lead vocalist, co-songwriter/lyricist, and founder of third wave (1980's berkeley) california ska sensations THE UPTONES wanders in the desert for a quarter century living on locusts and honey, until the noise and clamor of the 21st century awakens him from his arthurian slumber to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable with his strangely familiar, blurrily visionary songsmithing. after seven years throwing himself against the barricades as front man for BLIND WATCHMAKERS, our hero slips the bonds of bandmanship and goes solo...now, without a backline to support him, the death-defying high-wire act loses its net, and ERIK RADER (and friends) take one more quixotic tilt at the hulking windmills of the american musical-industrial complex.
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Hey, Happy New Year, here too! What was I thinking not being on facebook all this time? And you- all social and shit! You're like the late-bloomer social secretary of BHS! Hope Primavera had a super 3rd birthday, god she's cute!
Hey~ a metal show in your neck of the woods! (if you come, skip the opening acts) The Summer Solistice is fast approaching. Time to trance and turn the wheel. Come listen to lovely, dark ambiant chamber music in the most beautiful place on earth. Details to follow:
6/20 East End Amber Asylum, Trees, Lair of the Mintaur 203 SE Grand Avenue~ Portland, OR
6/21 Comet Tavern Amber Asylum, Trees, Lair of the Mintaur 922 Pike St~ Seattle, WA
6/22 The 12th Annual Autonomous Mutant Festival 2008 TBD, Eugen Oregon check for updates www. mutantfest. org
6/26 The Hemlock Tavern Amber Asylum and Trees 1131 Polk St.~ S.F.
