Yup, here’s “Signs,” the latest official music video from Sean Rowe’s sophomore album, The Salesman and the Shark on Anti Records.
And here’s a little reminder that Rowe has a couple of Greater Nippertown performances slated for next month – Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams on Saturday, June 22 (at 1:30pm, performing inbetween Lucius and the Dream Syndicate) and at 8pm on Sunday, June 23 at Club Helsinki in Hudson, opening for the Handsome Family.
The Lisps are extraordinary under any circumstances, but they have been exploring some new territory, and we are lucky they are bringing it to MASS MoCA in North Adams on Saturday, April 27 at 8 PM. It’s a rock musical.
Futurity is a sci-fi love story set inside a history lesson. This original indie-rock musical by the Lisps, a Brooklyn-based assemblage of 21st-century theater-loving indie rockers, borders the literary and borrows liberally from vaudeville, anti-folk, science fiction, and Americana. Broadway World advises, “Leave your presumptions about musical theater at the door. Born of the art world and the indie rock scene, the show is part performance art, part rock concert and totally defies conventional labels.”
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The Lisps
NAME: César Alvarez
BAND AFFILIATION: The Lisps
INSTRUMENTS: vocals, vocabulary, guitar
1. THE FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT WAS … the “Tennessee” single by Arrested Development
The Lisps
NAME: Sammy Tunis
BAND AFFILIATION: The Lisps
INSTRUMENTS: vocal acrobatics, melodica, banging
1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … Indigo Girls’ Rites of Passage. Or Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814
The Lisps
NAME: Eric Farber
BAND AFFILIATION: The Lisps
INSTRUMENTS: Associate Professor of Percussion
1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I
The Lisps
NAME: Lorenzo Wolff
BAND AFFILIATION: The Lisps
INSTRUMENTS: Bass Prodigy
1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … Michael Martin Murphy’s Greatest Hits
If you believe that a dance party is the ultimate crowd-sourced entertainment, then you probably don’t want to let this dance party at Mass MoCA pass you by. Just don’t go looking for the DJ unless you want to be part of the show.
That’s because music innovator Dan Deacon sets up his equipment on a small table in the crowd. He explained this preference to The A.V. Club: “One, it’s more fun for me, and two, the show isn’t about looking at someone perform…I wanted people to watch themselves dance around, to have a feedback cycle of audience reacting to audience.” Deacon interacts with the crowd, organizing dance-offs and sharing humorous anecdotes. In August 2012, he launched a Smartphone app that synchronizes in real time to the show’s light and sound components, allowing the audience to participate in his signature concert ambiance. At MASS MoCA, audience members with iPhones or Androids can download the app for free and watch their phone become a part of the concert – the light and sound changes depending on where the phone is located within the venue.
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North Adams, MA: The community based theatre company Mill City Productions has announced performance dates for the popular children’s story, James and the Giant Peach. The stage play is based on the book by Roald Dahl and dramatized by Richard R. George. Performances will take place on Fridays, April 19th & 26th at 7pm, Saturdays, April 20th & 27th at 2pm and 7pm and Sundays, April 21st & 28th at 2pm. The production is directed by Liz Urban.
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