sat. 25 may [tonight]
@ metro cafe
1522 14th street nw
washington, dc
seven o'clock doors
seven dollars
going blank again: an evening of contemporary white noise
The first in a series of local shows featuring shoegaze, drone, dreampop, and noise rock. Episode One includes static from:
Camera
Skywave
Alcian blue
Landspeeder
. . . plus madflowr (ROCKcandy/make-out party) and DJ Sonic (Now!/Landspeeder) spinning before, between, and after the sets.
Landspeeder = Sonic Drone Pop. Melodic, catchy dreampop sometimes immersed in hazy shoegazer dissonance, influenced by Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Pale Saints, Teenage Fanclub, et al.
Alcian Blue = Meshing hard pounding rhythms and atmospheric guitars to create space rock anthems and roaring noise. It's the music of Pet Sounds orchestrated by F-15 Engines.
Skywave = Taking rock and roll and pushing it to it's limits, Skywave takes influences from the shoegaze era and turns it up a few notches creating super intense walls of sound.
Camera: Ex-LowSunday members further explore dark textures and complex song structures with total pop sensibility.
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so if you're twiddling yr thumbs wondering what to do tonight, come out to the metro and bliss out to shoegazey sounds. i just hit my head while trying to hook up my scanner. ps i was UNsuccessful in my mission. sigh. stupid old scanner. i wanted to scan my first batch of pics taken with my lomo supersampler yellow, but now that has to wait until i buy a new scanner.
records i spun:
kite - nick heyward
bat macumba - os mutantes
harmony - floraline
m. singalong - sister sonny
magnetic halos - aveo
eskimo skin - the autumns
something - longwave
night in these rooms - movietone
burning flies - looper
esta muy triste - loopdrop
through your skies - january
all my friends who play guitar - starflyer 59
lost in shade - whirlaway
sexy boy (etienne de crecy et les flower pistoles remix) - air
october swimmer - jj72
this is not who we were - mull historical society
playgirl - ladytron
hello - certainly, sir
il sogno di una cosa - kreidler
shine - velour 100
raindrop - alison's halo
bliss - muse
worked up so sexual - the faint
across the great divide - saloon
+ landspeeder played +
blown a wish - my bloody valentine
big city (waves of joy) demo - spacemen 3
anywhere anyone - dntel
ikarie xb1 - ecstacy of saint theresa
painting the town dead - hood
nothing without you - revolver
aside - should
tried - the ropers
tower of silence - antarctica
+ alcian blue played +
tim took over djing after i left. i skeedaddled during the alcian blue's set. before going home, however, i dropped by galaxy hut to say hi to mike (lefty's deceiver/matt pond pa) cos i had told him i'd drop by. anyhow, i completely missed their set, but said hi nonetheless and he gave me a copy of his solo project (audible). very very good indeed. also very good = sleep.