Want to thank Steve Jansen at New Times for this piece, as well as folks like Doug Town, and our other friends who care enough to study and [try] to remind us why these things are important.

If you’ve got no past, you’ve got no future.

JRC–The Trunk Space

 Sun. 1st: Dread Crew Oddwood, Pirate Folk-Rock from San Diego! With The Cullens, and Wizard Teeth. Prepare to be boarded!
myspace.com/oddwood

Mon. 2nd: Yellow Fever, gritty punk from TX! With Skirt the Rut, Naive and Naw Meen. Presented by SELECT Concerts.
myspace.com/yellerfever

Tues. 3rd: Dark Dark Dark, atmospheric melancholic piano-core. With Monophonic Hillside, Tierra Del Fuego, and Michelle Blades.

http://brightbrightbright.com

Wed. 4th: Starskate!–Formerly Batman vs. Predator! BITCHIN Rock! w/ Geiger Retort, Bolt! and Hand of Thrawn. This show is destined to rock your balls!
www.myspace.com/5tr5k4t3

Thurs. 5th: Ty Seagall on tour w/ The Baths. Garage-tastic! w/ Chandails, Autistic Youth and Mangled Men! Presented by SELECT Shows w/ help from Pres. Gator. myspace.com/tysegall

Fri. 6th: First Friday, featuring The Grid 2010 “Here & Gone”.
Phoenix should be embarrassed by the loss of its architectural history.
See what you’re missing.
FREE

Sat. 7th: Jeremy Arp’s AP CALCULUS w/ Quarter Inch Crown and . . . maybe Shortstack Lightning (or someone else) $5

Sun. Aug. 8th: BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, Happy Birthday, & Residual Echoes (SELECT), Andrew Jackson Jihad.

http://www.bombthemusicindustry.com/

www.myspace.com/brattleborohousecartoon
www.myspace.com/residualechoes
$10 at the door, $7 Adv. tickets

Tues. 10th: On tour, Ah Holly Fam’ly & The Ocean Floor, dreamy folk pop from Portland. w/ Michelle Blades and The Hunger Artists.
www.ahholly.com/

Fri. 13th: All locals night! Hosted by Evening Entertainment Band, with Terra Firma, Amen Cowboy and After Hours. $5

Mon. 16th: Lamprimate. A concert, a survey of art spaces, a document. Music concrete, avant guarde, postmodern. Support your town, create the document.
www.100mrecords.com
$5, no one will be turned away.

Tues. 17th: Swimming In Venice, waving goodbye again. Friends Pietro Crespi join in, along with others TBD. $5

Wed. 18th: Live Local Jukebox night with The Pods (riot grrrl), Rough Tough Dynamite (dance pants), and Chazmier (broken folk)! You Need This. $5

Thurs. 19th: Sara Jaffe, indie folk on tour, w/ J. Miller. Presented by President Gator. http://www.sarahjaffe.com/
$8 adv/$10 day of.

Fri. 20th, 6-9pm: The Grid 2010: Here & Gone. Artists Reception. Come see what you’ve lost. Free

Fri. 20th, 9pm: Grand old friends iji visit from Seattle to perform. On of PHX’s best exports ever! Upbeat, catchy and joyfully sloppy.
We miss them, hugs all around! Dog Breath, The Pageant and others tbd.
www.myspace.com/iji

Sat. 21st: Ha Ha Tonka, on tour from MO. on Bloodshot Records. w/ The Worrymen. Presented by President Gator.
$8 adv/$10 day of. myspace.com/hahatonka

Wed. 24th: Ex-Cowboy from Tucson. Hosted by Tristan’s Dog Breath! Locals TBD. myspace.com/excowboyaz

Wed. 25th: Longform Improv for your “hump day” laughter break. Apollo 12 and another troupe.
$5

Sat. 28th: Dead River Review CD Release! With D.S. Yancey, Hug-of-War, and jessica Courson. Free CD w/ admission!
myspace.com/deadriverreview

But just in case she gets all lonely, she can always count on more than 100 sock monkeys at home to keep her company.

Read the rest here.

1 small thing: I know some of ya’ll leave comments but they don’t ever come up.
It’s a management problem, and we’re trying to get better at it, for some reason we can only let 1 admin approve comments, and we don’t remember to do it too often.
Anyway, keep leaving them, and I’ll try to remember to bug the admin.

Another: hey! What is everyone excited for this summer? What is your big plan?
We’ve had 2 friends move, 1 back to France, and another to SoCal to start his own biz.
What are you doing? Chillin’ Touring? Making new art/music? Or just hangin’ out?

One More: Hey! If you want to write reviews or news for our zine, The Sliderule, let us know, send a note to the email on our website, and just let us know. We’re open to just about anything.

See ya’ll downtown!
JRC–The Trunk Space

http://fatherfigures.wordpress.com/

http://www.myspace.com/FatherFiguresmusic

Video: Neurospasm

From the bands press kit: Father Figures is a band of five friends in Brooklyn, making music that blends the composed and improvised into something that is wild, yet accessible. It is “Zombie” Jazz, and it is not your grandfather’s music… unless your grandfather juggled knives. Always melodic and strong willed, Father Figures manages sounds into sculptures to make you move your feet, then break a vase, and can pack these sounds into a dirty basement, or for a slightly cleaner warehouse. They play anywhere, and preferably with bands that rock.

Father Figures is touring in support of their new LP, a self-titles release on vinyl and digital from Museum People Records.

Local support for this show will be Tobie Milford’s “chamber-pop” orchestra (myspace.com/tobiesmusic) and meta-metal band DESTOROYAH (destoroyah.com).

The show starts at 8pm, and the cover is $6 per person.

click here for promo video:
Ulysses\' Crewmn

Says Trunk Space co-owner JRC, “I had some qualms with booking this, as I am not sure we are ideologically in the same place as the creators. In the end, that became a great reason to host Ulysses’ Crewmen.”

*Of further note, the play’s director, Ben Turk was interviewed by a local edition of The Onion about why he left Milwaukee. It’s succinct, honest and the comment section is brutal, refer here: theonion

Traveling with them is musician Peter J. Woods (myspace.com/peterjwoods).

The Insuregent Theatre are at Trunk Space on Wed. July 14th.
Doors at 7pm, cover is $6 per person.

Tribraco

http://www.myspace.com/tribraco

Drum (we bring cymbals and snare)
bass amp
3 guitar amps (“Fender Twin Amp” is our best choice if available, 2 amps would work in the worst case)

Neo

http://www.myspace.com/neoneoband

Drum (we bring cymbals and snare)
bass amp + mic (for sax: no clip mic necessary)
1 guitar amp “Fender Twin Amp” is our best choice if available)

Sat. 29th: THE EASTERN SEABOARD, killer free jazz. w/ Sungsang, James Fella, and Erica Shafer.
www.theeasternseaboard.com
www.myspace.com/theeasternseaboard

http://www.myspace.com/jamesfellasounds

http://www.myspace.com/eshafer5

DO NOT MISS!

Letter From an Underqualified Son Of a Bitch/Editor

First of all, I’d love to thank Diana to picking up a lot of the slack on this issue. Honestly, without her, this would not be happening. I’ve been getting my ass handed to me by school [why don't you go prove your face is an equivalence relation, asu] and I’m staring into the eyes of my third final of the day. There is no way I could have had everything else that she’s been doing on my own and for that, I’m extremely grateful to have her as a really close friend of mine.

So, hot topic carrying over from April is our legislature passing the immigration bill. Now, to rant on that would just seem like a cop out, so maybe it’s better to take a glance of the history of our shared languages, which I can do based on an Educational stand-point, which is what my vocation has been training me in. Or at least I clean and condensed version of it.

At first, there were of course the native Americans who lived here who were to be fucked over by the incoming Spanish immigrants, who took it upon themselves to do whatever the hell they needed to do to expand their empire, such that by the point that the United States starting making their way towards the west, you could say the people who were here were mostly Spanish speaking. But, as settlements grew and expanded, people who were bilingual were actually sought after, to some extent, as they were highly needed to translate and help keep the communities functioning. Schools were built and classes were taught and there actually was some level of prosperity in this sense.

The Federal Goverment started spreading out westward too, in some due time after. There were pushes for it, and eventually, English become the adopted, predominant language of the area. Spanish wasn’t necessarily gone, but not necessarily encouraged. If you were now a native to this country, as being included in this area as it became territories and a state of the United States, you were probably not going to be going anywhere, and become a citizen. But the thing is, with this pro-English laws around, there wasn’t too much you could do if you actually needed any of the services of the federal government. Or say, help when you wanted to vote for someone who actually represented your views. All bills, legislature, etc were written in English and there was actually law in California that they were not to be translated. It’s a sink-or-swim method. Granted they don’t have the research regarding it now that we have, but it’s a tried and failed method. It’s not worthwhile stating a statistic, cause I’d be pulling it from my ass, but I’ve read enough studies to say for every single person who survives, there are more than that who do not.

So, as we kind of started to enter the Space Age Race/Flight whatever have you, the United States began to note that perhaps one of the reasons why we weren’t getting ahead of other countries in those specific fields was because we weren’t actually invest time or money into the education in those fields. So, along with math and sciences, bilingualism was pushed for the first time and there was say, a good decade and a half where that lasted. During said time, illegal immigration was a bit on the lower end, but as it began to increase, with these better advances in education and the greater need for work, more people were deciding to cross over illegally and of course, this didn’t fly with everyone. So, as border disputes opened up and the such, a look was taken at bilingual education and it began to fade away.

Now, let’s take a look at some bills passed around the time that No Child Left Behind was passed. The Arizona legislature actually passed a bill where they made it illegal for teachers to assist students who spoke predominantly Spanish. As an example, let’s say I ever finish school and I finally become a high school calculus teacher. I have 50% of my class who are predominantly Spanish speakers. And since the class I’m teaching is pretty advanced for it’s own sake, let’s say that the students ask me if I can explain it other words… use Spanish. It is actually illegal for me to do so in a class. There’s a few loopholes, but it’s a giant law against promoting their learning. Is it really that hard to find a bill like the one we’re facing right now would prop up about a decade later?

I always recommend doing your own research, see where the roots in this lay and why it is so important to take up a voice, whichever one it is you hold. Because this is important enough to fight for and I know I wouldn’t be surprised it something happened. I’m just happy to see Vigils and violent-less protests occurring. MLK would be proud.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYrCS28i_Nk]

Trust me, it is an art
Or a job in my case.
-tk