Robin (of Drums for Giants, & Goodbye Better, & Write or Die, & So L'il)'s got a new blog (yay!): check out her amazin' illustrations & more at:
Robin's blog

And now, Upcoming Goodbye Better Shows!:

Saturday, December 10th, 2005, 8pm
Ben’s shoegaze birthday nova a-go-go*~
Featuring:
Dedelectric
Sleeping Kings of Iona
Ifwhen
So L’il

*FREE* @ Matchless, 557 Manhattan Ave. At Driggs
Phone: (718)383-5333
G to Nassau, L train to Lorimer or Bedford Ave. With a long walk
across the street from Enids bar

http://solil.net
http://sleepingkingsofiona.com
http://dedelectric.com
http://ifwhen.com
http://www.lovelessmusicgroup.com

Just happened:

11/12/2005 07:00 PM - Bushwick Arts Project / Wreck Room
So L'il w/Apollo Heights
(one day art & music festival, 16 hours 22 venues, 70 artists:
http://www.whitebunnyprod.com
Bushwick Arts Projects / Wreck Room 940 Flusing Ave., Brooklyn , NY
(So L'il goes on at 8pm)
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11/05/2005 08:00 PM - Matchless
557 Manhattan Ave. at Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11201,US -
I Feel Tractor November, 5 2005 at Matchless 557 Manhattan Ave at Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 Cost: with FeverFew, The Bones of Davey Jones, and some other undetermined performer or bunny rabbit. More details to come.

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So L'il & The Mellow Crypts
9pm, Wednesday, November 2
at Throwing Back the Apple @Trash Bar
(presented by Loveless Music Group),
9pm So L'il
10pm Kite Operations
11pm American Watercolor Movement
12pm Dead Leaf Echo
Trash is located at 256 Grand Street, between Driggs and Roebling,
Brooklyn, NY 11211 Cost: $5
Open bar from 9 to 10pm
with paid admission
http://solil.net
http://www.thetrashbar.com
http://goodbyebetter.com
http://www.lovelessmusicgroup.com

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10/28/2005 08:00 PM - Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (near 1st st.), New York City, NY 10012,US -
October, 28 2005 at Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (near 1st st), New york, NY 10012
I feel tractor opening up for writer Bobbie-Louise Hawkins and poet Anselm Hollo, who are the heavy-hitting ass kickers that eat your dinner for breakfast.

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10/14/2005 08:00 PM - 169 Bar
169 East Broadway, New York, NY 10001,US -
Tiger Vomitt @ 169 Bar, 9pm.
Tiger Vomitt release party for their new bangin' album, 'mayonaise factory'(yay!)*~

Goodbye Better Presents...
Saturday, October 1st, 8pm - 12:30am
at Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Hurricane Katrina Benefit - Cock-Now (zine) Release party
Featuring: Robin Mapes Art Exhibition, I Feel Tractor, Wooden Wand, The Booboniks,
Dedelectric, So L'il, Theartheart, + much much more...

This is a benefit show, and although the show is FREE, donations will be collected for the relief effort throughout the night. All proceeds from Cock-Now will be donated as well ...

The new issue of Cock-Now is a doozy, & features an interview between Anselm & Edmund Berrigan, an interview with Your Team Ring, poetry by Alice Notley, Chris Martin, Whip, Kristina Baranovich, , Matt Valentine, & Ben M, Fiction by Edward Sandling, Cartoons by Pete Browngardt, How does it feel? 10 songs by NYC bands you need to hear, Illustrations & Collages by Robin Mapes, Eric Bernardin, Merry Parker, Evan Sobel, & Kristina, and Remembering Psychic Vacuum - by James Toth, + much more!

In addition to the new issue of Cock-Now, there will also be a new Goodbye Better cd-r comp available at the show, featuring I Feel Tractor, The Booboniks, Tiger Vomitt, Drums for Giants, So L'il, Mellow Crypt, and more...

Thank you! Hope to see you there,
Love,
Robin & Ben, Goodbye Better

http://goodbyebetter.com
http://www.petescandystore.com

We have new mp3s up on myspace from Mellow Crypt, Boobonics, Tiger Vomitt, & So L'il. Please see: http://www.myspace.com/goodbyebetter

& please add us as a friend, as we truly are*~

Upcoming Goodbye Better shows*~

Wednesday, September 7th @ The Living Room in South Slope, Brooklyn (23rd Street right by 5th Avenue [R to 25th Street, 2 blocks up]), La Casa de Booboniks Amor (i.e. The Booboniks world premiere!!!*~): Show starts @ 8:30, Booboniks @ 9:30pm.

September 17th at The St. Marx Poetry Project, 6pm, I feel tractor*~

Saturday, October 1st at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New Orleans Relief Cock-Now (zine) Release party, with Robin Mapes art exhibition, I feel tractor, The Booboniks Big Band, Dedelectric, So L'il, Theartheart, + much much more...This is a benefit show & donations will be collected for the New Orleans relief fund...In addition to the new issue of Cock-Now, there will be a new Goodbye Better cd-r comp available at the show...More info soon*~

October 14th @ 169 Bar, Tiger Vomitt, 9pm.

November 2nd @ Trash, So L'il: Loveless Music Group show*~
(Throwing Back the Apple @ Trash Bar 256 Grand Street, between Driggs and Roebling, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Cost: 5)

Thank you! Love,
Goodbye Better

Goodbye Better/Cock-Now zine release party Saturday, October 1st at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn. Performers: TBA. More info. soon*~

Tuesday’s are so killer*~

***Live @ Pete’s Candy Store, Tuesday, August 2nd***

So L’il - half-insane sun-shower, third cousin to Jerry Blank.
Eddie Berrigan (i.e. I feel tractor)- maddest motherfucking cow around.
Marissa Nadler - spooky lady plays banjo, sings soprano in moon glow.
Rachel Lipson - spins innocent tales from hands & lips before pushing you over the end of the earth

***FreeFreeFree***
Show starts at 8:30

Free potato dipped in caramel for the first 20 people through the door!*~

We love you,
Goodbye Better

Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan)
www.petescandystore.com

http://goodbyebetter.com
http://solil.net
http://www.marissanadler.com
http://rachellipson.org/
http://sanctimoniouskid.blogspot.com/

Saturday July 30th Moon Beams & The Other Worldly August 2*~

So L'il! (awww shit!) Saturday, July 30th! 169 Bar in NYC!*~
Playin’ w/super fly touring bands Casper And The Cookies (members of Of Montreal), Elekibass (from Japan!), and Keith John Adams (from the United Kingdom!), so get on yr dancin’ shoes, come out & get on down, & don't forget to bring yr shades for this pop moment will shine moon prime & ya best be ready to soak in the rays*~

The line-up looks like this: 12 Casper And The Cookies (members of Of Montreal), 11 So Lil', 10 Pretty Flowers, 9 Elekibass (Japan), 8 Keith John Adams (UK)

Please see: http://169bar.com
(169 Bar is located at 169 East Broadway (the cross street is Rutgers) and is close to the F Train East Broadway stop.)

Thank you! Love,
So L'il
http://solil.net
http://goodbyebetter.com

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!*~)

This Sunday, June 5th illuminati burst into super-nova starburst thirstathon in sunny Williamsburg*~

So L'il live at The Lucky Cat!
with the awesome Autumn Thieves!*~

Cost: Free!!!
DJ starts at 7pm, So L'il at 9pm, Autumn Thieves at 10pm.

The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand St. (between Driggs & Roebling), Brooklyn, NY 11201

Deliriously there hope to see you*~
Thankie, Love-a,
Robin, Ben, Evan, ~So L'il*~

http://solil.net
http://goodbyebetter.com

More shows: July 6th at Scenic, "To Here Knows When": Autumn Thieves, Ifwhen, So L'il; July 30th at the 169 Bar, So L'il w/Elekibass, Casper & the Cookies, and Keith John Adams.
http://autumnthieves.net
http://www.theluckycat.com/
For Directions to the Lucky Cats see: http://www.theluckycat.com/directions.html

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Congrats to Tiger Vomitt on an amazing show at The Charleston last Friday! P-bolss for Mayor!*~

Congrats to I feel tractor on an insane weekend of a million gigs which will cause us all to go ponder our feet for a 1000 years!*~

New From Goodbye Better:

Hey all! Check out the NEW Poetry/Illustration chat book "Listen" put together by yours truly-Ben & Robin. There is a limited amount of copies and they are free so if y'all are interested in ordering one drop us a line at: bratmokill@hotmail.com.

Thanks!

~Be Good~

Best,
Robin & Ben
Goodbye Better

IT'S GREEN!

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New So L'il Album*~

The new So L'il album is called 'Dear Kathy,'. It's 8 songs, 40-something minutes, and here's what Robin has to say about it:

This Brooklyn threesome forms creepy melodic music for futuristic creatures to make up dances to. With guitars, some electronic beats, droning keys, and omnichord, theirs is a sound for day dreamers to sink their heads into.

If you're interested in ordering 'Dear Kathy,' or just writing us in general, we'd love to hear from you*. Please contact us at: solil@earthlink.com

You can also order the album through paypal: please paypal to: prousto@hotmail.com

In other news, the I feel tractor & Tiger Vomitt albums continue their course splendidly(new mp3s on the mp3 page), and the Carleen souiree was amazing*~

Well, thank you! We love you!
Robin & Ben, Goodbye Better

ps: much love/thanks to p-bolss as well for the wonderful new site design*~

goodbye better news 4.15.05

Goodbye Better News:
A) Well hello out there to all of you members of this insane nation! In any attempt to escape our surreal fates, we'll take time out:
Friday, February 25th, to celebrate, that is, So L'il will be playing
Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with our friends:
Cyan
Cut the Wires
Rahim
Hopefully this will be the release party for the new So L'il album, 'Dear Kathy', which has just gone into mastering. The track listing for the album at present is:

1) Enamel Animal
2) Carribean Dreams
3) Birds Are Louder than Chainsaws II
4) Dear Kathy
5) Inside
6) Recieve
7) Useless
8) Addicted

Slop Hop Nation 2005*~

B) Tiger Vomitt & I feel tractors full-lengths are progressing excellently and should be arriving later this Spring. From what we've heard so far, both blow our minds into teenyweeny l'il pieces...P-Bolss is takin' over, 99-cent Loaf is still king of the beats, & Eddie B. is still out to lunch (i.e. queen lucidity)*~
Suffice to say we are very excited. (If the Long Island show Tiger Vomitt played luxury cruise style is any indication of the future, we'll all be cruising very soon*~

C) Thanks to all those who made it out to the Goodbye Better Holiday Extravaganza. Your generosity helped raise some money for the Tsunami victims, and kick it old school Pete's style*~

D) We'll have mp3s up on the site in the next few weeks from I feel tractor, Tiger Vomitt, and So L'il

D) And finally, look out for the Goodbye Better Spring Juvenilia Saturday, March 19th...

Hope all's well lovers, Cheers!*~
Robin & Ben, Goodbye Better