Sunday, June 27, 2010

RECESS FEST 2010!!!

RECESS FEST is coming JULY 10!!!


This is for you, people! Come out for an entire day for fun in the sun and more fun inside some of the best shops/spaces/venues Charlotte has to offer, including Pura Vida Worldly Art, Century Vintage, Yauhaus, Studio 1212 and Nu Faizon.

Get your EXTREMELY AFFORDABLE ALL DAY PASS for only $5 now at


http://www.recessfest.blogspot.com/




Here is the complete music lineup for the day:

Avocado Happy Hour
Awesome Shirt
Backseat Dreamer
Bob Fields
Bubbly Mommy Gun
Comeback Ranch
Daykids
Giant Lion
Girly Temply
Holy Ghost Party
Human Pippi Armstrong
Moenda
Pujol
Red Snapper
Ultimate Optimist


The day will kick off at Independence Park with a cookout and park games.
There will also be a film debut from John Appleton, titled 'Effects of Gravity', a PIZZA PARTY, and a "Post All Bills" exhibit showcasing years of shows in Charlotte through posters and fliers.

*THE BRAND NEW SUMMER ISSUE OF ALL KILLER WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE FROM LUNCHBOX RECORDS*


Check out brief summaries and links for each playing RECESS FEST:::


AVOCADO HAPPY HOUR (MD)

(http://www.myspace.com/avocadohappyhour)

Minimalist masters layer cotton-soft vocals with busy marimbas and similar percussions, creating some of the most delicate pop you've ever heard. Coming all the way from Baltimore!



AWESOME SHIRT (TN)

(www.myspace.com/awesomeshirtxxx)

Tennessee boys who used to be into techno got the munchies for something more epic. Awesome, obviously.



BACKSEAT DREAMER (SC)

(www.myspace.com/backseatdreamer)

Deep and danceable electro-pop packed with big synths and bigger beats.



BOB FIELDS (NC)

(www.myspace.com/bobfieldsmusic)

One of Charlotte's most dedicated and consistent solo performers will perform a very special set for Recess Fest with help from some friends. Do not miss this!


BUBBLY MOMMY GUN (GA)
(www.myspace.com/bubblymommygun)

The best band out of Athens, GA! Tripped out, fun and funky pop ditties at their finest.


COMEBACK RANCH (MD)
(http://www.myspace.com/lordgraysonbrown)

Party, make noise, relax, repeat.


DAYKIDS (TN)
(http://www.myspace.com/daykids)

Catchy guitar-heavy pop rocks piled high with 4-way vocal attacks!


GIANT LION (GA)
(http://myspace.com/giantlionmusic)

High times in lo-fi. Big pop tunes presented in gentle, hearty formats.


GIRLY TEMPLE (NY)
(
http://www.myspace.com/cammisaforest)

Brooklyn-braised weirdness from a girl and her machines.

HOLY GHOST PARTY (MD)
(http://www.myspace.com/holyghostpartyy)

Minimal noisy noise from Baltimore, featuring members of Dope Body!

HUMAN PIPPI ARMSTRONG (NC)
(http://myspace.com/humanpippiarmstrong)

A Charlotte legend and regional hero, Pippi does roughneck rock jock jams like no other.

MOENDA (NC)

(www.myspace.com/moenda)

Blaring geeked out sci-fi tropic techno free tech anthems not found anywhere else, ever. (mems of Calabi Yau)

PUJOL (TN)
(www.myspace.com/danielluccapujol)

Ridiculously catchy garage pop gems, laced with fine vintage fuzz.

RED SNAPPER (NC)

(http://www.myspace.com/hukkaberry)

Mini spiritual masterpieces, built in the mountains of North Carolina by a family of friends.

ULTIMATE OPTIMIST (NC)

(www.myspace.com/ultimateoptimist)

Repetitive jams for thinking and for sleeping. Sometimes big, sometimes small.



Thursday, March 18, 2010

HELP YOUR COMMUNITY, HELP YOUR LIBRARIES!!!

Half the libraries in Mecklenburg county are closing. 148 people will be laid off. If you want to help, please use this form to donate!

https://purchase.plcmc.net/fundform/annualFundForm.html

Please repost this information and/or link anywhere and everywhere you can! Accept donations from everyone you know and donate it yourself if they don't have the time to do so. Donate your change even! This kind of thing just can't happen!!!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

January/February Issue #4

I'll be posting pictures soon. In this issue:

Cover
I Was Totally Destronying It
Apathy Like You Mean It
Bob Fields
Lost In the Trees
Bowerbirds
Hammer No More the Fingers
Naked Gods
Human Pippi Armstrong
Jews and Catholics
Planet Piss

Reviews
The Art Department
Chronic Youth
Wouter Jaspers

Downtown Arts Campus
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture
The Mint Museum of Art

Lex Vs. Scott: The Interview

Back Cover
Vivian Girls
White Hinterland
Yardwork
Future Islands
Little Dragon
Fast Citizens
Great Architect
Foxchase
Wouter Jaspers

Contributors:
Casey Malone
Jeremy Fisher
Jenny Hanson
Anna Gail Hastings


Thanks y'all!!!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lex vs. Scott Interview (Complete) (Almost)

Lex Dover interviews Scott Wishart (Lunchbox Records) for All Killer:


LD: Who do you think you are?
SW: Uh, I think I’m Scott.

LD: Is that right?
SW:I hope so. But I don’t know, I could be someone else. I could be dreaming and thinking that I’m Scott but really I’m another person and this is just a really big dream. I really don’t know. Or I could be dead and this could be the afterlife and I could be reincarnated as someone else and I could still not be Scott.

LD: So, what hot new bands are you into?
SW: You know, A Hero A Fake.

LD: What is it that you like about school and maybe that you don’t like about your parents?
SW: What do I like about school? That I don’t go to it anymore. What was the second part?

LD: And maybe what you don’t like about your parents…
SW: My mom likes to touch everything and my dad sometimes is a bit bigoted.

LD: I’ve been to your house and seen your music collection. You own a record store, so tell me- Is music your passion?
SW: No. Fruit is my passion.

LD: Fruit?
SW: Alright, passion fruit.

LD: Are you guys hiring right now?
SW: Did you get this shit from our website?

LD: No.
SW: No!

LD: Do you give out applications anyway when people come in and ask?
SW: I should for my own humor, but no I don’t because I keep saying I’m going to make one with the most ridiculous questions ever just so I can read them later and laugh… But I don’t want to be that big of a dick.

LD: A little birdie told me you recorded some drums for the Red House Painters a few years back. Which album are you on and which tracks?
SW: I’m on the album they just reissued, Songs for A Blue Guitar. I’m on the first song on there. Yeah, I play on “Have You Forgotten.”

LD: Just that one song?
SW: Yeah, just that one song.

LD: Is punk rock for all ages or just for children?
SW: I think it’s for all ages.

LD: What are your biggest pet peeves?
SW: How much tape do you have? Pet peeves about what? You have to narrow this down, I have a lot of pet peeves.

LD: I don’t know…
SW: People that walk around all day sipping coffee cups.

LD: Coffee cups?
SW: Yeah, you know they never finish the coffee. Those people. They always have a cup of coffee, they never finish. That’s like someone who nurses a beer. They just never finish. People who don’t use turn signals. People who talk on their cell phone in line at the bank or when I’m ringing them up in here.

LD: That’s pretty much what I was looking for.
SW: There’s millions more.

LD: But those are probably the biggest ones.
SW: Not necessarily. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head… People who say “vinyls.”

LD: Vinyls? What do you mean? Like “Hey, I’m gonna bring some vinyls in to have you look at them?”
SW: Yeah. (laughs)

LD: So have you had any close calls lately?
SW: Close calls with…

LD: Just in general. Any close calls.
SW:… No. No, I can’t think of anything.

LD: Where’s your God now Scott?
SW: My God?

LD: Yes. That would have been a better follow up question if you’d had some close calls.
SW: Oh, oh…

LD: You didn’t have any but I ‘m still going to go ahead and ask you… Where your God is?
SW: He’s at the Chinese place making my food.

LD: Alright. Who do you need when you come undone?
SW: What are these all like fucking song lyrics? I need that God that’s at the Chinese restaurant.

LD: So did you know that was a Duran Duran reference?
SW: No, I didn’t. But I do know this- (Starts singing and humming “Hungry Like A Wolf.”

LD: Are you a very political person?
SW: Uh, not super duper. I think I’m normal.

LD: Have you ever considered running for office?
SW: No!

LD: Have you ever fired a real gun before?
SW: A real gun, no.

LD: Me neither. So what’s your favorite record?
SW: I don’t believe in favorites because favoritism breeds jealousy. I don’t like to choose favorites because the others will feel unwanted and unneeded and they wouldn’t live in harmony with each other and I wouldn’t want to exclude others and make them feel left out and what might be a favorite today might change tomorrow and that might not be my favorite and I have different moods and feelings depending on the day of the week and sometimes within the same minute. I might be bipolar, I don’t know, but it could just be that I like lots of music so I don’t like to choose favorites because favorites is a favor for it and it’s not a favor where there is no flavor.

LD: I’m getting this word for word. This is some gold right here… So what’s up with that place upstairs from you guys? It seems kind of shady.
SW: PASS

LD: If you were going to break veg what food would you choose?
SW: Chicken Mcnuggets… The one time I did eat meat, and this was probably only about six months after I became a vegetarian, was chicken Mcnuggets. And that was like a zillion years ago.

LD: Where the Wild Things Are?
SW: I believe they’re at the AMC tonight at 8.

LD: Who’s the boss?
SW: Well they say his name is uh… What’s his name? Uh…

LD: Tony Danza?
SW: Yeah they say it’s him but really I think it’s Alyssa Milano.

LD: What is your least favorite local band? And you can’t say one that you’re in.
SW: Planet Piss.

LD: You’re in Planet Piss.
SW: No I just quit… C’mon I can’t answer that.

LD: Where’d the name Lunchbox come from?
SW: You know Marylin Manson right? Lunchbox something or other. It’s something about lunchboxes and I like it so much that I can’t remember it but I named my store after it. And I really like to eat.

LD: Who do you blame for the economy?
SW: Pat McCrory.

LD: Me too. Do you believe in space aliens?
SW: No, I only believe in terrestrial aliens because I don’t think aliens themselves could survive in space, they would have to live on a planet.

LD: …Okay.
SW: Gotcha!

LD: Do you believe that have been to our planet?
SW: Sure, why not.

LD: I think so too. I want to see that 4th kind movie. What do you think we should about Jake Delhomme?
SW: I don’t know who that is. Sorry.

LD: Am I suspended in gaffa?
SW: Possibly? Is that some sex thing?

LD: Are you strong enough to be my man?
SW: Why do you keep asking me about these masturbatory references? Am I strong enough to be your man? I don’t know, let’s arm wrestle and find out.

(We did not arm wrestle.)

LD: What time is bedtime?
SW: I don’t know, you know. Time to squash a dime. Time to suck a lime. Time to bust a rhyme. Time to kill a mime.

LD: Alright. Well, thank you.
SW: You’re welcome sir.

Friday, December 18, 2009

SHOWS FOR THE NEXT 1.5 WEEKS:::

Especially all you people in from outta town, you're not gonna want to miss any of these shows. We promise!

SATURDAY DECEMBER 19

I Was Totally Destroying It w/ The Lights Fluorescent + Harvard



@ Snug Harbor
1228 Gordon St
9 pm

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 20

Awesome Shirt



@ Yauhaus
1224 Rollins Ave
8 pm

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Astronomers w/ The Have and The Have Nots + The Activity



@ Snug Harbor
1228 Gordon St.
9 pm

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 26

Kinnikinnik + Dugg Dugg Present Winter Warm-Up IV
w/ Bo "Black Christmas" White, Bob Fields (as Costa Eureka) + French & Indian War



@ Pony Pasture
701 Oakland Ave
8 pm

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 27

A Special Night of Solo Musicians From Across the Pond
w/ Wouter Jaspers, Bas Verbeek, Bram Stadhouders + special guests




@ Nu Faizon
433 Faison Ave
8 pm

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MONDAY DECEMBER 28

Youth Attack! Records Showcase
w/ Failures, Aerosols, Salvation + Young and In the Way




@ Lunchbox Records
1419A Central Ave
8 pm

Thursday, December 17, 2009

FOXCHASE'S LAST SHOW!!

TONIGHT, DECEMBER 17:::

Foxchase w/ Elonzo, Silverhillmine + Greg Ellis



@ Milestone
3400 Tuckaseegee Rd
8 pm

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

THIS WEEK, STARTING TONIGHT

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24

Future Islands w/ Thank You + Little Dragon



@ Milestone
3400 Tuckaseegee Rd
9 pm

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25

Le Bang (Buckmaster + Dj George Brazil)



@ Dharma
1440 S Tryon St Suite 105
10 pm / FREE

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26



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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27

Metric w/ Band of Skulls



@ Neighborhood Theatre
511 E 36th St
8 pm

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2013 Wolves w/ Hectagons + Sundrone



@ Snug Harbor
1227 Gordon St
9 pm

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29

Pretty Things Peepshow



@ Milestone
3400 Tuckaseegee Rd
9 pm

Music things @ Southern Holiday

Music things @ Southern Holiday
By Jenny Hanson

Rosemont Art Party!

Rosemont Art Party!
Swinging by Jenny Hanson