A bad trip through the toy section; the taste of cat's blood to a starving tick; a dying giraffe; hyrdoflouric acid dissolving the flesh of 23 roadkill armadillos; 9 cats drowning in 17 gallons of hot lard while being forced to listen to Ligeti's "Atmospheres" backwards and at maximum volume; a herd of cows being wrung out through a juicer;
one eye opening; the voices in my head; what might have been; Bill Gates' disembodied brain colliding with an emotionally unstable porcupine at 90mph; whiny, depressed aliens.
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Bagoteeth is a 3-man electronic act. We alternate between atmospheric bliss and spastic textures. Unholy racket contrasted with ethereal ambivalence, combined with video projection. The video is an integral part of our performance, as we time our transitions by the images on the screen. We recently completed our fourth set:
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Please come out this Wednesday night (May 9th) to Bottletree to see Japanese avant noisemakers, Mono. Just to give you an idea, Godspeed You Black Emperor are huge fans of this band. Their live shows are careening in fields of volume and agonized sound that thunders against club walls and human skulls. This may sound obvious, but it is always a bit extra of a stretch to bring a band from Japan over to the Alabama, and your support helps us pay for the extra expense that is figured into bands' cost of making the over seas journey. Basically, we will love you forever if you come out to what will surely prove to be one of the finest mid-week mindbenders of this century. Thank you graciously for your support and enthusiasm
HERE IS MONO'S BIO INFO:
Throughout their six-year career, MONO has ascended consistently in both popularity and critical acclaim, with record sales and live show attendance corresponding. But still elusive to the Japanese quartet has been the successful translation of their powerful and violently beautiful live performances to their recordings. Despite their albums' masterful subtleties and majestic walls of noise, the consensus has remained that their transcendent live show is simply incomparable.
If there is any chance of breaking that spell, it lies in You Are There, without a doubt the prime contender to unite the live and recorded worlds of MONO. Once again captured to tape by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, IL, the album extends the cinematic drama of 2003's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (also recorded by Albini), while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded One Step More and You Die.
If Walking Cloud was a nuclear winter, then You Are There is the post-war rebirth; steeped in an ominous creation-via-destruction atmosphere not heard since Neurosis' landmark Enemy of the Su
Tonight we welcome Atlanta's NO RIVER CITY, former tourmates of Iron and Wine, Calexico, and Richard Buckner. We think you'll love their rollicking blend of folk, country, and rock combined with their sometimes dark storytelling lyrics. Supporting will be Birmingham favorites The Saturdays, this lineup featuring frontman Bo Butler, John Strohm (Lemonheads, Blake Babies), and Brad Armstrong (13 Ghosts).
Opening for both bands will be Nate Nelson and the Cortrights from Athens, a well-known birthplace of indie rock.
Tickets are $8 for the show, and you can buy them right through our website.
Doors @ 8:00
Show @ 9:00
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Sunday night we welcome back Birmingham natives, popular stoner rockers Brightblack Morning Light. Their hazy, atmospheric set puts a new spin on "jam band," so come catch their critically acclaimed set and zone out with us!
Opening for them will be tourmates White Lodge. You can buy your tickets now.
Sunday, April 22
Doors @ 8:00
Show @ 9:00
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Thursday, April 26, Bottletree welcomes Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle for their first performance in Birmingham. This is our second jazz/funk performance of the year, so put on your dancing shoes like you did with Big Sam and bring your funky asses out here.
Mike Dillon is a vibraphonist who has worked as a percussionist for Les Claypool, Ani DiFranco, Polyphonic Spree, Galactic, and Garage a Trois, among esteemed others. He&
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you - beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.
-Edward Abbey
Searching the soul for the truth has never been so promising....
I fucking love you guys so much... promise me you'll never suck? I'll take that as a yes, until further notice. You guys are amazing! I'll never stop loving you... (sometimes when grown-ups say forever, they mean "a very long time")
