I was walking up Bedford ave in Williamsburg last night in search of an emergency falafel, trying to avoid the friday night grossness, when i spotted this Venture Bros mural on the corner of Bedford and N6th street. My friend snapped me in front of it.
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Here’s the billboard that heralded the arrival of Season Four of The Venture Bros a couple years back. Season Five continues, with brand new episodes airing on Sundays at midnight on Adult Swim / Cartoon Network. Go Team Venture!
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JG Thirlwell in Williamsburg 06/05/13 photo by Marylene Mey
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5/31/13 Secret Chiefs 3 played a six night residency at John Zorn’s club The Stone, playing two sets a night. The first set I caught was a derainged selection of soundtrack compositions including pieces by John Carpenter and Morricone. The second set was one long undulating, surging piece, “Tesselations”, which revolved around one odd rhythm where they played modular cells based around four notes. For this set the core line-up of Trey Spruance (guitar) Timba Harris (violin) Toby Driver (bass, also of head honcho of Kayo Dot) Matt Lebofsky (keyboards) Kenneth Grohowski (drums) they were joined by incredible drumming of Ches Smith and guitarist Gyan Riley. Trey from Secret Chiefs 3, along with Jason Schimmel from Estradasphere, has been working on a remix of the Foetus track “Cosmetics” for the forthcomjng Foetus album release on Ectopic Ents
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One short day until Venture Bros season Five premiere - June 2 2013 at midnight on Adult Swim / Cartoon Network, with all-new score by JG Thirlwell. To put you in the mood and get you up to speed, here is an eight minute recap of seasons 1-4 . Go Team Venture!
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I spotted this huge billboard on Spring Street in Soho yesterday. Venture Bros season 5 premieres this Sunday night - June 2 2013 - at midnight. Go Team Venture!
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DJ Food just unearthed and sent me this news item, which was published in Sounds, a now defunct weekly British music magazine, on Dec 27 1980. The myth begins.
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Director Sam Sohlberg just informed me that the Foetus video “Time Marches On” has had over 200,000 plays on YouTube. If you haven’t seen it, take a look.
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More electronic fetishism - I am currently installed as guest composer in a residency at the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm where I am working on the Serge Modular Synthesizer with Daniel Araya. Tomorrow moving onto the Buchla with Jonas Broberg. Here’s the current patch on the Serge.
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Here is a mini-doc I shot last year on three Manorexia shows we did in London (ATP/Union Chapel), Tilburg (Roadburn Festival) and Nijmegen (Extrapool). This is to promote the Manorexia 2013 European tour which began tonight in Copenhagen.
