UPCOMING EVENTS | Music
Woods with MV&EE and Herbcraft Wednesday 09.15.2010, Doors at 8 pm, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8 in advance, $10 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. New York’s Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007’s underground gem At Rear House and 2010’s critically acclaimed At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing. Over the past few years Woods have established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outré company of vocalist/guitarist/label owner Jeremy Earl’s Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Woods’ secret weapon is the quality of Earl’s voice, osmosing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while re-thinking it as a discipline and a tradition. He is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style that is bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. MV&EE, outlaws from the frontiers of folk, will open along with Portland's own Herbcraft, both having recently released the first two albums on Woodsist vinyl-only imprint, Hello Sunshine. |
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Dirty Dishwater: Everything and the Kitchen Sink Thursday 09.16.2010, Doors at 10:00 PM, Starts at 10:30 PM, $9 in advance, $11 at the door, 18+ Buy Tickets Here or visit any Bull Moose Music location The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue, Portland's sex-positive, queer-positive feminist burlesque group, cordially invites you to attend the seasoned sensation, "Dirty Dishwater: Everything And the Kitchen Sink". Think fluidly: wet, flowing liquids, fluidity of all kinds. Abstract or obvious, this show will drip. "Dirty Dishwater" presents a an evening sopping with passion and originality as performers solidify their dewey moments into dance, skits, comedy, striptease and song. Hosted by Drag Princess Bunny Wonderland, the evening of sexual, sensual, erotic and playful performance welcomes to the stage the finely-honed skills of long-term performers as well as those just flooding the scene. Performances also include the dramatic debut of The 90 Minute Blonde, that dynamic dance duo Atomic Trash!, the serpentine Cait Capaldi, and vaudevillian style band Over A Cardboard Sea. |
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Dirty Dishwater: Everything and the Kitchen Sink Thursday 09.16.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $9 in advance, $11 at the door, 18+ Buy Tickets Here or visit any Bull Moose Music location The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue, Portland's sex-positive, queer-positive feminist burlesque group, cordially invites you to attend the seasoned sensation, "Dirty Dishwater: Everything And the Kitchen Sink". Think fluidly: wet, flowing liquids, fluidity of all kinds. Abstract or obvious, this show will drip. "Dirty Dishwater" presents a an evening sopping with passion and originality as performers solidify their dewey moments into dance, skits, comedy, striptease and song. Hosted by Drag Princess Bunny Wonderland, the evening of sexual, sensual, erotic and playful performance welcomes to the stage the finely-honed skills of long-term performers as well as those just flooding the scene. Performances also include the dramatic debut of The 90 Minute Blonde, that dynamic dance duo Atomic Trash!, the serpentine Cait Capaldi, and vaudevillian style band Over A Cardboard Sea. |
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Friday 09.17.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8 pm, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location As a part of his "Acoustic Bicycle Tour," a two-week, carbon-neutral concert tour of New England, Taylor Ho Bynum will bring his original jazz compositions to life with the help of Maine natives Lisa Saffer (voice) and Paavo Carey (tenor saxophone). The tour celebrates both the interconnectedness of the region's creative arts communities and alternative ways of thinking about our world, including a post-oil perspective and an emphasis on regional music on the heels of local food and local economy awareness. Critics have called Bynum "a young brass master and compelling composer" (Boston Phoenix) and "one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation" (Time Out Chicago). |
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Wednesday 09.22.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Originally from Florida, the husband and wife/mc and dj duo of Daisey and Batsauce now reside in Berlin and have travelled across Europe, Asia and the U.S. sharing stages with artists from Method Man to The Roots. Lady Daisey has rocked venues around the globe with a message of love and inspiration, soulfully presented over head nodding Batsauce beats. Her bluesy voice is infused with a hip hop vibe, but retains a classic soul sensibility that recalls Jill Scott and Erykah Badu. |
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Friday 09.24.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $12 advance/$15 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Though conceived as a duo, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel - the he and she music factory known as Mates of State - have never failed to generate a trademark wall of sound built on dozens of varied voicings of keys, drums, and alternately lushly layered and playfully dueling vocals. On their newest album, "re-arrange us," they move beyond these boundaries (their traditional organ sound is a distant memory, replaced with organic piano and synth sounds) with additional instrumentation, not to mention a quantum leap in song craft apparent on instantly indelible gems like "now," "jigsaw" and "get better." Throughout the new album, Kori's piano and the emergence of both Mates' lead vocals from their trademark harmonizing signal the next stage of Mates of State's evolution. We've loved hosting the Mates since all the way back when SPACE started and, with this new album and a summer tour supporting their Covers Mixtape (including Tom Waits and Nick Cave!) under their belt, we're excited to see what they have in store this round. |
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Japanther with Screaming Females Monday 09.27.2010, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. After this evening's reading, Erick Lyle proves he's a jack of all trades and joins headliner band Japanther for a few songs. Part Screamers intensity, part Misfits anthemery, part RZA samples/beats and part Lightning Bolt art/freakshow, Japanther is one of the best, most energetic live shows around and we like them a whole heck of a lot. Last scene at SPACE opening for Ted Leo, Screaming Females are power-pop gone ragged. The New Jersey trio has only one actual screaming female, Marissa Paternoster, who Rolling Stone calls "2009's answer to Sleater-Kinney's 2006 breakup". Let's leave it at this: the band plays until they bleed, and then they play some more. |
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Murder By Death with Samantha Crain and Ninja Gun Thursday 09.30.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8 pm, $12 in advance/$14 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose location They may call Bloomington, Indiana, home, but since their 2000 formation, Murder by Death have been a band without musical borders. Theirs is a world where Old West murder ballads mingle with rock-injected Western classicism; where an album's sequencing can take listeners from a haunted back alley in rural Mexico to a raucous Irish pub. All of which is to say, Murder by Death albums don't just string together songs; they create experiences. With their fifth album (and second for Vagrant), "Good Morning, Magpie", Murder by Death continue the tradition of border expansion that drove career standouts like 2006's "In Bocca al Lupo" and 2008's "Red of Tooth and Claw". The difference, however, is that this time, the band literally went off the map to get there. The fiery folk stylings of Samantha Crain and powerful rural roots rockers Ninja Gun open. |
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Emilia Dahlin - Homecoming Show! Saturday 10.02.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. On the heels of her international tour, Emilia Dahlin is back on home turf. In 2009, Emilia released her awaited forthcoming CD, played a coveted opening slot for Ani DiFranco and in the peak of a booming music career left almost everything (work, house, home, and beloved dog) to embark on a year-long global journey of service and learning that would focus her interests in emergent and ancient trends in regenerative culture. Her weaving of a historian’s imagination with a troubadour’s artistry offers an American original sound that blends vintage jazz, the tang of a Tom Waitsian waltz and the somber grit of a low tide lullaby. Think superstar songwriting sensibilities that balance the smooth of Norah Jones and the groove of Django Reinhardt. Part of the proceeds from the evening will support Poesia Audiovisual, the non-profit project that Emilia collaborated with while in Brazil.Warming up the stage for Emilia’s homecoming performance is the jazz/groove sensation, Ahmad Hassan Muhammad Trio. |
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Deerhoof with Xiu Xiu and Father Murphy Monday 10.11.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $13 advance, $15 day of, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Avant-garde psychedelic pop trio Deerhoof's return to SPACE has been years in the making! Satomi Matsuzaki's vocals alternately bite and coo over John Dieterich's spastic guitar lines and Greg Saunier's dramatic driving drumming. Flopping between infectious childlike melodies and jagged experimental noise, your feet will command you to jump up and down with enough vigor to match the band's hyper-space-jams. At work on a new album for next year, the group is sure to pull out all the stops after being egged on by fellow avant-pop crazies Xiu Xiu opening. Kicking things off is experimental rock trio Father Murphy, to be the first in a trilogy of weird trips and post-punk glitches. |
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Tuesday 11.02.2010, Doors at 8 pm, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ But tickets here or at any Bull Moose location If you missed them this past summer, now is the time to redeem yourself! Montreal trio Land of Talk rock the post-hardcore idiom in the vein of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Tokyo Police Club with frontwoman (and Broken Social Scene alum) Elizabeth Powell's vocals taking notes from the best of early Cat Power. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon produced their most recent record, "Some Are Lakes" to accentuate the band's brittle buzz-saw guitars chime with nagging melodies and crackling emotion, honeyed and broken. Montreal's Suuns open with their dark, propulsive collusion of pop, post-punk and experimental rock. |
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Saturday 11.13.2010, Doors at 1:30 PM, Starts at 2:00 PM, $12 for adults, $8 for kids (ages 3-17), free for children under 3, All Ages Buy tickets here. SPACE Gallery, in association with Bloom Arts & Events, presents Elizabeth Mitchell. A Smithsonian Folkways Recording artist, Mitchell has been recording and performing music for children since 1998. Elizabeth was the first new children's music artist signed to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in the 21st century. She has released four albums of children's music, including her 2006 release, "You Are My Little Bird", which was voted Best Children's Album of 2006 by Amazon.com. Elizabeth has collaborated with musicians including Levon Helm, Dan Zanes, Ella Jenkins, Jon Langford and Ziggy Marley. She can be heard singing a duet with Ziggy on his 2009 release, "Family Time". Elizabeth records and performs with her husband Daniel Littleton and daughter Storey Littleton. They live in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. Elizabeth is a founding member of the band Ida. |
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Sunday 11.28.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $12 advance/$14 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. By combining the blueprint of hip hop with the DIY ethos of punk and a slew of disparate artistic and musical influences, Doomtree has won the favor of a broad range of audiences. They are as likely to find fans at indie rock shows as they are at rap shows or basement dance parties. In the past several years the collective has grown to include the lyrical and production talents of more than a dozen core members. For the first time ever, all members of the Doomtree crew, including P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger, are out on tour to perform an epic night of some of the most forward-thinking beats and rhymes this side of 1987. |
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