Monday, September 15th, 2008

Come sweat your butt off at the First Unitarian Church on Wednesday, September 17 as WKDU and R5 Productions host Why? and Mount Eerie. Purchase your tickets here or at the door.

From R5:

Why?
A folk-pop, indie-hop, sometimes-mustachioed, psych-rock quartet fronted by Yoni Wolf, former member of cLOUDDEAD and Reaching Quiet as well as collaborator with Hood, Fog, DJ Krush, Boom Bip, Sole, Dept. of Eagles, and 13+God. Why? released a mega superstar awesome album back in 2005. When it first came out we would playing an advance of it in Spaceboy and literally every single customer would come up to the counter - asked what it was was and then asked if they could purchase it. And it makes sense they would ask, as artists such as Boards of Canada, Mum, Tv On The Radio Stereolab, Danielson Famile, The Notwist and Mogwai have been singing their praises for his recorded output lately. Yo La Tengo took him out on a full U.S. tour . Yoni writes and sings mainly, but he’s also known to dance, play any instrument he can get his hands on (piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica), sample, and occasionally beat his chest like a gorilla. Doug is the utility man, maneuvering such heavy machinery as pianos, guitars, samplers and turntables. Josiah plays drums, teaches drums to little kids, eats drums for breakfast, and sleeps drums at night. Driven by brotherly competition, he also plays anything that Yoni plays. Matt sticks to his guitars. Their latest record is AWESOME. We love this band! Anticon Records.

Mount Eerie
A hodge-podge of tape-loop trickery, stereo panning, super fuzz bass, radio signals, acoustic pluckings, clamoring drums, tympani, xylophone, organ, distorted piano, keyboards and noise that aims for the lo-fi jugular. Delicate pop songcraft, emo-blown yearning, and white-hot rockers, loaded with hooks, harmonies, well thought (and placed) lyrics, and imagination galore. K Records.

Why? and Mount Eerie-September 17-8 p.m.-First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut Street)-$12-All Ages