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Archive for February, 2009
The Zom Zoms are no longer, but their legend lives on. Their albums are still selling (go to our merch page) and the band has branched off into various projects. Low Red Center, Pataphysics and others are out there playing at this exact moment.
Click here to visit their myspace page.
Official Bio:
Zom Philmapster and Zoms Frenchman have been living and making music together for the past 7 years. Zom, a retired encyclopedia salesman, met Zoms when he took a job as a pizza delivery driver. Obsessed with the similarity of their first names, the two became fast friends and soon discovered their common love for the musical arts. Moving in together was a logical choice and it allowed Zom and Zoms to dedicate themselves almost exclusively to music (and delivering pizza, which they now do freelance). The results of the move-in lie within the first Zom Zoms CD, “Lumboba’s Tube” (available at instinctorecords.com), which compiles the duo’s songs from 6 years of four-track tapes. The record deal with Instincto was arranged by Zom’s cousin, Philip Philmapster, who became their manager soon after receiving a Zom Zoms cassette by accident. Zom and Zoms moved to Tuba City, Arizona (a place they consider home) for a year following the release of “Lumboba’s Tube” to avoid the cult-following generated by the album. In December ’03 however, Zom and Zoms moved back to Austin in response to Phil’s pleading. Philip has now joined the band for its live performances and plays synthesizers on its recordings. Zom Zoms have toured most of the USA (sorry North Dakota). They performed at the SXSW and CMJ music festivals in 2005 and 2006. They were banned from Canada for one year in 2005.
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Pat Healy, a former Zom Zom, is an excellent frontman, already adept at spazzing and twisting and doing the “shoulder dance.” As Pataphysics, he initially played solo as a sort of hyperactive Gary Wilson, but he’s now backed by Dirk Michener on bass, Chef Pittman on drums, Erich Ragsdale on synth, and Matt La Comette (also of electro project Aunt’s Analog) on lead guitar. A typical show involves hearty audience participation, a great cover of Red Krayola’s “Hurricane Fighter Plane,” the channeling of early Devo, and possibly a chance to see Healy convulse like Richard Simmons after a Sizzler buffet binge. – Audra Schroeder
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About Cavedweller:
“quiet ramshackley lo fi psychedelic fulk loud echoey psychedelic rock danceparty or quiet and lovely acapella with knee slaps other times just clapping with some breathing sounds and birds in the background maybe an organ dirge or whistle solo mostly songs are about some movie or food newspaper say it sound like wadded up paper and a girl the other night said he sound like THE JUDYS.” -Roger Roll
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Fishboy does a McDonald’s Commercial
February 11,2009
The Making of Fishbot
February 11,2009
The Making of Fishbot from Eric Edward Fishboy on Vimeo.
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BD on NPR
February 10,2009
Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band’s song “I Live In My Car” has been selected to appear on National Public Radio’s Car Talk album entitled, “Car Talk Car Tunes Volume 3: Stairway to Heapdom”. The CD will be released summer 2009.
Stay tuned for more info on how you can get a copy!!!
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BD @ SXSW!
February 10,2009
March, 20 @ SXSW 2009
Pataphysics Show
Pataphysics, Silver Pines, Nite Jewel @ the Moose Lodge for a SXSW Day Show!
Shapes Have Fangs Shows
March 18th@ 8pm. SXSW Showcase @ The Music Gym
March 19th @ 1pm. Aces Lounge
March 19th @ 9:45pm. Moose Lodge
March 20th @ 8:30pm. United States Art Authority
March 21st @ 8pm. Bill’s Place
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Psych Fest!!
February 10,2009
Cavedweller will be playing the Radio Room @ on Day 3 of Austin’s 2nd Annual Psyche Fest!
Here’s the official press release:
PSYCH FEST 2 | 03/13-15 @ Radio Room, Austin, TX
* For Immediate Release *
Friends, Austinites, countrymen, lend us your ears: THE BLACK ANGELS and LIVE MUSIC CAPITOL present PSYCH FEST 2 Friday March 13th through Sunday March 15th, in Austin, Texas, spiritual birthplace and global epicenter of psychedelia. What better way to honor the cradle of consciousness than a festival of hallucinogenic sights and sounds celebrating the town’s musical heritage and spotlighting the best new vanguards of the most mind-bending music ever played? Your three-day key to the doors of perception is a scant $45 (or one day doses for $15 ) available online on www.LiveMusicCapitol.com beginning Friday the 13th, 2.13.09 at Noon, and in Austin record stores the following week. With a lineup featuring such acclaimed acts as Austin’s own THE BLACK ANGELS, joined by A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, DEAD MEADOW, THE WARLOCKS, Sky Sunlight Saxon of legendary garage rock innovators THE SEEDS and a constellation of rising underground stars from Austin and around the world including THE WOODEN SHJIPS, INDIAN JEWELRY, THE STRANGE BOYS, THE GOLDEN ANIMALS and many more, those doors will be rocked off their hinges. This year’s Fest also features Austin’s psych cult heroes, THE GOLDEN DAWN performing their 1968 album ‘Power Plant’ from start to finish. Prepare your earthly vessel for lift-off.
A thousand people showed up to last year’s festival, and it became a word-of-mouth phenomenon:
“The daylong happening elicited the high baptismal glow of the bygone Vulcan Gas Company.”
-Austin Powell, The Austin Chronicle
“The Black Angels are making history come alive…[Psych Fest is] ground zero for Austin’s post-millennial psychedelia.”
-Sean O’Neal, The Onion
Psych Fest 2 resurrects the free-thinking spirit of the sane-minded individual through the universality of great music, honoring The Vulcan Gas Company and the innovators that played there. Non-conformists and seekers are welcome, and the uninitiated are invited to come explore outer and inner space and in an atmosphere of psychotropic bliss, because blowing minds is our business.
With liquid light projections by Adam Demetri and Scott Conn, artwork by Christian Bland and The Vulcan Gas Company (1967-70), and classic trip sequences by I Luv Video and Austin Underground Film.
Event Hours: FRI 8:30pm-close, SAT noon-close, SUN noon-close
The event will be held at the future site of the future site of Austin’s Radio Room at 508 E 6th St
“Tune in, turn on, drone out.”
Full lineup coming soon, check livemusiccapitol.com for details.
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Mind Readers
February 10,2009
Reading Minds
by Gene Defcon
The most difficult part of reading minds is not the actual mind reading process, but keeping the fact that you are a mind reader secret. Of course, it is very difficult to read minds. Most people believe it is impossible. The mind readers of the world would like to keep it this way and they work long and hard at concealing their unusual talent.
Imagine how tempting it would be to walk down the street and oversee an attractive girl think to herself how cute you are. Wouldn’t you be tempted to use this secret knowledge to your advantage right away? Wouldn’t you be tempted to clean up all the casinos and online bingo halls around the country? Anyone would be, but you can’t reveal it. Or at least, you shouldn’t. Proper mind reading etiquette calls for you to pretend like you never oversaw what she was thinking in the first place and continue about your day. In reality, though, most mind readers find themselves breaking this code in subtle ways almost every day. Oh, and perhaps you noticed I keep mentioning “overseeing” what someone is thinking rather than “overhearing.” That’s because when you are reading someone’s mind you don’t hear anything. You see it. You read it. Hence, the name Mind Reader and not Mind Hearer. It is a well known fact that there has never been a blind mind reader. It is a lesser known fact that no mind reader has ever read a blind person’s thoughts. No one is sure if this means that blind people do not actually think or if it means that they think in Braille. If they do think in Braille, would a mind reader who can understand Braille be able to read their mind? Such a person does not exist so science cannot tell us. My theory is that they would not be able to read someone’s mind in Braille, because how can you touch a thought?
Another common problem for mind readers is reading another mind readers thoughts. Often times, a mind reader might be mentally glancing about a crowded room, trying to oversee some particularly juicy secrets in someone’s head, when he will accidentally read a fellow mind readers thoughts while the other mind reader is reading someone else’s. This is called a Mind Triangle. This can cause the first mind reader to assume that the thoughts of person number three are actually the thoughts of mind reader number two. I don’t have any funny stories to tell you regarding examples of this off hand, but be sure that there are hundreds. Especially if you speak to a European mind reader.
You are probably still asking yourself, why is it so difficult for someone to conceal the fact that they can read minds? Well, if in fact you were asking yourself this in the vicinity of a mind reader he might be explaining to you exactly why right now. And he would have given himself away. It is very painful to see a fellow human who needs help, or even information, that you have and not be able to reveal it. Imagine you are at a fancy restaurant eating dinner with your little sister and she had a dab of mustard on her chin. You would want to tell her and would do so right away. Now, imagine you are a mind reader and your little sister catches you in the bathroom checking your private part area for pimples. She will naturally assume that she caught you masturbating. She won’t say that, though, she’s too polite. You will probably say, “oh shoot. I… I was just checking for pimples. I swear!” She will pretend to accept your story but you will know that she doesn’t actually believe you. And you won’t be able to do anything about it. You won’t be able to say anything. For the rest of your life your sister will think she caught you masturbating. Such is the life of a mind reader.
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