Due to events beyond our control, we regret to inform you that the WIRES.UNDER.TENSION and VISITING NURSE show scheduled for this Sunday, October 20th at The New Vintage has, sadly, been cancelled.
No word as of yet on a make-up date, but we promise you’ll be the first to know.
The Other Side of Life is proud to present:
WIRES.UNDER.TENSION (The Bronx, NY; on Western Vinyl)
VISITING NURSE (Louisville, KY)
Sunday, October 20th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
2126 S. Preston
8 PM, $5, 21-and-over!
WIRES.UNDER.TENSION is a duo based in The South Bronx. Combining homegrown audio sampling instruments with ferocious beats and adventurous orchestration, WUT‘s angular gymnastics reflect the raw imagery of their home turf. Multi-instrumentalist Christopher Tignor switches dexterously between violin and the rest of the arsenal while Theo Metz extracts brutal truths from the kit. Together WUT is rethinking what instrumental music can be about when musicianship and restless experimentation rule the scene.
Listen to “The Hustle” by WIRES.UNDER.TENSION‘s Christopher Tignor here: https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/christopher-tignor-the-hustle.
Comprised of electronic drums, keyboards, bass, and effected guitar, VISITING NURSE features long time collaborators Jon Hill, Mike Seymour, and Syd Bishop creating music that seems to somehow straddle the gap between the organic and inorganic, a cyborg pastiche of jazz influenced composition, and rigid structures. For fans of Boards of Canada, Clams Casino, and Biosphere.
UPDATE, 10/15:
Due to events beyond our control, we regret to inform you that the WIRES.UNDER.TENSION and VISITING NURSE show scheduled for this Sunday, October 20th at The New Vintage has, sadly, been cancelled.
No word as of yet on a make-up date, but we promise you’ll be the first to know.
The Other Side of Life is proud to present:
NEW MOTHER NATURE (Louisville, Kentucky)
TOM CARTER (Brooklyn, NY)
JONATHAN WOOD & LOWE SUTHERLAND (Louisville, KY; members of OLD BABY and SAPAT)
CIAN NUGENT (Dublin, Ireland; on VHF)
Wednesday, September 11th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
2126 S. Preston
8 PM, $6, 21-and-over!
(Photo of New Mother Nature by Tim Furnish.)
NEW MOTHER NATURE is a relatively new band on the Louisville scene, but filled with familiar faces. Members of NEW MOTHER NATURE are current or former members of Old Baby, The Phantom Family Halo, Natural Geographic, and many more. They quickly became one of our favorite Louisville bands, and we think you’ll like ‘em as well. Their sound “is rich with straight-forward melodies… all while maintaining a sense of playful, if cautious experimentation.” — Syd Bishop, LEO Weekly.
(Photo of Tom Carter by Martha Colburn.)
Although best known for his work with iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, TOM CARTER has recently focused on his solo performances and recordings, which have increasingly featured visual components – including collaborations with filmmakers Martha Colburn and Margarida Garcia. Currently, Carter is on a solo US tour with New Zealand’s Gate, and working on two solo LPs for release in 2014. TOM CARTER is also well-known for collaborations with other musicians. Fellow travelers have included Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), Tom Surgal, Marcia Bassett, Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore (Chelsea Light Moving), Dredd Foole, Loren Connors, Pip Proud, Jandek, Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn, and Matt Valentine, among many others. Over the past decades, he refined his evolving ideas of tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty. He now lives in New York City.
JONATHAN WOOD & LOWE SUTHERLAND are known to connoisseurs of Louisville music, primarily for their main musical vehicles Old Baby and Sapat, respectively. They’re taking a dynamic duo detour down a ramshackle dirt road, riding a pink Cadillac into the sunset of a February night. Will they fly off the handle, riding high like Thelma & Louise James Taylor and Dennis Wilson into an expansive western sky? Or will they keep it down-to-earth, dusting up your jacket and filling your lungs with exhaust while they peel out, squealing their tires? There’s only one way to find out, dear listener…
CIAN NUGENT is a guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland who combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s & ’70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. His music boasts an orchestrated and fully instrumented sound that is playful and eerie at the same time. In the past he has toured with people such as Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Micah Blue Smaldone, Ben Reynolds, Nalle, The Family Elan, George Stavis, Jozef van Wissem, C Joynes, Peter Delaney, Thinguma*jigSaw and James Blackshaw throughout Europe and the United States.
Check out the Facebook invite here: https://www.facebook.com/events/568531479873464/.
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Cropped Out and The Other Side of Life present:
JACK OBLIVIAN and the TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS (Memphis, TN)
THE LADYBIRDS (Louisville, KY)
THE SHEIKS (Memphis, TN)
Saturday, June 15th
at THE NEW VINTAGE
2126 S. Preston
9 PM, $6, 21-and-over!
Depending on whom you ask, Jack “Oblivian” Yarber is either a rock legend or an absolute unknown. This dichotomy is well-understood by Memphis musicians, as underground “fame,” for all its rewards, has, with a few exceptions, been the ceiling for local acts for decades. And no one knows this dichotomy better than JACK OBLIVIAN, who may be Memphis’ most influential active rock musician. The list of noteworthy bands Yarber has been a member of over the years is massive and includes Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves (a high school punk project that also featured future Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus), new-wavers the End, ’68 Comeback, Knaughty Knights, and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns. Two of Yarber’s former bands — the Compulsive Gamblers and the Oblivians — have seen their reputation and following swell in the decade since their demise, especially the Oblivians, whose international fan base borders on rabid. Due largely to his stint in these bands, both partnerships with Greg Cartwright, now of the Reigning Sound, Yarber has been an acknowledged influence on artists such as the White Stripes, the Hives, and Jay Reatard.
(Photo of The Ladybirds by Eddie Dant)
THE LADYBIRDS masterfully balance a mean juggling act. The Louisville, KY-based five-piece — Jaxon Swain, Max Balliet, Anthony Fossaluzza, Brett Holsclaw, and Sarah Teeple — articulately summons greasy garage rock and lush Spector pop sans kitsch or tribute act fluff. Their main influences are the years 1954 to 1973, when it was just about fun and swingin’ grooves, not the droll, heavy-handed, over-serious approach to songwriting oft employed in the contemporary American underground. Their 2007 debut, Whiskey & Wine, was well received in the region, and saw the group sharing the stage with the likes of Wanda Jackson, Dex Romweber Duo, Heavy Trash, The Greenhornes, and many more. The Ladybirds’ sophomore album, Shimmy Shimmy Dang, as demonstrated in the title, is truth in advertising. Flavors of surf, rockabilly, doo wop, and dusty retro bubblegum pop all take a front seat. Yet, as Jaxon explains “we’re all punk rockers in the end.” And that’s what separates THE LADYBIRDS from a simple nostalgia offering – modern and original twists on familiar sounds, influence by the genres the band describes as “rock at its most authentic.”
THE SHEIKS are a three piece from Memphis via Mississippi. Check out their album Witches + Mystics here: http://thesheiks901.bandcamp.com/.
Check out the Facebook invite here: https://www.facebook.com/events/541421309233048.
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