The Swan Dive | Louisville

ENDLESS BOOGIE (New York, on No Quarter)

CROSS (Lexington)

Thursday, September 24

The Swan Dive

921 Swan Street

9 PM, $6, 21 and over

ENDLESS BOOGIE began with no delusions of grandeur. They started off as an “old mans hobby” – just dudes jamming on riffs, locking into grooves, finding that transcendental part of a song and stretching it into eternity. Then they were offered a show. They played more shows. They self-released two very limited 12”s and were called the best kept secret in New York by Paper magazine. They toured with Dungen and Circle and were invited by Slint to play All Tomorrows Parties. What more needs to be said? Well, actually, here’s a couple of things: ENDLESS BOOGIE is a “nonstop stoner-rock delight” (David Fricke, Rolling Stone). Also, ENDLESS BOOGIE is “the best heavy-minimalism rock band in New York… [with] enough guitar loudness to make it as heavy as the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy of 1919″ (Joel Hunt, Baltimore City Paper).

Based out of Lexington, CROSS is comprised of MA Turner and R Clint Colburn. CROSS started playing music together directly after guitarist MA Turner’s group Warmer Milks dissolved in early Spring 2009 and immediately went on a bi-coastal U.S. tour. Currently working on their first full length record, CROSS live at the Rat Vex house in Lexington’s north end where both members draw on the walls and listen to records.

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Upcoming Shows

DR COUNTRY
WAND (from Knoxville, on Ecstatic Peace!)
LITTLE GOLD (from NYC)

Saturday, September 19
The Swan Dive
921 Swan Street
9 PM
$5, 21 and over

DR COUNTRY features longtime Louisville veteran Darren Rappa and Caitlin Kannapell, with a rotating cast of characters and comrades playing his unique style of bent country tunes. Rappa, who played in such amazing Louisville bands as Verktum and King Kong, has a unique voice and presence, and his songs in DR COUNTRY will have you alternately weeping and laughing out loud, asking for more.

James Jackson Toth has been playing and recording (and releasing) music for over a decade, most notably as leader of the now-defunct New York-based collective Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice. After a solo album in 2007 on Rykodisc, he continues under the name WAND with new releases on both Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label and the Mad Monk label. Abandoning the psychedelic wail of WW&VV for a starker, more direct songwriting style, WAND’s most recent tunes are harrowing and hellaciously good.

New York’s LITTLE GOLD presents mellow country rock born from years of playing basement punk shows. Christian DeRoeck spent a good chunk of the past decade leaning on the whammy bar in Meneguar, and was one of the two founding songwriters in Woods. Now he joins up with viola/violin player K. Dylan Edrich (of K. Records’ Chain and the Gang), and drummer Patty Conway, and spins some tunes that are a bit more down home than his previous work, but still as ragged and catchy as ever. Replete with killer 12-string leads and psychedelic autoharp musings.

Check out the Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129429972442.

Upcoming Shows

SAPAT (on Siltbreeze)
JACK ROSE (from Philadelphia, on VHF)
ZAK RILES (of Grails, on Important)

Monday, September 28
The Swan Dive
921 Swan Street
9 PM, $5, 21 and over

Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as Black Velvet Fuckere, SAPAT resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of the ‘00 decade, members have kept busy collaborating with and/or massaging the egos of various and sundry avant-pontiffs such as Robert Fripp, Magik Markers, Dead Child and Eugene Chadbourne – when not honing the orgone energy of SAPAT.

Since 2001, JACK ROSE has pursued his own path in the solo acoustic guitar genre as invented by John Fahey. Like Fahey, ROSE draws his inspiration from early rural American musicians like Charley Patton, Skip James and Blind Blake. In addition to those influences he gleans inspiration from Robbie Basho, Ry Cooder, Zia M. Dagar, La Monte Young, as well as Terry Riley. JACK incorporates all of these elements into his own idiosyncratic style, and it is his sound and his alone. By early 2010, JACK ROSE will have released 10 critically acclaimed albums since 2002. From 1995-2006 Rose was a member of the legendary drone/noise/folk group Pelt. Pelt — along with Tower Recordings, UN, and Charalambides — was one of the early groups who forged a new sound that combined free improv, drone, traditional folk music in the early to mid nineties, later coined “New Weird America” by The Wire’s David Keenan in the early oughts.

ZAK RILES is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the Important/Temporary Residence band Grails. His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable and can be heard clearly on this self-titled debut solo outing. In fact some of the pieces on this solo record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites. Like his band Grails, ZAK RILES’ solo work is an elaborate mansion built of inspiration but with so much strength and originality that it stands firmly on its own. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh and the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Essential listening for followers of Important Records who favor the likes of Grails & James Blackshaw.

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Upcoming Shows