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GIVING UP, LIFE PARTNER, and NEIGHBOR at THE NEW VINTAGE, Monday, February 16th

(GIF by Mikie Poland.)

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

Monday, February 16th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
8 PM, $7, ALL AGES!
Advance online tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/767003-giving-up-life-partner-louisville/
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1575731622640753
Recommended If You Like: Times New Viking, State Champion, Harvey Milk, Waxeater

(Image courtesy Sophomore Lounge.)

Shacked up over a series of living-room recording sessions throughout the following years, longtime like-minds of GIVING UP, Jenny Rose, Sean Roth, and Mikie Poland stuck their heads down deep in a three-box inheritance of Grandma’s country western records, held hands, and inhaled. Suddenly, Ernest Tubb and Hank Snow shook hands with the Ben Weasel within. With little more than a few guitars, a small reed organ, a harmonica, a boom-box tape recorder, the trio wrote and recorded a string of arguably listenable demo tapes which would soon lead the way to a number of full-length records and split tapes. With all that said and done, the breeze still blows. GIVING UP is still as charmingly raw as it was in its challengingly lo-fi stages of inception. The three friends are still friends, driving their Chevy to the levy and puking their proverbial guts out.

(Image courtesy Sophomore Lounge.)

The sagas explaining the origins of LIFE PARTNER vary, however the epic chiseled on a monolith unearthed behind Jefferson Mall remains pivotal amongst scholarship. According to the stone, the founding members of LIFE PARTNER crossed paths just outside of the great foyer of Jefferson Mall between Bacon’s and Man Alive. A young Patrick Hume had been in between jobs since the late 90’s and was filling in as Zangief the drummer in Street Fighter II: The Band, for a string of promotional shows at GameStop. Aaron Osbourne had been forced into a life of deception by a mounting ketamine addiction; disguised in corpse paint, he had been successfully billing himself as “Brian Dennehy: Unplugged” outside of Orange Julius. During a cover of “Life in the Fastlane” an enthusiastic fan of Dennehy’s character “Walter” in Cocoon exposed him to security. Security dropped Osbourne on the entry steps where Patrick had been informed that Blanka would be replacing him for the conclusion of the tour.
It is at this juncture where the inscriptions on the monolith become indecipherable. While the bulk of mainstream cryptographers believe the two bought a cube of Keystone and crashed at Aaron’s mom’s house, some rogue linguists vehemently argue that Per Yngve Ohlin and Oystein Aarseth descended on a bolt of lightning and taught them the ways of the dark lord.

NEIGHBOR of Louisville, Kentucky draws from punk, experimental and underground influences as well as classic soul, country and western to produce a unique breed of heavy American rock n’ roll. Recommended for fans of Big Business, Harvey Milk, and Motorhead. Featuring former and current members of Bu Hao Ting, Twenty First Century Fox, Waxeater, and ZCFOS.

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MIND OVER MIRRORS, DANIEL BACHMAN, and KEENAN & CHRIS at KAIJU, Thursday, February 12th

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The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

MIND OVER MIRRORS

DANIEL BACHMAN

KEENAN & CHRIS

Thursday, February 12th
at KAIJU
1004 E. Oak Street
Doors open at 9 PM
$10, 21+
Advance online tickets available here: https://squareup.com/market/the-other-side-of-life
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/904047726305926
Recommended If You Like: G.I. Gurdjieff, Edward Artemiev, John Fahey, Jack Rose, Caboladies

MIND OVER MIRRORS, the evolving project of Jaime Fennelly and more recently, Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux, deploys modest acoustic constituent materials — an Indian pedal harmonium and the human voice — to produce roiling, meditative music that both simulates the swells and troughs of synthesized electronics and conjures the ceaseless rhythms of tidal surges. While we can point out referential sonic compass points — G.I. Gurdjieff’s harmonium improvisations; certain particularly harmonically viscous recordings of Sacred Harp singers; Edward Artemiev’s soundtracks to Andrei Tarkovsky films — in its prayerful patience, its simultaneously formal and folk aspects, and its unabashed (if intermittently anxious) beauty, it doesn’t sound much like anything else being made today. There is an easy, and unusual, confluence of praise and play at work in Jaime’s music that catalyzes heady reverie. The new MIND OVER MIRRORS album, The Voice Calling, will be released on January 27th on Immune Recordings.

DANIEL BACHMAN is a musician born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been playing what he describes as “psychedelic appalachia” since he was a teenager, releasing small run editions of tapes, CDs and LPs for the past few years, with a sound that evolved from drones and banjos to a now guitar centered focus. Touring off and on since the age of 17, BACHMAN has managed to cover thorough ground across the US, sharing stages with like minded folk such as fellow Fredericksburg native Jack Rose, for whom he fashioned the artwork for the posthumous release of Luck In The Valley. His new album will be released on Three Lobed Recordings this spring.

KEENAN & CHRIS is the debut of the duo of Louisville natives Keenan Lawler and Chris Bush. Keenan Lawler is a versatile guitarist who has collaborated or performed with a wide range of forward-thinking musicians and mavericks including Rhys Chatham, John Butcher, Eliott Sharp, Charalambides, Ignaz Schick/Perlonex, Kaffe Matthews, Burning Star Core, Jason Kahn, Ut Gret, Kevin Drumm, Helena Espvall, Ian Nagoski, Alan Licht, Taksuya Nakatani, Bhob Rainey, Eric Carbonara and Joseph Suchy. Chris Bush currently plays electronics in Flanger Magazine, and has also been a member of Caboladies, as well as released music in a solo project under the name Flower Man.

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WATTER and STEVE GUNN, with guests RYLEY WALKER and NATHAN SALSBURG at THE NEW VINTAGE, Saturday, March 28th

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The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

WATTER and STEVE GUNN

with

RYLEY WALKER
NATHAN SALSBURG

Saturday, March 28th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
Doors open at 8 PM
$10, 18+
Advance online tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/746489-watter-steve-gunn-ryley-louisville/
Tickets go on sale at 5 PM Eastern, January 15th!
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1374366419537796
Recommended If You Like: Grails, Slint, Nick Drake, John Fahey

WATTER is a new trio made up of close friends and collaborators whose collective pedigree reads like a desert island list of must-haves in experimental rock musicians. Multi-instrumentalists Zak Riles (Grails) and Tyler Trotter are anchored by legendary drummer Britt Walford (Slint, Evergreen) on six genre-defying pieces of monolithic mood music. For Riles and Trotter, it’s a chance to dig deeper into the sandbox in which Grails have sculpted many mercurial masterpieces in recent years; for Walford, it’s the opportunity to play a substantial role in a new active band for the first time in nearly twenty years. Their debut album, This World, was released by Temporary Residence and was one of our favorite records of 2014.

(Photo of Steve Gunn by Constance Mensh.)

STEVE GUNN is a New York-based guitarist and songwriter. With a career spanning nearly fifteen years, Steve has produced volumes of critically acclaimed solo, duo, and ensemble recordings. Way Out Weather, GUNN’s album released last fall on Paradise of Bachelors, shows his discursive, mantric guitar style, at once transcendent and methodical — and as influenced by Western guitarists such as Michael Chapman and Sonny Sharrock as by Ghanaian highlife, Gnawa, and Carnatic forms.

Watch the video for STEVE GUNN’s “Way Out Weather” here:

“…The charming swagger of jazz-folk troubadour Tim Buckley and the resonant, full picking style of Bert Jansch.” – NPR Music

RYLEY WALKER is a 24 year-old singer/songwriter and guitarist from Chicago. Having kicked around Chicago’s experimental free/noise music scene for several years, Ryley recently turned to a folk-rock sound inspired by some of his heroes, among them Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley, and Bert Jansch. His new album, Primrose Green, will be released on March 31st by Dead Oceans.

Watch the video for RYLEY WALKER‘s “Primrose Green” here:

Nathan Salsburg
(Photo by Elizabeth Hartsig.)

NATHAN SALSBURG is an archivist, producer, guitarist, and writer based in Louisville, Kentucky. Since 2000 he has worked for the Alan Lomax Archive, for which he currently serves in the capacity of Curator, compiling and producing album releases of the renowned folklorist’s recordings, and managing the Archive’s online audio, photo, and video catalogs, and its popular YouTube channel. Salsburg has also produced archival releases for the Grammy-winning Tompkins Square label, and he curates the Twos & Fews imprint of Chicago’s Drag City record company. As an acoustic guitarist, he has released three critically acclaimed albums — a duet with Chicago’s James Elkington, entitled Avos (Tompkins Square, 2011) and two solo records, Affirmed (No Quarter, 2011) and Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won (No Quarter, 2013) — and has appeared on WNYC Radio’s “Soundcheck” program and in NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series.

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BATTLE TRANCE and SHUTARO NOGUCHI at KAIJU, Monday, February 2nd

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The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

BATTLE TRANCE

with

SHUTARO NOGUCHI

Monday, February 2nd
at KAIJU
1004 E. Oak Street
Doors open at 8 PM
$7, 21+
Advance online tickets available here: https://squareup.com/market/the-other-side-of-life
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/689486337837638
Recommended If You Like: Colin Stetson, Another 7 Astronauts, Papa M

BATTLE TRANCE exists in the cracks between contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, black metal, ambient, and world music, and their 2014 album Palace of Wind (on NNA Tapes) is a composition that pushes the four saxophonists to the limit, shedding new light on the saxophone as an ensemble instrument. The players use circular breathing to build continuous, hypnotic waves of sound; multiphonics layer to create intricate textures that reflect an ancient time; and blisteringly fast lines seem to liquefy into each other.

Battle Trance Promo Video on Vimeo.

Listen to Palace of Wind in its entirety here:

SHUTARO NOGUCHI is from Japan and in 2010 he moved to Louisville, Kentucky after finishing his college degree and internship at FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He quickly found musical outlets as a collaborator with K Tranza and Another 7 Astronauts. From 2013 he started recording his own songs and is currently working on a solo album, while hosting the radio program Midnight Locker with Nathan Simmons at ART.FM. His style of music varies but generally is melody-oriented, minimal acoustic guitar singer-songwriting sung in Japanese with a flavor of traditional-folk, backed by ensembles of synth and electric guitar. He is influenced by music from America and around the world, and Pajo.

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SAPAT Record Release Show with ELISA AMBROGIO (of Magik Markers), NATHAN BOWLES, and CHAMPION ZOZ at THE NEW VINTAGE, Saturday, January 24th

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(Flier by Kaptain Molasses.)

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

SAPAT Record Release Show!

with

ELISA AMBROGIO (of Magik Markers, on Drag City)
NATHAN BOWLES (of Pelt and the Black Twig Pickers, on Paradise of Bachelors)
CHAMPION ZOZ

Saturday, January 24th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
8 PM, $10, ALL AGES!
Advance online tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/742259-sapat-record-release-show-louisville/
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1667672330126381
Recommended If You Like: Valley of Ashes, Magik Markers, Pelt, State Champion

Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as Black Velvet Fuckere, SAPAT resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of the ‘00 decade, members have kept busy collaborating with and/or massaging the egos of various and sundry avant-pontiffs such as Robert Fripp, Magik Markers, Dead Child and Eugene Chadbourne – when not honing the orgone energy of SAPAT.

This show celebrates the release of their new LP, A Posthuman Guide to the Advent Calendar
Origins of the Peep Show, on Sophomore Lounge Records!

Limbo as the space between heaven and hell where unblessed babies float, sighing; limbo as the supple-spined Calypsonian dance craze: here exists The Immoralist, the new record by ELISA AMBROGIO. The Immoralist lies at the wicked crossroads of Wilson Pickett’s electric wail and the sweetest of Wilson Phillips harmonies.

Watch the video for ELISA AMBROGIO‘s “Superstitious” here:

The seven songs on NATHAN BOWLES‘ new album Nansemond deploy banjo, percussion, piano (his childhood instrument), tapes, and — for the first time — his robust voice to explore the rugged country between the poles of Appalachian old-time traditions and ecstatic, minimalist drone, moving effortlessly between composed sections, improvised passages, and field recordings. This forking-path approach follows his wide-ranging work as an ensemble player with the Black Twig Pickers (banjo, percussion), Pelt (struck and bowed percussion), Steve Gunn (drums, piano, banjo), Hiss Golden Messenger (banjo), Jack Rose, and others. For this record, he has assembled a sensitive group of collaborators from beyond the rosters of those groups: Tom Carter (guitar), Joe Dejarnette (guitar), Steve Kruger (fiddle, voice), and Jason Meagher of Black Dirt Studio (recording, production, mixing.)

Watch NATHAN BOWLES play “Sleepy Lake Tire Swing” here:

CHAMPION ZOZ is the duo of Ryan Davis (State Champion, Tropical Trash) and MA Turner (MA Turner’s Fatubyfairfe, Cross, Salad Influence, Warmer Milks), here making their Louisville debut on their debut tour! What soulful tunes will this wild-n’-wooly duo produce? Step to it, get to the show early, and find out!

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Two Sets by THE JAVA MEN at THE NEW VINTAGE, Tuesday, January 20th

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The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

Two Sets by the JAVA MEN

Tuesday, January 20th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
2126 S. Preston
8 PM & 10 PM
Come at 8pm and stay for both sets: $8
Come at 10pm and stay for the remaining set: $5
Advance online tickets for two sets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/763669-java-men-2-sets-louisville/
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1022780467737911/

Todd Hildreth, Craig Wagner and Ray Rizzo formed JAVA MEN in 1992 when Wagner and Rizzo were still students at Bellarmine University (then Bellarmine College). JAVA MEN developed from the classic jazz/soul organ trio arrangement of organ, guitar and drums, encompassing post-rock, hip hop textures, and bluegrass in the their original compositions. The band self-produced 3 recordings (“A Letter To St. Paul”, “Void” and “Orbituary”) and shared bills with The Rachels’, Victor Wooten, and The Brian Setzer Orchestra. Individually they have been part of other great Louisville music groups including Liberation Prophecy, King Kong, and The Ron Jones Quartet.

Craig plays with the aforementioned Liberation Prophecy and with Carly Johnson. He and Carly recently won the LMA’s “Jazz Artist Of The Year” Award. He is also part of the jazz faculty at both the University of Louisville and at Bellarmine.

Todd leads the bands Squeezebot and the Todd Hildreth Trio, and currently plays with King Kong and Vgroove. He is part of the music faculty at Bellarmine University.

Ray lives in Brooklyn, New York where he is part of the bands Mesiko and Corporal, and often plays with Trixie Whitley. He has recorded with members of the Lounge Lizards, Glen Hansard, Trixie Whitley, Frogbelly and Symphony, Dawn Landes, and Yo Yo Ma (on the Grammy winning “Songs of Joy and Peace”).

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The Best of 2014

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If you told me at the beginning of this year that I would book more shows, buy more LPs, and overall be way more engaged with music in 2014 than any other year of my life, I wouldn’t have believed you. Though it was a very tumultuous year, thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Full-length Albums:

1. MA Turner, ZOZ Collection twelve-cassette box set (self-released)/ZOZ 12” (Sophomore Lounge)
2. Steve Gunn, Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors)/Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper, FRKWYS Vol. 11: Cantos de Lisboa (RVNG)
3. Elisa Ambrogio, The Immoralist (Drag City)
4. Omid Walizadeh, Modern Persian Speech Sounds (B|ta’arof)
5. Dark Blue, Pure Reality (Jade Tree)
6. Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet, The Abyss (Erstwhile)
7. Aphex Twin, Syro (Warp)
8. Dead Rider, Chills on Glass (Drag City)
9. Chicago Underground Duo, Locus (Northern Spy)
10. The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)

Singles, EPs, single tracks:

1. New York Endless, “Strategies” 12” (Golf Channel)
2. Run the Jewels, “Crown”/”Angel Duster” (Mass Appeal)
3. Jason Lescalleet, “Much to My Demise” 12” (Kye)
4. The Juan MacLean, “A Place Called Space”/”The Sun Will Never Set On Our Love” (DFA)
5. The Elsinores, “Dreams of Youth” 12” (Karmic Swamp)
6. Wildhoney, “Seventeen Forever” 7” (Photobooth)
7. Iberia, “ACAB” (Hybris)
8. Prince Rupert’s Drops, “Sesame Seed” (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
9. Aphex Twin, “XMAS_EVET10 (Thanaton3 Mix)” (Warp)
10. Andy Stott, “Science and Industry” (Modern Love)

Reissues and Compilations:

1. Hailu Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
2. Harry Pussy, s/t (Pallalia)
3. The Flesheaters, A Minute to Pray… A Second to Die (Superior Viaduct)
4. Breadwinner, Burner (Merge)
5. The Joe McPhee Quartet, Underground Railroad (Bo’Weavil)
6. Ingram Marshall, “Fog Tropes”/”Gradual Requiem” (Arc Light Editions)
7. Loop, A Gilded Eternity (Reactor)
8. Tashi Dorji, s/t (Hermit Hut)
9. V/A, Folk Music of the Sahel Vol. 1 – Niger (Sublime Frequencies)
10. Bo Anders Persson, Love Is Here to Stay (Subliminal Sounds)

Honorable mentions: Nathan Bowles, Nansemond (Paradise of Bachelors); Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, Intensity Ghost (No Quarter); Alvarius B/Sir Richard Bishop, If You Don’t Like It… Don’t (Three Lobed); Scott Walker + Sunn 0)), Soused (4AD); Graham Lewis, All Over & All Under (Editions Mego); Anjou, s/t (Kranky); Bill Orcutt, VDSQ Vol. 10 (VDSQ); PC Worship, Social Rust (Dull Tools/Northern Spy); Purling Hiss, Weirdon (Drag City); Francis Bebey, Psychedelic Sanza 1982 – 1984 (Born Bad); Horse Lords, Hidden Cities (NNA); Klara Lewis, Ett (Editions Mego); Matt Krefting, Lymph Est (Kye); Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler, Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey); Mohammad, Zo Rèl Do (Antifrost); Watter, This World (Temporary Residence); Ex Hex, Rips (Merge); Watery Love, Decorative Feeding (In the Red); Jac Berrocal, MDLV (Sub Rosa); Sapat, A Posthuman Guide to the Advent Calendar Origins of the Peep Show (Sophomore Lounge); Tinariwen, Emmarr (Anti-); Andy Stott, Faith in Strangers (Modern Love); V/A, Rajasthan Street Music (Sublime Frequencies); V/A, 1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (Sublime Frequencies); V/A, Autonomous Africa EP (Autonomous Africa).

Special thanks both to all the musicians I worked with this year, as well as the audience members from Louisville and elsewhere who attended the shows we put on.

Thanks to The New Vintage, Nachbar, Dreamland, and the Louisville Outskirts Festival.

And here’s the part we like least: saying goodbye to those who left us in 2014. R.I.P.

John Hampton, Brian Roy Goble, Buddy DeFranco, Joe Cocker, Larry Henley, Larry Smith, Wendy Rene, Rock Scully, Millie Kirkham, Rachel Blanton, Manuel de Sica, Graeme Goodall, Bob Montgomery, Ian McLagan, Bobby Keys, Nick Talbot, Chris White, Maggie Boyle, Rick Rosas, Big Bank Hank, Buddy Catlett, Mike Burney, Jimmy Ruffin, Dave Appell, Clive Palmer, Frances Nero, The Spaceape, Paul Revere, Style Scott, Mark Bell, Ikey Owens, James Levesque, Raphael Ravenscroft, Jack Bruce, David Anderle, Hopeton Lewis, Gerald Wilson, Bob Crewe, Cosimo Matassa, John Gustafson, Joe Sample, Peter Gutteridge, Margie Day, Kenny Wheeler, Milton Cardona, Rick Parashar, Uziah Thompson, Frankie Dunlop, John Spinks, Ken Thorne, Charlie Haden, Johnny Winter, Idris Muhammad, Dick Wagner, Donald Davis, Alan Douglas, Gerd Zacher, Jimmy Scott, Horace Silver, Gerry Goffin, Norman Sheffield, our friend Teenie Hodges, Bobby Womack, Paul Horn, Jessica Cleaves, Bobby Gregg, Nash the Slash, André Popp, Ed Gagliardi, Wayne Henderson, Leee Black Childers, Fred Ho, DJ E-Z Rock, Robert Ashley, Scott Asheton, Billy Mundi, Gert Krawinkle, Bob Casale, Wayne Smith, Bernd Noske, Paco de Lucia, Jay Traynor, Phil Everly, Amiri Baraka, Roy Campbell Jr., Bud Spangler, Joe Evans, Arthur Doyle, Johnny Allen, The Mighty Hannibal, and our good friend Letha Rodman Melchior.

TWIN SISTER RADIO, THE VIBROLAS, SIX BELLS, and killii killii at THE NEW VINTAGE, Saturday, January 17th

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(flier by Salena Filichia.)

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

TWIN SISTER RADIO

VIBROLAS

SIX BELLS

killii killi

Saturday, January 17th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
Doors open at 8 PM
$7, 18+
Advance online tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/742253-twin-sister-radio-six-bells-louisville/
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/797827226951542
Recommended If You Like: Louisville!

TWIN SISTER RADIO is a band from Louisville, Kentucky. It consists of David Wright (guitar, vocals), Joey Yates (drums), Benny Clark (bass), Catherine Baines (vocals), and Dan Marshall (guitar). Members of Six White Horses, State Champion, The Loved, Parlour, Elliott, and many other fantastic combos are involved, so you should be, too.

Chris, Leila and Andy needed a reason to end up face down in the gutter, so VIBROLAS was born! For fans of Moterhead, Budgie, Mudhoney, The Stooges, The Hookers, and Two-Lane Blacktop (aka the best road movie of ALL TIME).

SIX BELLS is a Louisville, Kentucky-based band consisting of longtime scene veterans Brandon Butler (formerly of Canyon and Boys Life), Ryan Patterson (Coliseum, Whips/Chains), Keith Bryant (formerly of Coliseum), and Forrest Kuhn (killii killii, formerly of Ennui). They combine the lyricism of Butler’s solo songwriter work with the taut, “Louisville-style” rhythm section of Bryant and Kuhn, plus Ryan Patterson’s tasteful, melodic guitar.

killii killii is a Louisville, Kentucky four-piece. killii killii music is full of left turns, 75 mph interstates, and well-constructed bridges.

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SPIDER BAGS and GANGLY YOUTH at THE NEW VINTAGE, Wednesday, January 14th

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(flier by Dan Davis)

The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

SPIDER BAGS

with

GANGLY YOUTH

Wednesday, January 14th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
Doors open at 8 PM
$10, 18+
Advance online tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/748313-spider-bags-gangly-youth-louisville/
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/827380153984737
Recommended If You Like: The White Stripes, Thee Oh Sees, The dB’s, The Feelies

SPIDER BAGS formed in 2005 as a long-distance project between close friends who had known each other since their high school days in New Jersey. Dan McGee had just witnessed the demise of his NYC-based punk band DC Snipers. Feeling he had gone as far as he could with the three-chord punk genre, and not wanting to repeat himself, he began writing volumes of songs with his friend Gregg Levy. He began sending these new songs in demo form to three of his NJ friends who had since relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. McGee and Levy drove down to NC to record with the full band, intending it to be more of a visit than anything. But something special happened during that recording, and eventually McGee and Levy would relocate to the area as well. That original lineup recorded their excellent debut, A Celebration of Hunger (Birdman, 2007), with Brian Paulson and then toured the country together for a couple of years before eventually going their separate ways. But McGee found himself more prolific than ever, and he and Levy decided to keep SPIDER BAGS going. A number of different players toured and recorded with the band while they finished another full-length, Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World (Birdman, 2009), and recorded half a dozen singles. Shortly after, Levy would move back north, but he continues to be a contributing member when he can.

During the 2011 recording of the band’s third album, Shake My Head (Odessa, 2012), the current lineup consisting of Steve Oliva (bass) and Rock Forbes (drums) was finally solidified. Having gone through so many members by this point, McGee couldn’t help but wonder if the guys would stick around for the long haul. But slimming down to a three-piece, the band members found they connected musically, and most importantly, they all liked each other. Building upon the foundation laid down by its predecessor, their 2014 release on Merge Records Frozen Letter rocks with the clairvoyance of three musicians who have spent a lot of time recording and touring together over the last few years. “When we started this record, we weren’t even thinking about it being released. We just did it to have fun and keep moving forward,” says Forbes, who has been playing with SPIDER BAGS since 2008. This approach, and McGee’s intent to make a “weird, trippy record,” allowed the band to push itself further out into the psychedelic frontier than ever before, aided by engineer/producer Wesley Wolfe.

After a bit of a hiatus and whatnot, GANGLY YOUTH of Louisville, Kentucky (and Charleston, West Virginia) return! Their sound is a mix of jangly noise, fuzzy pop, and a no-perfection required style. One might be reminded of bands like Sonic Youth, The Pixies, or warped cassettes playing favorite pop songs.

Watch GANGLY YOUTH play “What’s Yr Weirdness” live here:

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BUTCHER BOY, DREAM EYE COLOR WHEEL at THE NEW VINTAGE, Thursday, January 8th

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The Other Side of Life is proud to present:

BUTCHER BOY

DREAM EYE COLOR WHEEL

Thursday, January 8th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
8 PM, $7, 18+
Advance online tickets available here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/742229-butcher-boy-dream-eye-color-louisville/
Facebook invitation here: https://www.facebook.com/events/603826843055981
Recommended If You Like: O’Death, Dirty Projectors, Silversun Pickups, My Bloody Valentine

“BUTCHER BOY‘s sound is that of warped and electric avant-folk, colored with jazz chords, spacious textures and post-rock dynamics, all executed onstage with precision not unlike a conservatory senior recital. Their music requires attention and patience, but it rewards close listening. The members of BUTCHER BOY are true masters of their craft.” – Jeff Beam.

From the genius mind that is Ben Traughber, comes the incredible music project titled DREAM EYE COLOR WHEEL. Blending elements of bedroom-pop and quick jangles, one will be tossed into a world that sounds made up of cartoon Halloween specials with fuzzed out hooks, destined to be locked in your mind for weeks on end.

Listen to “Dream Eye” from DREAM EYE COLOR WHEEL‘s self-titled album here: http://dreameyecolorwheel.bandcamp.com/track/dream-eye.

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