Showing posts with label double awake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label double awake. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

Double Awake - Leaving Nowhere Forever (self released, 2010)


Double Awake - Drooling Tears








This dude kinda came outta nowhere in Boston. One night I went to a noise show where he was opening for Geoff Mullen & KFW which he totally owned, next thing I know he's also playing in the psych outfit Mind Yeti, booking shows as Slow Blood Music, playing live every chance he gets, and banging out screen printed CD-Rs like a motherfucker.

Leaving Nowhere Forever is Will Mayo's newest disc of synthy drone noise. Compared to his previous efforts like Infinite Classroom and Not Enough Noise In Vermont, this one's definitely my top pick. Real classy stuff, gritty & smooth, moody as fuck, waves of a static sea swirling all over each other. It's 4 tracks, 3 new "studio" pieces and a killer 28 minute live set from Problem House.

The best part of all this is he's finally got some web presence. He started up a Bandcamp page where you can download Leaving Nowhere Forever as a pay-what-you-want deal. There's only one other EP up at the moment, but the plan is to make the rest of his previous CD-R's available as well. Trust me, you want to get in on this.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Show Worthy 9/21 - 9/27

Greg & Ted via

Monday, September 21
Ted Lee at Weirdo Records (donate, 8:00, all ages)
Another Series show at Weirdo, this time with Feeding Tube Records main man Ted Lee. Anything could happen at this show. I mean anything.



SubArachnoid Space via by Bring Whoever You Want to Bring

Tuesday, September 22
SubArachnoid Space, OvO, Ehnahre, Double Awake at Great Scott ($9, 9:00, 18+)
There are some things I don't know about this show, but there are also some things I do know. Like, for instance, that Double Awake is playing. I know that even though it's not listed on Great Scott's site because Mr. Double Awake told me himself. So that's pretty fucking cool. I also know Ehnahre are awesome avant metal and Ricardo Donoso plays with 'em. I don't specifically know OvO or SubArachnoid Space but I do know that they're on Load and Crucial Blast (respectively) and both of those labels (CB especially) fucking rule. So this show is going to be loud and it's going to amazing. Similar to the Health/Pictureplane/Big Digits/Bearstronaut show at Harper's Ferry except less dancing. You should go to this one. It will be better.



Sewer Goddess via by Todd Brooks

Thursday, September 24
Summoning Hate, Witch Tomb, Martyrvore, Sewer Goddess at O'Brien's ($8, 9:00, 21+)
MOOOOORE METAL. This show will be quite heavy on the metal, possibly also on the sucking. It has that potential, because 3 of the bands I've never seen. But Sewer Goddess is sure to bore black holes through your skull with disgusting industrial blackened noise shit. Even if you just go for Sewer Goddess, it will be $8 well spent.




Friday, September 25
Big Bear, You Need New Glasses, Tinsel Teeth, Dead Cats Dead Rats at The Middle East Upstairs ($8, 8:00, 18+)
You know a Big Bear show isn't going by unnoticed here. I will promote the shit out of them until the day I die. So go see them. Even if you've already seen them a dozen times, go again because they're that fucking good. Providence's Tinsel Teeth also (supposedly) put on a ridiculous live show with their nasty noise punkish ways. You Need New Glasses and Dead Cats Dead Rats are doing the CD release party thing and they'll both be playing their own post garage math punk stuff that is highly enjoyable. YNNG has a free album out now that you can (and should) go download.



Keir Neuringer via by Eelco Borremans

Saturday, September 26
Keir Neuringer & Skinny Vinny, Skeletons Out, Andrew Newman at 381 Congress St ($?, 8:00? all ages?)
There's so little published info on this show. Still, it seems like this is the lineup and it's definitely at 381 Congress St. So there's that. Not sure if Keir Neuringer and Skinny Vinny are collaborating or if they're playing separately. Also not sure about price, time, etc. But this show will be killer regardless of all those menial details. Skeletons Out fucking owns (Howared Stelzer & Jay Sullivan) and Keir Neuringer is a crazy electronic noise motherfucker. You might even get some droning saxophone. You never know.




Sunday, September 27
Mono No Aware, Xanopticon, Edgey, Synnack, So So Gutter at The Armory ($11 advance / $15 dos, 6:00, all ages)
This show is going to be so crazy. 100% awesome electronic acts doing all sorts of different stuff ranging from drum n bass to ambient and slick video artists givin you something sweet to look at while you party. Voidstar and Force Of Nature are putting this on so you know you're gonna have a good time. And fucking Xanopticon man! How can you even think about not going to this!?

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Show Worthy 8/17 - 8/23

Since I'm going to Weirdstock (or Chaos First, haven't decided yet) and because there's not too much going on this week, I'll make this short.



Double Awake

Monday, August 18
Double Awake at Weirdo Records (ddddonate, 8:00, all ages)
This guy rules. Power drone at it's finest. Not sure how rowdy it'll get at Weirdo. Might be more chill stuff but whatever he ends up doing, I assure you it will be awesome.



The Needy Visions via

Friday, August 21
The Needy Visions, Hilken Mancini at The Milky Way (FREEEEE, 9:00, 21+)
The Needy Visions are the new wave of Boston throwback to jangly '60s garage punk and they are tons of fun. Mancini's done a shit ton of stuff and is well placed alongside The Needy Visions on the bill at the NEW Milky Way (same cool place, different location).

Monday, May 11, 2009

Keith Fullerton Whitman & Geoff Mullen, Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul, Perispirit, Zerfallt, Double Awake at Great Scott

Geoff Mullen & Keith Fullerton Whitman


Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul


Perispirit


Zerfallt


Double Awake


More photos on Flickr


Double Awake: thick drone, vocal based and stuttered out with abrupt volume shifting

Zerfallt: the audio version of a lead blanket so heavy your legs can't hold out

Perispirit: power beauty

Eli Keslzer & Ashley Paul: the usual controlled frenzied awesomeness with the addition of a bowed banjo

Keith Fullerton Whitman & Geoff Mullen: not gonna touch this one; you'll just have to imagine it