A Message from Tom Southerton:
Hey everyone,

Today is the last day for you to help us raise funds for this amazing show by donating through our kickstarter.com donation page. We are trying to raise $2000 and still need about $600. But we only have until noon! Please help us out! Here is the site:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/826718188/live-from-the-fallout-shelter-celebrating-25-year

Also, the lineup for this show right now is A Wilhelm Scream, Smoke or Fire, L'antietam and Rebels of Art.

Make sure you catch Energy and Children of the Night on Live from the Fallout Shelter tonight from 8 to 11PM. Listen online at http://www.wuml.org

Thanks for all your help!
Tom

3/11 Kerouac Film Celebration: Record and film producer and Lowell native Jim Sampas will host a CD listening session with the soundtrack recording from his new documentary film, “One Fast Move or I’m Gone,” about Kerouac’s novel “Big Sur.”
Listening: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Durgin Hall, Room 114 - Please RSVP to Paul_Marion@uml.edu.
Viewing: 3 p.m. O’Leary, Room 222



There will be a political book discussion in O'Leary 222 on Thursday, March 4, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. The topic, James Michael Curley: A Short Biography, written by Former senator/UMASS President William Bulger. From 1910 to his death in 1958, Curley served as the mayor of Boston, the governor of MA, and in the US House of Representatives.
For more information call the Political Science Dept. 978-934-4255.



In brief:



BYARD LANCASTER - HORNS (1-6)
J. R. MITCHELL - PERCUSSION (1-6)
CALVIN HILL - BASS (1, 5-6)
PAUL MORRISON - ELECTRIC BASS (1)
LESTER LUMLEY - PERCUSSION (5-6)
SID SIMMONS - PIANO (2-4)
JEROME HUNTER - BASS (2-4)

The 1972 release of Byard Lancaster's Live at Macalester College on Dogtown Records (owned by Lancaster himself) was the building of a bridge. On one side, a spiritual, robust free jazz spawned from the likes of Ornette and Coltrane and on the other, the startlingly new idea of jazz-funk. The jazz-funk era was slowly being heralded, Joe McPhee's Nation Time would came in 1971, Davis' On the Corner the following year, and Hancock's Head Hunters one more. But it was Byard's blending of these two styles which he was exploring on the 1966 debut, It's Not Up to Us and can be heard on Macalester.

Lancaster is a Philadelphian multi-instrumentalist who attended Berklee and feels both comfortable on the reeds or brass. He is also comfortable fronting a funky beat laden with toms or congas, or a seemingly relentless free-jazz assault, provided here by drummer JR Mitchell. Opener 1234 provides these aspects, with Lancaster beginning on sax, and then putting it down at the 13 minute mark, and inducting a sprawling, but similar trumpet line. It was recorded in Boston in 1970, and features, in an uncannily fitting way, both an upright bassist (Calvin Hill) and an electric bassist (Paul Morrison).

The official 1971 concert begins with Last Summer, a marked change of pace from 1234, inviting flute and pianist Sid Simmons to trade off in a erie ballad which is accented by a bowed bass background, provided here by Jerome Hunter. War World is a more familiar Lancaster tune, featuring Mitchell's drum floes, which roll about in as he changes from tom, to rim shot, to sharp, full ride attacks. For a minute and a half, he inducts Lancaster, who comes barreling in on alto and blazes along with Mitchell. The bass is invited for the conclusion, and the piano non existent. On the final official concert track, titled Live at Macalester, Lancaster, Simmons, and Hunter all attack the head, and settle into a hard bop straight-shooter. The Lancaster solo is truly explored here, 4:30 into the tune somber Far-Eastern Scales can be heard, and the track takes off from 52nd Street and lands on a rainy, oriental mountainside. Mitchell is also noticeably more roped in, keeping his punchy rim shots to a minimum. This track is very cinematic and third-stream in quality, provided mostly Lancaster utilizing the energy of his sax versus the melancholia of flute and Hunter provide barge-like bass sounds where needed.

Lancaster recorded the last two tracks on the album in 2008. They feature Calvin Hill on bass and Lancaster on a horn arsenal. Both tracks' other players are unknown. World in Me is a daunting wall of free-sound. Trumpets, piano, saxophones, electric guitar, and flutes are ground up and take turns emulating screaming people. Again, they are patchworks of several different styles, with Lancaster heralding his percussive forces to tour styles of soul, funk, free, and oriental musics.

This reissue provides a cross-section of Byard Lancaster's criminally unknown, but diverse career.
HAPPY WEEKEND
Lawrence film showing, supported by LFC.

In Brief:
Paste is reporting that James Murphy is pretty much done with the new LCD Album, and Bob Weston is mastering.



The Radio at Risk coalition is trying to combat record labels which are hemorrhaging $$$ using radio stations as ways out. Two bills currently in Congress would levy performance taxes on local stations, which are usually not and provide free (at times, 'underground') music and public service to all people. Act now!

Come visit us at the McGauvran Table!

Fallout's 25th Anniversary is in full swing. Show has been scheduled, past Fallout guests Willhelm Scream and Smoke or Fire will be playing. It will be on April 2nd, 2010 at United Teen Equality Center on Hurd St. doors are at 6:30, show is all ages, 10$ admission. A compilation is also planned, cover:


You can still donate here...thanks for the support!

Some LFC Updates. Come and watch Indie films in Lowell!

CAPA's Annual battle of the bands will be held at Spring Carnival on Friday, April 30th and packets are available begining today in North/South Information Centers. For more info shoot an email to Concertscomedy@student.uml.edu

Winter Olympic athletes and sports journalists Bob Ryan, John Powers, and Kevin Dupont of the Boston Globe will be in town on Wednesday, March 24 in O'Leary 222, 7 p.m. to discuss politics and the Olympic games in Vancouver. For more information contact Jeffrey_Gerson@uml.edu

In Brief:


Jamie Stewart's 7th album Dear God, I Hate Myself will be Xiu Xiu's first studio release sans Caralee McElroy (now of Cold Cave).

Past Lives Tapestry of Webs launches out of Seattle. Arty and antsy.

Clifford Brown gets a 4 disc box set entitled Emarcy Master Takes.

Stonesthrow Records and Madlib is jazz-rapping..err...rap-jazzing with The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble...err...cool loungey stuff with changes like DJ proper!

Also out this week:
Abraham Taber on Fallout Tonight!

Jeff Warmouth, a conceptual humorist will present "Food Court" on March 1st - April 2nd in the McGauvaran Gallery. The exhibit will combine advertising, food, convenience, culture, and language in a visually-elemental installation. Hours Mon.-Thurs. 11 - 4, Fri. 9 - 2.

Graphic Design alumni from the last decade will be returning on 2/22 to showcase their work in the Dugan Gallery. Working Proof: Graphic Design Alumni Exhibition will last until 3/12 and runs weekdays 10a.m. till 5 p.m., a reception will be held Wednesday, 2/23 from 3p.m. till 5p.m. For more info contact: Karen_Roehr@uml.edu

In Brief:



RIP Kathryn Grayson

Ant Cellar show, 2/20 at 8:00PM . FREE. Local acts: Baylock, Bearstronaut, Beneath the Sheets, Hetfield & Hetfield. RPM Dir. Danielle Brown will be spinning betwixt the bands!

Jeff Warmouth, a conceptural humorist will present "Food Court" on March 1st - April 2nd in the McGauvaran Gallery. The exhibit will combine advertising, food, convenience, culture, and language in a visually-elemental installation. Hours Mon.-Thurs. 11 - 4, Fri. 9 - 2.

The power of drama will be discussed when Maria Matz from the Department of Cultural Studies will present "Theater in Latin America: A Tool for Social and Political Change." The presentation is part of an ongoing Faculty Research Series: Scholarship in the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences. Talk will be held Wednesday, March 3 3:30 – 5 p.m. in O'Leary Media 325.

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum, on 115 John Street will be hosting an award winning documentary on Tuesday, February 23rd. Garbage Dreams follows three boys growing up in the world's largest trash village on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Its inhabitants, known as the Zaballeen, survive by recycling 80 percent of the trash they collect. This event is free and open to the public, discussion will follow the 6 p.m. showing.


Next Movie that Rocks! will be the special effects, super disaster porno 2012 starring Mathew Broderick. Showings are at 8 p.m. on three different nights, in three different locations: Fridays at O’Leary 222 (South Campus), Sundays in Fox Common (East Campus), and Mondays in the ICC.

In Brief:



I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone, is the latest from Long Island's Crime in Stereo. It hits stores on Febuary 23rd and is their first release since 2008.

SPOILER ALERT: Writing about this album preemptively (received by WUML for promotional use), is just like telling you the butler did it before you've finished the book. Especially because I anticipate this album will receive very mixed reviews.

With that said, has Crime in Stereo pulled a Daisy on us?

Daisy, Brand New's highly anticipated 2009, release was a complete reinvention of their sound and was also met with mixed reviews as well. After all, the members of Crime in Stereo and Brand New grew up in the same town and have always been close band-friends. In fact, Crime and Stereo joined Brand New on their supporting tour this past fall. So is it any wonder that Crime in Stereo seems to have drawn such a strong influence from them?

Perhaps they turned down the distortion and cranked up the reverb, but Crime in Stereo seems to have come up with a thoughtful, versatile album (something I generally admire about Brand New). It seems as though they have left most of their earlier hardcore and punk influences behind, and cashed them in for a heavier-rock sound.

I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone, has the drama of Is Dead, and a few selective tracks off of The Troubled Stateside, including "the impending glory of american adulthood," and "gravity grace," with more lows than highs.

This certainly is not the melodic-hardcore album I expected to hear, but being a fan of Long Island music, I am not disappointed. I welcome Crime in Stereo into this new chapter in their existence. I hope you will too!

Recommended tracks: Drugwolf, Odalisque, Type One, and Republica.

Also, they have a show in Cambridge (MA) with Transit, Make do and Mend, and Defeater on 2/27. See you there!




Well it's official, Jade Tree Records and the boys from Cap'n Jazz are finally picking the towels back up and cashing in on the past. You don't hear anyone complaining!

Tickets went on sale on 2/15 for a reunion show at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL in July. However, as one would expect, it is already sold out.

If you are crafty, I am sure you can find a way to finagle a ticket. If you are crafty AND generous, please buy me one...July is my birthday month!

For those of you without a ticket, or reliable transportation, Jade Tree Records will be re-releasing Analphabetapolothology on double LP (an album that was recently returned to our station by an x-dj with sticky fingers). This is great news for Cap'n Jazz fans. The release date is set to 6/15.





Smith's pièce de résistance Meat is Murder turns 25...and the swainsters probably wouldn't have liked that I used a French term.



Roundup:

Stereogum
Times Online

Examiner (tribute bands)


2/24 will mark the 97th anniversary of the Bread and Roses Strike, an event which sent Lawrence into a chaotic worker strike. Our RESD Dept. in collaboration with Lowell National Parks will be holding a discussion on Feb. 27, 2010 from 1 to 4 p.m. Lawrence Heritage State Park at 1 Jackson St., Lawrence. Itinerary includes a strike tour in Lawrence, excerpts from a documentary, refreshments, and more. For more information, visit www.masshumanities.org or contact Robert_Forrant@uml.edu.

Pollard Memorial Library is holding an Indie Film showing TONIGHT at 6:30. The movie is Storm and the vent is hosted Lowell Film Collaborative. Every month, LFC holds an indie night at Pollard.

On April 20th, rock/satanist legend Roky Erickson will be releasing an album with Okkervil River entitled True Cast Out All Evil. Album will be released on Anti- records.

Two on campus movies: Men Who Stare at Goats shown Friday 2/12 at O’Leary 222 , Sunday 2/14 at Fox Common , and Monday 2/15 in the ICC. Also, Orgasm Inc. will be coming Monday 3/1 at 7 p.m. in O'Leary 222.

Graphic Design alumni from the last decade will be returning on 2/22 to showcase thier work in the Dugan Gallery. Working Proof: Graphic Design Alumni Exhibition will last until 3/12 and runs weekdays 10a.m. till 5 p.m., a reception will be held Wednesday, 2/23 from 3p.m. till 5p.m. For more info contact: Karen_Roehr@uml.edu

In Brief:
As the 80s gave way to the 90s radio-friendly, and retro-swing began to dominate, and would do so for years. Canonization of jazz classics were also coming into style, The Ultimate Collection, Complete ____ Sessions, Very Best of ____, and other ways of doing were suddenly over shadowing what was happening...they still are. (see Charts on 50th Anniversary of Kind of Blue, CMJ.) Apart from the likes of David Sanborn, the Rippingtons, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, a few still managed to push onward into the decade. Experimental big band, though not invented in the 80s, makes this list. Ornette Coleman accompanies Howard Shore, NRG Ensemble blasts out in Chicago, and David Moss' Theoria was a 5 part ECM album bordering on neo-classical. Steve Lacy holds down the soprano sax on We See. Edging it out is Englishman John Surman, hot off the presses with Adventure Playground - results of sessions with Gary Peacock and Paul Bley.


  1. John Surman - Adventure Playground
  2. Steve Lacy - We See: Thelonious Monk Songbook
  3. Ornette Coleman and Howard Shore - Naked Lunch Soundtrack
  4. Anthony Braxton - Victoriaville '92
  5. NRG Ensemble - The Finnish/Swiss Tour
  6. Thomas Chapin Trio - Insomnia
  7. Edward Vessala - Invisible Storm
  8. David Moss - Theoria


Dave King (great drummer) releases angular, Bad Plus-like solo album.

Trip-hop revivalists Phantogram are making waves, both live in Boston and in the media.

Janelle Monae is releasing new stuff sometime soon, as is Dave Holland.

Jazz.com blog highlights, Jazz and Hip Hop and Jazz Radio, dying here dying there.

Also out this week:

David_LYNCH Twitter feed: has a pulse!
"Dear Twitterers, How was your weekend? I cut two pieces of Douglas Fir &fashioned them for a small cabinet. Sorry I've been away."
New No Age, played live over at Daytrotter, the place for emerging mp3s




Addicted yet?


March 11th Kerouac Film celebration: Record and film producer and Lowell native Jim Sampas will host a CD listening session with the soundtrack recording from his new documentary film, “One Fast Move or I’m Gone,” about Kerouac’s novel “Big Sur.”
Listening: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Durgin Hall, Room 114 - Please RSVP to Paul_Marion@uml.edu.
Viewing: 3 p.m. O’Leary, Room 222

UML Blood Drive on Thursday, Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Cumnock Hall, One University Avenue, Lowell. For more info call 1-800-Red Cross or visit http://www.RedCrossBlood.org. Positive ID required.

Pitchfork has a cool article to supplement Fela Kuti reissues.

The Beats and Ballardian.

Woods gets Pasted. Go G. Lucas Crane!
Here its for you now:

Boy Lilikoi by Jónsi
















Expect a larger vocal presence, high-energy songs, and uplifting lyrics.

April 5th is the release date

Look Mexico "You Stay. I Go. No Following." from Look Mexico HD on Vimeo.



Can't wait for this album! It comes out on February 23rd and pre-orders are happening right now! Here is what it looks like:


To a Cleveland paper, read it here.

WUML GENERAL MEETING:
General Meeting Spring 2010
February 4th 2010 8:00 PM Lydon MPR



PHENOM, The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts, rallied support from across the state on Sunday to raise awareness and bolster support at UMASS Amherst. Check out the full story here.

Orgasm Inc., a documentary on the science of female pleasure, will be shown on March 1st at 7PM in O'Leary 222. Film explores a new scientific race for the prize of Viagra for women and UML Today promises a "humorous but sobering look at the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry."
For more information please contact Jeffrey Gerson, Political Science, 978-934-4255.

Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) will discuss an alarming topic: "The Current Fiscal Crisis in Massachusetts and State Budgetary Politics." Widmer, a graduate of both Harvard and Princeton, has worked in MA state politics since the 70s. The talk will take place on Thursday Feb. 25, from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., O'Leary Auditorium Room 222.

Etta James was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease, according to the Guardian. James, now 72, is one of the all-time great blues singers and was inducted into the R & R Hall of Fame in 1993.

WUML GENERAL MEETING:
General Meeting Spring 2010
February 4th 2010 8:00 PM Lydon MPR



UML Moviefest may bring out the best of your inner auteur. Event organizers are providing laptops and editing software to make a 5 minute film. Registration and pick up is tomorrow between 2PM - 4PM. The completed films are due back on the 8th. At the end of the month, the premiere will be held to determine several awards. Best Comedy, Best Picture, and Best Drama will each be entered in a regional competition. Two Info sessions left:
Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in Fox Common,
Feb. 3 at 1:30 p.m. in Southwick 240

For more information, visit www.campusmoviefest.com or e-mail Amy Liss at Amy_Liss@uml.edu.

Patti Smith book review at Paste Magazine.
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