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Spring 2013 Flywheel Record Fair Fundraiser
Flywheel Record Fair Sunday April 28th from 10am-3pm
Over 25 vendors selling all sorts of records, cds, tapes, zines.
Free admission.
This event is a fundraiser for Flywheel.
43 Main St. Easthampton, MA
New Member Open House On Monday, March 25th
Are you interested in helping out at Flywheel? Come to the new member open house on Monday, March 25th from 6:30-7:30pm to learn how to get involved as a volunteer. From general volunteering, helping out with the art gallery and booking events at our space, there are so many ways for you to get involved. Come learn how to be a part of this fantastic collective!March 24th: Ladies Music & Gear Night - Volume #1 - Pedal Night
The first of a series of free workshops run by ladies for the ladies! Ladies Music & Gear Night is a way for local lady musicians to meet each other, hang out, talk about gear and music, learn new skills, listen to records, teach each other about different pieces of gear, form new bands, etc. No matter what style of music you play, we have something to show you, and you have something to teach us.
Volume #1 is all about pedals! Distortion pedals, fuzz pedals, chorus pedals, etc. We encourage you to bring along your favorite pedal and discuss it with the group. We will be providing an amp, cab, bass & guitar so that we can play around with the pedals and talk about them: how to get nasty distortion, how to get a really killer clean tone, how different pedals sound with different guitars, etc.
So check it out! Sunday, March 24th at Flywheel, 7pm & free for all ages!
New Member Open House On Monday, February 25th
Are you interested in helping out at Flywheel? Come to the new member open house on Monday, January 25th from 6:30-7:30pm to learn how to get involved as a volunteer. From general volunteering, helping out with the art gallery and booking events at our space, there are so many ways for you to get involved. Come learn how to be a part of this fantastic collective!Feburary 22nd - Locals Only Night Fundraiser
Looking for something to do this Friday night? Head on down to Flywheel for some fantastic fundraising fun! Four local bands will be making some noise & all proceeds benefit Flywheel! Stop by at 8pm, donate $3-5, & enjoy:
GREY SKULL
disintegrated hardcore power trio. hairy, noisy, unpredictable.
MOMS / LIMBS BIN
flywheel stalwarts meghan minior and josh landes are going to collaborate
PERMANENT WAVES
industrial/noise brilliance
WISH FOR SKIN
fascinating bedroom synth balances perversity with introspection
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.
May 21, 2013
6:00 15
Press Ready 101 Class with Sarah Platanitis $15 for ECA+ members and $25 for non-members 6:00-8:00 p.m.
May 23, 2013
7:00pm
Zine library work party
Bring out your inner librarian! Come help catalog, rehouse and organize our zine collection.
May 24, 2013
8pm $8
Broken Water
Sometimes noisy, sometimes droning, often pretty & subtly poppy - very much a product of their hometown of Olympia, WA & equally nodding to the grungy, off-center, not-too-pop pop music prolific in Pacific Northwest since the early nineties (The Melvins, KARP, Unwound) & the eerie, haunting melodies of Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, or Black Tambourine.
Bunny's A Swine
Northampton's own '90s-worshipping awk-slop-pop brigade - they're as cool as Kim Deal.
Funsuck
Lo-fi lady-fronted punk via Northampton & Brattleboro. '79 meets '91 meets '13.
Grammerhorn Wren
Manic, fuzzed-out indie rock from some newcomers on the Western Mass scene. Bang yr head & pogo!
May 25, 2013
7pm $7
Passing Phases
(Sterling, VA. members of Pygmy Lush/Pg.99)
Longings
(Western Mass. members of Ampere/California X/etc)
more tba
May 29, 2013
6:30-7:30 pm FREE
NEW MEMBER OPEN HOUSE
**Because Monday is a holiday, this month the new member open house will be held on Wed, May 29th** Are you interested in helping out at Flywheel? Come to the new member open house on Wednesday May 29th from 6:30-7:30pm to learn how to get involved as a volunteer. From general volunteering, helping out with the art gallery and booking events at our space, there are so many ways for you to get involved. Come learn how to be a part of this fantastic collective!
May 31, 2013
8:00 $5
Ross Wallace Chait & Ian G. McColm
Improvising soundtracks to vintage silent films.
Melissa St. Pierre
Solo prepared piano. Also performing live soundtracks to film.
Thumbknuckle
Bass and drum duo. John Zorn goes AmRep.
June 6, 2013
7:30 pm 6$
Kurt Weisman
Battle Trance
Travis Laplante from Little Women quartet with saxaphones!
TBA
June 8, 2013
7pm
new art in the gallery space | work by:
- DIANA WALDON -
and
- GEMMA FARRELL -
opening reception for the artists with musical performances (to be announced). refreshments will be served. part of the easthampton art walk.
June 9, 2013
8:00 PM
The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act
a new play by members of The Missoula Oblongata
In the wilds of Siberia, Charles Darwin goes off search of the Yeti. The Yeti (if she exists) enters a radio station’s dance contest, hoping to win an all-expenses-paid vacation to a place that doesn’t exist yet. Darwin’s research companion—a little brown bat—falls in love with the radio station’s electromagnetic emissions—but how could that ever end happily? Meanwhile, Siberia’s caves are home to a secretive tribe of ropemakers — but their disintegrating family structure may cause their ancient craft to be lost forever. Through the lens of the real life allegory of the Flywing Wallendas’ famous high-wire act, two performers on a tiny stage unfold Darwin’s laboratory, unfurl anatomic diagrams of the yeti, and try to tease out the difference between miracles and non-miracles. Written by Donna Oblongata (member of The Missoula Oblongata, Wham City, and producer/director of the 2012 production Less Miserable) Designed and performed by Donna Oblongata and Patrick Costello (visual artist extraordinaire and also a star of Less Miserable) Directed by Sarah Lowry (member of The Missoula Oblongata).
June 17, 2013
8pm $8
Cheap Time
Nashville glitter-punk! "Cheap Time still holds their Redd Kross influence close to their heart, yet with further expansion on the 1976-era fork in the road artistic direction, they belligerently steer themselves into unclassifiable categories, akin to when the newly marketed punk label was still being applied to atypical bands like The Quick, Television, The Fast & Milk 'n Cookies, much to the confusion of the record-buying public. While Cheap Time may inconspicuously take more cues from the Dickies, Sparks & Zolar X than anyone else these days, it's their unique assembly of all these incorrigible styles into one cohesive sounding record that makes them rise above the overall current wave of pop music & into the clear forefront of modern rock'n'roll" (In the Red Records).
Imaginary Pants
Pure pop perfection from the Vancouver duo of Jon & Rose, with Rose being the one & only Rose Melberg, of Tiger Trap, the Softies, Brave Irene, etc.
June 18, 2013
8:00 $5
harmoos
On tour with Lovebrrd. Localese left-field folkster.
Lovebrrd
Deformed and beautiful pop. Head honcho over at Lava Church Tapes. Recently he's been playing New Order's "Technique" in its entirety, solo, on a casio. I don't think that's what he's planning for this tour, though.
Hausu
Good ol' heavy and melodic indie-punk. Akin those Swarzenbachian bands of yore. On Hardly Art and from Portland, Oregon.
Abortus Fever
The Old Man On The Hill of Western Mass noise. Completely hermetic scuzz and bleeps.
Tender Cruncher
Hellraiser inspired out of tune synth fuckery. On tour from Florida.
June 20, 2013
Artist talks
June 24, 2013
6:30-7:30 pm FREE
NEW MEMBER OPEN HOUSE
Are you interested in helping out at Flywheel? Come to the new member open house on Monday, June 24th from 6:30-7:30pm to learn how to get involved as a volunteer. From general volunteering, helping out with the art gallery and booking events at our space, there are so many ways for you to get involved. Come learn how to be a part of this fantastic collective!
June 28, 2013
8pm
Mike Faloon
writer from Razorcake fanzine reading from his zine Zisk
Michael Fournier
author of 33 1/3 series "double nickles on a dime" reads from his record review anthology
June 30, 2013
Noise nomads
Belltonesuicide
Insect ark
Cellular chaos
July 9, 2013
7pm $7
PANZRAM
on tour from ft. myers, Florida.
LONGINGS
+ 2 more TBA
July 21, 2013
8pm $12
BIm Skala Bim
Boston Ska
Biege
Steve Westfield's new band
The Royal Swindle
Ska/Reggae/Soul hybrid from southern Connecticut. Made up of former members of The Stepbacks and Sgt. Scagnetti, the band fuses the classic sounds of 60s R&B with ska.
July 27, 2013
Sproton Layer
SPROTON LAYER (Millers’ band from 1969-1970) TO REFORM! The three Miller brothers plus a trumpetist. The band will most likely play a healthy dose of “With Magnetic Fields Disrupted”, recorded 1970, as well as material from their next album, “Press Your Hand and the Whole Room Fluctuates”, recorded 1969-1971, due on World in Sound Records in early 2014. The band has decided not to drop acid again or run around in the woods smoking joints, but this should not keep them from delivering their very psychedelic sound in a convincing manner.