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Insect Ark West Coast tour with Ärabrot, Helen Money – May 11-19
Wed 5/11 Seattle, WA – The Highline
Thur 5/12 Vancouver, BC – The Media Club
Fri 5/13 Tacoma, WA – The Valley
Sat 5/14 Portland, OR – Panic Room
Tue 5/17 Sacramento, CA – Starlite Lounge
Wed 5/18 Oakland, CA – Golden Bull
Thur 5/19 Los Angeles, CA – Complex
Your Friday night gets blasted by NIGHT VAPOR(members of Brown Angel and Microwaves) with local support from Opening Bell and Chain Gang Grave.
9pm if you want to live.
90 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY
Several Insect Ark live actions on the immediate horizon. Take note:
April 12 at Acheron, Brooklyn w/ Netherlands, Bassoon, Obsessive Discipline RSVP
April 21 at Union Pool, Brooklyn w/ E(members of Come, Live Skull, Karate, Neptune) & Dan Friel RSVP
May 29 at Saint Vitus, Brooklyn w/ Nadja, Overishins(members of Oldest, Mossenek)
and West Coast tour dates to be announced!
SGG brings you:
The Convocation (Baltimore, MD) – Moss Icon, The Great Unraveling, Universal Order of Armageddon, etc
Ornament – Joe DeNardo of Growing
“Protest Music” out now on iDeal Recordings, “A Lion is a Lion” out this spring on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia
Myriaid – new mutation from the Columboid camp, ex- VAZ
Opening Bell – “…tripped out battery acid washed sludge/bastardized bunkerbeat..”
200 N. 14TH St. Brooklyn, NY, 11249
Formed in 1998 by drummer George France, guitarist/ vocalist Tonie Joy (formerly of Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon, & Born Against) and original bassist Guy Blakeslee (now spearheading The Entrance Band in LA.); the three originally known as The Convocation “Of…” set out to create a unique yet subconscious take on the heavy rock power trio, one that “…epitomizes the union of ancient and futuristic urges”.
By 2002, after releasing a debut 12″ EP. and full length LP on GSL Records as well as a 2nd LP on Tigerstyle, and embarking on numerous North American tours, Blakeslee left to form Entrance.
After sporadic activity with various bassists (Jason Stevens, Chris Camden, and Matt Hall) and having a 7″ released by Gravity Records, The Convocation is again working in full time mode with bassist Donny Van Zandt (an early member of Pinback) making forward-thinking, speculative rock.
A very nice review of Final Boss “Enforcer” from the excellent aQuarius recOrds:
“….like the feral cries of a sentient machine, trying desperately to communicate, its staticky transmissions gloriously garbled, a series of tranced out anti-grooves and crumbling, blackened creeps. It’s a beautiful, and baffling barrage of DIY electro-noise minimalism and WTF negative beat science.”
Read the full review right here, along with a slew of others, and please support awesome, hardworking, unique shops like aQ!
Just a heads-up that many of our limited edition cassette releases, as well as a few special distributed titles, are once again available but going fast! Don’t sleep on the opportunity to pick them up from the shop. Thanks for the continued support and watch this space for news on several exciting new releases, in the works now!
…..because this one is really bringing the heat.
The enigmatic Richard Papiercuts, the mutated jangle of Lame Drivers, the NYC-via-Australia beatdown that is Wilful Boys, the touring from Texas Unknown Relatives and the chain-rattling murk & menace of Nassau Coliseum all come together this Thursday in Brooklyn for a real barn burner of a bill.
Don’t leave your cheese out in the wind. RSVP here.
Nevada Hill’s memorial will be at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden on March 12, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Donations to the Patient Advocate Foundation or Camp Kesem, which acts on behalf of children with parents battling cancer, are encouraged. A fund directly supporting Gillian, Nevada’s young daughter, is in development.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out with kind words about Nevada and admiration for his unique and galvanizing body of work. It brings great joy knowing his creativity and insurmountable passion and drive will continue to inspire.
Dana Schechter will perform as Insect Ark, joined by very special guest Laura Ortman on violin, tonight at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn with Bell Witch and Wrekmeister Harmonies.
We are devastated to share the news of the passing of our friend Nevada Hill of Bludded Head. Nevada passed away Thursday morning in Houston after a long, courageous battle with cancer. In addition to being an internationally renowned visual artist and a truly visionary musician, Nevada was first and foremost an incredible father. His ability to balance an astounding level of creative output and dedication to his young daughter Gillian while maintaining an unparalleled positive outlook in the face of his illness was an inspiration to all who knew him. We’ve never known anyone more fiercely committed and we are deeply thankful to have had him in our lives. Thank you, Nevada Hill, for your power, your work, and your friendship.
ORNAMENT performs live Thursday, February 4 with Dead Heavens, the new group fronted by Walter Schreifels(Quicksand, Gorrila Biscuits, countless others) and featuring former members of Bold, White Zombie, Youth of Today and more at The Grand Victory in Brooklyn. Talk about an interesting bill.
ORNAMENT “A Lion is a Lion” 12″ out soon on SGG…
Action Beat are an improvisational noise rock act from Bletchley UK who usually perform with 1-4 drummers and an inordinate amount of guitarists. They began playing together in 2004, and have played over 600 shows throughout Europe. This is their first U.S.Tour.
“A Remarkable Machine, the new collaboration between British noiserockers Action Beat and G.W. Sok – frontman of legendary Dutch postpunks the Ex – is the rare album that’s so intense that you can only listen to it once all the way through without taking a break. Some people will take one a lot earlier. It’ll clear a room in less than a minute. That’s why it’s so awesome…. To say that this is the best album or most whatever album of the year is beside the point: it’s in a class by itself and will probably someday be regarded as a classic, at least by the people who can stand to listen to it for more than a few minutes at a time.” – New York Music Daily
G.W. Sok (born 1957, real name Jos Kleij) is a Dutch singer, best known for his 30 year career as the frontman of the The Ex. G.W. Sok left The Ex in 2008 to focus on a solo career and collaboration projects with other musicians, participation in theatre performances and spoken word performances. Apart from his musical career he’s also active as a writer and a graphic designer.
After leaving The Ex, Sok started to collaborate with several acts among which the French experimental free jazz band Cannibales & Vahinés and the Italian band Zu. In 2010 the single “2-2-3 Fridges/Rid” appeared on Sickroom Records. He joined the Dutch collective Beukorkest on their 2011 tour.
In 2011 Sok released the book A Mix of Bricks & Valentines, a 400 page collection of The Ex lyrics and other lyrics he wrote. Also in 2011 De Eeuwige Optie (The Everlasting Option) was published, an experimental film by SpOp featuring Sok as an actor. He also wrote the words for the film’s ending track “Illusies”. This track was also released as the 7 inch “Illusies 1 & 2″ under the bandname Zoikle, consisting of Sok, guitarist Lukas Simonis, cellist Nina Hitz, drummer Cor Hoogerdijk and Maarten van Gent on metal percussion. King Champion Sounds arises from the ashes of the band that was called The Bent Moustache, the musical act of Krommenie-based, Kenya-born, UK-raised Ajay Saggar. This incarnation sees Saggar teaming up with, amongst others, Oli Heffernan (Year of Birds, Shrug) and G.W.Sok. In 2014 he published a double 10” with the UK noise act Action Beat.
Action Beat/GW Sok with Opening Bell U.S. tour dates to be announced soon so watch this space!
MULTICULT is set to share the stage with UXO, a harsh supergroup featuring UNSANE and Today Is The Day personnel in Baltimore on 2/25. Prepare for punishment.
We’re very excited for our friends in MICROWAVES to be supporting the legendary VOIVOD at the Pittsburgh, PA stop of their U.S. tour on February 10 at the Altar Bar. RSVP here and watch this space for some more upcoming MICROWAVES-related news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Ly8nstfxo
Insect Ark have been added to the Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Edley ODowd DJ appearance at The Grand Victory in Brooklyn this Thursday.
