[Floor2] 9/21 thru 9/27

[Chloe Mandel]

As Dennis Leary said, "Expand your consciousness and find ecstasy and  
revelation within." Well, this week of events is sure  
to...legally...expand your mind.

In case you didn't know, tomorrow is the International Day of Peace.  
Here is a website that explains it: http://www.peaceoneday.org/ 
home.aspx?band=hi

Celebrate the movement with a night of peaceful singer/songwriters.  
Deer Tick, Wax & Wane, Come In Cadence, These United States and  
Vandaveer make beautiful music to make you laugh and cry. It's all  
about humanity, baby.

The times, they are a-changin' indeed. Seasons, too. Sunday night is  
the Autumnal Equinox Bash featuring a groovy line up of Pruient, Dave  
Andrae, Cardinal and Howl. A hand-picked assortment of fine  
underground recordings will be played between sets, never a dull  
moment, n

Keep your revolutionary spirit soaring with an incredible night of  
psychedelic rock of magnanimous proportions next Wednesday night.  
Infamous Czech band, Plastic People Of The Universe, Japanese  
rockers, Suishou no Fune, Baltimore's Alasehir and Providence's very  
own Déjà Vu Mountain. Whoa. Buy your tickets online (http:// 
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/18346 ) to make sure you don't miss  
this super special show.

Unleash that inner hippie! Here are the events!
Peace!


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Friday, September 21, 2007
9pm Deer Tick, Wax & Wane, Come In Cadence, These United States and  
Vandaveer
$6

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Saturday, September 22, 2007
2pm-5pm The Body, Hard Drug, Ferox Head and more
$5

9pm Slasher Risk, Blue Shift and Psychic Swords
$5

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Sunday, September 23, 2007
9pm Autumnal Equinox Bash with: Prurient, Dave Andrae, Cardinal and Howl
$7

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Monday, September 24, 2007
8pm Tor Johnson Records presents: Sweetthieves, Big Bear, The Science  
Logic and Sick Electric
$6

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
6-9pm Life Drawing
$6

10pm UM: Jazz with Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, Dave Zinno and Leo Genovese
$7

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
8pm Plastic People Of The Universe (Czech Republic), Suishou no Fune  
(Japan), Alasehir and Déjà Vu Mountain
$10 adv / $12 door

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Thursday, September 27, 2007
7:30pm Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam
$4

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Friday, September 21, 2007
9pm Deer Tick, Wax & Wane, Come In Cadence, These United States and  
Vandaveer
WAX & WANE is the collaboration of several musicians spread out all  
over the world. Wax & Wane has many different iterations, but is  
always centered around one, unified theme; Personal songs about  
humans – relationships, nature, time, life & death. Wax & Wane began  
with Danny Costa and Ari Schenck writing songs together in their dank  
Baltimore basement. The songs eventually spawned into the collective  
of writers that now include Sine Jensen, Justin Kwash (Wail Sounds)  
and Nick Podgurski (Yukon). The collective released their first  
record with Richmond, VA based Valiant Death Records in 2005.  
“Winter,” a CD EP, is a collection of songs built upon an array of  
eclectic instruments seasoned with a do-it-yourself spirit. Some have  
described this as a ‘wall of sound,’ or ‘orchestrated bedroom-folk’,  
a reference to their home recording studio that doubles as Ari  
Schenck’s sleeping quarters. THESE UNITED STATES is the songs of  
Jesse Elliott, flipped, forged, phased, and fermented; stolen, re- 
taken, elongated and elevated, beaten and bruised, occasionally  
imbued, by an ever-battling band of music-mad robber-barons, enthused  
aesthetic thieves of the long and winding subway tunnels and  
underground railroads of our cacophonous nation. DEER TICK is the  
songwriting project or band (depending on how you look at it) of John  
McCauley, a singer/songwriter based out of Providence, Rhode Island.  
Thanks to the help of Brendon "Viking Moses" Massei, McCauley has  
been ferociously zig-zagging across the United States, hitting all  
the sparsely attended basement shows, smoky bars, upscale joints,  
small to medium size festivals, and everything in between, since  
April of 2005. At 21 years of age, McCauley has worked very hard to  
get his homemade CD's in players across the country, and has no plans  
to stop any time soon.

http://www.myspace.com/waxandwane http://www.myspace.com/theseunited  
http://www.myspace.com/vandaveer http://www.myspace.com/deertick  
http://www.myspace.com/comeincadence
$6


Saturday, September 22, 2007
2pm-5pm The Body, Hard Drug, Ferox Head and more
oooh, matinee fun times. http://www.myspace.com/thebodyoncorleone  
http://www.myspace.com/harddrugri
$5

9pm Slasher Risk, Blue Shift and Psychic Swords
Brooklyn's heavy psych/noise duo SLASHER RISK continue their travels-  
drumming, sweating, and bleeding their way through Europe and the US  
east coast so far this year. Chunky, half-broken guitars drones,  
flute squeals and thick doom drumming aplenty. "...emitting the  
deepest of bass throb over staticky, Mammalian guitar sketches, human  
drummer emerging with sheet-metal and cardboard beats: the band  
huddles free-form a bit of before entering formation, the pace  
quickly entering a frenzy as the players compete to stay in a pack.  
Eventually the ravenous spirit collapses into disdain as a sort of  
Gang Wizard rowdiness ensues, riff-raff vocals in faint duet with the  
jagged guitar, the group eventually dispersing for darker parking  
lots." - (Animal PSI) Providence's BLUE SHIFT is the bowed string  
beauty of Cybele. She was born at the grave of an ancient ocean bed  
(she mean at the foothills of some mountains). PSYCHIC SWORDS is H.B.  
Wells and G.S. Livingston formerly of the Opal Ovals. Both call  
Providence, RI home and have been playing with each other for roughly  
2 years. Their first release on their own Deserted Circuits Limited  
imprint is entitled "Cactus Canyon".

http://www.myspace.com/slasherrisk http://www.myspace.com/cybelec  
http://www.virb.com/psychicswords
$5


Sunday, September 23, 2007
9pm Autumnal Equinox Bash with: Prurient, Dave Andrae, Cardinal and Howl
This year celebrate that most sexy of secular holidays in style, with  
a distinctive lineup of rockin' noisy goodness guaranteed to get your  
blood flowing. That's right --- it's the Autumnal Equinox Bash, and  
for a Sunday night in Providence it can't be beat. Kicking off the  
festivites, on the heavier side of the spectrum, is the one and only  
HOWL, the local face-slaying metalheads whose riffage is nothing if  
not a force to be reckoned with. (These three fellas are going  
places, and I'm not just talking about Hell eventually either.) Then,  
considerably more left-of-field, we have CARDINAL, an eccentric duo  
from Baltimore who perform captivating modern-day operettas, the  
theme of this night's being, "Odd names and those people who bear  
both the names and the attributes they seem to suggest". Cardinal is  
comprised of esteemed experimental filmmaker Stephanie Barber (ex- 
Competitorr) and her beloved boyfriend Adam -- this will be their  
first ever show in Providence! After that, on the decidedly melodic  
front, filmmaker/actor and AS220 resident DAVE ANDRAE will perform,  
for the first time in ten years, his infamous "Fuck the 30 Bus" set.  
Dave will be in top form, singing and playing his skinny little ass  
off. (Next chance you'll have to see this will be in 2017 -- if we're  
all still alive by then -- so don't miss out.) And headlining the  
festivities will be the venerable Dominick Fernow, a.k.a. PRURIENT,  
an American noise establishment if ever there was one. This will be  
Dom's first show at his old stomping grounds in quite some time, and  
if you're keen on harsh, artful sounds of epic proportions, you'd be  
a buster not to bear witness. Providence, show your love for  
Prurient... just don't forget your earplugs. Add to all this a hand- 
picked assortment of fine underground recordings played between sets,  
and it's safe to say we have a winner.

http://www.hospitalproductions.com http://www.dave-andrae.com http:// 
www.myspace.com/howlheavymetal http://www.geocities.com/cardinalnow
$7


Monday, September 24, 2007
8pm Tor Johnson Records presents: Sweetthieves, Big Bear, The Science  
Logic and Sick Electric
BIG BEAR (Boston) are jigsaw alchemists reconstructing,  
recontextualizing and reinventing; making joyful noise out of ideas  
that sound familiar, but feel disorienting, uneasy, exciting and  
alive. Their self-titled Monitor Records debut combines the rhythms  
of math-indie, the atonal disjunct of 20th Century composition and  
the textures/timbres of highly combustible blurstrock: it's  
iconoclastic sunrise music that inspires jovial dance fits. Big Bear  
subvert the ideas of traditional melody and harmony, using vocals as  
a rhythm instrument and epileptic dual-guitar labyrinths as a snaky  
logic puzzle. The melodic angles read like a conversation and the  
lyrics read like the musings of a cynical idealist attempting to re- 
configure the world with a mix of pessimism and affection. Big Bear  
has played with Trans Am, Oneida, Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes,  
Coachwhips, Oxes, Oxford Collapse, Tyondai Braxton, Gang Gang Dance,  
Japanther, Parts & Labor, the Gossip, Dirty Projectors, Chinese  
Stars, and Kyp Malone at shows that assuredly end with a cheap,  
colorful tambourine left broken, frayed and defeated. http:// 
www.myspace.com/bigbear http://www.myspace.com/thesciencelogic http:// 
www.myspace.com/sickelectric http://www.myspace.com/torjohnsonrecords
$6


Tuesday, September 25, 2007
6-9pm Life Drawing
Come and draw from a live model.
$6

10pm UM: Jazz with Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, Dave Zinno and Leo Genovese
UM's weekly live jazz gig at AS220 is now into it's 13th year! That's  
right - every Tuesday since 1994 - come on down and check it out.  
"Trombonist Hal Crook is a marvel. He has evolved a singular musical  
voice echoing past masters... impressing as a modernist with  
chops." (Jazz Times) http://halcrook.com/
$7


Wednesday, September 26, 2007
8pm Plastic People Of The Universe (Czech Republic), Suishou no Fune  
(Japan), Alasehir and Déjà Vu Mountain
SPECIAL EVENT - ADVANCE TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW.
NO VOLUNTEER PASSES or FREE PASSES of any kind will be accepted!
*** An incredible line-up of original psychedelic rock, sonic improv  
and progressive avant-garde musical goodness from Eastern Europe,  
Asia and North America. Holy crap, what a line-up. *** The ONLY New  
England appearance for the legendary PPU! *** PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE  
UNIVERSE: A Prague-based psychedelic rock band formed in 1968,  
shortly after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The band's  
nonconformist style and attitudes ran afoul of officially sanctioned  
norms, and the Plastic People often held their performances in secret  
locations outside of Prague in an attempt (frequently unsuccessful)  
to avoid conflicts with the authorities. Police often broke up  
concerts, sometimes arresting or beating fans and band members. After  
one such concert in February 1976, police arrested twenty-seven  
musicians and fans, and four were eventually sentenced to prison  
terms of 18 to 8 months on charges of organized disturbance of the  
peace. The Plastic People trial was a major spur to the creation of  
the Charter 77 movement. Influenced by Zappa, English progressive  
rock/radical politicos Henry Cow, Captain Beefheart, and the Velvet  
Underground, the Plastic People appropriated the avant-garde leanings  
and anti-authoritarian outrage of these bands while working in their  
own sense of dread and desperation. SUISHOU NO FUNE (on Holy Mountain  
records) [say "soo-ee-sho no foo-nay"] translates as 'ship of  
crystal'. This amazing psychedelic band was formed by Pirako Kurenai  
and Kageo in Tokyo, July,1999. "The artistic sound is the psychedelic  
Rock that twin guitars work that is full of sensitivity by the  
freedom that is not bound by stereotype. Suishou no Fune usually make  
much songs by adlib, sing the song which make the best use of the  
japanese poetic beauty. The songs of "Spirit, Light and Darkness,  
Soul, Love and Hatred, Shamanistic, Life and Death" will touch your  
heartstrings. You will enjoy the sound of Japanese verse and their  
psychedelic world, if you don't understand Japanese. Suishou no Fune  
is magic music." ALASEHIR from Philadelphia is 3/5 of the incredible  
Bardo Pond... guitar playing brothers John and Michael Gibbons along  
with Bardo drummer Jason Kourkounis. Heavy sonic power stoner jam  
psych... drifting backwoods minimally cracked campfire folk... warped  
electronics, swirling guitars, feedback fantasias, sticky green  
dreams... DÉJÀ VU MOUNTAIN ...loud improvisational mystical misty  
sludgey riffy Providence deep-psych rock... Be sure to come early and  
represent RI style.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/18346 http://www.myspace.com/ 
theplasticpeopleoftheuniverse http://www.holymountain.com/ 
suishounofune.html http://www.plasticpeople.cz http://bardopond.org  
http://dvmtn.blogspot.com/
$10 adv / $12 door


Thursday, September 27, 2007
7:30pm Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam
THURSDAYS are WORDSDAYS, this week:

On THURSDAYS at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly  
program of SPOKEN WORD OPEN MICS, POETRY SLAMS, YOUTH SLAMS, SONGS IN  
THE KEY OF HIP-HOP - OPEN MIC SHOWCASE (on 2nd Thursdays), MUSICIAN  
OPEN MICS, and so on and so forth. Come teach, share, and learn! The  
stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor's,  
ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral tradition alive! The  
Providence Poetry Slam: Providence is one of the most well known and  
exciting Poetry Slams nationwide - The PVD team has made it to the  
National Poetry Slam Tournament semi-finals for the last 5 seasons!  
http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam
$4