this week in music

JIM JONES REVUE

The Jim Jones Revue returns to New York City this week to tear it up at the Knitting Factory (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Knitting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Ave.
Thursday, March 10, $13-$15, 8:00
www.bk.knittingfactory.com
www.myspace.com/thejimjonesrevue
Jim Jones Revue slideshow

Last summer England’s Jim Jones Revue blew into town for three shows that tore the roof off the city. We caught them at the Mercury Lounge, where they played a blistering, frenetic set that filtered Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard through the Stooges and the MC5. They ripped it up with such punk R&B barnburners as “Hey Hey Hey Hey,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll Psychosis,” and “Cement Mixer” from their 2008 self-titled debut and “High Horse,” “Elemental,” and “Shoot First” from their September 2010 disc, Burning Your House Down. As fast and furious as they play, they also revealed a goofy sense of humor with “Dishonest John,” a song inspired by the villain in the old Beany and Cecil cartoons. Singer and guitarist Jones might have been front and center, but he had a crazed cohort in Elliot Mortimer, who sliced, diced, and banged away on his piano, sending out maximum thrills and chills. Just this week, however, it was officially announced that Mortimer has left the band to spend more time with his family, and he has been replaced by French-born keyboardist Henri Herbert, so it will be interesting to see how that change impacts this amazing band, which also includes Rupert Orton on guitar, Gavin Jay on bass, and Nick Jones on drums, as they return to New York City for a show March 10 at the Knitting Factory with local groups Freshkills and the hot Hollis Brown, which just sold out Brooklyn Bowl on their own late last month. “2010 was a busy old time for us with an obscene amount of gigs that took us across Europe and America in a blaze of rock n roll fury,” Jay recently wrote on the Jim Jones Revue blog. “Houses were burned down, roofs raised, and speakers exploded in our mission to bring noise, mayhem, and dancing to each and every one of you. And quite frankly, it’s a bit of a blur.”

AN EVENING WITH CINEMA 16

Psychic Ills will play commissioned scores live to avant-garde films on Tuesday night at Cinema 16 show at the Kitchen

The Kitchen
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Tuesday, March 8, 410, 7:00
212-255-5793 ext11
www.thekitchen.org
www.cinemasixteen.com

Named after the seminal collective run by Amos and Marcia Vogel from 1947 to 1963, Cinema 16 keeps alive avant-garde films through special programs that have spread from New York City now to Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and Mexico City. Curated by Molly Surno, Cinema 16 heads into the Kitchen on Tuesday, presenting five short experimental silent films with specially commissioned scores by Psychic Ills. The New York-based trance band, which has released such records as Astral Occurrence, Catoptric, Telesthetic Tape, and the twelve-inch Frkwys Vol. 4, will play live to Raymonde Carasco’s Gradiva Sketch I (1978), Lichter Peter’s Light Sleep (2009), Ron Rice’s Chumlum (1964), John E Schmitz’s The Voices (1953), and Beryl Sokoloff and Crita Grauer’s Necromancia (late 1950s).

NO MORE LOVE

Art, music, and more come together at all-night Brooklyn warehouse party

63 Woodward Ave. between Metropolitan and Flushing Aves., Brooklyn
Saturday, March 5, 6:30 – 3:30
Admission: $5 with RSVP to www.mememovement.com
www.facebook.com/event

As Saturday nights go, this is a big one in the art world, with more than a dozen fairs in town, many with special programs scheduled for tonight. But a very different kind of event is taking place in a large warehouse in Brooklyn, where the nonprofit arts collective the Meme Movement has curated an exciting evening of art and music. While beer from the Brooklyn Brewery flows all night long ($2 6:30 – 8:00, $4 8:00 – 3:30), Loren Alliston, Lindsay Wynn, D. Oscar Horner, and Taylor Marie Prendergast will display their photography and installation art. The band lineup, beginning at 8:30, includes the Nelsonvillains, Evan Shinners & the SUITS! (who are planning a special fog-filled multimedia set, with the opening song played in complete darkness), Shapes, Ghost Pal, Flowers for Reagan, and Sitting Ducks, with DJs Earl, Big Time DK’s, and BullwInkle filling in the gaps. In addition, there will be tattoos by Aris, a photobooth, body painting, video projections, and more. Admission is five bucks with RSVP to www.mememovement.com. It should all make for a pretty wild night.

SITE Fest and IonSound Music Festival

You never know what you’ll walk into at Bushwick’s Site Fest (photo: Sidewalk Dances)

Multiple venues in Bushwick
March 5-6, suggested donation $5 per event, $10 day pass, $15 weekend pass
www.artsinbushwick.org

Celebrating the burgeoning art, music, dance, and film scene in Bushwick, the third annual Site Fest will feature a bevy of performances Saturday and Sunday in conjunction with Armory Arts Week. Held at Chez Bushwick, Grace Exhibition Space, the Bushwick Starr, 3rd Ward, and numerous satellite venues, the festival will feature such participatory events at 3rd Ward as Gavin Campbell’s “Documentation of Flag,” which deals with his growing up on the Irish border; Hoyun Son’s “Social Shredding,” centered on a garment made of Korean funereal fiber; Stefan Adamski’s “Induction,” involving audience hypnosis; and Michael Freeman’s “Part 3: The Mnemonic Fool Series,” in which he interacts with the public while naked. The Bushwick Starr will host a series of text-based performances and installations (Jeremy Finch’s “Sketchbook,” Ari and Friends’ “Shake,” “vvitalny shares her thoughts w/ birds”), while Chez Bushwick will concentrate on experimental dance, including Laurel and Aya’s “Hand in Glove,” CJ Holm/Creature Theater’s “The Salad of the Bad Café,” and Michele Torino Hower’s “Merengue, as in Pie.” At Grace, Dr. Lisa will offer “Psychotherapy Live!,” Polaroica will be tattooing in “Tiempofaga,” and Meatspace will stage an interactive multimedia “Frankenstein Sweater Party,” where sewers can join in. Goodbye Blue Monday will be home to the IonSound Music Festival, with performances by Aimee Norwich, Bombs Making Bombs, Dear Comrade, Pezzettino, the Controversy, Rarefaction, Emilyis, and other music groups. The suggested donation for all hub space events and performances is a mere five bucks, with proceeds benefiting the nonprofit organization Arts in Bushwick. Our choice for best title: Kate Berlant’s “An Illustrative Colonoscopy into an Epistemological Kitty Cat.”

FIRST SATURDAYS — TIPI: HERITAGE OF THE GREAT PLAINS

Lyle Heavy Runner (Blackfeet), design owner and painter; Naomi Crawford (Blackfeet), tipi maker, “Blackfeet Tipi,” canvas, latex paint, wood, Great Falls, Montana, 2010 (photo: Jenny Steven)

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Saturday, March 5, free, 5:00 – 11:00 (some events require free tickets distributed at the Visitor Center)
212-864-5400
www.brooklynmuseum.org

The new Brooklyn Museum exhibit “Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains” is the focus of the institution’s March First Saturdays program, a free night of art, music, talk, film, literature, and dance. The party begins at 5:00 with singer/songwriter/activist Martha Redbone’s unique blend of soul, R&B, and traditional Native American music. At 5:30, the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers will perform. James McDaniel’s 2003 film, Edge of America, set at a high school reservation, will screen at 6:00, the same time Brooklyn artist Yatika Fields will discuss the “Tipi” exhibit. The Hands-On Art workshop (6:30-8:30) will teach children and adults how to make the Native American pouch called a parfleche. At 7:00, Nancy Rosoff will lead a tour of “Tipi,” followed at 8:00 by a Young Voices talk in which student guides will venture through the exhibit. DJ Frame of the Redhawk Arts Council will be behind the turntables for the always smokin’ Dance Party (8:00 – 10:00). At 9:00, visitors have the choice of continuing to dance up a storm, checking out Joseph Marshall III talking about his latest book, To You We Shall Return, or participating in an interactive dance performance with the Redhawk Arts Council. In addition, the galleries remain open until 11:00, giving everyone ample time to check out such exhibits as “reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio,” “Thinking Big: Recent Design Acquisitions,” “Lorna Simpson: Gathered,” “Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera,” “Sam Taylor-Wood: Ghosts,” and “Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets.”

ZOOBOMBS

The Zoobombs will play it fast and wild at Bruar Falls and Studio at Webster Hall this weekend

Friday, March 4, Bruar Falls, 245 Grand St. between Driggs & Roebling, $8, 9:30
Saturday, March 5, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., $12, 8:00
www.myspace.com/zoobombs

Tokyo-based quartet Zoobombs were formed during a full moon in September 1994, and they’ve been playing it fast and wild ever since. Lead singer and guitarist Don Matsuo, bassist Moostop, keyboardist Matta, and drummer Pocky are set to release the compilation La Vie en Jupon on March 29, containing songs from such previous albums as 1999’s Let It Bomb and Bomb Freak Express, 2001’s Dirty Bomb, 2002’s Love Is Funky, and 2006’s Way In / Way Out. Proclaimed leaders of Japan’s Next Wave and a huge success in Canada, Zoobombs mix grungy blues and indie guitar jangling with hardcore punk flourishes and psychedelic garage rock. La Vie en Jupon is like a crash course in American music, evoking Dylan on “Way In / Way Out,” ZZ Top on “Builbone Blues,” the Mississippi Delta on the swampy “Don’s Dream” (a reworking of “Little Red Rooster”), downtown hipster cool on “Circle X,” and good ol’ funk on “Mo’ Funky” and “Jumbo.” Anarchy and chaos rule the day on the fab freak-out “Highway a Go Go” as well as on “Dolf” and “Get It Together.” And turn it up, because this shit has to be played LOUD. As good as the new, digital-only disc is, it’s as a live band that the Zoobombs have earned their reputation, and they’ll be getting it together at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn on Friday night with Victory & Good Hunting, Columboid, and Nymph and at the Studio at Webster Hall on Saturday with Deluka, the Front Bottoms, the Almighty Terribles, and J. Aims & the Milk Bottles. Expect things to get hairy even though the moon won’t be full.

FRED HERSCH: DUOS & TRIOS +2

Fred Hersch will be at the Jazz Standard this week with an impressive lineup of special guests (photo: Matthew Sussman)

Jazz Standard
116 East 27th St. between Lexington and Park Aves.
March 2-6, $25-$30
212-576-2232
www.jazzstandard.com
www.fredhersch.com

For more than thirty years, three-time Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Fred Hersch has been an innovative force on the jazz scene, whether playing solo, participating in unique collaborations, or reinterpreting Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Celebrating the release of his latest album, Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto, March 1, 2011), in which he became the first solo pianist to perform for a week at the Village Vanguard (in 2006), Hersch will begin a five-night residency at the Jazz Standard tonight, playing in a changing series of duos and trios. On March 2, he’ll be joined by singer Kate McGarry, the vocalist on the Leaves of Grass project. On March 3, Hersch will team up with guitarist Julian Lage, who recently collaborated with the New Gary Burton Quartet. On March 4-5, tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist John Hebert, and drummer Billy Drummond will take the stage with Hersch, while saxophone legend Joshua Redman will close out Hersch’s Standard stand on March 6.