DeadHeat March

Heathers - 506 E. 13th St. @ Ave. A

Thursday March 26 // 9pm to ??

Grotto of Miracles on Viva Radio - Saturday @ Noon

GoM slipped a playlist to Dave R. for his Deadheat Radio Program this week. It "airs" tomorrow @ noon (EST) on Viva Radio, then gets the archive treatment so you can listen (or relisten) whenever you like.

Noon is still a little early, at least for me, on a Saturday. So in aniticipation of my hazy, lazy state of mind here's a slightly shaky, somewhat spacey and kinda mellow set to help calm brittle nerves and speed you toward a full recovery.

The Flaming Lips Ode To C.C. (Part II)
Dennis Wilson Thoughts of you
Skip Spence Little Hands
Jackie-O-Motherfucker Hey Mr. Sky
Roy Harper Forget Me Not
Sixto Rodriguez Crucify Your Mind
Zak Riles Sand/Silk Rd Origin
The Ivytree The Book of Job
The Durutti Column Portrait For Frazer
Psychic Ills East
Stag Hare Yert Yah Matreearchy
Magic Lantern Feasting on Energy
Abe Vigoda Wild Heart
Banjo or Freakout Someone Great
13th Floor Elevators I Had To Tell You

DeadHeat - Tuesday

Dave and I will be gettin down on a different night this month but we promise to bring the 'Heat all the same.

Ger yer garagepsychkrautboogiepostpunknowaveprogprotometalrocknroll this Tuesday @ Heathers on E. 13th St.

See you there.

Boredoms - Ant 10 (Remix By DJ Finger Hat)

You Gotta Live Until You're Dead. You Gotta Rock 'Til You See Red

LUX INTERIOR (1948 - 2009)

Official Statement (from Girlie Action)
For Immediate Release: February 4, 2009

Lux Interior, lead singer of The Cramps, passed away this morning due to an existing heart condition at Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, California at 4:30 AM PST today. Lux has been an inspiration and influence to millions of artists and fans around the world. He and wife Poison Ivy’s contributions with The Cramps have had an immeasurable impact on modern music.

The Cramps emerged from the original New York punk scene of CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, with a singular sound and iconography. Their distinct take on rockabilly and surf along with their midnight movie imagery reminded us all just how exciting, dangerous, vital and sexy rock and roll should be and has spawned entire subcultures. Lux was a fearless frontman who transformed every stage he stepped on into a place of passion, abandon, and true freedom. He is a rare icon who will be missed dearly.

The family requests that you respect their privacy during this difficult time.

DeadHeat Tonight!

DH returns tonight. Join us @ our new home, Heathers Bar - 506 E. 13th St. @ Ave A.

Same good times, same good music.

Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes

Magic Lantern + Zak Riles + Stag Hare

3 records I picked up on too late for '08 but am completely absorbed in right now. They all share a similar transportive beauty that's good for rearranging your head space.

Magic Lantern High Beams
"Catus Raga"
A chooglin' barn burner of acid drenched wah & feedback, hypnotic drumming and organ blast.

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Zak Riles s/t
"Sand/Silk Rd Origin"
Superb mediatative space drone from Grails' guitarist. A slightly menacing tone gives the raga backbone.

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Stag Hare Black Medicine Music
"Crystal Dust Dream"
A crystal-power droner that radiates with playful rhythms, rattling percussion, blissful dreamlike harmonica and organ.

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DeadHeat Not Dead!

Ready to get back to the rock? Good. So are we. We left that celebrity-DJ shaped speedbump back on The Bowery and got an awesome new venue to host our party. Thanks to the hard work of Dave R., starting Thursday Jan. 22 we're calling Heathers Bar home. We're gonna get started a little later, so reset your mental clock to 9pm. That's when we press play.

To celebrate the new year and hopefully the good times, I made a mix that I'm calling, Hit That Long Lunar Note and Let It Float. Click the title to download. Rumor has it, Dave's got one in the works too. Looking forward to that.

UPDATE (1/14/09): Rumor confirmed...Here's that mix from 33/45...High Pressure Days includes jamz from Black Oak Arkansas, The Units, Neu! and much more.

Hit That Long Lunar Note and Let It Float
Songs:
Don Cherry Brown Rice
Spaceheads Joyriding
Cosmic Jokers Kinder Des Alles
Wishbone Ash The Pilgrim
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Oneida Cold Rain & Snow
Brother JT3 Head Business
The Monks We Do Wie Du
Hugo Montenegro Moog Power
Quintron Model Ex Citizen
Talking Heads Fela's Riff
A.R. & Machines Cosmic Vibration
Grace Jones She's Lost Control

Time: 57:34

Lastly, Dave got a website up and running for us. Soon we'll be able to post updates, playlists and more but for now check out the flyer he made for the upcoming party...

Best of 2008

A list of records released this year that made all the difference in the long weeks and months of my sometimes stressful, sometimes blissful 10 month vacation/hibernation of 2008. Just the list for now, I'll post some tracks or maybe a mix soon.

Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna

Marnie Stern This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It...
Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday
Tape LuminariumNick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Duchess Says Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs
Oneida Preteen WeaponryPortishead Third
Our Sleepless Forest Our Sleepless Forest
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Dungen 4
Indian Jewelry Free Gold!
Padded Cell Night Must Fall

Saudade The Hooded Ones
Religious Knives It's After Dark

The USA Is A Monster Space Programs

TV On The Radio Dear Science

Julian Cope Black Sheep

Entire Cities Deep River

D. Lissvik 7 Trx + Intermission

Bottle Up & Go These Bones

Kelpe Extraquarium
Black To Comm Fractal Hair Geometry

Child Bite Fantastic Gusts of Blood

Honorable mention:
Getachew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests Moa Anbessa
This is, by far, the record I listened to the most in 2008 but for the life of me I can not get an answer on whether there was a definitive release date in the U.S. "Ethiopia Hagere" appeared on the Wire Tapper 18 comp at the end of 2007 but the Euro release date is listed as 2006. I'm pretty sure it wasn't available here, at least not in stores, until this year. Anyhow, this record and the concert at Damrusch Park were the musical highlights of my year.

DeadHeat - This Thursday / Pre-Election Jams

Weird to be promoting a night called DeadHeat when what we're hoping for tomorrow is a landslide. Feeling pretty good about this being a celebration but either way Dave and I will make sure the tunes are rockin'. We hope to see you on Thursday.

Some tunes to get you in the mood to vote:
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - One Nation
The Wailers - Bama Lama Bama Loo
Curtis Mayfield - Power To The People

Bad Brains - Rock For Light

Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out

Halloween

Is there a better holiday/non-holiday for music? Sure, X-mas is fun, but it has nothing on the level of diversity or sheer quantity of tunes that can be directly linked and/or interpreted as Halloween music. Below I've posted a spooky soundtrack for your trick or treaters. I love the fun party-time Halloween jams (and I may end up posting a "more fun" mix later) but this year I was really feeling the need to be creeped-the-fuck-out. For some reason, I have a lot of this type of music. I swear I was never a goth. Enjoy and Happy Halloween.

(The songs are all mixed together and broken into 2 parts.)





















Grotto of Miracles Halloween mix Pt. 1 - Everybody's Afraid of Something
Afraid Intro / Coil - Hellraiser Theme / Swans - Coward / Third Eye Foundation - Corpses As Bedmates (edit) / The Birthday Party - Deep In The Woods / Oxbow - Insylum / Brian Reitzel - The One Who Fights / Psychic Ills - Witchcraft Breaker / Liars - Broken Witch / Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood / Thought Gang - The Black Dog Runs At Night / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Carny / Holger Czukay - Dark Moon / John Murphy - The Tunnel / CocoRosie - Werewolf




















Grotto of Miracles Halloween 2008 Pt. 2 - Tonight We Begin With Torture!
Torture Intro / Ennio Morricone - Humanity (Part II) / Coil - Tenderness Of Wolves / Wolf Eyes - Skull and Bone / Vasilisk - Fangs And Claws / Wojciech Kilar w/ Diamanda Galas - The Ring Of Fire / Butthole Surfers – Strangers Die Everyday / Dowser - Narishima no theme / Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady / Brian Reitzel - Vampired Johnny / Nurse With Wound - The Burial Of The Sardine / Sun City Girls - Spook / Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Grave Wisdom / Portishead - Small / Oneida - Black Chamber

Trappers Cabin

This sort of falls into the category of "you either get it or you don't". Lots of comparisons to Beck, Beefheart and Zappa but also some Brian Wilson and late-'60's Beatles. Some of it is silly or indulgent, especially lyrically, but the there are too many infectious musical moments to dismiss what's happening up in the woods of Northern Georgia.

Trappers Mind

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