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Spiritual America @ El Club, 2/25/17

February 26, 2017 at 8:26 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Shigeto (DJ set)

Telefon Tel Aviv

JTC (Tadd Mullinix)

Hieroglyphic Being

Shigeto (closing DJ set)

Davin Brainard’s Cloud Bridge

Barely Human Fest @ El Club, 2/11-13/17

February 20, 2017 at 11:28 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

The first Barely Human Fest took place at El Club recently. I hope this becomes a regular event because it was astounding. ESG headlined the first night, and even though I had to leave after 5 songs to do my radio show, it was worth staying to the last minute I possibly could just to make sure I saw their set. Also John Bender played, I never imagined I would get to see him live either. Other highlights for me included HIDE, Casual Sweetheart, Staring Problem, Void Vision, ADULT., and of course Xeno & Oaklander.
Friday, February 11, 2017

wall art @ El Club

Marital Vows

HIDE

Paint Thinner

breakdancer in the crowd

Casual Sweetheart

Nate Young’s Regression

ESG

ESG

ESG

ESG

ESG

Saturday, February 12, 2017

Quiltboy

Staring Problem

Void Vision

Moon Pool & Dead Band

Ritual Howls

ADULT.

Sunday, February 13, 2017

Real Ghosts

YOU.

YOU.

John Bender

Xeno & Oaklander

Black Marble

I didn’t stay for Pylon’s set because it was late and I had to work the next morning.

Jlin @ El Club, 2/4/17 (Threshold Detroit)

February 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Viki Viktoria’s gear

Jock Club

Tarpit

Viki Viktoria

Dismorphic

Abby

Jlin

Container @ El Club, Detroit, 1/28/17

February 5, 2017 at 10:43 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

mural near El Club

Alstadt Echo

Antenes

Container

Steve Hauschildt + Forma @ Constellation, Chicago, 11/26/16

February 5, 2017 at 10:26 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Catching up on some photos I never got around to posting…

Forma

Forma’s gear

Steve Hauschildt

Fall 2016 Road Trip

November 2, 2016 at 10:18 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

I drove to Los Angeles and back just because I wanted to, and to visit my cousin. I went by myself and tried not to have much of a plan, but I had to have some sort of timeline to fit with other peoples’ schedules. It might’ve been the best vacation I’ve ever taken. I’ve gone on vacations across the country with my family before, but actually driving by myself was an entirely new perspective. It was fascinating. I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for America, in an entirely unpolitical way. I bought a new camera just for the vacation because my other camera was broken and still being repaired (it’s fixed now). I took well over a thousand photos. A lot of them were just spontaneous shots while I was driving, and a lot of them were pretty redundant or bad shots, but there’s still hundreds worth posting. Enjoy!

September 30

I drove to Chicago to visit my friend Eric who was having a birthday celebration at a bar/arcade that had free game play that night.

somewhere between Ann Arbor and Chicago

entering downtown Chicago

at the bar/arcade

gigantic pizza for the birthday celebration

October 1

After sleeping at my friend’s house, we got breakfast at the Chicago Diner and went to Reckless Records, and then I started driving west.

Eric’s cat Claudius

Claudius in his tunnel

Chicago Diner

breakfast table

vegan breakfast

vegan dessert

Chicago Diner

Reckless Records, Broadway

KA-POW!!

back on the road

pulling into a rest stop

exhibits at the rest stop

while stopping to get gas or something

October 2

I didn’t stay anywhere to sleep overnight, I just kept driving and took a nap for a couple hours at a rest stop in the morning. Also, my camera’s battery ran out, and since I didn’t stop anywhere to sleep, I had to wait until the afternoon to recharge, when I stopped to eat somewhere. I drove to Denver and walked around downtown and then visited my friend Catdog.

wandering around Denver

blue bear peeking into the convention center

D&D miniatures collection at Catdog’s friend’s house

cat playing D&D

October 3

I drove from Denver to Los Angeles in one shot. I didn’t end up in Los Angeles til about 2AM (Pacific Time) but this took me through the Rocky Mountains, which was mindblowing.

breakfast burrito

train running around the restaurant

back on the road

stopping at a view area in Utah

October 4

Made it to Los Angeles!

my cousin lives near Thai Town

driving to the beach

seals!

hiking up a path in the park to the observatory

Hollywood!

getting there right as the sun sets

ceiling art inside the observatory

pendulum inside the observatory

planet models

sunset skyline

street art

October 5

I went to Amoeba in the morning, and later we went to a park where there’s an abandoned zoo. There was also a haunted hayride set up, and they let us walk around for free. At night I went out to Low End Theory for a little bit.

breakfast

Brainfeeder on the streetcorner

outside Amoeba

inside Amoeba

entering the haunted hayride area

wandering around the abandoned zoo

election graffiti

subway

Nobody @ Low End Theory

Lee Bannon @ Low End Theory

October 6

My last day in Los Angeles. Went to Amoeba again, walked around another park area, this time went hiking to a waterfall which was just a trickle because there was a drought.

my cousin ordered a coconut at a Thai restaurant

castle near my cousin’s house

October 7

I started driving back in the morning. At one point I had to stop and call AAA because I was about to run out of gas and I just missed the last exit for hundreds of miles. So it was mostly just a day of driving through the desert.

rest stop as the sun is setting

October 8

After staying overnight at a hotel in Utah, I continued driving, and took photos at as many view areas as I could. My camera was running out of space, though, so I put it away after a while and kept driving.

farm outside the hotel I stayed at

the restaurant I stopped at for breakfast had tons of clocks on the wall

October 9

Final day driving home. I didn’t stop overnight, I just kept driving and took a nap or two at rest stops.

sunrise through a bug-smeared windshield

at a rest stop in Michigan (or maybe Illinois)

Matchess, TALsounds & Dominic Coppola @ UFO Factory, 6/6/16

June 12, 2016 at 12:30 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Still phone photos for now.

Dominic Coppola

TALsounds

Matchess

Jandek @ El Club, 6/3/16

June 12, 2016 at 12:23 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

My camera is still broken, so these are from my phone, giving them an extra Loch Ness Monster sighting feel.
I saw him a decade ago in Austin and it was exactly what I expected. This was way different. There was way more dancing than I expected from a Jandek show. There was a guy playing keyboards, a guy with a drum machine, a guy with a bass guitar, and a woman who was duetting and dancing with Jandek, and the lyrics were actually kind of silly a lot of the time. Hopefully it’ll get released as a DVD sometime in the future so you can see for yourself how fun and bizarre it was.

Trip Metal Fest, Detroit, Memorial Day Weekend, 2016

June 1, 2016 at 8:51 pm | Posted in Movement (DEMF), Photos, Trip Metal Fest | Leave a comment

This past weekend, Wolf Eyes hosted Trip Metal Fest in Detroit, which included shows at El Club in Mexicantown, discussions at Trinosophes, and film screenings at Third Man Records, Cinema Detroit, and Trinosophes, as well as an afterparty with Fit Sound and a noise brunch at the Jam Handy. I made it out to all three nights of performances at El Club as well as one of the discussions and two of the film screenings. It was also Movement (DEMF) weekend in downtown Detroit, and I got a media pass, but I only ended up going once, to see Honey Soundsystem (featuring my old college buddy Josh Cheon, who now runs the Dark Entries label). I also went to a discussion at MOCAD featuring Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, and I also visited Submerge (the Underground Resistance headquarters) and wandered around Detroit and took photos and stuff.
TMF was incredibly awesome, it was well organized, the sound and lighting were great, and most of the performances I caught were incredible. Hieroglyphic Being with Marshall Allen and Danny Ray Thompson of the Sun Ra Arkestra was probably the best set I’ve seen all year, and Morton Subotnick’s set was a once in a lifetime experience. Other favorites included Pod Blotz, Shades, Cotton Museum & Apetechnology, Panicsville (who did a magic show), Andrew WK performing a Bach piece with Twig Harper and Nate Young, etc.

scenes from Mexicantown

Morton Subotnick

Trip Metal

scenes from Mexicantown

El Club

MV Carbon

Panicsville

Panicsville doing magic tricks

Panicsville

Apetechnology + Cotton Museum

Cotton Museum lifting his gear table off the ground

Apetechnology + Cotton Museum

Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson & Juan Atkins in discussion @ MOCAD

poster for the Transmat 30th anniversary party

upcoming events wall @ MOCAD

building near Submerge

purple building blasting Prince

Submerge

giant bag of carrots near the Eastern Market

Trinosophes Trip Metal discussion schedule

Hieroglyphic Being, Marshall Allen, and Danny Ray Thompson in conversation

Lexie Mountain & Scroll Downers

Drainolith

Marshall Allen, Hieroglyphic Being, Danny Ray Thompson

Marshall Allen

Danny Ray Thompson

Hieroglyphic Being

Danny Ray Thompson

Marshall Allen

Marshall Allen, Hieroglyphic Being, Danny Ray Thompson

Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Hieroglyphic Being

Marshall Allen, Hieroglyphic Being, Danny Ray Thompson

Joseph Hammer

Pod Blotz

Viki + Magas

Trip Metal Menu

Viands

Unfortunately I dropped my camera during Viands’ set and it broke, and I took phone pics for the rest of the weekend, but I bumped the resolution down by accident, so all the photos came out small, but here’s a few of them anyway: