Straight from the bonfire of insanities, I feel tractor and So L'il will be forming like Voltron into the beast known as Mellow Crypt, to play the wonderous & mysterious M Shanghai Den in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the shamanic MV/EE & The Bummer Road, and the classic of the period and hero of the revolution Samara Lubelski, Wednesday, July 13th. More than excited for this one*~

Also, we'll have cd-rs to drop our latest megatron blasts, i.e. the So I Feel a L'il Tractor ep. Free with admission*~

M Shanghai is located at 129 Haveymeyer b/w South 1st and Grand Street in Williamsburg, NY. For directions and info on M Shanghai please visit:

http://www.mshanghaiden.com/index.asp

Show starts at 8pm and there's a suggested donation of $5.

Here's some more info:

The Matt Valentine + Erika Elder Medicine Show: Twice Aquarian Matt mv Valentine is a guitarist, writer, and blue-collar hollerer as well as being the founder/director/flint of The Tower Recordings. Very active in the subterranean community throughout the northeast United States, he is heavily involved in a personal musical fabric that ties free blues/free jazz, minimalism, psychedelic folk/rock, and the avant garde, into a unique and highly individual creation that is instantly recognized as his own music. Usually accompanying him is artist, poet, filmmaker, and multi-instrumentalist Erika Elder, forming The MV/EE Medicine Show. Together they established their grassroots label Child of Microtones dedicated to archiving contemporary ragas, country blues, and free-thinking happenings that the two have long been associated with, presenting them to the public in small handmade pressings of the highest quality form.

Samara Lubelski: Samara is a native New Yorker who grew up in the haze of artist infestation of Soho. She has been involved with various projects ever since she was allowed to cross the street on her own for an egg cream and spilled it on John Cage. Through the time of playing in various groups she has compiled an impressive resume that covers myriad of genres such as her work with the avant/psych/folk outfit of Hall Of Fame into the lair of those bohemian German musos Metabolismus and onto the indie rock interpretations of The Sonora Pine with some serious treks into the world of The Tower Recordings and off world with Jackie O Motherfucker, to name just a few.

Thank you!*~

(ps: thanks to everyone who made it out to scenic last wednesday and the wonderful loveless music group for putting it all together: the show was a blast and we absolutely loved every band who played, cheers!*~)