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The Gargoyle
Tuesday, December 1 at 8:00pm
The Gargoyle
Doors @ 8pm, Show @ 8:30
Tickets: Free with WU ID, $10 for public admission
Available at Edison Box Office and online through Metrotix
http://www.thegargoylestl.com
End-of-the-Semester Dance Party! Untz! Untz!
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, December 1st
Location:The Gargoyle
The Gargoyle
The lineup:
-> RJD2: 10 - 12
http://www.myspace.com/rjd2
-> The Paxtons: 9:15 - 9:45
http://www.myspace.com/thepaxtons
-> Illphonics: 8:30 - 9
Doors @ 8 PM
Admission is one food donation per person with your WashU ID or $5. Public admission is $15.
Tickets will be available at the Edison Box Office and online throug...h MetroTix.
Be sure to reserve your ticket in advance. Edison Box Office is currently accepting both food donations and payment (cash or student account).
http://www.thegargoylestl.com
Check out the Hip Hop Against Hunger Week Blog and Facebook page for more news & details: http://wuhiphopweek.wordpress.com and http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16
Get crunk with RJD2, The Paxtons, Illphonics, & DJ Deception + DJ Costnik
Time:6:30PM Saturday, November 14th
Location:The Gargoyle
The Gargoyle
Who: Bred in one of the country’s strongest DIY punk communities, the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based trio Screaming Females have actually got only one shrieking lady. Her name is Marissa Paternoster, and she is 2009’s answer to Sleater-Kinney’s 2006 breakup, using her throaty pipes and serious chops to channel that tr...io’s femme-shredder legacy to a new generation. The band’s pint-size leader — whose signature stage attire includes a mandarin Sergeant Pepper-style dress and a bowl haircut covering her eyes — is known for ripping until her fingers bleed.
Sounds Like: Screaming Females’ third full-length and first-ever label release Power Move is packed with fuzzy riffs and gritty, epic solos layered over Mike Rickenbacker’s disciplined bass lines, with drummer Jarrett Dougherty’s fierce beats pushing it all forward. The LP gets poppy on “Bell” and psychedelic on “Skull,” but Paternoster’s core influences (”I listen to Sleater-Kinney and the Pixies”) shine through. (www.rollingstone.com)
Doors @ 8:30, Show @ 9
Tickets: $5 for Public, Free for WashU students
Tickets available at the Edison Box Office and online through MetroTix.
www.myspace.com/screamingfemales
www.thegargoylestl.com
with Jeff the Brotherhood and Daniel Pujol & ASDFGH
Time:8:30PM Tuesday, October 6th
Location:The Gargoyle
The Gargoyle
Saturday, September 19
7:00 p.m. The Hibernauts St. Louis, Mo. indie rock
8:00 p.m. Capgun Coup Omaha, Neb. indie/surf/punk
9:00 p.m. Chandeliers Chicago, Ill. pop/electronica
10:00 p.m. Atlas Sound Atlanta, Ga. garage/punk
In 2007, the PLAY...:stl Music Festival & Conference was born in the heart of the country: St. Louis, Mo. The first year saw 90 bands on seven stages over two days; year two featured 99 bands over three days. Add the fest's industry panels on top of the showcases and the festival really delivered a big bang for a little buck.
The festival attracts artists and attendees from across the nation...even across the ocean, in some instances. PLAY:stl provides an excellent opportunity for bands to gain valuable exposure, network and learn.
Sponsors of the event are privy to a captive, passionate and creative audience. These are musicians, music lovers and industry folk. They spend their dollars on music and associated businesses, including record labels, recording studios, CD replication, beer/alcohol, energy drinks, hospitality/lodging, tattoos, music magazines, social networking...even education.
www.2009.playstlfest.com
The Gargoyle stage will be at the 560 Music Center on Trinity.
Tickets available online or at the Edison Box Office.
***Tickets much be exchanged for wristbands at will call the day of the
show (at the 560 building)
Price: $5 for students, $15 for public
**Free drink and Chipotle with wristband!
**Tickets are admission for all days and stages for the duration of the
festival
Featuring Atlas Sound, Capgun Coup, the Hibernauts, and Chandeliers
Time:6:30PM Saturday, September 19th
Location:The 560 Building
The Gargoyle
Elvis Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is a folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (an Academy-award nominated screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), and a well known Elvis Presley aficionado, and photographer Berry Berenson, whose work appeared r...egularly in Life magazine. He was raised in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson. Perkins attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Perkins has been known as Elvis since birth; it is not a moniker he pointedly adopted. Perkins was raised in Los Angeles and New York and took to music at an early age. He briefly learned the saxophone before picking up the guitar in high school and taking lessons with Prescott Niles, one-time bassist for The Knack. While he played in rock bands, Perkins also developed an interest in the classical guitar, and began to compose music in both idioms. He also wrote poetry, and that gradually morphed into lyrics. After a short stint at college, he began to cultivate the idiosyncratic, highly personalized style that distinguishes Ash Wednesday.
“It’s been a long journey, long in the coming,” Perkins admits, when he discusses the album, and it took a serious detour on September 11, 2001, when his mother, a passenger on the ill-fated American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, perished in the attack on New York City’s twin towers, a day before the ninth anniversary of his father’s passing. Ash Wednesday has been shaped in part by this tragic event and its aftermath.
Elvis Perkins toured extensively in 2006 and 2007 in support of Ash Wednesday with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, which includes multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough, Wyndham Boylan-Garnett and Nick Kinsey.
Elvis Perkins in Dearland have just announced the completion of their eponymous debut which will be released on March 10th, 2009. (www.last.fm)
Tickets will be available at the Edison Box Office and online through MetroTix.
$10 for public, Free for WashU students
Doors @ 8:30, Show @ 9
www.myspace.com/elvisperkinsindearland
www.myspace.com/aabondy
www.thegargoylestl.com
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 20th
Location:The Gargoyle
The Gargoyle
Peter Bjorn and John formed in 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden, comprising members Peter Morén on vocals, guitar, and harmonica; Björn Yttling on vocals, bass, and keyboards; and John Eriksson on drums, percussion, and vocals. Although influenced by the sounds of classic '60s baroque pop, power pop, and new wave, the band sh...unned the "revivalist" tag and, instead, created some of the most exciting and original indie rock of the mid-2000s. The band began playing gigs soon after forming and eventually found themselves on music compilations alongside artists like Sahara Hotnights, Badly Drawn Boy, and Holiday for Strings. After releasing the Forbidden Chords EP and a pair of singles ("Failing and Passing" and "I Don't Know What I Want Us to Do"), the band released its self-titled first album in 2002 on the tiny Beat That! label.
After more shows, more EPs (People They Know, 100m of Hurdles), and another release of a single ("See Through"), the group jumped to the Planekonomi label in 2004 and released the Beats, Traps and Backgrounds EP. It was soon followed by the 2004 album Falling Out, which was picked up for American release by Hidden Adenda in late 2005. The record placed them -- along with the Concretes, the Shout Out Louds (both of whom Yttling has produced records for), and the Legends -- at the forefront of the sparkling wave of promising pop bands coming from Sweden. The band's third album, Writer's Block, followed a year later and became a minor international hit, buoyed by the catchy single "Young Folks." The song's video also boosted the band's profile, gently propelling Peter Bjorn and John into a very 2000s kind of fame that culminated in them playing the tune with Kanye West at the 2007 Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. After completing their various tours in support of Writer's Block, the band focused on other projects (including Yttling's production work and Morén's 2008 solo album, The Last Tycoon) before coming together to record and release a largely instrumental album, Seaside Rock, in the autumn of 2008. Living Things, the band's fourth full-length album, was released several months later in early 2009. (allmusic.com)
Doors @ 7:30, Show @ 8
Tickets will be available at the Edison Box Office and online through MetroTix.
$15 for the public, Free with WashU ID
http://www.myspace.com/peterbjornandjohn
http://www.thegargoylestl.com
The Gargoyle
Philadelphia indie pop act Dr. Dog is part of a long tradition of D.I.Y. pop oddballs who blend unapologetic '60s pop worship with lo-fi recording techniques and a complete disregard of current trends. R. Stevie Moore's quirky eclecticism is one obvious touchstone, as is their love of the straightforward pop hooks and ...tape hiss of Guided by Voices, Pavement's willfully fractured song structures, and the playful experimentalism of the Olivia Tremor Control and the Apples in Stereo.Dr. Dog began as a part-time offshoot of the more traditional Philadelphia indie rockers Raccoon, whose guitarist Toby Leaman and drummer Scott McMicken recorded the casual, sprawling 35-track set The Psychedelic Swamp as a duo in a basement rehearsal space over the course of several years, finally self-releasing it in 2001. As Raccoon ended, McMicken and Leaman transformed Dr. Dog into a proper band, with McMicken on guitar and Leaman on bass (the two share songwriting and vocals), plus guitarist Doug O'Donnell, keyboard player Zach Miller, and drummer Juston Stens. This lineup recorded 2003's more focused and poppy Toothbrush, which like The Psychedelic Swamp received a low-key, self-distributed release.When My Morning Jacket's Jim James, a friend of Leaman and McMicken from their Raccoon days, hand-picked Dr. Dog to open for his band on an East Coast tour supporting their first major-label album, It Still Moves, the band's almost nonexistent national profile began to rise. With O'Donnell replaced by former Raccoon bassist Andrew Jones and featuring Broken Social Scene-style guest spots from various Philadelphia friends, 2005's Easy Beat was picked up for distribution by the indie label National Parking. Following its release, the band toured again with My Morning Jacket and M. Ward and performed several well-received sets during the 2006 South by Southwest Festival in Austin. The stopgap EP Takers and Leavers was released in September 2006 in advance of We All Belong, which arrived in early 2007. Throughout the rest of that year, Dr. Dog began posting previously unreleased tracks on their website; the songs were later released as Passed Away, Vol. 1 in March of 2008. In the summer of that same year, the group released Fate. (allmusic.com)
You know the drill!
Doors @ 7:30, Show @ 8
Tickets available at the Edison Box Office and online through Metrotix.
$10 public, free with WashU ID
http://www.myspace.com/drdog
http://www.myspace.com/jefflewisband
http://www.thegargoylestl.com
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