A collaboration between West Coast noise/experimental artist John Wiese and Midwest drone industrialist Hive Mind has been added to the Friday lineup, bringing each day's lineup to eleven acts. It's still happening Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6, same time, same place, same everything, except that one more act's been added, and it's a doozy. 18 & up.Ĭoncert Fri Matchitehew Assembly band updateĪ few weeks back, we mentioned an upcoming two-day festival of black metal, drone, ambient, and harsh noise called Matchitehew Assembly. Tonight they will be joined by Miniature Tigers and Brian Bonz & the Dot Hongs. Kevin Devine and his Goddamn Band play tonight at Schubas, but if you miss him tonight, he'll be back in August as part of Lollapalooza's line-up. This fifth album, released on the Favorite Gentleman label, is a self proclaimed "sprawling, confident mission statement about conscience, culture, and personality." The album hits its peak at the middle with epic desperation in the nearly eight-minute "Brother's Blood" followed by the steamy "Fever Moon."ĭevine has worked and toured largely under the radar and was almost lost after his dismissal from Capital Records during their merger with Virgin, but he came out unscathed, and frankly, better off than he went in. Then there is the deceivingly cheery ukulele tune "Murphy's Song" about a pup with a Marley & Me ending. There is "Fever Moon" - a sexy Latin croon that you wouldn't expect, but it works. to Sam Beam to Jeff Tweedy, but even those comparisons don't capture his wide range. In listening to the album, I found myself associating him with artists from Ben Gibbard to Ryan Adams to Albert Hammond Jr. He also has a talent for creating powerful swelling songs like "Carnival" and title track, "Brother's Blood." He excels with energetic indie-rock jams like "I Could Be With Anyone" and several tracks - including "All Of Everything, Erased" and "It's Only Your Life" - that sound like they could have been on the Garden State soundtrack. His new LP, Brother's Blood, is in a word, outstanding. Devine is an artist that can cross many different genres and put his stamp on each one. I'll be honest, most of the time I find solo singer/songwriters kind of boring. Tickets are $25, and the performance starts at 7:30 p.m.Īlbum Fri Devine is Divine on Brother's Blood
ICE will perform five of Xenakis' pieces (roughly a 75 minute performance, with intermission) in the MCA's auditorium. As a result, the ground-breaking Greek composer's works are seldom performed, and even more rarely by an ensemble so dedicated to making them EXACTLY RIGHT, making this event a rare and essential musical event.
It's worth repeating, in case you're thinking that you read that wrong: this Thursday, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will present five short pieces by legendary composer Iannis Xenakis, as performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), an up-and-coming group dedicated to performing modern and classic works of the avant-garde and, in their words, "advancing the music of our time." Xenakis' structurally difficult works require virtuosos who not only possess outstanding chops, but excellent instincts and problem-solving abilities, as the pieces often demand something beyond perfection from its performers, requiring them to make sounds not easily coaxed from their instruments, and to play them perfectly each time. Concert Sun Xenakis in concert - no, really, XENAKIS.IN.CONCERTĪbove: The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)