Punch Brothers at Natasha's

Alltech Fortnight Festival presents....

Punch Brothers

Natasha's Bistro & Bar

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Tickets: $25

8:30 doors/ 9:30 show

Bar and concessions available.

BOX OFFICE: 859.259.2754

Open: M-F 10-4pm

http://www.punchbrothers.com

WednesdayPoetry Slam

Wednesday September 30
7:30 p.m.
Poetry Slam Hosted by Marc Smith
Black Box Theater in the Downtown Arts Center on Main Street
(next to the Ann Tower Gallery andAlfalfa's)

This Wednesday, September 30, Alltech Fortnight Festival presents a Poetry Slam hosted by Chicago's Marc Kelly Smith in Lexington's Downtown Arts Center's Black Box Theater.

Smith just so happened to have founded the entire 'slam' movement, 25 years ago, and was recently featured in a lengthy spread in New York Magazine where he discussed how the movement has shifted since it first began.

The slam is two-fold, with Equestrian readers and traditional slam participants alike (including some favorite Lexington poets) and $2000 in prizes.

Yours truly, SaRiot, will be on hand as a judge.

Tickets are $15 and the show is expected to sell out. If you'd like to win a free pair, e-mail me at kyblueline@gmail.com and tell me your favorite poet. Winner will be drawn around 10 a.m. Wednesday!

MAN MAN to play Lex Halloween show!

Last week, our good friends at Bullhorn gave word that experimental Philadelphian pirate-vaudevillian troupe MAN MAN have confirmed to headline what is shaping up to be one of the greatest Halloween shows Lexington has hosted in years. Even if pirate-vaudevillian music isn't your forte, these guys put on a hell of a fun show, with obvious hints of forefathers Tom Waits and Frank Zappa, but a sound that is altogether new in many ways.

Nina Mashurova wrote: "Man Man attacks their live shows with a frenetic energy that can only come from doing elaborate campfire dances with mischievous, vaguely anthropomorphic pagan deities clad in sparkly athletic gear. They rock classic white tennis outfits, feathers, and war paint. They play without pausing to take a breath. They sound like a pirate invasion, an electroclash polka, an orchestra turned party turned interplanetary zoo. Gravelly-voiced vocalist and resident wild man Honus Honus howls over melodic sax swells, tribal rhythms, high-pitched refrains, creating a cavalcade of sound that wields plenty of skill to match the spectacle."

Bullhorn and The Beaux Arts Ball Foundation presents:
The Half Way to Beaux Arts Ball

proceeds to benefit the BAB

Man Man

The Hood Internet

Dinosaurs and Disasters

The March Madness Marching Band

costume contest(winner receives free tickets to the spring Beaux Arts Ball) and more

Sat. 10/31 at Busters
doors @ 830
tickets- $20 advance $25 DOS

www.bustersbb.com facebook: beaux arts ball

We get an extra hour to party as the clock falls back that night...!

you need to look at these blogs

Had to take a minute away from detailing the Boomslang schedule (yep, that's my Saturday night for ya) to check out these two hilariously awesome blogs. Must. Share.

• THE PEOPLE OF WALMART
• THE "BLOG" OF "UNNECCESSARY" QUOTATION MARKS

I'm crying now. But from laughter, not from stress. Which is sweet.

Preliminary Boomslang schedule info is up at www.boomslangfest.com (go to Ticketing Info and click on the individual days!) and more info will hopefully be up by mid-week.

thanks

Hey errybody,
Thanks for voting blueline as one of the best local blogs in AceWeekly's Best of Lex (!?). Humbled and flattered. Y'all making me blush. Check out the Best of Lex party at Gallery Hop tonight, at Awesome Inc.

Other best blogs:
Mingle Freely
Kimmyville

In other riveting news, Pitchfork gave BOOMSLANG a little love on Tuesday - thanks to Rachel Grimes for the heads up!

Oh, and in case you didn't hear, IT'S GONNA RULE!
Recent artist additions now up on the website, including MISSION OF BURMA (omg, wtf); ATLAS SOUND (fo realz!); PARLOUR (featuring members of the totally awesome Crain!); Kurt Vile (new Matador signee who will be blowing up shortly); and many many more!

Day passes are now for sale on the site, limited scheduling info is up and a bunch more info coming soon!

THE BOOKS at the Miller House 9/21

To win tickets to see The Books, e-mail kyblueline@gmail.com telling about your favorite home movie experience. Could be one you've seen on AFV, one you've been in, one you've shot, one you've heard about. The best entry will win a pair of tickets to see The Books Monday, September 21. Drawing on Saturday, September 20. Please include name & contact info!

Bullhorn presents....
THE BOOKS
Benefit for the Foundation for Advanced Architecture
The Miller House Museum (map below)
Monday, September 21, 2009
Doors at 7 p.m. $15
All ages; cash bar.

(from North of Center, by Riot Rose)
Describing the sound of The Books can be somewhat precarious, bordering ineffective. People have called it “folktronica,” sound collage, experimental and aleotoric (OK, so I had to look that lat one up – basically it means that some element of the composition is left up to chance). But none of these terms really embody the New England duo – and besides, describing the sound of The Books, who will be making their first Kentucky appearance on Monday, September 21, at Lexington’s Miller House Museum, is to paint an incomplete picture of what exactly it is that they do. Audiophiles know them for their signature minimalist compositions, which consist of sparse and lovely melodies spliced with found sounds and conversations from various videotapes. But the experience of listening to The Books’ recordings lacks an integral element of the band’s work.

“Our shows are halfway between a film and a concert,” wrote Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong (the human elements of The Books) in a recent e-mail. “We make videos to accompany all of our live tracks, and they are synched up tightly, as if the video is another member of the band.”

For the most part, the videos The Books synch into their recordings and performances are one-of-a-kind VHS tapes that the band picked up at various thrift stores on their tours of North America. The tapes, many of which were unmarked when they bought them, include outdated instructional videos, home movies, self-help tapes and videos advertising everything from cosmetics to strange religious ideas.

“We recently made a song out of an expletive-filled conversation between a prepubescent brother and sister that we found on a home-recorded audio tape at the Salvation Army,” the band reported. “The video that goes with it was made from the best moments from all of the 20 or so summercamp videos in our collection.”

The band, which has an upcoming album in the works after a three-year recording hiatus, has been known to utilize everything from traditional stringed instruments (guitar, cello, banjo) to a clavinet and a metal filing cabinet with a subwoofer installed. Blended with the found sounds and video, the result is as much a glimpse into the underbelly of modern American culture as it is a neo-folk avatar of the digital age.

This show presents an extraordinary chance to enjoy the setting of the Miller House Museum, which was originally built as a postmodern home for the late Bob Miller and his family. With its labyrinthine catwalks and interior terraces, glass panels, exposed structure and overall avant garde feng shui, the venue will undoubtedly provide a unique, picturesque and interactive backdrop for the strange and elegant sound & video experience of The Books’ performance.

Proceeds from the show, presented by Bullhorn (Lexington’s most with-it marketing & “etcetera” firm) will benefit The Foundation for Advanced Architecture. The foundation was created in part to preserve the Miller House, which has been touted as one of the last remaining marvels of modern architecture in a number of international journals. The show is also sponsored by WRFL, You Ain't No Picasso and Ky Blueline.

Music and more information about The Books is available at thebooksmusic.com; for exact directions to The Miller House, which is visible from Old Chilesburg Road, visit www.modernacommunity.com.

TONIGHT: wrfl presents Caroliner at Al's

Dear friends,

These are the things you should know about San Francisco's Caroliner:

• According to the band, the lyrics are all a tribute to a singing cow from the 1800s. (Her name was Caroliner.)
• lo-fi bluegrass meets experimental noise (a sound informed as much by the echoes of lost miners as by nails being dropped down a flight of stairs)
  
• They are playing at Al's tonight for $5.
• Only you will not recognize it as Al's, because it will look something like this:

• They take it to another level altogether.
• Eyes and Arms of Smoke and Kraken Fury will open.
• Stuff like this doesn't happen around here very often.
  
• You probably should make it a point to be there.

xo,
riot

It's only September but Oktoberfest is upon us already

Christ the King's Oktoberfest line-up is always surprisingly impressive. It has consistently been one of the fest free fests in town. The line-up usually leans toward solid bluegrass and Americana, with a mix of national and high profile regional artists that can be enjoyable to just about anyone, even if bluegrass & Americana aren't really your cup of tea. (Past artists to perform at Christ the King include JD Crowe, the Felice brothers, Sam Bush and Alejandro Escovedo.)

This year's highlights include bluegrass legends Tony Rice and Pete Rowan on Saturday, and The Minus 5, on Friday. The Minus 5 is a '60-style pop band featuring Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck, both of whom have played regularly with R.E.M. and Robyn Hitchcock, along with a mess of other high profile alt-rockers, over the years. They've produced a steady stream of albums since 1993 (most featuring different line-ups and special guests), including a collaboration with Wilco called "Down with Wilco" (2003). Note: The Minus 5 are playing at St. Francis of Assissi in Louisville on Sept 17th for $28; Oktoberfest is FREE. Other features include beer tents, family entertainment and a humongous rummage sale. More info here.

(from the CKC website)
Friday, September 18th

• 5:00-7:00 Ted & The Polka Dots Polka Party!
• 7:30-8:30 Rodney Hatfield & Tin Can Buddha Electric Blues
• 8:45-9:30 Paul Burch (Solo) Alt-Country from one of Nashville’s finest
• 10:00-11:00 The Minus 5 ‘60s Style Pop featuring Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey
• 12:00-1:00 Slo-Fi Reincarnation of local favorites, the Blueberries

Saturday, September 19th

• 2:00-3:00 Tim Easton (With band) Folk/Rock
• 4:00-5:30 The Fazed Cookies Rolling Stones Revue
• 6:30-8:00 Born Cross Eyed Americana covers that range from Merle Haggard to Jerry Garcia
• 9:00-10:30 Tony Rice & The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band Grammy Award Winning Bluegrass/Jazz

Calling Local Artists

From Jessi Fehrenbach ~ contact her if you have any interest in selling your art at a Boomslang Local Art Bazaar!
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Hello Friends,

Exciting news!
WRFL's Boomslang Fest is coming up in October, and I am working with the organizers to bring another fabulous Art Bazaar together for this event. We would like to showcase our finest fabulous local artists and crafters as part of the Boomslang Carnival.

The date is Saturday Oct 11, the exact times will be TBA after the organizational meeting this week, but it will most likely be 11-7ish. I will have further information on the details next week.

Fortunately, we are able to offer display space to local artists for FREE for this event! In order to keep the cost down for all, artists will be required to bring their own tables, chairs, tents, and other display materials. Artists will be responsible for setting up their space before the fair opens to the public and taking it down after the show.
There will be an application to participate in the event, even though it is free.
We are looking for art in all mediums, crafts, local press, and other local handmade homespun goods to showcase Lexington's creative community!

Feel free to pass the info around and encourage other artists you know to contact me via email at
jessiannf2@yahoo.com in order to get an application! I will send an updated notice with more detailed info on the event next week sometime!

Thanks,
Jessi F.
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Health and wellness wishes to Jason Noble

Some of you may have already heard the unfortunate news about Jason Noble, guitarist from the each-amazing-in-different-ways Louisville bands Rodan, Rachel's and Shipping News. He went into an unexpected and major surgery to remove a cancerous growth this morning, and has many, many weeks of recovery & treatment ahead of him. Needless to say, Shipping News has canceled their performance at Boomslang in Lexington on October 9.

Here's to a swift and smooth recovery process - please keep Jason and his family and friends in your thoughts. If you are interested in keeping up with his progress, leaving a message in a guestbook, or making donations to his family, here's a link to his Caring Bridge site.

Boomslang had planned to announce the official schedule at the end of next week; that plan may be put on hold while we re-evaluate our schedule. Stay tuned to Blueline and www.boomslangfest.com for additional line-up announcements.

Free Outdoor Concert Series

Also this weekend...the beginning of Stage 1 Outdoor Concert series!
Free outdoor concerts every Friday in September at the new community stage at Duncan Park.
530 N Limestone (between Limestone and MLK; 5th & 6th Streets)

Tonight features the blues guitar virtuoso Tee Dee and his Scandalous Band. Free food from Al's! 6-7:30 p.m.

Buster's Grand Re-Opening

GRAND OPENING WEEKEND OF BUSTER'S

(as if you didn't know)
The grand opening of Buster's Billiards and Backroom, in it's new location (899 Mancheter St), under new ownership (Clark and Jessica Case), is finally upon us.

TONIGHT (Friday, Sept. 4):
These United States, Chico Fellini, Wax Fang
$10; 18 + ; doors are at 7, show is at 8.
(note: if you are under 21 you will be charged an additional $2 at the door since you'll be aking up space and not purchasing booze)
Three of the region's most up-and-coming rock bands. Tickets are going fast, and you can get them here.

TOMORROW (Saturday, Sept. 5)
Local showcase - Free show!
Goldenrod; Idaho, Alaska; Some Other Meanness (late night dance party with DJ Brocktologist)
21+; FREE

SUNDAY, SEPT 6
Wrfl presents...Autolux; Mini Mansions; Candy
7 pm, $7, 18 +
Check out Nick Kidd's preview from North of Center

Click here for a list of more upcoming shows at Buster's, including The Derek Trucks Band; Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun; Silversun Pickups w/Cage the Elephant & Manchester Orchestra; BOOMSLANG; The Sounds and more!