A 40th Birthday Celebration for Kurt Cobain

Boog City's Classic Albums Live presents

A 40th Birthday Celebration for Kurt Cobain

Tues. Feb. 20, 7:00 p.m., $8

Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St.
NYC

With all three Nirvana studio albums

—Bleach, Nevermind, and In Utero—

performed live by

Daouets
The Domestics
Dibson T. Hoffweiler
Jeffrey Lewis
Limp Richard
The Marianne Pillsburys
The Olga Gogolas
Renminbi
Schwervon
The Sparrows
The Trouble Dolls
Genan Zilkha

Hosted by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum

Directions: F/V to Second Ave.; F to Delancey St.; J/M/Z to Essex St.
Venue is between Stanton and Rivington streets.

For further information: 212-842-BOOG(2664), 212-253-0036,
editor@boogcity.com, or http://www.cake-shop.com/

Musical acts’ bios follow show running order

*Bleach*

The Olga Gogolas
1. Blew
2. Floyd the Barber
3. About a Girl

Limp Richard
4. School
5. Love Buzz
6. Paper Cuts

The Olga Gogolas
7. Negative Creep
8. Scoff
9. Swap Meet

Jeffrey Lewis
10. Mr. Moustache
11. Sifting
12. Big Cheese

Marianne Pillsbury and The Song Hoes
13. Downer

*Nevermind*

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom

Schwervon
3. Come as You Are
4. Breed
5. Lithium

The Trouble Dolls
6. Polly
7. Territorial Pissings
8. Drain You

Genan Zilkha
9. Lounge Act
10. Stay Away
11. On a Plain

Dibson T. Hoffweiler
12. Something In The Way
Endless, Nameless

*In Utero*

The Domestics
1. Serve The Servants
2. Scentless Apprentice
3. Heart-Shaped Box

Renminbi
4. Rape Me
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
6. Dumb

Daouets
7. Very Ape
8. Milk It
9. Pennyroyal Tea

The Sparrows
10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
11. tourette's
12. All Apologies


Bios:

*Daouets
http://www.myspace.com/daouets
DAOUETS is a mini-supergroup devised by three musicians who, as tireless collaborators in New York, wanted a little space for their solo material to breathe. Switching off instruments, songwriters, and moods with ease, the group draws on its diverse musical heritage and the diverse talents of its members.

*The Domestics
http://www.thedomestics.com/
During a brief stint as an A&R assistant, Alina Moscovitz (ex-Bionic Finger) spent her days listening to piles of less-than-stellar demos. She decided she could do better, so she left the corporate world and returned to songwriting. She then hooked up with music supervisor and drummer Eric Shaw (fresh from the break-up of Conquistador which featured Sam Endicott of The Bravery). They soon lured Evan Silverman (ex-Rosenbergs) away from his jazz bass lessons in Paris and gigs at the Rainbow Room back to the world of rock.
As a trio, The Domestics morphed into a potent combination of blazing pop-punk energy, sickeningly catchy hooks, and lyrics that have a sharp wit and intelligence seldom heard inside of a three-minute song. If Debbie Harry shoved her way onstage during a Green Day show, the result might sound something like this.
Besides constantly playing live shows, the Brooklyn-based band wrote the closing credits song, "Girl I Never Kissed" for the film The D Word, "Anorexic Love Song" appears on the X-Girls DVD and "Fire Hazard" was included in the "Say It Don't Spray It" compilation CD packaged with the Warped Tour DVD. The band has participated in MEANY Fest, International Pop Overthrow and LadyfestEast festivals. The Domestics are currently recording a full-length album.

*Dibson T. Hoffweiler
http://dibson.net/
http://www.myspace.com/dibson/
The latest in a long line of quirky anti-folk ingenues, including Beck, Adam Green and Jeffrey Lewis, Dibs applies that time-honored tradition of off-beat songwriting to his own private world of sugar factories, laundry baskets and ducks. With a low voice, both sweet and deadpan, and a guitar-style both virtuosic and sloppy, Dibson Hoffweiler carves out a space of compassion and intelligence in a landscape of boring love songs and thinly-veiled songwriterly misogyny.

Known for his work in anti-folk flagship bands Cheese On Bread, Huggabroomstik and Urban Barnyard, Dibs began his cultural life as an anonymous Moldy Peaches fan. But, after a stint working the soundboard at the Sidewalk Cafe, and two years generating buzz with his old band, Dibs & Sara, this Jersey boy established himself as a musical force in his own right. After several months touring Europe and North America, Dibs has proved (to himself, and to others) that his bizarre, ramshackle aesthetic is palatable outside the freaky comfort zone of New York anti-folk.

*Jeffrey Lewis
http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/
Jeffrey Lewis is a New York City born-and-bred comic book artist as well as being a local antifolk staple; with or without his band he performs his unique mix of lo-fi folk, sci-fi punk & hand-illustrated "low-budget videos" regularly around the United States and Europe. As of 2007 he has three albums out on the venerable indie label Rough Trade and his most recent comic book series "Fuff" is up to issue #5.

*Limp Richard
http://www.breedingground.com/
Limp Richard (tonight without his backing band, The Disappointments) is wrapping up recording of a new LP at Olive Juice. By the time it's released, however, it's probably going to have a completely different name. Just feeling ornery.

*Marianne Pillsbury and The Song Hoes
http://www.mariannepillsbury.com/
Maine native Marianne Pillsbury writes pop-rock songs with cleverly-crafted, hook-laden melodies and brash, witty, tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Released in 2004, her debut album The Wrong Marianne has received enthusiastic reviews from The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Boston Herald and The San Francisco Chronicle and elicited comparisons to the best work of Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield and Jill Sobule. The album was named a Top 12 DIY Pick in Performing Songwriter Magazine. The song "Boo Hoo" won Best Alt/Rock Song in The Great American Song Contest 2004 and was also selected for inclusion on ROCKRGRL magazine's Discoveries 2005 compilation CD.

*The Olga Gogolas
The itinerant and magisterial Olga Gogolas feature Wayne Waverly on guitar and vocals, and James Keepnews on bass-synth-noise watch. For this set, the OG's plan to completely demolish Cobain's original arrangements on six tracks from Bleach, only to resurrect them like so many false grunge deities who stank of junk.

*Renminbi
http://www.renminbinyc.com/
http://www.myspace.com/renminbi
Definitely not for the faint-hearted, we combine stripped-down punk basics with ass-shaking keyboard grooves and apocalyptic build-ups. Someone else said it best: "Imagine Polvo fronted by Kim Gordon and you might have a sense of NYC trio Renminbi's sound. … Pitting frenetic drumbeats against postrock keyboards and angular guitar, Renminbi retain all the concision without losing an ounce of urgency.”

*Schwervon!
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/schwervon.html
http://www.myspace.com/schwervon
Schwervon! Is a two-piece rock band. Nan and Matt have been a couple longer than they have been a band. Their relationship influences their art. Their art influences their relationship. They are two birds of a different feather. You might say one flies and one rolls and they meet in the middle with two halves of the worm. They are a collaboration. Is one Sonny and one Cher? Is one a pop lover and one a noise lover? Why do they both love food so much? Why are they obsessed with their cat Gummo?

*The Sparrows
http://myspace.com/rachelandrew
Andrew Phillip Tipton met Rachel Talentino in Savannah while working at The Gap. A common love for catchy melodies, Carole King, and boys led them to Brooklyn. As The Sparrows, Andrew and Rachel make up the cutest anti-folk duo around! Simple and lovely.

*The Trouble Dolls
http://www.troubledolls.net/
Trouble Dolls are Cheri, Matty, and Chris. They play pop music. They are from Brooklyn. They do not smoke. Their album "Sticky" is available on Half a Cow Records. They thank you for coming to see them play.

*Genan Zilkha
http://www.myspace.com/genanisfabulous
Genan Zilkha, guitar/vocals, was a classically trained pianist until she found that she had a taste of rock and roll. Since that didn't work out, she now spends her time writing folk songs with titles such as "I Think I Might Be Food Poisoning (But it could also be love)" and "I Know What Will Make You Not A Dyke." Genan is also known for her unique takes on Britney Spears songs, in particular her version of Britney's version of the Bobby Brown song "My Prerogative." She has performed at the Knitting Factory, as well as at venues throughout Rhode Island and Binghamton, NY.

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David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754
For event and publication information:
http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/
T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
F: (212) 842-2429

Palm Press (Long Beach, CA), Thurs. Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m.

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Palm Press (Long Beach, CA)

Thurs. Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m., free

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Palm Press editor Jane Sprague

Featuring readings from

David Buuck
Mairead Byrne
Wendy Walters
Matvei Yankelevich

With music by
Genan Zilkha

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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*About Palm Press*

Palm Press is an independent press located in Long Beach, California. Our mission is to make available works which navigate the interstices, the between spaces, of discourse. We aim to further an interrogation of these gaps by publishing writers whose work challenges notions of genre and by focusing on writers who consciously work within and among these spaces in poetry, essay, cultural studies, narrativity, theory and the increasingly blurred edge between such categories.


*Performer Bios*

**David Buuck lives in Oakland, California. Recent chapbooks include RUTS from TaxtPress & RUNTS from Self-punish or parrot, plus an untitled forthcoming essay from Palm Press (2007).

**Mairéad Byrne immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1994 for reasons of poetry. She is the author of An Educated Heart (Palm Press, 2005), Vivas (Wild Honey Press, 2005), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press, 2003). She lives with her two daughters in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches poetry at the Rhode Island School of Design.

**Wendy S. Walters is author of Birds of Los Angeles (Palm Press, 2005). She is Assistant Professor of English at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Recent poems have been published in Seneca Review, The Yalobusha Review, Sou’wester, Spinning Jenny, Nocturnes (Re)view, and Callaloo. Her work has received support from RISD, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ford Foundation, and the Aaron Copland Foundation, and she has participated in residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and Yaddo.

**Matvei Yankelevich is author of The Present Work (Palm Press, 2006) and an editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, a non-profit volunteer-run publishing concern in Brooklyn. He translates Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, among other Russian writers. He teaches literature at Hunter College in New York City while working on a graduate degree in comparative literature and a house in the country.

**Genan Zilkha, guitar/vocals, was a classically trained pianist until she found that she had a taste of rock and roll. Since that didn't work out, she now spends her time writing folk songs with titles such as "I Think I Might Be Food Poisoning (But it could also be love)" and "I Know What Will Make You Not A Dyke." Genan is also known for her unique takes on Britney Spears songs, in particular her version of Britney's version of the Bobby Brown song "My Prerogative." She has performed at the Knitting Factory, as well as at venues throughout Rhode Island and Binghamton, NY.

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For more information: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

http://www.palmpress.org/
http://www.durationpress.com/tripwire/index.htm
http://www.maireadbyrne.blogspot.com/
http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/
http://www.myspace.com/genanisfabulous

Next event Nov. 2, Mooncalf Press (Philadelphia)

B.C. Classic Albums Live presents Compton, Mesmer, Smith and The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl

Boog City's Classic Albums Live presents

The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl

Tues. April 25, 8:00 p.m., $7

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (and 1st Street)
NYC


with readings from:

Shanna Compton
Sharon Mesmer
Jenny Smith

Then

The Pretenders, Learning To Crawl
will be performed live in order by:


Casey Holford
--Middle Of The Road
--Back On The Chain Gang

Phoebe Kreutz
--Time The Avenger
--Watching The Clothes

The Sewing Circle
--Show Me
--Thumbelina

The Leader
--My City Was Gone
--Thin Line Between Love And Hate

Erika Simonian
--I Hurt You
--2000 Miles

Hosted by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum

Directions: F train to Second Avenue, or 6 train to Bleecker Street. Venue is at foot of 1st Street, between Houston and Bleecker streets, across from CBGB's.

Call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor@boogcity.com for further information

poet and musical acts' websites

http://www.shannacompton.com/
http://www.caseyholford.com/
http://www.phoebekreutz.com/
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html
http://www.respiro.org/Issue17/Poetry/poetry_Mesmer.htm
http://www.myspace.com/thesewingcircle
http://www.erikasimonian.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratejenny

poet and musical acts' bios

Winnow Press published Shanna Compton’s Down Spooky in fall 2005. Compton is also the editor of GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels (Soft Skull, 2004). Her poems and essays have recently appeared in The Tiny, Coconut, MiPoesias, Spork, Court Green, Verse, and in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2005, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, and Digerati. Originally from Texas, she has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 1995.

Casey Holford is a member of the bands Dream Bitches and Urban Barnyard, as well as several other revolving musical projects. He has a new solo album and also a new EP, which a Boog City cover story says sounds like what you might hear "If Elliott Smith's Figure 8 was twisted through the buttcrack of Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual." He lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

Phoebe Kreutz is a little joke folk gal who likes her thrills as cheap as her beer. She's always singing songs about silly stuff. This spring she's headed off to confuse and delight audiences on her first tour in the U.K. Then she'll come home and release her new album, tentatively titled Feelings Up the Wazoo. She's very excited for this chance to pay homage to Chrissie Hynde, who had such a large influence on not only Phoebe's bangs, but the bangs of her entire generation.

The Leader is a bass and drum duo with plenty of harmony. A little country, mostly rock, and lyrically obsessed with the sh*t hitting the fan.

Sharon Mesmer is the author of In Ordinary Time (stories, Hanging Loose Press, 2005), Ma Vie à Yonago (stories, Hachette Littératures, France, in French translation, 2005), The Empty Quarter (stories, Hanging Loose Press, 2000), and Half Angel, Half Lunch (poems, Hard Press, 1998). Lonely Tylenol, an art book from Flying Horse Editions/University of Central Florida (2003), is a collaboration with the painter David Humphrey. She writes a seasonal column for the French magazine Purple Journal and music reviews for The Brooklyn Rail. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in New American Writing, Van Gogh's Ear (France), Lungfull!, Gargoyle, Tears in the Fence (UK), and The Brooklyn Rail, and on the websites Respiro, theeastvillage, the2ndhand, and Nerve. She teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction-writing and literature courses at the New School.

The Sewing Circle is a musical collective centered around keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Preston Spurlock, with frequent collaborations from his first cousin Chase McGuire. The project started in West Palm Beach, Florida in the summer of 2003. Since then, they have recorded two full albums and are currently working on a third, and have had several live performances. The Sewing Circle specializes in songs about cryptozoology, extinction, and sleep.

It's Erika Simonian’s unique combination of talent and personality that critics have repeatedly celebrated about her. Having been compared to Liz Phair for her straightforward lyrical tone and Aimee Mann for her songwriting craft, Simonian continues to defy the stereotypes of the female singer/songwriter with her prickly sense of humor and her characteristic air-and-light-infused delivery. There's something in that voice--a cat and mouse playfulness--that lets you know that Simonian's in control even when she seems most vulnerable. “Her superb CD All the Plastic Animals is the gold standard for slowly smoldering, fearlessly intelligent songwriting, infused with barely restrained rage and subtle wit.” -Alan Young of Trifectagram and New York Press.

Jenny Smith is the author of Egon and Wait a Minute, Harriet. She writes poems and takes pictures and is currently trying very hard to find an inexpensive tuba so that she can play the tuba, too. Please find a tuba in your basement and sell it to her.

--
David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754
For event and publication information:
http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/
T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
F: (212) 842-2429

Boog City presents One Less Magazine and The Sparrows

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

One Less Magazine (Williamsburg, Mass.)

Tues. April 11, 6 p.m., free

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by One Less Magazine editors
David Gardner and Nikki Widner

Featuring readings from

Robert Doto
Matthew Langley
Sean MacInnes
John Sullivan

With music by

The Sparrows

There will be wine, cheese, and fruit, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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For further information visit http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com
call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor@boogcity.com

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One Less is a bi-annual literary arts magazine founded in December, 2004 by writer David Gardner and writer/photographer Nikki Widner. The intent of One Less is to offer a space for thought-inspiring literary and visual art forms.

Robert Doto is Managing Editor of Parabola Magazine and runs the online journal of mystic hermeneutical Islam Baraka Bashment (baraka.progressiveislam.org). He is co-founder of Man experimental press and spins dancehall/dub/reggae for Many Hills Massive Sound System in NYC.

Matthew Langley is the author of two books, (...) and A Very Mild Eternity, which are available from Subday Press (subdaypress.org). His work has appeared in Bombay Gin, el pobre Mouse, One Less, and on the web at No Tell Motel. He has lived and taught in Prague and Seoul, South Korea, and resides in southern Pennsylvania.

Sean MacInnes is the author of Critical Series and A Room Of Trees from Subday Press. Over the last few years he has published several works in various presses and was recently a writer in residence at The Kerouac Project of Orlando, FL. He lives in Pittsburgh.

John Sullivan lives in the Boston area, where he works as a webmaster, fundraiser, and writer/editor for a nonprofit defending intellectual and creative freedom. His poems appear in magazines now and then, including recently in Watching the Wheels: A Blackbird and el pobre Mouse. More of his work can be found at www.wjsullivan.net

Rachel E. Talentino and Andrew Tipton met in Savannah, while working at the Gap. After about two years they became roommates. Soon after a relocation to Brooklyn NY they formed the Sparrows. Andrew plays guitar, and they both sing.

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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

http://onelessmag.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rachelandrew

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Next event Tues. May 9
Aerial Magazine/Edge Books (Washington, D.C.)

B.C. Classic Albums Live presents Pretty in Pink at 20, the Film and the Soundtrack

Boog City's Classic Albums Live presents


Pretty in Pink at 20


20 Years to the Day of the Film’s Release
See the Movie on the Big Screen

then

Hear the Album Performed Live

Tues. Feb. 28, 6:45 p.m., $10

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (and 1st Street)
NYC

The soundtrack will be performed live in order by

Robert Kerr
If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)
Left of Center (Suzanne Vega w/Joe Jackson)

Matt Lydon
Get To Know Ya (Jesse Johnson)
Do Wot You Do (INXS)

Old Hat
Pretty In Pink (The Psychedelic Furs)
Shell-Shock (New Order)

Prewar Yardsale
Round, Round (Belouis Some)
Wouldn't It Be Good (Danny Hutton Hitters)

The Baby Skins
Bring On The Dancing Horses (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)

Hosted by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum

Directions: F train to Second Avenue, or 6 train to Bleecker Street. Venue is at foot of 1st Street, between Houston and Bleecker streets, across from CBGB's.

Call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor@boogcity.com for further information

www.myspace.com/mattlydon
www.dibson.net
www.olivejuicemusic.com/prewaryardsale.html
www.thebabyskins.com

artist bios are at the end of this email

--
David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754
For event and publication information:
http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/
T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
F: (212) 842-2429

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bios:

*Robert Kerr

He is a playwright and occasional songwriter originally from Minnesota who now lives in Brooklyn. His plays have been produced in New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Florida.

*Matt Lydon

I moved to New York City in the fall of 2002 one month after getting married. When my best friend heard I was moving, he asked me to be in his band. So I started playing bass in the Old Flames, but mostly we just practiced and played parties. Three shows at the Bowery Poetry Club later, the band died a slow but not so painful death. I began performing by myself at the open mics. Now I sing and play my guitar, sometimes with other people, but mainly by myself.

*Old Hat

Old Hat is a group of friends that gather for the opportunity play a song on occasion. One evening Deenah crashed a rehearsal that Dibs, Betsy, and Preston were having and all of a sudden we had our own song.
Then while performing we found Dan playing percussion for us. It’s a group that formed out of whatever was present at the time, so the instrumentation is not quite set, sometimes autoharps guitars and ukuleles make appearances. Either way, everyone gets to sing along.

*Prewar Yardsale

Prewar Yardsale is Dina Levy and Mike Rechner and their new son Harmon Gillespie Levy Rechner. Harmon writes the songs, while Dina and Mike sing and perform them on bucket, tin can, and guitar.

We are singing a happy song because we have a new CD “We are Singing a Sad Song”. “We are Singing a Sad Song” is our 2nd full length CD with Olive Juice Music, produced by Major Matt Mason USA. We are currently recording a split 12” with Huggabroomstik at Care-A-Lot Studios, and we have a song on the new UK CD “Wild, Wild West, Smoking Gun Compilation”.

*The Baby Skins

Named after a mysterious concoction developed by NYC songsmith Paleface, the Baby Skins are a musical duo that formed in the last quarter of 2001. Collaborators Crystal Madrilejos and Angela Carlucci take the stage proudly displaying their many badges of honor and sometimes black knit ski masks. The two share guitar and xylophone duties while weaving in and out of haunting vocal harmonies. Their acoustic folk songs deal with unrequited love, forbidden love, betrayal, friendship and magical babies which excrete white fecal matter. Their live show will leave you twitching and emaciated in their rainbow - coloured sparkly shadow.

Boog City presents Skanky Possum and I feel tractor

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Skanky Possum (Austin, Texas)

Tues. March 14, 6 p.m., free

*please note the series is now held
on second Tuesdays

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by Skanky Possum editors
Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith

Featuring readings from

Basil King
Kristin Prevallet

With music by

I feel tractor

There will be wine, cheese, and fruit, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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Hoa Nguyen lives in Austin, Texas with Dale Smith and their two children. Together they edit Skanky Possum, a small poetry journal and book imprint, and curate a monthly reading series. Her full-length collection of poetry, Your Ancient See Through, was published in 2002, with line drawings by Philip Trussell. Effing Press released her latest publication Red Juice in February 2005.

Dale Smith edits Skanky Possum Press with Hoa Nguyen. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in First Intensity, Effing, New American Writing, the Chicago Review, and Best American Poetry 2002. American Rambler (Thorp Springs), a digressive narrative in verse, was published in 2000 and a daybook, The Flood and The Garden (First Intensity), was released in 2002. Notes No Answer, a chapbook (Habenicht), came out recently, and Effing Press published the book Black Stone. Smith has worked as a laborer, editor, and teacher variously since moving to Austin, Texas, in 1996.

Basil King attended Black Mountain College as a teenager in the 1950s, and he completed his apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist painter in San Francisco and New York. Since that time, his art has taken a different turn, starting with abstraction and reaching back to surrealism and forward to a new approach to the figure.

Although he did not begin to write regularly until 1985, an involvement with poetry has always been part of his life, first in doing art to accompany poems in books and magazines, and now as a poet/painter. Some of his larger paintings can be seen on the Web at the Spuyten Duyvil, Light & Dust, Avec, and Marsh Hawk Press sites. His books include Split Peas, Miniatures, Devotions, Identity, The Poet, Warp Spasm, and Mirage: A poem in 22 sections (Marsh Hawk Press 2003), which has a section of seven reproductions of King's paintings. A new book of poems, A Painter's Bestiary, is forthcoming from Marsh Hawk Press in 2007.

Kristin Prevallet is the author of Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation and Image-text Projects. She lives in Brooklyn.

I feel tractor has a full-length CD forthcoming from Goodbye Better records in the Spring, "Once I had an Earthquake."

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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

www.skankypossum.com
www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor

Next event April 11,
One Less Magazine (Williamsburg, Mass.)
www.onelessmag.blogspot.com

--
David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754
For event and publication information:
http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/
T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
F: (212) 842-2429

B.C.'s Classic Albums Live presents the Rolling Stones' and Liz Phair's Exiles

Boog City's Classic Albums Live presents

The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street

and

Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville

Wednesday, Dec. 21, 7:00 p.m., $10

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
NYC

Liz Phair wrote her record Exile in Guyville as a track-for-track response to the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street. We'll have 12 NYC musical acts reinterpret these rock classics--in order, answering each other track-for-track. The albums will be performed by:

Dan Fishback
Randi Russo
The Sparrows
The Domestics
Sean T. Hanratty
Schwervon
The Trouble Dolls
Limp Richard
Hearth
The Marianne Pillsburys
Chris Maher & Criminal Bones
Genan Zilkha

Hosted by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum

Directions: F train to Second Avenue, or 6 train to Bleecker Street. Venue is at foot of 1st Street, between Houston and Bleecker streets, across from CBGBs.

Call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor@boogcity.com for further information

www.danfishback.com
www.randirusso.com
www.thedomestics.com
www.olivejuicemusic.com/schwervon.html
www.troubledolls.net
www.hearthmusic.net
www.mariannepillsbury.com
www.chrismaher.net

artist bios are at the end of this email

--
David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
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bios:

*Dan Fishback

Raised on a steady diet of showtunes and secular Jewish leftism, Dan Fishback was destined to be gay and loud. In 2003, he moved to New York City, where he promptly became a fixture in the legendary Anti-Folk community. As half of the indie-pop duo Cheese On Bread, Dan saturated the Lower East Side with his signature blend of coy spunk and fierce progressive ideology. It was his solo work, however, that established him as more than a girly-voiced pop singer.

Hailed by Next Magazine as an "anti-folk genius," Dan's songs of frustration and fear provided a welcome change to the vacuous vamping found in most "queer art." His performance art, too, has attracted the attention of intellectual young homos thirsty for thoughtful discourse. Ironic without being nihilistic, passionate without being annoying, Dan writes outside of and against consumerist mainstream gay culture.

His debut album, SWEET CHASTITY, is a frantic, schizophrenic exploration of virginity in a culture that commodifies the human body. From the twisted electro-pulse of the title track to the Carpenters-esque croon of "Kiss and Tell," SWEET CHASTITY blends at least a dozen musical genres into an anti-pop mission statement of bitter wit and seething optimism.

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll break up with your boyfriend.

*Randi Russo

Mixing indie rock, New York garage rock, and singer/songwriter sensibilities, Randi Russo has drawn comparisons to fellow New Yorkers Patti Smith, the Velvet Underground, and Sonic Youth for her chaotic and pensive songwriting.

Growing up in Long Island, Russo briefly flirted with the violin, piano, and amateur turntable scratching until her early adolescence. Concentrating on visual arts in her teens, she eventually went on to study painting in St. Louis, where she began to fully explore the indie rock, grunge, and punk of the early '90s while working at a college radio station. Purchasing an electric guitar at the age of 19, the left-handed Russo found playing right-handed unsatisfactory, eventually playing left-handed but keeping the instrument strung the same as if it were being played right-handed. This technique created a distinctive form of chording and riffing, and Russo soon formed her first band with a bassist and a percussionist under the guise of Raizel. The trio recorded one single but disbanded in 1996, leaving Russo to hone her craft in relative seclusion until she emerged as a solo artist following her return to New York City in 1999.

After about a year on the solo circuit, Russo formed a band and recorded an admittedly chaotic live EP that captured only their second show with Live at CBGB's 313 Gallery. Following being approached by Olive Juice Records, Russo entered the studio to record her debut, 2001's intensely focused Solar Bipolar. Although it was released at roughly the same time other New York garage-influenced bands were again rising to prominence, Russo and her band stood out from the pack as the vehicle of a tough-minded female singer/songwriter and successfully avoided being categorized as a bandwagon jumper. -- The All Music Guide

*The Domestics

During a brief stint as an A&R assistant, Alina Moscovitz (ex-Bionic Finger) spent her days listening to piles of less-than-stellar demos. She decided she could do better, so she left the corporate world and returned to songwriting. She then hooked up with music supervisor and drummer Eric Shaw (fresh from the break-up of Conquistador which featured Sam Endicott of The Bravery). They soon lured Evan Silverman (ex-Rosenbergs) away from his jazz bass lessons in Paris and gigs at the Rainbow Room back to the world of rock. All that was missing now was crazy lead guitar energy. Thankfully, they found it in playwright Todd Carlstrom who was last seen writing in blank verse about women giving birth to rabbits. Finally, The Domestics line-up was complete.

As a quartet, The Domestics morphed into a potent combination of blazing pop-punk energy, sickeningly catchy hooks, and lyrics that have a sharp wit and intelligence seldom heard inside of a three-minute song. If Debbie Harry shoved her way onstage during a Green Day show, the result might sound something like this.

Besides constantly playing live shows, the Brooklyn-based band wrote the closing credits song, "Girl I Never Kissed" for the film The D Word, "Anorexic Love Song" appears on the X-Girls DVD and "Fire Hazard" was included in the "Say It Don't Spray It" compilation CD packaged with the Warped Tour DVD. The band has participated in MEANY Fest, International Pop Overthrow and LadyfestEast festivals. The Domestics are currently recording a full-length album for release in Fall 2005.

*Schwervon

Only a couple months into their coupledom, Major Matt Mason and Nan Turner began jamming. Nan's prior music experience was playing guitar and sometimes bass in the all-girl punky pop band Bionic Finger. Matt's experience included playing guitar in noisepop bands in Kansas, but he was mainly doing solo acoustic shows in New York when he met Nan. In the honeymoon of their romance, Matt brought his electric guitar out of hibernation and Nan started banging the drums. Schwervon! was born. Their first album was called Quick Frozen Small Yellow Cracker, named after a mysteriously labeled box in the hallway of their NYC apartment. This cd solidified their sound as a "Sonny and Cher meets the Pixies" garage rock couple who who weren't afraid to get down to their dirty truths.... and let you into their living room with ruminations on love, food, money, and their urban surroundings. Their second cd, titled Poseur, found them kicking up the volume and production a notch, tinging their songs with some psychedelic frustration, while continuing to hone their bittersweet "Who's Araid of Virginia Woolf " pop narratives. They are currently working on a new cd.
 
*The Trouble Dolls

The Trouble Dolls' roots go back to Kudzu, the cowpunk band formed by singer Cheri Leone and guitarist Matty Karas in 1986, when both were attending high school in Huntington Beach, Calif. Three months after their formation, they recorded a demo in the garage studio of reclusive pop genius Emitt Rhodes and sent it to legendary KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer ("Rodney on the ROQ").

Rodney fell in love with the tape, becoming one of Kudzu's first and biggest supporters. One song from the demo, "Death Valley Girl," was Rodney's most-requested song for three weeks running -- managing to hold off the Bangles and the reunited Monkees. The song subsequently appeared on the Frontier Records compilation Thangs That Twang.

In 1988, Kudzu toured up and down the West Coast as the opening act for Rank and File. Later that year, following an appearance on MTV's "The Cutting Edge," they signed to Restless Records. Their Ray Manzarek-produced debut album, California Scheming, came out in 1989, but few copies made it into stores, due to the financial difficulties Restless was undergoing at the time. However, the album did not escape the watchful eyes of lawyers for United Features Syndicate, which syndicated John Neale's comic strip "Kudzu." They promptly issued a cease-and-desist order, effectively putting the last nail in the album's coffin.

Although Kudzu had in fact taken their name not from the strip, but from the Georgia weed depicted on the cover of R.E.M.'s Murmur, they decided that, rather than fight, they would call it a day. Matty and Cheri moved to New York City at the suggestion of a former schoolmate who offered them work writing and recording music for the Cartoon Network. However, the work proved to be something less than steady, and the pair separated for a time to pursue "real world" careers. Cheri studied film at New York University --while there, she directed the Gutterball video "Trial Separation Blues" -- while Matty became the pop music critic for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press.

In the summer of 1995, Matty and Cheri reunited to form the Trouble Dolls with guitarist Michael Taylor, a New Jerseyan who was in an early version of Monster Magnet but was unceremoniously fired when he refused to learn any more Hawkwind songs. Michael provided the band's name after discovering trouble dolls, a Latin American charm, on a trip to Guatemala; but he left the band in 1998 to pursue a career in television (Trekkies will recognize him as the writer of some of the best episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager"; they will also probably be angry at us for calling them Trekkies).

For the first two years of the Trouble Dolls' existence, they were solely a studio group, recording soundtracks for spaghetti-westerns-that-never-were on Matty's cranky four-track and making up bios about themselves that seamlessly blended fact and fiction (a practice which continues to this day). One of their bargain-basement epics found its way to the BMX Bandits, who covered the Trouble Dolls' "Love Isn't for the Lazy" on the B-side of a fan club 45. Another track, "Planet Robin," found its way onto the soundtrack of the 1996 indie film "Ed's Next Move". Still another, "Ice Cream Cow," reached WFMU DJs Belinda and Hova, who continue to play it on their Saturday morning show "Greasy Kid Stuff."

On their way to becoming a proper band, the Trouble Dolls recruited Gabe Rhodes, a filmmaker and one-time member of the San Francisco band Scenic Vermont, to play drums after he moved to New York in early 2001. Later that year, they met Pam Weis while sharing a bill with her band, Bionic Finger, at the Ladyfest East festival. When Bionic Finger broke up shortly afterward, Pam became the Trouble Dolls' bassist.

The Trouble Dolls play their aphasic melange of prepackaged, post-Madonna chanson and bubblegum at New York City clubs such as Luna Lounge, Arlene Grocery and the Sidewalk Cafe. Their (they can't believe it's their first) EP, I Don't Know Anything at All, was released in June 2002 on their own label, La La La Unlimited, and their debut album will follow later in 2002. They also recently completed the score for the Tony Daniel-directed indie film "Ame rican Bohemian," in which Matty and Cheri have (totally out of character!) cameos as musicians who wear silly clothes and smoke.

*Limp Richard

Limp Richard needs no introduction whatsoever, considering his work with his seminal outfit Limp Richard and The Disappointments. However, his longtime A & R rep/art therapist has recommended that he try to work some things out alone, leading to his current style, which Carter Buddlesby of the Entirely Fictional Times would refer to as "a demented alloy of Sonic Youth and Michael Penn" if he, in fact existed. Limp is also known by his alter ego, Todd Carlstrom, who plays lead guitar for The Domestics and writes and produces theatre with breedingground productions. Limp is managed by the beautiful and cultivated Remorah.

*Hearth

Hearth is a black heart folk rock band from New York City. They come jangled and direct, cryptic and depressed.

Virginia natives and cousins Scott Loving and Dan Penta have been playing together since middle school when the discovery of late-Seventies punk rock originators gave them the confidence and the drive to start their own band.

Later, recovering from a year long habit, Dan began writing songs on an old acoustic guitar left behind by Scott who was living in Colorado. These compositions were minimalist and painfully personal.

Dan relocated to New York, performing alone in the cafes and bars of the East Village and Williamsburg. A handful listened.

Among them were Kimya Dawson and Adam Green of seminal antifolk group the Moldy Peaches. They took Dan out with them as an opening act on their first headlining U.S. tour. On the road Dan got to know their drummer Strictly Beats a/k/a Brent Cole.

Sometime after the tour, with a newly transplanted Scott Loving on lead guitar and Dan Penta on rhythm guitar and vocals, Larval Organs was formed with Brent Cole on drums and Scott Fragala on bass.

Larval Organs gained a following in New York and Brooklyn. An e.p. entitled Schwag was released on Tuolumne Records. They toured the United Kingdom.

The band came to an abrupt end when Dan was institutionalized following a psychotic breakdown.

After being released and spending months on Virginia couches, Dan was invited to play a summer music festival in New York. Performing songs old and new, he was joined by Scott Fragala on upright bass.

Over the following months the act expanded and changed. Brent was there again locking down the backbeat. Harmonies were layered by vocalists Amy Hills and Angela Carlucci. Scott Fragala was replaced by Scott Loving on electric bass, making everything grounded and full. Cello was added first by Crystal Madrilejos of the Babyskins and later by Benjamin Kalb who performs also with Regina Spektor.

They called themselves Hearth and they rose from Avenue A. They have since taken the stage at Pianos, Sin-e, Bowery Poetry Club, and more.

Recently a three song e.p. was completed with producer Mark Christensen at Engine Room Audio in Manhattan. The recordings are a conscious movement towards high fidelity - too tortured and too bizarre to be pop, too tender and too polished to be punk. Hearth continue to define their sound and direction. They reach. The high is to play. Everything else remains.

*The Marianne Pillsburys

Maine native Marianne Pillsbury writes pop-rock songs with cleverly-crafted, hook-laden melodies and brash, witty, tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Released in 2004, her debut album The Wrong Marianne has received enthusiastic reviews from The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Boston Herald and The San Francisco Chronicle and elicited comparisons to the best work of Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield and Jill Sobule. The album was named a Top 12 DIY Pick in Performing Songwriter Magazine. The song "Boo Hoo" won Best Alt/Rock Song in The Great American Song Contest 2004 and was also selected for inclusion on ROCKRGRL magazine's Discoveries 2005 compilation CD.

Her Brooklyn-based band The Marianne Pillsburys bring Marianne's songs to life with a raw punk-pop vibe. Think: Blondie, Elastica, Liz Phair fronting The Rolling Stones, or Juliana Hatfield singing lead for The Pixies. The band has played NYC venues like Mercury Lounge, Luna Lounge, Pianos, Arlene's Grocery and Southpaw, out-of-town venues in Boston, DC, LA and San Francisco, and festivals like M.E.A.N.Y. Fest (Musicians & Emerging Artists in New York), International Pop Overthrow and the Millenium Music Conference.

In April 2005, the band released a 3-song demo called "The Hot EP" produced by the fabulously talented Roger Greenawalt (Ben Kweller, Ben Lee).
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MEET THE BAND:

Sandy Brockwell (bass & backing vox) Hailing from the grande state of Tejas, Sandy B. Rock-well certainly lives up to her name. Besides rocking well, her interests include surfing, horror movies, economics and tequila.

Mitch Distefano (lead guitar & backing vox) Mitch enjoys his role as the whipping boy of the band. Being a Brooklyn native, he can of course hold his own. In addition to being a rock star guitarist, he also gives rock star guitar lessons.

Dawn McGrath (drums) Queens native Dawn (pronounced "dwon") has earned her black belt in drumming by eating, breathing and sleeping drums while surrounded by her 700 bald Cabbage Patch Kids.

*Genan Zilkha

Genan Zilkha, guitar/vocals, was a classically trained pianist until she found that she had a taste of rock and roll. Since that didn't work out, she now spends her time writing folk songs with titles such as "I Think I Might Be Food Poisoning (But it could also be love)" and "I Know What Will Make You Not A Dyke". Genan is also known for her unique takes on Britney Spears songs, in particular her version of Britney's Version of "My Prerogative". She has performed at the Knitting Factory, as well as at venues throughout Rhode Island and Binghamton, NY.

Katalanché Press and Limp Richard

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Katalanché Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

Thurs. Oct. 6, 6 p.m., free

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by Katalanché Press editors
Michael Carr and Dorothea Lasky

Featuring readings from

Will Esposito
Chris Jackson
Mark Lamoureux
Lori Lubeski
Christopher Rizzo
&
Michael Carr w/poems by Samuel Greenberg

With music by
Limp Richard

There will be wine, cheese, and fruit, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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Will Esposito is an editor of the literature collective Hinchas de Poesia (Homicidal Fans of Poetry), a recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, and, because he lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches at Temple, a member of the Philly Sound. His work can currently be read in Goodfoot, Spinning Jenny, and Cross Connect. His chapbook, Friedrich Schiller Von Von, is forthcoming from Katalanché Press.

Samuel Greenberg (1893-1917) was an immigrant to NYC's Lower East Side and died at 23 after writing for only a handful of years. With a unique vision of language often considered to anticipate surrealism, his poems over time have found admirers in such poets as Hart Crane and John Ashbery. A new chapbook from Katalanché Press will be released featuring a selection of sonnets and other poems transcribed from his manuscripts.

Jackson, Chris (1967-?), was the first mannerist born in a log cabin. Earlier mannerists had come from well-to-do families. Jackson, the son of poor Scotch-Irish immigrants, became an orphan at 14. He grew up on the frontier of Massachusetts. Then he moved to Tennessee, where he became a successful sitter and viewer. Jackson won fame with no clue as to why he was even there. He was nicknamed “Old Abstruse” because of his toughness.

Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, NY. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online publications. He is the author of three chapbooks. He is currently seeking a publisher for his first full-length book, Astrometry Organon.

Lori Lubeski is the author of the chapbook, Eyes Dipped in Longitude Lines, from Katalanché Press, as well as Sweet Land, Stamina and Dissuasion Crowds the Slow Worker. Recent poems have been published in Traverse, Carve, and Art New England. She lives in Boston and teaches at Boston University and Curry College.

Christopher Rizzo has a handful of chapbooks due out in the next year or so: Claire Obscure (Katalanché Press), Zing (Carve Editions), Naturalistless (dbqp), and The Breaks (Fewer & Further Press). He is also the editor of Anchorite Press, which he founded in 2003. Originally from Long Island and a longtime resident of Boston, Chris lives in Albany, New York, where he is working on a Ph.D. in English.

Limp Richard needs no introduction whatsoever, considering his work with his seminal outfit Limp Richard and The Disappointments. However, his longtime A & R rep/art therapist has recommended that he try to work some things out alone, leading to his current style, which Carter Buddlesby of the Entirely Fictional Times would refer to as "a demented alloy of Sonic Youth and Michael Penn" if he, in fact existed. Limp is also known by his alter ego, Todd Carlstrom, who plays lead guitar for The Domestics and writes and produces theatre with breedingground productions. Limp is managed by the beautiful and cultivated Remorah.

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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

www.katalanchepress.blogspot.com

Next event Oct. 28, O Books (Oakland, Calif.)

Call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor-at-boogcity-dot-com for further information