ROPSTYLE

Nov 12 - Necking at Issue Project Room w/ Brownout, Neg-Fi

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:37:00 +0000

11/12 @ 8:00pm - Neg-Fi + Brownout + Necking
Admission: $10
at Issue Project Room:
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11215

Neg-Fi bio
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Brooklyn-based duo Neg-Fi debuted as a band in 2003 with a series of home-made cassettes released for the annual DIY holiday art event La Superette. Incorporating drastically detuned guitars, bass, walkie-talkies and handmade devices, Neg-Fi creates short, minimalist compositions with maximum impact. Following up the self-released LP Listen-OK in 2006 and a split EP with Atlanta-based noise artist Eiliyas earlier this year, they will soon be releasing their 2nd full length LP mid side. Both members are also part of the new Glenn Branca Ensemble, and have performed in Branca’s Symphony No.13 in New Jersey, Belgium, London, Rome, and St. Louis.

Brownout bio
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A few years ago, when making a myspace page for my solo endeavors as brownout, I answered the Q “sounds like?” with “A caveman with a tambourine and a sinewave generator”. Having since played a few performances in solo or near-solo circumstances, I have found that this phrase still fits, maybe better than I ever imagined. I don’t really use a tambourine, but rather a homemade shaking stick, and my generator produces waves of less purity that virginal sines. I do have a laptop and employ it, along with my voice and crude horns, to fill things out. But I don’t fill ‘em out fully, as I generally prefer simplicity, space and repetition. Blinding Headache and Information (who recently regrouped to perform with our “No Wave” contemporaries Teenage Jesus and the Jerks) were my first 2 bands, both contributing to the “legendary” Tape #1 (reissue imminent on Anthology Recordings).
V-Effect was the first group I was in to make a proper album, 1983’s Stop Those Songs, on Fred Frith’s Rift Records. Critic Robert Palmer included our album in his top-ten list for the year in the New York Times. With Guigou Chenevier of Etron Fou LeLoublan and Charles Hayward of This Heat, I was a member of the drum trio Les Batteries, whose first album Noisy Champs (1986) is about to be released for the first time on CD. I formed Fish & Roses with Sue Garner and David Sutter in the late 80’s and recorded three albums with them and toured the US and Europe. Sue and I have continued playing together, first in Run On with Alan Licht (3 records on Matador and a number of miscellaneous EPs and random tracks) and more recently as a duo, sometimes as Two Mule Team and sometimes under our own names (Thrill Jockey released our album Still).

Necking bio
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Necking was formed in 2004 and for years had a freely rotating line-up around a few central members. For the last few years the group has settled into a regular line-up of Nick Lesley (original founder), Dong-Ping Wong, and Rop Vazquez. Necking plays a hyper-active form of improv noise rock influenced by the hardcore punk from San Diego which they grew up with in the 90s. They play two full drum kits, electronics and voices.

Dong has a masters in architecture and founded the firm Family (http://familyarchitects.com/), and formerly played in Oma Yang.
Rop saves dogs at Barc Shelter (http://barcshelter.org/), also plays in X-Ray Eyeballs, and formerly played in Rice, The Peechees, and Semi Automatic.
Nick (http://nicklesley.com/) has an mfa in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, works at Electronic Arts Intermix, also plays in Gunung Sari, Alien Whale, and Prsms, formerly played in Oma Yang, Felicia & Coctopus, and Vholtz.

http://www.myspace.com/necking

Happy Halloween!!!

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:58:00 +0000

Tonight - on Halloween night,drop by Dead Herring and show us your costumes! take a photo. Get Stupid!

BYOB. Cake. blood. 9 pm.

Ropstyle and Nicki will conjure a special dancey dancy halloween set.
Haunted Loft in the middle of South 5th, btwn Bedford and driggs.

Oct 28 - Ropstyle djing at 151 Rivington

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:54:00 +0000

ropstyle behind the mixer, jay seahag behind the bar.
10-4 am
151 rivington btwn suffolk and clinton

Oct 26 - Ropstyle djing at Beauty Bar

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:48:00 +0000

Guilty Pleasure Mondays!

The Beauty Bar in Bushwick. 10 PM.

Manicure and Martini for $10, $2 Beer-$3 well.

921 Broadway by Myrtle. Munday nytes a Beetch!!!

punk/hc/rock all night by Ropstyle and Frosty Crunch (ex-vox for Young Ginns)

Oct 24 - Ropstyle djing at Dead Herring w/ some sweet bands

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Dead Herring presents
Oct 24, 9 pm, $5

PARTYLINE!
http://www.myspace.com/partylinegirlswithglasses

NOISEY-PIG (from Berlin)
http://www.myspace.com/noisypig

BAD CREDIT NO CREDIT
http://www.myspace.com/bathtimemusic

SLEEPIES
http://www.myspace.com/herecomethesleepies

Ropstyle is gunna be djing too.

$5 141 S. 5th St. between bedford and driggs.
y'all come out and have a good time
xoxo

Oct 22 - Xray Eyeballs playing Impose/CMJ

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:36:00 +0000

Impose Magazines Imposition night during CMJ:

October 22, Thursday
8 PM

Smith Westerns

the Beets

Beach Fossils

Xray Eyeballs

Idle Times

Dream Diary

at Don Pedro's
90 Manhattan Avenue

Oct 19 - Ropstyle mondays at Beauty Bar in Bushwick

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:18:00 +0000

The Beauty Bar in Bushwick. 10 PM.
Manicure and Martini for $10, $2 Beer-$3 well.
921 Broadway by Myrtle. Munday nytes a Beetch!!!
punk/hc/rock all night by Ropstyle and Frosty Crunch (ex-vox for Young Ginns)

Oct 3rd - Necking at Art/Fashion Show

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:34:00 +0000

Oct 3rd, Saturday:
Free Art/Fashion/music show
w/ Necking, The Nasties and Brass cups.
DJ Jon Santos djing allnight.

tons of fashion and Art will be up for auction including pieces by:
Costalots Sunglasses,
Round Designs,
H Fredrickson,
Uluru
Covet
Christian Beaujean
Cheek-ie
Mary Meyer
Fox & Fawn
& Jeremy Davies

All proceeds from the auction will go to Step Right Up. An after-hours free arts workshops that they offer to public schools.

at the Mary Meyer Art House - 97 Green street #G24, right off Manhattan Ave. - Greenpoint BKLYN. Art/fashion show at 7 PM, bands at 10 PM.
Free!

3 New Xray Eyeballs live videos

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:31:00 +0000

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XRAY EYEBALLS live at Secret Project Robot - Sept 5, 2009

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Xray Eyeballs live at the Cakeshop on July 2009

Sept 29 - Xray Eyeballs plays The Maze

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:25:00 +0000

Tuesday 9.29.09
$7 - No Set Time/Performance - Bands are set up insidethe Maze all night from 8 PM to midnite.

The Coathangers

Nervehunt (Justin from Teeth Mountain / Ryan from Wavves)

Xray Eyeballs

Swimmingcitiesoceanofblood

You Are Here (The Maze) is a full maze installation w/ art and music situated inside the maze.

The Maze is happening at Death by Audio from Sept 10 to Oct 2nd.
Death by Audio
49 South 2nd
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Sept 20 - Necking plays The MAZE

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:17:00 +0000

Sunday 9.20.09
$7 - no set time/performance - All Night
throughout the maze, the bands are set up.

Vaz

Clan of the Cave Bear

Necking

Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk

+Delicious Beverages

You Are Here (the Maze) is set up at Death By Audio from Sept 10 to Oct 2.
49 South 2nd
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Necking at Monster Island Basement for Showpaper benefit on April 10, 2009

Sept 16 - Xray Eyeballs w/ Sonic Chicken 4 at Don Pedros

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:09:00 +0000

back to back Don Pedro's show.

Sept 16 - 10 pm - free

Sonic Chicken 4 (from France)

Xray Eyeballs

at Don Pedro's
90 Manhattan Ave

Sept 15 - Xray eyeballs w/ The Intelligence at Don Pedro's

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Sept 15 - Tuesday
9 PM

The Intelligence
Woven Bones
Xray Eyeballs

at Don Pedro's
90 Manhattan Avenue

YOU ARE HERE (the Maze) - Art/Music Fest inside a MAZE

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:05:00 +0000

TROUBLE presents
You Are Here (aka The Maze)
installation & performance festival 2009

September 10 - October 2, 2009
Death By Audio: 49 South 2nd St, Brooklyn
Doors @ 8pm; performances 9pm – late EVERY NIGHT!
open bar by Delicious Beverages Friday – Sunday, 8pm – 10pm
$8 at the door

Participating artists include: TROUBLE (Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris) // Calvin Johnson // Mick Barr // Up Died Sound // Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities // Alexis Gideon // Ty Segal // Regattas // Nine 11 Thesaurus // Sam Mickens // Dome Theater // Mike Pride // Extra life // Pygmy Shrews // Effi Breist // John Fell Ryan // The Coathangers // Desolation Wilderness // Random Cutting // Excepter // Symbol // Zs // Arrington Dionyso // Dan Friel // Mega Calderos // Chuck Bettis // Pterodactyl // Normal Love // Vaz // Make A Rising // Clan of the Cave Bear // Electroputas // High Red Center // The Sian Alice Group // The Present // Loud Objects // Grooms // Symbol // Shooting Spires // Crash Diet Crew // Videohippos // ++ more

You Are Here (The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio from September 10 - October 2, 2009. Emphasizing the sprawling and interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the maze offers a peak inside NYC's diy art/music scene. A meditation on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end as his or hers. Participating artists in the 3-week festival include Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, Zs, Excepter, Mick Barr, Knyfe Hyts, The Present, Loud Objects, Grooms, Effi Briest, Extra Life, Mike Pride, Dan Friel, Ninjasonik, Vaz, Pygmy Shrews, Nine 11 Thesaurus, and many many others.

The following performance schedule should be used only as a loose guide. You Are Here subverts prefab expectations for both audiences and performers—there is no prescribed order, start time or end time, duration, location of performance, relation of audience to performers, and so on. All of the participating artists have been asked to create something site-specific since the performances will, in fact, take place within the maze. Audiences will be asked only to expect something unusual.

More about this year's maze...
The anti-festival festival OR why this festival is different from all other festivals

You Are Here was first presented by Trouble at Chashama's Visual Arts Space in Midtown Manhattan. This year’s maze returns to Brooklyn and is a real for us by us type of affair. You Are Here is a festival drawn from within the scene, not the work of corporate sponsored parties wishing to develop markets. No one gets free shoes or gift bags full of stuff and the festival doesn’t push any specific beverage or brand. This festival also won't fly people in from all over and make a big super-festival. You Are Here is a local affair, mostly local bands will play, and many of them have personal and ongoing relationships with each other and with Trouble. You Are Here is about Brooklyn and about the diy scene in New York in general. It’s about activism and about relationships and about immediacy and not least about a community that, perhaps in spite of the internet, still exists on a local level.

More about TROUBLE (Sam Hillmer and Laura Paris)
You Are Here is also about domesticity in several senses, not least of which is the fact that the artists Trouble (Sam Hillmer and Laura Paris) are in fact a married couple with a child and a home in Bushwick which also houses both of their studios. As any one who is an artist knows, your relationship is either part of your creative life or it’s competing with it. Trouble plants themselves firmly in the first category with their work together on the maze. Together, they are devoted to creating extreme environments that have no exterior, public art both condoned and illegal, and other kinds of visual/sound art intended to be used for some purpose. Their work is about community, spirituality, politics, craft, and beauty. Outreach is a part of all of their projects, as is what they call “in-reach”: designing events that strengthen the ties within the DIY art community and the art world as a whole. The inspiration behind the imagery in this year's Maze project includes "the six realms" from Tibetan Buddhism and other elements of Buddhist cosmological theory.

“Whether you are a big deal or a small deal, there is always some type of deal going on” - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Other partners in this project include Death By Audio, Entertainment for Everyone, Panache Booking, Social Registry, and Build It Green.

For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/youareheremaze

Sept 5 - Xray Eyeballs at the Monster Island art/Music fest

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:53:00 +0000

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH
2 pm til late - Free

2009 MONSTER ISLAND ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL BLOCK PARRRRTY!

Golden Triangle
K-Holes
Knyfe Hyts 81
Cult of Youth
Onieda Jah Division Ensamble
Georgiana Starlington
X-Ray Eyeballs
DubbKnowDubb
Trilateral Commission
Buckets of Blood
Bezoar
DJ Hairwaves
PSychothriller

2 ART OPENINGS
OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS
ALL DAY BBQ AND DJ.

Monster Island
River Street and Metropolitan - by Kent
Williamsburg

Sept 2 - Ropstyle djing at K & M

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0000

I'm spinning with Teamphil
this wednesday, Sept 2nd, for his monthly night
called Space Odyssey
at K & M bar, from 8 pm to 2 am.

Lots of drink specials.

K & M
225 North 8th and Roebling
Wllmbrg

Aug 21 - Xray Eyeballs w/ Freshkills, Dark Vibes

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:21:00 +0000

August 21st - Friday
9 PM - $6

Dark vibes

Xray Eyeballs

Freshkills

at Bruar Falls

245 Grand St btwn Roebling and Driggs
Williamsburg

Aug 20 - Necking at Market Hotel w/ Mirror Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:44:00 +0000

August 20- 9 PM - Thursday

Mirror Mirror
Necking
Dinowalrus
Omega Jarden
Data Dog

at Market Hotel
1142 Myrtle Ave @ BDWY
JMZ TRAIN TO MYRTLE
L TRAIN TO JEFFERSON
G TRAIN TO MYRTLE/WILLOUGHBY

Aug 18 - Xray Eyeballs w/ PRSMS, Gun Outfit, Mystery Lights

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:06:00 +0000

August 18 - Tuesday

9 PM - $6

Gun Outfit (from Olympia, WA)

Xray Eyeballs

PRSMS (members of Rice, Necking)

The Mystery Lights (from Palo Alto, CA)

at Death By Audio
49 South 2nd btwn Kent & Wythe

Aug 15 - Rice w/ All Leather & Chinese Stars

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Saturday - Aug 15
9 PM - $$

All Leather (x-The Locust/Swing Kids)

Chinese Stars

RICE

+ another band

at Death by Audio
49 South 2nd btwn Kent & Wythe

Aug 13 - Necking w/ Piles and Crime Novels at Bruar Falls

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:46:00 +0000

Aug 13 - Thursday
9 PM - $6

Necking

Piles (ex-Numbers, from SF)

Work

Crime Novels (from Oakland)

at Bruar Falls
245 Grand btwn Driggs and Roebling

Aug 8 - Ropstyle djing 29th Bday joint

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Ropstyle and DJ Massimo (Love Or Perish) will be controlling the dancefloor
at Jeff and Nicki's 29th Bday blowout at Dead Herring, Aug 8th.

Aug 3 - Xray Eyeballs on Monday w/ Love or Perish, BCNC

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:33:00 +0000

August 3rd - 8 PM - Monday

Bad Credit No Credit

Xray Eyeballs [Members of Golden Triangle, Necking, Georgiana Starlington, Black Lips]

Jews & Catholics

Love or Perish [ex-Peechees/Winning Looks]

Sleepies

at Death By Audio
49 South 2nd btwn Kent and Wythe
Williamsburg

Aug 2 - Necking on Sunday w/ George Chen-Warren Ng

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:26:00 +0000

August 2 - 9 PM - Sunday

George Chen [Zum Records] w/ Warren Ng [This Invitation]
Necking
Mi & the Pedestals

at Death By Audio
49 South 2nd btwn Kent and Wythe
Williamsburg

July 20 - Tanks Amigo and Xray Eyeballs at Bruar Falls

noreply@blogger.com (The DEATHCHURCH) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:28:00 +0000

July 20 - monday
9 PM

Tanks Amigo (members of Crytal Stilts/Teenage Nightwar)

Xray Eyeballs (members of Golden Triangle/Black Lips/ Necking)

**Frankie (Crystal Stilts) djing all night

at Bruar Falls
245 Grand St btwn Driggs and Roebling