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Stereopathic is pleased to announce totally blown away that Shearwater is playing at the Bell Tower in Pullman on Tuesday, April 20th Friday, April 30th. The show starts at 8 PM. We’re lining up a local act to kick things off; Lawrence, Kansas’ Hospital Ships opens, followed by Shearwater’s thrilling and epic live show.

Shearwater, of course, will be touring in support of their Read more

For her first ever performance in Seattle, cellist Alison Chesley, who performs under the name Helen Money, certainly deserved better than she got. Her set of experimental solo cello playing augmented and amplified by an array of effects pedals was shoehorned into a bill featuring hardcore rock acts, and her quieter moments were in constant threat of being drowned out by the unrelenting house music bleeding through the walls from the club next door.

The effects of all of these factors had an obvious effect on Chesley, who cut her set to a serviceable but woefully short 20 minutes. But during this abbreviated performance, she was able to stunningly bring to bear the many facets of her solo material. There was the elongated, almost jazz-y pieces that echoed the exploratory work of the Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Orchestra album Strange Strings alongside some more aggressive and noisy pieces that used her mass of effects pedals, some of which looped in prerecorded sounds or helped to add meaty fuzz to her cello lines.

What frustration Chesley vocalized and exhibited in her furrowed brow was channeled right into her playing. She plucked at the strings with her fingers, used them percussively by hitting them with her bow, and eked out any number of raw tones and squelches. The tense feeling also added an extra bit of drive to her instrumental take on the Minutemen classic, “Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing”. Over a clattering, driving drum beat, Chesley scratched out D. Boon’s vocal melody on her cello, losing none of the grit and pent up distress in the translation. It was a breathtaking cover that felt heavier than anything the other bands on the bill attempted that evening.

Review by Robert Ham. Read more of his work at The Voice of Energy.

It’s Stereopathic’s busiest week yet.  All told, we’re bringing in six out-of-town artists to entertain Moscow with various forms of folk music, countrified and otherwise. Check out our Birds on a Wire page for links to everyone’s respective myspaces, and for a big fat pic of David Dalbey’s beautiful poster. And, of course, there’s more after the jump . . . Read more

Poster by David Dalbey

8-bit… ah… well what can you say? Most of the junk out there just sounds like it could be straight from an old NES game, but some have managed to tame the stereotypical arpeggios and actually create music that a matured listener, which I am assuming we all are, will appreciate.  Sure it’s catchy, sure it’s a bit more square wave than Read more

Poster by David Dalbey.

Sundance Kids is playing their own special mix of twee hybrid folk pop for Moscow this Valentine’s Day, and the lead vocal/circus master Shelby Turner would like to encourage you all to bring your candy, flowers, and teddies. “We want to be your valentine, Moscow!” says Turner with a charming smile.

The Kids is Turner’s post-college “self-improvement project,” started in 2005 by Turner + Girl.The band evolved into Turner’s baby as time passed and feelings changed. Derek (bass) and Erin (glockenspiel, drums, bass, vocals) came along after meeting Turner at Evergreen College in Olympia, WA, the Kids’ hometown.

Sundance Kids plays hybrid country because those are their roots; they’re hybrid because they quit country/folk for pop a couple of years back. They’re twee because, well, why not? “The original idea of the project was play really cute twee-country songs, the kind that would make people chuckle and giggle and say ‘awww!’,” Turner explains. Gradually the country advanced into twee with more pop-appeal.

Like in all good westerns, Sundance Kids is travelling westward; this is their 3rd tour of the northwest and they are thrilled to be back in Moscow. “There’s a Co-Op, the country is beautiful, the Palouse is just lovely,” says Turner; he continues: “We’re really excited to play with Yarn Owl, our friends from Pullman.”

Bring your sweetheart to hear Sundance Kids and Yarn Owl at the Nuart Theatre in downtown Moscow (516 S. Main Street) on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 2008, at 8:00 p.m., $5 at the door.  ~xox, molly miltenberger

Molly is a freelance journalist and a senior at New St. Andrew’s College with a special interest in music, postcards, and goldfish.  She is an intern at The Loop 21 and keeps the blog A New Amsterdam.

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