Reminder: Matmos at Rickshaw Stop @ Tue Jun 22 8:30pm - 11pm (Queer Things)

more details » Matmos at Rickshaw Stop http://www.rickshawstop.com/calendar/event_details/?tfly_event_id=9797 MATMOS So Percussion, Lexie Mountain Boys Rickshaw Stop Tue, June 22, 2010 8:00 pm $12 at door Note: Limited $12 tix, more at door t MATMOS It's time to get a little crazy as MATMOS are on a North American tour supporting a new record with a unique new live performance! The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast is the new record by the San Francisco duo. It's a series of "sound portraits" of a pantheon of people that they admire. A musical attempt at biography which is loose in some places and very literal in others; taken as a suite of stylistically disparate songs, you get a kind of fractured family album, a historical pageant. It's at once Matmos's most melodic and most conceptual record. Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel. They make music out of the sounds of objects, animals, people, and actions. They have collaborated with Rachel's, So Percussion, Jay Lesser, Alter Ego, People Like Us, Kronos Quartet and Bjork. They have shared stages with Slint and Wolf Eyes, remixed Foetus and Erase Errata (and many others), taught seminars on sound art at Harvard University and the San Francisco Art Institute, and DJed at proms for homeless teenagers. They have had pieces in the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, did a 17-day live performance at the Yerba Buena Museum of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, and have scored the soundtracks for five gay porn films, one pinball machine, and one NASCAR television commercial. So Percussion Since coming together at the Yale School of Music in 1999, So Percussion has been creating music that is both raucous and touching, barbarous and refined. Realizing that percussion instruments can communicate all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility, it has not been an easy music to define. Called an "experimental powerhouse" by the Village Voice, "astonishing and entrancing" by Billboard Magazine, and "brilliant" by the New York Times, the Brooklyn based quartet's innovative work with todayy's most exciting composers and their own original music has quickly helped them forge a unique and diverse career. "Time and time again...you found yourself smiling in a quiet amazement that could verge on disbelief." --The New York Times Lexie Mountain Boys "This acappella group from Baltimore are an all-female troupe whose performances have gained them a good deal of notoriety, largely due to the sheer flamboyance of the spectacles they create, with costumes and slapstick pie-in-the-face antics being commonplace as part of their live shows. On record Lexie Mountain Boys make for a truly bizarre listening experience. From the layered weirdness of campfire sing-along 'Where We Are' you'll hear some semblance of a recognisable song, but soon after the album dismantles itself into chaos: after the bodily squeaks and parps of 'Smack Those Lips' comes the woozy, lethargic 'Hi Yeah Vein', which is largely comprised of a choral annunciation of 'Hi' and 'Yeah' hypnotically, over and over again." --BOOMKAT Venue Information: Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell St San Francisco , CA 94102 http://rickshawstop.com When Tue Jun 22 8:30pm – 11pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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