Doors at 9pm - Free - DJ sets early and late from the bands
Visual Art by Ryan Weitzel / Jeff Deasy / Nick Riley of Mystery of Two in the Cafe area of Arts Collinwood
Debut of the new Mystery of Two video for Mornings Call Filmed by Jon Mancinetti at Arts Collinwood
It’s been a busy year for us in the Mystery of Two camp. After releasing a self titled LP on Exit Stencil Recordings we hit the road playing the Midwest and East Coast including this years CMJ fest in NYC. Our travels have found us back in Cleveland prepping new material and working on various video projects, on of which will be debuting over the course of these events.
With the winter settling in the decision to approach Art’s Collinwood about a residency came from not only the desire to play and play often, but also as a reaction to the often draining doldrums of February in Cleveland. As we all know, it’s cold and winter starts to drag on, so having a series of free shows with friends is our attempt to fight the tedium the best we know how, which I suppose one could say is loudly. This is our collective encouragement to have some winter fun. Join us as we make our way toward this first spring of a new decade.
8:00 Spy Radio
8:30 Colin Gawel and the Lonely Bones
9:00 The Celebrity Pilots
9:30 Living Stereo
10:00 Good Touch, Bad Touch
10:30 Bill Fox
11:30 Afternoon Naps
8:00 Terribly Empty Pockets
8:30 Triggers
9:00 The Deadbeat Poets
9:30 Pale Hollow
10:00 Rainy Day Saints
10:30 Paranoid Lovesick
11:30 The Jellybricks
We will have much more info as we get closer to the event including some in-studio performances from a few of these bands, but until then you can check these sites out to stay up to date!
Starting this Wednesday July 8th the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum brings back it’s popular Summer Session concert series! Enjoy some of the best local acts teamed up with National bands for free right outside the Rock Hall on the beautiful north coast! From the Rock Hall’s website:
The country and region’s most popular up-and-coming bands and artists will perform, many for the first time at the Rock Hall. The latest in web technology, webcasting and blogging, will allow concert attendees to watch the concerts live, relive their favorite concert moments and communicate with their favorite bands via blog posts. Each Summer Sessions artist or band has been invited to begin a blog on cleveland.com to share their experiences with fans: how they got started, their favorite things about performing live, their aspirations for the future and more.
This Wednesday starting at 7pm you can catch local experimental indie rock hero’s Mystery of Two:
Mo2 will be our in-studio guests on Sunday July 26th to debut music and talk about about their CD release party July 31st at the Beachland Ballroom with Hot Cha Cha!
We had such a blast on Thursday out at the beachland ballroom as we kicked off the Metromix Inner Sanctum concert series! Check out the performances all summer long on Channel 3 friday’s during thier morning show! Here are some shots of the performers from the first taping:
Leah Lou
Adam Heart
Lawless
Carlos Jones
The next taping will be June 10th at the Beachland with Carlicia, Jackson Rohm, Coffinberry and Redwater Rojo! Doors at 6:30 show starts at 7 and is absolutly free!
The Infection is coming out in less than a week and we find ourselves in a position that, in this day and age, is unique. With only six days until The Infection is released, our album has yet to leak on the internet. We would like to thank all of those who had their hands on the album that could have leaked our record but did not. The fact that this did not happen gives the album something that doesn’t exist for new releases these days: anticipation.
To our great fans, we want to ask for your help with reaching a goal. With each subsequent Chimaira release after Pass Out Of Existence, we’ve been able to outsell the previous record’s first week sales. In an era of downloaded music and an overall diminished market for CD sales, we want ask our fans to help us continue the trend of higher first week sales by going out and picking up The Infection in its first week.
As a way to get all of you to stop foaming at the mouth in anticipation, we want to say an early “thank you” by streaming the entire record on our Myspace tomorrow. We hope that you will hear the new stuff, love it as much as we do, and be inspired to go out and pick it up in the first week and make a statement for heavy music.
Check out what the previous Chimaira albums have done in their first week. Let’s beat Resurrection!
Pass Out Of Existence - 4,217
The Impossibility Of Reason - 8,320 - #117
Chimaira - 13,938 - #74
Resurrection - 16,346 - #42
You can buy The Infection now!
Click here for information on where you can buy the new CD, including autographed copies!
Zach celebrates his 9th release to benefit Cuyahoga Falls High School Theater Department!
Zach has come a long way from his humble open mic beginnings exactly one decade ago. He’s performe d over 2,000 shows in states from coast to coast, on stages of all shapes and sizes. It’s a schedule that has found him on bills with Neil Yo ung, Gin Blossoms, Bad Company, and newcomers like Brett Dennon, Jen Chapin, and Trevor Hall. “I absolutely love performing! I couldn’t not perform. It’s something in the blood, I think. But I also do it to see the smiles on people’s faces. To see someone get lifted up is an amazing feeling!”
On April 25th, he releases his 9th CD, What I Meant to Say, which was recorded over the course of several months in Atlanta, GA and co-produced by Nick Chawala (Gym Class Heroes, Outkast, Collective Soul, Elton John) and features his talented band of Northeast Ohio musicians. The songs on this recording are the most personal of his career, including several written while his father was fighting Pancreatic Cancer and shortly after his father lost that battle in 2006. “I feel this is the best that I’ve ever done, and is more of a genuine and honest record. These songs were all written in a period of high emotion, and both the band and Nick did a fantastic job capturing that.”
To mark this special occasion, there will be a CD Release Concert on April 25th at the Cuyahoga Falls High School (2300 4th St, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221). The show kicks off at 7:00pm with a local band from the high school opening the evening. Zach will be having several special guests during his set. Tickets are only $7 –or – 2 for $10! Plus, each ticket entitles the bearer to $3 off the new CD. Tickets can be purchased at the school, online at ww.zachmusic.net/order.html, and at all upcoming Zach appearances.
“I’m very excited to be working with the Cuyahoga Falls Theater and Stage departments. Sadly, the arts are always the first experiences cut in schools, so any way I can help them, I will. Plus, this will also benefit the sound and stage program at the high school. My father was my soundman, and respected for his skills in the community, and I think he would be happy to see this department helped along.”
His shows have been called “incredible” and “uplifting.”
Please attend this unique and uplift ing event on Saturday April 25th! The doors open at 6:00pm, and the show begins at 7:00pm. Contact Zach at 440.668.1687 if you have any questions or would like further information. Online ticket orders and information is available at http://www.zachmusic.net/order.html.
What a very cool thing to do, which is no suprise to those that know him! Here’s a pic from his last show visit.
Here’s the teaser for the new Chimaira cd due out next Tuesday April 21st. The boys are out on the amazing Music as a Weapon tour with Disturbed, Killswitch Engage and Lacuna Coil right now which smashes into the Wolstien center on May 3rd. You can check out Chimaira’s website for more details and pre-order your copy of The Infection!
Here are some details about the upcoming Music Saves Record Store Day that Matt has mentioned on the show. Of course Music Saves is right next to the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern and it all goes down on Saturday April 18th!
Special Record Store Day Deals:
10% off entire purchase when you come in wearing an indie record store t-shirt
Grab bags of CD mystery – super cheap!
Goody bags for all!
An array of fabulous prizes
Diorama contest! The prize is a $100 gift certificate to MUSIC SAVES! The TEAM will pick the winner! Your diorama must be music themed! Yes, it must be created inside a shoebox! DIORAMA DEADLINE IS 10pm, Thursday, April 16!(If anyone has spare shoeboxes lying around the house, please drop them off at the store for those who are shoebox-less!) OUT store performances from:
THE VERY KNEES - 7:30 @ Music Saves
HOT CHA CHA - 7:00 @ Blue Arrow Records
TROUBLE BOOKS - 6:30 @ Music Saves
PRISONERS - 6:00 @ Blue Arrow Records
BRIAN STRAW - 5:30 @ Music Saves
Record Store Day Limited Releases:
AKRON/FAMILY Everyone is Guilty b/w Total Destruction LIMITED 7” - 1st single from new album + unreleased b-side
BLACK KIDS Wizard of Ahhs LIMITED 7” - 4 original demos, 1st time in physical form
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Born on a Day LIMITED 7” - colored vinyl
BLITZEN TRAPPER War is Placebo b/w Booksmart Baby LIMITED 7” - 2 previously unreleased tracks
CAMERA OBSCURA French Navy b/w The World is Full of Strangers LIMITED 7” - non-LP b-side
LEONARD COHEN The Future b/w Suzanne LIMITED 7” - live in London, 3×5 photo included
COLD WAR KIDS Live at Fingerprints LIMITED CD - 5 tracks
ELVIS COSTELLO Complicated Shadows b/w Dirty Rotten Shame LIMITED 7” - exclusive b-side, 3×5 photo included
CURSIVE + LADYFINGER LIMITED 10” - picture disc with 2 album tracks, 2 unreleased
DEAD WEATHER Hang You From the Heavens LIMITED 7” - new Jack White band, album in June
DECEMBERISTS The Rake Song b/w East India Lanes LIMITED 7” - non-LP b-side
DEPECHE MODE Wrong b/w Oh Well LIMITED 7”
BOB DYLAN Dreamin’ of You b/w Down Along the Cover LIMITED 7” - live, exclusive b-side, 3×5 photo included
EL GRUPO NUEVO DE OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ Cryptomnesia LIMITED LP - members of Mars Volta and Hella
FLAMING LIPS + BLACK KEYS Borderline b/w Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles LIMITED 7” - covers!
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Pencils in the Wind b/w Albi the Racist Dragon LIMITED 7” - 2 previously unreleased tracks
GREEN DAY Dookie LP
GRIZZLY BEAR While You Wait For the Others b/w He Hit Me LIMITED 7” - live on KCRW
GUIDED BY VOICES Hold on Hope LIMITED LP - 1st time on vinyl, 3 bonus tracks
IRON AND WINE Norfolk 6/20/05 LIMITED Live CD - 18 tracks from the 2005 Woman King tour
JANE’S ADDICTION Mountain Song b/w Standing In the Shower… Thinking LIMITED 7” - original replica picture sleeve
JANE’S ADDICTION Nothing’s Shocking LP & Ritual De Lo Habitual 2xLP
JESUS LIZARD Inch LIMITED 7” box set - 9×7”, released on Touch and Go 1989-1994
JENNY LEWIS (with Elvis Costello) Carpet Baggers b/w Go Away LIMITED 7”
LONEY DEAR + ANDREW BIRD LIMITED 7” - hand silkscreened covers, tour and mail order item
LYKKI LI + EL PERRO DEL MAR After Laughter (Comes Tears) b/w At Your Best (You Are Love) LIMITED 7” - 2 unreleased covers
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. It’s Made Me Cry LIMITED 7” - 4 tracks
MC5 Kick Out the Jams b/w Motor City is Burning LIMITED 7” - original replica picture sleeve, 1st time available since 1969
METRIC Help I’m Alive b/w Help I’m a B-Side LIMITED 7” - picture disc, 1st single from new album + exclusive b-side
MY MORNING JACKET Celebración De La Ciudad Natal Live CD/LP
NEW ORDER Temptation b/w Hurt LIMITED 7” - mastered from original tapes, never before available in the U.S. as a 7”
FRANZ NICOLAY Major General CD - keyboardist inThe Hold Steady
OBITS I Can’t Lose b/w Military Madness LIMITED 7” - brand new tracks
PAVEMENT Live in Germany 12” - an entire unreleased album from 1998, all tracks exclusive to this release
ELVIS PERKINS Lorraine, Lookout b/w I’ll Be Arriving LIMITED 7” - 1 previously unreleased track
RADIOHEAD Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, High & Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Paranoid Android, Karma Police,
No Surprises, Pyramid Song, 2+2=5 vinyl singles
ARTHUR RUSSELL Love is Overtaking Me LIMITED 2LP - 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased songs
SILVERSUN PICKUPS LIMITED Pikul 12” - pre-Carnavas ep, exclusive vinyl release
SMITHS The Headmaster Ritual b/w Oscillate Way LIMITED 7” - mastered from original tapes, never before available in the U.S. as a 7”
SONIC YOUTH + JAY REATARD No Garage b/w Hang Them All LIMITED 7” - both tracks exclusive
SONIC YOUTH + BECK Pay No Mind b/w Green Light LIMITED 7” - covers of each others’ songs, both tracks exclusive
CHARLES SPEARIN (Broken Social Scene) 12” - 8 tracks, raised embossed jacket
REGINA SPEKTOR Begin to Hope LP
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN What Love Can Do b/w A Night With the Jersey Devil LIMITED 7” - exclusive b-side, 3×5 photo included
STOOGES 1969 b/w Real Cool Time LIMITED 7” - original replica picture sleeve
TALKING HEADS Talking Heads: 77 LP
THERMALS + THAO LIMITED 7” - 4 unreleased tracks
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES + RUSSIAN CIRCLES LIMITED 12” - clear vinyl, unreleased tracks, reissue of Euro Tour Release
VETIVER Wishing Well b/w Pay No Mind LIMITED 7” - 2 previously unreleased tracks
TOM WAITS LIMITED Live From the Glitter & Dome Tour 7” - live tracks from Atlanta and Edinburgh
WHISKEYTOWN San Antone b/w The Great Divide LIMITED 7” - 2 previously unreleased tracks recorded in 1996
WILCO Ashes of American Flags DVD - exclusive to indie stores for the 1st 10 days, downloads of all songs, + more
YEAH YEAH YEAHS It’s Blitz LP
NEIL YOUNG Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968, 200 gram, 2LP
VARIOUS THRILL JOCKEY Records Toreism LIMITED LP +2 zines - Tortoise, Mountains, Trans Am, Double Dagger, White Hills
VARIOUS This LP Crashes Hard Drives Label Comp LIMITED LP - plus catalogs, postcards, a magazine, CD samplers, stickers, etc.
Head over to the Music Saves website for all the latest!
Armed with new tunes, Cleveland power trio smashers The Suede Brothers will open the May installment of Radio 92.3’s Cheap Date concert series at House of Blues in The Cambridge Room. People in Planes headline the next Cheap Date, on Wednesday, May 20th. Tickets are $5 in advance, and go on sale Friday morning at 10am.
The Suede Brothers have a couple of worthy shows on tap, including a show on Friday, April 17th at the Beachland with Living Stereo and User Sets Mode+! For those of you that enjoy a good road trip, I can strongly recommend kicking it down to Columbus the following night (4/18) where the Bros will be opening a reunion date by stoner legends (in my book anyway,) Karma To Burn! I think that Wesley Willis (R.I.P.) woulda said that Karma to Burn whips major ass, and really kick out the jams. Something like that.
Speaking of the House of Blues:
Our good friends Sindust will be opening for Days of the New off-shoot Tantric at the House of Blues in the Cambridge Room on Wednesday, April 29th. Both Sindust and Tantric have new albums to soak in, if you haven’t heard ‘em. Those of you that checked out the show that we did late last year with Sindust, know how good that new stuff is. And if you’ve somehow been asleep and missed hearing it on the show, take our word for it, you’ll dig it - go check ‘em out at the House of Blues on April 29th!
