CASTANETS, DEER TICK, STRING CHEESE INCIDENT: Friday, Nov 2nd: Hamilton

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CASTANETS (Asthmatic Kitty)

with special guests

DEER TICK

http://www.deertickmusic.com http://www.myspace.com/deertick

JOEL ELLIOTT

http://www.myspace.com/joelelliott

and..

LORI YATES

http://www.loriyates.com

Friday, Nov. 2nd

9pm, $8

@ Pepper Jack's

38 King William St. Hamilton, ON

(905) 525-6666

www.pepperjackcafe.com

Listen to the new Castanets album In The Vines here... http://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=37

http://www.myspace.com/castanets

http://asthmatickitty.com/main.php

CASTANETS

Derail it! De-tune it! Stack it all up and let it clatter back down again. Tour the innercoastal waters in a sailboat with friends. Get labeled gothic country and avant-something and psyche-something then tie it up in a burlap sack and toss it in the Rio Grande; toast life while the whole mess drifts down past Albuquerque and drowns somewhere outside Nuevo Leon.

Castanets is American music drowned then reborn clear-eyed and wet with sea spray. Castanets is murderous nights and the 10 west sunset and crying gulls. Castanets is Raymond Raposa. Castanets is Raymond Raposa alone, walking through the dark and crowded dancefloor, singing bare voiced (rangy, high, cracked and real) with acoustic guitar. Castanets is a four-piece or a five-piece, six-piece, seven-piece, all-of-us-everywhere-piece stomping out electric tombstone chants or something that sounds like Pink Floyd with more heart. Castanets is delta heart, Nashville hands, outer space brain. Castanets is Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty, 2004) and First Light's Freeze (Asthmatic Kitty, 2005).

Castanets is banjo and strings of bells and howling feedback and high plains drifting and horn sections and brother folk-rock riding in a beater Datsun with sister free-jazz. What's on their radio? Harmonia? Dirty Projectors? Waylon and Willie?

Castanets is going to look you straight in the eye and tell you "some of these friends of mine, how I miss them so."

The truth is in the breeze and in the agate blue sky and under the earth. Keep your eyes open. Keep your back strong.

http://www.myspace.com/castanets

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DEER TICK is the songwriting project or band (depending on how you look at it) of John McCauley, a singer/songwriter based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Thanks to the help of Brendon "Viking Moses" Massei, McCauley has been ferociously zig-zagging across the United States, hitting all the sparsely attended basement shows, smoky bars, upscale joints, small to medium size festivals, and everything in between, since April of 2005. At 21 years of age, McCauley has worked very hard to get his homemade CD's in players across the country, and has no plans to stop any time soon.

In addition to his own musical endeavors, McCauley has also collaborated with notable contemporary musicians such as Viking Moses, Jana Hunter, Nat Baldwin, and Jason Anderson.

Deer Tick's first official release will come out on September 4th, 2007 through Houston's Feow! Records. Entitled "War Elephant", the album represents the fearlessness of a young man who will play a set at a New England sports bar while a Red Sox championship game is on the tube. But more than that, the album celebrates the art of songwriting and the songs that have advanced McCauley in his career and made him a unique figure on the face of music for the past two or three years.

Deer Tick is currently signed with Feow! Records out of Houston, TX.

http://www.deertickmusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/deertick

Edited October 31, 2007 by Guest

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Hey people, this show is going to be fucking awesome!!