I Feel Tractor full-length is here(!)...
Dear Frenz,
Having blinked, summer 2006 appears to be on the outs, and, we in the Goodbye Better camp would like to say ta-ta in style, and would be ultra-honored / supra-blissed if youd join us for
Goodbye Betters Summer Extravaganza*
Saturday, August 26th @ Pete's Candy Store, 8:30pm
709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211
***FREE***FREE***FREE***
Paintings by Merry Parker
Music by I Feel Tractor, and So L'il
Poetry by CA Conrad, and Shafer Hall
http://petescandystore.com
For more detailed bios please see below.
The new I Feel Tractor cd ‘Once I Had An Earthquake’ will be available at the Extravaganza. (Also you can purchase the album via the web by clicking on the ‘news’ section on the Goodbye Better website: http://goodbyebetter.com
And last but not least, So L’il (newly refreshed from Athens Popfest [where we had a supra-blast]) spent last weekend @ Mark Ospovat’s Emandee Recording Studio in Williamsburg, and finally have some recordings indicative of the live shows Frances & I have been playing these past few months, much more indicative of So L’il now...hope to have mini-cd-r teasers for Saturday...
Ultra-bliss to see you there, love,
Hot Sauce Lips, So L’il, Goodbye Better, etc.
http://solil.net
http://goodbyebetter.com
Directions: Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn L to Lorimer Street or G to Metropolitan (~they're the same station): get out on the Lorimer St. side, or, if you get out on the Union side, walk one block down on Metropolitan (away from Kellogs Diner) and make a left onto Lorimer, go under the BQE and it's one more block down on the left.
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CA Conrad
CAConrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got, where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets. He coedits FREQUENCY Audio Journal with Magdalena Zurawski, and edits the 9for9 project. Soft Skull Press
is publishing his first book of poems titled Deviant Propulsion, available in Fall of 2005. His book The Frank Poems is forthcoming from The Jargon Society. He is the author of several chapbooks, including (end-begin w/chants), a collaboration with Frank Sherlock.
Please see: http://caconrad.blogspot.com/
I Feel Tractor
Eddie Berrigan is a New York poet and musician who performs under the name of I Feel Tractor. His songs are playful retakes of traditional folk and country genres & their subtle, funny lyrics and far-flung imagery create unusual landscapes of both physical and emotional territory. The author of the poetry collection Disarming
Matter (1999, Owl Press) and several chapbooks, Eddie as I Feel Tractor released a self-titled 7-inch last year (Loudmouth Collective) and just last month released it's first full-length recording, 'Once I Had An Earthquake', on Goodbye Better.
Please see: http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor
http://goodbyebetter.com for more info.
Shafer Hall
Shafer Hall thinks poetry has all the populism of Rock and Roll, and he behaves accordingly, but not so much so that he has tattooed letters on his knuckles. Yet. Shafer Hall’'s poems and collaborations have appeared in LIT, Lungfull!, Puppyflowers, 32 Poems, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Shampoo, and many other journals. He is a Texas poet and playwright living in Brooklyn, the coauthor, with Shanna Compton, of the chapbook Big Confetti, and has also been featured on the Poetic Brooklyn radio show. He is the curator of the Frequency Series at the Four-Faced Liar in Greenwich Village, and has been called “probably the worst bartender in New York City,” an honorific of which he is unusually proud.
Please see: http://shaferhall.blogspot.com/
So L’il
So L'il is currently Frances Sorensen & Ben Malkin, all harmonies, run-shimmy drones, waves wash over you juno, go-stutter-step percussion, sail strums gibson, psychedelic lounge folk. In the last four years So L'il has released a 6-song self-titled EP, one split 7-inch with the band Timesbold (both on Neko Recor/ds), the full-length 'Revolution Thumpin', and their most recent full-length, 'Dear Kathy,' both on Goodbye Better. They are currently at work on a new EP.
"If you think electronic music has gone too far back and needs to move forward a decade, So L'il are your new heroes." - Mundane Sounds
Please see: http://solil.net
and: http://www.myspace.com/solil
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Thanks!*
