February 2012
6 posts
Rearranger
We’re all still re-arrangers Even if you are a painter Reordering the ochre and vermilion With disclaimers
Rennet 7" Now Available For Purchase
The new re-issue of Rennet on 7” record is available to buy today on Funkytonk Records. You can purchase it HERE. Rennet was recorded at home last February, over five uncommonly rainy days. It’s about living in the desert.
Side A New & Blue Starling (3:04) Contradictory Convolutions (2:40)
Side B Creosote (1:48)
Its Home Make My Nest (4:00)
With this order you will receive...
DOING TWITTER NOW →
This is funny
January 2012
2 posts
SLOWEST: Never Work Hard →
slowest:
“Let us reject tedious work. It goes against human nature, against the cosmic rhythms, it goes against man himself, to take trouble where none is needed. It is natural for him to apply himself to avoiding such work; to use every instrument that comes to hand, every favourable chance that can help…
December 2011
6 posts
"Condensed Nothing" Available for...
Condensed Nothing is a new album by Stephen Steinbrink, recorded at home. His 3rd album in under a year, written after a massive 2-month tour in support of the last album he recorded with French Quarter, Desert Wasn’t Welcome. Heavily featuring Steinbrink’s current exploration into strange guitar tunings, which results in a focused, textural and sincere batch of pop songs. Released...
NEW TOUR DATES w/ KEY LOSERS, THE FINCHES
January 4th, 2012 Los Angeles CA, - The Smell 247 S. Main St
January. 6th, 2012 Irvine, CA - UC Irvine Campus www.acrobaticseveryday.com w/ Foot Foot
January 7th, 2012 Long Beach, CA - Speakeasy Art Gallery 1679 W. 9th St w/ Pageants
January 8th, 2012 Isla Vista, CA - BIKO 6612 Sueno
No longer w/ Key Losers and the FInches
January 10th, 2012 Phoenix, AZ - Funny World w/...
Rennet 7" out soon
Funkytonk Records is re-releasing “Rennet” on a 7” in January.
Jeffrey Lewis Tonight at Trunk Space!
JEFFREY LEWIS (rough trade records, weirdo folk smarty pants legend)
w/ FILARDO CONDENSED NOTHING FORTUNE COOKIE
at TRUNK SPACE 1506 NW GRAND AVE PHX, AZ
8PM/$8
November 2011
1 post
"Yellow Canary Jumpsuit" Full-length Album...
After I recorded “It’s Not Just Kissing” in late 2009/early 2010, I got back down at the 8-Track and recorded “Yellow Canary Jumpsuit”, a full-length album of pop songs meant for a bunch of different releases (weird conceptual 7” project / various comps / cover record) but ultimately coalesced into the album it is. Recorded carefully at home, featuring covers...
October 2011
2 posts
JEFFERY LEWIS, FILARDO, CONDENSED NOTHING AT TRUNK...
Jeffery Lewis will be playing at Trunk Space on Dec. 10th w/ Filardo, and a new project I am working on called “Condensed Nothing”.
Here is the facebook event
Condensed Nothing is a short term songwriting project that will be exploring deep darkness and intense sexuality. Like tender lovemaking in the tundra? I’ll be releasing a new tape with these songs that will be ready for...
September 2011
8 posts
5 tags
ONLY SIX DAYS LEFT FOR YCDH KICKSTARTER
We only have 6 days left on the Yellow Canary Dance Hall Kickstarter, and we only have 46% funded.
If you have considered pledging your support, please do! Now is the time! Your help will show itself in a myriad of ways, most prominently in the day-to-day operations of shows and art events, as well as providing a space for all members of our community.
Again, here is a message from Allison...
LP Pre-order "Desert Wasn't Welcome" from Off... →
More Tour Dates!
Hey! Tons of new tour dates. Also, our new record can downloaded and purchased here.
September 19th - Phoenix, AZ Trunk Space, 1506 NW Grand Ave. w/ Bad Weather California 8PM, $6 September 20th - Tucson, AZ Red Room at The Grill, 100 E. Congress St. 10pm, Free September 21st - San Diego, CA Che Cafe, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive w/ Kera & The Lesbians, Falling Trees 8PM, $7...
DOWNLOAD "DESERT WASN'T WELCOME" NOW
The new French Quarter record “Desert Wasn’t Welcome” is now available to download at the French Quarter Bandcamp Page.
The newest album by Arizona’s French Quarter, Desert Wasn’t Welcome, marks the fourth full-length release by 23-year-old songwriter Stephen Steinbrink. While French Quarter has been primarily a solo recording project for countless tours and a deluge...
Babies
Lets hear it for Babies, and how awesome they are. Crying stinks, and so does interacting with human shit, but what about the wonder of life and growth?
Babies learn how to walk and talk by themselves. They don’t know what the fuck they are doing, but they do it anyway.
Babies also do not give a fuck who you are. You are just another tall thing that will give them attention. So you are in...
Record Release Show in Phoenix!
HERMIT THRUSHES
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FRENCH QUARTER WEST COAST TOUR
Come see the French Quarter band play shows from our new LP, “Desert Wasn’t Welcome”! Andrew Dorsett is joining us on the Wurlitzer! What? Get it! WE STILL NEED HELP BOOKING SOME SHOWS! If the date states “HELP BOOK SHOW”, and you can put on a cool, preferably all-ages show, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at “french.quarter@hotmail.com”...
August 2011
6 posts
HIGH CASTLE - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD
15% !
The project is already 15% pledged in one day! Yellow Canary still needs much more help! Please check it out and see if it’s your thing. We need more positive, all-ages spaces in Phoenix. For the good of your city.
HELP SUPPORT YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL →
We have launched a Kickstarter for the Yellow Canary Dance Hall. We hope that with your help, we can use this money improve the space for our community by providing a home for high quality, positive all ages music in Phoenix, AZ.
There are tons of awesome incentives, including original art work, records and concert tickets provided by Stinkweeds and Gilgongo Records, and lots more stuff!
...
I Made Some Flyers
PARK DETAIL'S BAND, AUGUST 5TH
PARK DETAIL’S BANDFeaturing Chris Cohen of such notable acts like DEERHOOF, CRYPTACIZE, and THE CURTAINS. Chris and collaborator Yasi Perera present PARK DETAIL’s BAND, a conceptual set of movements that seem to be about watching grass die, or sleeping in a broken tent with a friend. It feels really good to listen to this music.
http://curtains.suchfun.net/park_details_band!/
w/...
July 2011
8 posts
YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL: "A Series of Anxieties &... →
yellowcanarydancehall:
Tempe-based musician/artist Aaron Neber is debuting a new performace tonight entitled “A Series of Anxieties & Repeptitions” at the Yellow Canary Dance Hall. Aaron’s performances are remembered as extremely personal and startling, much like a weird home movie spliced with some unmarked horror…
Watchyellowcanarydancehall:
Garrincha & The Stolen Elk tonight at the Dance Hall!
w/ Excavacations, Sungsang (new line-up) and Condensed Nothing.
UPCOMING SHOWS AT THE YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL
News, Announcements, Stuff
Hi!
Fun fact: Chase Kamp, drummer of French Quarter, is also my roommate. He lives in the living room!
Last month I got fired and also quit my day job (complicated story) so I decided to open a new volunteer-run, all-ages art and music space. Simple as that. You can find out about it here. We are having lots of shows. Check it out. REAL COOL NEW PLACE TO PLAY IN PHOENIX.
French Quarter is...
YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL: FIRST YELLOW CANARY... →
yellowcanarydancehall:
Hey everyone!
We have been renovating and painting and decorating this place like crazed sleepless zombies, and the time of our first show has come.
Anybody who was used to appearance of the old “Sound Kontrol” space is going to be very surprised.
And we have a super cool, curated zine library…
Ice Age
Here’s the physical show announcement I designed for the show at the Yellow Canary Dance Hall on July 19.
June 2011
8 posts
YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL TUMBLR
Hey guys,
There is a new Tumblr for the Yellow Canary Dance Hall. This is where we will conduct most of our business on the internet, and where the calendar will be most often updated.
Follow it!:
YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL
Again, for all questions and booking concerns, email “yellowcanarydancehall@gmail.com”.
Private Abstractions, Again
We subsist on the vague. I am vague, you are vague, it’s how we can show that we care for one another without sweating with embarrassment. I can deal with that. I relish in it! But true intimacy occurs when our interfaces are set on standby.
Have you ever hugged P.? He embraces so fully and earnestly! Sincere in his words and touch.
Have you ever talked to F. about art? Her eyes light up...
YELLOW CANARY DANCE HALL BENEFIT SHOW TONIGHT
Tonight at The Fixx in Tempe (15 E. 7th St.), we are having a benefit show to buy a PA for our new show space
In July, the Yellow Canary Dance Hall is taking over the space that Sound Kontrol currently occupies, and will provide the Phoenix/Tempe music communities with a high quality, all-ages space to house underground musics and arts. To read an interview about the Yellow Canary Dance...
iji & seashoes: Is Josh "Hoshwa" Redman the new... →
ijiandseashoes:
My friend (and probably yours too) Josh “Hoshwa” Redman just posted the most amazing document of modern underground traveling musicians. Totally dedicated to seeking and helping out anybody making music that could in anyway be considered DIY, Josh has been going to and setting up ton’s of shows…
More Photos From Dub Narcotic, Taken by B....
Tempe Zine Convention
I made this poster today. Come to this neat event please.
May 2011
8 posts
A Stranger's Dreams In The Trash Bin
I Was Just Sleeping
