Ok, so the name Athens Boys Choir can be a bit deceiving but you can't blame a Transsexual man living in the Deep South for having a sense of humor about the whole ordeal. So Katz, the Choir's now solo member, travels the country speaking "the good word" throwing down hard hitting spoken-word that deals with issues of Gender, Politics, Love, Sex, and everything in-between. Katz's spoken-word is raw, unapologetic, witty, and soulful. As Out Magazine wrote in 2006, "Katz avoids falling into the common spoken-word trap... and instead uses engaging wordplay, razor-sharp wit, and hip-hop rhythms.
GINA BLING and GINA GENIUS, two hyper fly ladies with verbal dexterity and excellent taste in shoes. TEAM GINA has synchronized dance routines that will blow your mind. TEAM GINA has phat beats and hype rhymes for days. TEAM GINA has matching outfits that will make you cry. TEAM GINA has taken over their hometown of SEATTLE, WASHINGTON with a monthly 80s/electro/hiphop night at which they are resident performers, which some degenerates have described as "the best party Seattle has ever seen.
Katastrophe is an up-and-coming, genre-busting emo-hop MC whose stunning lyrical skills merge with beats that slide from slick to raw to solid to eccentric, creating a sonic otherworld that snags you in a dance-trance while teasing your head with rhymes that snap, pop and educate.
monthly show on WREK 91.1 FM
September 2, 2007 7:00PM - 9:00PM
On the first Sunday of every month, at 7 p.m., Eyedrum does a show on WREK (91.1 FM / www.wrek.org) that features nuggets from Eyedrum's archive of live performances.
After the show airs "live", you can listen to it via WREK's 7-day archive if you forget to tune in. Here are the direct links to Sunday Special streams: lo-fi or hi-fi. These streaming links from WREK expire 7 days after the show airs on the radio.
But wait, there's more! We now have a podcast available, for those of you who have discovered podcasting. You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size. These podcast and download links will NOT expire for months to come -- download and listen!
This month's show centered on the Unbuilt Atlanta art show that opens at Eyedrum on Sept 8th and continues for about a month. In-studio guests Karen Tauches, Tom Zarilli, Kemp Mooney, David Hamilton and Nat Slaughter talked about architecture, development, design and all matters related to the theme of Atlanta's constructed environment. We also played plenty of music, generally in the jazz / freeform / ambient / modern veins, including music by Plastic People Of The Universe, Keenan Lawler, Tony Conrad, Konk Pack, Bent Frequency and GFE.
Brady Sharp w/ GFE (cancelled)
September 3, 2007 9:00PM - - -
open improv: Minimal
September 6, 2007 9:00PM - - - Price: donation
let's be like Bartok, and not rock.
let's be cool but jagged and almost not there,
unlike the day, more like the night
let's play it where it lays, and not pick it up
gradually.
almost,
but not quite there.
The Plastic People of the Universe was the name of perhaps the greatest obscure rock band of all time and their incredible story ranks as one of the truest examples of artistic perseverance and art imitating life in the entire history of Rock and Roll. Formed in 1968 following the Soviet invasion of their beloved Czechoslovakia, the Plastic People of the Universe suffered immeasurably for their simple desire to make their own music. read all about it here.
Hubcap City starts the show at 9pm.
Vietnam, Random Violets, Subliminator
September 21, 2007 9:00PM - - -
Local legends Vietnam procede to rock out with their brand of punchy hypnotic rock and roll...check out www.scaredrecords.com for details.
Random Violets open along with space rock spoken word wizard the Subliminator and droney synthesizer seamsters Tree Creature!
This will be a very fun show.
Konk Pack, GFE, Don Hassler
September 30, 2007 9:00PM - - - Price: $8
Tim Hodgkinson (London) flat guitar, electronics, clarinet and alto saxophone;
Thomas Lehn (Cologne) analogue synthesizer;
Roger Turner (London) drumsets and percussion
konk pack is a hardcore trio made up of world class improvisers tim hodgkinson (henry cow, the work, god, etc.), thomas lehn (music in movement electronic orchestra, and has also worked with eugene chadbourne, the klangräumer, paul lovens, shabotinski, radu malfatti, gerry hemingway, günter christmann, evan parker, etc. - "probably the world's best synthesizer player", jim o'rourke) and roger turner (who has worked with john russell, hugh davies, alan silva, phil minton, john butcher, comforts of madness, steve beresford, evan parker, derek bailey, cecil taylor)
"The accelerated, interactive electronica of Roger Turner (percussion), Tim Hodgkinson (deconstructed tabletop guitar) and Thomas Lehn (analogue synth) arises from a scintillating heap of sonic detritus the way an artificial intelligence manifests itself in a Manga movie: a writhing mass of automobiles, arcade consoles, street furniture and mobile phones. Hodgkinson attacks his amplified strings with plectrum and bow, his specs glinting as he waits for the right awkward moment to kloodge a sonic shard on the side of one of Turner's amazingly vocalised motifs (at times you swear you hear collaborator Phil Minton's musical snorts). Lehn restricts his pianism on analogue synth to pinched blurts, but still manages to resemble a switched-on Liszt. Although we itched to interrupt with applause, Konk Pack played an unbroken 45 minute set: fun debris, rollicking freakouts ... and one magical section of scrape and pling where the music seemed to play itself."
- Ben Watson The Wire, UK (April 2001)
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