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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v6n43 (10/25/2007) » Section: Calendar Spotlight


Jesu

Birmingham, England native Justin Broadick’s ability to straddled the lines between metal, industrial, punk, shoegaze and beyond is well documented. Just take a look at the guy, whose resume includes a stint in the grindcore phenoms Napalm Death, leading the heavier than hell experimentalists Godflesh and now fronting the remarkable Jesu. With Jesu, Broadick continues his unclassifiable, boundless brand of music, incorporating shoegaze, ambient, doom metal and rock contexts. This year saw Jesu issue its second full-length, Conqueror (Hydra Head), and make it’s first trek across the US (including an astounding appearance at SXSW). Before 2007 is over the band is running across North America making a stop in Buffalo this Friday (Oct. 26) at Showplace Theater with Torche and Fog. Doors open at 7pm.



Yellow Swans

Buffalo’s Soundlab could be dubbed “your home for psychedelic noise,” with its dedication to bringing weirder and more experimental artists every week. The Portland, Oregon duo Yellow Swans is yet another case in point, as they are renowned for making each live performance unique with a “constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise” (their words) created through the use of vocals, drum machine, guitar, electronics and feedback. Yellow Swans’ latest studio release, Psychic Secession (Load Records) features Jackson Pollock meets Rorschach cover art and subversive USBM (black metal) distortion techniques. The show starts at 9pm on Friday (Oct. 26) with string drone three-piece Entente Cordiale.



David Bazan

Between 1998 and 2006, David Bazan attracted a fierce cult following with his band Pedro the Lion. A contemporary of artists such as Damien Jurado and Songs:Ohia, Pedro the Lion dipped deep into topics of murder, deceit and estranged relationships, leading Paste Magazine last year to list Bazan as one of top 100 living songwriters. After 2004’s Achille’s Heal, Bazan took some time to concentrate on the electronic based project Headphones before deciding to dissolve the Pedro the Lion name. Since then, he has toured extensively on his own and released an EP titled Fewer Moving Parts, which consisted of five fully arranged tracks accompanied by five acoustic renditions of said songs. Bazan performs at Mohawk Place on Friday (Oct. 26) with All Smiles, which is the solo project of Jim Fairchild (of Grandaddy fame) and Tracy Morrow. The show starts at 8pm.



Acid Test Halloween

Buffalo native DJ Marcos (a.k.a. Gringo Scarr) returns this week with his New York City partner Bruce Force to play an “Acid Test Halloween” party at Soundlab on Saturday (Oct. 27). The duo have a successful weekly in NYC called Acid Test, and they’re bringing the same vibe back home for what they’re calling the “darkest, dirtiest and nastiest Halloween dance party this year.” It also features a return from the one and only Christ Sinister—who ex-patriated to New York along with Marcos some years ago—with Buffalo’s own 3PO and a closing techno set by the legendary Mike Parker. The party boasts full Halloween decor, giveaways, horror projections, prizes and more. This is definitely a dress-up occasion not to be missed. The show starts at 10pm.



The Stripteasers

Saturday night (Oct. 27) marks the return of Mistress J (Jamie Cudney) with the burlesque group the Stripteasers, after recently giving birth to a healthy baby boy. The occasion is “A Nightmare on Allen Street XXV” at Nietszche’s, the annual Halloween party and night of music, dancing, debauchery and ghoulish fun. The Stripteasers will be joined by Honky-Tonk favorites the Steam Dokeys, the Stamp Lickers (featuring some familiar faces from Amy’s Place) and—new to Nietszche’s stage—progressive thrash rockers Athera. They’re also hosting the annual costume party, and this year one creative party goer will win a Sam Adams Mountain Bike for “Best Costume.” Of course, more prizes and surprises await. It all gets going at 10pm.





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