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Rangda (Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano, Sir Richard Bishop) Thurs. Sept. 2nd
Rangda is a new trio comprised of guitarists Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), drummer Chris Corsano and named after the child-eating Balinese Demon Queen. Their first LP "False Flag", out now on Drag City, is in someways reminiscent of the Girls at their noise-blasted free-skronk best. Wheras, in the past Bishop's guitar work frequently utilized Eastern motiffs, here the twin guitarists stick to more American sounding Psych Rock and No Wave zones as well as Minimal Feedback Drone. Corsano keeps the fire burning throughout and lends in auxiliary organ and clarinet. The record shoud be a blueprint for an exhilarating live set.
++Major Stars and Unmuzzled Ox (Sunburned w/ Paul Flaherty)++
the show costs $8 and starts promptly at 8:30pm
North American Underground
This Wednesday's show (August 12th) at Flywheel features members of some of the Western Hemisphere's finest experimental musicians. Alexander Moskos from Aids Wolf, John Elliot from Emeralds and Jenny Graf from Metalux. Hope to see you all there...Danny Cruz's Birthday Celebration at Flywheel
Come one, come all!!! Help celebrate Danny Cruz's 18th birthday on Saturday afternoon (starting at 2pm) with this FREE HELLFIRE FEST!!! ((donations will be gathered for out of town band(s))) Expect the unexpected! Expect intrigue!! Expect good wholesome fun, food and games!!!!!!!!
Danny is the lead singer and GURU of Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth and he will be hosting the festivities and guest singing and picking with most, if... not all of the bands, as well as performing with his own group. This is your perfect chance to find out what Flaming Dragons is all about. Bring an instrument and join in on the fun. To get a taste of the FDOME experience click HERE.
This will also be a pre-release party for Danny's first LP coming out in a few weeks. There will be an "auction" for special art editions of the test pressings.
other performers:
The Bunnybrains - schlock rockers in longstanding disarray
Grey Skull - ultimate doom with addition of Danny on gtr/vox
Egg Eggs - mems. of fat worm, frothy shakes, barn owl + j. callahan
Cave Bears - first show of original trio carrie/mary/nick in 2 years!!!
Chris Manz - first music show. collabs with yximallo, n. hamburger
Fat History Month - boston post this and that totally amazing
Ugh God - philly expri-mental ball-kicking jamz
REMEMBER THIS IS A DAYTIME EVENT - COME PREPARED AT 2PM
Join The Parade!
Flywheel will be marching, walking drumming and making music in Easthampton's 225 Birthday Party Parade Saturday June 19th! Please Join Us! All ages are welcome!
What will we do?; We will walk and some of us will drum, play kazoos, etc. Children will blow bubbles, dance, and wave their flags.
Just the Facts: The details for the day of the parade:
Parade Starts at Easthampton High School
Flywheel is number # 55
Be there between 9:30 and 9:45. Parade starts at 10:30
we will walking about one mile to Eastworks
ALSO The organizers are holding a LARGE Puppet building workshop Friday evening June 11 and Saturday June 12 is for adults and for kids over 12. Call if you are interested in joining them: (413) 887-7837. You should go if you can!
More Info about Easthampton's 225: www.easthampton225.com/events.html
How to get involved
Are you creative? Would you like to connect with a wide range of artists, musicians, and people who share your interests?
If you answered "Yes, indeed!", Flywheel could be for you.
Join us for an Introductory open house/New Volunteer Meeting
June 28 at 7 pm 43 Main Street Easthampton, MA
Get Into It
About Flywheel
Flywheel, a collectively run, not-for-profit space, aims to build community and give artists of all types the opportunity to craft, practice, and perform their work in an environment where creativity is valued over profit. Volunteer-run and governed by consensus, Flywheel believes that art and information should be equally accessible and affordable to all people. The all-ages, alcohol- and drug-free space features a cafe, zine library, performance space, and an art gallery. LEARN MORE ABOUT FLYWHEEL.
Events Calendar
Keep an eye on this space for info on upcoming meeting dates, events, and performances.
September 2, 2010
8:00 $8
Rangda
New trio comprised of guitarists Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), drummer Chris Corsano and named after the child-eating Balinese Demon Queen. Their first LP "False Flag", out now on Drag City, is in someways reminiscent of the Girls at their noise-blasted free-skronk best. Wheras, in the past Bishop's guitar work frequently utilized Eastern motiffs, here the twin guitarists stick to more American sounding Psych Rock and No Wave zones as well as Minimal Feedback Drone. Corsano keeps the fire burning throughout and lends in auxiliary organ and clarinet. The record shoud be a blueprint for an exhilarating live set.
Major Stars
"Six people trying to recreate the entire original Isle Of Wight concert". RIP Twisted Village
Unmuzzled Ox
Paul Flaherty + Sunburned Hand of the Man
September 3, 2010
8pm 8$
sweet apple
dave,tim,john and j. are gonna rock
heavy cream
garage punk.
rubber leather
blow your mind.
September 4, 2010
8:00PM $5
Grey Skull
penetrated by Horse Spirit's Will
Human Adult Band
"Wiped out primitive jams and subliminal logic lyrics that successfully channel the energies and otherworldliness of the psychotic trance state. Zombie Viking moans coming and going according to deep subliminal logic–haunted pile driving ghost music” - Blastitude
Rotten Apples
September 5, 2010
7:30 pm $10
noveller
animal hospital
unFact
b.nace
September 9, 2010
7:30pm
General Body Meeting
Since there is a show, we will meet elsewhere in the building or outside. Come to the meeting to find out!
7pm $7
AMPERE
local punks.
ZANN
on tour from Germany.
GODS and QUEENS
on tour from PA. (x-lick golden sky)
VELOZ
Brutality from Boston. (x- Furnace, Genders.)
A SHADOW OF A DOUBT
new band from Wmass.
September 11, 2010
5-8 pm
Easthampton Art Walk
Erik Patterson
paintings in the Gallery Sept 11 - Oct 2
Come out and support local art! Check out all the fun stuff going on around town for this months art walk!
September 16, 2010
7 pm 5
poetry readings and music
Emma N. Young, Beverly and Shannon Ketch, Crystalline Roses, Greg Beson more tba
September 18, 2010
8:00pm $8
Elf Power
Elf Power has been unleashing their twisted dream pop on the world since 1994 (thats 16 years dude!). This is their third (maybe fourth) time to Flywheel and the first to our new space. It will be awesome!
Major Organ and the Adding Machine
A short film based on the self-titled concept album by Major Organ and the Adding Machine.
The Needy Visions
Head boppin' bounce pop from the inner regions of the MA I-495 vortex.
September 20, 2010
7:30pm
General Body Meeting
September 21, 2010
8pm
moon duo
mv+ee
September 22, 2010
7PM
DES ARK
performing solo.
DANIEL STRIPED TIGER
post-hardcore from Boston.
ANIMAL LOVER
jesus lizard style riffs on tour from North Dakota.
CERTAIN DEATH
new project from wmass. (memb. of SQRM)
September 23, 2010
8 pm $5
CORRIDORS (Byron Westbrook)
"working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images"
Mike Wexler
Long-form drone/songs
Father and Son (Dave Gross/Jack Callahan)
Local improv (long story)
Great Drought
Drone boyz
September 24, 2010
8pm $5
Banditas
All-female garage-country from Boston! Points of reference: Holly Golightly, Loretta Lynn fronting the Vivian Girls.
NYC UFOs
Formerly known as Neighbors. Shoegazing fuzz-pop from Northampton!
Sitting Next To Brian
Equal parts trippy psychedelia, jangly indie pop & bubblegum harmonies - delicious!
Baby Teeth
Noise-pop duo from Brattleboro!
September 25, 2010
8pm $12
Evan Dando
Evan Dando of The Lemonheads solo
Janet Labelle
Acoustic/Indie from NYC.
The Jupiter Sea
Local Indie rock
Pre-sale tickets are available via PayPal for $12 with a service fee of .75˘. Just click below!
September 26, 2010
8:00pm $6
Baylies Band
Baylies Band have played shows with Lightning Bolt, Arab On Radar, 6 Finger Satellite, Landed, Neptune, and for some reason Staind and Godsmack. 2/3 of their early recording lineup did a full length cd on Load Records as A Stoveboat. Eric Baylies also plays in Philly based Temple Of Bon Matin (Bulb,Spirit of Orr,Stiltbreeze) who have toured Europe,Asia and about 40 states, playing shows with Boredoms, USA Is A Monster, Andrew WK, Gang Gang Dance, Thurston Moore, Psychic TV. Eric has played or recorded with members of Sun Ra, The Stooges, and Acid Mothers Temple. Well that's a lot of guilt by association, but what does their music sound like? Expect raw psych heaviness and wah wah.
Normal Love
Featuring members of Zs and Satanized, this Philadelphia math/noise/composer's group reads their highly dynamic tunes off of sheet music, without losing the visceral quality of their rawer contemporaries.
Whore Paint
Risen from the ashes of a pre-post-feminist rage-fueled dystopia, Whore Paint claims a Riff Rock/No Wave/Crooner Shred hybrid as the only suitable expression of political discontent, borderline social anxiety, occasional violent outbursts, sexual discernment, periodic bouts of euphoria, and whatever that feeling is you get after a good high five. Members of Arcing/Teenage Waistband/Made In Mexico. From Providence.
TBA...
September 27, 2010
7:00pm
New Member Open House
The New Member Open House is the first step towards becoming a volunteer at Flywheel. Whether you want to learn how to book shows, work the door or run the cafe or just become involved in the collective, all interested parties are invited to learn more about volunteering at Flywheel.
September 28, 2010
Arrington De Dionyso & Malaikat Dan Singa
Arrington De Dionyso of Old Time Relijun brings his Indonesian Free Jazz ensemble to the Flywheel. Expect throat singing/screaming/hooting, trance out on electric bass and drums and bleating and wailing bass clarinet solos
Happy Jawbone Family Band
The Hotel Double Tragedy is constantly burning. You will be too with these new hits from the family! Simply listen to the album at a decent volume and watch your life fall apart. We were thinking of releasing this album under the pretense that it was found under the bed of a dead priest who was the grandfather of a couple of members of the Vaselines, but we thought better of it. You deserve the TRUTH! You deserve magic in POP ATTITUDE! You deserve ONE ANCIENT JANGLE! In ten seconds FLAT! You deserve the HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND!!!
We Love You plays the music of FETISH
FETISH is a band with Dave Gross, Mike Bullock and Tatsuya Nakatani from about ten years ago. screaming noise. now with Polly Hanson as Tatsuya.
October 8, 2010
7pm $6
VACCINE
local edge violence. It's like '81 SS Decontrol shredding their way through the b-side of Napalm Death's Scum.
VELOZ
A New band from the Boston area brought to you by some of the members of Furnace (MA) and Genders(CT). If you like your riffs brutal and heavy then this is a band not to miss. this is the kickoff show for their fall tour!
NATURAL LAW
new hardcore from NYC/NJ. Members of Black Kites.
CREEPER
on tour from Canada
HOST
NH Hardcore.
October 9, 2010
5-8
Art WAlk
8:00PM $5
Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio
without Rhys Chatham! But with Matt Weston, and others.
October 17, 2010
7pm $7
JEFF The Brotherhood
Garage/Punk/Rock N Roll From Nashville,TN.
Black Churches
October 21, 2010
7pm $7
David Dondero
Acoustic/folk/Indie
Lion Cub
Local two piece indie rock
October 24, 2010
8 pm $8
AIDS Wolf
Bunnies
October 27, 2010
HOLD for the Intelligence, etc
October 31, 2010
6pm $7
Dubious Liftings Festival
Feeding Tube Records presents the seventh installment of this semi-regular festival of Strange & Lovely Musics. We've moved from a rocky incline, to an art studio, to a crowded Northampton domicile, to an outdoor park, to a record store, to a bar, to a bookstore and we've finally found our home at Flywheel. Past performers have included Ambergris, Bromp Treb, Mudboy, Crank Sturgeon, Ducktails, Id M. Theft Able, Bunny Brains, Cave Bears, MV+EE, Prince Rama of Ayodhya, Liz Tonne/Greg Kelley/Vic Rawlings, Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof, Big Kids, Grey Skull, Visitations & Tarp. This Halloween, all ages, starting at 6pm:
Shea Mowat
AM Frank
Exusamwa
Greg Kelley / Ryan Jewell
Peace, Loving
more tba
November 5, 2010
7pm
DIET COKEHEADS
sludgy aggressive sounds with alternating dual vocals. on tour from Gainesville, FL.
FOREIGN OBJECTS
post punk from Boston/wmass. membs of the conversions, ampere, the libyans and Posi force.
+ more TBA
November 6, 2010
8:00PM $5
Matt Weston
CD release show!