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E049 Head Job 02/01/2011

 All Podcasts, Kevin Cunningham, Post-WRVU Era, Theatre Intangible LIVE, Valerie Martino  No Responses »
Feb 012011
 

Valerie Martino & Kevin Cunningham

Head Job is the third of three special improvs recorded live at Betty’s Bar & Grill on January 16th, 2011. The podcast features Valerie Martino from Unicorn Hard-on and Kevin Cunningham from Lazer Slut.

Before this episode, Valerie and Kevin only played together 2 or 3 times, depending on which one you ask. I’m pleased to hear that they’re continuing their duo set. The performance on this podcast is pretty phenomenal.

If you like what you hear, Unicorn Hard-on and Lazer Slut will be performing together again on February 17th at Open Lot. Also performing: Unwed Sailor, Ascent of Everest, and Square People Jazz Maturity. More details at the Open Lot Events Page.

Valerie took all the photographs and videos from the Betty’s improvs, except of course for the ones featuring her. You can check out more of her excellent photographs and live recordings at her blog Tangled Hares.

Stay tuned next Sunday for a very special 50th podcast. I’m keeping the contents pretty close to my chest, but suffice it to say, it’s like nothing you’ve heard on T.I. up to this point.

In case you missed them, check out the previous two Betty’s live sets:

Episode 48 – Sweat Weasel featuring Tommy Stangroom, Lawrence Crow, and Stephen Molyneux.

Episode 47 – Milk Vetch featuring Leslie Keffer, Scott Martin, and Ben Marcantel

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And now, enjoy Head Job.

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E048 Sweat Weasel 01/23/2011

 All Podcasts, Lawrence Crow, Post-WRVU Era, Stephen Molyneux (Horsehair Everywhere), Theatre Intangible LIVE, Tommy Stangroom  No Responses »
Jan 232011
 

left to right: Crow, Stangroom, Molyneux. Photo by Valerie Martino.

Sweat Weasel is the second of three special improvs recorded live at Betty’s Bar & Grill on January 16th, 2011. It features Tommy Stangroom on drums and circuit bent toy keyboard, Lawrence Crow on keyboards and programming, and Stephen Molyneux on 4 track loops. Tommy plays drums for Square People. Lawrence makes ambient experimental music using open source programming. Stephen is one of the founding members of the Murfreesboro experimental collective Horsehair Everywhere.

Be sure and check out the first Betty’s recording Milk Vetch (featuring Leslie Keffer, Ben Marcantel, and Scott Martin) on podcast 47. The third improv featuring Lazer Slut and Unicorn Hard-on will come out next week.

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E047 Milk Vetch 01/18/2011

 All Podcasts, Ben Marcantel, Concerts, Leslie Keffer, Post-WRVU Era, Scott Martin, Theatre Intangible LIVE  No Responses »
Jan 182011
 

left to right: Ben, Scott, Leslie. Photo by Valerie Martino.

Tonight’s episode is Milk Vetch, the first of three special podcasts recorded live at Betty’s Bar and Grill on Sunday, January 16th. Milk Vetch features Ecstatic Peace artist Leslie Keffer (The Laundry Room Squelchers), Ben Marcantel (Forrest Bride and T.I. podcast Pulse), and Scott Martin (Lambchop, Hands Off Cuba, Hobbledions, Cortney Tidwell). I’ve been trying to get these three performers on the show for a long time now, and they sound fantastic together! Scott plays percussion; Leslie, Chaos Pad and sequencer (panned slightly right); and Ben, keys and synth (panned slightly left).

Leslie Keffer is throwing a record release party at Betty’s Friday, January 21st for Give It Up, her new Ecstatic Peace record as well as Hold You To It, a split with Outmode and Silver Bridge, a reissued split with Robedoor. Give It Up also features Valerie Martino who performed in the third Betty’s Live improv as Unicorn Hard-on. We’ll release that episode, a duet with Lazer Slut, very soon. Keep your ears pricked for the second Betty’s improv with Tommy Stangroom (Square People), Lawrence Crow, and Stephen Molyneux (Horsehair Everywhere) even sooner.

Theatre Intangible interviewed Leslie Keffer a while back about the Nashville experimental music scene and her method.Here’s what Escstatic Peace has to say about her new record:

Leslie Keffer has been one of the most startling and provocative practitioners of 21st century USA noise music since her first harsh emanations on the cassette underground in the early 2000s. Ecstatic Peace released her first full length LP Feels Like Frenching a few years back and it was hailed as a cornerstone in new blood noise exploration. Boomkat.com reported, “she’s beating the noise-boys at their own experimental game and winning…Keffer had me at hello.” And Performer magazine heard the LP as “a dense series of coded subconscious messages sent from some buried cerebral cortex.”

On this new 12”, which has been waiting to be issued or near on two years, she joins forces with local Nashville rockers John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet, Jemina Pearl), Steve Poulton (Paul K and The Weathermen) and fellow noise artist Valerie Martino (Unicorn Hard-on). These two tracks are a departure from the pure noise action Leslie is known for and present her current trajectory into hypno dance dub psychosis with waves of junk filtered radio wash and siren chants. As with the LP the artwork by Adriane Schramm is astounding.

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Theatre Intangible LIVE at Betty’s 01/16/2011

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Jan 152011
 

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to witness a Theatre Intangible improv taping? Ok, pretend that you’ve wondered it. Pretend that you desire it with every fiber of your mortal being. I have news that will make your pretend self go bonkers.

Sunday evening, Theatre Intangible is taping THREE improv podcasts live at Betty’s Bar & Grill. Yes, three. I will allow a moment for your pretend self to stop hyperventilating. (Take deep breaths, and if that doesn’t work, call pretend 911.)

Starting at 9:30ish, we’ll be taping the following groups:

Group A:
Leslie Keffer
Scott Martin (Lambchop, Cortney Tidwell)
Derek Schartung (Taiwan Deth, Mallochio)
Ben Marcantel (Forrest Bride)

Group B: (At least three of the following)
Rhendi Greenwell
Lawrence Crow
Robbie Hunsinger
Stephen Molyneux (Horsehair Everywhere)
Tommy Stangroom (Square People)

Group C:
Lazer Slut
Unicorn Hard-On

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this show! Thanks to Leslie for helping put this together. The improvs will be unpredictable and potentially amazing. Come on out to Betty’s and party with us!

Betty’s Bar & Grill
Sunday, January 16th 2011
407 49th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37209
(615) 297-7257

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