) Magik Markers @ Knitting Factory (NY, NY, despite the excessively early start time of 7PM!)
6) No Neck Blues Band @ Club Midway (NY, NY)
7) Marnie Stern @ the Silent Barn (Ridgewood Queens/Bushwick Brooklyn, NY)
8) Ecstatic Sunshine @ the Silent Barn (Ridgewood Queens/Bushwick Brooklyn, NY)
9) Some Cats from Japan (Atsuhiro Ito w/ Spencer Yeh, Kanta Horio, Fuyuki Yamakawa @ the Kitchen (NY, NY)
10) Battles @ Southstreet Seaport (NY, NY)


John Chavez | The Free Agency / Silent Barn NYC
1) excepter, anywhere, always (but esp all monkeytown jammers)
2) 77Boadrum, NYC 7/7/07
3) anything having to do with the sugar tank in lancaster, pa
4) high places / car clutch / abe vigoda, dead herring, brooklyn, ny - 7/13/07
5) magik markers / racoo-oo-oon, silent barn, ridgewood, queens, ny - 5/16/07
6) katie eastburn monkeytown residency nov (or was it dec) 2007
7) silver apples / ex models / tristan perich, silent barn, ridgewood, queens, ny - 9/13/07
8) steve reich's piano phase played live on electronic drums, angel orensanz foundation, new york - 5/9/07
9) slasher risk, silent barn, ridgewood, queens, ny - 12/7/07
10) ANPquarterly's now RIP bashes at St. Marks
bonus 11) drinking presidente on the roof of the barn at sunset


Oliver Hall | Megafuckers, ESPS, solo, write, annihilate, destroy
1) MEAT PUPPETS at the Troubadour: insane, too good for words. Rollins was in the audience losing his shit which added to the vibe. Up on the Sun is the best album ever made.
2) MARTIN REV at Knitting Factory Hollywood: is it true there were only ten paying customers? Obviously the malathion sprayings of the early 90s have resulted in severe, total brain loss among Angelenos. Just Rev whaling on the keys, dancing like a maniac, singing occasionally. Heavy discipline. Some moments of electric Miles rage made this fucking shit piss mall venue feel alive briefly. Often books good bands, but it's like going to a show in Downtown Disney. Suicide (I) is the best album ever made.
3) RESIDUAL ECHOES / NUDITY at Knitting Factory Hollywood: Another mindblowing set of extreme face and brain damage from R. Echoes (now apparently known as Adam Payne and the Residual Echoes, or Adam Payne an ze Residual Echoes), Adam just delivering one imaginative solo after another, playing his new punk/psych/fuck tunes that are too good. Either the last or penultimate show with Laena and Julian lineup. Wreckage. Rollins Band Life Time is the second best album ever made, after Residual Echoes Firsts.
4) ABE VIGODA / MIKA MIKO / NO AGE / PARTY FOUL pancake breakfast at the Smell: Abe Vigoda has crossed over from bananas to completely coconuts. These young men are live as fuck, and they have developed their own original outer bugfuck musical vocabulary, melodies up the wazoo, like 83 of em simultaneously. My fantasy is that they'll become the new Mahavishnu Orchestra but that would probably make them puke. They should be on SST. Party Foul was superlative than a mawfaw on drugs, ruined Long Beach (?) hardcore that hopefully is still playing. Will from Silver Daggers makes a hell of a pancake. Massive crowded as fuck turnout especially considering this joint started at 10 am on a Sunday. Pancakes are the best album ever coffee.
5) FLIPPER / MELVINS / MUDHONEY at Henry Fonda Theater: This show was part of the Don't Look Back series of live performances of beloved records -- Melvins did Houdini, Mudhoney did Superfuzz Bigmuff and early singles. Flipper was selling Generic t-shirts in the lobby, but opened with "Ha Ha Ha" as the curtain rose and did not play ONE SONG off Generic. It was radical. Falconi had to change a string after the first song, which took forever and was somehow perfect. New bassist Krist Novoselic started out staring down the crowd with intense hardcore bum-out glare, but by the end of the show he was dancing his famous loping joyous bass-dance. Happy to see him playing music again. Public Flipper Limited is the greatest album ever made. Melvins: D R U M S & Mudhoney closed with Keith Morris singing "Fix Me." Bullhead is the greatest album ever made.
6) REDD KROSS / SONIC YOUTH at Greek Theater: Obviously Redd Kross should play this size venue all the time. It was so good I had to kill someone I hated. Sonic Youth played more dynamic, open versions of the songs on Daydream Nation, and I thought it sounded better than the record, though I wish Mike Watt had been there to do "Providence" live. Dirty is the best album ever made.
7) SISSY SPACEK at the Smell: 13.
8) SUNN O))) at El Rey: memory erased.
9) WHITE SHIT / MEGAFUCKERS at the Canadian: White Shit is Andy Coronado, Jared Warren, Coady Willis, Dave Stone. Hopefully a record or a second performance from them someday. Jared's karate kicks are the stuff of hardcore legend. At this gig, Megafuckers was a punishing 'core outfit, before I joined the band and taught those guys how to mellow out and take five. Our new material is mature and eclectic, with fusion, dance and reggae influences; we will teach you how to relax your mind and body. I turned Tony M. on to some recordings of whale songs that we hope to include in our sound.
10) WHITE WIDOW at Spaceland: better than late Residents for sure. Psychedelic allegory with bunny costumes, pyramidal teepee, and a big wavy disorienting sound. Reclaims Billy Joel's "My Life" as a song of the people, and of the revolution.


Chris Grier
1) Daniel A.I.U. Higgs at the Velvet Lounge, Washington DC.
2) Gladtree Fest, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Highlights: Vashti Bashers, Fat Worm Of Error, Noise Nomads, Byron Coley napping on the barn floor, apple cider, Dave Nuss being Dave Nuss.
3) Jack Rose, lotsa places.
4) Love of Diagrams, in NY and DC, several times.
5) Li'l Howlin' Wolf sitting in with damn near everyone at the Four Million Tongues Festival, Chicago, whether they wanted him to or not. I think the Wolf should be in every band, personally.
6) Eddy Current Suppression Ring from Melbourne, Australia, actually had DC folks dancing (!) I couldn't believe it. Velvet Lounge.
7) Thurston Moore and his Florida Avenue Grill trick. History was made. Rock and Roll Hotel, DC.
8) Religious Knives.
9) Max Ochs, fronting a boogie-rock band straight outta 1968. DC.
10) Puttin' On The Ritz, some restaurant in Little Ethiopia, DC. Suavest. Mayhem. Ever.
10a) Allison Wolfe's Sunday night Bingo-N'-Country gigs, St. Ex, DC.


Norma Jones | wayward jobbies
1)Thurston Moore at the scala. a beautiful mix of the melodic maturity from trees and the stripped down passion of psychic hearts
2)patti at le roundhouse. a return and then some!
3)gang gang at ze cargo, music that was undefinable and very literally open to the audience.
4)6 organs at cargo again. ben n elisa cross the line between chaos and composition
5)rickie lee at jazz cafe. so late, so intense, a second coming that understands the pitfalls of sacrilege.
6)throb gris at the tate with d jarman. didn't kinda work but a grade A 4 effort, and still able to piss off proper avant garde kids.
7)keenan and nielsen at whitechapel. kiddie intersteller space.
8)greta lange at whitechapel. strong voice, messy guitarist, on the beat drumm drumms.
9)sonora at whitechapel. they were all over the place like the raincoats. and then they broke apart.
10)crawford marshall at meloi. heartfelt and true, with jokes. a tonic after the bang n crash of wolf eyes at the underworld, heh ha that's eleven.


Matthew Garcia | KFSR-Fresno: Music Director
1)Tool: Night #1 Bonnarroo 2007
2)Brazilian Girls: Day #3 Bonnaroo 2007
3)Besnard Lakes: Cellar Door Visalia, CA
4)Yo Majesty!: Piano's NYC
5)Chemical Brothers: Nocturnal Wonderland Festival Downtown LA
6)Will Sheff (Okkervil River) Solo: Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn
7)DMBQ: Howie and Son's Pizza
8)Yo La Tengo: Hollywood Bowl
9)Nino Moschella: Crossroad's Fresno


Joe Ahearn | The Rats Of NiMH / SleepWhenDeadNYC
1) Lightning Bolt @ 3rd Ward
2) High Places @ SolarOne
3) Deerhunter @ The Silent Barn
4) DMBQ @ Above The Auto Parts Store
5) Dan Deacon @ The Yard
6) Deathset / Team Robespierre / JuiceboXXX (and, yeah, Dan Deacon, but here's already up there...) @ The Silent Barn
7) Best Friends Forever @ Cinders
8) Fiasco @ Uncle Paulie's
9) Screaming Females @ Asbury Lanes
10) Lucky Dragons @ Death By Audio


Doc Dunn
1. Mick Flower three nights in canada...highlight of my gigging life!!!
2. Eric Chenaux @ Tranzac September 12...best guitar solo i've ever seen, for real...
3. Jack Rose @ Gladtree
4. Cherry Blossoms @ Gladtree
5. DRUG BIKE-various locales around toronto, dozen performers, everybody on bikes...totally stoned...coolest shit i ever been a part of...
6. Neil Young @ Massey Hall...he played 'ambulance blues'...
7. Josh Thorpe/Jennifer Castle/Jason Benoit @ Tranzac...lunar folk at its finest...
8. 61 Major st house shows all year...best address in t.o....
9. Sensual Beast @ harbord house...literally blew the audience over with fuzz...insane!!!!
10. Jacob & Sus/Jacob Olausson...what can you say!?


Josh Brown | frmr. Silent Barn, Todd P, etc.
1) Daft Punk @ Keyspan Park, Brooklyn, NY
2) Jandek @ the Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
3) Growing, Thrones, Ocrilim, Little Women and more @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn, NY1)
4) Dirty Projectors, Effi Brest, Ecstatic Sunshine @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn, NY
5) Silver Apples, Ex Models and more @ Silent Barn, Ridgewood, NY
6) Lightning Bolt, DMBQ and more @ 600 Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
7) Zs, Marnie Stern, Ecstatic Sunshine, and more @ Silent Barn, Ridgewood, NY
8) Cryptacize, Flying, and more @ Silent Barn, Ridgewood, NY
9) Lightning Bolt, BARR, Marnie Stern, Ecstatic Sunshine and more @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
10) Koenji Hakaii and more @ the Knitting Factory, New York, NY


sam farzin | kuci music director
1) Akron/Family @ Troubadour 10/12/07
2) Lightning Bolt @ 6th St. Warehouse 4/11/07
3) Dan Deacon @ Echoplex 6/15/07
4) LCD Soundsystem @ El Rey 6/11/07
5) Man Man @ Epicentre 4/6/07
6) Old Time Relijun @ The Smell 3/10/07
7) OOIOO @ Echo 4/27/07
8) Animal Collective @ Henry Fonda 9/18/07
9) Girl Talk @ Echo 1/13/07
10) Kimya Dawson/Moldy Peaches @ The Smell 12/2/07


Dave Nuss- the No-Neck Blues Band
1. Magma, NYC
2. Enslaved, NYC
3. Yahowa 13, LA
4. Negative Approach, ATP
5. Wolf Eyes, ATP
6. Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach, NYC
7. Circle, NYC
8. Attake, NYC
9. Witchcraft, NYC
10. Opeth, NYC


Joeri Bruyninckx | Foxy Digitalis, Ruis
1) Jos Steen @ AB (Brussels)
2) Demons @ Hard Gaan (Hasselt)
3) Ornette Coleman @ Jazz Middelheim (Antwerp)
4) Mi & L'Au @ AB Club (Brussels)
5) Frieder Butzmann @ Ultra Eczema Fest (Antwerp)
6) Bas van Koolwijk & Gert-Jan Prins @ Donau Fest (Krems)
7) M.I.A. @ Pukkelpop (Hasselt)
8) Silvester Anfang @ KC Vooruit (Ghent)
9) The Termals @ Dour Fest (Dour)
10) High On Fire @ Trix, Antwerp (Belgium)


rob | sedimental/non-event/wzbc
THE BSC-circle of hope, philadelphia
SIGHTINGS-flywheel, easthampton
ALASEHIR-meeting house, amherst
MIKE BULLOCK-studio soto, boston
BILL NACE/LIZ TONNE DUO-wmua studio, amherst
DAVID STACKENAS/TATSUYA NAKATANI-jones library, amherst
CHARLES CURTIS- third life studio, somerville
ASHER-wzbc studio, chestnut hill



Joris Heemskerk | www.cuthands.net
My lazy/busy ass didn't catch too many shows this year
1) AARON DILLOWAY, Rotterdam
2) SUTCLIFFE JUGEND, Tilburg
3) KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT, Tilburg
4) TRAeD, GRAS OCH STENAR, Tilburg
5) BOHREN UND DER CLUB OF GORE, Tilburg
6) SUNN O))), Tilburg


jorgen ramstead
all in los angeles.
1)savage republic @ the echo
2)nels cline w. white out/ alsdair roberts / charalambides @ spaceland
3)cex phux / eveloutionary jass band @ echo curio
4)lavander diamond / entrance ect. @ the echo (kimee benifit)
5)the valarie project @ the silent movie theater
6)nick castro / theo angell / brad rose / pochahaunted/ sea beasts
ect. at the bottled smoke fest @ echo curio
7)marissa nadler/ freinds of dean martinez/ mountain party @ spaceland
8)jeremy reatard / times new viking/ greg ashley/ entrance/ bad dudes
ect. at fuck yeah fest in echo park
9)jessica rylan @ pehrspace
10)refrigerator @ pehrspace


Simon Loynes
1) Richard Youngs @ Palimpsest Festival, Cambridge, UK
2) Sonny Simmons with Tight Meat @ Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK
3) Vibracathedral Orchestral @ Palimpsest Festival, Cambridge, UK
4) Flower - Corsano @ Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK
5) Wolf Eyes @ Man on the Moon, Cambridge, UK


Eric Hardiman | Century Plants, Burnt Hills, Tape Drift Records
* Sleepwalkers Local 242 / Stone Baby / Mirabile Dictu (Ithaca)
* Antique Brothers (Albany)
* Soil Sing Through Me (Albany)
* Sunburned Hand of the Man / Northampton Wools/ Fat Worm of Error / MV+EE (Brattleboro)
* Jeremy Kelly (Hudson)
* Hardline Elephants & Sick Llama + Nace/Cooper (Buddies) (Albany)
* Sleepy Demons (Albany)
* Tom Carter / Wovoka (Albany)
* Bill Nace solo + Harrius (Albany)
* Dead Machines (Albany)