Hacke & de Picciotto at a small bookstore. Should be pretty great

I’ll be in Abilene this weekend and unable to attend, but Black Leather Jesus are playing Houston Saturday night

However, I will be attending the Peter Brotzmann / Heather Leigh show in May : )

I've got Black Moth Super Rainbow coming up in a few days. Really been wanting to see them for awhile now. Really, REALLY small venue too. One of my favs to see shows at.

I didn’t realize they were still active......even a new album last year. There music is great on mixtapes. Enjoy the show!

I just went to a gig of one of my friends. Her band was co-headlining with the Atlanta-based outfit Material Girls. I didn't know them beforehand, but now I do, oh do I. That was a fucking phenomenal gig. They're a fine blend of early 80s Dancepunk in the vein of Bush Tetras or Delta 5, some James Chance-esque jazzy No Wave, dark bluesy crooning a la Crime And The City Solution or early Nick Cave and some gloomy slow Goth numbers with a certain Siouxsie twist. And they fucking milked it for all it's worth. They would constantly change the parts they were playing. Four of them got to sing a few tracks, each of them in their destinct style. And they would pass around instruments like it was some kind of currency - with highly energetic antics to boot. And that sweet bass. Fuck, I'm impressed.

Hey, thanks, man. I will enjoy it!

Yeah, I did not realize they were still active either until I saw them listed on the venue's website. That album also totally slipped under my radar.

I'm seeing The Renderers on Saturday which I'm very excited about

From New Zealand?
Are they touring the UK (if so)?

Yes from New Zealand. Don't know about a tour but they are paying in London

They fb page only mentions a London show and doesn't say anything about a tour

OK, thanks - too little time for me to make it down to London, unfortunately. Shame because they're a great band, would've loved to see them.

Hope you enjoy the gig.

I saw Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano play solo sets and then as duo on Friday and it was incredible

I was planning to see Twig Harper and Bill Nace in London at the end of the month but now contemplating grabbing a ticket for Colour Out of Space festival and seeing them there instead

Bill Nace is playing with Samara Lubelski a few days after COoS at Iklektik

My gig schedule for the next few months:

Chie Mukai
Glands of External Secretion, Bill Nace + Twig Harper
Bill Nace + Samara Lubelski
Pain Jerk & Russell Haswell
Maya Dunietz playing the music of Tsegue Mariam Guebrou
Constant Mongrel
Apartment House playing Linda Catlin Smith
A performance of a new piece of music by Catherine Lamb
And a couple of other things hopefully

Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise in less than an hour.

Enjoy it! Never seen Lydia, but would love to. Very jealous.

Probably not hitting all these, but this is my "of interest" list for upcoming shows:

6/13 - Thundercat - Tower Theater
6/24 - Bela Fleck and Flecktones / Victor Wooten
6/27 - American Football - Dallas - Trees
6/30 - Appleseed Cast - 89th Street Collective
7/1 - X - Tower Theater
7/12 - Broncho/Colourmusic/Deerpeople
7/22 - Built to Spill - Tower Theater
7/26 - We Were Promised Jetpacks - Dallas - Club DaDa
7/28 - Alice Cooper - OKC Zoo
8/8 - Pedro the Lion / MeWithoutYou - Tower Theater
8/9 - Pedro the Lion / MeWithoutYou - Dallas - Canton Hall
8/14 - This Will Destroy You - Tower
9/29 - Nick Offerman - Criterion
10/7 - Animal Collective - Cain's Ballroom
10/20 - Tenacious D - Criterion
10/22 - Wilco - Cain's Ballroom
10/24 - Explosions in the Sky - Criterion
11/8 - Sleater-Kinney - Dallas - House of Blues

Tenacious D are doing shows? Oh man. I’ve always wanted to catch them live!!

Yeah, I am pretty excited about that one, actually. Just for the good times it should be. They look to have a short Europe stint booked, then about 20 U.S. shows scheduled.

Neil Young is coming by in July with Promise Of The Real. Heavily contemplating to go, so I probably will, even though I would much rather see him again with the Crazy Horse. He's the only artist I would pay the big money for. Standing ticket was like 85 Euros



Also Graham Nash. Not sure yet if I would be seeing him though, but it's half the price as Neil