BAG RAIDERS
"Gigantic, dulce de leche pop that expertly marries tuxedo dance with brazen, hooky vocals. ... Bag Raiders transcends typical dance and pop boundaries, showcasing the creativity of a band at the forefront of modern production. The album will appeal to fans new and old, coming correct with sing-a-long choruses, deep-breath anthems, blissful chill and pure dancefloor energy." - RCRDLBL
PLASTIC PLATES
2013 Plastic Plates released his original song, an old school house jam, "Come On Strong", following his debut EP "Things I Didn't Know I Loved" on French tastemaker record label Kitsune as well as remixes for Miami Horror (Vitalic Noise), Para One (Marble), Nile Delta (Cutters), The Aston Shuffle (Polydor), Yolanda Be Cool (Dim Mak) and Munk (Under The Shade).
Both 2014 and 2015 have been a massive growth period for Plastic Plates on the touring and festival circuit. A recent collaboration with Sam Sparro on the single "Stay in Love" hit the airwaves, and the pair performed together on select dates. With over 6 million plays on Soundcloud and regular appearances in the Hype Machine top 10, Plastic Plates' popularity around the world continues to rise. This has found him extensively touring throughout Europe, North America, Central and South America, Russia, Asia and Australia.
His latest remix for Demi Lovato's "Cool for the Summer" is set to be the remix of the summer and his remix for Cassian's track "Running" topped the Hype Machine charts. Plastic Plates upcoming release on Intuit Records "Lose My Mind" premiered on July 28th, 2015 on BBC Radio 1. He is currently in the studio collaborating with Martina from Dragonette, Boy George, Sam Sparro and more for what will be his first full length album.
Madrid-based garage rockers Hinds started as a duo of Carlotta Cosials and Ana García Perrote. Shortly before releasing their first single "Demo" in 2014 the duo became a four piece, with close friend, ex guitar player and singer Ade Martín on bass and one of their first fans, Amber Grimbergen on drums. During the rest of the year and throughout 2015 they embarked on their first world tour, playing everywhere from Thailand, Vietnam and Australia to the United States to the worldwide festival circuit, including SXSW (in which they played 16 concerts in just 4 days), Glastonbury and Burgerama. They have received very positive reviews in Pitchfork, Pigeons and Planes, Gorilla vs. Bear, Paste, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly and NME.
Their debut album, Leave Me Alone, made its way into the world on Friday, January 8, 2016 via Mom + Pop Music.
Fresh off their release, Hinds is receiving praise for their work. "This great garage-rock crew from Madrid folds decades of naïf-rock history into its craftily shambling tunes," said Rolling Stone. Pitchfork suggests its "[Carlotta] Cosials and [Ana] Perrote's shared vocal responsibilities, which fit perfectly together" that "truly set Hinds apart." Entertainment Weekly calls Hinds "...the year's buzziest indie breakout," while SPIN asks "Whether seeing Hinds live, or listening to their debut album, Leave Me Alone, one question always comes to mind: Can I join?"
QUILT was formed in late 2008 in Boston, MA.
Shane Butler, Anna Fox Rochinski and Taylor McVay met at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and spent the next couple of years honing a strange yet magnetic ramshackle sound in the smoke-filled basements and living rooms of Jamaica Plain and Allston. They released a home-made tape in 2009, touring DIY style around the northeast in a 1993 Buick Roadmaster.
In Spring/Summer 2010, the trio recorded a collection of seven songs in the home of Jesse Gallagher, in Cambridge. The following winter, after Taylor’s amicable departure from Quilt, John Andrews was recruited and subsequently plucked from the suburbs of New Jersey to join the band on a tour to SXSW.
It was around this time that those seven songs had made their way to the big guy’s desk at Mexican Summer records in Brooklyn, via former Captured Tracks label manager Katie Garcia (a friend from the college years in Boston). The band returned to Cambridge and recorded three more songs, now with the songwriting input and drumming from John.
Quilt’s self-titled ten-song debut was released in November 2011 on Mexican Summer to positive reviews from critics and the band began touring in support of the record on and off for the next year or so.
Their following record, Held In Splendor, was recorded in Brooklyn with producer Jarvis Taveniere. Released in early 2014, the album ushered in another year of near-constant touring. The trio recruited New Hampshire-based bassist Keven Lareau for their live shows.
Nearly two years later, Quilt’s third full-length record, Plaza, will see the light of day on February 26th, 2016. Lead singles “Eliot St” and “Roller” have been met with praise and the group has full US and Europe tours lined up.
The band considers itself a New York-based band that formed in Boston.
The 4 members reside in Brooklyn, Upstate New York, and New Hampshire.
And as lovely as it was to tour in a 20-foot station wagon with faux-wood panelling, they eventually upgraded to a 12 passenger Chevy Express van. His name is Big Earl.
An exhibition of new work from Rachel Malin and Raque Ford. S1's first Artists-in-Residence in 2016.
Rachel Malin was born in Southern California and lives and works in New York. Rachel received her BFA from CAlifornia State University Long Beach and received her MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. She has shown at Edward Thorp Gallery, NY and was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual exhibition in 2014. Raque Ford lives and works in New York. She received her BFA at Pratt Institute and her MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. She has had solo shows at Soloway, Brooklyn, NY and Welcome Screen, London, UK . She has exhibited in group shows at, Evelyn Yard, London, UK, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and is apart of the upcoming show In Practice:Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New at SculptureCenter, Queens, NY.
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Nap Eyes
Cian Nugent
Recorded over a week beginning on Valentine's Day 2015, Night Fiction was recorded in Bow Lane Studios in Dublin with Daniel Fox (Girl Band) and mixed by Brendan Jenkinson. The album's seven songs include solo ventures as well as full-band recordings feat. David Lacey on drums, Conor Lumsden on bass, Brendan Jenkinson on organ and piano and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh on viola. The vibe here is familiar yet refreshing and a logical progression for Cian.
A Talk
John Russell is an artist who writes. He has a good eye for the absurd damage that academics and galleries do to the English language. Often, he works the tools of the publicist. Outraged, philosophical, mock-didactic, and with disarming glints of lucidity, his works can take the form of PRESS RELEASES, GALLERY ANNOUNCEMENTS, and delirious promotional images. Here Russell jams up the distinctions between art criticism and artwork, words and things, attempts at articulation and traps of self-validation—or as Foucault puts it, “…the oldest oppositions of our alphabetic civilization: to show and to name; to shape and to say; to reproduce and to articulate; to imitate and to signify.” In Russell’s works, the voice does not hover in feigned clarity and grace, as it does with so many philosophers, ad men, and conceptualists. Instead the voice is meaty. It has a corpus.
John Russell lives in the UK where he is a director of research for art at University of Reading. He is the editor of Frozen Tears.
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Needle Drop Co. is a full service music agency in Portland, Ore., specializing in library music licensing, music supervision and original music production. Tonight they've curated an evening of cross-disciplinary performances and collaborations, all to benefit youth music programs via My Voice Music!
Featuring:
Talkative
Damon Boucher (Chanti Darling) collab with DNVN
Tonality Star collab with LEO
Needle Drop DJs (Talia Gordon & Josh Spacek)
Readings:
Michael Heald (Perfect Day Publishing)
Zachary Schomburg (Octopus Books)
Dance:
House of Aquarius
Film:
Matt Ross Screening excerpts from Book of Matches, a collab with Kyle Morton of Typhoon
Visual art:
Jordan Domont
Proceeds benefitting:
My Voice Music
CHAIRLIFT
An evolution from their last album, 2012's Something, Moth proves to be an emotionally uninhibited and markedly stronger, more pop inspired body of work. A very New York City inspired album, listeners can expect to be led through an aural mix of big, rich pop inspired hooks, vibrating bass, lively brass and sensuous R&B inspired vocals, all anchored in the duo's meticulously crafted instrumentation.
LYDIA AINSWORTH
Blurring the boundaries between indie music, filmic orchestration, and electronic music, Lydia's debut 'Right From Real' thrives on haunting melodies and draws inspiration from a wide range of musical sources - Verdi's Requiem, Ace of Base, Bulgarian Choirs, Bernard Herrmann, Tones on Tail, Art of Noise… just to name a few. This sense of unexpected marriages of influence flows throughout much of Lydia's previous work which features use of voice sampling and string arrangements woven into a unique minimalist fabric.
"As I listen to the finished album I am reminded of the immense comfort I felt in the obscurity of it's destination. I became entranced by the evolving process that took shape within those invisible tactile walls of tradition. Whether I was sampling instruments/ writing lyrics/ incorporating lyrics by my pen pal Matthew/ recording multiple arrangements for each song - stripping them down - building them back up - I was guided only by a relentless instinctive urge to express what I could not in waking life. The songs approach dreams, thoughts, and inspirations that demand a search for the unknown, a search for something beyond what the five senses can offer."
Building on their fans’ demands for more of last year's brief, but critically acclaimed In Plainsong tour, The Smashing Pumpkins return to the road this spring to bring the Acoustic-Electro Evening across the country for a full run of classic North American theaters.
Last year's shows sold out in a matter of minutes, and the iconic venues the band picked for the performances proved the perfect intimate settings for an evening of acoustic based music and electronic soundscapes that allowed the Pumpkins to explore their whole song catalog in a unique way. The reaction to the run was overwhelmingly positive, with reviews calling the performances "electric" and "emotionally charged".
"What started as an interest in playing a truly different kind of show and looking for a different way to explore their storied musical past morphed into something new and exciting for the fans in every city", said the group's manager Peter Katsis, "this touches the opposing side to The Pumpkins usual roar!"
The Grammy Award-winning rock group, which includes Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin and Jeff Schroeder, will kick off the 19-city tour on March 22nd in Portland, OR and wrap on April 20th in Houston, TX.
The Pumpkins, always the rock and roll iconoclasts, will invert the traditional formula again by touring first before heading straight to the studio after the dates to record a brand new album inspired by the sounds explored in the new acoustic setting.
Singer-songwriter Liz Phair is set to open the show for the Smashing Pumpkins on her first full tour of the U.S. in 6 years. Her debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to critical acclaim and has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” More than two decades after the release of her debut, Phair's influence over female voices in alternative music can still be felt today.
2015 proved to be great for the Pumpkins, who saw their End Times summer tour in support of last year's Monuments to an Elegy album produce their best ticket sales in over 12 years. The Chicago Sun-Times called their performance “epic,” while Rolling Stone exclaimed that the current line-up “played with the tightness of a time-tested unit.”
With 20 million albums sold in the United States alone, the Smashing Pumpkins are one of rock’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands. Since their inception, the Smashing Pumpkins disavowed the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries by creating a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and even electronica.
They broke into the musical mainstream as their second album, 1993's Siamese Dream, sold over 6 million copies. From there, the group has continued to build its audience through extensive touring, selling out arenas around the world for over two decades. Their 1995 follow-up recording, double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, entered the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at number one.
Spend an evening with PICA's Spring 2016 Creative Exchange Lab artists! Each artist in residence will share briefly about their work, including visual artist and publisher Marco Braunschweiler (Los Angeles); choreographer/dancer Ali Chahrour (Beirut, Lebanon); musician Shannon Funchess (Portland); visual artist Mark Mitchell (Seattle); writer and performance artist sidony o'neal (Portland); dramaturg Junaid Sarieddeen (Beirut, Lebanon); and choreographer/dancer Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis). Following the talks, stay for drinks, food, and conversation!
This third edition of PICA's Creative Exchange Lab continues the program's commitment to promoting artistic exchange; cultivating creative research and process; and fostering the development of new work among international, national artists across disciplines.
PICA's Creative Exchange Lab is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and sponsored by Caldera..
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We're two! Join XRAY.FM as we ring in our first two years in style with Mic Capes, Summer Cannibals, and the Ghost Ease. Featuring XRAY DJs in between bands and all night at Bar Bar. Hosted by comedian Bri Pruett and featuring our biggest RAFFLE yet.
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$5 with XRAY member keychain at the door, or $5 advance with member code. (Check the upcoming XRAY Newsletter for the code!) All proceeds go to XRAY FM.
Mic Capes Music
Summer Cannibals
The Ghost Ease
Thank you DJs, board-ops, staff members, listeners, underwriters, and of course XRAY Members.
RADIO IS YOURS!
One of the most celebrated living composers, Arvo Pärt's music provides a contemplative oasis in the midst of today's busy world. Solo strings and singers in varied combinations will take you on a journey featuring the elegiac Stabat Mater, the instrumental Fratres, the other-worldly Wallfahrtsleid and the reverential Missa Syllabica.
Catherine van der Salm, soprano
Laura Beckel Thoreson, alto
Nicholas Ertsgaard, tenor
Tim O'Brien, baritone
Heather Mastel-Lipson & Joel Thoreson, violin
Hillary Oseas, viola
Katherine Schultz, cello
Patrick McDonough, conductor
Spend The Night Presents:
VIN SOL
Clone Records, Club Lonely - San Francisco
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Second annual 2 DAY at S1, with performances from experimental artists working in Stockholm, San Francisco, and Portland.
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Bob Desaulniers
Brandon Nickell (SF)
Cameron Shafii (SF)
Cat Mummies at the Louvre
CoH (STO)
Eileen Isagon Skyers
EMS
Jeff Witscher
Mx Fractal
Cassette Jockeys: Joel Shanahan & Felisha Ledesma
This year we will be opening up the space for an artist share brunch on March 19th. You can come hang with 2 Day artists, check out their process/set up, and have some breakfast goodies.
March 18th
Performances 8:30pm
March 19th
Artist Share Brunch 12pm
Performances 8:30pm
18+, $10 one day/$15 both
A Screening
This evening of films concludes The Dirty Puppens of Woodlawn, a show Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys installed with Yale Union this winter in a Lexus ES 300.
Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys imagine their films as bearing witness to a present moment that’s descended into a state of mechanized stupefaction. The characters in their works often look a bit shocked. The artists call them immobilized: “You can see this occur in animals who are confronted with some bizarre opponent, another (bigger) animal, a human, or a combination of both.” The films are dingy and depressed. They are populated by a cast of mannequins and the artists’ family and friends. These characters find themselves restricted, condemned as they are to eventless gloomy interiors. Sparse and constructed, these spaces are clearly stages. Here, the actors seem to be post-something: -trauma, -language, -empathy. Their actions could be mistaken for a list of symptoms. They have little motivation or power.
Inside these films is a bleak current, first and foremost bleak, something like a bleak churning current full of whirls, stoppages, flood waters carrying refuse, and there are two artists gazing at it, swept up by it, trying to channel it into some kind of whole. Whatever the bleakness is—trauma, some kind of malaise, feelings of helplessness or more likely, their mixture—that caused them to make these films, I am immensely grateful for it. History has provided ever-accelerating causes for malaise. Our history is one of continuous, rolling traumas: an aggregated abstraction. It’s within this that Thys and De Gruyter go to work. Their work does not look into any concrete moment; instead, their world and their characters, like ours, are awash in a culmination of dread (at least) a few hundred years in the making.
Watching these films means confronting a vision of intensity, withering in its austerity, imperious in its dismissal of convention and cant, solicitous only of something true about our highly mechanized world, no matter how unpleasant or embarrassing. It’s a cliché to say artists are artists of our time. Still, if we are to define “our time” as a historical moment in which we are dropping bombs on humans we’ve dehumanized; or a time in which many humans remain immobilized, stateless, and without rights; or a time in which some of us are desperate simply for a job; or even just a time when a portion of the population feels scared for reasons that are hard to name; if we define “our time” in these ways, then Jos and Harald are artists of our time.
Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) live and work in Brussels. They met in 1987 as video students at the Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Depressed and alienated by the situation, Jos and Harald stayed indoors and made films.
The Dirty Puppens of Woodlawn is organized by Matt Browning and Robert Snowden. Matt Browning (b. 1984) is an artist who lives in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC. Infrequently, he organizes exhibitions as Tarl, a group made up of Browning, Jessica Powers, and Jason Hirata.
Thanks to Isabella Bortolozzi, Bayard Snowden, Rob Teeters, and ODOT.
Sister Spit it hitting the road again and we'll be traveling up and down the west coast with 6 incredible emerging and established artists who offer a critical, intersectional and often humorous lens to issues of feminism, race, size, class, identity, technology, gender and sexuality.
FEATURING
Jezebel Delilah X
JDX is a queer, lush-bodied, Black, femme performance artist, writer, actress, director, educator, and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution.
Nikki Darling
Nikki is the author of Pink Trumpet and the Purple Prose (Econo Textual Objects, 2014) and the upcoming novel Fade Into You. Her works and letters are archived at UCLA. She is a third generation Angelino on her father’s side and Neomexicano on her mother’s side.
Juliana Delgado Lopera
Lopera is an award-winning Colombian fiction writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. She is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award and the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants.
Cassie J. Sneider
Sneider is a competitive air guitarist and the author of the book Fine Fine Music, which is a charming collection of humorous short stories about growing up a weirdo and getting into rock and roll in a small, crappy town. She is a contributing writer to xoJane and MTV News, and she is probably best known for that article on manspreading that your girlfriends shared on Facebook and your MRA cousin in Tampa hated.
Virgie Tovar
Virgie Tovar is a fat, Latina femme + author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of#LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012).
Denise Benavides
denise benavides is an oakland based queer xicana poet and performer. you can find her latest publication through Third Woman Press: a zine titled writing through bipolar in sixteen steps. she holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently working on her upcoming collection of poetry, riot girl.
AND GUEST ARTIST Cooper Lee Bombardier!
ABOUT SISTER SPIT
Sister Spit began in San Francisco in the 1990s as a weekly, girls-only open mic that was an alternative to the misogyny-soaked poetry open mics popular around the city (and the nation) at that time. Inspired by two-bit punk bands who managed to go on the road without hardly knowing how to play their instruments, Sister Spit became the first all-girl poetry roadshow at the end of the 90s, and toured regularly with such folks as Eileen Myles, Marci Blackman, Beth Lisick and Nomy Lamm.
The tour was revived as Sister Spit: The Next Generation in 2007, and has toured the United States annually since, with authors and performers such as Chinaka Hodge, Dorothy Allison, Lenelle Moise and Justin Vivian Bond. In this next incarnation, out of respect to the changing gender landscape of our queer and literary communities, Sister Spit welcomes artists of all genders, so long as they mesh with the tour's historic vibe of feminism, queerness, humor and provocation.
$15-20 sliding scale @ the door
Lina Persson is an artist and teacher based in Stockholm, Sweden. Persson has a special interest in how science and mythology meet in the science fiction genre. She investigates the struggle over the interpretation of the future, she traces geological transformations through human storytelling and connects technological ideology with the shaping of the planet. She is currently senior lecturer at the animation program at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Persson's work has been shown internationaly, including exhibitions at CAG (Connecticut), 0047 (Oslo), VM Gallery (Karachi), IASPIS (Stockholm), La Capella (Barcelona), Reykjavik Art Festival and United Nation Plaza (Berlin).
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Please join us to celebrate Esprit, a group exhibition with with Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Matthew Kirk, Memory Jugs by anonymous makers and the Philadelphia Wireman
The works in Esprit evoke a quality of being that is powerful and charged, but enigmatic. Common objects, marks and materials are transformed from their everyday reality into something more essential or spiritual as they project emotion and longing. The works on view adhere to a personal system of mark-making or logic, one where each additional intervention acts in combination with that which is extant, shifting meaning, power or personality.
Their latest album, White Men Are Black Men Too, is the follow up to their Mercury Prize-winning debut, DEAD and is described as 'sounding as if you are in the room during recording, possibly experiencing a little existential trauma'.
In a 5 star live review of a recent London show, the Guardian said 'they generate a synchronised anarchy that is frequently jaw-dropping'.
$13 in advance and $15 at the door.