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Between (a Rock and a Hard Place)
kick off the evening or stay all night!
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May 16th, 2008
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Hey ***,
Did you miss us while we were taking time
off? We missed you... so we have a special
May rock-a-dance-a-drink-a-thon for you.
Post Mom's Day and Pre-Memorial Day, you need
to do something just for you. Like hear four
great bands and party like you're training
for the Olympics. (Oh sure, it's not an
official sport. Yet.)
The Fire and Reason burns up the stage this
week for their record release party, while
newcomers Menya break in the mikes.... Beki
and the Bullets and Koko Dozo round out the
evening and lead you into the dancing portion
of the evening, courtesy of our pals Joey
Nova and Jo Phantastic and the Jupiter Crash
Afterparty...
DJ RekLES will be playing keep the night
rolling, mashing up the best music all night...
As always drink your face off, dance your ass
off, and rock your... um... you know.
Our rock and roll lineup for this week:
09:00 pm - Menya (Between debut)
09:45 pm - the Fire and Reason (Release party!)
10:30 pm - Beki and the Bullets (Australia)
11:15 pm - Koko Dozo
Resident DJ RekLES plays before and between,
and after... the Jupiter Crash Afterparty
Come dance the night away! You'll be out very
late...
The basic details are:
Free admission before 11 on the Underbelly
list - $5
after; otherwise, after 11, it's $10 bucks. Come
early for the open bar (9-10 pm) and stay
late for the buckets of beer!
Crash Mansion is located at 199 Bowery - that's
Bowery and Spring... click on the link for
more deets.
Remember, RSVP
on our website and we'll put you on
the list....
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the Rock: Menya (9:00 pm)
new to our stages
Last night, NYC got drunk and woke up next to
Menya - but this isn't just a one night
stand. When given a laptop and a microphone,
this new duo is certain to get even the most
uptight booty a-shakin'. Formed in October
2007, the two 20-year old members of Menya
have already written, produced, and mastered
their debut album, "The Ol' Reacharound",
completely of their own, recording vocals and
synths in dorms, bedrooms, and classrooms
around the city. Producer Good Goose mixes
sonic stylings of electro-clash, ska, and
hip-hop to get you dancing and humming along.
Coco Dame raps, and sings as though she were
the illegitimate child of Cyndi Lauper and LL
Cool J. When they join
together...well...you don't even WANT to know
how ripe it will get! Welcome to Menya's world.
More about Menya....
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the Rock: the Fire and Reason (9:45 pm)
record release party...! (um... what's a record?)
Bella the former model, and performing arts
school graduate, and Steve the ex-
rocktronic-metal frontman mashed up their
ideals to come up with something that excited
them and was sadly missing from music. Steve
brought the beats, and angular riffs, spliced
with Bella's evocative vocals and macabre
lyrics the template for The Fire and Reason
was set.
The two find various combinations of live
Drummers and Bassists and begin to assault
the NYC music Scene. Meanwhile the demand for
a CD is deafening, 20,000 plus Myspace fans
must satiate their need for this
electro/rock/goth/punk hybrid, that at times
has been described as PJ Harvey in a
three-way with Primal Scream and Trent
Reznor. The band record and releases their
first EP as a full band in the Summer of
2006. Reworking some of their original tracks
and adding some new favorites, the CD
receives rave reviews and write ups in
magazines such as, Synthesis Magazine, The
Big Take Over Magazine, Royal Flush Magazine,
and even High Times. A successful UK tour
brings the "Fire" to the HUB Festival in
Liverpool, and the Legendary Dublin Castle in
London and all the way back home to Crash
Mansion, where they are featured on Indigo TV.
The Fire and Reason is now set to begin the
next chapter in their saga. Having just
finished recording with Jimmy Mod (from the
band Elefant) and scoring a HOT Remix from
Parisian Madman The Toxic Avenger, TFaR is
entering the Electro-Dance arena with their
NEW EP "Shut Up, Dance!". Receiving plenty of
BLOG LOVE, the trio (including Live Bassist
Lee Greenman) is now setting its sights on
the WORLD! Booking Gigs in Mexico, Germany,
and the UK for the summer of 2008 the FIRE is
going to spread WORLD WIDE!
get the new release here!
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the Rock: Beki and the Bullets (10:30 pm)
from Australia with love...
BEKi & THE BULLETS "Wait & See"
INPRESS- Clem Bastow-
"The gorgeous Beki and her Bullets have gone
all Cyndi Lauper/Chrissie Amphlett on your
asses following their previous stadium power
ballad incarnation- and 'Wait and See' is the
best they've been yet.Artfully walking the
tightrope between current pop trends and a
more Breakfast Club-soundtrack
sensibility,'Wait and See' is a sweet pop
treat for the winter"
HIT MAG-HERALD SUN - Cameron adams
"This local band serve up their poppiest
single to date:a harmonious collision of The
Cure and The Divinyls.Catchy chorus,chiming
guitars and plenty of charm.Good B-sides
too,including the spiky "Gimme Gimme"
Beki and the Bullets on Myspace...
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the Rock: Koko Dozo (11:15 pm)
global funktronica, electronica fusion
SPACE IS THE PLACE: THE SCIENCE NON-FICTION
OF KOKO DOZO's SUPERHEROES
Three illegal music aliens, on the lam from
Earth's corporate noise plantation, joined
forces to re-splice the DNA of the Cosmic
Hum. To accomplish this, they forge molecules
from every genre of Earth tones into Global
Funktronica to feed the ears of illegal music
aliens everywhere - one of whom might be
dancing around at this very moment in the
room next to you.
Polarity/1,
multi-instrumentalist/arranger/composer/producer,
makes songs without borders and beats for curved
dancefloor using REAL SPACE-AGE COMPUTERS! In
his laboratory cave he grinds up shards of
lost cultural artifacts, barks and growls of
ghosts in machines and luminescent sarcastic
spaghetti. Then a pinch or two of the house
special surreal spice. P/1 has four cult
classic CDs of both electro-folk songs and
all-instrumental electronica on subTEKst
Recordings including one by Audioplasm, his
duo project with Rubio. He also composes for
film and for performances by Battery Dance
Company and Quorum Ballet of Lisbon.
Out of this smoking brew flies Inter-Galactic
Empress Amy Douglas who vaporizes the earwax
of her victims with four and a half octaves
worth of nuclear acid lung power. A punky
songwriting funkette who sharpened her teeth
on earth at downtown NYC legendary music
haunts and has worked numerous legends from
George Clinton to the late great Illinois
Jacquet. Her most recent venture was Red Hot
Mama a Hard Rock Vaudeville Show which
featured wild cabaret renditions of hard
rock, punk and heavy metal classics. From
jazz to funk to punk, there is nothing her
tongue hasn't torched.
And orbiting around this mad organism is
Rubio - the multi-brained Viking Satanic
wizard whose jazzed felonious funk keyboard
fondlings bang vice into the spice. And his
radioactive engineering eardrums tweeze the
hidden nuggets in the tracks into pure sonic
lightforms. He's worked with legends like
Larry Larlow, Lalo Rogriguez and Cali Aleman
and has two CDs of original songs on subTEKst
sung in the Spanish prong of the earthly
forked tongue; not to mention the Audioplasm
CD and film scoring with Polarity/1.
Koko Dozo details...
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Your calendar of rock...
Coming up:
5-30 Man on Earth (residency), El
Jezel (release party) the Swedes, and Not Now
Right Now!
6-06 Man on Earth (residency), the
Picture, Killing Phantoms and the Morning
Code
6-13 Friday the 13th - Good luck for
you - Man on Earth, the Fire and Reason and
special guests plus the Jupiter Crash
Afterparty!
and plenty more great shows coming up this
summer!
7-11 LAMC special show
7-18 Goth night with Entertainment (GA.),
Funeral Crashers, Bell Hollow, and special
guests and afterparty
7-25 Annual OLD'S COOL
Birthday Bash
PLUS... Between's 6th Anniversary shindig in
August!
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