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Dysrhythmia+Many Arms+Mick Barr/Marc Edwards
Prepare yourself: an utterly brain frying lineup of the sickest savages culled from the instru-metal/jazz otherworld has been miraculously assembled for an evening of total mayhem. Bloodbaths will commence as ax-wielding Klassikilling general Mick Barr faces off against fire jazz-punk drums basher Marc Edwards and when dizzying metallic-math destroyers Many Arms skronk your face off […]
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Cellular Chaos
Local no wave skronk-mongers Cellular Chaos are the real effin’ deal: Improvising extremist Weasel Walter slings the most criminally underrated shred ax on the Brooklyn DIY scene, 63 year-old jazz vet and drum-thwacking dinosaur Marc Edwards (dude has backed David S. Ware and Cecil Taylor) mans the destructive kit, and front-lady colossus Admiral Gray stands […]
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Weasel (Walter) Nation
In 1991, improvising percussionist-about-town Weasel Walter launched ugEXPLODE. Then based in Chicago, the label documented his projects like “brutal prog” ensemble the Flying Luttenbachers and his intrepid foray into experimentalism with his myriad collaborators. But since then, the now-Brooklyn-based ugEXPLODE has taken on a roster of maverick musicians from all over the country. From the […]
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The Weasel Walter Welcome Wagon
“What I did was I packed boxes full of CDs and records, I put some clothes and instruments in a rental, and drove 3,000 miles in three days,” says Weasel Walter. “That’s typical of my aesthetic: You got time to sleep when you’re dead.” Such is the brash rhetoric often spewed by the ubiquitous extreme-rock […]