Bottletree Podcast # 29

SECRET HISTORY PRESENTS: THERESA ANDERSSON / SLOW MASTERS Saturday Feb 28, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Raised in Sweden and based in New Orleans, Theresa Andersson got her start recording sweet harmonies in her own kitchen. Equally influenced by folk music and Motown, her music quickly attracted the support of her city's icons, Dr. John and Allen Toussaint among them. Sampling Smokey Johnson's "I Can't Help It" while channeling the bluesy strength of Dusty Springfield, Andersson crafts a bit of a '60s revival in "Birds Fly Away." Handclaps, soda bottles and dulcimers join an arsenal of guitar, violin, drums and tambourine. In concert, she performs without a backing band; instead, she re-creates her lush sound using a two-tiered panel of foot pedals, sampling herself and looping her sounds. The result is a choreographed dance accompanying each song; unique and spontaneous. By layering one effect atop another, Andersson heightens the anticipation, literally building songs from scratch as she did in her kitchen. This show is for ages 18+; $8; Doors at 8pm. complete event info >>>

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BOTTLE-DOC. NIGHT: RELIGULOUS Monday Mar 2, 2009 8:00 PM The documentary RELIGULOUS follows policical humorist and author Bill Mayer ("Real Time With Bill Mayer," "Politically Incorrect") as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute anayltical skills, irrerevent wit and his commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey. Directed by Larry Charles ("BORAT," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"), RELIGULOUS will mark Charles' first feature project since the critically acclaimed, wildly successful BORAT. This film is free and will begin at 8pm. complete event info >>>

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SECRET HISTORY PRESENTS: MATT & KIM / P.S. ELLIOT Tuesday Mar 3, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online First off a note of warning: Matt and Kim aren’t a typical band and this isn’t going to read like your average biography. For example, although Matt and Kim know they met while taking classes at Pratt Institute in New York, Kim’s not sure what year she graduated, let alone when they decided to start playing music as a two-piece. What they do know is that when Matt and Kim started out approximately four years ago, they had no idea how to play their respective instruments—a fact that makes the band’s success story almost as unique as their distinctive brand of synth-and-drums dance punk. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $10. complete event info >>>

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ROCK PAPER ROCK PRESENTS: TAPES 'N TAPES / WILD LIGHT / THE PHOTONICAS Wednesday Mar 4, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Tapes 'n Tapes gained popularity very rapidly after a series of write-ups on music blogs, first on EAR FARM and then on sites such as Music For Robots and Gorilla vs. Bear, leading many to cite them as one of the most recognizable examples of the "blog band" phenomenon. However, it wasn't until The Loon received a favorable review from Pitchfork Media, including a "best new music" commendation, that the band truly started to find success. Tapes 'n Tapes have received favorable reviews from other critics, and have been compared to such alternative bands as Pixies and Pavement, or the recent alt-pop phenomenon Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Doors at 8pm 18 and up Tickets are $12 complete event info >>>

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ROCK PAPER ROCK PRESENTS: KIDS GOT THE DISCO w/ NASTIQUE / DJ CHARLES III / DJ COCO Friday Mar 6, 2009 9:00 PM HEY KIDS!!! KGTD IS BACK AT BOTTLETREE AND IS 18+!!! JANUARY KGTD WAS HUGE!! AND THERE AIN'T NO STOPPING US NOW!! Nastique and Dj Charles III are gonna party like it's 2009! and of course the ATF Dance Squad will be there to get the party started!! KGTD is the CRAZIEST dance party in town so don't miss out!! you know the drill... doors at 9pm 18 and up (I.D. required) $5 at the door complete event info >>>

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SECRET HISTORY PRESENTS: BLITZEN TRAPPER / ALELA DIANE Saturday Mar 7, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Blitzen Trapper is a group of native Northwesterners, most of whom grew up in Salem, Oregon. They have lived and played together in Portland since 2000. Critics and fans have compared their music to just about everything; there have been calls to coin a new genre. After self-releasing Wild Mountain Nation in June of 2007, the group ventured beyond the West Coast for the first time to tour extensively in Europe and North America. Furr their first Sub Pop release. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $10 ADV, $12 DOS. complete event info >>>

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THE BOX GAME by Lukas Geronimas and David Horvitz Monday Mar 9, 2009 8:00 PM What do you think is in the box? What do you want it to be? Come and play the box game! The Box Game is the traveling stage of a larger artwork called 'What's in the Box'. In the month of March a black box will be taken to various locations throughout the United States and Canada by Lukas Geronimas and David Horvitz. At each location they will set up a game that asks people what they think is in the box. All ballots will be collected, analyzed and statistically interpreted to determine what is in the box. With these results what has been collectively imagined to be in the box will be constructed. All players who provide contact information will receive a gift during the final stage. The final stage of The Box Game will be an exhibition. Your guess will be part of it. Your vote counts. 'What's in the Box' is the inaugural exhibition for Black Hole Space, a traveling art venue conceived by Joshua Kit Clayton and Curated by Terri C. Smith. complete event info >>>

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MUSIC SNOB TRIVIA NIGHT Tuesday Mar 10, 2009 8:00 PM Come test your rock knowledge with Kim and Brooks for Scrollworks, a very worthwhile musical charity. Don't be intimidated, there are a wide variety of questions and most people do better than they think. And even if you come out alone, we'll set you up with a team--or feel free to go it solo. We promise you'll have a great time and hear even better tunes. Please come out--again, it's for very worthwhile local cause. 8pm / $2 suggested donation complete event info >>>

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HYMNS / DEATH ON TWO WHEELS / THE BRIDGES Wednesday Mar 11, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Hymns uses a type of rich and evocative story telling that could only come from the South. The songs have a rollicking, classic sound, rich with instrumentation and full of reflective lyrical vignettes. Originally from North Carolina and Texas, Hymns is now based in New York City. Death On Two Wheels makes rock ’n’ roll dangerous again, with slurry-blurry lyrics, half-cocked dreamspeak of portents and regret, and a formidable guitar attack that recalls the nasty duels Allen Collins waged with Gary Rossington before Skynyrd’s final plane ride. From Oxford, Alabama, the new, old sound is full of the issues of youthful life with a strange and compelling appeal to those who have gone this way before. This masterful mix of pop, folk and indie rock leaves you confident and expectant. Get ready to enjoy these fresh songs that carry the listener through a wonderful range of sound and emotion introducing- The Bridges. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $8. Doors at 8pm. complete event info >>>

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SECRET HISTORY PRESENTS: WOVENHAND / ACROSS TUNDRAS / DEN OF LIONS Thursday Mar 12, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Like a welcome draught from a bottomless well, David Eugene Edwards (also frontman of acclaimed band 16 Horsepower), sings untamed and mercy-drenched songs for thirsty listeners. The grandson of a Nazarene preacher, Edwards dropped out of a Colorado high school to play music. He is known for an immense personal humility—a contrast to his stark lyrics about the wretched state of humanity, although he is the first to tell you that he is singing to himself. This paradoxical nature inspires such formidable listeners as Flemish choreographer and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus, who based the score of the dance production “Blush” on the 2003 Wovenhand album Blush Music (Sounds Familyre). Nashville's Across Tundras and Birmingham's Den of Lions will open. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $8. complete event info >>>

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THE BROKEN LETTERS / MODEL CITIZEN / THE DIRTY LUNGS Friday Mar 13, 2009 9:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Come out to Bottletree to support The Broken Letters as they set out for their spring tour. Model Citizen and The Dirty Lungs will be there too. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $8. Doors at 8pm; show at 9pm. complete event info >>>
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SECRET HISTORY PRESENTS: VETIVER / SIAN ALICE GROUP / ANDY'S TEA PARTY Sunday Mar 15, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Vetiver’s Andy Cabic grew up in northern Virginia and spent a few years in Greensboro, North Carolina, playing guitar, writing music and recording as a member of The Raymond Brake, which is where he first met future Vetiver members Trippe and Dunn. After moving to San Francisco, Cabic helped form the rock band Tussle, and at the same time began recruiting other local musicians, friends and confederates, including Colm O'Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Devendra Banhart, and Joanna Newsom, among others, to record the 2004 debut Vetiver. Vetiver's songs have been described as "dreamy, gentle songs that George Harrison would have written in some sunny country garden." Vetiver is currently on Sub Pop Records. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $10. Doors at 8pm. complete event info >>>

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ROCK PAPER ROCK PRESENTS: THE DEATH SET / TEAM ROBESPIERRE / NINJASONIK / TOTALLY MICHAEL / CEREBRAL BALLZY Monday Mar 16, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online You may...correction...you WILL remember The Death Set and Team Robespierre if you were at Bottletree this Summer for the F*** Yeah Fest! Australia to Baltimore transplants THE DEATH SET are Devo for 21st attention spans and TEAM ROBESPIERRE is one of the best dance-punk bands out there! Also playing this show is Ninjasonik, Totally Michael and Cerebral Ballzy. Please, please DON'T COME TO THIS SHOW if you're not into dancing, having fun. It would be a waste of your time and money and you would DEFINITELY have fun. doors at 8pm. 18 and up. complete event info >>>

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HUMAN HIGHWAY / THE MAGIC / COTTON JONES Saturday Mar 21, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Incepted by a mutual admiration for each others musical guile, Islands member and lyrical artisan Nick Thorburn and the resourceful folk craftsman Jim Guthrie, have spliced their creative juices together for their musical endeavor Human Highway. While tepidly joyous, Human Highway resembles the audible components of both artist's musical day jobs as it pushes itself into a sonic sphere of lush harmonics that are reminiscent of 50's/60's doo wop i.e the Everly Brothers. Cotton Jones' Michael Nau (formerly of Page France) and Whitney McGraw have hearts - huge, questioning hearts - full of music that mixes elements of soul, rock and gospel into a gauzy cocoon of small-town sound. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $10. complete event info >>>

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YOUNG WIDOWS / MY DISCO / ARCLIGHT Monday Mar 23, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online The DC/Chicago/Louisville connection has been long-standing triangle of similar ideas, ethics and sounds, and Louisville, Kentucky’s Young Widows keep that spirit alive. Of course, the inventive guitar work, a signature of guitarist/vocalist Evan Patterson’s bands throughout his years in Breather Resist, Black Cross and The National Acrobat, is still intact and at its peak here. It’s basically solid, grooving, hypnotic, heavy noise-rock… The comparisons are for reference only. This is a different band, a different sound, a different idea: Young Widows. MY DISCO, a reductive art-rock trio, is a Melbourne based collaboration between Liam Andrews, Rohan Rebeiro and Ben Andrews that formed in Australia in 2003. Their music is both a mirror of discipline and its inversion, with unsettling one or two note drills. Tickets for this show are $8. This show is for ages 18 and up. complete event info >>>

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PHOSPHORESCENT / DEER TICK / MEGAFAUN Tuesday Mar 24, 2009 8:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Musicians often head to New York, it‘s a familiar story. But something magical happened when Matthew Houck picked up stakes halfway and moved to Brooklyn from Athens, Georgia. Raised in Alabama, Houck has always made music steeped in the Southern-gothic tradition, a sweet American folk soaked in atmosphere like a pound cake in rum. Our weary-voiced bandleader cemented his reputation for making masterpiece albums filled with hallelujahs for both grace and tragedy with songs that swung from ramshackle and joyous to broken and pleading in the space of a prayer. The live show swung along this arc ñ with Houck sometimes backed by up to 14 or 15 members ñ creating a full-blown, shambling, marching-brass-band-revival-tent celebration. Phosphorescent will be on tour in support of the new album To Willie due out on February 3rd. Brooklyn's Deer Tick and Durham's Megafaun are set to open. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $10. Doors at 8pm. complete event info >>>

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Comedy Central featured Comedian: PAUL F. TOMPKINS (of MR. SHOW / BEST WEEK EVER / TENACIOUS D) and musical guests SWORN ENEMIES Saturday Mar 28, 2009 9:00 PM Buy Tickets Online Paul F. Tompkins is very funny. A Comedy Central featured comedian, he is a regular on VH1's "Best Week Ever" and has been on Mr. Show, Tenacious D, The Late Show with Conan O'Brian, and The Daily Show as well as several movies to include "Magnolia", "Anchorman: The Legend of Rob Burgandy", "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny" and "There Will Be Blood". Musical guests SWORN ENEMIES will open. Doors at 9:00pm. This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $15 ADV and $17DOS. Save a few bucks and purchase your tickets at Bottletree. complete event info >>>

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MUSIC SNOB TRIVIA NIGHT Tuesday Mar 31, 2009 8:00 PM Come test your rock knowledge with Kim and Brooks for Scrollworks, a very worthwhile musical charity. Don't be intimidated, there are a wide variety of questions and most people do better than they think. And even if you come out alone, we'll set you up with a team--or feel free to go it solo. We promise you'll have a great time and hear even better tunes. Please come out--again, it's for very worthwhile local cause. 8pm / $2 suggested donation complete event info >>>

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