Tonight 6/26 @ The Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St.
Lower East Side, NY
Plastic Crimewave Celestial Vision Guitarkestra
Samara Lubelski and the Bubble Electric
Puffy Areolas
Prince Ruperts Drops
8pm
$5
If you'd like to play in the Guitarkestra (along with members of Oneida, Charlambides, Vetiver, and many others), show up with a guitar, an amp, and whatever power strips and extension chords you can @ 8pm. First come, first drone.
Tonight 6/26 - Sun 6/27
@ Landesmuseum Joanneum (Künstler)
Neutergasse 45
8010 Graz, Austria
KARNEVAL IM LAND DER CETACEAN
A three-day festival with Taped Sounds artists and related seekers of sound. Music and various visual media will be presented.
Fri 6/26
Instant Space Dog Soup (be)
Partkdolg (be)
Buffle (be)
P.A.R.A. (us)
James Ferraro (usa)
Brew Abuse (be)
Orphan Fairytale (be)
5pm
€8
Sat 6/27
Eekhornx (be)
Cotopaxl (ger)
Vom Grill (be)
Dolphins into the Future (be)
Head of Wantastiquet (usa)
Huur Is Duur (be)
Monopoly Child (usa)
Ignatz (be)
Mik Quantius (be)
Hungry Soul (be)
2pm
€6 presale €8 at the door
Sun 6/28
City Hands (nl)
Zim Zim Zim (be)
Helicoptere Sanglante (fra)
R.O.T. (be)
Ludo Mich (be)
4pm
Free
Little Claw "Human Taste"
OUT TODAY 6/23
The Matt Krefting Band this weekend:
Thurs 6/25 @ American Legion
Northampton, MA
62 Riverside Drive
Guerrero
Poor Soul
Bob Evans
Matt Krefting Band
8pm
Fri 6/26 @ O'Brien's Pub
Allston, MA
Vic Rawlings
The Stoned Ambassadors
The Matt Krefting Band
Major Stars
9pm
Sat 6/27 @ Union Pool
484 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Pink Noise
My Perfect Heartbreak
Bob Evans
Matt Krefting Band
8pm
Sun 6/28 @ Maxwell's
1039 Washington St
Hoboken, NJ
Matt Krefting Band
Bob Evans
8pm
In addition to the shows listed above, Bob Evans will be playing on Friday 6/26 at The Middle East in Boston with Black Helicopter, Guerrero, Meadhall, and Kudgel. Starts at 8pm.
140 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA
BSC
Mark Lord
Geoff Mullen
Noise Nomads
8:30pm
21+
$5
Magik Mouth Tour (Magik Markers/Mouthus)
6/26-Ithaca, NY-Lost Dog Lounge
6/27-Toronto, ON-Music Gallery Courtyard
6/28-Montreal, QC-Suoni Music Festival (w/Cousins of Reggae and Disguises)
6/29-Pittsfield, MA-Copperworks
Matt Krefting was interviewed by Tony Rettman for Swingset. Read a full account of their battlehug of wits here.
C. Spencer Yeh is playing a pair of shows in NYC this weekend:
Fri 6/19 @ The Fortune Cookie Cabaret
Basement of Lucky Cheng's
24 First Ave. (between 1st and 2nd Sts.)
New York, NY
KOLAPSE Presents:
James Blackshaw
...and special guests
C. Spencer Yeh and Okkyung Lee
Chris Weisman and Greg Davis
Immanent Voiceless
9pm-2am
$10
Sat 6/20 @ 408 Park Ave.
(between Kent and Taffee)
Brooklyn, NY
Holiday On Rape Island (members of Orphan, Airport War)
C. Spencer Yeh
Tetsuo Rebirth
210 Kent Avenue
Williamsburg, NY
Sightings
Golden Triangle
Knyfe Hyts
Trilateral Commission
DJs Brad Truax & Fitz
9pm
Matt Krefting "I Couldn't Love You More"
OUT TODAY 6/16
Free Instore
Fri 6/19 @ Mystery Train Records
178-A N. Pleasant
Amherst, MA
IDM Theftable/Cave Bears (split LP release show)
with special guest...
BROMP TREB
6pm
Donations requested
Sonic Youth decided to remind everyone, via Pitchfork, how sweet Samara Lubelski's Road To Misfortune video is. Pairs nicely with a sunrise, tequila or no.
Tonight 6/12 @ Union Pool
484 Union Ave Brooklyn NY
Golden Triangle 11:20pm
Sightings 10:30pm
Pterodactyl 9:40pm
Aa 8:50pm
SCREENS 8:10pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
$10
A funny thing happened. Our old friends at FORCED EXPOSURE inadvertently let loose the new record by MATT KREFTING "I Couldn't Love You More" this week – one week before the release date of 6/16! But lets quickly turn that frown upside down and call it a WEB EXCLUSIVE! Go buy that shit from Jimmy right now!! And of course, we'll have it here on EP.com for you on Tuesday!
Awesome Color added dates to their summer tour! Full schedule follows, new shows are in bold.
Supporting Black Dice:
Tonight 6/10-Lexington, KY - The Void
Thurs 6/11-Atlanta, GA-The Earl
Fri 6/12-Chapel Hill, NC-Local 506
Sat 6/13-Baltimore, MD-Sonar
Sun 6/14-New York, NY-Bowery Ballroom
Mon 6/15- Medford, MA-Outside the Lines Gallery
Tues 6/16-Montreal, QC-Il Motore
Wed 6/17-Toronto, ON-The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
Thurs 6/18-Detroit, MI-MOCAD
Fri 6/19-Pittsburgh, PA-Garfield Artworks
With Health:
Sat 6/20-Brooklyn, NY-Danbro Studios Warehouse
Headlining:
Fri 7/10-Detroit, MI-Old Miami
Sat 7/11-Chicago, IL-Empty Bottle
Sun 7/12-Iowa City, IA-Picador
Tue 7/14-Hot Springs, AR-Maxine's
Supporting Sonic Youth:
Wed 7/15-Dallas, TX-House of Blues
Thurs 7/16-Tulsa, OK-Cain's Ballroom
Fri 7/17-St. Louis, MO-Live on the Levee
Sat 7/18-Kansas City, MO-Uptown Theatre
Mon 7/20-Milwaukee, WI-Turner Hall
Tues 7/21-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue
Thu 7/23-Boise, ID-Knitting Factory
Fri 7/24-Spokane, WA-Knitting Factory
Sat 7/25-Seattle, WA-Capitol Hill Block Party
Sun 7/26-Vancouver, BC-V Festival
Tues 7/28-Portland, OR-Roseland
Thurs 7/30-Salt Lake City, UT-Gallivan Center
Fri 7/31-Denver, CO-Ogden Theatre
Sun 8/02-Oakland, CA-Fox Theatre
Some nice live footage of MV+EE's recent Casbah show surfaced on YouTube courtesy of Ayal Senior. Dig!
More videos from that show can be found here in the multimedia column.
While you're riding the high of those vids, be aware that we just got restocked with Gettin' Gone and Green Blues CDs!
This Sunday, June 14th, Samara Lubelski and Religious Knives, along with a host of other fine bands (including Talk Normal and The Strange Boys, to pull at random), will be playing Todd P's Unamplified Acoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden Beach in Queens, NY. 10 minute sets from each band, 12pm - 9pm.
Religious Knives' Michael Bernstein did an interview with Beatcrave for their Know Your NYC Bands series. Read it here.
Servile Sect's Stratospheric Passenger LP got reviewed by TinyMixTapes. Read it here.
Senior South Korea Noise Correspondent Matt Jones reports that this is absolutely ace: 
NODAGIRI'S FREEDOM
Upcoming shows at 145 South St., Northampton, MA:
Tomorrow 6/11
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase (cooper from fat worm solo!)
Glamorous Pat & La La (west coast returns!)
Rot Ton Bone (member of tusco terror)
Pak (tapes, tapes, tapes!)
George W Myers (slow muddy shitty beats)
Northampton Wools (mem of the stabs)
8pm, $5 donation
Wed 6/17
Predator Vision (mem of ducktails)
Sudden Oak (SF, former wmass)
Tarp
+ more
8pm, $5 donation
Thurs 6/18
Russian Tsarlag (providence, amazing shit-fi songs)
Big & Tall (on tour)
Gay Bomb (on tour)
Jerk Curtain (wmass electronics)
8pm, $5 donation
Tonight 6/8 @ The Elevens
140 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA
Record release show for Diagram:A LP on Open Mouth
Diagram:A
Eloe Omoe (first show in a couple years!!!)
Fat Worm of Error
Noise Nomads
DJ sets by Bill Nace/Chris Dooley
9pm
Tonight 6/8 @ The Green Room
5386 St-Laurent Blvd
Montreal, QB
Grand Trine
The Holy Cobras (Ottawa, ON)
Angels in America (Ecstatic Peace! NYC/MTL)
9:30pm
$5, no advance tickets
Jemina Pearl just let loose (3) new tracks from her upcoming Fall release. Go check them out on her myspace page.
Jason Crummer & Roxann Spikula
Suppression the the Third 2x10"
Tonight 5/29 @ Issue Project Room
232 3rd St, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
Devin & Gary Go Outside
(featuring Ross Goldstein)
Angela Jaeger
Byron Coley
The #1 Hit Record Devin & Gary Go Outside along with special collage package, housemade by Gary and Devin and a silkscreened poster by Chris Capuozzo will be for sale.
8pm $10
Post-No Fun Northampton Wools cassette restock! Get 'em while you can.
WAND "HARD KNOX"
OUT TODAY 5/26
Ryan Sawyer double-feature tonight!
@ Freddy's Backroom
485 Dean St. (@6th Ave) ,Brooklyn
Zach Layton, Ryan Sawyer, James Illginfritz, and Keir Neuringer
10pm $5 suggested donation
@ Santos Party House
96 Lafayette StreetGround Floor South, New York
Light Asylum
Tim Dewitt & Ryan Sawyer duo
Styles
Around midnight $10
Sonic Youth had a record release party for The Eternal on Friday night, so Matt Krefting and friends (including Jemina Pearl as Chuck D.) took the opportunity to pay tribute as The Goo Believers. All Hands Electric snapped some choice photos, take a look.
Update:
Before Awesome Color links up, The Entrance Band will be supporting Sonic Youth on these shows:
Sat 6/27-Chicago, IL-Vic Theatre
Mon 6/29-Royal Oak, MI-Royal Oak Music Theatre
Tues 6/30-Toronto, ON-(CA) Massey Hall
Thurs 7/2-Philadelphia, PA-Electric Factory
Fri 7/3-New York, NY-United Palace
Tue 7/7-Washington, DC-9:30 Club
Wed 7/08-Richmond, VA-The National
Fri 7/10-Knoxville, TN-Bijou Theatre
Sat 7/11-Nashville, TN-War Memorial
Sun 7/12-Birmingham, AL-Sloss Furnace
Mon 7/13-Atlanta, GA-Variety Playhouse
MV & EE with the Golden Road shows
Tonight Thurs 5/21 @ Casbah Lounge
306 King St. West, Hamilton, Ontario
With WOODS
9pm
Fri 5/22 @ Whippersnapper Gallery
587A College Street, Toronto, Ontario
With WOODS
9pm
Sun 6/14 @ The Bookmill
440 Greenfield Road, Montague, Massachusetts
With Curisillistas
8pm
Awesome Color just announced their summer plans:
Supporting Black Dice:
Thurs 6/11-Atlanta, GA-The Earl
Fri 6/12-Chapel Hill, NC-Local 506
Sat 6/13-Baltimore, MD-Sonar
Sun 6/14-New York, NY-Bowery Ballroom
Mon 6/15- Medford, MA-Outside the Lines Gallery
Tues 6/16-Montreal, QC-Il Motore
Thurs 6/18-Detroit, MI-MOCAD
Fri 6/19-Pittsburgh, PA-Garfield Artworks
With Health:
Sat 6/20-Brooklyn, NY-Danbro Studios Warehouse
Supporting Sonic Youth:
Wed 7/15-Dallas, TX-House of Blues
Thurs 7/16-Tulsa, OK-Cain's Ballroom
Fri 7/17-St. Louis, MO-Live on the Levee
Sat 7/18-Kansas City, MO-Uptown Theatre
Mon 7/20-Milwaukee, WI-Turner Hall
Tues 7/21-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue
Thu 7/23-Boise, ID-Knitting Factory
Fri 7/24-Spokane, WA-Knitting Factory
Sat 7/25-Seattle, WA-Capitol Hill Block Party
Tues 7/28-Portland, OR-Roseland
Thurs 7/30-Salt Lake City, UT-Gallivan Center
Fri 7/31-Denver, CO-Ogden Theatre
Sun 8/02-Oakland, CA-Fox Theatre
Tonight Thurs 5/14
9:30pm @ West Nile
285 Kent between South 1st and South 2nd, Willamsburg
! mike pollard/raglani (THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND VS. MYSTERIOUS SYNTH LORD... FOGGY!)
! taylor richardson/mark mcguire (mem. IW/PURPLE HAZE VS. EMERALDS LORD... DEEP...)
! masqves (hauschildt/lopatin duo... A SHADOWY OCEAN OF TEARS)
! N&G (ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN WHEN YOU GET THESE 2 TOGETHER IN A ROOM!)
! and new york's best sloooowsludgepsychband COCONUTS (sexy nightrock!)
This weekend @ The Stone
Corner of Avenue C and 2nd St.
New York, NY
Fri 5/15
John Zorn Improv Night - a STONE benefit
John Zorn (sax) Grey Gersten (guitar) Ches Smith (guitar) Samara Lubelski (violin) Kato Hideki (bass, synth) Neel Murgai (sitar) and many special guests.
8pm and 10 pm $20
Sat 5/16
Metal Mountains
Helen Rush (vocals, guitar) Samara Lubelski (violin, bass) Pat Gublar (guitar)
8 pm $5
Check out the Matt Krefting article in the Valley Advocate this week or read it here.
Tonight Thurs 5/7 @ Bar Mondial
Suikerrui 13, Antwerp
Ultra Eczema's Maandstonden
ORPHAN FAIRYTALE (BE, debut lp presentation show!)
LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS (US, lady voice performance troupe)
+ dj manboks jan, paarse hoed
Sat 5/9 @ Flywheel
43 Main St, Easthampton, MA
Record Fair fundraiser for the Flywheel Arts Collective.
20+ dealers
10am - 3:30pm
557 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
WINTER'S WOMB
(Chuck Bettis - electronics & throat, Mike Pride - drums)
MARK MORGAN & RICHARD HOFFMAN
(guitar & bass improv fumbling)
+ surprise guest
Sat May 2nd @ Mystery Train Records
Amherst, Massachusetts
Noise Nomads instore/art opening/live set
Crude Hill (Providence, RI)
6pm
Sat May 2nd @ Union Pool
Pink Noise
Daniel Carter, Thurston Moore, Ryan Sawyer
Mad Love (Trevor Dunn)
Doors open at 9pm
Sun May 3rd @ MARKET HOTEL
1142 Myrtle Ave @ Bdwy, Buschwick, Bklyn
TJO aka Tara Jane O’Neil
MIRAH
Air Waves
Tall Firs
8pm $10-$25 sliding scale donation
557 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
Vvuntet - members of Fourtet, Sunburned &Volcano the Bear
Pete Nolan - member of Spectre Folk, Magick Markers
Easthampton, MA
Dance Party to Support Community Resources for People with Autism
Dance-a-thon, raffle prizes, food, drinks, DJing fom Snack Attack and others
Recent state budget cuts have threatened important funding used to support local western MA famlies. More info here!
Interview with Matt Krefting at Microphone Memory Emotion, read it here.
1118 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn
Hush Arbors
Jason Ajemian
10pm, $10, more info
Follow Ecstatic Peace on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ecstaticpeace)
Also, here on Facebook
Please come to BLUEBERRY STUDIO on SUNDAY APRIL 19 2009 for a send-off party for the artwork headed to COPENAHGEN for gallery exhibit through the courtesy of our friends at BOTTEGA ARETÉ and TROELS MADS. This event will run from 2pm until 11pm, with unscheduled short performances throughout the day by area luminaries. (see list below, though probably others will be added as the day nears) and after dinner performances (start around 8?) by some other locals etc.
LAST MINUTE ADD= HUSH ARBORS
SPIRIT OF ORR PRESENTS:
FESTIVAL OF ENDLESS GRATITUDE
MUSIC & OPEN HOUSE WITH ART HEADED TO COPENHAGEN GALLERY EXHIBIT
APPEARING IN THE AFTERNOON:
JOHN SINGER
SCOTTY TABACHNICK
WOOLY MAR
DREDD FOOLE
SKY VZ
JOHN TOWNSEND
MATT KREFTING
STEFFI BEAGLE
APPEARING IN THE EVENING:
TARP
BIG KIDS
BARN OWL
JOW JOW
BURNT HILLS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BLUEBERRY
STUDIO &TC.
A256 COTTON MILL
BRATTLEBORO VT
ALL DAY 2PM -11PM
APRIL 19TH 2009
WWW.SPIRITOFORR.COM
Awesome Color (and Dino) ruled in CT. see for yourself in this video shot for Ecstatic Peace by the infamous PHILLY VIRUS!
4/01 Milford, CT Daniel Street
4/02 Providence, RI Club Hell
4/03 Portland, ME The Station
4/04 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
4/06 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
4/07 State College, PA Lulu's
4/08 Akron, OH Musica
4/09 Lansing, MI Small Planet
4/10 Bloomington, IN Bluebird
4/11 DeKalb, IL Otto's
Daniel Higgs & Bill Nace tour
4/01 Somerville, NJ
4/02 Pittsburgh
4/03 Cleveland
4/04 Chicago
4/05 Iowa City
4/06 Omaha
4/08 Salt Lake City
4/10 Portland
4/11 Olympia
4/14 Hayfork, CA
4/15 Oakland
4/16 San Francisco
4/17 San Francisco
4/22 Albuquerque
4/24 Kansas City
4/25 St Louis
4/26 Louisville
Tonight 3/31 @ Ding Dong Lounge
926 Columbus Ave, NYC
$6 suggested donation, $2 PBR
Spectre Folk (Pete from Magick Markers, Brian from Mouthus, Samara
Lubelski, John Truscinski of X.O.4)
D. Charles Speer (members of No Neck Blues Band)
DJ's Gary War and Jeremy Novak (Dymaxion)
The Tyfus Decks are literally flying out the door so don't get shut out. In fact, today we even got what we could only call a thank you note from the one, the only DAVEY who made our day with his thoughtfullness. Please feel free to pass along any Pics or Action Vid that you might have to: update@ecstaticpeace.com.
Watch this
Tonight Sat 3/28@ Less Artists More Condos
132 W 3rd, NYC, 8:30pm-1am
Sightings
The Present
Pygmy Shrews
Head of Wantastiquet tour
more info here
3/29 SCHIP Bruxelles, Belgium
4/1 Unrock Records Krefled, Germany
4/2 Walpodenakadamie Mainz, Germany
4/4 Astudio Rubin Prague, Czech Republic
4/7 Vittorio Veneto (TV) at Codalunga
4/8 Bologna at Sant' Andrea degli Amplificatori
4/9 Milano at Brown
4/10 Marseille-l'Embodineuse
4/11 Lyon - Grrrrnd Zero
4/12 Paris au l'espace en cours
4/14 VPRO Radio Session Amsterdam