MON AUG 3
no show tonight, but come on down and have a beer or twelve.
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TUE AUG 4
CAROL BUI
Carol Bui sings like a woman with perfect posture. The music reels from raucous to serene, and the lyrics run the emotional gamut from chaotic families to foreboding weddings to figuring out how to cyberflirt. But even when she bellows a chorus, tells stories out of school about mother-daughter strife, or bites off a lyric about starving to fit into a dress, Bui's bold tone is steady as a rock. Everyone Wore White is Bui's second LP, following her 2004 debut This Is How I Recover. Bui has been compared to Kristin Hersh, partly because they're both women who tear it up on guitar. But her writing and her fretwork-- equal parts punk, blues, piss, and a pedestal to stand on-- hew closer to those of J. Robbins in Jawbox and Burning Airlines, or, considering her gift for tunes, maybe Heart. Her fierce guitar, matched by cellist Jenny Petrow, creates soaring melodic hard rock with engrossing sincerity-- as Bob Mould has proven, you can't b.s. a cello. Credit Aloha's T. J. Lipple for the drum work and the stellar production, which translates her intensity to record without losing its beauty or nuance. In the tradition of her hometown of Washington, D.C., she's made a punk-bred record where the guitar is loud but the tunes prevail.
Sometimes the mix poises her too angelically above the fray-- for example, the verse of "St. Elizabeth's", before the chorus rages in. And listeners who crave angst might find Bui reserved, although it's hard to picture not being moved by the abused lover on "Hypnagogia" who lists her blows-- and explains, "I can't lose composure." The most striking performance closes the album: she sings the traditional song "Qua Cầu Gió Bay" ("The Wind on the Bridge") a capella, in a tone so powerful it fills in the meaning that's lost if you don't speak Vietnamese. According to one translation online, it's a song about the things you do on a bridge with a boy that you'll never speak of to your ma and pa. And from the sound of her voice, Bui doesn't regret a thing.
KYLE SOWASH
indie/rock
10 PM
$5
21+
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WED AUG 5
OPEN MIC w/ JOE PEPPERCORN
best open mic in town. no foolin.
(sign-ups at 8, performances at 8:15) and will run until about 1:00-1:30.
Performers will be videotaped (with the performers' permission) and their performances will be posted on
http://www.myspace.com/openmictreehouseAlso new, you can message the site (
http://www.myspace.com/openmictreehouse) open mic or send an email to
treehousecolumbus@gmail.com to sign up for a slot (15 minute increments from 8:15 on. I hope all Columbus musicians find this salubrious to their open mic needs.
8 PM
FREE
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THURS AUG 6
THE GARRISON
think fugazi with beer. ex-pop quiz, early empire.
EASE THE MEDIC
Cincinnati City Beat - "The members of ease the medic are veterans of the Columbus scene who came together to explore the sonic territory between Post-Hardcore's visceral power and Math-Rock's cerebral impact. The band's debut EP, Riot on the Gold Coast, is attracting widespread attention and inspiring great press. Dig it: hardcore energy with math rock precision, like a listing on Cursive street by a Sunny Day Real Estate agent."
JINX PALM
jon fintel of relay recording's new band. indie/rock
WINTER MAKES SAILORS
Sean Gardner is Winter Makes Sailor. A one man outfit (sometimes two – with a trumpet player), he has been a part of some of my favorite bands during my stay in Columbus, namely Denovo and Kopaz.
10 PM
$5
21+
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FRI AUG 7
PRESTON FURMAN
This 4-piece started as just 3 young punks, Joe Davis on guitar & vocals, David Andrews on bass & vocals, and Jason Kiernan on drums & cymbals. Banished to Dave's basement surviving on scratchy guitar melodies, slippery bass lines and hyperactive drumming! They emerged a year later as Preston Furman, the lo-fi wonders. Then came the final straw in the form of high-school buddy guitar savant Matt Wagner. With his proclivity toward contagious and dynamic song structure and guitar leads they quickly matured into the full-fledged purveyors of their unique brand of Messy Midwestern Punk! The sound struck a chord with L.F.M. and.... Ticonderoga! was released. A 4-song 7" ep, it quickly became the ..1 requested single on college radio stations like WOUB in Athens. They packed 'em in for their hyper-kinetic live shows. Bodies po-go and shoes fly for these scrappy Ohio punks! Don't be surprised when these boys are BIG STARS ! (Original promo written by Lizard Mcgee of Earwig for LFM records in 1994)
MURDER MYSTERY
Nice people making tight sounds since 1999.
A cool, calm collected mess that explodes on stage...knocking amps, slamming guitars, creating a windmill fiasco designed to excite, expand, and enhance your mind.
Its time to testify!
MR TIGER
indie rock
10 PM
21+
$5
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SAT AUG 8
JOSH FITZWATER AND THE SHAMBLES
About Josh Fitzwater and The Shambles
Josh Fitzwater and The Shambles are a band exploiting their misadventures, trials & tribulations, and painfully brilliant moments that are life. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Josh and The Shambles set out to tell a never-ending story through a head full of words and music. Josh's discerning memory that reminisces about love lost and found and capricious youth is always a few steps behind his journey. The band conveys their anecdotes by painting a scene filled with emotion, sincerity, and a modest portion of sarcasm.
Josh Fitzwater released his debut EP album titled “The Story of We” in March 2008 and he is playing gigs to promote his new tunes. Josh’s music has been described as "funky folk that resonates in your head and in your soul". Allow yourself to become part of their music that chronicles the everyday follies through life and an alacrity for all things that are beautiful.
MONOLITHIC CLOUD PARADE
Monolithic Cloud Parade is the brainchild of Columbus native Corey Fry. The moniker was adopted in the summer of 2006 while driving to California and writing down long strands of random words in order to make a viable band name. Later that fall, Corey decided to challenge himself to learn the guitar and put the band name to use. For two years he wrote and recorded in the middle room upstairs, eventually realizing that he had upwards of a hundred songs deemed listenable by his brother, mom, and girlfriend, so in the fall of 2008 he set out to find a band. A few weeks later, Monolithic Cloud Parade was reborn as a full fledged five piece collective. The newly formed band decided upon 20 or so songs to learn and began practicing throughout the winter. They played a warm-up show for people in Cleveland in February of 2009 for a friend’s birthday party and then began playing for real in Columbus in March. A debut album, “Children With Wolf Heads” is being released in the summer of 2009. It’s a re-imagining of the earliest songs written by Corey, who was in the process of finishing the recording of this album when the band came together. He decided to go ahead with the album, writing and recording one final song for the full band, as a good intro to what Monolithic Cloud Parade once was and a hint of what they have become.
DR MANHATTAN (vagrant records)
Halfway between Mars and the smoke shop, Dr. Manhattan are a funky bunch of space cadets. I mean this in a good way. The new Vagrant signees make art rock that's post-punk more than anything else, but it's charming, clever, intelligible and precisely erratic to the core. More in the spazzy seats, like an unruly little brother to Cursive, than the genre-bending, mind-fucking experimental box, Dr. Manhattan is fresh in a set of all-over-the-place, stage-raping contemporaries like Kiss Kiss, Foxy Shazam and Man Man. The first full-length from the Illinois foursome is a grasping 11-song punch. No, literally, it can sock you in the face.
TRUMAN AND HIS TROPHY
"Their songs were dynamic, typically starting quiet with only voice and keyboards and ending loud and triumphantly. With an emphasis on hooky guitar riffs, herky-jerky rhythms and flannel, this group shows promise and were enough to completely captivate my attention
10 PM
21+
$5
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SUN AUG 9
TV TORSO
indie rock from austin, tx
CHRIS BURNEY OF THE SUN
This Columbus, Ohio four piece has certainly made the buzz machine busy lately. Vocalist Chris Burney and gang have taken garage rock and glorified it with cool, charismatic anthems, electronic programming, and guitar driven fuzz rock that collide with bass-rich hooks and sometimes screaming, sometimes soothing vocals gushing with raw energy. With help from producer Ben Hillier (Elbow, Blur, Doves) and John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Hot Hot Heat), The Sun deliver a big rock sound complete with plenty of bells and whistles, while keeping Burney's clever songwriting in tact. Whether intentional or not, many influences can be heard here, including bits and pieces of Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Violent Femmes, Blur, Pixies and some Pavement, for good measure. Still, The Sun manages to make every song sound like nothing you've ever heard before, and each track take unexpected twists and turns that make it undistinguishable from all others, and taking this manic "rollercoaster ride" approach makes listening to Blame It on the Youth an extremely satisfying experience.
10 pm
21+
$5
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