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Yes it's true. This Ain't Hollywood presents STUMBLEWEED - cd release party with special guests: HARLAN PEPPER http://www.myspace.com/itsharlanpepper Videos: http://www.southernsouls.ca/harlanpepper.html @ This Ain't Hollywood, 345 James St. North, Hamilton www.thisainthollywood.ca Doors 9pm.$8, 19+

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CONGRATS MARGE AND SHANE AKA SHOW-WHORE!!

Still plenty of tickets at Dr. Disc for the time being... Schwa that 2nd pic you posted is what the bands view would look like. They will be on a riser. The room is going to knock peoples socks off I'm sure!

Join Col. Bruce Hampton for his first Canadian shows since 2004 with an all-new, all-Canadian band! with special guests: DIESEL DOG Colonel Bruce Hampton: vocals & guitar with: Mike Bowell: guitar Chris Cawthray: drums & percussion Paul Neufeld: organ & keyboards Friday May 7th Toronto, ON – venue TBA (presented by NuFunk) Saturday May 8th Hamilton, ON – This Ain’t Hollywood (presented by Ken Inouye) Col. Bruce Hampton has been making music since he formed his first band in 1963 and has been in constant motion ever since leaving a trail of memorable live performances with his many bands, including The Late Bronze Age and Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit. Along the way he appeared in the movie "Sling Blade" as the poet and band manager Morris and starred in (Phish’s) Mike Gordon's cult classic "Outside Out" as a mystical guitar “outstructorâ€. In the late 80s, Bruce formed The Aquarium Rescue Unit, arguably the most-influential jamband of all time. The ARU tore up stages all over North America for the better part of the decade, and when Bruce disbanded the Unit in favour of his Fiji Mariners ensemble, the various members spiraled out into the jamband world, landing in the Allman Brothers Band, the Dead and Widespread Panic, to name a few. An infrequent visitor to Canada, Hampton was last seen in 2004 at Hamilton’s Pepperjack Café with The Codetalkers and ARU/Dead/WSP guitarist Jimmy Herring. His return to Canada was put in motion by Toronto drummer Chris Cawthray, a longtime admirer of Hampton’s, and colleague of many of Bruce’s past sidemen. Hampton returns to Canada to launch his latest collaboration, an outerspaceways organ trio led by drummer/percussionist Chris Cawthray and featuring Juno award winners Mike Bowell on guitar and Paul Neufeld on organ and keyboards. weblinks: www.colbruce.com www.nufunk.ca www.thisainthollywood.ca www.chriscawthray.com

The mighty BUDOS BAND returns to Hamilton on Good Friday, April 2nd, 2010. Playing the Pearl Company. 16 Steven St, Hamilton, ON One of the nicest rooms in Hamilton! http://thepearlcompany.ca/?page_id=61 Guest selector: Jon Sikich! Doors open: 9pm. Advance Tickets: $25, Available at Dr. Disc http://www.drdisc.ca/ Out of towners can all in order with a credit card. http://www.drdisc.ca/ Sorry but no ticket holds and no guest-list for this one. Capacity is limited and tickets may sell-out fast.. 19+, Not licensed. With it's twenty-two legs, three horns, and hallucinogenic venom, The Budos Band, the un-heralded emperors of Instrumental Staten Island Afro-Soul, continue to rule. The band commands their listeners to follow them on their second journey into the depths of their poisonous vision. While their debut album was itself heralded as a groundbreaking exploration of funk, afro-beat and soul music, few could predict that their second effort would not only match but surpass the realm of mind-expansion embodied on their first sessions. Through ten exciting new instrumentals recorded live at Daptone's House of Soul in Bushwick, Brookyln, The Budos Band pours themes at once resonant and ethereal over Herculean rhythms.

Budos Band usually brings 2 - 3 players from the Dap-kings. Tommy is usually always there. he is also in the amazing Menahan Street Project and El Michaels Affair.

Chew on these... Wednesday: YACHT, Mndr, Bobby Birdman, Bass Lions~~ Portland OR DFA Records Artists @ Casbah -- 8PM -- LIC/AA :: $15 Adv Tix http://www.teamyacht.com Thursday: UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF MONTREAL http://www.uswm.ca/ http://www.myspace.com/unitedsteelworkersofmontreal With Special Guests: The Ragged Bankers. http://www.myspace.com/theraggedbankers @ This Ain’t Hollywood. $10 Saturday: WOODHANDS(Album release show) with DIAMOND RINGS, SLOW HAND MOTEM Advance tickets $12 available at Dr. Disc and This Ain't Hollywood. http://www.myspace.com/woodhands http://www.myspace.com/diamondringsmusic http://www.myspace.com/slowhandmotem @This Ain’t Hollywood

Yeah I should have gave a better heads up. If anyone would like to donate for my show, they still can by either calling 905-528-9888 or online thru paypall at http://cfmu.msumcmaster.ca/ You can mention the show it's for "the equalizer" by either method. $30 gets you a discount card for business around hamilton for a year. $20 a cd from a good selection. They can't give away guest spots for those shows but message me if you do donate and I can probably do something..

I have a show from 3:30-5pm. It's a fundraiser. Donate some money and there is a good chance you can win tickets to an upcoming show listed below... Helping to support CFMU is like voting in favour of community radio.. Try getting a mainstream station to mention you concert without paying them $1000+ Even if the station is local, they are not going to help you unless you have big bucks!! Also try getting them to play something local or something that has not been played to death hundreds of times.. It's nearly impossible unless there are substantial financial benefits for them.. 93.3 CFMU is a local station run mostly by volunteers who don't have a corporate agenda but rather a love of music and their community. This Monday, you can help support the station as well as 'yours truly' by donating some $$ while I'm on the air 3:30pm-5pm for my show THE EQUALIZER.. I'll be giving a ton of tickets away to some very cool up and coming shows taking place in Hamilton. Expect a chance win tickets to the following performances. *YACHT: Mar 3rd @ The Casbah *UNITED STEELWORKERS OF MONTREAL, Ragged Bankers @ This Ain't Hollywood *WOODHANDS, DIAMOND RINGS, SLOW HAND MOTEM: Mar 6th @ This Ain't Hollywood *TIMBER TIMBRE, Annie Shaw: Mar 9th @ The Casbah *JFK of MSTRKRFT: Mar 10th @ Rokbar *GHISLAIN POIRIER with Donna Lovejoy, Digisnail: Apr. 1st @ Club Absinthe *TOKYO POLICE CLUB, PARLOVR Apr. 8th @ Rokbar *BOCCE, BONJAY, SLOW HAND MOTEM: Apr 17th @ This Ain't Hollywood *COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, DIESEL DOG: May 8th @ This Ain't Hollywood. Plus more tba... PLUS! If you donate $30, we give you a Friends of CFMU card, good for discounts at about 25 local businesses (support independent business not the big box stores!). For $60 you can get that an a T-shirt for our "Raise Your Voice" fundraiser. Both are only available to CFMU supporters. If you want either, a/ tell us (or note it on PayPal) and include your email - and your shirt size! I will be playing these bands but you can also expect to hear some of my favourite local bands as well... If you have a request.. Call in a donation during my show and I can likely play it if I have it or if it's in the CFMU library. The phone number will be (905)528-9888. Don't call until the time the show.. However.. fundraising week is all week so if you prefer, you can always donate via another program on the station. For a program schedule as well as a way to listen in online, go here>> http://cfmu.msumcmaster.ca/ or tune in to 93.3fm if you live in the Hamilton area..

If you want to see Hamilton's latest up and comers Harlan Pepper, try to get there by 9pm tonight...

Please add any.. FRI FEB 26 Heavy Chevy, Pete Tremblay And The Boozy Truth, Dead Etiquette, The Merchy Beat, Bison RSVP - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=306311133842 @ Absinthe COUNTERPARTS, I Am Committing a Sin, Call The Calvary, Structures, Burial For the Living~~ CD Release Party @ Casbah -- 5PM-9PM -- LIC/AA :: $10 EAGLEFIGHT, Bagtag, 1 TBD @ Casbah Lounge -- 9PM -- 19+ :: $5 http://www.myspace.com/eaglefight JAMSQUID, All For Nothing, 13 Wyde, more TBD @ Casbah -- 10PM -- LIC/AA :: $10 Lou’s Music Presents Full Out Fri. Bombshell / Wentworth / Dirty Lenny / Sitty Sleez @ The Corktown CFMU FUNDRAISER - Featuring: HURON, ELECTROLUMINESCENT, COWLICK, SANDMAN VIPER COMMAND, HARLAN PEPPER $8, Doors open at 9pm. @ This Ain’t Hollywood SAT FEB 27 The Diableros @ Absinthe FORGOTTEN REBELS, The Lucky Ones (ex-members of The Sick Boys), The Marble Index, Die Standing **MOVED to Sat March 13th, Feb 27 tickets already purchased will be honored** @ Casbah -- 8PM -- LIC/AA :: $20 http://www.forgottenrebels.com QUEST FOR FIRE, Eat Me (Suck City), The Barettas ~~ Toronto modern-psych Blue Fog Recordings @ Casbah Lounge -- 9PM -- LIC/AA :: $10 http://www.myspace.com/questforfire Groove Corporation @ The Corktown BLUE PETER, THE KENTS, Guest DJ DONNA LOVEJOY. @ This Ain’t Hollywood SUN FEB 28 STRAIGHT READS THE LINE (Final Show), Kingdoms, Oxford Street Montage (Final Show), From Greater Heights @ Casbah -- 7PM -- LIC/AA :: $15/$18 Adv tix at: Dr.Disc, Sunrise Eastgate, http://www.ticketscene.ca Jesse O’Brien @ The Corktown TIM GIBBONS and his pals perform every Sunday from 4pm - 7pm! @ This Ain’t Hollywood SUBTERRANEANS COLLECTIVE,special guests, Folding Colour, $5 @ The Ship

Attn People of Hamilton. Don't sleep on this show. My prediction is that Clues are going to get BIG and this will be one of those "I was at that show" kinda show.

I highly recommend this show.

looking forward to this tonight. Hope people come out for it.

Tim Heidecker in CLUES - "You Have My Eyes Now" (dir. Matt Wells) from Matthew Wells on Vimeo.

CLUES (Montreal/Constellation Records) http://cstrecords.com/bands/clues WAX MANNEQUIN (Hamilton) http://www.waxmannequin.com/ SARAH MANGLE BUYS A BEAR (Guelph) http://www.myspace.com/buysabear LES MAMMOGRAPHES (Montreal) http://www.myspace.com/lesmammographes Doors 9pm - $8 before 10pm - $10 after Friday, January 15th, 2010 CLUB ABSINTHE - 233 KING ST EAST CLUBABSINTHE.CA ◄ CLUES ► - http://cstrecords.com/bands/clues Clues was founded by Alden Penner and Brendan Reed, both active for years in the Montreal music scene. Alden was one-half of Unicorns, a band that burned bright and fast at the beginning of the century, and Brendan has been a member of a number of groups, including the endless, Endless Forever. They began building Clues quietly and in near-secrecy during the summer of 2007, playing a series of unadvertised shows in small Montreal venues. Their early performances elicited passionate responses and made it clear that Alden had an awesome batch of new tunes in the works, a glorious voice to deliver them with, and a brilliant foil in Brendan as his co-conspirator. By 2008, friends Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner had been recruited from the Montreal art and music scenes; a few more exuberant shows went down, the sound building and strengthening every time. With the band’s foundations fully cemented, Clues began work on a debut record towards the end of the year. During live shows and on recordings, the band share and trade-off on an extensive array of instruments and create a twitchy, urgent, utterly original music that expands Montreal’s (already diverse) pop music lexicon. Clues incorporates multiple drummers, horns, a table of fried electronics (including a Commodore 64 and an OLPC), saw and pianette alongside their trusty electric guitars and basses. Through their founding and early work as a band, Clues has remained close to home, dedicated to collaborating with and supporting fellow independent artists. In 2008, Reed started VillaVillaNola, a digital music store featuring recordings by predominantly local artists who have flourished underground but who otherwise receive sparse attention. Strong ties to the independent music community, together with shared ideals, led Clues to collaborate with Montreal’s Constellation, who released the band’s debut record in May of 2009. ◄ WAX MANNEQUIN (FULL BAND) ► - http://www.waxmannequin.com/ Wax Mannequin's fourth disc -- Orchard and Ire -- is being released now on Infinite Heat. This record does many of the same things as The Price, but this time, as you listen, the music places the white hot sun in your spine. Heavy, dramatic, melody-driven songs like ‘Everything Proper' and ‘Animals Jump' counter pose surreally subdued tunes like ‘Almost Everyone' and ‘Animals Come Home'. Lyrical themes interweave: the absurd becomes profound and the comedic becomes grave as the careful listener is drawn deeper into the ridiculous yet strangely logical poetic and musical mythology that Wax has been weaving since he began. He has been touring back and forth in Canada for the past five years. He also brought his shit to Australia. In the beginning he played his classical guitar and gave people cards where they collected points and “super powers†for coming to his shows. But, disturbed by the cultish success of his “system", Wax stripped down the shenanigans, and upped the supreme power by adding heavy machines and an angry electric guitar. Now the roses come out of his skin when he gets excited. They are a problem, and he throws them at the audience, but it hurts and they keep coming back. So that's pretty much it. If you can deal with that, Wax Mannequin will change your life. If not, you get to eat a blade. Plus Special Guests ◄ LES MAMMOGRAPHES ► - http://www.myspace.com/lesmammographes Orphelins d'amour prêt à faire des chose pas mal n'importe où, n'importe quand... ◄ SARAH MANGLE BUYS A BEAR ► http://www.myspace.com/buysabear Lately Sarah mangles pop, she's also mangled folk music and experimental stuff with lots of strings and sounds. (Wet nose hero) Her most recent music combines the euphonium and organ and drums, collaborating with Gregory Burton, Richard Laviolette, Fezz Stenton, Fellow Worker, and other talented Guests. Sarah has performed at Electic Electrics (2009), Sappyfest (2009) in Sackville, The Flaming Film Festival (2007) in Minneapolis, Queerreaction (2007 and 2009) in Montreal, Kazoofest (2008) in Guelph, Barnbash (2007) in Wisconsin. She sets up small tours, (in the United States and Canada) and prefers small venues. Sarah is soon to release her third album this fall, which will surprise and delight you, and sound like a remixed Harold and Maude Soundtrack. Sarah also organizing small festivals (Cold is Not Cool, Put a Scarf On, Guelph, 2009) and concerts, writes zines, illustrates, and works in community radio. She recently moved from Halifax and Montreal to live in Guelph.

Peoples should really be more into this show..

Rokbar presents.. BORN RUFFIANS With special guests: The Pumps http://www.myspace.com/pumpspumpspumps & 1 more tba... Thursday, Dec. 17th @ Rokbar 15 Hess St. South, Hamilton www.rokbar.ca Advance Tickets $15 Available at Ticketweb.ca http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=659905&REFERRAL_ID=TW_ADD_CC http://www.bornruffians.com/new/ http://www.myspace.com/bornruffians Bio If you had to play the sound-alike game, you might suggest Jonathan Richman fronting the Talking Heads, or the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano in the kitchen with Animal Collective—and you’d be close; but you’d miss something essential about the band’s personality, about their easy on-stage charisma, and about the unique style that’s already on display on their first full-length. Ruffians experiment with proggy time signatures, and they write songs that betray a country music influence. They can be wistful and sad, or goofy and triumphant—sometimes on the same track. Says Lalonde, “The nicest compliment we get at shows is when people say, it’s really great pop music. You guys write really great pop songs, but I can’t think of anybody else who really sounds like you right now.†It is tricky to draw comparisons for songs like Red Yellow & Blue’s title track, with its simple melody draped over a martial drumbeat and fife-like whistling, or for the swing and stomp and choral backing vocals of “I Need a Life,†or for the shifting cadences of “Barnacle Goose.†Hamelin and DeRosier form an unusually melodic rhythm section, and while Lalonde writes the melodies and cobbles together the foundations for the band’s songs, they’re often radically transformed once the other musicians start working on them. It might be Lalonde’s lyrics, though, that set Ruffians apart from their peers most strikingly. Like Richman, Lalonde is a thoroughbred romantic, and like Richman he expresses it in writing that’s simple and direct. He can find a perfect analogy for love in “Foxes Mate for Life,†and charm you with a winsome approach to sexuality on songs like “In a Mirror†and “Red Elephant.†RY&B is open, urgent, bold and bright. In an indie scene that too often sounds as flat as a dull gray sky, Born Ruffians are a wash of colour. You Tube Vids: I Need A Life: Kurt Vonnegut Hummingbird:

Pretty cool jazz band playing at the Tapestry Bistro tonight... SCARBOROUGH STREISAND bring their singular mix of tropicalia, blues, middle eastern, jazz and the outerspaceways to the TAPESTRY BISTRO tonight, Friday Nov20. The music starts at 10pm, admission is PWYC, and Scarbra's new limited-edition CD-R will be onsale for $10 each. For more info and audio: http://www.myspace.com/scarboroughstreisand Scarbra is: Chris Cawthray - drums Glen Hall - saxophones Michael Keith - guitar Here's info about the Tapestry: http://www.tapestrybistro.ca They have a food menu available until 10pm, which is when we start playing, and the bar is open until midnight.

If you have not been there, then definitely worth the trek. It's a wicked room, you can drink on the patio, good beer selection and cheap. Doug and Mary from PJC will probably be working tonight. It's at James and Murray, where the James North village area comes to an end kittie corner to Liuna station. should be busy but plenty of space. The walk all along the way will have tons of stuff to see as well. You can also drink in a lot of the art galleries. Funny you mentioned TAH and Tim Gibbons, that was the one show that was NOT in my link I put up above. where did you see that? Tim Gibbons is a Hamilton staple and worth a peek.

Any out of towners looking for something to do in Hamilton after or before this show, there is an art crawl happening around the corner. Music and Art Galleries all up the street. http://stillepost.ca/boards/index.php?topic=131403.0

Any fans on here??

that's hilarious!