FBC5 EXTENSION

I know, I KNOW. I said Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 5 would be available for preorder for TWO WEEKS ONLY before I took down the links. HOWEVER in that time some crazy things have happened and a couple things have changed.

As many of you know, there was a recent burglarizing and ransacking and general invasion plus destruction of amazing Ridgewood, Queens do-it-yourself live music venue The Silent Barn. In my time living in Brooklyn this was probably my favorite place to see music, hang out with cats, check the comics library, see bands play in front of a kitchen sink, conversate in the dark basement, chug down huge outside beers and be with friends. I've probably been there about a dozen times but after my first trip it was evident how special the space was and how much history and future it had. For these reasons, I really felt compelled to make a contribution to Silent Barn's Kickstarter campaign to get the space and all its residents back on their feet.

Unfortunately I have very little money so I can't give from my pocket, but what I can and will do is keep the FBC5 preorder open for JUST ONE MORE WEEK with 50% of all gross revenue from this week going to The Silent Barn (a.k.a. if you buy a tape for $5, I will donate $2.50 to the Silent Barn Kickstarter). If you were thinking about it before and let your chance pass you by, please do reconsider and help out a fantastic live music space while treating yourself to a tape of killer new tunes. Stream the comp from bandcamp (embedded below) then download the comp FOR FREE then check the different giving levels and make a contribution not only to the production of the FBC5 physical product but to The Silent Barn as well. Thanks!



FREE DOWNLOAD

1. Tape Only -- $5.00
(pre-order for the pro-dubbed cassette, will ship within one month) *Unlimited*
2. Tape + Poster -- $6.66 *Limited 20*
(cassette + large glossy professional print of above cover art -- image by Gnarfield)
3. Tape + Personalized Mix CD -- $7.00 *Limited 20*
(cassette + one of a kind mix CD for you made by me with handsome handmade packaging)
4. Tape + Photos -- $8.08 *Very Limited*
(cassette + set of 5 unpublished disposable camera film photos from the past Fall + Winter)
5. Tape + T-Shirt -- $14.92 *Limited 8*
(Gnarfield-designed "I Bleed Weed" t-shirt printed by Radical Fortress, see image below)
6. EVERYTHING AMERICA PACKAGE DEAL -- $17.76
(One of Everything -- Tape + Mix CD + Poster + Photos + T-Shirt)
7. For bulk orders or to choose your own combo, email iprnelson at gmail.com.

FRIENDSHIP BRACELET CLUB VOLUME 5

So we meet again, Friendship Bracelet Club. Volume 5 comes about 14 months after the last edition, taking a break over the past year or so to give me some time to try to work on Triple You Tapes. However, The Club is a lot of fun so hopefully it'll become a regular feature again.

This time in addition to the free digital download we've got a few different giving levels for physical objects associated with the compilation, taking on a Kickstarter-like form. All this stuff is available now as a pre-order. This time we are gauging how many copies to make STRICTLY ACCORDING TO what we do for pre-orders, so we offer a paypal pre-order button available for TWO WEEKS ONLY, then it will be down and you won't ever be able to order the compilation in physical format. Ever again. All prices appear in United States Dollars and include shipping.

Details on Preferred Packaging Options:

1. Tape Only -- $5.00
(pre-order for the pro-dubbed cassette, will ship within one month) *Unlimited*
2. Tape + Poster -- $6.66 *Limited 20*
(cassette + large glossy professional print of above cover art -- image by Gnarfield)
3. Tape + Personalized Mix CD -- $7.00 *Limited 20*
(cassette + one of a kind mix CD for you made by me with handsome handmade packaging)
4. Tape + Photos -- $8.08 *Very Limited*
(cassette + set of 5 unpublished disposable camera film photos from the past Fall + Winter)
5. Tape + T-Shirt -- $14.92 *Limited 8*
(Gnarfield-designed "I Bleed Weed" t-shirt printed by Radical Fortress, see image below)
6. EVERYTHING AMERICA PACKAGE DEAL -- $17.76
(One of Everything -- Tape + Mix CD + Poster + Photos + T-Shirt)
7. For bulk orders or to choose your own combo, email iprnelson at gmail.com.






Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 5

FREE DOWNLOAD

1. Free Spirit - O'Dela. Super chilled out sunrise guitar jammer from McGregor (Chocolate Bobka + The Curatorial Club) + Jonah (Real Estate, Family Portrait). Their first material on any sort of release, which I am beyond psyched to present.

2. Galapagos - Purrre. Young dude Jacob McNaughton from Arizona. Got this lil skittered electronica going on, first heard him on his Sounds Vol. 1 EP. Moving to Austin for school soon, hopefully studies don't conflict with busting out more tunes.

3. Main Attrakionz - * * * * *

4. Horse Bladder - Chased. Current Northampton, MA resident/poet/musician Elaine Kahn's Horse Bladder project teeters between pristine ambience and jarring low fidelity noise. She throws a monthly poetry reading/live music show at Flying Object in Hadley, MA. Her upcoming LP on Ecstatic Peace (No I'll Not) follows last year's Night People cassette (Nicole).

5. The Cyclist - Feel Beauty. Andrew Morisson is from Derry, Ireland. He crafts "tape throb" as The Cyclist, released his tape Bending Brass on Crash Symbols a few months ago and will drop new tunes on Leaving Records in the near future.

6. Howse - Speak Good. Howse gets down on jukey, blipped-up riddims, ominous samples and generally mind-boggling sonic environments. His first physical release is forthcoming on Astro Nautico.

7. Featureless Ghost - Take It Out (Happy New Year Remix). Eleanor Logan makes tunes as Happy New Year. She's from Australia. She lives in Brooklyn now. Featureless Ghost is Matt Weiner and Elise Tippins from Atlanta. Eleanor took the danced-blasted "Take It Out" original, flipped it, reversed it, and ended up with a real eerie jam. HNY has a 7" out soon and its release party is August 3 at Glasslands in Brooklyn.

8. Rangers - Bus To Chalco. This is Rangers' second time on a Friendship Bracelet Club comp. I'm very down with this outtake from his forthcoming double LP on Not Not Fun, a serious slow-burned open road jam that'll take you so far beyond the horizon you won't know how to get back.

9. Feast of Violet - Hinterland. Feast of Violet is Allen Taylor from Atlanta. He used to play in the band Roman Photos before they disbanded earlier this year. "Hinterland" is a tasty ambient treat for all you nature boys out there.

10. Shur - Silver Lightning. Shur is Matt Weiner (Twins, Featureless Ghost) + Chris Powers (C Powers, Mane Mane) + Charley Lanning (CH-Rom, Wo). Shur was Shrur but now they're Shur and they have a new album out sometime hopefully this year under the new name. Triple You Tapes released the Shrur album 4Shrur earlier this year on cassette, which was generally a lot weirder than this house-y cut.

11. La Big Vic - Musica Pt. 2. A companion piece to La Big Vic's beloved live staple "Musica" but this time we're revved into uptempo Kraut zones and it's sick. Their LP Actually is out now on Underwater Peoples.

12. Tonstartssbandht - Hymn-Eola (Acapella). This is the acapella version of Edwin White's "Hymn-Eola" from their recent Russian tour tape Hymn. Not an extreme distancing from the original but real cool to see what Edwin can do with the vocal effect alone.

*Main Attrakionz track will appear on the physical version only*

DREAMWEAPON

Way back in 1965, drummer Angus MacLise helped form the Velvet Underground. Before the band even played their first show, he up and quit amid accusations that the band had effectively "sold out" for agreeing to play a live concert. According to Lou Reed and John Cale, MacLise was "so dedicated a bohemian" that "he could not tolerate somebody telling him when to start playing and when to stop" (source). The proto-hippie's tape recordings went largely unheard until 1999 when they first found wider release with Siltbreeze, who released two records, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and Brain Damage in Oklahoma City. A couple more recordings were released in the early 00's, but none since 2003.

Fast forward to 2011 and we see the release of two LPs of MacLise's tape-recorded, Eastern-influenced drone material; Dreamweapon I, live recordings from MacLise, Tony Conrad and Jack Smith, and Dreamweapon III, a small collection of collaborations with Conrad. The LPs, available in editions of 500 on May 15 from Boo-Hooray, act as sonic companions to a new exhibition dedicated to MacLise, Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938-1979). The show opens Tuesday with a party at the Boo-Hooray Gallery (521 West 23rd Street in New York) and is composed of a slew of poetry, drawings and photographs dug up from a suitcase lent to minimalist composer La Monte Young. The exhibit looks to cement MacLise as a major player in the connecting of Beat poetry, psychedelic film making, rock n roll and avant-garde composition. The exhibition comes complete with a full catalog in a limited edition of 1000, plus "a deluxe boxed edition of 100 copies with a numbered photo print, a numbered silk-screen and a CD of previously unheard music and poetry and more."

Check out the primitive, burnt drone of "Druid's Leafy Nest" from Dreamweapon III below, then buy an LP or two -- if you purchase both you save $10. Also, if you can't hit that opening party May 10, be sure to visit the exhibition before it closes on May 29.



Tony Conrad + Angus MacLise - Druid's Leafy Nest






(example of MacLise's "internal alphabets" / "automatic writing")

ONE DOLLAR HEINEKENS

About a month or so ago I replied to an open tweet about doing up a flyer for Brooklyn Based's Northside Festival showcase, curated by Microphone Memory Emotion. Since probably no one else responded to the inquiry, I was asked to design a poster for the show, which features FBC alums Family Portrait, Coasting and Fluffy Lumbers, as well as opener Bermuda Bonnie. The show's this Friday, June 25 at Matchless (557 Manhattan Avenue, across from McCarren Park). Bands start at 9PM, $6 cover, $1 Heinekens from 8-10PM. Come hang out.



I'll also be at a bunch of other shows this weekend around Brooklyn including:

- Wavves, Cloud Nothings, DOM Thursday nite at Knitting Factory

- Tame Impala Friday nite at Glasslands

- Ducktails, Big Troubles, WOOM, Arches, Dana Jewell, No Demons Here, Andrew Cedermark Saturday nite at Shea Stadium (Chocolate Bobka Northside showcase)

- Omar Souleyman, CSC Funk Band Sunday afternoon at Issue Project Room

MIX FOR DUBLAB

So dudes over at dublab played my lil mix I made up for em that I mentioned the other day so in case you missed that stream I figured I might as well make it available for all yall who missed it.





TRACKLIST:

HOLY SHIT - STRANDED

RANGERS - LOW CUT FADES (excerpt)

SPECULATOR - STAY COOL

TORO Y MOI - TALAMAK

HAPPY FAMILY - CUPS

LUKE PERRY - MIDNIGHT PERRY SIDE 1 (excerpt)

HIGH WOLF - THE BOTO

EMERALDS - GEODE

MATRIX METALS - FLAMINGO BREEZE (excerpt)

FLUKER LOVE - IN LOVE

90210 - UNTITLED (excerpt)

SILVER BULLETS - FLIGHT FROM BABYLON

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - RUSSIAN MIND

SPECULATOR - DRIVING IN MY CAR





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SOUTH STREET

Her Space Holiday - Sleepy Tigers

One of the better album covers I've seen this year.

Oasis

My friend Ned started uploading his art to a blog. You can view it here, as you should, since it's good n' plenty. Everything's for sale so hop on over and treat yourself to somethin real.