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GOBBLE GOBBLE SHOW
Push Pins PRESENTS:
EPIC PARTY
featuring:
GOBBLE GOBBLE
(Tour Homecoming, Last Edmonton show for a while!)
http://myspace.com/leatherjowels
http://weirdcanada.com/2009/07/brotherly-woodpact/
GOBBLE GOBBLE returns home after a five-week tour of Canada, having swam in both oceans and played in countless kitchens and basements. Cecil is moving to San Francisco right after this show, so come throw down before that happens.
BRAIDS
http://myspace.com/braidsmusic
http://weirdcanada.com/2009/07/the-spelling-is-entirely-canadian/
These four kids from Montreal-via-Calgary are one of the best bands active in Canada. There is no better place to find out why than Castle Awesome. Think Animal Collective meets Bjork meets Pinback meets your smiling face.
KNOTS
http://myspace.com/knotsmusic
http://weirdcanada.com/2009/07/blistering-patience/
Neal Moignard writes stirring, creepy, lyrical music that is spare in the fullest sense possible. Minimalism with warmth rather than austerity.
CHAMPION CITY SOLO SHOWCASE featuring fifteen minute sets by:
=LIKEWISE VULTURES (CHRIS BLACKMORE)
http://myspace.com/likewisevultures
of: Gift Eaters, Hills Like White Elephants, Portraits, pretty ditties.
=RATKNUKKL (TAYLOR SCHAERER)
of: Red Hot Daggers, Lime, Portraits, Red Medicine, LDF, metal shreddal.
=BALTIMORE (ERIC NG)
of: Red Hot Daggers, Lime, Portraits, DJ generic fame, Weezer/Strokes/Veggie Donairhood.
=ERIC CLARK
of: Red Hot Daggers, Lime, snic, Maus, Wolfgoat, your Edmonton hardcore band.
Saturday, August 22nd
CASTLE AWESOME
Email castleawesome@gmail.com for address.
Doors 8:00 // Show 9:00
ALL AGES
$10
Three touring bands on this bill, all money goes in their gas tanks! Come out and support.
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TYLER BUTLER SHOW
Come down next Friday the 21st for a bit of relaxing, coffee sipping, and general hangouts, all against a backdrop of lovely sounds emanating from two of our city's very own music-exuding gentlemen.
it's already going to be the coolest thing to do on a friday night, you might as well come down and make it cooler
www.myspace.com/thethousandband
www.myspace.com/jomcomynmusic
P.S. it's FREE
Date: Friday, August 21, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: LEVA cafe
Street: 11053 86 ave
In the words of Chris Blackmore himself:
Hello friends.
This will be the last show I play at a proper venue in Edmonton before I move out east.
If you figure you might miss me or my music in the slightest, please come over to Cafe Leva next friday (the 14th) around 7:30 or so. I'll be playing a bunch of new songs that will hopefully end up on a full-length within the next year, and then sitting around drinking alot of coffee.
So please, stop by and say hi and bye, or ask me about my near-death experiences this summer. I'd greatly appreciate it!
P.S. Admission is FREE.
P.P.S. The show will wrap up early, so if you've got nite planz, they will not be compromised.
photo of Québec, a screamo band from Australia
image by Frank McCauley, winner of the 2009 Andrew Benson Literal Representation of a Band Name Award
Everyone who saw the Snakes down in Sled Island this year knows how sickeningly good they are. Metz, comprised of former members Moneen, They Grey and Abandoned Hearts Club are also making waves. Believe me, you don't want to miss this show.
To read the Press Release please click the entry
THE UNION ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES
With METZ and DESIDERATA
SEPT 16, 2009
PAWN SHOP
EDMONTON, AB
Doors 8:00 PM - GENERAL ADMISSION – Licensed 18+
Tickets $13.00+ S/C, on sale NOW at all Ticketmaster outlets, charge-by-phone (780) 451-8000, online at Ticketmaster.ca, Unionevents.com, Listen and Blackbyrd
These Arms Are Snakes. A natural force, that thunders with constant contradiction and
challenge. Self-described as, “Four men with a chronic black cloud overhead; bitter,
bummed out, and bored,” they couple dark pessimism with an elemental energy that
does not end.
On "Tail Swallower & Dove," These Arms Are Snakes move through 10-songs with the
cracked grace of bolted lightning, rolling and leveling, seeking a space to storm into.
The band, comprised of Chris Common (drums, percussion), Brian Cook (bass, guitar,
keyboards), Ryan Frederiksen (guitar, keyboards), Steve Snere (vocals, effects), have
brought their non-stop work ethic of touring and beyond-intense performance to the
studio with career defining result.
Not any one thing. TAAS play with their history, with their personalities built deep into
the music. You hear it in every innovation, behind each note. A beautiful collision of
what has always been with what is completely unexpected. It's evident in the weight of
the words, structure of the songs, the linkage of current and construction: concrete
writing, coupled with a natural approach to recording, that brought the band – helmed by
Chris Common, to produce and engineer – back into the semi-secret Red Room, in
Seattle, Washington, to track and mix.
The result is more an album – a coherent whole – than a cycle of individual songs. The
music circles around, from beginning to end, looping seamlessly and devouring any
sense of arrested motion. The first single, “Red Line Season,” is all guitar-hook-squirm,
leading to an anthem of a chorus. “Seven Curtains” explodes into being after thirtyseconds
of gorgeous, low volume riffing. It’s here that the band’s strength in the studio really shows. From the textural depth of the keyboards and guitar tones, to the vocal delivery, the attention to detail is incredible. Each sound sets up huge spatial relationships, creating a dynamic tug-o-war, and building up a groove that continues throughout - marked by impossibly nimble drumming - blowing up the room with resonant vibration.
Relentless, and restless - nothing in nature says no. And from this direction comes
These Arms Are Snakes, a dark cloud of sound thundering, waiting to burst and drown
everything in their noise.
METZ is comprised of former members of Moneen, They Grey and Abandoned Hearts Club.
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A production by The Union
Click entry for details
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Spend a reverential evening with Arsh Khaira as he releases his music into the world in tangible form. Be prepared for lovely lush folk, a potpourri of influences conveyed through powerful melodies. He will be accompanied by a veritable army of minstrels consisting of Chris Blackmore, Eric Cheng, Melissa Horn, Darren Batuik, Jim Cuming and Janet Chung.
Bronze Leaf will start the night off with some jams of the quiet, melancholic variety. Something old, something new, something borrowed (possibly a banjo), something blue.
Pertinent infos:
http://www.myspace.com/arshkhaira
http://www.myspace.com/bronzeleaf
Thursday, August 13
McDougall United Church
10025 101 Street
**FREE**
Doors at 7:30
Tunes at 8:00
dailymotion.com/jomcom
youtube.com/jimbocumdog
vimeo.com/jimcuming
Click the entry to watch Eamon McGrath's cover of Death Letter by Son House.
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