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NYC WINTER JAZZFEST 2014

Bobby Previte’s “TERMINALS” will kick off the 2014 NYC Winter Jazzfest with special guests at le Poisson Rouge

Multiple venues
January 7-11, $10-$45
One-day marathon $35, two-day marathon $55, Full Festival Pass $95
www.winterjazzfest.com

NYC Winter Jazzfest is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month with more than one hundred acts comprising more than four hundred musicians playing ten downtown venues. Things kick off January 7 at le Poisson Rouge with Bobby Previte’s TERMINALS feat. So Percussion, John Medeski, and Nels Cline, followed by the Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary Concert on January 8 at the Town Hall with Robert Glasper & Jason Moran with special guests Ravi Coltrane, Bilal, Eric Harland, and Alan Hampton and a SummerStage Showcase on January 9 at le Poisson Rouge with Revive Big Band, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Bilal, and the Wallace Roney Orchestra performing Wayne Shorter’s “Universe,” “Twin Dragon,” and “Legend.” January 10 & 11 boasts ten-hour marathons at nine clubs, with such Friday highlights as Keren Ann (le Poisson Rouge, 7:15), the Mary Halvorson Septet (Judson Church, 10:00), the Roy Hargrove Quintet (le Poisson Rouge, 11:00), the Burnt Sugar Arkestra Review with Melvin Van Peebles, Vernon Reid, and Rebellum (the Bitter End, 11:15), and 3rd Eye 4tet: McPherson, Waits, Burton, Hurt (Zinc Bar, 11:30), and such Saturday hot stuff as Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society (Subculture, 6:00), Slavic Soul Party! Plays Ellington: The Far East Suite (Bowery Electric, 7:45), Henry Threadgill’s “Ensemble Double-Up” in Remembrance of Lawrence Butch Morris (Judson Church, 8:00 & 10:00), Elliott Sharp’s Orchestra Carbon (NYU Law, 11:45), Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog with Mary Halvorson (Judson Church, 11:45), the Matthew Shipp Trio (Judson Church, 1:00), and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (le Poisson Rouge, 1:30).

CMJ 2013: DAY FOUR

You’d be wrong wrong wrong not to catch Eleanor Friedberger at this year’s CMJ festival, as she continues her Fiery Furnaces hiatus with her second solo album, the wonderful Personal Record (Merge, June 2013). Friedberger will be at Judson Church on Thursday at 12 noon as part of the KEXP Live Broadcast (free and open to the public, no CMJ badge required), followed by an 11:00 show at Bowery Ballroom. Below are more recommendations for a wide-open Friday night, including some of our other local favorites, Heliotropes and Tall Tall Trees.

HMG PR & Ear Candy Present: Arms, 12 noon; Jacob Snider, 12:45; Charlene Kaye, 1:30; Lapland, 2:15; the Donnies the Amys, 3:00; the Spring Standard, 3:45; Pearl and the Beard, 4:45, Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen St.

Monarch Artists: Mainland, 12 noon; the Adversary, 12:50; Dynasty Electric, 1:40; Maya Vik, 2:35; My Midnight Heart, 3:25; White Prism, 4:20; Bright Light Bright Light, 5:15, Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery

Planetary and the Great Escape Present: Wildlife, 1:20; Tigertown, 2:00; Hermitude, 2:40; Tops, 3:20; Blind Boys of Alabama, 4:00; the Preatures, 4:45; Sheppard, 5:25, Pianos, 158 Ludlow St.

Fuck Buttons with Mystery Skulls and Lichens, 6:00, (le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St.

Distiller Promo: DJ Neal Sugarman, 6:00; Sunwolf, 7:00; Cub Sport, 7:40; Diane Coffee, 8:30; Heliotropes, 9:20; Bad Cop, 10:00; the Can’t Tells, 10:50, Union Pool, 484 Union Ave.

Big Picture Media: NGHBRS, 7:00; Sol Cat, 7:45; Maria Taylor, 8:30; Sheppard, 9:15; Quiet Company, 10:00, Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St.

Baeblemusic Presents the Launch Pad: Flagship, 7:00; Duologue, 8:00; the Darcys, 9:00; Misun, 10:00; Claire, 11:00; the Ceremonies, 12 midnight, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Ave.

Champion: Promised Land Sound, 7:30; Okta Logue, 8:00; Kan Wakan, 9:00; Reuben and the Dark, 10:00; Eleanor Friedberger, 11:00; the Long Winters, 12 midnight, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St

Craft Services: Weaves, 8:00; Victory, 8:50; HSY, 9:40; Rey Pila, 10:30; Odonis Odonis, 11:20; Saul Williams & the Dragons of Zynth, 12:15, Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St.

Tall Tall Trees, 11:00 pm, Rockwood Music Hall Stage 1, 196 Allen St.

CMJ 2013: DAY ONE

The CMJ Music Marathon begins on October 15, kicking off five days of live music, panel discussions, talks, and other special events. Below are our suggestions for the first day, including the annual New Zealand showcase, Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, the Gutter Twins), and a gig by the recently reunited Bongos, whose “Numbers with Wings” appears above, from the Maxwell’s farewell concert.

“How to Survive as a Musician in 2013,” with Mike Fordham, Seth Kallen, Travis Morrison, Josh Roth, and Joe Vesayaporn, NYU Kimmel Center, room 905/907, 12:30

What Blog?!: Owel, 1:00; Traumahelikopter, 1:45; Conjjjecture, 2:30; the Box Tiger, 3:15; Beach Day, 4:00; Ghost Wave, 4:45; Milagres, 5:30; Pianos, 158 Ludlow St.

Niall Connolly, 2:00, Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St.

The Outlet Collective: Ula Ruth, 4:30; Whale Belly, 5:10; Poory Remy, 5:50; Tam Lin, 6:30; Cold Blood Club, 7:10, Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery

NZ@CMJ: Tiny Ruins, 6:00; Black City Lights, 6:35; Eden Mulholland, 7:10; Streets of Laredo, 7:45; Ghost Wave, 8:20, (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker St.

Oh My Rockness: Big Ups, 7:00; Greys, 8:00; Ovlov, 9:00; PUP, 10:00; Kirin J Callinan, 11:00; Hunters, 12 midnight, Cameo Gallery, 93 North Sixth St.

The Bongos, 8:00, the Living Room, 54 Ludlow St.

Mark Lanegan, 9:45, Gramercy Theater, 127 East 23rd St.

Banners CMJ Party: Bored Nothing, 9:00; Total Slacker, 9:15; Honduras, 9:45; Spires, 10:00; How Sad, 10:30, Pianos, 158 Ludlow St.

Radical Dads, 12 midnight, Muchmore, 2 Havermeyer St.

VIDEO OF THE DAY: “I SAW YOU FROM THE LIFEBOAT” BY LIARS

“We never can just settle on formula — that would make me insane,” Liars frontman Angus Andrew said about his band’s most recent album, last summer’s palindromic WIXIW. “We have to take risks and just fuck things up anew every time. It’s ingrained.” Since the new millennium, Liars has consistently been taking risks and fucking things up anew, on such records as 2001’s They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, 2004’s They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, and 2010’s Sisterworld, experimenting in multiple genres, from postpunk to dance to electronica, but always with unique twists. Singer-guitarist Andrew, guitarist and synth player Aaron Hemphill, and drummer Julian Gross should provide plenty of twists this weekend, when they play the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday night, followed by a show Sunday night at (le) poisson rouge with Doldrums as part of the Wordless Music series; the concert was initially supposed to take place in the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, near the band’s sometime home base. As a bonus gift to their fans, Liars has just released a video of a new song, “I Saw You from the Lifeboat,” which contains a link to a free download of that tune as well as the new “Perfume Tear”; after the two New York shows, the group will head across the pond for concerts in Spain, Italy, France, England, Switzerland, and Israel.

InDIGEST PRESENTS SAM LIPSYTE AND MIKE DOUGHTY

(le) poisson rouge
158 Bleecker St.
Friday, March 8, $12-$15, 7:30
www.lepoissonrouge.com
www.indigestmag.com

“The sign in the Sweet Apple kitchen declared it a nut-free zone, and every September somebody, almost always a dad, cracked the usual stupid joke,” begins “The Climber Room,” the first of thirteen stories in Sam Lipsyte’s new collection, The Fun Parts (FSG, March 5, 2013, $24). “The gag, Laura, the school director, told Tovah, would either mock the school’s concern for potentially lethal legumes or else suggest that despite the sign’s assurance, not everyone at Sweet Apple could boast of sanity.” Indeed, throughout his career, native New Yorker Lipsyte has featured many characters whose sanity could be debated, in such seriocomic books as The Subject Steve, The Ask, and Home Land. Lipsyte, who teaches creative writing at Columbia, once appeared in an infomercial for an exercise machine, is the son of sportswriter and young adult novelist Robert Lipsyte, and was the screaming frontman for the punk band Dungbeetle, takes a razor-sharp, cynical, and very funny knife to the foibles of modern-day America in his always entertaining writing. The bounds of sanity will be tested at (le) poisson rouge on March 8 at the official launch of The Fun Parts, which should consist of many fun parts itself as Lipsyte is joined by former New York Press columnist Mike Doughty, leader of the 1990s band Soul Coughing and author of the rock-and-roll memoir The Book of Drugs. Doughty will perform a live set, then sit down for a conversation with Lipsyte moderated by humorist Dave Hill, author of Tasteful Nudes . . . and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation. Clearly, when you put these three men together, just about anything can happen, and probably will.

SONG OF THE DAY: “THE SINGULARITY” BY MIRACLES OF MODERN SCIENCE

Originally formed at Princeton University in 2005, Brooklyn-based chamber rockers Miracles of Modern Science create infectious grooves that often seem to come out of nowhere, fluttering in like a beautiful bird passing by in the sky, then soaring away again. It might take a few listens to their music, including their 2008 eponymous EP and 2011’s Dog Year LP, to even realize their unusual instrumentation, as MOMS contains no guitars, no electric bass, and no keyboards; their big, unique sound emanates from Evan Younger on lead vocals and double bass, Geoff McDonald on cello, Kieran Ledwidge on violin, Josh Hirshfeld on mandolin, and Tyler Pines on drums. “Consider the following / And some of the results you will hardly believe,” a voice intones at the beginning of the delightfully mad instrumental “Physics Is Our Business,” the closing song on the band’s upcoming EP, MEEMS, which comes out February 19. And indeed, some of the results you hear you will hardly believe. The instruments might be old-fashioned, but MOMS share their thoughts on modern problems on the EP’s first single, “The Singularity,” with Younger singing, “So shoot the supplements into our veins so we can reprogram our genes / And let the nanobots swim through our brains to keep our neurons sharp and clean / There’s not a problem that we cannot solve with our technology / Just as long as we can stay alive until the Singularity.” The disc opens with “Ahem,” which kicks off with lovely harmonies until breaking out into an epic sonic blast. In “Dear Pressure,” Younger proclaims, “Go ahead, I’ll tour when I’m dead.” Fortunately, that is not the case. MOMS will be at (le) poisson rouge on January 26 with Zammuto, then will hold an EP release party February 21 at the Studio at Webster Hall, where you can expect things to get crazy, for as Younger explains in “The Singularity: “So play it loud, turn up the kick / ’Cause by the time that we lose our hearing, we’ll have a fix for it / So play it loud, crank it up to ten / ’Cause by the time that our ears are broken, we’ll have no use for them.”

CMJ VIDEO OF THE DAY: BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD

The brainchild of dreamy popster Mikey Maramag, San Francisco’s Blackbird Blackbird is in town on the heels of the release of its latest EP, the seven-track Boracay Planet (Lavish Habits, October 16, 2012). Featuring five new songs and two remixes by DJ G and Distal, the EP has occasional subtle lyrics that show up in the background of ethereal electronic journeys. Blackbird Blackbird will be playing the Connect: Explorations in Electronic Psychedelia showcase on October 18 at (le) poisson rouge, along with Rioux, Rimar, Maria Minerva, Aimes, and Heathered Pearls.