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As part of a special weekend of shows organized by Blue Skies Turn Black and the Pirates of the Lachine Canal for the Suoni Per il Popolo Festival, we will be holding a special afternoon show @ Lab Synthese on Saturday, June 27th. Doors will be at 5 PM (immediately following the NoMeansNo matinee show @ divan). The lineup will feature TALK NORMAL, an incredible tribal psych-no-wave duo from Brooklyn, along with new Montreal resident and kraut no-fi artist THE PINK NOISE and BLUE LIONS (feat. Myles Broscoe of AIDS Wolf, Les Angles Morts, ...). Finally, opening the show are JEREMY & FRIEND (featuring Susil Sharma of RED MASS). Doors are at 5 PM and show starts at 6. Here are the details :::

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Saturday, June 27th (AFTERNOON SHOW - 5 PM) :::

TALK NORMAL (NYC)
THE PINK NOISE (Toronto/mtl - Sacred Bones)
BLUE LIONS (Mtl - mem. AIDS Wolf)
JEREMY & FRIEND (Mtl - mem. RED MASS)

$8
5 PM (EARLY!)
@ Lab Synthese (435 Beaubien Ouest, #200)

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for more info visit :::

http://www.blueskiesturnblack.com
http://www.myspace.com/talknormaltalknormal
http://www.myspace.com/thepinknoise2
http://www.myspace.com/milobrosco

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Set times ::::::

MISS LADY SWAMP PUSSY 9:30

NERVOUS SYSTEM 10:15

GAY BEAST 11:00

AIDS WOLF : MIDNIGHT

Wednesday June 10th

@@@ Friendship Cove 10$ -- ALL AGES


Be there early and party with us longer . Respect the space y'all!



Check out this cool GAY BEAST interview.


Gay Beast just 2 weeks ago ::

Nervous System ::



Miss Lady Swamp Pussy::

Pas Rapport - the download version

Here is the downloadable version of our 2009 Spring Tour tape, Pas Rapport --- these are straight from the Master files! Perfect sound! This is the real shit! No crappy pirate tape dub! One generation down from us playing the tunes.

Download it here: AIDS Wolf Pas Rapport

For all the info and track listing, go here

For the complete artwork, go here and scroll down.

Slow Burn

We're playing aloft party in Montreal June 10th with our good friends and one of my favorite bands around , Gay Beast. They are our newest labelmates on Skingraft and the their album is the bomb.

Apart from that we're bee playing Toronto on the 19th w/ Mika Miko and The Homosexuals for the Panache showcase at NXNE, then it'll be a longggggg break till the next one.

Tour came and went and I haven't really been able to talk about it much as we stared death in the face a lil' too often. So many close calls on the road , I'm still feeling shaken 2 months latter .


AIDS Wolf



Us @ The Smell , we melted one of the monoblocks , good thing with tour with 2!

Totally

Touring with the Shearing Pinx was amazing. I find always awe inducing seeing bands that are able to navigate through their corpus of songs and take the whole show thing very casually--- seems almost like the most relaxing time of their live happens on stage. Although that did not stop them from playing extremely dynamic stuff. The interaction between the two guitar players, Erin and Nick, is unique. While Erin jumps and bumps around, creates sounds from these crispy passages to these non-sensical atonal riffs, Nick often holds ground with his growling low-end ---- and then they completely destroy that and do the most surprising compositions, or bring in brutally effective ideas. During all that Jeremy drums are super steady (he never fails!). It feels like he floats over the skins while playing, watching him is quite a learning experience.

Anyway Hamborghinni is playing tonight with Jeremy's side project Totally Ripped at the Frienship cove, in Montreal. I'm pretty excited to see these guys since their very good 12" split with To Live and Shave in L.A. on Isolated Now Waves has been a repeat player on our turntable since our come back from tour. Also from Vancouver will be at the show the Sex Negatives, which is pure sound nihilism--- one can understand knowing that Justin, previously in Mutators, is involved at the drums.

Pas Rapport

This was our limited edition (80 pieces) 14 minutes Spring tour tape. Sorry if we sold out by the time we reached Regina. It's a bunch of instant compositions, in one stream on both sides, unedited (you can even ear some magical quirks within the 'silence' in between the tracks). Although we overdubbed an extra track of vocals on side B. Sounds pretty crusty. Our first official release with Alex in the band! Recorded at the 100-sided Die, February 2009.

The edition tapes were a bit too short, so each side misses about 3 or four seconds off the original master recording... whatever, does the job.

Here's the track listing:

A) Police de la quéquette
P'tit débile
Elle est si cochonne

B) Débande
Hot dog élégant
Polie la poilue
Flaque de vomi/restitu

Download it here: AIDS Wolf Pas Rapport



For the full artwork, go see this link, and scroll to the bottom.

Hiroshima Thunder

I got asked to do a solo performance on drums in late January this year. Despite my excitement to perform and the fact that i have been thinking and putting together in my head since a while already how the performance would be delivered, I managed to put very little time into the actual physical preparation for the show. I guess I just thought about it so much that once getting to do the technical aspects of it ended up working somehow, but I still feel that for repeating such a show I will have to work my act out a bit--- especially since there are specific sounds ant things I actually want to achieve with this.

The generic idea is this: each piece of the accoustic kit is caught by a microphone, and then brought through a bass synth/envelope filter to isolate a specific note, then sent through a specific line of effects for each piece, mixed and amplified. I want to basically turn the kit into some music making machine, or a one man band, but still keep the vivual performance of the drummer going and have the impression that there is this accoustic quality to the performance via the kit--- something you can't get with an electronic kit for instance. also, using mics, the room quirks and the feedback would creat 'hopefully' happy accidents that will either push my improv in a new direction or just texture the auto-composition already going on.

Getting the stuff amplified really loud so the sound from our home-made p.a. matches the kit's natural volumes wasn't really a problem, the main thing that I had to constantly focus on and control was the feedback from the mics. Anyway, I guess working on the project a bit would help me figuring these things out a bit... maybe i should switch some mics for contact mics or triggers or something.

But it was loud and chaotic, and at least it created most of the impression I wanted to create within 15 minutes.

AIDS Wolf