Shaved Women 2012 Tour Photos

Below are some shots from the Shaved Women 2012 Summer Tour! Photos: Chris Eck

12.16.11 Flood Yr Face Update

Greetings STL Friends,

I don't know if I've seen a Friday like this in a long time. There is literally something going on for everyone in the City of St. Louis tonight!

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PLUG: Friday, December 16th - We see the arrival of Quicksails and Ryley Walker from Chicago, IL on their Bleak Horizons Winter Tour. For those of you who don't know, Quicksails is the synth-based project of Ben Baker Billington of Tiger Hatchery, White Prism, and Moonrises! Ryley Walker is also on tour. Walker's beautiful guitar flourishes conjure up thoughts of John Fahey and Evan Miller, eminating from his incredible 12-string guitar technique. Duddley Fogg is a mysterious modular synth / shoegaze guitar duo from the past, here to piece together our future in a time warp of sound. Local Analord Kevin Harris demonstrates patience. We see the Kingston Family Singers new direction in mixed media, melding video, synthesis, and musique concrete. Note: Billington is one of my oldest noise buddies. I've never seen him do a bad thing musically. Ever.

Quicksails

Ryley Walker

FLOATING LABORATORIES | 4528 OHIO ST. | 930PM | BYOB | $5 DONATION

I'll be starting this show at 930PM on the dot! Chad Hickman of KFS is backing me up on this! We BBQ early! Bring your own BEER! I will be kindly asking everyone for a $5 DONATION to pay for the traveling acts' gas. And for those of you who absolutely must know, it will go something like this:

Kingston Family Singers > Kevin Harris > Ryley Walker (Small Room) > Quicksails > Duddley Fogg >>>>>> BE THERE!

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Friday, December 16th:
Quicksails, Ryley Walker, Duddley Fogg, Kevin Harris, Kingston Family Singers - Floating Laboratories
Pink Sock, Little Big Bangs - 2632 Nebraska
A Very Bert Dax Christmas Special with Ded Bugs, BassAmp & Dan-O, Hathead Jones, & many more - 2720
Manipulation, Divine Right, Shaved Women, Sweet Tooth, Masculine Journey - Bonerville
Bob Reuter's Alley Ghost, Griddle Kids - Schlafly Tap Room
Dino Bravo, Trauma Harness, Spastic Plastic, Carte De Visite, Adam King - Illegal Tone Recordings
Cup Collector, Charlie Turner, The Least Comma, Heavy horse - Bowen House

Saturday, December 17th:
Ou Où, Kid Counselor/Sean Brown, Corpse Pose - Pig Slop
Pat Sajak Assassins, Navigator, Bruiser Queen - Schlafly Tap Room
Volcanoes, Union Tree Review, Bo and the Locomotive - Plush

Sunday, December 18th:
A Very Bert Dax Christmas Special with Dubb Nubb, Navigator, Prune - Lemmon's
Moon Duo, Tone Rodent, Roundheels, The FU'zz - Cicero's

Notes and Tidbits:
The Pink Sock and Little Big Bangs show is a full on rager with TWO KEGS. I've been told that the magic starts at midnight.
This is the third show in a string of shows celebrating the NINTH YEAR OF A VERY BERT DAX CHRISTMAS - Big ups Matt Harnish, Pancake Master, and Co.
Manipulation is an excellent, fast hardcore band from Chicago featuring our ex-STL buddy, Scott Plant (Broken Prayer, Civic Progress, To No End, etc.)
Total house show at the Bowen house with Jim Fitzpatrick's Cup Collector and noisenik mind-bender Charlie Turner!
Illegal Tone Recordings knows how to put on a show! Venture out East! Also, check out Trauma Harness! Killer stuff!
Bob Reuter is a local legend and if you don't know who he is, now is the time to find out. I hear Griddle Kids kill it too!
Corpse Pose is the new moniker of former Daydream Lullaby mastermind, Eric Ryszkiewicz. For the ambient at heart!
Free gig as always at the Schlafly Tap Room! Navigator kills it!
Haven't seen Volcanoes yet? What's wrong with you? See what the kids are doing RIGHT! At the newly opened venue, Plush!
A book end to the Bert Dax Christmas Special with everyone's favorite sibling rivalry Dubb Nubb! Two nights in a row with Navigator!?!?
What better way to blow your brains out on a Sunday then with psychedelic stalwarts, Moon Duo! Featuring Wooden Shjips Ripley Johnson!
TONE-FUCKING-RODENT - HEAVY SHOEGAZE INSPIRED PSYCH! BE THERE.

This Just In! Tenement and Solid Attitude Confirmed!

TENEMENT

SOLID ATTITUDE

SHAVED WOMEN

GHOST ICE

Wednesday, January 18th at El Lenador!

Recap: Supersonic Piss | The Liz | Shaved Women - CBGBs

As the days get shorter and the nights colder, the game of booking shows becomes more and more difficult. In the age of digital media, concertgoers can passively check out a band in less than 30 seconds, making the decision of "Should I stay or should I go" both easy and apathetic. Thankfully, the kids were out in throngs last night for Supersonic Piss, The Liz, and St. Louis' own Shaved Women.

I arrived just minutes into Supersonic Piss' set. Jam packed on the recreational side of a smokey CBGBs, I was once again in awe of the punk-addled monster. Having caught SSP in Iowa City this past summer, I can honestly say that they bring it to every set they play. Hovering between noise rock and spazz punk, SSP annihilate on every level: thundering percussion, dynamic chainsaw guitar, tidal wave bass, and the enigmatic howl of lead singer, Paige Harwell. Harwell's stage presence puts her up there with the greats: Blank stares, hard-stomping, confrontation, and a voice that ranges from gravel pit growl to horror-film shriek. Supersonic Piss are truly masters of their niche.

Minneapolis' The LIz quickly took the stage, launching into a short set of feedback drenched rock n roll. The Liz are elementally psychedelic with hints of post-hardcore. Explosive repetition, crumbling riffs, and guttural moans defined this sonic shocked quartet.

In a smart move by promoter, Luc Michalski, Shaved Women played last on the bill. Quickly having risen to the top of most STL hardcore/punk kids' list of favorite bands, SW did not disappoint. Rowdy and riled, the band kicked off the set with a bit of new material from their upcoming record. Sporting leather jackets (with bare-chests underneath!) singer Ben Salyers and bassist Johnny Birkner looked like a psychosexual duo straight out of 'Cruising.' Angst-filled vocals, Greg Ginn-esque guitar, solid drumming, and Birkner's wild bass stylings launched a rather aggro crowd into a fury. After plowing quickly through their set, SW changed the pace by ripping into 'Static,' a rather slow burner, trudging through mud and bone. A good chunk of the crowd sang along gregariously to such (now) classics like "Circles" and "Every Day Life," following with a killer version of The Ramones' "Endless Vacation." What has become an ending staple to their sets, Shaved Women knocked off a cover of Die Kruezen's "Think For Me." The night was done.

For recordings of Shaved Women be sure to check out: http://shavedwomen.bandcamp.com or http://hellachillshavedwomen.blogspot.com

TONIGHT AT CBGBs: SUPERSONIC PISS

SUPERSONIC PISS

THE LIZ

SHAVED WOMEN

Tonight, November 17th:

SUPERSONIC PISS (Iowa City, IA)

THE LIZ (Minneapolis, MN)

SHAVED WOMEN (Saint Louis, MO)

CBGBs | 3163 S. Grand | 9PM | $7 | 21+ | Fb Invite

Prepare for a heavy show! Iowa City's Supersonic Piss are shit-kickin, sludged-out, punk on a candyflippin' trip. Weed heavy // Killin' it everytime. The Liz are Minneapolis' spaced-out noise rock outfit. Heavy on the feedback // Crashing percussion. St. Louis' best hardcore band, Shaved Women, open the night. If you missed them playing out of a van down by the river last week, then now is your chance to soak yourself in beer and get your head blown off.

FLOOD YR FACE UPDATE - 01.19.11

Amazing gig from New York's Teeny Bopper & Tension Fields at Apop Records last Tuesday. The Halflings/Yellow Tears crew did not disappoint with their maniacal brand of sonic offerings. Cheers to Poptards and the Song of the South aka Melissa DeBus for a demented set of left-brain ramblings with special guest dancer Joanie Walbert!!

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For more Apop Fun, mark your calendars! Prepare for an evening of psychedlic folk wanderin

gs as well as an evening of Argentinian goth/darkwave & New York-style Minimal Wave. Dark and brooding, a cloud covers St. Louis.

Wednesday, January 26th:

HUSH ARBORS (Ecstatic Peace! | VA)

Jason Ajemian (New York)

The Lonely Procession

Flowers

Mike Pitts

FB Invite: HERE

Hush Arbors is the moniker of singer-songwriter Keith Wood. In addition to his solo effort, Wood has toured and collaborated with Current 93, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned hand of the Man, Jack Rose, Wooden Wand, and Voice of the Seven Woods. Hush Arbors on tour with New York jazz man, Jason Ajemian!!

Saturday, February 19th:

Mueran Humanos (Argentina via Berlin)

YOU (New York)

at: Apop Records | 2831 Cherokee St.

FB Invite: HERE

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For the hardcore heads:

Tonight at Cranky Yellow | 2847 Cherokee St.

TENEMENT (WI)

SHAVED WOMEN

DOOM TOWN

SWEET TOOTH

Three of St. Louis best hardcore/punk acts open tonight for Wisconsin's Tenement, an examination in pop thrash therapy!

FB Invite: HERE

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Sunday, January 23rd marks the first show of 2011 at Floating Laboratories!! Always exciting and challenging the brain, FL is proud to present Iowa City's SOLID ATTITUDE and Maine's EVIL SPIRITS.

Sunday, January 23rd:

SOLID ATTITUDE (Iowa City)

EVIL SPIRITS (Maine)

CACKLING HEN

LARVA LOU & DINNER MUSIC

at: Floating Laboratories | 4528 Ohio St.

Iowa City's SOLID ATTITUDE wrecks through St. Louis with a whirlwind of thrashing garage rock and violent rhythms!! Featuring Matt Fenner, Wet Hair's latest addition! EVIL SPIRITS from Maine have hopped on the gig! Total dirge two piece of feedback and sweat! Dr

ums and amps! Get Faced! Witness local destruction from Cackling Hen & the collaboration between Larva Lou & Dinner Music (aka Rick Weaver of Form-A-Log/The New Flesh!!)

FB Invite: HERE

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Our friends at the Luminary Center for the Arts have done a spectacular job programming concerts for this spring season! COLD CAVE will be performing their first ever St. Louis concert on Saturday, April 9th!! LIGHTNING BOLT returns to St. Louis after 9 years (LB last played in STL as part of the Oops! The Tour at the Creepy Crawl with Erase Errata, Arab On Radar, The Locust, and The Flying Luttenbachers) on Saturday, April 23rd! Tickets can be purchase HERE and HERE. Cheers!!

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SLU's Billiken Club is doing it big this year with some amazing performers that usually don't make it around these parts. NOTE: All shows at the Billiken Club are open to the public, and most importantly FREE:

WED 02.23 - Dum Dum Girls

MON 02.28 - Akron/Family | Delicate Steve

THU 04.14 - Zola Jesus | Cult Of Youth

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If you haven't heard: My good friends, Mabel & Joe of 88.1 KDHX's Wrong Division (Fridays from 1am to 3am) host a showlisting blog at W.R.O.N.G.D.I.V.I.S.I.O.N. - Highly recommended! And if you didn't know, Joe Hess does all of the music booking at Cranky Yellow on Cherokee St. Hit him up!