SMOG

WEDNESDAY 3/10
9PM
a night of “post-Radiohead” Wesleyan bands
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+++DUCHAMPION (http://www.myspace.com/duchampionband)
“…irreproachable folk and rock songs, but it expands into their experimental and even, at times, jazzy elements… the quality is superb, and an organic live vibe flows throughout the music.” - FMLY
+++THE SHADE (http://www.myspace.com/theshadeamerica)
deep-water crescendos and jazzy-ass ride cymbals

THURSDAY 3/11
9PM
a night of upping tha punx
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+++ULTRABUNNY (http://www.myspace.com/ultrabunny)
Glam/psych/noise/no-wave/post-shit rock from Danbury, Connecticut.
+++HANGTIME (http://www.myspace.com/hangtimeusa)
Bard’s own scuzzmasters-in-residence.

FRIDAY 3/12
9PM
a night of too many good bands and probably getting shut down by security at 3am whatever
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+++FIASCO (http://www.myspace.com/fiasconewyork)
Brooklyn/Bard three-piece math-punk thrash-y good-times. “Flame-thrower hot and strobe-light blinding, these are frenzied, tempo-turning, speed-tumbling [songs] to burn down the mall by.” - Yes Weekly
+++DRUG ATTIC (http://www.myspace.com/closetmarine)
Bard-based hardcore funny cat pictures and yelling.
+++NOT QUITE DEAD YET (http://www.myspace.com/notquitedeadyet11)
NYC post-punk Modern Lovers-influenced talk rock.
+++LIONSHARE (http://www.myspace.com/lionshareprofiteers)
Brooklyn hip-hop about zebra cakes, ambien/ambience, and cotes du rhone in coastal homes.
+++BONZAI (http://www.myspace.com/banzainewyork)
Brooklyn math-y head-bopping loud.
+++BRIDGES AND POWERLINES (http://www.myspace.com/bridgesandpowerlines)
NYC “now that’s power” music - Pitchfork

SATURDAY 3/13
9PM
a night of noise and nookie
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+++THE SEDIMENT CLUB (http://www.myspace.com/thesedimentclub)
Bard/Brooklyn beautiful-er xxx-perimental punk.
+++STRANGER DANGER (http://www.myspace.com/strangerdangerrr)
Allentown, PA noisy two.
+++THE GENUINE IMITATIONS (http://www.myspace.com/genuineimitations)
White Plains, NY threesome. They have a song about J. Edgar Hoover.

FRIDAY 3/5
9PM
a night of dance drone tribe hollering drums on drugs
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+++TEETH MOUNTAIN (http://www.myspace.com/teethmountain)
sick Baltimore Wham City band with “an astonishingly heavy and bouncy drone-dance style, thick with grainy bowed cello and indebted to Indian and north African trance music—plus they use an organ in a way that ought to get them arrested for indecent exposure.” -The Chicago Reader
+++NiAO (http://www.myspace.com/sailingrecords)
NY-based “majestic, primal and pre-human beastliness” -Forest Gospel
+++PRINCE RAMA (http://www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya)
Brooklyn 3-piece that “marries old-time Americana to the acid-spiked freedom of percussive mantras and Asian devotional music in a fresh and unforced way.” -MOJO

SATURDAY 3/6 (early show)
8PM
a night of folksy, grassy, curled-up-next-to-a-fire, springtime’s coming
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+++HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF (http://www.myspace.com/hurrayfortheriffraff)
all the way from New Orleans female-vox cozy shit
++++WILL GANTRIM & THE PHANTOMS (http://www.myspace.com/wgantrimandthephantoms)
banjo-picking raspy-voice NY love

SATURDAY 3/6 (late show)
10PM
a night of refreshing hip-hop
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+++BRANCHEZ (http://www.myspace.com/branchezbeats)
Bard’s own “refreshing hip-hop producer.” -Branchez myspace

SMOG PRESENTS: Weasel Walter. NYC No-Wave Lecture @ MPR ThirstyThurs. March 5th, 5:30pm (pronto)- BARD COLLEGE

SMOG in conjunction with WXBC is proud to announce a very special lecture with composer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter from XBXRX and The Flying Luttenbachers. Weasel Walter will be talking about the influence and history of the NYC No-Wave sound, complete with rare footage and audio from bands involved in the movement. To get a taste of what will be covered in the lecture check out his website @ http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/nycnowave_index.html.

I got a chance to see WW at The Smell about a month ago with Mike Watt from The Minutemen. Show was epic to say the least. I usually associate  Weasel with jazzy metallic xtra free improvisational type stuff, but this gig I caught him at was more along the lines of punk, late seventies style but with a lot of noise, dissonant chords and feedback. Three guitarists, drums (WW), bass (MW), and the ill sax player, wish I could give you the names of the rest of those that played that night. See www.myspace.com/weaselwalter for more information on his sound and tour dates.