Afterparty (www.myspace.com/afterpartyhouston) is a mess of a high-energy band that will be bringing it party style on this fine July evening. Fans of the Butthole Surfers, Flipper, Revolting Cocks etc. perk your ears up and stuff em' with earplugs on the way to the show. Rowdy naughty racket for fun summer times.
Khovicoobah (www.myspace.com/khovicoobah)will open the show with something assuredly unexpected ... a rambling and shifting outfit of rotating racketeers bent on rustling melodies, loping beats, and melancholy vocals. sure to incite a plague of mass head scratching and inner smiles in the aftermath of their set.
Pretzel Logic is also on the bill, kicking it true blue with suitcase bombardment, packing wallops great and small from the depths of jack the ripper's handbag. all warm and squirmy-like, you see ... noise you can grasp on to, cat, blips and bleeps you can cook BACON to.
check it out. this is a recommended, albeit last minute show. come hang out, have fun, and hear some cool stuff.
First Thursday Open Improv: Continuous Planetary L
July 2, 2009 9:00PM - - - Price: free
Continuous Planetary Love Feast
Once we start
we don't stop
serrated waves spreading
out
all things enfolded
knives of love
bring it on home
heat it up
sweat it out
Eyedrum's long-running Open Improv night occurs on the first Thursday of every month -- our monthly gathering for instrumentalists and improvisers of all stripes. Bring your instrument! Hosted by the indefatigable Robert Cheatham.
July 4, 2009 9:00PM - 12:00AM Price: free but donation requested
Michael Jackson, the self proclaimed King of Pop, leaves an unparalleled pop culture legacy… From his beginnings in Gary, Indiana and throughout his controversial life he was an innovator in music, dance, video, fashion, and beyond. He touched the lives of millions worldwide. On Thursday, June 25th, Michael Jackson died suddenly, at the age of 50.
On Saturday, July 4th, Eyedrum presents an opportunity to celebrate our nation's Independence while enjoying music and visuals from the career of one of America’s favorite sons.
Free / Donations, costumes, and dancing are encouraged
regular gallery hours
July 5, 2009 1:00PM - 6:00PM Price: free
Scarab, Bury Me Breathing, Vegan Coke
July 8, 2009 9:00PM - - -
Bury Me Breathing Punishing, progressively-minded metal, infused with psychedelic textures. The unique and multi-faceted, art-metal style of this Atlanta quintet’ command an integrated listening experience appealing to forward-thinkers open to new forms of extreme music. Their recently recorded EP, “Though Eyes Not Your Own,” find BURY ME BREATHING utilizing an angular rhythmic assault along with groove driven explorations, dual guitar harmonies and counter melodies immersed in ambient colors to guide listeners through different states of mind spawning new realizations for metal.
Scarab Brutal progressive metal that combines elements of hardcore, middle eastern surf rock, & improvised psychedelia. The group formed in 2007 & have infested the Atlanta scene with their own brand of uncompromising rhythmic chaos.
Using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, Eli creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He has performed and/or recorded with artists such as Jandek, Phil Niblock (performed a new work of his for bowed crotales and saxophone), Roscoe Mitchell, & Loren Connors.
"It's hard to envisage that this music has been made by just one person ..especially on parts of Untitled, where the music slowly builds..the slower more textural sections are particularly striking: bowed cymbals, bells and fender rhodes give track 2 a chamber music intimacy."
-Mike Barnes, WIRE magazine (August 2007)
Ashley Paul plays reeds, unique string instruments, electronics and sings. Her dream-like music juxtaposes aggressive, sustained high
pitched blasts, floating vocals, clattering strings and bells, cry-like saxophones and is somehow tied together by oddly melodic songs.
"An entirely impressive collection of alvin lucier/ horatio radulescu-lineage difference tones, discordant euro-style free improv, and rattling, almost no-wave esque exercises ...a form destroyer if there ever was one; highly recommended !!!"
-Keith Fullerton Whitman
+ 2 quick sets by Pocketful of Claptonite
and A Horse is a Sphere
Featuring Killick on guitar, Darrin Cook on bass, and Jamie DeRevere on drums Pocketful of Claptonite pulls the power trio into a wide open stream of consciousness.
Nathaniel Bartlett
July 15, 2009 9:00PM - - - Price: TBA
Nathaniel Bartlett's performances seamlessly meld his five-octave acoustic marimba with electronics, a powerful computer, and an eight-channel cube of loudspeakers. With the audience positioned in the center of the cuboid loudspeaker array, a three-dimensional soundfield can be projected into the audience space, totally immersing the audience in the music. In Bartlett's music, the spatialization and motion of sounds is a central musical parameter.
THE HOT SHIT! THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS
*# 4 6 1 !*
*CAPTAIN SHITPANTS 3000 *
*AND HIS CHARRED BUFFOONICADE*
*OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND UNDERSTANDING*
*WITH OR WITHOUT *
*THE SANCTIFIED REMAINS OF CAPTAIN WIMWAM*
*OR*
*THE (BUT WE) "JUST PUT A NEW COAT O' WAX ON YO'S DESK" SHOW*
*AND THE SHADOW OF 10 DEATHS*
*OR*
*JUST THE HOT SHIT! TWENTY!!*
Featuring the Members of OMELET
And Brett W. Thompson
w/ the Franklinist Drama Club of the South
and LIVE MUSIC performed by
THE GOONS OF WAXING-GIBBOUS
Sex! and Violence!
Cautionary Tales of VICE and ILL-PREPAREDNESS
In Bug Spray clouds and poison puddles.
19' 6" of neat-and-tidy SYZYGY for those in front center!
All shown in X-RAY and with REAL DANGER!
ONLY $5 Thursday!
ONLY $7 Friday!
ONLY $9 Saturday!
CASH ONLY
10 PM! THREE NIGHTS ONLY!!! Quality increases in $2 increments nightly!
regular gallery hours
July 17, 2009 3:00PM - 8:00PM Price: free
Circus Bafoonicus
July 17, 2009 10:00PM - - - Price: 7
THE HOT SHIT! THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS
*# 4 6 1 !*
*CAPTAIN SHITPANTS 3000 *
*AND HIS CHARRED BUFFOONICADE*
*OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND UNDERSTANDING*
*WITH OR WITHOUT *
*THE SANCTIFIED REMAINS OF CAPTAIN WIMWAM*
*OR*
*THE (BUT WE) "JUST PUT A NEW COAT O' WAX ON YO'S DESK" SHOW*
*AND THE SHADOW OF 10 DEATHS*
*OR*
*JUST THE HOT SHIT! TWENTY!!*
Featuring the Members of OMELET
And Brett W. Thompson
w/ the Franklinist Drama Club of the South
and LIVE MUSIC performed by
THE GOONS OF WAXING-GIBBOUS
Sex! and Violence!
Cautionary Tales of VICE and ILL-PREPAREDNESS
In Bug Spray clouds and poison puddles.
19' 6" of neat-and-tidy SYZYGY for those in front center!
All shown in X-RAY and with REAL DANGER!
ONLY $5 Thursday!
ONLY $7 Friday!
ONLY $9 Saturday!
CASH ONLY
10 PM! THREE NIGHTS ONLY!!! Quality increases in $2 increments nightly!
regular gallery hours
July 18, 2009 1:00PM - 6:00PM Price: free
Andy Imm Small Gallery Opening
July 18, 2009 6:30PM - 8:30PM Price: Free
"The System of Chance", 2009.
Personal Bio:
Andy Imm was raised in the heartland of Iowa. As a teacher he illustrates the ability to reveal the social acculturation that affects us all. Having taught mathematics for eight years at the American InterContinental University, he has effectively incorporated significant use of logic in education. He has earned two Masters Degrees in Math Education and Applied Mathematics.
Project Specific Artist Statement:
This project is about missing people. Their reflected repetitions give importance of awareness. Mysteries are within the lost, creating a deeper discovery.
In paths of print, a possible manhunt, murder mystery, targeted kidnap, or urban prime time crime is revealed. This process includes dumpster diving for discarded missing people's photos, cutting up and framing them with holographic tape and recycled computer parts. Holograms create aura energy that transcends time, bringing forward the vibrations of the lost. With schematic interfaces, a matrix of communication through media is strengthened. Transparent internal computer grid membranes layer together connected information. A collage of missing identities emerges.
Recycled patterns and materials mix up the media. Faces are hidden within coupon cutouts discarded in trash cans. This tragedy of silent society becomes an instance of ignoring the exploited. Reshaping our ritualistic nostalgia forms lasting connections.
Circus Bafoonicus
July 18, 2009 10:00PM - - - Price: 9
THE HOT SHIT! THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS
*# 4 6 1 !*
*CAPTAIN SHITPANTS 3000 *
*AND HIS CHARRED BUFFOONICADE*
*OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND UNDERSTANDING*
*WITH OR WITHOUT *
*THE SANCTIFIED REMAINS OF CAPTAIN WIMWAM*
*OR*
*THE (BUT WE) "JUST PUT A NEW COAT O' WAX ON YO'S DESK" SHOW*
*AND THE SHADOW OF 10 DEATHS*
*OR*
*JUST THE HOT SHIT! TWENTY!!*
Featuring the Members of OMELET
And Brett W. Thompson
w/ the Franklinist Drama Club of the South
and LIVE MUSIC performed by
THE GOONS OF WAXING-GIBBOUS
Sex! and Violence!
Cautionary Tales of VICE and ILL-PREPAREDNESS
In Bug Spray clouds and poison puddles.
19' 6" of neat-and-tidy SYZYGY for those in front center!
All shown in X-RAY and with REAL DANGER!
ONLY $5 Thursday!
ONLY $7 Friday!
ONLY $9 Saturday!
CASH ONLY
10 PM! THREE NIGHTS ONLY!!! Quality increases in $2 increments nightly!
regular gallery hours
July 19, 2009 1:00PM - 6:00PM Price: free
What Would Jesus Buy? Film Screening
July 19, 2009
Join us for Christmas in July, a screening of What Would Jesus Buy?
What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
More information and reserve a seat at http://wwjb.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/12653
GAYBOMB, Psychic Friends Hotline, Diamond Hymen
July 20, 2009 9:00PM - - -
gaybomb performing with to live and shave in l.a.
diamond hymen performing at philip k. dick tribute
Randall Carlson Lecture
July 23, 2009 8:00PM - - -
regular gallery hours
July 24, 2009 3:00PM - 8:00PM Price: free
An Evening with Kenosha Kid- Live Jazz/Silent Film
July 24, 2009 9:00PM - - - Price: $7
ABOUT THIS EVENT:
A live jazz & silent film event…
Bandleader/composer/guitarist Dan Nettles has woven a stunning sonic tapestry that fits alongside Buster Keaton’s classic silent film “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Although well steeped in the American jazz tradition, the music manages to defy complete classification. Rather than focusing on long-winded soloing, the emphasis is always on the total band sound, melody, texture, and solid grooves. The event is designed to have something for everyone: It’s a jazz concert… it’s a film… it’s a chamber ensemble… it’s a comedy… it’s a rock band… it’s all these things rolled into one.
ABOUT THE MOVIE: 1928 black & white 73 minutes
Buster Keaton stars as Junior, a hapless college dandy forced to learn the ropes of river-boating from his cantankerous father. Set on the Mississippi River, “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” is loaded with intricate sight-gags, acrobatic feats, and cinematic ingenuity all leading to a climatic storm sequence like none other.
ABOUT KENOSHA KID:
DAN NETTLES: GUITAR, NEAL FOUNTAIN: BASS, MARLON PATTON: DRUMS
What does the South have to offer the modern jazz scene? This brilliant configuration of Kenosha Kid is here to answer that question with its own fermented blend of NYC hipster-jazz soaked in the humid college-rock town of Athens, Georgia. With over ten years of experience performing together, Nettles, Fountain, and Patton weave their way from one song to another with an uncanny sense of telepathy. The melodies are haunting, the grooves are devastating, and the focus is always on instrumentation, song arrangement, and band sound over long-winded soloing.
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