Fanclub is hosting a benefit, a fundraiser, a networking event — activism through dance, let’s call it, or, among friends, when destitution and music collide. Yes, the Fanclub could use a little pick-me-up before it hits the floor again. We had to cancel Sightings + Eskimo King, slated for this Saturday, and we want not to suffer that again.

Please join us in merriment, in the spirit of the times. We hope that you will show some support and drop a few in the hat.

11:30PM SIMSTIM (our own SHUJA HAIDER) will drop HOUSE from the Bunker in his headspace. Heads down, eyes up.

1:00AM WEIRD transition of ‘ardcore music

1:30AM DJ FUZZY DUCK invites the entirety of PIXEL to join us in activism. A HUGE supporter of Clean Living, and electro.

It would be unbecoming if we did not throw in a few curveballs. Be aware.

3:30AM Do you really think we are going to call shit?

FRIDAY, MARCH 6th
11:30PM-3:30AM (and beyond?)
$3 (donation…kisses for more)
ALPHA DELT basement (excellent acoustics)

Dan Smalls brings New Pornographers frontman AC Newman to Ithaca March 10!

 yay!

The facts!

BEACH FUZZ & AMERICAN SPHINX
Tuesday March 3
9PM
7 Dollars
Lost Dog Lounge

The details!

Hello everyone! I am thrilled to announce that the first Popcorn Youth show of 2009 is right around the corner!

This Tuesday, March 3, Manchester, UK-based psychedelic rock band BEACH FUZZ will play for the first time in Ithaca at the LOST DOG LOUNGE. Syracuse/Ithaca duo AMERICAN SPHINX and Hudson-based musician CYRUS GENGRAS will open. As most of you know, Tuesdays at the Lost Dog are typically Orbiting Art Ensemble nights. Mike Stark and the O.A.E. have graciously allowed me to use use the space, and I think it’s going to be a really special night!

Beach Fuzz is the stripped-down duo of Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell, playing bowed, scraped and intuitively picked lap steel, wailing, echo drenched fuzz synth, percussion and spontaneously composed vocals. Beach Fuzz draws from musicians as disparate as Neil Young, Terry Riley, Sonic Youth, Alice Coltrane, Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan. Beach Fuzz also runs Golden Lab Records, which features intriguing releases from Greg Kelley, Neptune, Heather Leigh Murray, Neil Hagerty’s Howling Hex, among others. They will be fantastic!

American Sphinx features New Thing Productions founder Michael Hentz (guitar, loops, flute, keyboard) with Jarek Miller (drums). Their music combines elements of free jazz, psych and raga drones. They are currently working on a new CD that will be available early 2009, and I’m thrilled to welcome them back to the Popcorn Youth lineup. Cyrus Gengras (of The Antique Brothers) of Hudson, NY, will play a special solo set with acoustic guitar and electronics.

so,

Beach Fuzz: www.myspace.com/beachfuzz

American Sphinx: www.myspace.com/ussphinx

Cyrus Gengras: www.myspace.com/cyrusgengras

Tuesday, March 3
Lost Dog Lounge
112 S. Cayuga St.
Ithaca, NY
9PM / $7

I can’t wait to get back into the swing of things, and I’m really, really excited about this spring’s show lineup — expect appearances from: Sightings, Eskimo King, Shooting Spires, Daniel Francis Doyle, Windy & Carl, Benoit Pouilard, Mountains, Hank Roberts, Tom Carter, Steve Gunn, and Shawn David McMillen!! It’s our best year yet and I want you to be a part of it!

I hope to see you on Tuesday — please come out and support Ithaca’s underground!!!!

Natasha

Caught in the act, In Flagranti. Apparently it’s French. Looks Italian to me. Dude’s from Berlin so he can come off it.

I expect this to be a terrible show. Clarification: terribly boring. It’s like, hear me out, I am tired of all of this sexmusik. Whatever happened to clean music? Every time I listen to In Flagranti I have to take a bath. Enough of this innuendo shit.

I mean have you watched their visions? Here, here, here. Leave woman alone, asshole. Take of the roller skates, put some clothes on. Let them grow their shit out. Who fucking booked this? MISOGYNISTS. Little people.

Disco is over, In Flagranti. Electro is played out. Don’t come here. It’s cold and the water for our tea is boiling.

Whatever. Make your own decision.

IN FLAGRANTI
with SIMSTIM (racist against women)

FRIDAY (2.20)
CASTAWAYS
9:00PM

http://www.myspace.com/inflagranti

First show of the semester!

BIRD NAMES

(w/ TBA)

SATURDAY 2/7

9PM

NO RADIO RECORDS
312 e. seneca

5$

Bird Names hacks and distends simple pop tunes, reimagining them into lo-fi sing-alongs bloated, bettered, by steely guitars, telephonic vox, bells, flutes, and chimes. And out burps pop gems. You can’t buy that shit! But don’t go dropping spoons expecting some nasty rhythms. You have to hone. You have to envision. Bird Names are pop visionaries, or, at least, highstrung explorers.

Please join us in welcoming the best new band you’ll hear this year.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=12708009

http://birdnamesmusic.com/