The Story is a monthly music happening that falls asleep and wakes up in Oakland, CA, at the historic and dangerous Stork Club, where the lights are dim, the stage is glittery, the PA was handbuilt by the soundman, the corners are so dark indeed, and the pinball machine is being played upon.
Each Chapter is hosted by Michael Curtis Hilde of Mountainhood, and chronicles the best and brightest in new era folk and psychedelia.
This is the idea:
The Story is happening all around us, made of TV molecules, lives, lies, dreams, perceptions. The Story, in and of itself, is an idea that encapsulates all that's happening on the inner and outer plane, real and superreal, canny and uncanny: everything.
People's music and lyrics tell this story. The purpose of these shows is to go into that.
The Story gets told through the words and sounds of each night's artists, whatever that story may be ~reality decides~. Every show is a new chapter, every artist telling the next part.
"Who decides The Story but for the Song and the Loom? And Who is there to weep The Story: alone: the dreamer: in her deep-thick reverie. And who is there to dream it, beyond the time we are given?"
-Jesus America, Hunter and Gatherer
The Story
Chapter IX: Infinite Splendour of the Immaculate Starblest Mynd
Mountainhood
Avocet
Wymond and the Spirit Children
Oaxacan
Sound Selections by DJ Black Lodge
9 pm June 10, 2008
$5
The Stork Club, Oakland
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The Story is more than your ordinary show.
It seems we’re all looking for something new and different when it comes to music - whether it’s that perfect blend of two completely polar genres or a groove in 7/8 time that we can actually swing our hips to. But for the last few months, a group of passionate locals has put together a collection of shows that does something new and different with the modern concert format: It allows the shows to write a Story.
The Story is a “freak folk happening” that takes place at the Stork Club in Oakland once a month. Organized by Michael Hilde of Mountainhood, the series features “the best and brightest in new era folk and psychadelia.”
With each show that takes place, The Story progresses. The Story is told with the words and music of the artists that play that night.
This month is Chapter V: Love Wins. Tomorrow, with the Stork Club as the room of their own, Colossal Yes, Benjamin Oak Goodman, Alina Hardin, Mountainhood (formerly Almaden), Misty Mountain, Joseph Childress, Telepathik Friend and DJs Sorcery Bird and Black Lodge will create a literary work with music.
The Story concert series continues to unravel the Stork Club's rough exterior with another bill of lovely, somnambulant folk, featuring Emily Jane White and Mariee Sioux. White's clear-eyed ballads have won the ears of many local listeners, including filmmaker Cam Archer, who asked her to compose the title song for his film Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006). That gorgeous Cat Power-ish track — recently included on White's debut album, Dark Undercoat — is typical of the singer/songwriter's charms: a slow-turning snapshot evocative of both intimacy and ennui. Nevada City's Sioux also completed her first full-length this past year. Faces in the Rocks features light reverb and Native American flute accompaniments, which massage Sioux's flowing epics into one of the gentlest listens of 2007.
– Max Goldberg, Flavorpill
((((((((Read stories on Mariee and Emily in Spin, Rolling Stone)))))))))))
http://www.spin.com/mp3/2007/09/070917_marieesioux/
Hello Bay Area denizens
Just to let you know that I will be MC'ing the next installment of The Story, an ongoing series of magical musical evenings curated by mysterious denizens of the outer and inner planes, but realized in Oakland. Intrigued with a night of deep earth freak folk and related meditation drops on mountain mind and other freeform esoterica? So am I!
Erik Davis, Arthur Columnist
Hey, you should come to Churchkey Manor on Thursday for a fun show! Bring some friends, because Candle is playing along with Poor Bailey, All My Pretty Ones, Nobody Beats, and more. It's free! Just come on down around 6 or 7 on Thursday, June 26th. The address is 547 33rd St. Hope we see you there!
love,
candle
Starting at 8:43 pm tonight and lasting for the next three hours and 26 minutes you'll be able to watch the complete saga of the last visible total eclipse of the moon in North America until 2010.
A lunar eclipse can only occur at full moon. And it can only occur if the moon passes through a portion of the Earth's shadow.
A full lunar eclipse occurs when the entire full moon is "completely immersed" in the Earth's shadow. The total phase of eclipse is called "totality".
The eclipse sequence will begin with a partial eclipse starting at 8:43 p.m. and will end at 12:09 a.m. Thursday. The total eclipse of the moon will occur at 10:01 p.m.
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