some cool shows this week.

friday, september 25, 2009:

Ground Zero @ RPI: Br'er, Animal Hospital, Ben Esposito (8pm, Troy, NY)

Arts Center of the Capital Region : Constant rotating 10 minute sets --- Tape manipulation and electronics from G. Lucas Crane (Nonhorse and Woods) and Eric Hardiman (Rambutan, Burnt Hills, Century Plants), guitar improv, vocals and feedback loops from Ray Hare (Fossils From the Sun, Burnt Hills, Century Plants), circuit bent and homemade electronic wizardy from Pete Edwards, modified electric banjo and electronics from Holland Hopson, and improvised percussion and electronics from Matt Weston. Video projections by Jason Cosco. (5-9pm, 256 River Street in Troy, NY)

saturday, september 26, 2009:

The Tavern, Hampshire College: Wasteland Jazz Unit, Tiger Hatchery, Burnt Hills, Family Treasures, The Great Drought (8pm, Amherst, MA)

Ground Zero @ RPI: Life in Vacuum, Sassachu, more TBA (8pm, Troy, NY)

 wednesday, september 30, 2009:


Proctor's Theater: Faust, Century Plants, Holland Hopson (8pm, Schenectady, NY)

and, as always, Happy'n'in Valley, for other events in the pioneer valley.

playlist for september 23, 2009

jefferson airplane - white rabbit (mono)
abunai! - barbara allen
asteroid #4 - egyptians and druids
spirit - red light roll on
sly & the family stone - into my own thing
the politicians - psycha-soula-funkadelic
hawkwind - the psychedelic warlords (disappear in smoke)
faust - it's a bit of pain
faust - why don't you eat carrots
faust - krautrock
holland hopson - my own true love
century plants - drifting from the attic
high rise - mainliner
black sabbath - a bit of finger/sleeping village/warning
michi kurihara - do deep-sea fish dream of electric moles?
brother jt3 - floating
michael hurley - troubled waters

playlist for september 9, 2009

servitor - split tape side A
ryan wyrns - split tape side B
throbbing gristle - premature
rh band - third order parasitism track 1
stars of the lid - adamord
agitated radio pilot - the crossing over place
ghost - way to coimbula (live in northampton, 6 june '95)
ignatz - the sinister snow squaws
brother jt & vibrolux - music for the other head
brother jt & vibrolux - mind/worry/comm
suffacox - nazi mother