Motherlodge Performance Series Mar/29 - Apr/05

The first Motherlodge Performance Series starts this Sunday. As I can't beat the words that the mission statement dishes out, I will let it and the festival itenary speak for itself below.  Motherlodge Mission Statement A live art exchange... Motherlodge is a diverse programming of theater, music, film, readings, and solo performance aimed at creating new possibilities for how artists, entertainers, and educators can collaborate in local communities. Our goal is to provide the means for artists to have as much influence over the programs in which their works are presented, and to inspire new paths of creativity by partnering for events with unexpected venues and organizations. We also solicit content for Motherlodge from a web based community that spans award winning artists and writers, high school students, and retirees. In 2009, through a partnership with Mogulus.com, organizers will launch an online network channel and establish Motherlodge Louisville and Motherlodge NYC. Sunday March 29th 5:00 pm - Motherlodge Opening Concert The Passion Fruits w/Java Men, Sandpaper Dolls, Jacob Duncan and Chuck Marohnic, Mauriece Hamilton, Scott Anthony, Lauren Zoeller, Chris Tolbert, Adam Dennison, and Arnett Hollow Band. Live art with Jamie Corum & more at the Salvation Army Male Campus (Dinner concert hosted byVoluen Cooper with music by Arnett Hollow Band follows at 7:30pm).

Monday March 30th 7:00pm - Adam Rapp interviews Ronnie Dorsey, 8:30pm -Less The Band live, 11:00pm - Classic rock covers by the Clifton's Kitchen Band! All events hosted by the Rudyard Kipling.

Tuesday March 31st 12:00pm - Motherlodge Reading Room hosted by Ronnie Dorsey with J.P. Lebangood, Alex Brooks, Ally Eastman, 7:00pm - Movielodge Screening: Passion: A Musical Documentary by Erin Harper and Zach Brock, 9:30pm - Liberation Prophecy live. Evening events located at Glassworks.

Wednesday April 1st 1:00pm - The Saints Tour by Molly Rice, 7:00pm - Movielodge screening: Blackbird Written and directed byAdam Rapp (followed by Q & A with Rapp and film stars), 9:30pm - The Louisville Improvisors Live, 11:00pm - LP Funk and The Cheerful Colony: ITHACA

Thursday, April 2 1:00pm - The Saints Tour by Molly Rice, 7:00pm - Two short plays by Gina Gionfriddo, 8:00pm - A Boy Called Noise by Julia Steele Allen and Ray Rizzo, 9:00pm - The BeAst of Taylor Mac starring Taylor Mac, 11:00pm - Open Air Transmission with Scott Anthony, also Nautical Fox (bar stage) time TBA.

Friday, April 3 11:00am - Panel discussion: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. With Motherlodge curator/creator Ray Rizzo, activist/artist Julia Steele Allen, a Squallis Puppet, and others TBA, 1:00pm - The Saints Tour by Molly Rice, 6:00pm – 9:00pm - Motherlodge InStore @ Ear X-tacy* hosted by THE INDICATORS w/Philpot and others TBA, 9:30pm - ? - Motherlodge at Monkey Wrench* hosted by Alanna Fugate and Teneia Sanders with Tyrone Cotton and Philpot 7:00pm - ? - Motherlodge at The Rudyard Kipling* hosted by Ken Pyle and Sheila Joyce with Funky Ground Water, Side Effects and The Trad Project, 9:00pm - ? - Motherlodge at Headliners* hosted by Lady Rizo and Voluen Cooper with Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE, Dawn Landes, Lady Rizo (with special guests Brigid Kaelin, Tyrone Cotton, Nautical Fox, and more!) and Big Diggity. *shuttle service will run between venues

Saturday, April 4 Noon to 2:00pm - Children's Garden Party hosted byOpus Ditty, Hanna, Music Time with Tom and others (lunch served), 1:00pm - The Saints Tour by Molly Rice, 3:00pm - Movielodge Screenings : A short of films by C. Scott Shuffit & Operation Lysistrata presented by Be LaRoe, 6:00pm - Dinner with Shelby Park Soul Stew w/Chef Timothy Tucker, Darrick Wood & more, 7:00pm - The Beast Of Taylor Mac starring Taylor Mac, 9:00pm - Saturday Night Final Fourplay hosted by Lady Rizo with American Aquarium (10 p.m.), Tom Burnett, David Van Pelt, Scott Anthony, Dawn Landes and Lady Rizo's SHE HAW (feat. members of Arnett Hollow Band, 11:00pm - More!!!

Sunday April 5th Closing Night Hootenanny at The Rud hosted by Ray Rizzo and Paradigm (alternating stages) 8:30pm Paradigm, The Trust, The Governours, and Thomas A Minor and The Picket Line. Advanced tickets are available online here.

Edgehill Ave. with Cornmeal tonight @ Headliners...

Edgehill Ave. is opening for Cornmeal at Headliners tonight. Show starts at 8pm and it's $10 at the door. Edgehill Ave. just released their new Album 'Rambler' and they'll have it available at the show. It's a good roots-rock cd that starts off good and ends even better! We've been hearing good things about Cornmeal, the Bluegrass/Jamband from Chicago. Support local music and get on out and enjoy this rainy thursday.

For a limited time, buy Rambler from CDBaby for $6.99 cd/mp3s.

Concert photography Tuesday!!!

Alright, so it's not a thing i've done in the past; nor is it a thing that'll happen every Tuesday...
I do have some photos that didn't make it through the post processing last month and wanted to share them with you.
The Louisville is for Lovers showcases brought 4 shows to the area to celebrate the release in a period of 4 days; it was a whirlwind to say the least. The only show I didn't get to was the Live Lunch show at WFPK and it looks as though I found some YouTube links so sit back and look at some photos and watch some videos and reminisce about the great comp (that's still available for purchase) that is Louisville is for Lovers!


Louisville is for Lovers "Acoustic Showcase" at the Lounge 02-11



Louisville is for Lovers "Ear X-tacy In Store" 02-13



Louisville is for Lovers "Main Showcase" at Skull Alley 02-14


WFPK's Live Lunch - The Fervor

Deer Meet and others at DCE 3/21

Deer Meet will be playing Derby City Espresso on Saturday, March 21st.  Joining them will be Lincoln and the Lost Prayers, Quin (Evansville) and Battle Cat (Lexington).

Show starts at 9pm and the door is $5; you must go!

Kaiser Cartel/The Fervor/Winterpills at Vernon Club 3/14

This coming Saturday at the Vernon Club (under Vernon Lanes) Louisville locals The Fervorwill be playing along with Brooklyn band, Kaiser Cartel and Northampton, Mass' Winterpills.
The Winterpills recently released their new album, "Central Chambers" and along with Kaiser Cartel are playing a few shows before SXSW next week.
Ten bucks for 3 great bands... that's a steal - see you there!


Winterpills - We'll Bring You Down


The Fervor - Goodbye Blue Monday


Kaiser Cartel - Oh No


Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009

Venue: THE VERNON CLUB

Venue address: 1575 Story Avenue in Louisville, KY

Show time: 8:30 PM

Ticket price: $10

Louisville is for Lovers v9 Vinyl offering...

John King has his supply of Volume 9 vinyl up on the Louisville is for Lovers website for a mere $12!?! This is a limited pressing of only 500 double LPs in a beautiful pink marble so get it while it's hot! With artist like Lucky Pineapple, Bonnie Prince Billy, Whistle Peak, Deer Meet, The Deloreans, Sand Paper Dolls, The Fervor (and the list goes on) how can you go wrong!

If you haven't picked up your CD copy of v9, here's the perfect way to have your cake (vinyl) and eat it too (ipod)... John's including a coupon for a free download of the digital files with the purchase of the vinyl. Spin that vinyl at a comfortable 33rpms and go burn your own CDs!

Buy the vinyl or CD or any of the various other volumes of the comp here.

Now have some tracks I recorded from the Louisville is for Lovers showcases the week of Valentine's Day...

The Sand Paper Dolls - Unknown song name [2.11.09 The Lounge]
Paul McGee - Minnesota Fair [2.11.09 The Lounge]
Jeremy Irvin - Unknown song name [2.11.09 The Lounge]
Teneia Sanders - One More Time [2.13.09 Ear X-tacy]
The Fervor - Unknown song name [2.13.09 Ear X-tacy]
The Deloreans - Demons [2.14.09 Skull Alley]

Anni Rossi & Bro Stephen - Green Building - 03/03

You've heard me talk about Scott Kirkpatrick and his new band "Bro Stephen"...
You'll have two chances to check out Bro Stephen this month with a show with Anni Rossi and her beautiful violin tunes, tuesday the 3rd at the Green Building and the 11th at Sunegros Coffee House on South Preston.
Do yourself a favor and pick up Bro Stephen's "Front Room" EP... it's two songs and an extra 11 demos. The two tracks are nice and finished up and the demos are good and intimate. Only 50 copies made and i already own one of 'em!
The show is all ages and $5 at the door.

Listen to a Anni Rossi Tune!
Anni Rossi - Ecology

Review: Pink Floyd Expereince @ KY Center 2/25

I started the night off at the Kentucky Center Bar to ease away a hectic day at work as well as to acclimate myself to the widest age range of Pink Floyd fans I have ever seen in a room together. There were 6-year-old kids wearing worn out Dark Side t-shirts as well as guys so old it just may have completed their life if they played something obscure like "Interstellar Overdrive." All these different folks gathered together to see/hear songs they’d likely never see the original band play together again.

As the lights flickered at Whitney Hall and shortly thereafter dimmed, the band walked out on the stage; without my glasses and from a wonderful ten rows back, dead center, the lead guitar player looked remarkably like a early 90's David Gilmour; I was stoked! The band started off with “Learning to Fly” which wouldn't have been my first choice at a Pink Floyd show but may have been a regular starter for the post Waters Pink Floyd. The Pink Floyd Experience then rolled right into my favorite album, Animals, and got the show started properly with “Pigs”. It was at this point; I knew they weren't really trying to deviate from the perfect recipe that is note for note Floyd... I was a little afraid of that. When they did deviate it brought freshness to the room as they lay claim to the stage as a successful Pink Floyd cover band. The sax player, while a remarkable woodwind player, approached the "high five" area of the stage a few too many times in my opinion and it may have been different if the other members of PFX did that occasionally during a solo but who am I to argue, people love those sax players!

Where I got my kicks was with the light show. The subtle billow of the fog machines made for an awesome texture when the lights danced across it. 200,000 watts of light strobing and changing colors is what they claim but I’m not counting watts at this point… I’m marveling at the circular display screen depicting WWII bombers, corrupt world leaders and US currency during “Money.” Those lights and video really added to the “experience” aspect and visualized what you always heard in Pink Floyd lyrics; pure bliss!

I don't think anyone will disagree that Pink Floyd had their heyday in the Seventies and over the course of the evening they played a 70's heavy mix of Floyd albums such as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. I was very pleased they didn't leave out the 60's entirely and added a couple tracks from their first two albums. If you judged by the amount of raised hands and leaps from seats, I'd say the songs from The Wall went over best with DSOTM being a close runner up.

I gotta say that if a band can tour around the world and put on a spectacular light show just playing Pink Floyd songs... more power to 'em! Pink Floyd were
Incredibly talented musicians; I have no problem putting on any Pink Floyd album and listening to it from start to finish... well, maybe Ummagumma as it was so experimental I don't even think Roger Waters would cue it up. I know every band probably says "It's awesome to be here Louisville, and we're definitely coming back here!" but with this band, I really believe it... c'mon, the locals were flying out of their seats just to get the energy out of their bodies, not to mention to touch the giant flying pig... Good experience indeed!

Ben Kweller w/The Watson Twins @ Headliners 3/3 MOKB Ticket Giveaway

From Dodge: 

"We've got a couple tickets to give away to their March 3rd show in Louisville, KY. Act fast and get your contact email in our comments section (Talk back to yo' mama) to be registered to win."

http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2009/02/win-this-free-tickets-ben-kweller.html#comments

2/28 - Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears, Draft Riots & Deer Meet

Every year around this time, I get a charge of energy from the exposure to new bands/material from our locals due to Louisville is for Lovers. I know you may be sick of reading my constant blogs about Li4L but you can always click off... (hah, get it... internet humor)

Anyway, I saw a few bands I had been meaning to see and one of which was Deer Meet. First I saw Jimmy (singer/guitar) play solo at Ear X-tacy and he held his own; just him, a strat and a crowded room. The next evening I saw 2/3 of Deer Meet at Skull Alley and they rocked they cold, beer-less (although advertised) venue (don't get me started on Skull Alley right now.) Like I said though, they did great especially considering their drummer couldn't make it and the drummer from The Deloreans sat in. Speaking of those shows, I may have a recording or two up my sleeve to share in the coming weeks...

On to the point, right? This Saturday Deer Meet will be playing Uncle Pleasants with Draft Riots and Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears. Bryan is outta Brooklyn, NYC and Deer Meet and Draft Riots are from the Ville as we've already discussed. The show is $8adv/$10door and doors are at 8pm at Uncle Pleasants on S Preston (street, not Highway...)

give a little listen to a couple of songs I taped of Deer Meet at Skull Alley a coupla weeks ago...

Deer Meet - unknown song name...

Deer Meet - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory [Johnny Thunder Cover]

Sorry not to have any mp3s from the other bands to play... just click on the band's names to get you to somewhere you can give these guys a listen. Be strong Louisville!