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 DUM DUM GIRLS MALE BONDING Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 @ Desoto Lounge $5 Tickets available NOW at Harvest Led by Dee Dee, Dum Dum Girls churn out pop music that adheres to her self-proclaimed M.O.: “blissed-out buzz saw.” Dee Dee formed DDG in late 2008 as a solo project—the name a nod to both The Vaselines’ album, Dum-Dum, and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys”— and released a home-recorded CDR on her label Zoo Music followed by a 7" on HoZac and a 12" EP on Captured Tracks. When Dee Dee needed a band to take her songs out of the bedroom, she looked to her friends: Jules, a San Diego-based furniture designer; Bambi, a non-profit worker in Austin; and Brooklynite Frankie Rose, a former Vivian Girl and Crystal Stilt, currently starting her own project as well. When the other three met for the first time a week before CMJ 2009, it was an instant girl gang. Male Bonding, a good-time concept held tightly by Robin Silas Christian (drums), John Arthur Webb (guitar & vocals) and Kevin Hendrick (bass and vocals), became a very real thing in May 2008. Their fate was sealed in a front room at their first show, an insane house party called ‘RAGE!’’ Male Bonding was born raging. It’s been non-stop ever since. That party evolved in to a split 7” release with PENS on Male Bonding’s own label Paradise Vendors Inc. It sold out in one week. Paradise Vendors (PVI) itself became a very active concern, the band attempting to bridge the Atlantic releasing records by their contemporaries such as London’s Graffiti Island, Las Vegas’ ‘Old Blood’, and California’s ‘Rapid Youth’. To date every release on PVI has sold out and is testament to the band’s relentless work ethic: playing hot shows and releasing awesome records. Just over one year down the line Michael Jackson is dead and Male Bonding signs with Seattle’s finest: Sub Pop. A significant signing: the band being one of the only UK bands to sign a worldwide deal with the legendary label. At the time of signing the band will have have despatched seven releases including a Flipper tribute 7” (on Domino Records) alongside PPM Allstars, Lovvers and Ponytail. **************************************************************************************  TIM HECKER David Daniell Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 @ Bebe Theater $10 advance/$12 door LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE Tickets available now at Harvest Records & online HERE. Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Kranky, Alien8, Mille Plateaux, Room40, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as “structured ambient”, “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music”. More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to songcraft which is both physical and emotive. The New York Times has described his work as “foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole”. His Harmony in Ultraviolet received critical acclaim, including being recognized by Pitchfork as a top recording of 2006. Radio Amor was also recognized as a key recording of 2003 by Wire magazine. His work has also included commissions for contemporary dance, sound-art installations, minimal techo works under the name 'Jetone', as well as various writings. Tim has presented his work in a live setting around the world, including performances at Sonar (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Victoriaville (Quebec), Vancouver New Music Festival (Vancouver), and Transmediale (Berlin). He currently resides in Montreal. ************************************************************************************** Harvest Records & Black Box Photography present: 
LEGENDARY SINGING STARS Sunday, March 28th, 2010 @ The Grey Eagle $10 advance/$12 day of Tickets available NOW at Harvest Records & online HERE. This incredible group started in the 1950s as Tommy Ellison and the Five Singing Stars of Brooklyn New York. Tommy, born in Salley, South Carolina was the founder and lead vocalist for this outstanding gospel quartet. Tommy sang with artists such as Madame Edna Cook, The Harmonizing 4, Chosen Gospel singers, and now his very own Singing Stars, and shared the stage with some of gospel's biggest names (Shirley Ceaser, Lee Williams, The Canton Spirituals) performing in almost all 50 states, five different countries, and cornerstone venues throughout his career (Carnegie Hall, The Apollo, Madison Square Garden...) Sam, Big O, and Dennis have captured many hearts with their terrific style of guitar playing and choreography. Never has anyone who has seen this group perform been displeased with a concert. When The Singing Stars hit the stage with their matching tailored suits you know you are in for a treat As of January 4th, 2009, Tommy has gone over to glory; he departed his life after battling with a long sickness. He will be missed dearly by his fans and the Singing Stars but the group must go on! It was Tommy's wish. ************************************************************************************** 
"THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME" A Mountain Goats performance film by Rian Johnson Thursday, April 1st, 2010 @ Fine Arts Theatre $5 Tickets available SOON at Harvest Records. The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at Pomona College. In this film by Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers Bloom), John Darnielle performs The Life of the World to Come on piano and guitar. Shot in the same building where, as an eight-year-old piano student and new transplant to Claremont, he performed Bach minuets for the state examiner, The Life of the World to Come takes the songs from the album and restores them to their raw original states: skin, blood, and bone. ************************************************************************************** 
ELEPHANT MICAH Time & Temperature Flora Wolpert Checknoff Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 @ Harvest Records $5 donation s'il vous plait Tickets available at the door Kentuckiana's Elephant Micah has been practicing the fine art of flying under the established indie radar for almost a decade now. Despite occasional flashes of visibility, including written accolades in avant music mag The Wire, overseas gigs with Jason Molina’s Magnolia Electric Company, and a landmark CD/LP release for the pioneering Time-Lag Records (Hindu Windmills, 2007), the band still seems to move with an impressive, if accidental, stealth. Whatever its cause, Elephant Micah’s situation in the geo-commercial margin has offered plenty of creative room to roam. After years of working off the grid, the band has developed a satisfyingly self-styled approach to writing and recording, feeding into a long string of rough-hewn but well-made albums. The musical ground this material covers might border that of freak folk, Americana, or other media-heralded roots revivals, but Elephant Micah tends to end up in a “country” all its own. Like the best of Elephant Micah’s past work, Exiled Magicians is a set of haunting, loosely thematic tunes—an especially fruitful reworking of that centuries-old voice, verse, and guitar combination. The album’s first class analog audio (as recorded by Justin Vollmar on ½” tape) and often unexpected accompaniments (ranging from mountain fiddle to shaken amplifier) are added delights, all-in-all begging the question of how long Elephant Micah can hide out in the under-underground. ************************************************************************************** 
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Over-Gain Optimal Death Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 @ The Grey Eagle $10 advance/$12 day of Tickets available now at Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, The Grey Eagle & online HERE. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995.[1] The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest vocalists. ,br> The band has released albums frequently on a number of international record labels as well as the Acid Mothers Temple family record label, which was established in 1998 to document the activities of the whole collective. Harvest Records is honored to host -- for the 4th time in Asheville -- one of the most prolific, mesmerizing & mind-blowing heavy psych/drone bands to ever come from anywhere (this galaxy or the next!) DO NOT MISS IT! **************************************************************************************  Saturday April 17th, 2010 Harvest Records (and all fine independent record stores around the country!!!!!) ************************************************************************************** 
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Nurses Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 @ Forsythia Hall $10 advance/$12 day of Tickets available now at Harvest Records & online HERE. (LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE -- TICKETS ALMOST SOLD OUT) Tallest Man on Earth is the moniker of folk musician Kristian Matsson of Dalarna, Sweden. His first official U.S. release, "The Wild Hunt", will be released in April 2010 on the lovely Dead Oceans label. His live show as well as recordings have been garnering incredible reviews including an 8.3 rating by Pitchfork for his 2008 debut "Shallow Grave." Matsson will be in the middle of a huge U.S. tour when he visits Asheville, and at the beautiful & intimate Forsythia Hall, all who attend are in for a treat. ************************************************************************************** 
BEACH HOUSE Washed Out Friday, April 30th, 2010 @ The Grey Eagle $10 advance/$12 day of Tickets available now at Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, The Grey Eagle & online HERE. The Beach House you're about to meet isn't the same you may remember from before. Lives have been shuffled, tangled and re-aligned. When Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally returned home to Baltimore last Winter, they were worn thin from touring and travel. But deep inside them hot energies were incubating, ideas they had been whispering back and forth in the wake of their sophomore full-length, 2008's Devotion. By the following spring they began handing themselves over completely to those impulses, holing themselves up and exchanging ideas in a new, secluded practice space for dangerously long periods of time. As the songs that would become Teen Dream began to live, breathe and take shape, the duo was forced to leave much of their personal lives behind them. 'We're the same people, but this record has changed our directions,' Legrand muses. 'We were forced to let go of people and things we were holding onto as individuals: normalcy, daily rituals, the ability to take care of ourselves. We were dropped into a wilderness, but we had more clarity than we've ever had before.' Still driven to avoid distraction, the two marched further into isolation, to bottle up all those wild visions away from home. They packed up their lives and settled into a converted church in upstate New York with producer Chris Coady. For a month they continued the birthing process, sweating and pushing out sounds inside a cocoon of their very own weaving. 'It wasn't about arriving at a church and it revolutionizing a feeling,' Scally notes. 'It was a continuation of what we were doing without disruption. Whenever something good happens, we look at each other and we know that was it. It's instinctual and it's private.' Through the course of a month, they chased down songs and dark rushes, the creative telepathy that Scally and Legrand share together taking a strangely physical hold. 'There's a different level of intimacy, a physicality on Teen Dream,' Legrand explains, pacing back and forth. 'Rhythmically, there's new motion. This record touches you. On your chest.' The skyward pulse of 'Walk In the Park' and '10 Mile Stereo' elicit just those reactions, two vibrant, volcanic examples of a record and band bursting at its incandescent seams. It is without question, more expansive and moving than anything they have shared before. 'I'm ready to give it away,' Legrand says of this, their first effort as part of the Sub Pop family. 'I'm done holding onto it. I want to give it away, I want it to become something else for people. It is born now. ' Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand are from Baltimore, Maryland. They are not a couple and Teen Dream is their third full-length album. **************************************************************************************  ELUVIUM Julianna Barwick Saturday, May 15th, 2010 @ Flood Gallery $10 advance/$12 door Limited seating available Tickets available now at Harvest Records & online HERE. Born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, KY, Matthew Cooper relocated to Portland, OR several years back and has since spent many a night holed up in his house transforming the vibrations in his brain into sweeping walls of elegant noise. With a depth ranging from fragile to glacial, he takes dense layers of guitars and pianos and builds them into an awe-inspiring fortress around himself. Resting comfortably and confidently in the spirits of Brian Eno's most accomplished ambient pieces, Eluvium is a freakishly beautiful affair. If it was ever possible for a warm gust of wind to send chills through every bone in your body, then Eluvium is that warm wind. ************************************************************************************** 
THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA Friday, May 21st, 2010 @ The Grey Eagle $12 advance/$15 day of Tickets available NOW at Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, The Grey Eagle & online HERE. Silver Mt. Zion is a group led by founding Godspeed You! Black Emperor guitarist Efrim. Joined by fellow GYBE members Sophie (violin) and Thierry (contrabass), SMZ debuted with a performance at Constellation’s Musique Fragile concert series in spring 1999 and went on to record their first record in November of that year. Built around Efrim’s simple piano figures, the debut SMZ album also marks the first recording to document Thierry’s move from electric to acoustic upright bass, and the first recorded instance of Efrim on vocals since a rare 1996GYBE cassette release. The band expanded to six members in late 2000 with the addition of Beckie (cello), Ian (guitar) and Jessica (violin), and toured Europe in early 2001, returning to record a double album, released under the name The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. With minor variations, the larger band has worked under this name ever since, releasing two more double albums in 2003 and 2005. These records have moved progressively towards a greater use of lead and group vocals, and an expanded vocabulary of influences and instrumentation, all rallied towards a highly original and uncompromising redefinition of punk-rock protest music. Multi-instrumentalist Scott (drums, mandolin, guitar) became the seventh Tra-La-La member, after joining the group for a 2004 tour. SMZ has also been re-invented a couple of times in recent years, first as Thee Silver Mountain Reveries on a 2004 recording that originated with Efrim laying down song sketches in the studio and bringing in some SMZ alumni and others to fill out the arrangements, and more recently as Thee Silver Mountain Elegies Play War Radio, a band comprising four Tra-La-La Band members along with Gen and Eric from Hangedup, who wrote new music for a short tour in the fall of 2005. Tra-La-La Band members play in a long list of other bands, including Black Ox Orkestar, Esmerine, Fifths of Seven, The Mile End Ladies’ String Auxiliary, Re:, Sloth is the Love and many others. Their newest and sixth full-length LP, "Kollaps Tradixionales", finds the band returning to some of their more graceful earlier output, all the while remaining true to a gritty dedicated ethos aimed at finding hope in the midst of human strife. HARVEST RECORDS PRODUCTIONS (aka, shows we have brought to this wonderful land) 500mg A Place to Bury Strangers (2) Acid Mothers Temple (3) Adama Dembele & Ensemble Djebeso Ahleuchatistas Akron/Family (4) Alasdair Roberts All Smiles All the Saints Andre Ethier Angi & Josh Antarcticans Arbouretum Architects Brother Astral Blessing Aswara AU August Avarus Band Of Horses Barton Carroll Beach House Benoit Pioulard Bethlehem Steel Bicycle Day Bill Callahan (SMOG) (2) Bill Nace Birdshow Black Angels (3) Black Castle Black Mountain Black Twig Pickers (2) Black Walls Blake/e/e/e Blood on the Wall Blues Control Bob Boob Body Of John the Baptist (2) Bonnie Prince Billy (2) Brainworms Brian Dewan Brian Flik Brian Mcgee & the Hollow Speed (2) Brian Straw Bright Black Morning Light (3) Brooke Sietinsons "Brothers Unconnected": Richard & Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls Budos Band Caethua Cass McCombs Castanets Cat Power Catfish Haven Celestial Business (2) Christopher Willits Circulatory System Court and Spark Cristina Carter (Charalambides) Cryptacize (2) Damo Suzuki Dan Deacon Daniel (AIU) Higgs Danielson David Bazan David Vandervelde Deerhoof (2) Desperate Pilot Destroyer Dig Shovel Dig (3) Dirty Projectors DJ. Mr Dibbs Do Make Say Think Dodos (3) Dolorean Donny Hue and the Colors DoomRibbons (4) Drug Money Dungen (2) Dutchess & the Duke Ear Pwr Earth Ed Yazijian Electric Damn Elf Power Elijah Wyman (2) Eliza Rosbach (2) El-P Eluvium Elvis Perkins Emery Reel Emily Dignan Emperor X (2) Eric Bachmann Espers Experimental Dental School Explosions in the Sky Extraordinaries Extra Golden Felice Brothers Fire Zuave Floating Action Flying Fursaxa Future Islands Ghost Gnomatica Grails Great Lakes Great White Jenkins Greg Cartwright Greg Davis Growing Guitar Music (2) Hangar 18 Harlem Shakes Heartwarmer Hella Here We Go Magic Hildegard (2) Hiss Golden Messenger Hold Steady Hope and Anchor Hush Arbors (4) Ice Cream (2) Illinois In Gowan Ring Indian Jewelry Invisible Hand Islaja J Dimenna James Ossuary Jack Rose (3) James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand) Jana Hunter Jason Anderson (2) Jason Kahn Jason Molina Jen & the Juice Jennifer Gentle Jessica Rylan (Can’t) Joanna Newsom John Vanderslice Jon Mueller Jonathan Kane Josephine Foster (2) Keith Fullerton Whitman Kill the Hippies King Tut Knives and Daggers Kurt Vile Kuupuu Labiators Lamb's Laughter Lau Nau Lay All Over It Leannan Sith Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez Liars Lichens Lights Little Wings Loney, Dear Lorruh Lou Barlow M. Coast Magik Markers (2) Magnolia Electric Company (2) Mammutus Man Man Manbeard Marbles Maria Taylor Mariee Sioux Marissa Nadler Mark Kozelek (of Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon) (3) Mates of State May Family Reunion Meara O'Reilly Meg Baird Megafaun (2) MGMT Mi & L’au Mia Doi Todd Michael Hurley Microphones/Mt Eerie (3) Mind vs. Target (2) Mirah Mono (2) Monotonix Mountain Goats (2) Mouthus (2) Mt. Egypt Music Tapes MV/EE (Matt Valentine & Erika Elder) (2) Mystic Condor Jug Band Nadja Naked Gods Nana Grizol Nanty Glo Neptune (2) Neshomeleh/Tricerabottoms (3) Nethers Nevada Nick Castro No Neck Blues Band Nomo Noschool Oaxacan Of Montreal (4) Okkervil River On The Take Order of the Dying Orchid Orthrelm Paper Chase Parlour Parts & Labor Paul Metzger Pearls and Brass Pelican Pierce Edens Pilgrim (2) Pink Mountaintops Pink Razors Red Wizard Reigning Sound Robot Soup Robots vs. Villages (3) Rodriguez Ruby Suns Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers San Serac Saviours Serengeti & Polyphonic Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings Sian Alice Group Silje Nes Silver Apples Silver Jews (2) Six Organs of Admittance Sin Ropas Sir Richard Bishop (3) Six Parts Seven Slow Suicide Stimulus Sports Sprial Joy Band Spiritual Family Reunion Stars of the Lid Steve Gunn Sugar & the Plums Sunburned Hand of the Man (2) Tara Jane Oneil Ted Leo + Pharmacists Teknikolor Banshie Thanksgiving (aka Adrian Orange) (3) The Anomoanon The Books The Brunettes The Can’t See The Chops The Coathangers The Davenport Family The Evens The Life and Times The Occasion The Sword The Walkmen The Weeds Thee Silver Mt Zion Tim Kaiser Tom Blood Tomutonttu Tony Wain and the Pain Trapper Keepers Tyler Ramsey Uke of Phillips Uke of Spaces Corners Ultimate Vag Ultra Dolphins US Christmas Vague Angels Vic Chesnutt Video Hippos Villages (3) Vincent Wrenn Virgin Eye Blood Brothers War On Drugs Warlocks Warm Erasers Warren Gently (2) Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers (2) White Lodge Who’s Your Favorite Son, God? Why? (3) Wilderness (2) William Coonan (2) Windy & Carl Witchcraft Woelv Wooden Tit (2) Wooden Wand & friends (2) Yak Ballz Yellow Swans (2) Zomes Zulu Connection |
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