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FEBRUARY

Wednesday, February 3



Camping Party
White Hinterland
The Ro Sham Bos
9pm.
$5.00 at the door.


Thursday, February 4



HELP FOR HAITI BENEFIT
Hometown Blap Clique TYLER TASTEMAKER, BEHNIBUBU, NICOLUMINOUS AND BARISONE
D Poetica
Dj Obe
Boy Meets Club
Plumblyne
9pm.
$5-10 SUGGESTED DONATION.
ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO A PROFESSIONAL TEAM PROVIDING MEDICAL RELIEF TO EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS.


Friday, February 5



Guidance Counselor
champagne champagne
Rainbow Bridge
Rude Dudes
9pm.
$7.00 at the door.


Guidance Counselor

"Guidance Counselor sounds like electro remixes of old Joy Division hits, like if a hot DJ got ahold of the hot new post-punk sound and slapped a healthy dose of blaring keyboards over the beat." - Willamette Week

Guidance Counselor delivers a pulsing live performance filled with lo-fi dance punk by embracing jagged guitar, live drums and dancey keyboards to his sound sequencing.

Champagne Champagne (Seattle)

"......shamelessly incorporating elements of pop and rock into their style while traversing with ease Rakim's old school hip hop to Outkast's new school." - Sound on the Sound

"What Champagne Champagne have is the will and intelligence to go beyond the limits of standard black themes, dramas, and tropes to produce an artistically liberated hiphop in a postracial, postbling space." - The Stranger


Saturday, February 6



Astronautalis
Sleep of Oldominion
Rafael Vigilantics
She's On Drugs
9pm.
$8.00 advance tickets.

Six years spent on the emcee battle circuit wasn’t enough to get Astronautalis to shake his indie rock roots. The grind of defending his freestyle chops across the nation from high school lunchrooms in Florida, to bus stops in Dallas, and on to secret skate spots in Brooklyn, leading ultimately to the world famous Scribble Jam stage in Cincinnati just gave Astronautalis the mastery over the English language necessary to tell the tales trapped inside his brain all along. For when the battle ended, and the mics were cut off, Astronautalis (born Andy Bothwell) would tuck his trophy under his arm, pull his headphones back on, and head home as the walkman filled his ears with everything from Neutral Milk Hotel and The Halo Benders to Tom Waits and The Band. It has been almost 6 years since Astronautalis has entered an emcee battle, but by no means has this wordsmith been in hibernation. With three full length albums under his belt, over 1,250 shows on his vocal chords, and almost 350,000 miles of touring on his Honda, he has been busy crafting his calculated balance between hip hop, folk, and American indie rock, both in the studio and out on the road. Coming from a long line of soldiers, spies, rapscallions, and railroad men, the life of a drifter came naturally to Bothwell; and it was there, out on the road, that Astronautalis honed his craft. Shaping the spoken swagger and acerbic aggressions of his old life as a battle rapper into a silver-tongued sweet talk that is as much a sermon as it is a seduction. Taking the stage with nothing more than a mic, a laptop, and his requisite handkerchief, Astronautalis has sweat out stories for crowds across North America and Europe, slinging snake-oil in support of artists as diverse as Atmosphere, Daniel Johnston, 2 Live Crew, Bill Callahan, Why?, Gym Class Heroes, P.O.S and more. Astronautalis finally took a reprieve from the road last year to record his third and most refined album to date, “Pomegranate”. A treasury of tracks that is equal parts folk, hip-hop, and historical fiction; composed under the guidance of Grammy nominated producer and engineer John Congleton (Explosions in the Sky, The Thermals, Modest Mouse) and backed up by the most unlikely band musicians to ever collaborate on a hip-hop record (featuring P.O.S and members of The Polyphonic Spree, Midlake, and The Paperchase). “Pomegranate”, plays out like a collection of short stories, each song as varied in style and sound as they are in subject and character. One moment Astronautalis plays a sweet talking con-man seducing you out of house and home on the dark piano driven, “The Wondersmith and his Sons”; next he is a crossing the Delaware with George Washington himself in “The Trouble Hunters”, an epic fight song that somehow seems to channel the story telling spirits of Bruce Springsteen and Against Me! over funk drums and Miami bass. Each song spins a unique tale of love in the face of obligation and obstacle, told through the eyes of white-collar criminals, haggard opium runners, beleaguered farmers, and noble alpine mountaineers. With such a scope of subjects spanning over the colorful cadre of characters, it seems as if Astronautalis must have lived a thousand lives in his 27 years. This is where it all comes together, where Astronautalis hits his stride, and those years of battling blend seamless with that endless highway, the pugilist becomes the poet, the storyteller becomes showman, and somehow, strangely, the idea of indie-folk-historical-fiction-hip-hop starts to actually make sense.


Sunday, February 7



Water and Bodies
By Sunlight
Housefire
9pm.
$6.00 at the door.


Water & Bodies (ex-Kaddisfly)

"Water and Bodies' evolutionary arc is not an uncommon path; it started where the potent mix of emo DIY culture led to the heart-on-sleeve gushings of Kaddisfly. But man can't emote forever, so the members moved forth as Water and Bodies. Their sound is effortlessly streamlined, a nice perk of swapping the teenage theatrics for a more thought-out approach to rock 'n' roll. Their initial self-titled EP, out last spring, was far more trepidatious than the bombastic new seven-track EP due out tonight." - Portland Mercury

By Sunlight (Seattle)

"It's very hard to pinpoint their unique sound. They combine the experimental elements of Codeseven and Death Cab For Cutie with the quirky eccentricities of Mellowdrone or Dismemberment Plan. It's really endearing how they can take their technical prowess and make it accessible and even gorgeously catchy." - Rabbit Hole Music

"......a progressive math-pop conglomerate with more syrup-sweet melodies than you can shake an abacus at." - Synthesis


Monday, February 8



Nosaj Thing
Daedelus
Jogger
Boy Meets Club
9pm.
$10.00 advance tickets. $12.00 at the door.

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NOSAJ THING BIO: L.A.-based producer Nosaj Thing (Jason Chung) is a sound innovator. He’s a sweet kid with a sinister musical agenda. His electronic soundscapes and wild beat tectonics play like vignettes that affect the listener’s mind as deeply as he hits their soul. Without a doubt, Nosaj Thing is among L.A.’s finest musical modulators. Read More... L.A.-based producer Nosaj Thing (Jason Chung) is a sound innovator. He’s a sweet kid with a sinister musical agenda. His electronic soundscapes and wild beat tectonics play like vignettes that affect the listener’s mind as deeply as he hits their soul. Without a doubt, Nosaj Thing is among L.A.’s finest musical modulators. Jason’s early work came awkwardly but not at all haphazardly. At age 13, he took his first computer from his father, an archaic PC that struggled even with word documents. In the hands of Nosaj Thing, it became an Intel Celeron home studio. With a “donated” copy of Reason, a demo version of Ableton Live and a computer mouse (he couldn’t afford a MIDI controller), Nosaj Thing began making music. He built his first productions note for note on the electronic staff of his Frankenstein studio. When your focus is strong, all you really need is a machine that works. In high school, Jason picked up a day job at a local music store, focusing his efforts on the arduous task of saving up for his first Mac. But Destiny had become fond of Nosaj Thing’s resolve. In a contest, Jason won a favored producer tool: his own honest copy of Logic Pro. Wild circumstances? Perhaps. But he’s still using it, winning beat battles, remix contests, gigging and DJing within his network of like-minded musical vigilantes. Now 23, Nosaj Thing creates nothing less than the sound mastery of beat driven, experimental electronics from a gifted noise constructor. Nosaj Thing has been featured as an artist-to-watch in magazines like Fader, XLR8R, The New Yorker, and Nylon, and as one of Urb Magazine’s Next 1000 artists. He’s remixed Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Elliot Lipp, and Health, won Turntable Lab/Plastic Little’s remix contest featuring MF Doom, and won L.A.’s prestigious Project Blowed beat battle. He has shared the stage with the likes of DJ AM, Architecture in Helsinki, DJ Krush, Z-Trip, Flying Lotus, Free the Robots, Diplo, The Glitch Mob, and Daedelus. He has received regular airplay on BBC Radio One and Los Angeles’ KCRW, and is a staple and a crowd pleaser at L.A.’s underground hip-hop good time, Low End Theory. Comparisons run along with Ratatat, DJ Shadow, and Aphex Twin. A survey of his own record collection will turn up pieces from Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Radiohead, Daft Punk and Eric Satie.With his first full-length in the works, be prepared to hear a lot more noise from Nosaj Thing.

DAEDELUS BIO Alfred Darlington isn’t your average cookie-cutter musician. From how he looks (early Victorian Dandism), to how he makes music, to how he expresses himself and views the world, his is a very individual, a ‘bespoke’ outlook. Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child he was classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments, but his interests were broad and varied – less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales. As a 15 year old he finally persuaded his parents to take him to the Principality. Whilst in a YMCA in London he flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. “It was my first ‘Eureka!’ moment in music,” he says. Back in the US he joined local rock bands, jazz bands and ska bands, which he enjoyed but felt limited by,too. At home he was listening to Warp, Ninja and your harder electronic stuff. He started DJing out the more leftfield side of drum and bass and making his own rudimentary productions. They were meant to be drum & bass but they kept turning out different and from his outsider’s experiments his own style was born. He chose the name Daedelus as he had a childhood obsession with invention, and what was he doing, after all, if not tinkering and fiddling and experimenting like the “gentleman inventors” of old? In 1999 he started DJing on Dublab.com for his "Entropy Sessions" and began dropping in his own early demo productions. Carlos Nino (of ammoncontact) had the show after him and usually pushed Alfred out the studio as quickly as possible as he was not so into Daedelus’ confrontational DJ style, but when he heard a tranquil Daedelus production he took, in typical Nino style, Daedelus under his considerable wing around the LA scene. Nino placed Daedelus tracks on two influential compilations and then persuaded Plug Research to release his debut album, “Invention” in 2002, Remixers included Madlib, who later took Daedelus' accordian parts and used them on the Madvillain record, closely followed by his “The Household” EP on Prefuse 73’s Eastern Developments label. In 2003, he was booked to play a show in San Diego by Brian Crabtree and Peter Siegerstrong and they asked him to test out an early prototype of the Monome box. "It’s a Non-traditional electronic instrument,” Daedelus explains. “Basically it allows for massive improvisation." Since then Daedelus has continued to use this revolutionary box, bringing much genuine liveness to the sometimes static world of performed electronic/dance music. In 2003 he did "The Weather" album with Busdriver and Radioinactive and the remix album "Rethinking the Weather" on Mush records (home of cLOUDDEAD, also on Big Dada/Ninja Tune). 2004 saw the release of "Of Snowdonia" on Plug Research, the album with which Daedelus says he first “felt true artistic confidence, finding a true voice. I was finally in the right zone.” There was certainly no let up in his creativity. Also in 2004 he released the concept album “A Gent Agent” on tiny German label Laboratory Instinct. The 2005 album "Exquisite Corpse" on Mush album featured the likes of TTC, Mike Ladd, MF Doom. Ninja signed Daedelus for UK/Europe (a relationship which has reached its full expression on “Love To Make Music To,” his first album for the label worldwide and put together with the help of their team). In 2006 “Denies the Days Demise” came out, a record showcasing his love of Brazilian music. Last year he released his first live album, “Live At the Low End Theory,” and “The Fairweather Friends EP”. Later this year will see the release of his collaboration with his wife, Laura Darling, as Long Lost! And while his reputation has grown internationally, his place in the LA scene has also solidified. The musician that many of the hottest names in the city turn to for everything from bass clarinet licks to advice on obscure electronics, Daedelus has worked extensively with Taz from Sa-Ra, the pair of them opening for the likes of DJ Assault, Justice and Two Live Crew as well as appearing in Erykah Badu’s most recent video. As for “Love To Make Music To,” Daedelus says that this album is “the imaginary memory of a time that never was! It’s my drug/love record, harking back to that time in the YMCA in London, when I first heard rave…”


Wednesday, February 10



MOVED FROM CIRCADIA ART CENTER!!!!
Wolves in the Throneroom
Atriarch
Megaton Leviathan
Chasma
9pm (doors open at 8:30pm).
$10.00 at the door.
ALL AGES. BAR IN BRANX W/ ID!

During the Summer of 2002 at an Earth First rendezvous in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, guitarist Nathan Weaver was inspired to create a band that merged a Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness with the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the 90's. The band envisioned would strive to create a mythic space where artist and listener alike could strip away the mindset of the mundane to reveal a more ancient and transcendent consciousness. The mysterious and wild energies of the untrammeled forests of the Northwest would be channeled into sonic form.

In the Spring of 2004, Nathan and his brother, drummer Aaron Weaver, moved to a dilapidated farmstead on the outskirts of Olympia, WA. The creation of their farm-stronghold, called Calliope, would be intrinsically linked to the development of Wolves in the Throne Room. It was during the first long, dark winter living in the collapsed farmhouse at Calliope that the band developed their trance-inducing sound and solidified the burning intent that would animate the band's music. Elements of black metal, crust punk, folk music, thrash metal and drone music were drawn upon to create a unique alchemy.

Since that time Wolves in the Throne Room have ascended to the upper tiers of the underground scene by creating a transformative and apocalyptic musical manifestation that has come to completely transcend the black metal label.

Wolves in the Throne Room's first studio album, the lush and atmospheric Diadem of 12 Stars (A Shimmering Radiance), was released in the Spring of 2006. This gloriously sprawling record was captured on tape by Tim Green at Louder Studios in San Francisco. Diadem was very well received and quickly established a cult following. Wolves in the Throne Room was heralded by the press as one of the most promising Black Metal bands to emerge from the United States, though the band stressed in interviews that they felt like they had little in common with their more Satanic peers.

The fall of 2006 brought a new pact with Southern Lord records and the beginning of a relationship with producer-engineer Randall Dunn. (SUNN O))), Earth, Grails) Their epic album Two Hunters is a masterfully dark and emotional document that further established Wolves in the Throne Room as a band totally unafraid to follow their own path.

Winter Solstice 2008 saw the completion of their 3rd studio album, cryptically titled Black Cascade. Recorded onto 2 inch tape and mixed on a 1973 Neve Console by Producer Randall Dunn, this monolith of trance inducing psychedelia swings between passages of blazing crystalline blackness and ocean-deep ritualistic dronescapes. Black Cascade elevates Wolves in the Throne Room into the ranks of the elite in the extreme music world.


Thursday, February 11



I'VE GOT A HOLE IN MY SOUL- DRESS NICE!!!
DJ Beyonda
Mr. Fine Wine
9pm.
SOUL NIGHT IS A SPECIAL NIGHT. THERE IS A THEME.
DRESS NICE FOR SOUL NIGHT!
Dress code will honor sharply dressed people (suits, shirt tie leather jacket, dress shoes or boots, dresses, skirts, mod or rocknroll style) the usual $3 cover charge. Those who choose to not participate in the theme (by wearing overtly casual dress: beenies, hoodies, baseball caps, tennis shoes, baggy pants) will pay a $10 cover charge

Mr. Fine Wine grew up in Detroit in the 1960s and '70s, surrounded by music and by music-industry people. An avid collector of soul 45s for 25 years now, Fine Wine started DJ'ing soon after he relocated to New York City. His radio show, "Downtown Soulville" (www.wfmu.org/playlists/sv), has been converting casual listeners around the globe into soul freaks since 1994. In addition he has presided over many local dance parties through the years (including the Empire State Soul Club, Bumpshop, and Horse River Social). Countries where Fine Wine has DJ'd with his across-the-board mix of R&B, soul, blues, and funk include Spain, Turkey, Russia, Scotland, Finland, England, Canada, Norway, and Germany. He has backed the likes of the Mighty Hannibal, the Gories, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Brian Auger, Dee Dee Ramone, DJ Shadow, the Detroit Cobras, Cody Black, Rudy Ray Moore, and Nathaniel Mayer. He has also compiled and written liner notes for the collections "Vital Organs" (Grooovysounds Unltd.) and "Crash of Thunder" (Vampisoul); he has two more Vampisoul compilations, "Teach Me to Monkey" and "Scratch That Itch," due out in 2010. Fine Wine and his friend the Mighty Hannibal are the subjects of a feature-length documentary film, currently in production, called "Showtime."


Friday, February 12



LIVE AND DIRECT.
Rev. Shines
Tre Hardson
DJ Nature
hosted by
Starchile
9pm.
$3.00 at the door.


Saturday, February 13



VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
Rude Dudes
DJ Dundiggy
vs.
Matt Nelkin
Feed Your Head CHSMNHTN + NICKY MASON
9pm.


Sunday, February 14



HEARTH THROB
DJ Lifepartner
DJ Gottesfinger
DJ Girlfriends
DJ Freddie Fagula
9pm.
$5.00 advance tickets.


Thursday, February 18



The Hugs
Ruby Feathers
Hawkeye
Zia and Kirk and Christa
DJ Rescue
DJ Kirk
9pm.
$4.00 at the door.


The Hugs

"With their swooshing swathes of rainbow rock, The Hugs are further proof that someones certainly putting something in the water in Portland, Oregon. Like The Lemonheads but with more primal yelping, the moment when their retro-referencing tunes seem to be veering too much in a pleasant, palatable garage-punk direction, their teeny weeny frontman Danny Delegato – the lovechild of Noel Fielding and one of The Monkees – lets go a grave-spinning, throat-slashing screech before indulging in some energetic and muscle-tearing mic-robatics." -NME

"The Hugs are a four-piece rock n roll band from Portland, Oregon, who recorded their debut album in England. This makes sense because their music sounds British—not 'Greensleeves' British, but rather the brand of British that became popular when groups like The Kinks and The Yardbirds invaded America in the mid-60s with their ramshackle lyrics and bluesy riffs. The Hugs' music, though, is also very Oregonian, owing an equal debt to home-state forerunners like 'Louie Louie' auteurs The Kingsmen and the late-70s pre-grunge grunge outfit the Wipers." - Interview Magazine

Hawkeye

A mix of lo-fi hi-fi, happiness, sadness, playfulness, revolution, dissolusion, candy pop, garage rock, northern soul, psychedelic, brit pop, pre-post punk, moth fuck explosion. A spark of creativity-a fluxus moment--a Happening... It started off as the recording project of Matthew Strange, and through many ups and downs became a band.




Friday, February 19



CASUAL ENCOUNTERS
Sistafist
Permanent Wave
DJ Yerr Mom
DJ Lucas
9pm.
$3.00 at the door.


Saturday, February 20



SMASH IT UP!
DPSTALEY
Sports Cars
Spekt1
The Bassment Buddha
9pm.
FREE!


Sunday, February 21



Mangled Bohemians
Archipelago
HEXLOVE
Wizard Rifle
9pm.
$5.00 at the door.


Wednesday, February 24



The Pharmacy
Jack Lewis
Magic Johnson
Here Comes a Big Black Cloud
9pm.
$6.00 at the door.


The Pharmacy

Scott Yoder and Brendhan Bowers made plenty of noisy racket in the local garages and teen centers growing up on Vashon Island. They moved across the Puget Sound to Seattle and booked their first tour as The Pharmacy (with then-member Joey Seward) in 2003 and have kept the show pretty much on the road ever since. In 2006 Joey left for more metal pursuits and classically trained pianist and fellow Vashon kid Stefan Rubicz joined on keyboards. Since then they've transformed from the synth-heavy overdrive of their 2005 debut album B.F.F. through the drizzly sunshine of the Overcast Summer 7" at last landing on the off-kilter psychedelic pop of Choose Yr Own Adventure. Replete with epic instrumentation - viola, violin, cello, harpsichord and horns all make an appearance- Choose Yr Own Adventure has been years in the making, re-vamped re-recorded and re-written over time.

After several months at their new residence of New Orleans, The Pharmacy will be returning to tour to perform some music from their upcoming Don't Stop Believin' LP 'Weekend.' Recorded in the the house that they shared together near Bayou St. John, 'Weekend' is a gritty and much rawer departure from their previous record 'Choose Yr. Own Adventure.' 1960s girl-group style reverb and drum beats, along with a simpler approach to their danceable pop music are evident. The album drops in early 2010.

"The Pharmacy craft art-punk tunes combined with earworm-worthy pop sensibilities and rhyming Seuss-like lyrics ready for blissful sing-alongs." - spin.com

Jack Lewis

"It's never easy to live under the shadow of a well-known sibling, but for Jack Lewis, younger brother of Crass-obsessed NYC crooner Jeffrey Lewis, any direct comparisons are left to the wind the first time he opens his mouth. More Jonathan Richman to his bro's John Darnielle, Jack's songs feature fewer inside jokes but are just as charming and clever in their own right, full of fake laments ("The Day Neil Young Died") and quirky come-ons (the indelible "you danced your ass off" refrain from "New Year's Day.") Amazingly, things never get too tongue-in-cheek, staying sweet throughout—and if you don't believe it, just, umm, look it up in the OED." - Willamette Week

Magic Johnson

"....peddle dancey punk overlaid with catchy lyrics moving fluidly through both English and Spanish. In many ways, they remind me of a distinctively L.A. version of We Quit, back when that band donned an exclamation mark." - Willamette Week

Here Comes a Big Black Cloud

"HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD: Pompeii: LP The record opens with a bunch of strange sounds, screeches, and then an ominous organ cuts in, making way for some dirty, bizarre, garage rock that sounds as if it was recorded in a subterranean recording studio. Scratch that… a subterranean recording studio that has been set on fire. The cover art features what appears to be satanic Teletubby—and the liner notes seem to be written by either a very hateful fan or, possibly, a jaded member of the band. This genre usually isn’t even my thing, but I was honestly blown away by this weird slab of plastic." - Razorcake


Thursday, February 25



El Cerdo
Hunab Ku
Ten Speed Warlock
On Enemy Soil
9pm.
$6.00 at the door.


Friday, February 26



SUPERNATURE
Miracles Club
Operative
DJ Copy
DJ BJ
DJ E*Rock
9pm.
$5.00 at the door.


Saturday, February 27



BLOW PONY
DJ Airick
DJ Kinetic
DJ Yerr Mom
DJ Trans Fat
DJ Ill Camino
Jodi Bon Jodi
live performance by:
Logan Lynn
9pm.
$3 before 10:30/$5 after


Sunday, February 28



A Glass of Milk
droni mitchell
Girls On Da Side
9pm.
$5.00 at the door.