News Archive
October 15, 2009Givin' it away - empee free
Posted by George
September 2, 2009Long Past Stopping
Posted by George
August 13, 2009and we're back
Well. it's back to the grind for us! But it's not really a chore when you're working on projects that are as exciting as our next two releases - Core of the Coalman's Box of the Last Help (zum027) is a viola-loop extravaganza conjuring up Steve Reich and Tony Conrad - old school meets new. Also just cemented and hopefully done in time for his tour with Social Junk, David Harms aka Mincemeat Or Tenspeed is co-releasing his first manufactured CD (as opposed to the 12"s and CDRs he's already got out in the world) Stange Gods with us (zum028). We're also still working out what The Urxed is gonna do with us, but in the mean time Rob Barber has put out some tracks on Chris Duncan's Hot and Cold zine's final issue.
Of course, the ink is not even dried on the glowing screens that have been pumping up High Castle's debut 12" You're On Your Own Way (zum026), which has gotten praise from Pitchfork, Impose, and Built On A Weak Spot. Here's the Pitchfork review, which gave it more points than the new Jay-Z (7):
High Castle's debut EP is an exercise in brevity-- one side, seven songs, and 12 minutes worth of tribal, frantic post-punk. Keeping things short allows the California trio to pound away without risking tedium, more often than not leaving you wanting more. And despite the band's love of repetition, they pack a decent bit of variety into tiny spaces. "Filth" is literally crammed, with different lyrics howled by two overlapping vocalists, so the words actually take longer to read on paper than they do to sing. What exactly the group is singing about isn't clear, but it's something ugly-- dogs ruling the earth, trash piled to the sun, filth which "accumulates disease of squalor." The meaning may lie more in the sound than the sense, as the band's mash of Lightning Bolt speed, Boredoms dementia, and Black Eyes shout make it all seem like a pretty big emergency. Maybe that's why they're in such a hurry to get things over with, but "Filth"'s spilling energy also suggests High Castle have a lot more of these blasts in store. - Marc Masters
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July 28, 2009George on "tour" through Aug 10
In the meantime, NY friends and Philly folk can catch up with me at these events (well, maybe not at the last one!)
July 30th Thursday
Next Year's Models at X Initiative
548 West 22nd St NY, NY 10011
Film and music
Chris Marker's Bestiary
Vito Acconci's Zone
Ken Jacobs' Disorient Express live music by Common Eider, King Eider
John Baldessari's Baldessari Sings Lewitt
Carolee Schneemann's Fuses live music by Bird Show
FREE!
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Aug 1 Saturday
Bruar Falls 245 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY 11211
Jack Rose
Common Eider, King Eider
Tom Carter
U.S. Girls
$9
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Aug 2 Sunday
Death By Audio 49 S. 2nd, Brooklyn, NY 11211 nr. Wythe Ave
Necking
George Chen w/ Warren Ng
Mi Or And the Pedestals
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Monday Aug 3
Copy Gallery
319 N 11th St Philadelphia, PA
Social Junk
Mincemeat or Tenspeed
George Chen
Hunter Stabler
hosted by Ben Peterson
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Friday August 7th @ SILENT BARN
:: UPSTAIRS
:: Child Abuse
:::: Harry Merry
:::::: Ga'an —– mems Coughs
:: DOWNSTAIRS
:: Eats Tapes
:: MNDR
:: dj George Chen
:: PROJECTION ART BY: Nate Boyce
915 Wyckoff Ave @ Weirfield | Ridgewood, Qns M-Myrtle/Wyckoff, L-Halsey| 8pm | all ages
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Rhys Chatham Crimson Grail
7:30 pm Free Damrosch Park Bandshell
Presented in collaboration with Wordless Music. Commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
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July 14, 2009High Castle record release
Posted by George
June 30, 2009how to play guitar
Posted by George
June 27, 2009Mailorder closed 6/27-7/5
I'll be playing with my band KIT in Portland on July 4th with Jonny X and the Groadies and Thrones! Every July 4th JXATG plays a big birthday show, this will be our third time playing it and my 4th time attending! It's big 13 for them. Free show, 6 pm bbq, 8 pm show at Work/Sound 820 SE Alder.
Also we have a Discogs.com page and I'm selling our releases through that, plus some other distro items I have.
Posted by George
June 24, 2009Hump day
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June 19, 2009shows and art
First off, random art show: "You're All Over Living Me - A Group Show Inspired by Dinosaur Jr" organized by Dan Johnson
7-9:30 p.m. Fri. Through July 19. Lake Gallery, 661 Divisadero St., S.F.
with peeps like Mark Whitely, Tomo, Alissa Anderson, Andrew Scott, and Rich Jacobs (and me).
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Then there's a free show on Monday at Toxic Beach/Tire Beach, on the new bus.
June 22 Monday.
Raccoons
Julianna Barwick (NY)
Chen Santa Maria
Hiss & Hum (Celine Dion 2013)
8 pm, donation
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Club Sandwich presents
June 23 Tuesday at 21 Grand, Oakland
Strip Mall Seizures
Father Murphy (Italy, awesome)
Baaddd (Australia)
KIT (playing some new songs)
all ages $6 8pm
416 25th St
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The Lab is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of performances also, and I'm MCing one of them:
Thursday, June 25: Strip Mall Seizures, The Rhombus, Pink Canoes, and Maggie Morris, with emcee George Chen
Posted by George
May 30, 2009mailorder update
*ABE VIGODA - Reviver 12" (PPM) $12
*ABE VIGODA - Skeleton LP (PPM) $13
*ILYAS AHMED - Goner CD (Root Strata) $12
*BLANK DOGS - The Fields 12" (Woodsist) $12
*BLANK DOGS - The Fields cassette (Fuck It Tapes) $9
*BONE AWL - Night's Middle 7" (Nuclear War Now) $7
*BRILLIANT COLORS - Highly Evolved 7" (Captured Tracks) $6
*BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD - Preying In Circles CD (Root Strata) $12
*CACAW - Get A Brain LP+CD (Permanent) $17
*CAN'T - Private Time Part 2 LP (Weird Forest) $15
*CAREERERS - Those Who Don't Do Don't LP $12
*CHEN SANTA MARIA - Murked cassette $5
*CHEN SANTA MARIA AND LUUSE CDR $5
*COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - Figs, Wasps, and Monotremes CD (Root Strata) $12
*CHRIS CORSANO/PAUL FLAHERTY/WALLY SHOUP - Bounced Check LP (Records) $14
*DEAD WESTERN 7" (Weird Forest) $5
*DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER - The Tropics of Phenomenon CD (Freedom to Spend) $12
*EMACIATOR - Coveting LP (Not Not Fun) $15
*FAT DAY - Iguanadonaland LP (Spirit of Orr/100% Breakfast) $14
*FATHER MURPHY - Do the Sinister CD (Box 13) $12
*GROUPER - Wide LP (Weird Forest) $15
*NICK HENNIES - Paths CDR (Thor's Rubber Hammer) $7
*HIGH CASTLE CDR $5
*NADJA - Desire In Uneasiness CD (Crucial Blast) $10
*NUCLEARDEATHWISH cassette
*ERIC PAUL - I Offered Myself As The Sea book (Heartworm) $13
*BRUCE RUSSELL - Gilded Splinters CD (Spirit of Orr) $14
*SCARCITY OF TANKS - No Endowments LP (Total Life Society) $12
*SECRET ABUSE - Violent Narcissus LP (Not Not Fun) $14
*SEX VID - Communal Living LP (Dom America) $12
*SILK FLOWERS 7" (PPM) $6
*SOCIAL JUNK - Concussion Summer LP (Not Not Fun) $14
*STARVING WEIRDOS - Harry Smith LP (Root Strata) $16
*DAVID SCOTT STONE - Plays the Modular Synthesizer CD (PPM) $12
*TOTAL ABUSE LP (Deranged) $12
*U.S. GIRLS - Me and Yoko 7" (Not Not Fun) $6.50
Posted by George
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