Bird Cages of the 1930s

theinstrumentsband: Thanks to everyone who came out to watch us...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:48:36 -0500

Thanks to everyone who came out to watch us play! If you missed us, we still have copies from the first printing of the record available, and you can get them at our bandcamp website.

theinstrumentsband: The Instruments Band - Restless At Night...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:52:20 -0500

theinstrumentsband:

The Instruments Band - Restless At Night (Remix by Blake Cooper)

From Let’s Have a Séance: The Unofficial Remix Bootleg, of which a run of 30 hand-painted and decorated CD-Rs are presently being made, and will be made available at the Instruments Band’s (Let’s Not Have a Séance) release show this Saturday (which, by the way, is a FREE SHOW).

Ben Morey's Favorite Episodes of Lost

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:24:32 -0500

I’ve decided that leading up to the final season of Lost, beginning February 2nd, I would recap a few of my favorite episodes

THE HUNTING PARTY S02E11 written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim

This is the second episode where we meet Tom the other. He appears to Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Locke in the jungle to tell them “You live on this Island because we LET you live on it” and to stop “opening doors to room you got no business goin’ into”.

That moment where Tom chimes in on Jack and Locke’s conversation from the darkness of the jungle is one of the most profound feelings of excitement I’ve ever received from this show. This is also perhaps my favorite era of Lost. The others were still very mysterious, ominous and tribal.

The episode ends with Jack approaching Anna Lucia about forming an army. LOST.

Photo

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:46:19 -0500

I spent all day recording the last songs, mixing, painting and...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:44:58 -0500

I spent all day recording the last songs, mixing, painting and assembling the album artwork for this e.p.

You can listen to it or download it tomorrow by clicking one of these pictures.

SHARK TANK DUDES!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:02:57 -0500

Sick! If you want to email me your phone number, I can just give you a call next time I’m in the city. benjaminmorey@gmail.com thanks!

bclikesyou:

benmorey:

did I leave my christmas tree at your house? it’s in a black garbage bag. It might be in your basement. Also, I listened to the cd Josh gave me and I loved it!

Yes you did! I noticed the garbage bag today but didn’t look in it. So that’s what it is. Your christmas tree. What should we do with it?

SHARK TANK DUDES!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:46:36 -0500

did I leave my christmas tree at your house? it’s in a black garbage bag. It might be in your basement. Also, I listened to the cd Josh gave me and I loved it!

Hey, People in Bands! Go to this site and watch the Video.

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:28 -0500

Hey, People in Bands! Go to this site and watch the Video.

The Instruments Band on Bandcamp.com

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:49:43 -0500

The Instruments Band on Bandcamp.com

Ben Morey on Bandcamp.com

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:49:10 -0500

Ben Morey on Bandcamp.com

benternet: Strip 111. Tanksgiving.

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:26:55 -0500

benternet:

Strip 111.

Tanksgiving.

nickmaynard: hannahcorey: Tumblr picture! OFFICIAL ROCHESTER...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:51:27 -0500

nickmaynard:

hannahcorey:

Tumblr picture!

OFFICIAL ROCHESTER MEETUP 2K9!

Hannah, Ben, Nick, Travis, Cheryl, Ben, Justin, Greta, Erin, Steve, Tim, Kaitlin, BC, Joey, Kolbe, Dan.

BOOM!

nickmaynard: thefutureband: benternet: Strip 108. The...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:22:30 -0500

nickmaynard:

thefutureband:

benternet:

Strip 108.

The Future!

epic.

I love it.

thoughts on what i now consider the first show of the future band.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:29:47 -0500

nickmaynard:

only those involved will really find this worth reading (and even then, i don’t know).

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I'm probably going to post this a few times. If you do house shows, please register!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:25:00 -0500

I'm probably going to post this a few times. If you do house shows, please register!

review: nana grizol and the cult of the house show

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:51:14 -0500

typewriterpercussion:

by TP staff writers

Surprisingly, it took Nana Grizol a few songs to realize the kitchen island could be used as a sort of riser for the horn section.

We arrived at last Saturday’s house show and walked in on a wedding.

The living room of the secluded farmhouse just outside of Geneseo, NY had been transformed into a press room as a crowd of age-and-dress appropriate showgoers brandished cameras and cell phones to capture the moment for the happy couple (and also for youtube).

This kind of intense, impromptu lovefest is typical of the house show culture. The music might be louder, but the atmosphere reflects on a mostly-departed era of communion and idealism (maybe we’re just jaded). The food is vegan friendly, the bands mingle with the showgoers, and the donation jar for bands having to drive farther than a few miles (which, after a spontaneous band break-up caused the absence of the three scheduled bands from NYC, turned out to be only Georgia’s Nana Grizol) is robust. Maybe it’s a counter-culture backlash against the presiding mean-ness in the world. The masses had fun, serious art and culture were consumed, and the bands even turned a profit (presumably). Why can’t life always work out so well?

Upstate NY’s New Socks opened the show, playing selections from this year’s New So(ck)(ng)s as well as some, uh… new songs, previously unheard by an audience. The first of two unreleased songs that ended the set was “Robin Skull,” a reflection on innocence and death (actually, innocence and death are two common themes among the New Socks catalogue), and the second was a highly personal song by the Socks’ Molly Kerker (who wrote New So(ck)(ng)s’ “Pushing Up”).

The New Socks sit on floor, encourage others to do same.

After a quick set by local favorites Black Mold Lightning and a break to eat, what we lovingly refer to as “the loud portion” of the evening began, with Buffalo’s Unwelcome Guests drawing pot luck participants hypnotically from their food with their high energy set.

Buffalo’s Unwelcome Guests, paradoxically very warmly welcomed.

At first, we had our doubts about Nana Grizol’s decision to set up their equipment in the kitchen. Completely covered in dull, reflective surfaces from floor to ceiling, the dangers of muddiness and relentless, piercing feedback were all but assured. But our doubts were null and void once, after a quick speech by Becky Lovell of Awesome Geneseo Shows, guilting the last few freeloaders into donating, Nana Grizol began their set.

Before the band itself, we have to highly recommend seeing a band play in a kitchen sometime; what could have become a sonic disaster ended up providing a nice reflective capsule to project the band’s very loud, very full (two drummers?! horn section?!) sound. But anyway, Nana Grizol launched into a high-energy set, much of which can be heard, at significantly fewer decibels, on 2008’s Love It Love It.

Becky Lovell of Awesome Geneseo Shows makes an appeal for band donations. Lovell has managed to supply the small college town with a rotating live roster of alternative Athens bands like Nana Grizol, Circulatory System, The Music Tapes, and Apples in Stereo.

An NPR review of that record claimed the band exudes “an earnest and irresistible charm.” And they’re right. Frontman Theo Hilton maintained a captivating if non-sequitous (which isn’t a word) dialogue with the audience as the rest of his seven-piece band swapped instruments, jumped on counters and drank steadily behind him. The highlight of the set was the horn section’s ascent to the kitchen island for Love It Love It’s “Tambourine-N-Thyme.” This was the first of the set’s more relaxed moments, which were still pretty energy-packed (if not from the band then the crowd, a very condensed group of fans at this point).

Nana Grizol, in the kitchen.

All in all, we tend to judge the overall success of a live act by whether the ringing in our ears at the end of the night—a reminder of the sure onset of tinnitis—was worth the eventual permanant hearing damage to which it will contribute. In this case, resoundingly, it was.

typewriterpercussion: The New Socks: “Robin Skull” (a live,...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:50:58 -0500

typewriterpercussion:

The New Socks: “Robin Skull” (a live, “no-fi” TP exclusive recording)
(live at a farmhouse, 11/14)

Living Room People

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:06:35 -0500

Living Room People:

I made this with Nick Maynard. It’s a directory site of people who put on house shows everywhere, or it will be, when people have heard of it. So maybe you can help with people hearing about it! or maybe you can add your house if you put on shows! Thanks!

cherylboberyl: nickmaynard: REBLOG THIS IF YOU LOVE...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:45:05 -0500

cherylboberyl:

nickmaynard:

REBLOG THIS IF YOU LOVE ART.

NOVEMBER 25th, 2009
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
potluck at 5pm
music at 8pm
bring a dish to pass!

KLESSA - http://www.myspace.com/plancakes
BEN MOREY - http://benmorey.tumblr.com/

email me for the address (nickmaynard at gmail.com)

i am playing a show in rochester! it would me a hell-of-a-lot if people came out for this!

“My Body Sang” by Benjamin Jameson Morey Featuring...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:54:56 -0500

“My Body Sang” by Benjamin Jameson Morey

Featuring Backup Vocals by Hannah Corey and Lisa Van Keuren

Don’t listen to this on computer speakers, it loses a lot, plus it’s kind of quiet.