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RUN--June 22 show ft. Nosaj Thing, Open Mike Eagle, Kelela, Clipping. + more

jessearto — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:47:41 -0400

The June installment of RUN features highly lauded LA producer NOSAJ THING, along with up and coming Fade to Mind songstress KELELA, noise rap outfit CLIPPING., and the mic stylings of mc OPEN MIKE EAGLE. The show will also feature sets by RUN residents Brand B, Vander, Shiva, WMX, and Jung Hollywood and will take place on two stages, encompassing both floors of the legendary Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown.

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www.facebook.com/RUN.TR.808

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/571466816208688/

Nasa Space Universe--EGM/ICE cassette

jessearto — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:16:00 -0400

Never fear, Nasa Space Universe is here with a new split cassette. Give up your free will and let them creep inside your head. Before you know it you’ll be covered in aluminum foil doing ”the angry Mick Jagger strut” around your room. EGM, side A, consist of 6 brand new tracks:

1)EGM 4)$
2)PYOP 5) PAPER TIGER
3)DARK 6)SHO

Each track individually packs a punch. Dissonant bass and guitar that scramble your brain, heavy drums that hit at the pit of your gut, and esoteric lyrics screeched by a chaotic front man. ICE, side B, is the 12” LP they put out awhile back, now on tape form:

1)PEEPING TODDLER 4)BOZONE
2)HOLY METHOGRAPHY 5)PTK
3)FWAP 6)HOUSE OF BROKEN HOGS

Also very good.

-Jesse Boredom

Nasa Space Universe—DARK

Nasa Space Universe—SHO

Full sets from Gay Kiss and Mynx at the bridge show this previous Friday with NSU! We’re...

jessearto — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:59:00 -0400

Full sets from Gay Kiss and Mynx at the bridge show this previous Friday with NSU! We’re still grieving the loss of Unit B…but this shows what a community of musicians (and music lovers) can accomplish with a generator and some amps. HUGE thanks to Kevin Scott Kurz of Handicapped Productions for letting us share his awesome videos.

What a way to kick off the weekend!! Friday night (6/14/13) Nasa...

jessearto — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:15:04 -0400

What a way to kick off the weekend!! Friday night (6/14/13) Nasa Space Universe along with Gay Kiss (AZ) & Mynx played a generator powered show under a bridge in Fountain Valley, CA. This live performance was shot by Kevin Scott Kurz of Handicapped Productions.

Whirr -- Around EP

jessearto — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:36:00 -0400

There are few things that are truly worth savoring anymore. First kisses, the way the clouds paint themselves across the sky, dope ass sunsets and luckily for us a new Whirr EP to spin. Their first effort after the beautifully lush Pipe Dreams, Around both picks up where the band left off while drudging on into more ambient but wonderfully fleshed out territory. Drain, which has become my new favorite Whirr song, comes in quite softly with some mellow strumming giving way to a somber melody. (Can someone explain to me how these dudes are playing guitar but make me feel like I’m listening to a fucking harp? That shit keeps blowing my mind.) Then the song simply opens up and pours all over you. The collision of guitars and drums sounds borderline industrial while insane riffs and those oh so heavenly vocals sweep in and wash your feelings ashore. Once the tide recedes Swoon kicks in with an orgiastic bombardment of guitar, bass and drum hammering you into the ground. I’m assuming they wanted you to be locked in place as the rest of the song is pretty much you sitting through standard Whirr fare: angelic voices that almost sound like an exhale through walls of noise and a gentle stroke of fuzz for good measure. Keep follows third but comes through strongest with moments of dissonant hush and melodic splendor. The EP wraps up with its namesake - Around and delightfully the bush it does beat. A sprawling seven minute jam of penultimate excellence not because of jarring guitars or bombastic drums but because of its slow post-rock like mellowness that slowly trails off into silence. I don’t know what it is about Whirr songs that feel like slowly trudging through a snow storm. Maybe it’s the strange warmth that comes from something that sounds oddly cold. Around all at once feels hopeful and lost while still dripping melancholy in an oh so excellent fashion. Whirr delivers again, though I’m not as surprised this time around. With the shortest track clocking in a smidge under the six minute mark Whirr’s latest offering boasts a fuller sound and some straight jammers. I highly recommend. It’ll be dropping July 9th on Graveface Records.

- Trelias

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Tails of the Infinite Eater, Chances on the Esoterica with Nouroboros (5)

jessearto — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:40:16 -0400

Introduction to the Footing of the Oldest Dance: Chance, Life, Science, Synchronicities, and Chaos Magick.

A year ago a friend of mine asked me “do you dance”, I said very quickly and loudly with a laugh, maybe even rudely “No” this was in 2012 right before I would go around the country in an aggressive tour that would change my focus on life. If she asked me again now, after that span of travel I would say very calmly, “Yes”. The dance I learned and studied was how to dance with the universe and move with it, I also took a ballet class. Luckily I had a knack for these forms of dance, the esoteric and the literal, but I want to stress; it is all about footing and balance, anyone can learn it in some way or form. And I am going to encourage it the simplest way I can, by explaining how I came to it, and what I believe it can do for the reader.

I feel now is an adequate time to clear up some of the fog on myself and the occult. The word occult for better or worse, I am still not entirely sure, has a very hefty amount of connotation sewn into its side. My background as a former Marine Biology Major should indicate at least a slight assumption that my background is that of a skeptic, which is true. My lifelong obsession of the occult and esoteric started very young, as a catholic this was the next logical step, it was all fascination at this stage in my life from about 2000-2010. What I would find is that most phenomena could be explained simply by cross referencing any strange occurrence or myth with a trip to the school library, or for a more modern form, the internet. It is my very simple background in research and cross referencing that led me to fully embrace Chaos magick as the next science.

In 2011, I made the discovery that all art was based of the arts but I would not necessarily practice any real magick. These flirtations had made me more open to reading texts, which in the past I would laugh derisively at. In the summer of 2012 I went along on tour of the US, what happened very shortly on tour, was a friend of mine had brought a wonderfully intact version of Austin Osman Spare’s The Anathema The Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites. I read a good portion of it and was enthralled, unfortunately on the third night of tour when we arrived in Texas; the Border Patrol ravaged our van, and tore up the copy, along with a very early printing of Hunter S. Thompson’s Hells Angels, dumped out all the merch, and other belongings mysteriously “vanished”. Apart from that “vanishing act” the tour became a religious experience with my having realized that dreams I had before years ago were all premonitions for the tour cycle, and most of my possessions would be lost or destroyed beyond my control. This level of detachment from time, money, objects, and sleep, as well as unintentional fasting and constant synchronicities would continue throughout. These were places and people I would have never even had a reference too even two years prior that had appeared in dreams around three years prior.

When I returned home I had some extra money, mainly as a result of not being able to buy food after my debit card was devoured in Dayton Ohio. It was also in Dayton where I was also mistaken for an Eskimo; which was invaluably entertaining as I needed it to cheer me up after we found an Arnold Schoenberg tape at the local goodwill, and an immaculate hysteria inducing blouse I knew I needed; I got neither. The first thing I did was purchase the Writings of Austin Osman Spare (an immensely invaluable, common, and affordable compilation of some key works), VALIS by Phillip K. Dick, and any other texts that I could cross reference with AOS (the Disinformtaiton Book of Lies, and Thee Psychick Bible ended up being key pieces. I found out a few things, the first one being that this form of intention based magick centering on art was revived in the 80’s and called Chaos Magick (Liber Null is a key work for that).The Second discovery that I inevitably found out about Chaos magic was in many ways what Stephen Hawking was referencing about essentially blips in the universe, black holes which would in a sense open up other dimensions. The fourth dimension, one of instant materialization, would in many ways explain mystical, miraculous, religious and magical occurrences.

The third discovery that through a series of synchronicities I came upon, is very simple, essentially all forms of “worship” whichever way it is focused is simply focused and realized psychic intention. It was through this realization that I would believe for myself Chaos Magick in many ways was the oldest form of art and magick. Going back to the ancient cave paintings they were channeling down their intention and desires into simple shapes and works. It is the many branches of devotional esoterics that the common strand is intention. Chaos Magick appealed to me and in a way I felt called me.

As an artist Chaos Magick is invaluable, as a functioning being with intention and no judgment of where the energy comes from chaos magick is ideal. Attributed to its modern birth by Austin Osman Spare, Chaos magick was performed through his art, so much so he reportedly merged with it.a way of completing this Sigil Magick is taking a phrase, reducing and removing repeated consonants, and vowels, reducing it to a form, and then meditating on it, one can find power in the most basic and essential of the Arts. Another way that really spoke to me was the Automatic Drawings which he would practice, which I had been doing my entire life since I could hold a pencil (or crayon, marker, chalk, brush, etc). AOS was labeled “the Black Brother of Thelema” by contemporary Aleister Crowley, (essentially the bane of it) this of course intrigued me, however it is most likely in its quickness and simplicity, it effectively removed the orgy in many ways, but it does not have too . Another reason is that in chaos magick, the universe is being called to all sources of delivered intention is not clear. One is literally staring into the abyss, and accepting what will come.

It is of course that when studying something with complete intention that information will reveal itself. Books, words and people will start to appear seemingly out of thin air. 2010 marked my first real venture to the arts, and 2012 marked my complete immersion in it. I can honestly say that everything I work on is intended to be an extension of my Magick chance based life. I have had many encounters on this very recent path, in the third dimensional plane or otherwise, that have some connection big or small. Chaos magick can be used in daily life, and it gets results. It is very simple to forget that in many places of the world, magick is still a daily practice.

In 2012 I decided to only continue in what I believed could be called Psychic Art. Chaos Magick is the path I follow, all great art is in one way or another embodied intention, it is the call that many artists hear, but few listen too. The call that is older than the Chauvet Caves, it is the call that nothing is true and everything is permitted. The last and final synchronicity that followed was this, in 2008 I had a dream where a giant Ouroboros Was staring at its tail and in it were some other ourobori, interrupted from their meal. The symbol appealed to me and I made it my own. It wasn’t until my practice that I realized this. “The Ouroboros that stares into the other Ouroboros that it grasps in its tail, risks being devoured, however if it succeeds, the consumption will be sublime and beyond any plane of enjoyment. The infinite eater will begin it’s ingestion of the infinite.”

Vampires—Austin Osman Spare

Effloration—Austin Osman Spare

MYNX video for Frozen Tide. 20 images (satan, gay cholos, bob...

jessearto — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:42:00 -0400

MYNX video for Frozen Tide. 20 images (satan, gay cholos, bob marley etc.) over and over again. Catch them FRIDAY JUNE 14 2013 at a discreet location in Orange County with Gay Kiss (AZ) and NASA Space Universe, Email nasaspacebible@gmail.com for the location or ask a punk.

Coming--Lonely EP

jessearto — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:29:04 -0400

Coming is a 3-piece band from LA that put out a 4 song EP titled “Lonely”.

The EP leaves no empty space and keeps you pulled in from the intro to the last song. The intro starts off with screams, bass and synth. Then BLAST into a deep bellowing verse that hits you before you realize the second track has started. ‘Repeat’, the second track, hypes you up with a groovy bass line and leading guitar that stabs hard. It then goes into the title track ‘Lonely’ that continues the dark vibe from the previous track, and introduces a dirtier tone that keeps your head bobbing. The closer, ‘Slip’, hypnotizes you with the spiral sounding guitar riff and cradles you into a dark trance where you put together what you just listened to… Then you play it again.

All in all, this EP is awesome. Coming has concocted an untested formula for a very dark release. You’ll find yourself listening to it over and over again as well as re-visiting your old Bauhaus and Birthday Party records. Cheers.

-Jesse Boredom

<a href=”http://coming.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-ep” data-mce-href=”http://coming.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-ep”>Lonely EP by Coming</a>

The Pen & The Palette Knife art show

jessearto — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:44:00 -0400

LONG BEACH!! Tonight The Vapes of Wrath shop will be hosting the closing night of The Pen & The Palette art show featuring art work from UK artist Ben Fellows and US artist Sean Robertson. This is FREE with FREE beverages available. Scope out the event page for full info. Enjoy the preview of artwork that will be there tonight.

The Vapes of Wrath
4103 N Viking Way Ste D
Long Beach, CA

https://www.facebook.com/events/265471553591022/

art by Sean Robertson

art by Ben Fellows

New song from the 6-piece Bay Area band Whirr! The group is...

jessearto — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:19:00 -0400

New song from the 6-piece Bay Area band Whirr! The group is known for their unique style of shoegaze as well as work for their other project, Deafheaven. The layered guitars set a dark mood for the listener while the percussion blends and keeps perfect time with everything else. ’Swoon’ will be released on the 2013 EP out in July on Graveface Records.

Tails of the Infinite Eater, Chances on the Esoterica with Nouroboros (4)

jessearto — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:36:00 -0400

Dreams less sweet, my machine of ever loving grace

I own a few pieces of art, I am a lover of art first, and an artist as a byproduct of that love. My collection is modest and varied collection contained to a 20’ x15’ room (approximately). I am being completely honest when I state that I love each as if they were original Francis Bacons or Don van Vliets. However I must admit; the piece I stare at the longest, and everyday, is my Brion Gysin dreamachine.

Stare at is not the correct term, neither is stare into. The dreamachine as Gysin has stated “I have made a simple flicker machine. You look at it with your eyes shut and the flicker plays over your eyelids.”

Created by Gysin Burroughs, and Ian Sommerville (who held a degree from Cambridge). The story is one as old and classic as any real archetype, taken from a diary entry on December 21, 1958 Gysin Wrote

“”Had a transcendental storm of colour visions today in the bus going to Marseilles. We ran through a long avenue of trees and I closed my eyes against the setting sun. An overwhelming flood of intensely bright colors exploded behind my eyelids: a multidimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space. I was swept out of time. I was out in a world of infinite number. The vision stopped abruptly as we left the trees. Was that a vision? What happened to me?”

With the help of Electronics and CPU pioneer, and Burroughs then lover, Ian Sommerville, The three of them worked to replicate this. It would take the form of the dreamachine. Rotating and creating a flicker at 8-13 a second the dreamachine goes directly to the alpha waves in the brain. The first and obvious effect is the drugless hallucination playing into the eyelids, other possibilities, are relaxation, improved ability to visualize, focus, and euphoria.

Artistically I have seen for lack of better terms, “abstract paintings” from the past, take form in the dreamachine, The Nouroboros has presented itself once more through it as well. Ideas rush; the rate of words flowing and in the multiple languages I understand is phenomenal. I fire words and intentions right back into the dreamachine. Paintings, writings, and automatic drawings are all possible and improved after a session as small as seven minutes. I do not even drink coffee anymore; I simply use my dreamachine every morning of everyday. In the perfect world of Gysin’s, it would have replaced TV.

The dreamachine never caught on, whether this is because of the true psychic potential or bad marketing is debatable. When trying to sell it claiming that it would make people more awake, it had lost potential. Gysin however had botched the Deal with a Columbia records executive telling him that “one day records would be played without needles, that instead one day an “Electronic Eye” would scan the disc.” It is a hard sell for a stroboscopic device that produces a drugless hallucination, especially as a conglomerate with a lot of room for litigious matters. The flicker is a trick, and a hard one to sell confidently.

The Flicker effect, in many ways is the oldest trick in the book, It has been noted that Nostradamus would according to myth climb atop a building close his eyes tilt his head towards the sun and wave his fingers rapidly in front of his eyes, and receive visions, the same is said of tribes in North Africa. In the past Shamans would also stare into the flames for visions. The Dreamachine is a great way to focus and visualize sigils. Whether it is coincidence or not events have started happening at much greater speeds and forces than before I started to use my dreamachine.

Quoted by Gysin as “The First Piece of art to be viewed with the eyes closed” and “The end of art.” there is a lot to expect from a dreamachine What can be seen each time is its own indeterminate live work of the user, complete chance art, organic, temporary and ethereal. Had he used the terminology of academia he may have had more luck. No one described or rendered the dreamachine as well as Gysin, just look up the paintings to see them in the best representation of the otherworldly form. It’s a world of pulsations, reds, blues, pinks, and whites. The never ending flows and power would make the Nile cry into itself creating a feedback of streams, still unparallel to the Dreamachine.

There are of course the natural dangers of the dreamachine, if one were to be susceptible to epilepsy; it should be used with caution, or not at all. There is also the ludicrous claims made by someone that may or may not be Courtney Love trying to blame his suicide on the dreamachine after a 72 hour usage. As Burroughs has put it the claims are “nonsense.”

A dreamachine is a tool, one that should be used responsibly, but with room for fun. for a while Museum grade Dreamachines were being manufactured with a proceed going to the master musicians of Jajouka (whose album pipes of pan recorded by Brian Jones was a favorite of Burroughs). There is a seller on ebay, who will make you a very nice dreamachine, and include a tape, light and socket, along with a 78 player. There is also of course the DIY element which Genesis P-Orridge Championed during the run of the Temple of Thee Psychick Youth.

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/dreamachine.html

1st official GRYPT show June 30th!

jessearto — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:08:46 -0400

The 1st official GRYPT show is happening Sunday June 30th with pop surrealist, Cindergarden and Paper Slang. GRYPT has been working hard at perfecting their witchy ceremonial performance. This is not something to miss out on!

info is as follows:

New Wave Bar//Electrocution club presenting
No Cover//Free Parking//21+
$3 Newcastle Pints & $3 Coronas!
8PM-2AM
17847 Lakewood Blvd, Bellflower CA

https://www.facebook.com/events/383370611779048/

New video from GiannaxGianna of BLOK just dropped! An extremely...

jessearto — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:52:00 -0400

New video from GiannaxGianna of BLOK just dropped! An extremely creative video made for an alluring track. Get into it, and catch BLOK tonight (May 23rd) at the Kibitz Room in LA w/ Juiceboxxx and the Riff Raff of power pop, Snow Wite. FREE!

*Directed by Ryan Bussard, video art direction by GiannaxGianna, produced by Damien Blaise*

https://www.facebook.com/events/648753378475134/

New CØNDITIØN song off the ‘Bombed Out’ 7” out soon on RUST AND MACHINE records....

jessearto — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:53:00 -0400

New CØNDITIØN song off the ‘Bombed Out’ 7” out soon on RUST AND MACHINE records. You can purchase this (when it’s out) and the ‘Deteriorating’ 7” from the RUST AND MACHINE website.

<a href=”http://themuddyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/under-wraps”...

jessearto — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:41:01 -0400

<a href=”http://themuddyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/under-wraps” data-mce-href=”http://themuddyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/under-wraps”>Under Wraps by The Muddy Flowers</a>

3 new tracks from The Muddy Flowers! I’ve had these guys play many house shows and each time they slayed. Keep an ear out for future releases and shows.

Video

jessearto — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:43:10 -0400

See the world through the eyes of Horse Head.These visually...

jessearto — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:39:00 -0400

See the world through the eyes of Horse Head.

These visually experimental videos put you in a hypnotic state of drank and weed. I already can’t wait for a new Hh release.

Both videos were made in his studio by Mike McDowell of Public Wash . Jump on board this monkey-navigated space ship and go see his other project, Public Wash, Sunday May 19 at The Smell with ArjunaGenome/Shitgiver/&MosesCampbell.

The new video from the young MC, Dizzy Wright. There...

jessearto — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:00 -0400

The new video from the young MC, Dizzy Wright. There couldn’t of been a more perfect song to chose from The First Agreement EP to make a video to (granted it is the title track).

The clips chosen in the video were shots of destruction and up-bringing of our country, and of course some awesome shots of Dizzy doing his thing. It did a very good job of representing Dizzy and the future of the hip hop community. The video was released on his label Funk Volume. Make sure to check out the EP as well as other releases. Cheers

*Produced by 3rdEye, directed by George Orozco*

YOUTHQUAKE!!! Yet, another vibrant band out of New York...

jessearto — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:55:00 -0400

YOUTHQUAKE!!! Yet, another vibrant band out of New York City. This power glam trio will get you singing along in no time. The video is full of lively costumes and impressive shots. The track itself is catchy and an ode to their #1 influence, ANGELYNE. You can find it on their exquisite 4 track demo on their BANDCAMP. Get into it! What’s not to like about a band fronted by someone that goes by Neon Music.Cheers

*Music video for “Tangerine Rose” by Youthquake. Directed and edited by Neon Music. Co-directed by Jacqueline Mary and Katherine Finkelstein. Starring (in alphabetical order) Paul Cripple, Darian Darling, Kelly Lee Dekay, Shannon Funchess, Nick Gazin, Tommy Hottpants, Reiko Lauper, Jon Lynn, Christian Music, Neon Music, Verushka Music, Darryl Nau, Chi Orengo, Kembra Pfahler, Dan Rozell, Benjamin Shapiro, Madame St. Beatrice, Uncle Lou, Grace Wendroff, Anna Wolinsky, and Stephen Zerbe. for more information visit youthquakemusic.com*

NASA Space Universe and The Coltranes- THE LAST STRAW TOUR '13

jessearto — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:09 -0400

NASA Space Universe and The Coltranes are heading out on a 18 day tour! First show will be in Kansas City on Tuesday May 21st, and ending at The Dial/Murrieta CA Friday June 7th. SPREAD THE WORD!

NASA Space Universe and The Coltranes- THE LAST STRAW TOUR ‘13

May 21- Kansas City, MO @ Badhaus w/Sucked Dry, Dark Ages
https://www.facebook.com/events/125433447652763/

May 22- St Louis, MO @ Blank Space w/ NRML PPL, Lumpy and the Dumpers, Nos Bos
https://www.facebook.com/events/580551978634849

May 23- Chicago, IL @ Live Wire Lounge (late show)
https://www.facebook.com/events/124285911103429/

May 24- Milwaukee, WI @ Quarters (21+) w/ Holy Shit!, Short Walk, Quitters
https://www.facebook.com/events/126843880837832

May 25- Cincinnati, OH @ Bama Mansion w/ Dog Fight, Crushed Velvet
https://www.facebook.com/events/542907052426395/

May 26- Raleigh, NC @ Kings w/ Double Negative, Hoax
https://www.facebook.com/events/527429173983083
(tickets)
http://kingsbarcade.com/2013/05/26/hoax

May 27- Nashville, TN @ Cirith Ungol w/ Pissbath, Fucked Ethos
https://www.facebook.com/events/482811548440983/

May 28- Chattanooga, TN @ Sluggo’s North w/ Xanax Squaredance, Prophets & Kings, Beard Wolf
https://www.facebook.com/events/521122471267967

May 29- New Orleans, LA @ United Bakery w/Sewn Leather, Hoax

May 30- Chaos

May 31- chaos @ beerland (21+) w/ UV Race, Violent Future, Spray Paint

June 1- chaos daytime @ Trailer Space w/ Negative Degree, Lumpy and the Dumpers, Sucked Dry, Nuke Cult, Breakout
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chaos @ cheer up charlies w/ D UNIT, Merchandise, The Men
(no coltranes :(

June 2- chaos daytime house party
https://www.facebook.com/events/306908372773519/

June 3- Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves w/ Hoax, GAG, Asile, Sete Star Sept
https://www.facebook.com/events/548609171856390

June 4- Oklahoma City, OK @ Drunken Fry (21+) w/ Hoax, Knife Control
https://www.facebook.com/events/249423568536958/

June 5- off day

June 6- Phoenix, AZ @ Wallstreet w/ Mace Maniac
https://www.facebook.com/events/370350853069262

June 7- Murrieta, CA @ The Dial w/ Full of Hell, Creative Adult, Ghostlimb, Headwind,
https://www.facebook.com/events/334332690011106