News
18 May 2011
Late last fall a mysterious transluscent purple cassette tape with 'The Dawn' scrawled into its brittle, invisible skin appeared in the WIERD's life courtesy of the always lovely Ms. Gabby E. that immediately found its way apparently permanently lodged in my car stereo where it remained wickedly blistering my mind day after day for months, and stands as one of the most solidly electrifying demos in recent memory. And this week WIERD is proud to welcome the NYC debut of LOST TRIBE from Richmond, Virginia for a live performance at midnite! Shravan and co. take the finest elements of classic Crust, UK positive punk or early Killing Joke and undercut it with a few shots of the live anarchic viscerality of Discharge if the guitars were filtered through the nastily trapped-under-ice claustrophobic FX of the French Cold Wave World...this band fukin rules, come feel em let it rip you'll love it, you'll lose it, and you deserve IT. This evening we're bringin in the extra guitar/wave-heavy artillery as we welcome the debut guest DJ appearance of our beloved, infamous hero Mr. Mike Obrien who will be joining Glenn and Frankie on the raggedly tetanus-infested wheels of the WIERD. This is gonna be a good one, join the Tribe or die!
http://losttribe.bandcamp.com/
http://stereogum.com/655072/18-dark-bands-to-watch-in-2011/franchises/listomania/
We announced earlier this week that the Wierd Records, No Fun Productions, Beyond Booking Showcase at The Northside Festival is now confirmed for Thursday June 16th at Public Assembly in BK. Xeno & Oakalnder and Kindest Lines will join the likes of Rene Hell(1st NYC show ever!) as well as our old friend Carlos Giffoni and others for a great evening on 2 stages traversing the infinite spectrum of dark electronics! The BB site has the complete details:
http://beyondbooking.com/special_events.asp#nofunwierdbunker
The clues to this week's Wierd email lay on the mirror image of the UPS and DOWNS of your life:
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Mad Mike Obrien, Glenn's Blacklisted Youth, and Frankie Tearitup Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday May 18th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
Coming Soon to the WIERD World:
Wed. 5/24: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Daily Life(Providence, RI)
http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/dailylife.html
Wed. 6/1: WIERD Presents the Return of Frank(just Frank) - first NYC show in 2 years(!) with No Love Lost DJs Sean Gray(Fan Death Records) and Denman, Washington DC!!!
http://www.myspace.com/frankjustfrank
http://www.fandeathrecords.com/
Wed. 6/8: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Screen Vinyl Image(Washington D.C.)
http://www.screenvinylimage.com/
Wed. 6/15: WIERD Presents the Kindest Lines Record Release Party!
http://www.myspace.com/kindestlines
Thurs. 6/16: WIERD Records, No Fun Productions, and Beyond booking Showcase at The Northside Festival @ Public Assembly
http://beyondbooking.com/special_events.asp#nofunwierdbunker
Wed. 6/22: WIERD Presents the NYC debut of Stacian(Milwaukee) with Nao Katafuchi(Tokyo, JAP)
http://www.myspace.com/purricane
http://www.myspace.com/superfortress
Wed. 6/29: WIERD Presents the NYC Debut of Dangerous Boys Club(Portland, OR)
http://www.myspace.com/thedangerousboysclub
Wed. July 20th: WIERD Presents the VReturn of CLAPS(Minneapolis, MN)
http://www.myspace.com/clapsUS
Wed. Aug. 10th: WIERD Presents the NYC Debut of Bestial Mouths(Los Angeles)
http://www.myspace.com/bestialmouths
14 May 2011
Xeno & Oaklander and Kindest Lines with Rene Hell and others at The Northside Festival, Thursday June 16th!
Wierd Records, No Fun Productions and Beyond Booking Showcase
The Northside Festival @ Public Assembly
Thursday, June 16th
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY
Doors 9pm/$10
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114705681947756
http://www.beyondbooking.com
http://www.nofunproductions.com/
11 May 2011
Tonite WIERD welcomes back our forever VReloved friend the inimitable EPEE DU BOIS for a live demonstration of maximal electronic music at midnite! Cheyney has been kind enough to take an evening off following his literally explosive show in Tokyo last month and in lieu of his forthcoming exhibition in Naples, Italy in a few weeks to drop a few speculatively real jewels off of his amazingly Very Rare Open Water K7 on Living Tapes in Los Angeles from last year. Come on down and see Epee represent...everything but himself in classic early modernist, fantastically 'Misery'-ish fashion - as a certain infamous, organicly synthetic masterpiece on the WIERD Compilation Volume II once elusively described...VR.
http://www.myspace.com/epeedubois
http://www.epeedebois.com/
Sean Ragon(Cult of Youth/Blind Prophet Records) and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday May 11th, 10pm
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
5 May 2011
Martial Canterel June 2011 US Tourdates
Fri. June 3rd - Detroit, The Magic Stick
Sat. June 4th - Chicago, Viaduct Theatre
Sun. June 5th - Milwaukee, Stonefly
Tues. June 7th - Cleveland, Happy Dog
Wed. June 8th - Pittsburgh, Brillobox
Thurs. June 9th - Washington DC, Uncapped Festival
More details on all dates here:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/news/mcvr.html
4 May 2011
This week WIERD welcomes the return of AUTOMELODI from Montreal for a long-overdue live performance at midnite! Come on out and check in with what the great Monsieur Paradis and co. have been up down in the cold, deep North!
http://www.myspace.com/automelodi
Prefix Magazine has a nice feature on the band up, as well as a second free track 'Running Into Next Year' available for download:
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/kindest-lines/running-into-next-year-prefix-premiere/52048/
Staccato du Mal review in Skug Journal für Musik, Austria"
http://skug.at/article5264.htm
This week's WIERD email burned itself alive in hopes of avoiding MTA fees:
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Miz Margo, Minimal Syb, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday May 4th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
(Very Rare live performance by Automelodi at midnite!)
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info: (212)226-5708
29 April 2011
The first single 'Destructive Paths to Live Happily' from the forthcoming debut album from Kindest Lines Covered in Dust due out June 15th premiered as a free download in Fader:
http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/28/kindest-lines-destructive-paths-to-live-happily-mp3/
The band's first interview is online via This is Fake DIY/UK which includes a download to the track 'Baltimore':
http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/first-on/kindest-lines
The band also have a new mixtape up for download at Huh Magazine/UK:
http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/view_article.php?id=1817&s=music&t=other
Anthem from Frank(just Frank) who recently made the move from Paris to Brooklyn, has done a new interview for Oakazine:
http://oakazine.com/2011/04/frank-just-frank/
27 April 2011
The WIERD is eminently excited for this week's performance which has been in the planning stages for many months. As you all know with all the recent VRevolutions in birth control ITs uh oh...Its that day of the year - ANAREXIA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY!!! Our fantastically-abusive nasty Queen mother demands 'top' quality(ouch!) entertainment or we're all fucked(literally, ow stop!), and needless to say WIERD's got just the thing...mmmm hmmm. And, on a dare I say on a more serious note - let me exxxplain...
Week after week the WIERD has found ITself ending up without fail IT seems, at a certain Very Rare ultra-depraved and incredibly alive latenight Sunday party on a certain desolate, run-down block of Bk to witness some of the most intensely energized, wildly explosive, and epicly complex theatrical performances I've simply ever seen honestly, in what I can confidently say is perhaps the best kept secret in NYC performance art, modern dance, and nightlife. All rolled into one.
With this in mind, it is truly with pleasure that I welcome the WIERD weekly party debut of The BACKSPACE PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE for a new multi-media dance performance extravaganza entitled "Here Come the Girls" live at midnite! I'd like to be able to try and quickly give you all an idea of exactly what to expect this wednesday, but any attempt is doomed, these kids are beyond. And honestly, they give me hope in every way. I thought the wonders of worlds as spontaneously imaginative as this dissappeared forever with the demise of the legendary Blacklips Performance Cult eons ago, or did it? Suffice it to say in my best attempt: their ever-charismatic leader the inordinately elusive Krystal Something Something and his company of 7 dancers take the refined, eroticized compositional restraint of a young Michael Clark, combine it with the Gender sur-realdysphoric visual aesthetics of Leigh Bowery in the mature d'Offay window-era days, send it back to an early 70s all-star writers love-in between Rowan and Martin, The Pythons and "Phantom of Paradise"-era Brian DePalma and spritz it with a little Warholian-laced abjecto-elixir from the late 60s Factory Nights and you've got this seethingly wonderful, anarchic beast. Without furthur ad-ew..."Here Come the Girls"...see you all in the WIERD World tomorrow evening!
Backspace on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BacKspace-Performance-Ensemble/118861178138580?sk=info
"Here Come the Girls!":
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204287246260833&index=1
This Thursday evening Vaura will play a special show at the Japan Society immediately following the premiere of Yoshihiro Nishimura's gore-soaked new film, Helldriver. Tickets to the film and performance are $12, and 50% of ticket sales go to the Japan Society's earthquake relief fund! Director Yoshihiro Nishimura and actress Eihi Shiina will be there in person.
http://www.myspace.com/vaura
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100348743385908
And Friday night Wierd's own THROAT joins a blisteringly hot psychedelic black metal bill at Santos as Brandon Stosuy's 'Haunting the Chapel' teams up with Chronic Youth to present Celestia from France and Forteresse from Quebec! WIERD will make a Very Rare guest DJ appearance at this one to keep the cold black pestilence in check!
http://www.santospartyhouse.com/event/index/id/2164
Anarexia, Pre-Op Trans, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday April 27th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Backspace at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
21 April 2011
New Martial Canterel interview and review in New Noise (FR):
Click the images to view full size.
20 April 2011
This week WIERD is proud to host the NYC debut of TRUST from Toronto! The chillingly handsome new synthwave duo's alluring debut single 'Candy Walls' has been making the VRounds on the party decks the past couple months and we've been patiently awaiting their arrival to present the forthcoming full-length arsenal of trax out soon on Sacred Bones! Our long-time friend the great Caleb Braaten will be joining our beloved in-house coldwave king himself Mr. Glenn Maryansky as guest DJs. Its certain to be another lovely, long evening of pleasure to take you away from your screens for an few hours...Trust Me kids.
http://stereogum.com/648832/trust-candy-walls-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Also to make everyone even less Trust-worthy this evening Mark from Edward the Third just rang over hes shellin out for happily open bar absinthe hour tonite from 11-12am, watch out for that stuff ladies, King Ed will VReck your head and your closetted tranny boss'll be screamin at yr abthinthe(!) from work tomorrow for sure...where are you yr tho late!? :)
http://www.edwardthethird.com/
We happy to say the debut 7" single from New Orleans own Kindest Lines entitled 'Destructive Paths to Live Happily' is now available! Click on over to the WIERDshop and check it out, its a great little gem of an introduction to the newest WIERD family unit. The band will be in town as the weekly party plays host to the record release for their debut full-length Covered in Dust due out on June 15th.
http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=114&osCsid=bb2ebd1d3b9ffc88e5eadfde4ce8605f
This weeks WIERD email was abducted into the suburbs of the Wierdsite's FTP:
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Caleb, Glenn, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the Seventh Dream of a Abstract Windows Heaven!
Wednesday April 20th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Trust at midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
13 April 2011
Tonite WIERD will be quite an intensely sensitized World of Very Rare musical brilliance unlike few ever in the party's history. This evening we are proud to welcome FIELDED from Chicago, along with the US debut of KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT from Belgium, all backed by our beloved friend, guest DJ Samhain from Cologne, Germany - aka Mr. Marc Schulte of the legendary long-running Nacht und Sodom compilation series!
Fielded is the solo project of the lovely, elusive chanteuse proper Ms. Lindsay Powell. Combining carefully crafted and manipulated dark ambient electronics with an absolutely soaring voice that summons the canon of scintillating Femme VRatales past such as Vashti Bunyan, Nico, Rose McDowall, and a young Björk, we've heard the chill-inducing factor of Lindsay's visceral presence has triggered mass icicular-stalactite formations on the bases of entire audience's spinal columns throughout the first leg of her current US tour - get ready to shiver, snap off and be forever cast over the cliff into oblivion. And as if thats not enough - Hailing from Gent, BE the amazing KTAOABC take their ominous moniker from an obscure medieval witch ritual, they're truly one of the most powerful real deal European neo-folk acts out there right now in the classic lineage of the likes of Comus to Angus Maclise to Current 93 to Woven Hands...this ones gonna be a beast!
KTAOABC will be on at midnite, Fielded at 12:30. Please be on time or expect to be on yr knees wipin up your frozen, frigid tears with second-hand tranny sweat, the lovely ladies are waiting for you young man, mmm hmm! See you all in the wonderfully warm WIERD womb tonite!...yessss...
http://fielded.bandcamp.com/
www.kattengat.be
Tickets are still available for the 'Haunting the Chapel/WIERD Records Presents:' event this Sunday evening, April 17th at Europa in Greenpoint, BKNY - featuring Locrian, Martial Canterel, Blacklist(1st live show in over a year), and Gnaw. Doors will be at 7:30 for this one!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wierd-Records/479161405622#!/event.php?eid=100723900005044
http://www.europaclub.com/contact.php
Also a fantastic new Xeno & Oaklander feature premiered in the print edition of La Republica's excellent D Magazine, Italy this past Sunday. We have it loaded up online now, please have a look at the beautiful images Miss Liz and Alex Gaidouk have dreamed up:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/news/images/XO.pdf
Samhain, Goutroy, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday, April 13th 10pm-4am
(VR Live performances by Fielded and KTAOABC at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie st. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
12 April 2011
Staccato du Mal review in Vice UK:
10 April 2011
New Xeno & Oaklander feature in La Republica's D Magazine, Italy:
Click here to read
A trailer for the video for Xeno & Oaklander's forthcoming single 'Staircase' directed by Boxmotion is online at D Magazine's website:
http://d.repubblica.it/argomenti/2011/04/08/video/miss_liz_wendelbo_video-278558/1/
6 April 2011
Tonite WIERD proudly welcomes back the dark industrial dance intensity of HEAD TRIP CONCEPTION and DATA RECOVERY for a double bill live performance at midnight! Our beloved in-house hero Sam Aronoff, the man behind WIERD's impeccable weekly party lighting VResign and his partner Graham have tightened up their high end heavy, seethingly raw analogue-EBM-fueled wizardry and I have a feeling we're in for quite a VRleasantly visceral surprise tonite - fans of early Revolting Cocks, Thrill Kill Kult, and Severed Heads come on down and feel the new bad trip you never wanted but god knows you always deserved, on yr scabby little knees you greazy latex lemmings!
http://www.headtripconception.com/htc/home.html
In other news of the Very Rare, the next release on WIERD Records due out June 15th is the long-awaited full-length debut Covered in Dust from Kindest Lines from New Orleans. The first 7" single 'Destructive Paths to Live Happily' will be available April 20th!
http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/index.php?cPath=22
A nice interview with Staccato du Mal is online courtesy of Hartzine, France:
http://www.hartzine.com/focus/staccato-du-mal-interview
And I'm happy to say at last - thanks to the tireless, truly herculean efforts of the great Ryan Woodhall of Yellow Tears and Throat the weekly WIERD email and invitation archive is now up on the website! Enjoy reliving all the wild nights forever... :)
http://www.wierdrecords.com/wierd/archive.shtml
Anthem(Frank(just Frank) - France), Glenn and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday April 6th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
30 March 2011
This week WIERD welcomes Streetwalker from Chicago to the weekly party for a live performance at midnight! Streetwalker is Beau Wanzer and Elon Katz from White Car, whos new album is due out this summer from the Hippos in Tanks label. Come on in and check out their late 80s inspired blend of minimal electronics inflected with frenetic shards of New Beat, early Chicago House and UK Acid influences!
http://soundcloud.com/streetwalker
http://alteredzones.com/posts/116/white-car-no-better/
http://white-car.net/
Just a reminder tickets are now on sale for the Stereogum Haunting the Chapel-WIERD Records Presents Event at Club Europa next month featuring Locrian/Martial Canterel/Blacklist/Gnaw, as well as the excellent forthcoming Celestia/Forteresse/Throat show at Santos! More info and tickets links are here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168688369847281#!/event.php?eid=100723900005044
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3442085
http://santospartyhouse.com/event/index/id/2164
Brandon from Stereogum wrote an excellent new feature entitled '18 New Dark Bands to Watch' featuring many WIERD artists as well this week:
http://stereogum.com/655072/18-dark-bands-to-watch-in-2011/franchises/listomania/
Abby(Dream Affair), Shawn NoEQ(Further Reductions), and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday March 30th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Streetwalker at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
27 March 2011
18 dark bands to watch in 2011, featuring several Wierd artists and friends:
http://stereogum.com/655072/18-dark-bands-to-watch-in-2011/franchises/listomania
23 March 2011
This week WIERD proudly welcomes Tôg for a live performance at midnite! Hailing from Bergen, Norway this fantastic 7 piece dark synth outfit has been making some serious cold waved mania of late up in the Fjord-encrusted Norsk synth world, as their 1st single 'Sansen' spent a good part of 2010 on the Norwegian pop charts. More info is below on Bill P. from Brooklyn Vegan's feature on the band yesterday, come on down tonite to feel the pleasures of what the world that brought the darkest guitar driven black metal music of the last 20 years does with a big pile of cold synths...and how the hell we're gonna fit 7 artists on the WIERD stage, its gonna be a great one!
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/tog_played_sxsw.html
http://www.myspace.com/togstavanger
Also this evening I'm very excited to welcome back as guest DJs three of our favorite San Francisco based heavy hitters in the synth/wave world - the great Josh Cheon from Dark Entries Records, Nihar, who has been the man behind the all-important Warm Leatherette party active in SF since 2008, and of course our beloved Mr. Phil Maier aka Goutroy from the venerable 'A Viable Commercial Blog' site who recently defected to BK to continually blow our minds week after week with his arsenal of obscure Very Rarities as he did last wed. after which Humanbeast wrecked the place. Josh will also be spinning the opening reception tonite for the 'self-publish, be happy' opening at Float Gallery which should also be a great event as well:
http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/
http://goutroy.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/warmleatherettesf
http://selfpublishbehappy.com/
The debut album from Staccato du Mal Sin Destino is now available! Please visit the shop to give the new trax a listen, and there are 2 free downloads in the SG features here:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/index.php?cPath=22
http://stereogum.com/617151/staccato-du-mal-desespero/mp3s/
http://stereogum.com/653902/staccato-du-mal-walls-fade-solo-baila-sola-video/mp3s/
The WIERD will return next week with my new long-underdue(...or overdone?...or soon-to-be-undone?...or who he fuck cares why should anyone?...lovely) discourse on the undeniable fact that Emoticons are no longer confined to the virtual world of the web, but have become actual... I met one this week. It was a dark day. ...believe me, you don't want to hear about it now its horrible. OMG! :)
Josh Cheon, Nihar, and Goutroy Spin the Pleasures of Norwegian Electronics!
Wednesday March 23rd, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Tôg at Minite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
20 March 2011
New Staccato du Mal and Martial Canterel reviews:
http://nightdrivemiami.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/staccato-du-mal/
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/martial-canterel-you-today
16 March 2011
Tonite WIERD proudly welcomes the weekly party debut of HUMANBEAST from Providence, RI! Combining the perversely restrained pleasures of latenight bondage taboos with a soundtrack merging luxuriously juicy death industrial and the light flourishes of classic minimal synth, the VRynamic duo of Maralie and Eli create a world that is quite impossible to describe. And from what the WIERD hears this is just the brittle tip of the frozen hot iceberg emerging out of the newly energized Providence scene the past year - which includes the likes of artists such as Daily Life, Work/Death, Lazy Magnet, Superior Human Vomit, Mark Lord, and Russian Tsarlag revolving around the excellent Operateque Venue...quite exciting things lie ahead indeed for this quickly congealing world of bands combining noise with both minimal electronics and classical influences! More info and a free download of Humanbeast's excellent new album 'Gay Marriage' can be found on the Gross Domestic Product label site:
http://grossdomesticproduct.wordpress.com/
Goutroy and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday March 16th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Performance by Humanbeast at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
9 March 2011
This week WIERD proudly welcomes the return of our long-time friends CULT OF YOUTH for a live performance at midnight! this is quite a cause for celebration as the band's new self-titled LP was just released on the great Sacred Bones Records, and its highly VRecommended...having quite an energized rich sound quite its own perplexingly right in between outsider classic folk via punk via wave greats of such as Comus, John Fahey, Current 93, The Pogues, Pentangle, or Billy Bragg...perhaps all rolled into one with fantastic production values to shine up your boots to! Congrats to Sean and co. on this effort, its looking to be a wild, Wierd night for the VRecord books!
http://www.myspace.com/cultofyouthband
This week's WIERD email has been whoarded by the FTP, this is no way to live. Read it here:
VR
Miz Margo, Anarexia, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday, March 9th 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live performance by Cult of Youth at midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
info:(212)226-5708
9 March 2011
The Staccato du Mal Sin Destino LP/CD is due out March 22nd! Today Stereogum premiered 'Walls Fade' along with the video for 'Sólo Baila Sola':
http://stereogum.com/653902/staccato-du-mal-walls-fade-solo-baila-sola-video/mp3s/
3 March 2011
Martial Canterel review in Foxy Digitalis:
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=7646
2 March 2011
Tonight WIERD welcomes the weekly party debut of MIRRORGATE for a live performance at midnight! Mirrorgate is composer Mario Diaz de León and Doron Sadja's foray into dense, atmospheric soundscapes of expansively baroque guitars and multilayered, feverishly restrained electronics. The band's elusively hybridized sound is evidence of a closing of the gap between the new cold wave/shoegaze informed strain of black metal rearing its head in Very Rare shadowy corners of Brooklyn and France alike the past few years(Alcest, Amesoeurs, Vaura, Liturgy, Anthem) with the raw, blistery electricity of classic minimal synth, and is sure to be a freshly fertile field of sound we've never heard before in the Wierd World!
http://www.myspace.com/themirrorgate
Its been a crazy last couple weeks to say the least, a bit hard to process all the concerts and events. For a start here are a few links to froidetastically enhance your afternoon's cubicular VRisolation:
Martial Canterel special on Télérama Radio, France Tues. March 1st:
http://www.telerama.fr/musique/le-mix-de-la-semaine-70-martial-canterel,66253.php
Photos from the 'Mirror Me' event at the Red Light District in Far Rockaway, Queens Sat. Feb.26th:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wierd/sets/72157626177527652/
Glenn and Frankie Teardrop Spin the Wierd World!
Wednesday March 2nd, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Wierd Party debut of Mirrorgate at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
Info:(212)226-5708
28 February 2011
Martial Canterel special on French Radio, Tuesday March 1st 22h(4pm EST)
http://www.telerama.fr/teleramaradio/
Martial Canterel You Today Reviews:
Igloo Magazine, Glasgow
http://igloomag.com/reviews/martial-canterel-you-today-wierd
405.com
http://thefourohfive.com/reviews/3705
23 February 2011
Tonite WIERD proudly welcomes the long-overdue VReturn of our good friend the terrifyingly lovely PHARMAKON(aka Margaret Chardiet) for live performance at midnight! Margaret's concert in the WIERD World last year stirred up the deeply-seeded and archetypally-entrenched nuggets of seethingly black pathos in us all...born in the bowels of taboo pleasure, up through the stomach, and expelled from the various orifices - only to hover in front of your quivering, frozen face for a 12 minute tighrope walk of intensity - that thing you try to forget, but stares you in the face, obsessing you to the point of...(ugh lets change the fukin subject I can't deal with that it was horrible...). Beyond the wild world of heat-seeking industrial electronics, deriving from the ancient Greek, Pharmakon denotes both a 'remedy' and a 'poison' and as such has forever posed a quandry for translators from Plato to Kant to Nietzsche to Derrida - coming as thus to elusively represent the essence of 'Indeterminacy' itself...the uncontrollable inner nature of all things and meanings in the world...and the love/hate relationship you have with yourself. So come on out and let Margaret purge you of your privately-protected poison, only to leave you realizing it was all you had left, without it you're nothing. VR.
http://www.myspace.com/noisepharmakon
Pharmakon is just one among many of a tightly knit community of brilliant young artists in the highly -regarded RED LIGHT DISTRICT in Far Rockaway Queens, which also includes the likes of Yellow Tears, Throat, Halflings, Hands Rendered Useless, Teeny Bopper, Tension Fields, Cowards, Boytoyz, John Mannion, Vellum, Stroma, Cathode Terror Secretion, and Diaphragm being only the tip of the boiling iceberg...a potent solid scene that has been slowly and carefully forming the past few years, and one which has become in the WIERD's VRopinion one of the true hopes for the future of industrial noise in the US.
This weekend Brandon Stosuy will curate an excellent 'Mirror Me' event at The Red Light featuring performances and work from Peter Sotos, Mark McCoy, Yellow Tears, Pharmakon, Lionel Maunz and DJ Pieter VR. This one is worth the journey to the desolate latenight beach at the end of the world I assure you...the pleasure of the Red Lights await...
http://rockawayredlight.blogspot.com/
Poeme en Prose(Guillaume from the 'Les Saigneurs de la Night' Party/Paris),
Ryan Rayhill, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday February 23rd, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
22 February 2011
Mirror Me This Weekend at the Red Light District!:
Peter Sotos
Mark McCoy
Yellow Tears
Pharmakon
DJ: Pieter Schoolwerth
Drawings: Lionel Maunz
Event Curated by Brandon Stosuy
Saturday, February 26
8PM Doors / FREE
@ Red Light District
1034 Bay 25th Street
Far Rockaway, Queens
FREE
http://rockawayredlight.blogspot.com/
16 February 2011
Alright everyone, tonite WIERD is VRinordinately excited to present the US debut performance by MUERAN HUMANOS from Buenos Aires, Argentina! Needless to say this is quite a momentous occasion indeed, as it is the first all-South American band ever to play live at the party, hopefully there will be many more in the near future, and perhaps with the coming of the debut LP from Staccato du Mal due for release on March, the prospect of a movement of South American minimal synth isn't too far away. This evening will be the official record release for MH's debut LP on our long time friend Sean Ragon of Cult of Youth's new Blind Prophet Records imprint, and Sean will be on hand along with the lovely Ms. Minimal Syb as guest DJs. The record will be available at the show, and more info can be found here on the band:
http://www.blindprophetrecords.com/BPR005info.html
http://www.myspace.com/mueranhumanos
Tonite another old friend of the WIERD's Tamaryn will be in town and tonite is her b-day party so slide on in on the Argentinian ice on in and offer her your WIERDest condolences. Tamaryn and Religious to Damn will play Don Hills tomorrow night, Thurs. 2/17, Ms. T says this will be her last NYC show for the rest of 2011, so as always be VRare:
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http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=108147712594649&index=1
And if you still got a hot shard of that gypsy ice in yr blood, or maybe more likely gallon of Tequilla in yr brain after these two VRagers, on Fri. evening Void Vision and Yellow Tears amongst others will play the rather epic-looking Williamsburg Fashion Weekend blowout party at Glasslands with Katie Rose from Further Reductions spinning, my goodness BK's on fire kiddies get some girlie sleep this afternoon... :)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171143662929932
The new Martial Canterel ablum You Today is now available, a few new reviews and interviews are up on the newspage, and we're keeping the MC back catalogue retrospective free dowload link live for a few more weeks so grab it there as well while you can. Also the new 12 page feature from Blow Up Magazine in Italy is now viewable as well in its entirety, enjoy!
This week's WIERD email has been made Very Rare by the abstracting forces of our Mother Host's Nature, and can viewed here:
VR
Sean Ragon, Minimal Syb, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the Frozen Hot Pleasures of Argentinian Electronics!
Wednesday, February 16th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Mueran Humanos at midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info:(212)226-5708
14 February 2011
Martial Canterel interview in Prefix Magazine
http://www.prefixmag.com/features/martial-canterel/martial-canterel-interview/48849/
New Feature in Blow Up Magazine, Italy
Click here to view
8 February 2011
8 February 2011
Martial Canterel's You Today streaming on Spinner.com
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/11
8 February 2011
Martial Canterel's new album You Today is now available!
In honor of the arrival of the new full-length we are giving away a downloadable retrospective of Sean's early releases dating back to 2003, simply click on the link below. Included here are several Very Rare gems, including 2 trax from the long deleted Austerton LP, a track from the ultra limited self-released CDR Coercion, and a never before released track from Moravagine, Sean's alias before Martial Canterel
CLICK HERE to download
Tracklist:
1. Windscreen (Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music -2008)
2. Never Wind (Wierd Compilation - 2006)
3. Two Before Four (Drilling Backwards cassette - 2006)
4. Cruelty Reigns Through Ages (Cruelty Frames Our Age CDR - 2007)
5. 3 Days (Sister Age cassette - 2004)
6. Sister Age (Sister Age cassette - 2004)
7. Hausmann (Sister Age cassette - 2004)
8. Corners (Austerton cassette - 2003)
9. Other Half (Austerton LP - 2003)
10. Accrue (Unreleased - 2003)
11. Covers (Coercion CDR - 2003)
12. Phantom (Confusing Outsides LP - 2003)
The official You Today record release party will be tomorrow evening: Wednesday, February 9th at the Wierd Party at Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC). Doors will be at 10pm and Martial Canterel will perform live at midnight!
3 February 2011
Martial Canterel You Today review in Uncut Magazine, UK by Louis Pattison. Click HERE to read.
2 February 2011
Tonite WIERD welcomes the NYC debut of La Femme from Paris for a live performance at midnite! The band is in the country for the first time for a select series dates over the next couple weeks. Come on down and hear our new fave addition to the ever-expanding vague froide moderne lexicon!
http://lafemme.bandcamp.com/
Also this evening the WIERD World plays host to the official record release party for the debut album Violet Cries from Esben and the Witch out next week! We'll be playing the record in its entirety from 10-11 with open bar, CD and LP giveaways:
http://thequietus.com/articles/05607-esben-the-witch-violet-cries-track-by-track
Also the WIERD is teaming up with Brandon Stosuy to present a pretty heavy line-up live at Europa in April. Tickets just went on sale for this one. This will be the only NYC area Locrian show, and the first live performance by Blacklist in over a year! Needless to say, VR.:
Stereogum's Haunting the Chapel and WIERD Records Present:
Locrian
Martial Canterel
Blacklist
Gnaw
Sunday April 17th
Europa
98 Meserole St., Bk
Doors 7pm, $10
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100723900005044
Glenn and Epee du Bois Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday February 2nd, 10pm-4am
(Live Performance by La Femme at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
26 January 2011
On wednesday February 2nd WIERD proudly presents the official Esben and the Witch record release party! We will be playing the record in its entirety from 10-11 with free drinks courtesy of Matador.
26 January 2011
Tonite WIERD is proud to welcome the NYC debut of our favorite new band from San Francisco The Soft Moon for a live performance at midnight! We've been eagerly awaiting Luis, Justin and co.'s arrival since they opened for Xeno & Oaklander in SF back in March. I highly recommend their self-titled debut LP out now on Captured Trax which we've been spinning to frozen hot death for the past couple months, its a kickass record and one of the darkest cold guitar wave albums in recent memory. My fave track on the LP 'Circles' is closer to the mastery of French Cold Wave legends End of Data's Sahrah or Complot Bronswick's Dark Room's Delights LPs than anythng in recent memory. Check out the video below directed by Ron Robinson. The evening will be extra special as we welcome back the San Fran all-star DJ team of our beloved Goutroy and our long-time VRiend Justin Anastasi whos joined SM's live line-up. For anyone looking for endless hours of jawdropping, chill-inducing entertainment, visit Goutroy's A Viable Commercial Blog also below as the Very Rarities rain down for daze...
The Soft Moon 'Circles' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9t8Oex9BpQ
http://www.myspace.com/thesoftmoon
A Viable Commercial Blog Site: http://goutroy.blogspot.com/
Next Mon. Jan. 31st Far Rockaway's Power Electronics Princess. Pharmakon(aka Ms. Margaret Chardiet, also of Throat) will play a live show at Housing Works in Soho as part of Brandon Stosuy and artist Kai Altoff's Mirror Me Zine event. Scott Indrisek, Senior Editor of Modern Painters Magazine will moderate the Mirror Me discussion with Zach Baron, Lionel Maunz, and Brandon.
http://shophousingworks.com/eventsdetail.cfm?entry=3904
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY
7-9 pm FREE
Goutroy, Justin Anastasi, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday January 26th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by The Soft Moon at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St.at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
19 January 2011
Martial Canterel Interview:
http://www.hartzine.com/focus/martial-canterel-interview
Frank(just Frank) Interview:
http://www.hartzine.com/focus/frank-just-frank-interview
WIERD exclusive downloadable mix for Hartzine:
http://www.hartzine.com/podcast/wierd-exclusive-mix-for-hartzine
19 January 2011
This week's email can be read here:
VR
Abby, Hayden, and Frankie T. Spin the WIERD Body VRantastique!
Wednesday January 19th 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info:(212)226-5708
14 January 2011
Staccato Du Mal's 'Desespero' now on Stereogum!
http://stereogum.com/617151/staccato-du-mal-desespero/mp3s//
12 January 2011
This week WIERD proudly presents two truly Very Rare events!:
Tonight Wednesday January 12th, WIERD welcomes the debut live perfomance by Anthem from Frank(just Frank) at the weekly party at Home Sweet Home! This will be the first Anthem live show ever, and for all of you who emailed us the answer is yes the band will indeed be playing a carefully chosen selection of trax off of Frank(just Frank)'s The Brutal Wave, as well as new material from the forthcoming Anthem debut on the way later this year!
http://www.myspace.com/frankjustfrank/
Veryrarealyn, Minimal Syb, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday January 12th, 10pm-4am
(Live Performance by Anthem of Frank(just Frank) at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancey
Info:(212)226-5708
Tomorrow evening Thursday January 13th, WIERD is honored to host the official Religious to Damn record release party at Glasslands in Brooklyn! RtD has been a close friend of the WIERD world the past few years, and we've been waiting patiently for the debut album Glass Prayer, out on M'Lady's Records on Feb. 8th for a long time. I hope everyone can make it out for this very special evening in which the WIERD will be joined by guest DJs his VRexcellency the great Mr. Jonathan Toubin of 'New York Night' Train fame, our always beloved Ms. Jeralyn, and guest vocalist Tamaryn. Charlie Schmid and his percussion ensemble 'I Sing The Body Electric' will kick the evening off performing Steve Reich's 'Drumming', followed by Kevin Hufnagel(Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Vaura) who will perform solo on accoustic guitar.
http://www.myspace.com/religioustodamn/
http://stereogum.com/613092/religious-to-damn-glass-prayer/mp3s/
Pieter VR, Jonathan Toubin, and Jeralyn Mason Spin the Religious to Damn Record Release Party!
Thursday January 13th, 9pm
Glasslands
289 Kent Ave.(btwn S.1st/S. 2nd Sts, Williamsburg)
L train to Bedford, J train to Marcy
Doors: 9pm, FREE!
http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
5 January 2011
Happy new WIERD eVRyone! The Wierd World rings in the new decade this evening as we welcome the return of Blank Dogs for a live performance at miidnite! Mike, Craig, and Pam will have quite a fantastic background created by the all-San Francisco dynamicly dueling duo of Goutroy vs. Miz Margo, please traverse our icily pleasure-filled golden gate this evening, should be a wild ride for all.
http://www.myspace.com/blankdogtime
We're about to unleash a new plethora of releases in the coming months. Martial Canterel's single 'Occupy These Terms' off of his forthcoming new full-length due out Feb. 8th You Today premiered today on Stereogum:
http://stereogum.com/610561/martial-canterel-occupy-these-terms-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Both Martial Canterel 7"s are now available on the website. In addition to these gems the long awaited new 7" single from Staccato du Mal 'Desespero' off his forthcoming debut LP Sin Destino(release date March 15th), and a re-mastered vinyl LP edition of Xeno & Oaklander's 2006 debut Vigils are also available! The Vigils LP comes with a previously unreleased X&O track entitled 'Ransack', and the digital version of the album out Jan. 11th includes a second bonus track - a live version of 'Blue Flower' recorded live at the Wierd Party at Home Sweet Home in 2008.:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/index.php?cPath=22
We're slowly updating the news page to include all end of the year lists from the likes of Wire, Stereogum, The Quietus, Self-Titled etc.
In following this, a reminder for all you NYC/BK Frank(just Frank) fans Chris from FjF will be in town next week to debut his new solo outfit Anthem at the weekly party. Chris will be backed by a Wierd in-house all-star band and will indeed drop a few FjF trax for all the Brutally Wave-minded!
For all our Italian Friends a new 10 page feature is out in Blow Up Magazine on newstands now courtesy of our new friend the always VeryRareudite Francesco Spampinato:
http://www.blowupmagazine.com/
The Body of this week's email is Very Rare as always, click to undelete IT:
VR
Miz Margo, Goutroy, and Frankie Teardrop Spin the New WIERD World of 2011!
Wednesday January 5th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Blank Dogs at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
Next Week in the WIERD:
Wed January 12th: WIERD Presents the Live debut of Anthem(Chris Skarimbas of Frank(just Frank) - France)!!!
http://www.myspace.com/frankjustfrank
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frank-just-Frank/24259610251
3 January 2011
New feature on Wierd Records in Blow Up magazine, Italy:
http://www.blowupmagazine.com/
