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Friday August 1 2014
 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:30PM ••• ALL AGES
$12 in advance / $14 at the door
Xiu Xiu 
xiuxiu.org/
 avant-garde electronic experimental indie punk rock 
Circuit Des Yeux 
http://hfohr.blogspot.com/
 singer songwriter experimental folk  
Father Murphy 
www.facebook.com/fathermurphyband
 from Italy
 alternative dark folk experimental industrial post punk psychedelia

Xiu Xiu
Shayna Dunkelman, Angela Seo, and Jamie Stewart.
-From San Jose, California.
-Over the course of 15 7"s, five EPs, six collaboration albums and
eight full lengths, Xiu Xiu has never shied away from any topic that is
honest and meaningful to them. Their songs are about gender dysphoria,
suicide, loneliness, going insane, child soldiers, the tsunami in
Indonesia, hideous sex, the Sanrio character Pineapple, abortion
politics, incest, cats, and queer life. Somehow within all of this,
cuteness attempts to find a way to embrace death and horrible emotion.

Their music is drawn from British post-punk and synth pop, modern
Western classical, noise and experimental musics, Asian percussion
musics, American folk, torch singers, house, techno, 1950's rock 'n'
roll, and this second's top 40. They are incredibly eclectic and
poignant, while still writing exceptionally catchy, complex music.





Circuit Des Yeux
-From Chicago, Illinois.
-On the late afternoon of Friday, 30 June 1559, a long splinter of wood from a jousting lance pierced the eye and brain of King Henry II of France. Thus begins the tale of Haley Fohr. In 2007, a 17-year-old Haley Fohr resided in a partially-abandoned house littered with instruments discarded by a local degenerate crustpunk act. On her friend Katie Leming's first day on the job at a bank, the branch was robbed and she sought solace from the experience in the primitive thump of her drum set of stolen freestanding drums. Haley Fohr picked up an electric guitar for the first time since a creepy guitar instructor vibed her out in the eighth grade and the pair channeled mutual disillusionment into a monster subbasement slude rock sound. Katie already had designs to form a project Crogmagnon Woman. Dropping the "Woman" from the no-longer-solo project, Cromagnon was born.

The autodidactic duo was on the road within a few weeks, picking up shows in Columbus, Pittsburgh, Detroid, Philadelphia, and New York. Both Haley and Katie channeled their fecund creativity into solo projects before Cromagnon even managed to record. Haley Fohr launched Circuit des Yeux (named for the nerve in the eye that supplies power to the act of seeing) in 2008 with a set of noise bursts and blown out dirges called Syphone that make Les Rallizes Desnudes sound as eager and commercial as Steely Dan. Prominent experimental rock label DeStijl took interest after Fohr traded her CD-Rs with punk bands, DIY label owners, and other degenerates, and issued a short run of the document. Cromagnon was still stomping along, finally cutting some recordings that veered towards accessibility. Their first recordings, cut on a pink Fostex four-track, appeared on a compliation with Zola Jesus, US Girls, Bird, Luxury Prevention, and... Circuit Des Yeux. The first Circuit des Yeux performances were objectively crude, armed with merely a Yamaha keyboard, cassette player, and tom.

Over the next fear years, Cromagnon would dissolve and Circuit Des Yeux would turn into a self-sustaining solo act. Fohr has moved away from the utterly experimental workings of the early material and into a sophisticated new effort that will surprise and delight.    



Father Murphy
Freddie Murphy and Chiara Lee.
-From Venezia, Italy.
-Father Murphy is the sound of the Catholic sense of guilt.
A downward spiral aiming at the bottom of the hollow, and then digging even deeper. After having furiously performed all over Europe, toured North America with Deerhoof, Dirty Beaches and Xiu Xiu, been praised by the Archdruid Julian Cope, among lots of others, Father Murphy, with three albums and a plethora of EPs and limited releases, has become over the years one of the most mysterious and enigmatic musical entities coming out of Italy, a part of that community that Simon Reynolds started to call the new "Italian Occult psychedelia."