Saturday, June 19th - DM Stith, Wooden Wand, Inlets and Silje Nes will perform at 420 Talbot st. Door is $7. 

DM STITH

http://www.myspace.com/dmstith

“Mentored by Sufjan Stevens, who signed Stith to his Asthmatic Kitty label, DM Stith has released a debut album which is arcane and esoteric from the off, a record that knows more than it's letting on. Stith's music, made with cellos and pianos but also the creaking of wooden doors, has the uncomfortable intimacy of Antony and the Johnsons (to whom he is often compared), but also the baroque strangeness of Bowie in his Brechtian Baal phase.”
Independent

WOODEN WAND

http://www.woodenwand.org/
http://www.myspace.com/woodenwand

Wooden Wand (James Jackson Toth and Jessica Toth) draw on a variety of conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psych folk, acid folk, freak-folk, free folk, and indie. They have also been classified under 'New Weird America', exemplified by a growing group of artists reviving and adapting the legacy of 1960s and '70s folk music.

Currently signed to Michael Gira's Young God label, they've previously recorded for such labels as Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace!, Kill Rock Stars, Three Lobed, Troubleman, Rykodisc and 5RCl. Touring the world, they've shared stages with artists such as Sonic Youth, Silver Jews, Bright Eyes, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunn0)) and Michael Hurley.

INLETS

http://www.inletsmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/inlets

Sebastian Krueger’s ambitious, brainy, somehow simple-but-baroque compositions share a complexity of Owen Pallett or Grizzly Bear or a number of Krueger’s cohorts. While working on Inter Arbiter the multi-instrumentalist collaborated with My Brightest Diamond, handled banjo for Feist on SNL, contributed to DM Stith’s Heavy Ghost, worked with violinist Marla Hansen, etc. Luckily it wasn’t just give give give: Inter Arbiter includes guest spots from regular cohort Zach Condon, Angel Deradoorian, and cellist Maria Jeffers and the aforementioned Hansen of the Osso string quartet. Of course, Krueger’s at the front and center, regardless.

SILJE NES

http://www.myspace.com/siljenes

Silje’s voice is enchanting: breathy and beautifully measured, calmly sitting at the center of the musical webs she spins like a benevolent animating spirit. While Silje creates a sound-world entirely her own, she shares an autodidactic adventurousness with peers like Tujiko Noriko, Islaja, Lau Nau, or Foehn, as well as the homespun, sprawling beauty of The Pastels, Pram, or Crescent. Broad-ranging and full of character, Silje moves from languid dream-pop to stomping, upbeat tracks, to more introspective. abstract numbers. Sparkling melodies exude a music-box sweetness, while spindly electronics - barbed, bubbling, and tinkling - weave around an eclectic instrumentation that includes cello, drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, recorder, glockenspiel, xylophone, melodica, and trumpet, as well as percussion played on all manner of found objects...

$7 at the door