The Clorox Girls at Cooper Manor

Alec Holland sends me word of this must-see house show:

Thursday, May 3rd
122 E. Dalzell
8:00 PM
$5.00
BYOB

THE CLOROX GIRLS (Portland, Oregon)
www.myspace.com/cloroxgirls

Here’s The Clorox Girls website, and here’s plenty of YouTube action.

ROCK FIGHT! KSCL 91.3 FM Friday, April 27, 2007, 6 to 8

Hello again, chronic connoisseurs!

Friday is here with another ROCK FIGHT! on KSCL 91.3 fm.

It’s another fine week for exploring some old underground tunes. Check out The Dead Milkmen, Gary Numan, Talking Heads and other 80s germs. Move on to the 90s with Beck and Radiohead. Then settle into this century with Bloc Party, The Bird and The Bee and Modest Mouse. Plenty of great tunes.

The after party is at Cooper Manor, 122 E. Dalzell here in Shreveport. God Stewart, Kenny and The Flesh and Elevado are gonna blow your eardrums out. Doors open at 8:00. Cover is $5.00. Be there!

And tune in ROCK FIGHT! from 6 to 8. The podcast will be up tomorrow.

Here’s the poop:

Song                        Artist
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Hotwax                      Beck
My Fair Lady                The Bird And The Bee
Little Thoughts             Bloc Party
Plans                       Bloc Party
Punk Rock Girl              The Dead Milkmen
Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA      Devo
M62 Song (Four Tet Remix)   Doves
Bingo Master                The Fall
Earthworm                   Flipper
Are Friends Electric?       Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
New Genious (Brother)       Gorillaz
War Anthem                  Hammers Of Misfortune
Elena                       Juana Molina
The Insect Eater            Lene Lovich
New Church                  Lords Of The New Church
New Gods                    Meat Puppets
Float On                    Modest Mouse
Everything Is On The One    Parliament
Attack                      Public Image Ltd
Under The House             Public Image Ltd.
No Surprises                Radiohead
Blitzkrieg Bop              Ramones
Halloween                   Siouxsie & The Banshees
Ugli                        Skinny Puppy
Rain King                   Sonic Youth
I'm Not In Love             Talking Heads
Pulled Up                   Talking Heads
The Wrong Way               TV On The Radio
Back In Flesh               Wall Of Voodoo
Runaways                    XTC
The Space Between           Zero 7

Kenny and The Flesh at Cooper Manor 04/15/2007

There’s some new photos of Kenny and The Flesh performing at Cooper Manor Sunday, April 15, at my Flickr site.

Kenny and The Flash get better every time I see them. They were particularly good last night. A violent double drum and bass assault with cracked-out shens from singer Kevin. Moments reminded me of the best of Lightning Bolt, Death from Above 1979 and Melt Banana. My opinion is that these guys are the best band in town right now, and you should catch a show. I also think they are ready to take it on the road.

Also, there’s this recent message from Alec:

ATTENTION: No more punk shows at COOPER MANOR.

I tried to be kind to you guys and open my home up so that rad bands could come through and we could all have fun and thrash together, but I guess that my gift wasn't good enough for some of you.

As many of you know, I had a show here last night with ANS and Opposite Of God where me and the bands were selling records from our own personal collections. As a promoter, sound guy, and bassist in one of the bands playing last night, I don't exactly have a lot of time to be watching over the records I had set out. I thought, "Hey, let me enlist some trust into some of these possibly rad kids to actually let me know if they're interested in buying records," but no. Instead, I end up ripped off. It appears as though all the LPs I DIDN'T sell are now missing as well as most of the 7" I had out.

Due to the thievery of little punk shit heads that I allowed into my home, there will be no more thrash or hardcore shows to speak of at COOPER MANOR. I hope you guys have a lot of fun not being able to have any bands that you like come through Shreveport anymore.

I will continue to book what I think are radder shows with foreign bands and bands I already have booked, but you will not see another band with 1-2-1-2 drum beats come through again. You did it to yourselves. It was fun while it lasted.

Cooper Manor March 21, 2007: God Stewart, Church of Snake, Clipd Beaks

Here are 23 photos I took last night at Cooper Manor: Cooper Manor March 21, 2007 - a photoset on Flickr.

The bands were God Stewart (mostly), Church of Snake and Clipd Beaks. God Stewart were sloppily entertaining. I'd call them Crunk Rock.

Church of Snake have really grown as a band since the last time I saw them -- they're tighter, louder and harder. They sound like what Devo might have been if Devo were a thrash band, and that's meant as a positive review.

Clipd Beaks were freakin' awesome -- loud psychedelic doin'-it-to-ya-in-your-earhole madness, swirling machismo miasmas of echo and strobe throbbing with bass pulsed shamanistic intent. They actually had a physical effect on me akin to taking a few Valium with vodka shots. (Kids, don't do that.)

This photo is Eric performing in God Stewart.

Cooper Manor Pics, Competition for Morning Edition and World of Warcraft

A few things to blog about today.

First, check out the set of photos I took at Cooper Manor last Monday night. Kenny and The Flesh opened, followed by Black Helicopter and Brooklyn’s manic noise merchants Magik Markers.

To the left is the Markers’ Elisa Ambrogio playing her metallic red Strat with a Maker’s Mark whiskey bottle. The noise she generated was astounding. Click and look close at her eyes. That’s not “red eye.” That’s the Rock and Roll devil spirit shining out. The Markers summoned Papa Legba.

Kenny and The Flesh elevated the violence level. Eric, pissed at his malfunctioning drums, destroyed his whole kit in the middle of the show. He slammed, beat, slashed, poked and kicked and that was the rhythm section. You don’t know what to think when you see a band like this. There’s always going to be a surprise.

Black Helicopters were a nice surprise. They played loud drone rock from back in the day, reminding me of my old outfit, Chevrolet Stegosaurus, and also Too Many Douglasses. Just good straight-ahead rock with no frills.

I enjoyed all the bands. I missed Green Milk From The Planet Orange and Yip Yip last night, but I had seen Green Milk before. Tonight at Cooper Manor, 122 E. Dalzell, you can catch Church Of The Snake from Hot Springs, AR, and Clipd Beaks from Oakland, CA.

Competition for Morning Edition

There’s good news for public radio listeners looking for alternatives to corporation-friendly, über-branded NPR News: PRI And WNYC(R) Radio Announce New Morning Drive Time News Program For Public Radio.

Essentially, Public Radio International, WNYC, New York Times Radio, The BBC World Service and WGBH, all stalwart names in public broadcasting and journalism, are teaming up to create a morning news show to “reinvigorate morning drive time with a dynamic and lively new two-hour national news program.” How tasty does that sound?

Here’s more:

The program will represent an entirely new sound in public radio’s morning drive time. Departing from the highly-packaged format -- with pre-recorded interviews and long features -- that has become the medium’s hallmark sound, it will bring a wholly live, open, and unprecedented personality-driven format to public radio's renowned news and information programming. Up-to-the-minute local, national and global news will be delivered by a charismatic host – to be announced later this year --- and a vibrant team of national and international contributors. The breadth and unique capabilities of the show’s media partners will allow in-depth news coverage and live reports from the field from within the US and around the globe, with BBC reporters and analysts joining in on the discussion. The show will launch as a multi-platform program, and will be interactive and engaging, inviting listeners to respond immediately to news and participate in editorial decision-making, as well as to build a significant online community around the broadcast.

I particularly like the multi-platform approach which means it will be available over this new medium, the Internet, hopefully both streaming and as a podcast. And though it’s way too soon to speculate how listeners will participate in editorial decision-making as claimed, I think it can be a real exercise in participatory democracy.

Can you imagine stuffy NPR doing something like this? Me either. I also think it’s a safe bet that Red River Radio won’t carry it, despite the fact it could save them beaucoup coin by not paying for the increasingly tiresome Morning Edition.

The new show will be produced in Manhattan and is scheduled to launch in 2008.

I first heard about it from this NPR Check post. People are looking for alternatives, which is a good thing.

World of Warcraft

Here’s my latest World of Warcraft character, Anchovy, a dwarven hunter, and her pet, Charlotte, a green recluse from Duskwood. She also has a wolf from Dun Morogh named Pellegrino. The realm is Muradin. You got some Horde? Bring it, bitch!

Cooper Manor 03/13/07

Crazy Israeli Trashes Cooper Manor!

Cooper Manor March 13, 2007

The show at Cooper Manor last night was awesome. Monotonix from Tel Aviv, Israel, performed along with The Apes and Kenny and The Flesh.

Monotonix was insane. This is a photo of the lead singer belly-boarding over the remnants of a salad he had thrown all over the dining room floor. He also set himself on fire.

All the bands were great, and I took almost 300 pictures you can see at the above link.