The Waynes and Pat

Kurt Triptow, Laurie Hallal, Derek Poindexter, Matt Sobolewski and Pat ‘the Producer’ Johnson

Q: Are We Not Inner Sanctum? A: We are Devo!

Devo are currently finishing up the first new Devo release since Smooth Noodle Maps in 1990, and they’ve already started the promo machine with a couple of high-profile appearances at South By Southwest this past week.

Whitney from Pop Candy caught up with the Devo cats for an interview featuring questions submitted by her readers, including this Akron-related Q!

I live in Akron and rented an apartment years ago, and one of the selling points was that a few members of Devo had lived there previously. The address is 123 South Portage. Is that true? — Tommy

I think that’s where Jerry and Bob lived, and that’s where we recorded a lot of songs early on. And that’s where we conceived the idea of doing our first film. I hope they’ve fixed some of the utilities.

Regarding the new album:

And the new album is almost finished?

We’re kind of halfway through it. We have about six songs that are pretty well-nailed down, and we have twenty-some more that we’re going through. I’m sure it’ll be done by summertime.

At what point did you realize it was time for Devo to return?

Well, we write songs together, and we never call them Devo. But we liked what was happening in the music industry right now. We like the fact that record companies have exploded and the whole methodology of presenting yourself as a musical artist is all up in the air, and there’s all sorts of new possibilities right now. We wish this would’ve happened 30 years ago, but we’re glad we’re still around to get involved with it now.

Devo will perform their classic Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo! in its entirety during a London show in May.

One more Devo item for you all - here’s the setlist from their SXSW performance, with thanks to Pop Candy.

Don’t Shoot, I’m A Man
Peek-A-Boo
What We Do
Goin’ Under
Fresh
That’s Good
Girl U Want
Whip It
Secret Agent Man
I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)
Uncontrollable Urge
Mongoloid
Smart Patrol/DNA
Gates Of Steel

Encore:
Freedom Of Choice
Jocko Homo
Gut Feeling
Beautiful World

During last night’s music news, we threw out a little teaser about a new low dough concert series from Radio 92.3 featuring up and coming national bands paired with opening slots featuring Cleveland’s hottest local bands.

The cat’s out of the bag now, and we can share the full details on the Radio 92.3 “Cheap Date” concert series, happening at the House of Blues in the Cambridge Room!

The first show is set for Saturday, April 25th with Cage The Elephant. Opening the show, will be our good friends in The Doctor Teeeth!

Admission is a mere 5 bones (that’s 5 dollars for ya’ll that don’t speak the lingo…) and we MIGHT have some additional good news to share about The Doctor Teeeth in the weeks yet to come, so stay tuned!

Here are the show details for Cage The Elephant/The Doctor Teeeth! Tickets go on sale this Friday, and you can get more information right here!!

In the Cambridge Room
Radio 92.3 “Cheap Date” featuring
Cage the Elephant
with Doctor Teeeth
Saturday, April 25 * doors at 9:00 PM
Tickets: $5 in advance
Ages: All
On Sale: Friday, March 27 @ 10 AM

Matt Shultz (vocals), his brother Brad (guitar) and their friends Daniel Titchenor (bass), Lincoln Parish (guitar) and Jared Champion (drums) have spent the last year tearing back and forth across Britain and America, leaving a trail of hedonistic chaos in their wake. Their debut album (recorded in just ten days with producer Jay Joyce), dropped in June 2008, and has been the basis for sellout tours in the UK as the five kids from Kentucky show the children of Great Britain how it’s done.

“Our name kind of stands for the whole of society”, Matt explains, “the people we all are by nature. Sometimes it feels like there’s a campaign to lock up all the good in the world. You turn on the news and hear ‘Today 26 people got gunned down, and one guy got his head chopped off, and here’s a picture of it’. It’s like there’s no hope. And it’s not just the government or the media who are responsible for that, it’s everywhere. But we want to show that’s not right - you can’t cage the elephant”.

Artist website: www.cagetheelephant.com

Inner Sanctum Playlist 3-22-09

1 - Pearl Jam W/ Joey Ramone - Sonic Reducer
2 - Sons of Elvis - Formaldhyde
3 - Slackjaw - Blinded
4 - Jehova Waitresses - Perfect Impossible
5 - The Waynes - Your Sympathy
6 - The Waynes - Different Light (Live!)
7 - The Waynes - Drive
8 - Nicholas Megalis - The fire
9 - The Jellybricks - Ruin Us
10 - Plasma - Piece of me
11 - The Waynes - Stand Up
12 - State Fair - Good to noone
13 - Red Sun Rising - What you are to me
14 - The Waynes - Fall off the world (Live!)
15 - The Doctor Teeeth - Snakes and Dragons
16 - The Suede Brothers - Homebreaker
17 - The Tellers - If I had my may
18 - The Waynes - Blasted
19 - The Waynes - This moving train (Live!)
20 - The Waynes - Drive
21 - The Waynes - East coast slo

WOW!!! What a night! Jim Benson checked in during his recovery telling us to expect him back the first week of May! He has been missed for sure but what fun we had to have the reunion of 90’s local legends The Waynes go down in the studios Sunday night! They played previously unreleased material, produced by Mitch Easter, as well as some favorites Live!

This Sunday marks the showing at 2:20pm of ‘it’s the end of the world as we knew it‘ at the Cleveland International Film Festival! Afterwards join us for a celebration at ROC Bar with Metromix Cleveland that includes Derek Poindexter’s birthday party and playing live Plasma, The tellers, and The Waynes(Derek’s playing in all 3 bands!).

To send music:
Inner Sanctum
1041 Huron Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44115
music@innersanctumcleveland.com

We have a BIG one for ya this sunday!!! The Waynes are reuniting to play on the show and we have Tobin guest hosting to preview the showing of ‘The end of the world as we knew it‘ as well as  Derek Poindexter’s birthday party at the Roc Bar all happening on  Sunday March 29th!

I was jazzed to see the news about former Michael Stanley Band singer-songwriter Jonah Koslen who recently announced an April 18th date at The Winchester where he will recreate the classic MSB live album Stagepass with his creatively titled band Stage Pass Now.

From the Winchester website:

In October of 1976, Cleveland Rock-n-Roll history was made at the original Agora Theatre. Cleveland’s own Michael Stanley Band recorded the classic, gold, double-live album “Stagepass”.

Jonah Koslen and Stage Pass Now re-create the classic album, “Stagepass”, live and in concert, turned up loud and rocking out exactly the way you remember it.

Re-live it, or Experience it for the first time: “Strike Up the Band,” “Rosewood Bitters,” “Nothing’s Going to Change My Mind,” “Show on the Road,” “Waste a Little Time on Me,” “Midwest Midnight,” and the rest of the hit songs from the acclaimed, live album. Jonah Koslen and Stage Pass Now will be live and in concert at The Winchester. Tickets are $15.00. 9pm.

Michael Stanley will be at the show, but not in the way that you might expect. Stanley shares the following quote:

“I’m as excited as everyone else is to hear Jonah and his band perform the Stagepass album live and in concert. I can’t wait to sit in the audience and have the experience of hearing our classic MSB album in all its rocking glory, this time as his friend and a fan.”

Grab your tickets now for this intimate evening with Koslen and crew, which will very likely be a sellout. Visit The Winchester website for ticket details.

PS - a little birdie told me that this will be a warmup show for a larger show later this year. You don’t want to miss this one!

While we’re on the Koslen tip, check out this cool video of Koslen’s post-MSB project Breathless performing at the Cleveland Agora circa-1979!

Cleveland’s own Kate Voegele has a new CD due in May called A Fine Mess, and she recently shared a couple of cool “fly on the wall” clips from the studio.

Check ‘em out -
 Part 2

Here’s a cool story that we shared tonight on the show about The Jellybricks and their music video for “Ruin Us.”  The band created the clip using Rock Band 2, and internet buzz for the video has escalated to a nod from Rolling Stone magazine, who called it “the first truly clever viral music video of 2009.”

Bassist/singer Garrick Chow gave Rolling Stone the lowdown behind the clip:

“As a band, after rehearsals, we sometimes get together and play Rock Band, and I was just noticing the camera angles and the shots that are used, that we can make characters that kind of look like us. There’s these great sets in the game, it just looked really cool.” “Instead of taking cameras out into the Pennsylvania winter trying to figure out a video, we basically spent a week playing the game, capturing it in my computer and trying to edit it all together to make it look like we’re actually playing the song.”

Read the complete story here

If you haven’t seen it, check out the clip for “Ruin You” below….

Inner Sanctum Playlist 3-15-09

1 - Pere Ubu - Wheelhouse
2 - Redwater Rojo - See Me
3 - Audiblethread - Just beginnning
4 - Austin ‘Walkin Cane’- Hold on the night
5 - Austin - Rooster crow blues (Live!)
6 - Chris Allen - She’s a fighter
7 - The Jellybricks - Ruin Us
8 - Pale Hollow - Sugarcane
9 - Austin - Step it up and go
10 - Austin - Georgia Moon (Live!)
11 - Kristine Jackson - At my heels
12 - Dan Auerbach - The Prowl
13 - The Doctor Teeeth - Peace and Quiet
14 - Disengage - Love Letter Rough Draft
15 - Years of Fire - Heresy of Arius
16 - JMX - Abyss
17 - Drop to zero - 981
18 - The Suede Brothers - Pleaser
19 - Austin - Devil’s Backbone

Jim is still out recovering but will be back soon!! So we started the show with Pere Ubu again in his honor.  Austin ‘Walkin Cane’ Charranghat stopped by to play a few tunes and tell us about his spring plans which includes a trip to play a gig in France!! For more info check out Walkincane.com.

We also caught up with Trent Weller who brought down the new Years of Fire and introduced us to Sinner from JMX.

To Send Music:
Inner Sanctum
1041 Huron Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44115
music@innersanctumcleveland.com

Here’s a cool interview with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney that we talked about on last night’s show during music news. The interview was conducted by Jeff Niesel for Positively Cleveland and will appear in the official visitor’s guide to be printed this summer:

Patrick Carney of The Black Keys

Whether you’re performing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien or playing the main stage at Lollapalooza, you guys always identify yourselves as the Black Keys from Akron, Ohio. Talk a little about what Akron symbolizes for you guys and why you like the city so much. Well, Akron is our home. It’s where all of our friends are. We do that because places like Akron get written off. I don’t think you can’t truly appreciate Akron until you have either lived here or at least been here. It’s not one of those cities where people are waiting in line to come visit. That’s why we like Akron. It’s not flashy. There are lots of cool things, but you just need to know where to go. Because of that, nothing ever changes, which is cool.

Read the rest of the interview here (via Flee To The Cleve - Thanks to Sam Fryberger for the tip!)