[Imc-events] the next 4 weeks of your life

[URSIS booking]

I feel that it is my civic duty to inform you of the good times ahead at the
Independent Media Center in downtown Urbana, Illinois.  Please forward to
those that you love and respect.

INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
218 West Main Street / Urbana IL / http://shows.ucimc.org



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Weds May 1st - 8pm, $6, All Ages, BYOB if 21+
Urban Legends (K Records), Everybody Uh Oh, L'Spaerow (x-Braid, Firebird),
Heller~Mason

-- URBAN LEGENDS --
"Originally starting out as a one man band that recorded exclusively in his
own San Jose living room, Hutch Harris armed himself with two guitars and a
stock of borrowed equipment to record a seven song cassette of lo-fi indie
pop entitled Cycle; hence, Urban Legends was born in the fall of 1996. After
releasing the Dance and Burn EP on Tree Records in 1997, Harris took a
hiatus from Urban Legend to tour with his other band Haelah that summer with
the additional intentions of never returning to California. Relocating to
Portland, Oregon after Haelah's break-up, Harris got together with
keyboardist Marc Bianchi from Her Space Holiday to record ten songs for the
resurrected Urban Legends. Following a split 7" with Her Space Holiday in
1998, Hutch formed the Urban Legends band with himself on drums, Kathy (also
formerly of Haelah) on guitar and Holiday Inn on bass. With their
self-titled debut album released in 1999 thanks to Audio Information
Phenomena Records (again, with Hutch performing all the musical duties),
Fragile Records put out the 7" "My Only Defense Left" that same year." --
ALLMUSIC.COM

-- EVERYBODY UH OH --
If Teen People put out a Champaign-Urbana music edition, Everybody Uh Oh
would certainly grace the cover as "Hot New Band" of 2002. What began as a
sloppy ensemble dubbed "alt-rock revue" has evolved into a complex, slightly
jaded alt-pop machine.  Resonating with deep feedback and addressing topics
ranging from indie-prick wardrobes to the stock market and even Christina
Aguillera, Everybody Uh Oh's lo-fi sound is sugar coated, echoing in those
distant spaces between the sounds of Neutral Milk Hotel's "Everything Is"
single and the simple pleasures of a Mates of State.

-- L'SPAEROW --
The loud, lean, hungry post-noise trio fronted by Christopher Broach of the
legendary Braid and Firebird Band, L'Spaerow drops melodic thunder like an
anvil in a kiddie pool, soaking the listener with sight and sound.  Fans of
Mogwai's "My Father My King" opus will find solace in the dense wall of
sound that takes the most intense moments of Firebird to a new level.  And
the drummer has a mohawk, not just a pointy head.




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Fri May 3rd - 8pm, $6, All Ages, BYOB if 21+
Dub Narcotic Sound System (x-Beat Happening/Halo Benders, K Records), Re:Rec
(x-Bargos Steeler), The Land Camera Sound

-- DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM --
"If you haven't heard of the incomparable Calvin Johnson yet, well it's time
you did. He's played in two of the more-celebrated indie bands of the last
few decades, Beat Happening and The Halo Benders (alongside Built To Spill's
Doug Martsch), and operates the legendary K Records, home of the
international pop underground, out of his Olympia-based Dub Narcotic
recording studio. His latest project, Dub Narcotic Sound System is, as
you've probably guessed by now, named after that very studio. With his
rotating cast of musical misfits (aka Olympia scenesters, including Lois and
the members of the hip hop outfit Dead Presidents), Johnson's been refining
the Dub Narcotic bump and grind since the mid-'90s. Here's how it works:
take unpretentious Beat Happening-style indie pop and mix in copious amounts
of King Tubby-style dub licks and a generous helping of twisted '70s funk.
What do you get? A thick, groove-heavy sound that's pretty much a recipe for
ass-shakin'. You show me someone who can listen to Out of Your Mind, the
second Dub Narcotic record (featuring "Teenage Time Bomb"), without
twitching their hips a little and I will eat my underwear." -- EPITONIC.COM

-- TRACTOR KINGS --
"The Tractor Kings are a rare and intriguing blend of alt-country and
neo-psychedelia, mixing influences ranging from Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan
to Chris Knox and Galaxie 500. The duo of singer/songwriter/guitarist Jacob
Fleischli and drummer Rebecca Rury formed in Champaign-Urbana, IL, in 1999
and released their first album, Sunday Night, on the local imprint Mud
Records in 2001." — Stewart Mason of ALLMUSIC.COM

-- RE:REC --
Re:Rec combines a noticeable appreciation for the power of dynamics with
razor-sharp, angular guitars. The group improves upon the work of past
projects (Bargos Steeler, Beowulf Scantron Test) by extending beyond the
shadow of great bands like Polvo and Don Caballero into a bright light all
their own. One song even features a spiraling dual-guitar finger-tapping
fully-hyphenated segment. Coupling the guitar work of Dheeru Pennepalli and
Tim Iseler with a solid, snappy rhythm section that is never content to lie
down, Re:Rec is charting new territory for rock music, expanding from
Chicago outward.

-- THE LAND CAMERA SOUND --
Citing mopey rock influences with an alt-country leaning, The Land Camera
Sound is the one man show of singer/guitarist for Champaign's mod-punk
heroes The Blackouts, Steve.  Was that a run-on sentence?




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Sun May 19th - 8pm, $5, All Ages, BYOB if 21+
Sarah Dougher, You In MidAir, The Violents, Fuck The Felt

-- SARAH DOUGHER --
"Portland, OR-based singer/songwriter Sarah Dougher has played in groups
like the Lookers, The Crabs and Cadallaca, which also features
Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker. In addition she holds a Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature, teaches Greek and Roman Literature and writes for the Willamette
Week, San Fransisco Bay Guardian and other publications. Dougher also wrote
Sent Out On The Tracks They Built: Sinophobia in Olympia, 1886, a book on
racism and railroad building in Olympia, WA, with artist Nikki McClure. Her
personal and political solo debut album, Day One, was released in 1999 on K
Records; Walls Ablaze, her second album and her first for Mr. Lady Records,
appeared in spring 2000 and shows in England, Japan and the eastern U.S.
followed. She and fellow collaborator Jon Reuter played The Knitting Factory
in New York City for a month-long residency in January 2001, selling out
every show and earning props from The New Yorker, The New York Times, and
The Village Voice. As one of the founders of the rising Ladyfest festival,
Dougher played Ladyfest Glasgow in summer 2001, just prior to issuing her
third studio effort The Bluff." -- ALLMUSIC.COM




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Friday, May 31st - 8pm, $6, All Ages, BYOB if 21+
The Naysayer, Beauty Shop, Angie Heaton, Cynthia Nelson (solo set)

-- THE NAYSAYER --
The Naysayer is a recording collaboration between the trio of Tara Jane
O'Neil, Cynthia Nelson and Anna Padgett, three women who hold an impressive
collective resume, with formal connections to Rodan, Retsin and Ruby Falls.
The trio have released two albums for Carrot Top records, and Nelson has
also established herself as a writer with three books published by Soft
Skull Press throughout the 1990s.

-- THE BEAUTY SHOP --
When the Allmusic guide refers to Champaign's own Beauty Shop as performing
"dark Americana dirges with wicked deadpan drawls," they couldn't be more
dead-on.  Local alt-country-punk sensation John Hoeffleur, along with
longtime Beauty Shopper Ariane Peralta have picked up a new drummer and are
playing out again.  The resurfacing should come as no surprise to those with
an ear to the ground, as the Beauty Shop buzz recently returned with the
announcement that the band's debut "Yr Money or Yr Life" will have a U.K.
release on the venerable Glasgow-based Spit & Polish imprint (which you
can't mention without a nod to the label's founder, Francis Macdonald of the
legendary Teenage Fanclub), who repeatedly describe the Beauty Shop as
"brilliant" and "simply devine".
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