Friday night - SHONENE KNIFE, Miho Hatori's New Optimism, Shellshag, OPEN with Q-Tip (new video)

Shonen Knife, Miho Hatori's New Optimism and Shellshag
October 16, 2009 7:00 PM
18+
TICKETS HERE

SHONEN KNIFE
Shonen Knife is one of alternative rock’s most enduring names, as their youthful and uplifting melting pot of styles defies time and classification. One could call them riot grrl, but that would overlook the light-hearted charm of their compositions and subject matter (candy, toys, and enjoyment). One could call them J-pop, but that would negate their raucous punk sound and the moxy they displayed in becoming one of the first internationally acclaimed all girl rock groups. Their notoriety is boosted by some memorable name-drops by Kurt Cobain, Thurston Moore and Wesley Willis among others. This summer they’ve released the new album Super Group, packed full of boisterous jams featuring a new regular member, former touring bassist Ritsuko Taneda.

The band formed in 1981 by sisters Naoko and Atsuko Yamano and Michie Nakatani. Coming from Osaka, Japan, a key site for Western imports, they were heavily influenced by the rock and roll streaming in from the United States and UK. Thus, their sound was a stripped-down take on punk and new wave with an unmistakably do-it-yourself presentation. Unlike their Western counterparts however, their 28 years of rock has not veered from upbeat, frivolous lyrics about animals, food, and friends. Though, at times, their J-pop cutesiness is peppered with the occasional strangeness or controversy. The cut “Dali’s Sunflower” was banned in Japan due to what authorities deemed as too explicit a reference to “going crazy.” “Twist Barbie,” the groups 1983 cut and perhaps their most popular, laments the Western feminine ideal as impossible to attain for Asian girls. Their import-only studio albums were favorites of the US underground rock scene, and in 1986 Sub Pop began releasing and reissuing material in America. In 1989, the tribute album Every Band Has A Shonen Knife That Loves Them was released featuring covers by Sonic Youth, The Mr. T Experience, Redd Kross and more. The band would go on to enjoy the fruits of American stardom, appearing on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Beavis and Butthead, on CNN and onstage at Lollapalooza.

When Michie left the band in 1999, Atsuko put down the drumsticks took over duties on bass, making room for Etsuko Nakanishi to join the band as a permanent member behind the kits in 2005. In 2008, Atsuko left the band due to her marriage and was replaced by longtime Shonen fan Ritsuko. Super Group came out in May with critics haling the return to form. As Nipponrock.net proclaims “…the music is still as relevant as ever. Silly lyrics, stripped down rock melodies and a potent sense of fun make Super Group a great album.” The Culturedeluxe blog heralded the record as having “something for the metalhead, the pre-schooler AND the acid casualty out there.” On October 16th, they will be playing Santos Party House, also dedicated to fun, for what promises to be a memorable night for the eternally young among us.
Shonen Knife on Myspace

MIHO HATORI'S NEW OPTIMISM
Known foremost as the vocalist for Cibo Matto, Miho Hatori has long been establishing herself as a solo composer and envelope-pusher. Her 2006 solo album Ecdysis threw together driving beats that mixed ambient electronic tones with some harsher noise and an airy vocal. Aside from her solo and Cibo endeavors she has lent vocal talent to Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modelling School, John Zorn, Blackalicious and The 6ths.
Miho Hatori’s New Optimism

SHELLSHAG
Get them before they get too cool for you. Shellshag are an unfairly infectious punk band from Brooklyn with a strong with a cross-coastal appeal. Perhaps a bit gritty but the world will compensate. Don Giovanni Records has just announced that they will be putting out the group’s debut LP which promises to bring their drumset-destroying antics into the comfort of your own home.
Shellshag on Myspace


10:00PM - OPEN residency with Q-Tip, Rich Medina and Jared Boxx

New Q-Tip video:


Diddy video shot, among other places, at Santos Party House:

MONOTONIX - tomorrow night

MONOTONIX, TURBO FRUITS and THE BEETS
October 9, 2009 7:00 PM
18+
TICKETS HERE

"AVC: How did those 10-15 people react when you started going crazy?

AS: Before they know us and before they know what to expect, there was a feeling that people was a little bit scared from us. For me, I judge a good show if in the beginning people afraid and then the end of the show people enjoy and open their heart and smile. If you can get into people hearts and minds, it is a good show for me. " - THE DECIDER interview, discussing Monotonix' first U.S. shows



MONOTONIX
Although they hail all the way from Tel Aviv, Monotonix make dirty garage rock that sounds like it came straight from the Motor City. The trio’s 2008 EP, Body Language, highlights their love for all things raucous and messy. The band’s delirously energetic live shows ended up getting them banned from the majority of venues in Tel Aviv, so in 2006 they set out on a massive world tour, transfixing and liberating audiences everywhere from Texas to the Netherlands. Lead singer Ami Shaev describes the band’s insane live show as an attempt to create one unit, blurring the lines between performer and audience. Monotonix are sure to get up to trouble when they play Santos this October, and lord knows we're ready for it.
Monotonix homepage

TURBO FRUITS
Formed in 2007, Turbo Fruits is led by Jonas Stein, the guitarist from Be Your Own Pet. While Stein hasn’t strayed hard from his former bands lyrical focus, he certainly has started to explore new musical territory. The band’s stoned out blend of garage and surf rock creates a noisy haze that’s the perfect soundtrack for the wasted nights and groggy mornings that define juvenile delinquency. After some time away, Turbo Fruits are back in action and ready to peer pressure you into loving them.
Turbo Fruits on Myspace

THE BEETS
Not to be confused with the fictional authors of “Killer Tofu,” The Beets are known for their raw take on classic bar-room punk. Their emphatic harmonized vocals are absolutely perfect for their pummeling strums and schoolboy drums.
The Beets on Myspace

Tomorrow night: HOCICO and more live

Ritual Filth, Dyztorted Entertainment and Origins Productions present:
Hocico, Life Cried and Panic Lift
with DJ's Dyztort and Wintermute
VJ TM5
October 8, 2009 7:30 PM - ALL AGES
TICKETS HERE

HOCICO

We often hear the argument that musicians are conduits, and nowhere is this more apparent than with Hocico, who manage to sonically channel the gritty and tormented landscape of Mexico City. Now one of the leading worldwide names in aggrotech, Hocico began with cousins Eric Garcia and Oscar Mayorga messing around with a Casio and continuing to amass their acclaim as fast as they did their equipment. Their first homemade demo Misuse, Abuse and Accident earned their nationwide buzz despite a first pressing of only 30 copies. Eight albums later they have toured in spots as far and wide as Japan and London.

Garcia and Mayorga at one point tried hiring a guitar player but quickly learned that their music had no need. Though danceable and thoroughly synthesized, the fear and desolation in their work is distilled and unadulterated, with a piercing bilingual vocal to guide the music’s explorations of violence and sexual abuse. Metal Storm wrote of their 2001 album "Signos de Aberracion flows with its nocturnal pulse as one from its very first second until its last consuming your full attention as it drowns you in a world where the weak and the humiliated ones of nowadays' rotten society take control and take back what society has stolen from them, life.” On October 8, this globetrotting duo of darkness will be testing the limits of Santos Party House’s sound and light systems.
Hocico homepage

LIFE CRIED
Merging gothed-out electro foundation with aggrotech and noise rock, Life Cried of New Jersey are have created a seamless and driving that pummels you with disturbing samples and brutal percussion after it lulls you in with seductive melodies and grooves. Their second album Banished Pslams has been well-received; quoth the UK’s Sphere magazine, “It’s an exciting and brutal kind of Industrial that will please fans of dark-electro and black metal alike.”
Life Cried homepage

PANIC LIFT
A demonic take on industrial electornica, Panic Lift use pounding metallic sounds and buzz-saw synthlines to bolster and unrelentingly ferocious, screeching vocal. Only 3 years old, the group is conquering the New York industrial scene one Mohawk at a time. Their melodic sensibilities may lure you into a brief moment of complacency only to immediately dash it with a sonic assault.
Panic Lift on Myspace

with DJ's
Wintermute
Dyztort

VJ Tm5

LADY GAGA at BOOTLEG Saturday night fundraiser for equality

Josh Wood has been one of recent history's most pivotal figures in defining the character of entertainment and nightlife in New York City. Aside from acting as lead producer and promoter for Margaret Cho's "State of The Union," The Black Party and The White Party at The Saint Large, and Ricky Gervais' US debut at Madison Square Garden, he is also the founder of the Highline Festival alongside David Bowie. Not the kind to let his entertainment entrepreneurship get ahead of his activism, Wood also organized the first official LGBT events for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in New York and has sat on the board of The Stonewall Community Foundation.



For this Saturday's installment of his wildly popular BOOTLEG party he will be raising funds for the rally being held October 11th in Washington DC by Equality Across America, an organization dedicated to ensuring human rights and equality to LGBT individuals in all 435 congressional districts. He has enlisted the hosting duties of his pal LADY GAGA, outspoken queer rights ally and young prodigy who recently burst into worldwide stardom after spending much of her youth penning hits for artists including Akon, Britney Spears and Fergie.

On spins for the evening will be Peter Rauhofer, Honey Dijon, Larry Tee and Lina, plus John Alessandro's CRUISING party will be in full swing downstairs with Bill Coleman bringing the sounds.

Advance tickets available at: http://www.joshwoodproductions.com

TONIGHT: Party in memory of Josh Link

As we mourn the loss of Josh Link -- an eclectic and visionary selector -- reputed DJ's from New York and Philadelphia will gather as a tribute to the scene that Link created.

Link, better known as "Missing Link" from his drum n bass days, had been a DJ in New York for over 10 years. Back in the day, he DJ'd at underground dance parties popular amongst the techno/dnb/jungle community. Even as he moved away from illegal outdoor raves and on to a variety of corporate events and downtown hotspots -- including residencies at Greenhouse, Ella, The Box, and RDV -- Josh left an indelible impression. Remembered for his music, his kindness and his ability to bring people together, Josh will be deeply deeply missed.

All proceeds from the party will go to a charitable fund that is being setting up in Josh's name to benefit causes that meant a lot to him, including the school for autistic children at which he taught.

DJ's:
NICK HOOK
JUBILEE
DARA
DARYL PALUMBO (of Head Automatica)
GLUE
SHANEDADDY
MYKCEE
DJ OD
B-ROC
DIMITRY
EGG FOO YOUNG

Wednesday, September 30
10:00 PM
21+ only
Suggested donation at the door

WADKLUB with Alan Braxe, The Glass, Dee Nice and Human Life (9/10/09)

11PM
RSVP: http://www.meanredproductions.com/TWR


ALAN BRAXE
Braxe scored a major hit in 1998 with "Music Sounds Better With You," a track co-written with Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk) and Benjamin Diamond under the name Stardust that reached number one on the United States Dance chart. He later formed Vulture Music, and continued to release singles under its imprint, including 2004's hit, "Rubicon". Recently he has become an in-demand remixer, contributing remixes to Goldfrapp, Röyksopp, Test Icicles, Annie, Shakedown, Kylie Minogue and Justice. Not to mention his successful collaborations with Kris Menace ("Lumberjack") and Fred Falke (“Palladium”).
Alan Braxe on Myspace

THE GLASS
Slick post-punk grooves meet balls out electro, creating a intense and driving dance floor bouillabaisse.
The Glass Homepage

DEE NICE
DEE NICE is one of those DJ's who just doesn't let himself get locked up in his style.He plays HOUSE, ELECTRO, TECH HOUSE, PROGRESSIVE, MINIMAL and DEEP TECHNO– all with the same gusto.
Dee Nice on Myspace

HUMAN LIFE
Human Life, the musical project from Matt Wasley, Rachael Starr and Joshua Collins has created quite a buzz over the past year...
They all produce music. They all DJ. And they all sing (Matt and Rachael in the studio, Josh in the shower.) This talented trio hails from Los Angeles, California. There Human Life is part of a new breed of producers and DJs, inspired as much by sunshine and beaches as they are by the music heard coming from dark corners in downtown warehouses. Stealing their favorite elements (they’re not giving them back) from dance, indie rock, and global pop, HUMAN LIFE celebrates just that with cuts that range from dreamy pop to dancefloor storms. HUMAN LIFE looks to an edgy future while nodding to their influences from the past (Howard Jones, Mr. Fingers, Genesis,) and today (Switch and Daft Punk.)
Human Life Myspace



SEPTEMBER 8 NEW RELEASES
Andrew W.K. - 55 Cadillac (Eclectic Peace)
Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II... (Ice Water) - ALBUM RELEASE PARTY TODAY (TICKETS)
BLK JKS - After Robots (Secretly Canadian)

Santos Party House supports independent music.

Musicka Mystica Maxima Festival - John Zorn & Bill Laswell, Genesis P-Orridge, Daniel Higgs, Nautical Almanac, Larkin Grimm + more 9/21-9/22

MUSICKA MYSTICA MAXIMA FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2009
SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
96 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10013
TWO DAY PASSES HERE
Doors at 7pm both dates



Musicka Mystica Maxima festival presented by Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A.

Two nights of Musick made by practicing magicians or practicing musicians who's work celebrates the Magical lifestyle, as well public performances of Ceremonial and other Magick ritual.

9/21 DAY ONE – TICKETS
GENESIS BREYER P-ORRDIGE with THEE MAJESTY (Bryin Dall & Morrison Edley)

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, spoken work artist and philosopher Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been one of the most recognizable figures of fringe music since the the 70’s. She is a core member of industrial noise pioneer band Throbbing Gristle, as well as the punk wave outfit Psychic TV and now Thee Majesty, the ensemble that combines punk, noise and P-Orridge’s spoken word contributions.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge homepage

AMBER ASYLUM
Kris Force unites with various allies in the gothic world (members of Neurosis, Hammers of Misfortune, Weakling and Giant Squid), to create a symphonic ambience that is misanthropically dark. Driven by cello and violin as well as haunting vocals, the music is a folkloric take on neoclassical post rock.
Amber Asylum on Myspace

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
A sound sculptor who has a particular mastery of the woodwinds and human larynx, Arrington de Dionyso’s manifests multiple eccentric concepts and frameworks for improvisation. His main tools are jagged assaults at free jazz instrumentation, twisted throat singing and a combination of the two. He liberally incorporates avant garde dancing, homespun instruments and props.
Arrington de Dionyso on Myspace

LARKIN GRIMM
The Applachian daughter of cult-member parents creates music that is rife with psychic energy and the urge to return to the primal. Deftly picked strings that invoke the tambours of country folk mixing with a haunting vocal and the incursion of chillingly dark electronic sounds are the hallmarks of her sound.
Larkin Grimm on Myspace

NAUTICAL ALMANAC

Currently waving the banner for Baltimore noise is the duo Twig Harper and Carly Ptak, both visual artists and the taylors of electronic contraptions and music that’s about as horrifically uplifting as can make sense. They create experimental noise that nods to metal, minimal techno, jazz and punk. No strangers to concept either, their ’98 album Rooting for Microbes employed no electricity in the creation of sound. They have collaborated with Andrew W.K., Wolf Eyes, Nate Young and more.
Harper and Ptak Homepage

DAY TWO –TICKETS
MONICA RICHARDS (of Faith and the Muse)Poet, painter and philosopher Monica Richards just happens to be a punk veteran from the DC wells from which sprang Bad Brains and Minor Threat. In the early 90’s her notoriety grew with Faith and the Muse, her duo project with William Faith, which incorporated her punk roots along with electronic music, experimentalism, jazz, art music, folk along with the songwriting sensibilities of pop. Her solo music continues in this direction, with a tendency towards the multi-media.
Monica Richards homepage

4TH SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE
By using no wave post rock as a foundation, 4Th Sign of the Apocalypse inhabits the realm of stark experimentalism. The portentous sound of grooves bereft of vapid joy and unconventional instrumentation results in a sound that uses the power of uncertainty to fill in the space.
4th Sign of the Apocalypse homepage

DANIEL HIGGS

Daniel Higgs, formerly of Reptile House and the post-punk pioneers Lungfish, has become a cult figure for spiritually jarring folk music. His pulsing riffs on his long-neck banjo invoke the stark loneliness of Americana and the ethereality of East Asia.
Daniel Higgs homepage

SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNET RISE
Airy and atmospheric, Spires that in the Sunset Rise are pagan folk with an experimental attitude. Creatively arranged and esoteric instrumentation features harps, harmoniums, strings of all kinds, xyolophones, mbiras, spike fiddles and more.
Spires That In The Sunset Rise homepage

JOHN ZORN & BILL LASWELL
Both originators of free and experimental jazz since the mid-70’s, Zorn and Laswell are improvisational legends in multiple sects of sub-culture. Each with foundations in jazz music (Zorn on woodwinds and Laswell on bass ), their ensemble performances often include brilliant compositions and structures in which improvisation can flourish. They regularly collaborate with each other and have also worked with Lou Reed, Anthony Braxton, Mike Patton, Serj Tankian, Motorhead, White Zombie, Fred Firth, Iggy Pop, Kronos Quartet, Herbie Hancock and Derek Bailey.
John Zorn homepage
Bill Laswell homepage