Keep an eye on this space for info on upcoming meeting dates, events, and performances.
Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:30pm free EASTHAMPTON PEACE COMMITTE'S FILM SERIES: SICK AROUND THE WORLD
Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? Let's
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Monday, February 6, 2012 8pm Free  A EVENING WITH ALICE BAG AND DONNA LETHAL
Alice will be speaking and reading from Violence Girl, her recently published book.
Alice will also be performing a few songs with local musicians Ally Einbinder (Honeysuck, Outdates, Pottymouth) and Meghan Minior (Ampere, Siamese Twins, Wont Belong)
Alice's friend Donna Lethal will also be reading from her book- Milk of Amnesia.
Alice Bag was the lead singer of the Bags, the first female fronted punk band to play the Masque during the West Coast punk revolution of 1977. Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage is the story of her upbringing in East LA, her eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first punk wave. Violence Girl reveals how domestic abuse fueled her desire for female empowerment and sheds a new perspective on the origin of
hardcore, a style most often associated with white suburban males.
The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement. Alicia adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris’ documentary The Decline of Western Civilization.
Here is a life of many crossed boundaries, from East L.A.’s musica ranchera to Hollywood’s punk rock; from a violent male-dominated family to female-dominated transgressive rock bands. Alice’s feminist sympathies can be understood by the name of her satiric all girl early Goth band Castration Squad. Violence Girl takes us from a violent upbringing to an aggressive punk sensibility; this time a difficult coming-of-age memoir culminates with a satisfying conclusion, complete with a happy marriage and children. |
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 7pm $7  WAXAHATCHEE
Katie from PS Eliot and Bad Banana returns to flywheel with her incredible solo project. Her new LP "American Weekend" out soon on Don Giovanni records. PARASOL
heavily melodic pop songs from Boston. MANQUE
evie writes amazing acoustic songs. from VT/Boston. CALIFORNIA X
new band from Amherst kicking out some serious 90's inspired jams. |
Friday, February 10, 2012 7pm $8 HAPPY VALLEY GUITAR ORCHESTRA
HVGO is a true avant-garde community orchestra, comprised of 20 talented, enthusiastic, acoustic and electric guitarists from widely varied traditions. HVGO creates new and beautiful music that could only come from such an eclectic melange, inspiring musicians to work together who might otherwise never collaborate. |
Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:00 am Free SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC PARTY
Join DJ Youthelectronix for the best ever dance party before noon! FREE PANCAKES!
KIDS ACTIVITIES!
PANCAKE MOUNTAIN
A locally produced DIY kids show based in Washington DC. We will watch one episode while we eat pancakes! Event #1 in our 4 part Saturday Morning Music Party kids music series. Sponsored by Flywheel, Hilltown Families and Spare the Rock, Spoil The Child.
Join us for pancakes, activities and DJ Youthelectronix 8:00pm 8$ RIVERSIDE ARTS BENEFIT CONCERT
Every individual has the potential to flourish through the creative process. Participating in the arts gives individuals the sense of purpose, self-empowerment, and community. Exhibitions of work are opportunities to share these accomplishments thereby fostering awareness in the broader community.
BODY/HEAD
kim.g and bill nace will throw down some guitar wizardry DREDD FOOLE
dan ireton will blow us all away.. HONEYSUCK
up the ponx. READINGS BY BYRON COLEY AND C.S. WARD
Folks are also encouraged to bring art supplies to donate to Riverside Arts! |
Sunday, February 12, 2012 6:30 pm FLYWHEEL GENERAL BODY MEETING
8pm $7  BRILLIANT COLORS
Inspired by post-punk fervor, the spiky pop of C86 & early Flying Nun/Creation label output, the ladies of San Francisco’s Brilliant Colors (on the esteemed Slumberland Records label) spiked their punk-pop swirl with their own special grit. POTTY MOUTH
Four Western Mass grrrls named after a Bratmobile album. What's not to like?! SPEEDY ORTIZ
Step into the time machine & travel back to the lo-fi '90s. Boston Music calls them "a defeatist Helium or a sunburnt Pixies" - we approve. BABY BARNYARD
Amanda will charm you with some psychedelic dream-pop straight out of David Lynch. |
Friday, February 17, 2012  WHISTLE JACKET
Whistle Jacket, once described as "whimsical ambassadors of good cheer" play rock and roll in a way that is odd and familiar, but not oddly familiar. They might make you dance even if you can't dance and sing along even when you don't know the words. HENNING & LESA
Lesa is the leader of The Fawns. Henning is the headmaster of School for the Dead. Tonight they combine their songs into a pared down intimate performance. SARAH SMITH
Sarah Smith, or "Hoonah" is a whisperer in the night who soothes with the power of 20 bear paws. YOUNG & OLD
Young & Old plays rock music in an interesting yet uncluttered manner leaving some place for dancing should you be so inclined. It's the fourth annual "Great Mix-CD Mix-Up". We ask those in attendance to create a mix cd or tape (artwork is appreciated) to exchange for a mix made by someone else. |
Thursday, February 23, 2012 MICHAEL HALETA, MATT WELLINS AND SARAH HALPERN
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Sunday, February 26, 2012 |
Monday, February 27, 2012 TEENAGE COOL KIDS
AMPERE
GLOBSTERS (KENTUCKY)
LIMBS BIN
TWERPS (AMHERST)
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:00pm SHARP $7 RANGDA
"Sir" Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) & Chris Corsano. Psychedelic guitar rock of epic proportions. These guys killed at Flywheel back in September 2010 and they shall kill again. LP/CD still available on Drag City BUNWINKIES
Western Mass maestros of the mystery-volk gesture. Named after some well-bred rabbits of Martha Burr Banks’ invention, related by birth to Jow Jow Feath Knell Rung, many of the questions here are posed by Beverly Ketch’s plaintive vocals, all of them edged with a wide-eyed wonder I suspect was a ruse if I didn’t know her. Some of the bits ring like a full-fledged folk-rock oyster. Very goddamn elegant... -- Byron Coley
FLAMING DRAGONS OF MIDDLE EARTH
Turner Falls’ Flaming Dragons Of Middle Earth. Led by wheelchair-bound ‘band shaman’ Danny Cruz and consisting of a rotating group of non-musicians, psychedelic drop-outs, teenage metallers, kids with Down Syndrome etc, Flaming Dragons play a form of super crude/sophisticated free rock ala The Godz or even a punk-primitive Arkestra but with Cruz’s stunning, oracular vocals giving them a mainline to the freak flag style of prime Captain Beefheart, Roky Erickson and Wasa Wasa-era Broughton. Cruz’s instant lyric inventions are as mind-boggling as your favourite medium while the group lurch around on staggering brokedown rhythms somewhere between early-Sabbath, Robbie Yeats of The Dead C and The Shaggs. Their material ranges from stripped-down raps to lumbering psychedelic rock, as well as free-form freakouts w/lyrics that obsess over murder, bloodshed, astral creeps and, uh, Joni Mitchell... indeed Cruz makes most ‘sound poets’ sound like children’s entertainers. -- David Keenan |
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
Sunday, March 4, 2012 7pm free  "HEAD" FILM SCREENING
"Head" is a psychedelic, non-linear motion picture starring... THE MONKEES. While not participating in a traditional narrative, the film retains a cyclical structure. Cyclical, in this instance, by that one can take nearly any scene, rearrange it and the action will still relate and have meaning in its new place. Is it a Western? A comedy? A drama? A musical? A war story?
Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of the Monkees television series, made his feature directorial debut with 1968's Head. He co-wrote the film with the then obscure Roger Corman school B-movie actor Jack Nicholson.
Although, in 1968 the film proved to be an immense commercial failure, "Head" has become a cult classic and an excellent artifact in the colored history of the Monkees. Rafelson continued his maverick approach to cinema and is now considered one of the most revered directors and producers of his generation.
The screening will be preceded by a short lecture from celebrated songwriter/drummer and Monkees enthusiast Brian Marchese. |
Friday, March 9, 2012 8pm $7 MV & EE
STEVE GUNN
TBA
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Saturday, March 10, 2012 8pm $5  TREVOR WON'T
San Francisco noise-pop trio self-described as "shoegaze via 1980s US punk/indie, like Wipers, Mission of Burma or Swirlies doing the great 4AD songbook". Yes please! CALIFORNIAX
Classic indie rock from Amherst stripped back to its early '90s roots. Heavy guitars & fuzzy vocals, perfect for pulling out your Superchunk & Dinosaur Jr albums (and your old flannel shirts). PSYCHIC BLOOD
Scabby Corsage blog described them thusly (and aptly): "fuzzed out sittin’ on a beanbag staring at a lava lamp in a cloud of bong smoke thing in your best friends parents basement back in 1989 listening to your friends' older brothers' copy of EVOL (without his permission) because the girl on the front makes you feel weird". MISSING DATA
Three kids, three copies of "Our Band Could Be Your Life". Alternately: Someone recently told them they were reminiscent of Unwound. |
Sunday, March 11, 2012 6:30 pm FLYWHEEL GENERAL BODY MEETING
Open to all |
Friday, March 16, 2012 7pm $12  EISLEY
THE VALLEY: a low point between peaks. That’s where the DuPree sisters who front Eisley were as they crafted their third album: Sherri enduring a failed marriage; Chauntelle, a broken engagement; and Stacy, a painful breakup. The only relationship that ended on their terms was the split with Warner Bros. Records. Arising from the depths, Eisley has reappeared with new personal relationships, a new label (Equal Vision Records) and a new album completed on their own: “The Valley.” Promising to bring listeners through the band’s darkest and most trying times, “The Valley” reveals their strength, patience and perseverance. It signals a victorious climb out of their darkest valley. With it, Eisley has managed to put forth their greatest and most personal album yet. MARKSMEN
Alternative/Indie rock from Tampa,FL CHRISTIE DUPREE
Christie DuPree is a singer-songwriter from Texas. She is the younger sister of Chauntelle, Sherri, Stacy, and Weston DuPree and the cousin of Garron DuPree - all members of the band Eisley. Tickets for the show will be pre-sold via PayPal. They are $12 with a .75 service fee. No physical tickets will be mailed, your name will appear on a list at the door the night of the show.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:00 $8 LICH KING
Return of the Pioneer Valley thrash titans! KATAHDIN
First Flywheel show since the release of their split with In Human Form and Aoi CRYPTER
Teenage headbangers rock like Kreator! TBA
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 |
Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:00 am FREE R.O.C.K.
The Royal Order of Chords and Keys is a family music "kindie" band featuring Aric Bieganek on vocals and guitar, Hans Dalhaus on drums and David Picchi on bass. Together they form the hardest rocking band for families in the world. Period. Event #3 in our 4 part Saturday Morning Music Party kids music series. Sponsored by Flywheel and Spare the Rock, Spoil The Child.
Join us for pancakes, activities and live music. |
Friday, April 13, 2012 Drs: 8:00pm Shw:8:30 $7  CITAY
Structured around the songwriting of Ezra Feinberg, this formerly San Francisco-now-New York-based collective has been releasing music on the Dead Oceans record label since 2007 that integrates the sounds/styles of "Led Zeppelin, Eno/Fripp, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Popul Vuh and ELO". Epic, catchy. and dreamy! PG SIX
Pat Gubler is no stranger to Flywheel. As a solo artist and a member of Tower Recordings he has been performing his unique blend of 60s British folk, country rock, & experimental music for 18+ years. TRUMMORS
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 OUTLOOK
HC on tour from Olympia, WA |
Friday, April 27, 2012 JACK BURTON VS. DAVID LO PAN
+TBA
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 LADYFEST EASTHAMPTON BENEFIT SHOW
More details to come!! |
Monday, April 30, 2012 7pm $7 POST TEENS
on tour from gainesville, FL. (membs of Torche, Dead Friends and Asshole Parade) |
