ootbfoolsfest2016

BAD NEWS: at one point it was advertised that Horse Jumper of Love was playing. It seems there was a miscommunication and unfortunately they cannot play. sorry.

GOOD NEWS: due to a hasty reaction to a possible cancellation….DENT will be playing a surprise-set at a surprise-time!

DAY TWO – SATURDAY, APRIL “THE SECOND”

Doors @ 3pm

335pm – OPENING CEREMONIES by Fat Shuggy

355pm –John Cushing Band

415pm – So Sol

435pm – Johnnie & the Foodmasters

455pm Birthing Hips

515pm Patchouli Mist

535pm Rosie & the Rosies

555pm The Forgotten Jam

(5 min buffer/intermission)

620pm Sun Young

640 Horsehands

7pm JarvaLand (&the Sharkbag Collective)

720pm Sam Gas Can (Western Mass)

740pm Procedure Club (New Haven, CT)

8pm Robert Robinson & the Connecticut River Band (Western Mass)

820pm Secret Lover (Worcester)

845pm Frank Hurricane (Wherever the wind blows…)

(5 min buffer/intermission)

915pm Listening Woman

940pm The Channels

1005pm W00DY

1030pm Littlefoot

11pm Magic Shoppe

1130pm Black Beach

12pm earthquake party!

1230pm Midriffs

SUN YOUNG – This band is led by Damien Young (bassist for IAN) and also features John Cushing (John Cushing Band) and Jeff Balter on drums, who you know from being in half the bands in Boston (Harmoos, Rosie & the Rosies, Listening Woman). Here’s a review of their album BBHUG SHUN: “First song ‘Faces in The Sun’ is straight-up guitarsturbation marching up the left hand of Tantra to a variety of Kama Sutran plateaux with enlightened expertise. Track 2 ‘Needs’ begins with boppy-poppy finger-snapping stanzas and familiar pop structures, all the while leading you blithely onto the microtone dance floor. Too late, you’re groovin’ now. Just in time, here comes singleworthy track 3 ‘Pinesugar’ with that irresistable bass and guitar-stomp intro. Drum and bass hold this track together expertly as Damien cycles inverted-style through the fretboard alphabet. ‘Bad Dreams’ is the most jazzy-proggy playful of the album and will certainly remind you of old Zappa and Beefheart with a herky-jerky lead-in to a wonderful machine-scene soundtrack interlude before returning you to the nightmare proper. Damien is not afraid to use voice instrumentally as song 5, ‘Ice Cream Girlfriend’, highlights; alternating between lyric and alyric vocal sections. Album closer ‘Miss U’ begins messy, microtonal and angry, then suddenly transitions to heartfelt and upbeat declarations before ending on a question mark. The main question left at the end being “Can we have some more please”?” – James Moore, BOSTON HASSLE

http://sunyoung.bandcamp.com/

ROSIE & THE ROSIES

ROSIE & THE ROSIES – This band plays the kind of hard-driving rock music you weren’t sure that they made anymore – heavy and intelligent. While drawing from elements of punk and psych and some seriously badass guitaring, this trio plays songs that feel like getting a ride home from a stranger who is maybe acting a little weird but in kind of a fun way and they’re doing you a really big favor but don’t make you feel like you’re imposing in the slightest.

https://rosieandtherosies.bandcamp.com/

FLAMING DRAGONS OF MIDDLE EARTH

FLAMING DRAGONS OF MIDDLE EARTH – “Led by wheelchair-bound ‘band shaman’ Danny Cruz and consisting of a rotating group of non-musicians, psychedelic drop-outs, teenage metalheads, kids with Down Syndrome etc, Flaming Dragons play a form of super crude/sophisticated free rock ala The Godz or even a punk-primitive Arkestra but with Cruz’s stunning, oracular vocals giving them a mainline to the freak flag style of prime Captain Beefheart, Roky Erickson and Wasa Wasa-era Broughton. Cruz’s instant lyric inventions are as mind-boggling as your favourite medium while the group lurch around on staggering brokedown rhythms somewhere between early-Sabbath, Robbie Yeats of The Dead C and The Shaggs. Their material ranges from stripped-down raps to lumbering psychedelic rock, as well as free-form freakouts w/lyrics that obsess over murder, bloodshed, astral creeps and, uh, Joni Mitchell… indeed Cruz makes most ‘sound poets’ sound like children’s entertainers.” – David Keenan, VOLCANIC TONGUE

HORSEHANDS

HORSEHANDS – Is “Math-Pop” a thing? If it wasn’t before, it is now. With unique song structures, a little funky, a little jolty, a little punky, and very tastefully used synth. Melodies, verses, choruses jump around like skipping rocks. While everything about this band is intricate, they find a complexity that is unpretentious and fun to listen to. These guys only play the best parts of the songs and it is much appreciated by unmedicated ADDers like me.

https://horsehands.bandcamp.com/

ROSIE & THE ROSIES

ROSIE & THE ROSIES –

psychedilic

WHAT NERVE

WHAT NERVE (PHI, PA) – This electro-pop-noise artist comes to us from Philadelphia and is currently on tour with Neolibz. He makes dance music for appreciators of weird noises and re-animated skeletons, and sweetens the deal with jolts of melody and a beat you can’t shake from your footsteps. It’s harsh but goes down remarkably smooth. Give it a listen.

http://whatnerve.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

THE 7TH HOUSE

THE 7TH HOUSE – This local hip-hop act is lead by man about town and art/cultural guru, Mars Jupiter. He raps about pop-culture, politics, positivity and occasionally soup (see below). He can be seen loitering around Out of the Blue and listened to on his podcast Peace Coast.

https://the7thhouse.bandcamp.com/

NEOLIBZ

NEOLIBZ (Philidephia, PA) – This two piece features Zane from Banned Books, and they get a HUGE sound from only drums, synth and vocals. Fans of The Abominable Skimask, (New England) Patriots, and Guerilla Toss are more than likely to enjoy this. Hope you aren’t too attached to your face because these you might not have one when these guys are done with it.

SO SOL

SO SOL – “On a Tuesday in September, the multilingual folk outfit play the intermezzo for a showcase of spoken word poets at the Whitehaus, where the bedding serves as soundproofing between the festivities and the quiet Jamaica Plain street. The crowd sits on couches, stools, and crossed-legged on the floor, watching as Jessica DaSilva, John Garrett, Sonny Jim Clifford and Zach Bridges gather their instruments (banjo, guitar, harmonica, and upright bass, respectively) before DaSilva chirps the first lyric of “Valsa Do Corpo,” which translates to “Waltz of the Body.” The translation isn’t really necessary, though. Whether or not you understand Portuguese, her voice is an alluring instrument in itself; flirtatious and poetic in melody alone, and perfectly complimented by gentle strumming and fingerpicking.

Her talents seem even more impressive when you learn DaSilva didn’t sing until the inception of Só Sol (Only Sun, if you were curious), when the group started as a duo. High school friends, DaSilva and Garrett reunited in Providence five years ago, where DaSilva was a student at RISD and Garrett was touring with Vermont based band, Pariah Beat. Days after becoming a couple, they started making music together. The first song they performed — at a local open mic night — was a cover of a Brazilian lullaby her father used to sing to her. Soon after, she was taking notes from Garrett on writing lyrics.“I was afraid whatever lyrics I would come up with might fall short,” DaSilva explains, “but I have this tool of knowing another language, so I just started there.”

Since then, the pair have married, relocated to Somerville, and successfully completed a Kickstarter (they raised $3,500, $1,500 more than their goal) to fund their first full-length which will be released mid-November. Utilizing both English and Portuguese languages, and drawing on old soul, Tropicália, blue grass, rock ‘n’ roll, and a smattering of other genres, the upcoming album is the work of a sextet rather than a quartet, with the addition of Chris Eddleston (drums/percussion) and Nick Heys (accordion).” – Susanna Jackson, DIG BOSTON

https://sosol.bandcamp.com/