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August 2011: Summer fun under the blazing Sun!

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

ALL August 2011 Events @ The Trunk Space
Doors @ 7:30PM unless otherwise noted

http://www.thetrunkspace.com

Mon. 1st: Psyko Steve presents CATNAPS “twee/cuddle core” on tour from Phili! w/ Skinny Shamans

http://catnaps12.blogspot.com/

Tues. 2nd: BKL Presents ANATOMY OF FRANK on tour from VA. w/ Cody Lima, Them Savages (FLG), Bryant Vazquez FLG). An all acoustic night!

http://www.theanatomyoffrank.com/

Wed. 3rd: WOODS on tour w/ WHITE FENCE! Presented by SELECT Concerts.
woodsist.com/woods.htm
whitefenceartcollective.blogspot.com/

http://azpartygirlz.tumblr.com/

$10

Fri. 5th 6-9pm: First Friday! Last chance to see “The Grid: Here & Gone”! Lost treasures of PHX architecture revealed.
FREE!

Fri. 5th, 9pm: DESTROY NATE ALLEN on tour! Super upbeat posi-folk-punk! w/ quirk-miester Snail Quail, and cow-punkers Shortstack Lightning!
destroynateallen.com
$5–HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Mon. 8th: UGH GOD muddy-jams from Phili on tour w/ FAT HISTORY MONTH from MA. Hosted by Packrat w/ Naw Meen, Airshark, and Local Indigenous Personnel! Lots of psyk, experimental, and instrumental styles.

http://ughgod.bandcamp.com?/

http://www.myspace.com/fat?historymonth

Tues. 9th: Indie punkers YOU ME & US (Cali). Local buddies Hunger Artists and others tba.

http://youmeandusband.com/

$5

Wed. 10th: SELECT Concerts presents WRITER, CULTS, and GUARDS! “Intensity that is vaguely reminiscent of late 90s acts the likes of Neutral Milk Hotel, while bringing that west coast feel” -from ‘Death and Taxes’
writertheband.com
cultscultscults.com

http://azpartygirlz.tumblr.com/

$ TBD

Thurs. 11th: THE YELLOW DRESS, on tour w/ A GIRL NAMED T & MR. ANDREW! Upbeat indie pop. w/ Locals Green Light District, and The Snails.

http://theyellowdress.band?camp.com

http://girlnamedt.com

Fri. 12th: SELECT presents GARDENS & VILLA, etherial pop music from Cali. locals tbd.
azpartygirlz.tumblr.com
gardensandvilla.com

http://azpartygirlz.tumblr.com/

Sat. 13th: DROUGHT on tour from NM. w/ RITUALS, TWIN GIANT, and WHITE CHURCH. Hosted by our ol’ buddy Greg!
www.droughtdoom.bandcamp.c?om
$5

Tues. 16th: on tour from Canada, THIS CITY DEFECTS. Hosted by Packrat w/ more tba

http://thiscitydefects.bandcamp.com/

* * * Wed. 17th: 3 touring acts: LETTERS (Olympia), CHRISTINA ANTIPA (Cali) w/ special guest WEED from Canada.
Local support from Abusive Consumer, Paul Arambula (Vegetable), and Baron Neces.

http://letters.bandcamp.co?m/

http://songsforanimals.wor?dpress.com/

http://weed.bandcamp.com/

Thurs. 18th: Jack the Cat hosts a night of ska with SKATTER BOMB from (OR) and OTRO DESPERDICIO (Cali)!
myspace.com/otrodesperdicio
www.reverbnation.com/skatterbomb

Fri. 19th: Artists reception for The Presidents, by Tommy Cannon. Featuring charactertures of all our Commanders in Chiefs. Tommy is an amazing artist and his work is insightful and humorous.
FREE!

Sat. 20th: The birthday Roast of Howard Phillips “H. P.” Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937). Hosted by Featuring Archbishop Jason Polland, Arcana Collective, and hosted by Cult of the Yellow Sign. More tba!
DON’T MISS!

***Sun. 21st: BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! (NY, Asian Man Records) An awesome indie rock explosion! On tour w/ SIDEKICKS (OH), +locals Empire of the Bear, and Dogbreth!
$8 DO NOT MISS!
PICK OF THE MONTH!

Wed. 24th: Story Time Improv! Featuring Apollo 12 and Unicorn Warpath! Pre-School for adults. We lay out blankets and pillows on the floor and invite everyone to gather round. We definitely want it to feel like kindergarten.
www.unicornwarpath.com
myspace.com/apollo12

Tues. 30th: SELECT Concerts presents MAN/MIRACLE–weird and loud guitar pop from oakland.

http://mslashm.tumblr.com/

http://azpartygirlz.tumblr.com/

Wed. 31st: the KOLLECTIVE presents FAKE BOYS, “Fast, angry and aggressive. They play 90?s style punk rock with mind blowing melodies that will suck you in and hook you right along.” –dyingscene.com

http://www.thefakeblogs.blogspot.com/

http://thefakeboys.bandcamp.com/

http://www.thekollective.com/

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SONIC ORPHANS! Jan 19th @ Trunk Space

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Trunk Space Presents:
SONIC ORPHANS
lost music 16MM films 1965-87
January 10th, 2011, 8pm

http://www.billdaniel.net/new

promo flyer for the show

Film Tramp Bill Daniel is back in the van on tour with a new program of recently unearthed16mm footage.
 
SONIC ORPHANS is a compilation reel of lost and found clips projected on 16mm; some silent, some that rock.
They are all rare and strange celluloid gems, many have been seen by almost no one and have never seen the light of youtube. Most of this footage is truly orphaned film— abandoned, lost, found, and now presented raw without editing.

Various youtube clips relating to our content:
Boy Problems

The Huns

The presentation includes a discussion of “orphan films” as they are called by archivists, and at some venues on tour, a one-night photo exhibit.
  
Featuring performances by: The Beatles, Avengers, Huns, Boy Problems, Sonic Youth, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Butthole Surfers, and Johnny Cash
 
Here is an unlikely collection of film that exists in an impossibly strange space between entertainment— (music films); and the stupefying bewilderment of “Useless Cinema”— (which is what I call the clips of silent outtakes, un-contextualized news, lab mistakes, abandoned student films…)
 
There is a flavor of goofy nostalgia to much of the footage, but the images are also haunting— rock and roll ghosts, still singing, pogoing, sneaking hits on cigarettes, making direct eye contact from 20, 40 years ago.
 
Each of the films has it’s own story, like if a stray dog at the pound could tell you how he got there. Part of the evening’s presentation is a telling of some of these stories, and a discussion on the relationship between underground music and film cultures.
 
***1965, Beatles in San Francisco— raw silent news footage I rescued from a closing film lab features eerie silent mop-top photo op, teenagers convulsing with Beatlemania, etc.

***A haunting early Johnny Cash kinoscope, and several other bizarre and unseen curios.

***Sonic Youth at an outdoor concert in Houston in 1986.
 
***1977, Silent performance footage of the Avengers, and lost takes from a student drama staring Penelope Houston. Shot by poet/punk portraitist Pamela Mosher (www.pamelamosher.com).
 
***Butthole Surfers performance shot while touring in ‘87. This footage was confiscated by the club for on-stage nudity, then inexplicably returned to me months later.
 
***1980, Two legendary punk/new wave Austin bands The Huns and Boy Problems filmed live at Rauls Club. Evidence of the fertile crossover between the Film dept at UT and the music scene at Raul’s club. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul%27s_%28night_club%29)

Part of the thesis of this show is to present the kind of intimate cinema experience that is based on being there. None of this material is available on video or the internet.  One of my motivations is a reaction against the kind of ‘remote viewing’ that has become our primary way of viewing motion picture— on little computers, alone, while multi-tasking…This show is a communal, participatory experience… feeling the responses of the people sitting near you… the smell of dust burning on the projector bulb, like caveman story time around the fire.
 
This event will also feature a one-night photo exhibit—Images from the Austin scene ’80-’84 (www.texaspunkpioneers.com).
 
Filmmaker Bill Daniel has been documenting American subcultures starting with the Texas skate/punk scene in the early 1980s. His film on the history of hobo graffiti, “Who is Bozo Texino?” has screened in over 350 venues world wide. A confirmed tramp, Daniel tours continually, setting up screenings and one-night art shows across the US. He blames Black Flag for his van-based nomadicism.

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Nov. 4th: Joe Sib remebers Punk Rock

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

AMP Magazine
* They list Modified as the AZ Venue, but it was moved to TS cuz we’re more punk, haha.

JOE SIB is heading back on the road with CALIFORNIA CALLING: A STORY OF GROWING UP PUNK ROCK, an extraordinary one-man show performance piece about the love of music and growing up in California. Shows are lined up in Orange County, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, Austin, and Sib’s hometown of San Jose, with special guests Dave Hause (from The Loved Ones) and Altercation Punk Comedy Tour’s JT Haberstatt set to appear in select markets (see tour dates below).

After a successful residency earlier this year at the highly esteemed Largo at the Coronet theatre in Los Angeles and a handful of shows up and down the Pacific coast and NYC, it’s time for the rest of the country to see what CALIFORNIA CALLING is all about. “California Calling is my story about how music saved my life. Sounds heavy right? Don’t worry, it’s not,” Sib laughs. “But without music, I would be completely lost-and before I discovered punk rock, I was. California Calling is about growing up, and it’s about how one day in December of 1981 changed my life forever.”

“Sib’s boundless earnestness about the identity-shaping possibility of music charged his part-memoir, part-comedy, part-backyard-barbecue-yarn about what happens when the old days never quite go away. ‘California Calling’ isn’t so much a performance as it is a solid hour to get comfortable and let Sib–a coiled spring of joy when it comes to these topics–riff on stream-of-consciousness tales of teenage n’er-do-welling. The abiding take from “California Calling” is that the rush of youthful discovery doesn’t have to dissipate with adult life.”
–LATimes.com, 1/7/10 (in a review “Joe Sib’s funny, manic, often touching ‘California Calling’”)

“His tales stem from a deep humor and passion; they’re part success story, part historical, and part average California guy having a blast.”
–Kenneth Hughes, Flavorpill.com, February 10, 2010

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Italian Jazz, free, freak, jam, experimental Sept. 20th

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

TRIBRACO
http://www.myspace.com/tribraco
“There’s jazz, there’s rock, there’s wine. There is the virtuosity, there is a lack of memory such as the Meshuggah, there is some vintage (…) And despite being recorded in direct hold that is not lazy improvisation but a precise care.” – www.MusicClub.it

NEO
http://www.myspace.com/neoneoband
the trio is harmonically and rhythmically close to Northern Europe’s contemporary music, except for the overseas influences of Frank Zappa, Fred Frith, John Zorn or Minuteman.” They have also received high praise from Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Mike Watt (on The Pedro Show).
Neo are: Manlio Maresca (Guitar), Carlo Conti (Tenor sax), Antonio Zitarelli (Drums).

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All August Events @ Trunk Space

Monday, July 26th, 2010

The Trunk Space (Fine Art, Live Stage)
ALL August Events
1506 NW Grand Ave
www.thetrunkspace.com
Doors @ 7pm, Shows @ 8pm

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

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Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone on July 25th!

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009


<br>”The sound of Casiotone recalls the spooky, lo-fi years of His Name Is Alive, the dark mood of later-era Tom Waits, and the melodic hyperactivity of legendary Eighties one-man outfit the Silicon Teens. Ashworth’s lyrics capture the soul of the loser in love. Woe is the guy who screws up the right opportunity to talk to the pretty girl he spies at the supermarket (“Rice Dream Girl” from Casiotone’s self-released debut, Answering Machine Music: A Brief Album in Twelve Parts).” –The Miami Times.
with Concern, locals Back Ted’N Ted
More info here:
http://www.cftpa.org

Presale tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66820

Listen here:

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/It_Wasn_t_The_Same_Somehow/9949753

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