Album Reviews: Speedy Ortiz "Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)" / The Kinks
This week I got to review some cool reissue albums from very different eras.
Speedy Ortiz Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)
Hard to believe indie rockers Speedy Ortiz have been a band for over a decade and now are celebrating ten years since their first full length album was released. The quartet were formed in Northampton, MA and are now in Philadelphia. My #5 Best Concert of 2019 was Speedy Ortiz when they did an Indie617 show at McGann’s Pub. Such a great show and afterwards the band signed my vinyl copy of their album Twerp Verse, which I named an Honorable Mention for Best Album of the 2010s. In 2021 I got to review the reissue of their album The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker…Forever. In 2022 I saw them headline the Nice a Fest festival. Earlier this Fall, I got review the band's newest studio album Rabbit Rabbit. Now to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album Major Arcana is being re-released by Carpark Records this week.
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Originally released on July 9, 2013, the band was already creating a buzz with their demo albums The Death of Speedy Ortiz and Copy Kicker as well as the EP Sports. I remember hearing a lot about the band at the time, not just in Boston press, but nationally as well. I checked out the album online and dug what I heard. For one reason or another, I never picked up Major Arcana, until now. This is an interesting album to re-visit in 2023 because singer / songwriter / guitarist Sadie DuPuis is the only member from the 2013 lineup still in the band. Guitarist Matt Robidoux, bassist Darl Ferm and drummer Mike Falcone who made up the lineup of this 2013 album, were a solid band, it's just that I'm partial to the lineup they've had since 2019 since I've seen that lineup live. But I digress. Major Arcana isn't the best album by Speedy Ortiz, but it marks a band announcing themselves as they got started. DuPuis is a clever songwriter both with Speedy Ortiz and with her solo project Sad13 (just check out her album Haunted Painting for proof). I think both Twerp Verse and Rabbit Rabbit are stronger albums as a whole, but the debut is worth re-visiting.
For info on Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition)
3.5 out of 5 stars
The Kinks The Journey Part 2
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of British Invasion faves The Kinks, earlier this year saw the release of The Journey Part 1 (read my review here). BMG is releasing the follow up this week, The Journey Part 2. Part 1 traced the band's music from 1964 to 1975. Part 2 does not go from 1976 onward as I had hoped, instead it is further listening from 1965-1975.
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Much like Part 1, this double album is curated by themes. I got to review the double LP vinyl edition (there's various formats). Side 1 is "The world around the journeyman starts to crumble as his life is turned upside down". Side 2 is "The journeyman is led astray by ghosts and a dark angel". Side 3 is "Our journeyman is seduced by those ghosts and demons of the underworld and searches for his lost innocence". Side 4 is "Despair turn to elation as journeyman overcomes his fear. Reunites with old friends." The songs sound fantastic and the curation is key. There clearly was an art to this assemblage of songs rather than chronology or rockers on one side and ballads on another. I think this is a great compilation on it's own with killer liner notes, but the problem for me is that I had wanted it to be a compilation of their mid 70s to mid 80s work and instead it's a deeper dive into the same exact era as Part 1. Clearly their work in the 60s and 70s is what people remember most, but I'm interested in the next chapter now. Bring on Part 3!
For info on The Journey Part 2
3.5 out of 5 stars
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2021-22 Kansas City Mavericks Roster
Wingers
#9 Lane Scheidl (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
#14 Loren Ulett (Scugog, Ontario) C
#19 Bryan Lemos (East Providence, Rhode Island)
#20 Nick Pastujov (Bradenton, Florida)
#26 Reid Perepeluk (Yorkton, Saskatchewan)
#29 Jesse Mychan (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
#32 Mikael Robidoux (La Prairie, Quebec)
#37 Jake Smith (Pickering, Ontario)
#44 John Schiavo (Brookhaven, New York)
#63 Shawn Weller (Moreau, New York)
Centers
#18 Darik Angeli (Lakewood, Colorado) A
#22 Ryan Harrison (Vernon, British Columbia)
#25 Jake Bricknell (Scugog, Ontario)
Defensemen
#3 Tommy Muck (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota)
#4 Greg Moro (Edmonton, Alberta)
#5 Willie Corrin (International Falls, Minnesota) A
#7 Theo Calvas (Southfield, Michigan)
#15 Marcus Crawford (Ajax, Ontario)
#16 Koletrane Wilson (Edmonton, Alberta)
Goalies
#1 Evan Moyse (Olmsted Falls, Ohio)
#30 Angus Redmond (Langley, British Columbia)
#31 Matt Greenfield (Parkland, Florida)
#35 Andrew Shortridge (Anchorage, Alaska)
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Speedy Ortiz - Tiger Tank
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Dusted and Social. 2020, Mix #02
Pictured: Tôle Froide
01. Intro
02. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Deniz dalgasız olmaz
03. Tôle Froide - Autodétruisez-vous
04. Max Jardany - Everything Falls
05. Ukryte Zalety Systemu - Co to za człowiek
06. Zurich Cloud Motors - For the Beyond
07. Degens - Szamba
08. ex-diel - Essay
09. Finale - Me Siento Ridículo
10. Uncle Pit - Rabbit Hill
11. Lewsberg - Left Turn
12. Asian Women on the Telephone - Indian Lullaby
13. Anna SchuSchu - No Articulative / Zero Identity
14. Bonne Humeur Provisoire - Paranoïa
15. Cakewalk - Chair With a View
16. Nairobi - Winding Tapes
17. Massicot - Indonezija
18. Óscar Barras - La primera mujer
19. Revbjelde - Geistig
20. Military Genius - L.G.M.D.
21. Rose Mercie - Bonfire
22. Glamour and Gloom - My Way
23. Arsy - Twist
24. guilhem all - Fatigue bénéfique 2
25. The Ground Pounders - Babies
26. La Chasse - meretrix
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Dusted and Social. 2020, Mix #03
Pictured: Post-Materialists
01. CATSICK - Counterfeit Friend
02. The Worms - MLTL
03. Nape Neck - Paperweight
04. Ko Shin Moon - Magna Mater
05. SCARLATINE - Tendresse & Kway
06. Gareth JS Thomas - Hyphen British
07. The Shifters - Toffler
08. Last call at Nightowls - Húmeda
09. Galecstasy - Ferns
10. Pays P. - Ohçam’a fée du b1
11. Crash Toto - part3
12. The Upsidedown Flames - Pin Down Your Heart
13. Rita Mosss - Agiouverdic Cat
14. Hallelujah! - Scream
15. L'appel Du Vide - Falle
16. Handle - Lifes Work
17. Art Teachers - Kommentar
18. Model Home - Baya Style
19. Jon Shit - Dichter Holder
20. Infinity Knives - In the Mouth of Sadness ft. Bobbi Rush and Tyler Moonlight
21. Ida Toninato - Avant Les Forêts
22. Post-Materialists - After All
23. Stacks - Said into Song
24. Fashion Flesh - New Rock Formation
25. J. Carter - A Pale Cloth That Cover The Eyes
26. Räjäyttäjät - Tuhansien Järvien Kimmeltävä Maa
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Dusted and Social. 2020, Mix #04
Pictured: Dame Area
01. Flaner Klespoza - Dziwne i tajemnicze sprawy
02. Dame Area - La Soluzione É Una
03. Sun Bather - Shouldn't Have Done It
04. Star Slushy - Birthday Cult
05. Kantamus - Mun herkkyys ajaa pahatkin pois
06. Krankmusik - Suicidial Hospital
07. Noonward - Packed
08. GR - Spray Of Punitive Fumes
09. Ferocious - Chichicho (Christchurch Remains)
10. The Archetypal Syndicate - las estrellas escuchan
11. Prutser - Netels
12. Houschyar - Faunus
13. Solo Ansamblis - Piligrimai II
14. Regis Turner - Lava's Platform Jump
15. Autor - FINGER
16. Dual Citizen - GOLD
17. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Fosas Limitadas
18. Baron Saturday - Moon-Shaped Ashtray
19. culte - desert
20. Jorge Coelho - Become the Means
21. The Domestiques - Remissa
22. The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - Black Sun of Intent
23. Matt Robidoux - Little Wall
24. Äärvö - Entre les décombres
25. Interlude
26. Slum Of Legs - Love’s Not Enough
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BORDERLANDNOISE FEST AGOSTO 31, 2019 Tijuana
Borderlandnoise Fest es un festival de música experimental y electrónica comisariada que reúne a artistas regionales de México y EE. UU., de alemania y austria, así como a organizaciones sin fines de lucro, activistas y pacifistas dedicados a aliviar la actual crisis humanitaria mundial que enfrentan actualmente las ciudades fronterizas, especialmente en la región de Tijuana San Diego. Borderline Crisis Help Center, centro de atención humanitaria para deportados, refugiados y situación de calle en Tijuana, junto con Nett Nett, una agencia de producción cultural ubicada en Tijuana, México, y Vertexx.io, una productora de eventos culturales y plataforma con sede en Los Ángeles, California, unen fuerzas con otras organizaciones locales y visitantes para crear una experiencia en la que gente de diferentes ámbitos de la vida pueden reunirse no solo para disfrutar de una exquisita experiencia música, sino también para conocerse y crecer juntos como comunidad.
Borderlandnoise Fest se llevará a cabo dentro de un programa de dos meses y una exposición internacional de artistas centrada en espacios urbanos que surgen de los contextos socio-políticos fronterizos contemporáneos. Territorium-Tijuana, la exposición comisariada por Jan Lemitz del colectivo Skyjacking Collective con sede en Berlín, funciona como un mecanismo de red y espacio de diálogo y brinda espacio a varios artistas, investigadores y comunidades que se sumergen profundamente en el desarrollo y la documentación de acciones que crean conciencia sobre los problemas importantes para las regiones fronterizas de todo el mundo.
Borderlandnoise Fest se concentra el 31 de agosto a las 12 p.m.en La Casa de la Cultura IMAC Playas de Tijuana e inicia con una reunión comunitaria con formato de micrófono abierto donde las personas están invitadas a expresar sus preocupaciones y visiones que tienen en relación con su comunidad, todo en la búsqueda de soluciones creativas para la no violencia y la educación. La música y los talleres inician a las 2 p.m. y se complementarán con proyectos de negocios locales y regionales de alimentos y bebidas que encuentran valor y beneficio en tener una presencia de marca en un entorno vibrante y musicalmente selectivo, con conciencia social y de demográfica diversa en la región de Baja California.
Borderlandnoise Fest AUGUST 31, 2019
Borderlandnoise Fest is a curated experimental and electronic music festival that brings together regional artists from Austria, Germany, Mexico and USA, non for profit organizations, activists and pacifists dedicated to alleviating the current global humanitarian crisis that border cities are currently facing, especially in the Tijuana-San Diego border region. Nett Nett, a cultural production agency located in Tijuana, Mexico, together with Vertexx.io, a cultural events producer and multi-tenant platform based in Los Angeles, California are joining forces with other local and visiting organizations to create an experience where people from different walks of life can get together to not only enjoy an exquisite lineup of music, but also to get to know each other and grow together as a community.
Borderlandnoise Fest will take place within a two month long program and international artist exhibition focused on urban spaces that arise from contemporary border political contexts. Territorium-Tijuana, the exhibition curated by Jan Lemitz of berlin-based Skyjacking Collective, functions both as a networking mechanism and dialogue space that gives room to various artists, researchers and communities that dive deep into the development and documentation of actions that create awareness of issues important to border regions around the globe.
On the 31st of August at 12pm at IMAC Playas de Tijuana Borderlandnoise Fest starts with a community open-mic formated meeting where people are invited to voice their concerns and visions they have in relation to their community, all in the search for creative solutions to non-violence and education.
Music and open workshops kick-start the next portion of the program at 2pm and will be complemented with local-regional food and beverage businesses-projects who find value and benefit from having a brand presence in a vibrant environment with a socially conscious, musically selective, diverse demographic in the Baja California region.
CO-PRODUCTORES / CO-PRODUCERS
Borderline Crisis Help Center/// Cosescribe/// Hit My Mind/// IMAC Playas de Tijuana/// Living Theatre/// Mad Productions/// Nett Nett /// Ora World Mandala/// Revnmov/// Territorium-Tijuana/// Vertexx.io
COLABORADORES / COLLABORATORS
Atta Records/// Bicis Disidentes/// Estación Central/// Island of Misfit Toys/// (the) Handbag Factory/// Radio Axiom/// Sewing Rebellion//// Resident Advisor/// Static Discos/// Tijuana Synth Scene ...and more
FOOD / COMIDA:
Bicis Disidentes
EBT - Everything Bu Tacos (catering)
Kokopelli
La Brownie Girl
La Carmelita
Mikombucha
Paramo
Voodoo Stu’s
more to be confirmed...
BORDERLANDNOISE FESTIVAL OFFICIAL LINE UP
Sábado - 31 de Agosto 2019
1mfs - Tijuana /// Ana Reptiliana + Corey Fogel + Hidhawk - Ensenada, LA, Tijuana //// Banny Grove - Los Angeles //// Body Double - Oakland //// Braulio Lam - Tijuana //// Conscious Summary - Los Angeles //// Delta-Sine - San Diego /// Dioscuri - Cholula, Puebla/// Eric Gonzalo - Tijuana /// Gabriel de la Mora - Tijuana /// Gaspar Peralta - Tijuana /// Junior Mint Prince - Oakland /// Lower Tar - Los Angeles/// Marie de Kill - Sand Diego / Los Angeles /// Matt Robidoux - Oakland //// Nathaniel Eras with Lucid Interval - Los Angeles /// Necking - San Diego /// Noia - San Luis Rio Colorado /// Nut - Oaxaca /// On Drugs - Portland /// Primitive Heart - New York /// Psychic Health - Los Angeles /// Ramon Amezcua - Tijuana /// SheKhan - Los Angeles /// Simonel - Tijuana /// Sobbing Honey with divinebrick- Los Angeles /// Some Pepper - Los Angeles /// Supersadfish DJ set - Tijuana /// Vegan Cannibal - Mexico City /// Wakuri - Tijuana /// Watkins / Peacock - Oakland /////
EVENTOS PARALELOS /SATELLITE EVENTS
28 de Ago. - 3 de Sept.
ARTISTAS CONFIRMADOS / CONFIRMED ARTISTS
Bulgama - Los Angeles / Tijuana /// Cody and Friends - Los Angeles /// Charmaine’s Names - Long Beach /// DJ Badman Blastquez - Los Angeles /// DJ Professor Cantaloupe - Los Angeles /// Fathers - Oakland /// Markus Brandt - Salzburg /// Noon Court - Los Angeles /// Sonidero Travesura - Tijuana
ARTISTAS INSTALACIÓN/ INTERVENT[c]ION/ INSTALLATION ARTISTS
Alejandra Victoria Godoy /// Chris Rod/// Carlos Roa/// Eduardo Trejo ////Frau Fiber ///Indra Amaya ///Jan Lemitz ///Jonas Romero ///Jocelin Valencia ////Leah Van Bach /// Lucid Interval/// Luisa Martinez
...more to be confirmed
Precio de boleto / Ticket price: 150 MXN / 8 USD
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/borderlandnoise-fest-tickets-68905071925
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q and also a :: Matt Robidoux – GIMME TINNITUS - http://bit.ly/2TXxtgp s/o Adaptive Instrument Ensemble, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Curse Purse, Dirt and Copper, Isness, Malvina Reynolds, Milford Graves, Monopiece, Pony Bones, Speedy Ortiz, Temoleh, The Beatles, Weird Al
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2022 (43)
this wound is a world (billy-ray belcourt) - 8/10
awâsis - kinky and disheveled (louise b. halfe) - 7/10
the balcony (jean genet) - 8/10
parade (hiromi kawakami) - 9/10
disintegrate/dissociate (arielle twist) - 9/10
nîtisânak (jas m. morgan) - 10/10
a history of my brief body (billy-ray belcourt) - 10/10
the faces (tove ditlevsen) - 9/10
in a lonely place (dorothy b. hughes) - 10/10
the souls of black folk (w.e.b. du bois) - 10/10
in our time (ernest hemingway) - 7/10
record of a night too brief (hiromi kawakami) - 7/10
she came to stay (simone de beauvoir) - 8/10
let us believe in the beginning of the cold season (farough farrokzhad) - 8/10
a rebirth (farough farrokzhad) - 9/10
black aperture (matt rasmussen) - 7/10
it was never going to be okay (jaye simpson) - 10/10
girl, interrupted (susanna kaysen) - 8/10
spring torrents (ivan turgenev) - 9/10
people from my neighborhood (hiromi kawakami) - 10/10
hospital of the transfiguration (stanislaw lem) - 8/10
let us compare mythologies (leonard cohen) - 8/10
prozac nation (elizabeth wurtzel) - 9/10
good bones (maggie smith) - 9/10
the passion according to g.h. (clarice lispector) - 9/10
the hour of the star (clarice lispector) - 7/10
bow grip (ivan e. coyote) - 9/10
go tell it on the mountain (james baldwin) - 9/10
jasmine (bharati mukherjee) - 10/10
the tiger’s daughter (bharati mukherjee) - 10/10
their eyes were watching god (zora neale hurston) - 9/10
le grand meaulnes (alain-fournier) - 10/10
marketa lazarova (vladislav vancura) - 9/10
steppenwolf (hermann hesse) - 9/10
notes of a crocodile (qiu miaojin) - 10/10
death in venice (thomas mann) - 9/10
the second round (lenrie peters) - 9/10
chelsea girls (eileen myles) - 9/10
the sea and poison (shusako endo) - 9/10
men at play: a working understanding of professional hockey (michael a. robidoux) - 8/10
lucky jim (kingsley amis) - 8/10
song of solomon (toni morrison) - 10/10
i know why the caged bird sings (maya angelou) - 10/10
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KEELEY: MARINERS ANNOUNCE 2020 PROTECTED LIST
Twenty players listed in step one of the rights protection process
BY: Michael Keeley, Maine Mariners
PORTLAND, ME – June 2, 2020 – The Maine Mariners released their 2020 Protected List on Tuesday, containing 20 names of players of whom the Mariners retain ECHL rights. The Protected List is the first phase in a three-step process of protecting players’ rights, followed by submitting a season-ending roster and finally, issuing qualifying offers. The Protected List is as follows:
FORWARDS (11): Conner Bleackley, Ryan Ferrill, Dillan Fox, Brian Hart, Ted Hart, Corey Kalk, Alex Kile, Nick Master, Michael McNicholas, Mikael Robidoux, Terrence Wallin
DEFENSEMEN (8): Josh Couturier, Marc-Olivier Crevier-Morin, Nathaniel Kallen, Austin McEneny, Matt Nuttle, Jonathan Racine, Dallas Rossiter, Gabriel Sylvestre
GOALTENDERS (1): Francois Brassard
Teams are allowed to protect as many players as they wish provided the players protected meet the guidelines as defined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association which state that teams shall retain the rights to each player that:
1. Signed an SPC in 2019-20 with the Member, and has not been traded or released, OR
2. Signed an SPC in 2019-20, and was recalled to the NHL/AHL or IIHF team, and has not been traded or released, OR
3. Had received a Qualifying Offer last summer for the current Season, DID NOT sign an SPC, and has not been traded or released, OR
4. Has been suspended by the Member or League, and has not been traded or released, OR
5. Signed an SPC on or after the first day of the 2019-20 Regular Season, then subsequently signed an NHL/AHL contract, and has not been traded or released, OR
6. Has executed the ECHL Retirement Form, and has not been traded or released.
Protected lists may exceed 20 players.
The ECHL also announced that teams must complete all Future Consideration trades by 3 p.m. ET on June 12 and that teams must submit their Season-Ending Roster by 3 p.m. ET on June 15.
Season-ending rosters may include up to 20 players and cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2019-20.
Full and half-season ticket packages as well as mini-plans and flex packs for the 2020-21 season, sponsored by Hannaford To Go, are available by calling 833-GO-MAINE. Registration is open for the Aroma Joe’s “Read with ME” program, allowing kids in grades K-8 to earn Mariners and Aroma Joe’s prizes for accumulating reading hours. The latest Mariners merchandise is available at our online store: MarinersOfMaine.com/shop. The Mariners have also partnered with Evergreen Credit Union, the Portland Sea Dogs, and the Maine Red Claws to support the Good Shepherd Food Bank through a virtual food drive for COVID-19 relief at Fans4Food.com.
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watch out for matt robidoux. alcohol brings out the worst in him.
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at dust by matt robidoux
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CATCH ME PREMIERING NEW MUSIC LIVE 8/31 IN PLAYAS DE TIJUANA!
https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1298794
https://borderlandnoise.com/
NETT NETT + VERTEXX.io INTERNATIONAL Presents Borderlandnoise Fest (MEXICO)
8/31 12:00 - 9/01 1:00 Precio de boleto / Ticket price: 150 MXN / 8 USD
A curated experimental and electronic music festival that brings together regional artists from Austria, Germany, Mexico and USA, and non for profit organizations, activists and pacifists dedicated to alleviating the current global humanitarian crisis that border cities are currently facing, especially in the Tijuana-San Diego border region. Borderline Crisis Help Center, a non-profit humanitarian help center in Tijuana, together with Nett Nett, a cultural production agency located in Tijuana, Mexico, and Vertexx.io, a cultural events producer and multi-tenant platform/resource focused on electronic music and transhuman agency/awareness based in Los Angeles, California are joining forces with other local and visiting organizations to create an experience where people from different walks of life can get together to not only enjoy an exquisite lineup of music, but also to get to know each other and grow together as a community.
With the help of Borderline Crisis Help Center and their network, Gujarat Vidyapith (University founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920), Living Theatre, IMAC Tijuana and others, BorderlandNoise Fest will take place within a two month long program and international artist exhibition focused on urban spaces that arise from contemporary border political contexts. Territorium-Tijuana, the exhibition curated by Jan Lemitz of berlin-based Skyjacking Collective, functions both as a networking mechanism and dialogue space that gives room to various artists, researchers and communities that dive deep into the development and documentation of actions that create awareness of issues important to border regions around the globe.
The Borderlandnoise fest programming begins on the 31st of August at 12pm at IMAC Playas de Tijuana with a community open-mic formatted meeting organized with the help of Ora World Mandala, an extension program of the Gujarat Vidyapith University, where people are invited to voice their concerns and visions they have in relation to their community, all in the search for creative solutions to non-violence and education. Attendees of this action are invited to join the rest of the festival, free of charge.
Music and open workshops kick-start the next portion of the program at 2pm and will be complemented with local-regional food and beverage businesses-projects who find value and benefit from having a brand presence in a vibrant environment with a socially conscious, musically selective, diverse demographic in the Baja California region.
FEATURING:
1MFS - Tijuana, Ana Reptiliana + Corey Fogel + Hidhawk - Ensenada, Los Angeles & Tijuana, Banny Grove - Los Angeles, Body Double - Oakland, Braulio Lam - Tijuana, Conscious Summary - Los Angeles, Delta-sine - San Diego, Dioscuri - Cholula, Puebla, Eric Gonzalo - Tijuana, Gabriel de la Mora - Tijuana, Gaspar Peralta - Tijuana, Junior Mint Prince - Oakland, Marie de Kill - Sd / LA, Matt Robidoux - Oakland, Nathaniel Eras - Los Angeles, Necking - San Diego, Noia - San Luis Rio Colorado, Nut - Oaxaca, On drugs - Portland, Primitive Heart - New York, Psychic Health - Los Angeles,, Ramon Amezcua - Tijuana, SheKhan - Los Angeles, Simonel - Tijuana, Sobbing Honey - Los Ángeles, Some Pepper - Los Angeles, Supersadfish (dj set) - Tijuana, Vegan Cannibal - Mexico City, Wakuri - Tijuana, Watkins / Peacock - Oakland
ARTISTAS INSTALACIÓN/ INTERVENT[c]ION/ INSTALLATION ARTISTS
Alejandra Victoria Godoy /// Chris Rod/// Carlos Roa/// Eduardo Trejo ////Frau Fiber ///Indra Amaya ///Jan Lemitz ///Jonas Romero ///Jocelin Valencia ////Leah Van Bach ///Luisa Martinez///Lucid Interval
...more to be confirmed
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July 31- August 6
Monday:
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Quitter and Snakes. 9pm, $8 @ Asian Taste
Baltimore Improv Festival. 7:30 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
Tuesday:
Karaoke Forever. 9 pm, free @ The Crown
A Life in Waves: Film + Panel with Jana Hunter, April Camlin, and Ami Dang. 7:30 pm @ The Parkway Theater
Baltimore Improv Festival. 7:30 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
Wednesday:
Guilt Parade, Soft Grip, Joe Biden and End It. 8 pm @ Windup Space
'Book of Morrin' with DJ Becca Morrin. 9 pm, free @ The Crown
Baltimore Improv Festival. 7:30 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
Thursday:
Matt Robidoux, Joshua Burkett, Frank Hurricane, and Liz Durette & Miles Clark. 8 pm, ye$ @ Anorak City
Hey You, Come Back! with Brandon Soderberg, Kendal Enz, and Raena Shirali. 8 pm @ The Crown (Blue)
Distinguished Gentlemen, Defenders, and Tha Raw Play. 8 pm, $7 @ The Crown
Baltimore Improv Festival. 7:30 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
Friday:
The Stranger (MO), Posture (MO), Field Sleeper (OH), Cold Feet, and Smoking Gun. 9 pm, $5-$10 @ The Bun Shop (22 Light St.)
808 Vol. 3: The Sadboi Series with Pots, Slums (NY), NappyNappa (DC), Al Rogers Jr., Dan Mansion/Peer Group, and Self (NC). 9 pm, $7/$10 @ The Crown (Blue)
Wham City Comedy: Weeding Out The Stoned. 8pm, $10 @ The Crown (Backbar)
Karaoke Forever. 9 pm, free @ The Crown
Baltimore Improv Festival. 7:00 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
Saturday:
Wume, Smoke Bellow, Liz Durette, and DJ John Jones. 7 pm @ Current Gallery
Gxnther Valentine, Reece Cox, and Cc (+ afterparty with DJ bean and DJ Ellen Paul at location TBD). 10:30 pm, $7 @ Open Space
Polaris with J. Robb, Tek.Lun, Eu-IV, D.K. The Punisher and Mr. 14th. 9 pm, $10 @ The Crown
Variete 7: Anniversary Spectacular. 9 pm, $15 door, $10 presale @ The Crown
Baltimore Improv Festival. 7:00 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
Sunday:
You'll Never Get To Heaven (Canada), Wae, and Vayda @ The Crown (Blue)
Baltimore Improv Festival. 6 pm @ Single Carrot Theatre
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Temporary cameras on harbour bridges to collect data on drivers
The Halifax Harbour Bridges Commission is installing temporary cameras at the toll booths where people pay cash to cross one of the two bridges that span the harbour.
The bridge commission says it’s gathering the data as part of a study to identify where cash-paying customers are coming from because it is considering cashless options.
There are already cameras atop the towers that monitor weather and traffic, but these cameras will be at ground level and capturing different information. Alison MacDonald, the Communications Manager for the Halifax Harbour Bridges Commission, says they have received some complaints about the new temporary cameras over concerns about privacy.
“It's not capturing any information about the person driving the vehicle or the vehicle itself, it's just capturing the license plate,” saidMacDonald.
Matt De Serres is a Mac Pass user and says he’s open to any improvements that will reduce congestion on the bridges.
“We’re sitting at a red light for a solid 20 minutes,” he said. “It's a nightmare trying to get on the bridge down here.”
Every day there are more than 100,000 crossings on the A. Murray MacKay Bridge and the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge and 75 per cent of users have a Mac Pass or prepaid card. The rest, including John Robidoux, still rely on cash.
“I'm a dinosaur maybe, does it really matter?” Robidoux said. “It may cost a bit more, but I don't cross the bridge that often.”
One recent Mac Pass convert says he's already seeing a difference in his commute.
“You get sick of having to find a loonie every day,” said Thomas Rice. “(You) get to the bridge going through change and if you don't have a loonie what you gonna do? Mac pass (is) way faster and easier.”
The temporary cameras will be removed at the end of July.
With files from Marie Adsett.
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BorderlandNoise: Stephanie Germaine / Matt Robidoux / Victoria Shen
Stephanie Germaine:
https://prettyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pt004-wild-beach-plum
Matt Robidoux is an oakland, ca based composer, guitarist, sound artist and community organizer.
he is interested in unifying the relationships of performer, environment, and experiencer; compositions in the public/collective sphere; performance in unconventional spaces and settings; accessibility within contemporary art musics; the healing potentials of music improvisation.
at mills college he currently studies with roscoe mitchell, zeena parkins, john bischoff and daniel schmidt, and has worked with jaap blonk, tatsuya nakatani, gary panter, j mascis, soo yeon luyh and chris weisman.
current projects include matt's solo project, monopiece, dirt and copper, sunburned hand of the man and a duo with tom crean.
mattrobidoux.com
mattrobidoux.bandcamp.com
Victoria Shen is a visual artist and musician hailing from San Francisco and working out of New England.
Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Shen’s music floods its location acting as a form of sculpture. Her music features analog modular synthesizers (Flower Electronics), contact microphones, and other hand-built electronics. These instruments are designed to electronically reproduce chaotic systems, systems which are highly sensitive to small changes in their initial parameters. The resulting music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of the extreme textures and gestural tones.
Shen’s live video performances produces visual palimpsests and digital residues. Shen achieves this by using software she has authored in order to generate visuals combining real-time video with found footage thematically linked by sexuality, violence, and art history through a process of exaggeration/effacement.
Shen has performed solo across North America, Western Europe, and Japan as Victoria Shen and under the pseudonym Evicshen as well as with the duo TRIM in North America and the UK. She has also been an artist in residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm, Sweden and WORM Rotterdam Netherlands.
Evicshen.com
SoundCloud.com/evicshen
Wednesday, August 8th
9:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Nett Nett 1911 / local 6 & 8, Calle 3ra, entre Av. Révolution y Constitucion, 22000 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
We are waiting you !!
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Toulouse Control /Matt Robidoux with Gabby Fluke-Mogul / Trit @ Mamut Brewery Nov. 24
NOV 24 / 8pm @ Mamut Brewery Downtown Tijuana
Live:
Toulouse Control (MA)
https://youtu.be/4jx89G8MedA
Matt Robidoux & Gabby Fluke Mogul (MA)
https://soundcloud.com/hiddentemple/lime-green
TRIT (San Diego)
https://youtu.be/hwnqDEVEE9Q
Suggested donation: 30-60 pesos
facebook.com/events/124147448282242/
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