Name: Ben Aqua
Website: http://benaqua.org
Email: ben@benaqua.org
Bio: I love to take photographs, lift weights, flirt with dudes, and cry a lot.
Really digging Austin’s Lobster Tales, a new musical endeavor featuring local artist Ryan Lauderdale. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek of Lobster Tales’ new release, I, which features two 22+ minute long tracks of dreamy, psych space folk/electronic ambience.
DETROIT-born and built on love in 1996, sophisticated shoegazers Le Ren were formed when Nardo rocked the 4-track with tones that filled the sky with stars. Now based out of Austin, TX Le Ren is on a mission, although it can’t be explained... it may never be… One thing Le Ren can say is love, love, love...
Austin ambient experimentalist Douglas Ferguson can be described as such:
“Insert the inviolable disc, neophyte, and press play. Now close your eyes and visualize the one true Douglas Ferguson. Mark that he placidly maintains the full lotus, unwavering beneath the wild ragged locks of an ascetic, and sporting some very hip boots. He floats effortlessly atop the glassy surface of a deep singing flow of quicksilver drone wider than big muddy, churning and rolling just as darkly beneath. Notice no clouding of his brow as the flow quickens upon entering a narrow, twisting gorge. Now hear the ghosts of laughing melodies reverberating between rock faces over the raging river. No fear, your pulse will resume as Douglas pilots the mercury surge through a gently widening delta, spreading across the endless mirrored plane of a polished ocean, under the pale light of a rising moon.”
Psychotropic is Wednesday, October 15th featuring new & classic psychedelic (ambient, experimental and shoegaze too!) + visuals hosted by DJs Scorpio & Whiplash at Club de Ville (900 Red River, Austin, TX).
No cover.
21+.
Live music starts at 10pm.
The Austin Electronic Music Grid is showcasing “ANTI-LAPTOP LECTRO HAXOR PUNK” hero Destroyed For Comfort at Plush (7th & Red River, Austin, TX) on October 2nd. It will be an early show, starting at 9PM. This one’s gonna be an intimate one, with the curent core lineup of Ralf23, Dack (previously from Sleep Now Yes), Foetus Envy and Chad Cheshire.
Douglas Ferguson
Vacuum tubes glowing hot to the max, layers of sound undulating forwards, back, down, up…. more reverb? That and more this Friday at the Scoot Inn as ST37, Followed By Static, Douglas Ferguson and Shawn David McMillen take “stage” for a free for all of experimental good times, psych and noise rock. Fresh off tour Doug Ferguson brings the landscapes he’s recently explored to soundscapes he’s never quit foraging. Followed By Static - the duo comprising of members of iKiLLCaRS and The Koreans - soak their punk and rock roots til they fall apart into drip drops of minimal play that swells into a sea of driving noise. ST37, Austin’s perennial psych band, dust off their saddles and ride the eve into oblivion. Or at least to last call.
10 – Shawn David McMillen
11 – Douglas Ferguson
12 – Followed By Static
1 – ST37
$5.00
Friday, September 19, 2008
@ Scoot Inn, 1308 E 4th St, Austin, TX
Really digging Andy Campbell’s review of Bruce LaBruce’s new film Otto; or, Up with Dead People from The Austin Chronicle’s fabulous Gay Place Blog. The film was recently shown as part of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.
Excerpt:
Unlike any other Zombie flick, LaBruce exploits the revolutionary potential of the un-dead: Zombies are nature’s way of getting back at a world driven to destruction by late capitalism, and homosexuality becomes part and parcel of this outlaw status. Honestly, in LaBruce’s hands, it makes a strange sort of sense that zombies would be gay. It’s a final and horrific middle finger to the living status quo.
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