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Bonde do Role, Plastic Little, and Edie Sedgwick at Black Cat (20070911)

I came for Edie Sedgwick and left for Bonde do Role. I had never heard Edie Sedgwick before, but was lured in by the drummer who is also in S PRCSS and Antelope. Turns out that, this iteration at least, Edie Sedgwick had Jason Hutto of The Aquarium playing keys. They sounded a little rough, but excellent–very tricky tempos.

I had seen Bonde do Role before, and paid the price with a headache. At least one friend suffered the same fate, despite my warning. You might be too cool for school, but I’m too cool for bands who can’t respect a sound system.

Frans de Waard, Rape Ape, TL0741, and Tone Ghosting at El Possible (20070909)

First, let me take one more opportunity to trash the DC music journalists. Your writing is terrible. Your opinions uninformed. Your tastes reprehensible. Your coverage racist. For good measure, let me throw in a specific critique of your coverage of Sonic Circuits is pathetic, as it consists almost entirely of regurgitating garbage PR releases rather than actually look into the festivities. You (continue to) make me sick!

Moving on to the show…I walked in midway through Tone Ghosting’s set (sites: 1 and 2), and I wish I arrived earlier. His use of a metal bowl on a bass was 100 percent awesome. The rest of the musicians rocked it, with TL0741 doing the knob-twiddling thang, Rape Ape doing some interesting things with feedback and mic work, and Frans de Waard (sites: 1 and 2) building a beautiful sonic landscape with sounds recorded in some now-closed ship yard. Awesome stuff.