Max P. Kemper

new_york, ny

Events:

Kate Nash

Where: Trocadero Theater

Date: 2008-04-19 20:00:00

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Born in Ireland, Kate Nash began her musical career after not gaining a foothold into her first love, acting. She began performing her songs in 2005, booking herself into a local gig in Bristol after being rejected by the Old Vic Theatre School. She eventually uploaded some of her songs to MySpace, where she earned the same type of notice as Lily Allen, who first scored a great deal of exposure in early 2006. Nash's first single was a vinyl only 7-inch of her song 'Caroline's a Victim.' She eventually signed with Fiction, which issued the single 'Foundations,' which spent five weeks on the UK Top-40, reaching number two in the summer of 2007. Her debut album, 'Made With Bricks,' arrived in August, reaching Number One on the UK album chart, selling over 60,000 copies.

Hurt

Where: The Bowery Ballroom

Date: 2008-03-20 19:00:00

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Hurt is an up and coming band that has made inroads, touring with Staind on the Jagermeister Music Tour. Traces of Tool, Nirvana, and mid-period Metallica flicker throughout their debut album, but Hurt have created a remarkably individual sound nonetheless.

Vuk + Alex Temple

Where: The Tank

Date: 2008-03-19 21:30:00

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VUK "Imagine a fierier, less frilly Björk, PJ Harvey or Nico lancing every commercial impulse from her repertoire, and you'll have only vague insight into this woman's deep, emotional bouts with death-gospel drama, esoteric organ-and-harmonium requiems, percussive chants and unbridled, youthful whimsy." -Jordan Mamone, Dusted Magazine Vuk is an experimental, wildly eclectic songwriter. She makes music seeking first and foremost to move and surprise her listeners. Blessed with an exceptionally wide vocal range and raw, emotive power, her influences range from Diamanda Galás and industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten, to Bulgarian folk music and the delta blues. Having recently relocated from Helsinki to New York, the songs from her upcoming album, "The Plains," baroque and orchestral on the record, have been re-arranged for solo voice and portable pump organ for solo performances such as this. http://www.myspace.com/vukmusic ALEX TEMPLE'S "THE TRAVELS OF E.C. DUMONDE" In another chapter of her book, Dumonde describes the peculiar experience of what can only be called hearing forward in time. It was during one of her rare ventures into a major city, specifically New York, on a fiercely cold day in February of 1955. As she passed a little building on Church Street, she heard a performance: a man's voice speaking with exaggerated inflections, almost like singing, accompanied by an orchestra of clanging, whining, whirring instruments playing skittish, sharp-angled tunes. The sounds were unlike any she'd heard, and when she looked into the building, she couldn't see what was making them — just a black velvet curtain lying dead against the dark gray walls. But as she listened, she realized that the man was talking about her. He was telling a story of something that had not yet happened, about a city near Los Angeles that she would go to in 1956. When she got there, he said, she would find it empty, except for a black-haired woman who would know about her past, and who would tell her where to go next. At that moment she decided that it was time to return to Los Angeles, which she had not been to in eleven years. http://www.alextemplemusic.com/dumonde.html

The Peach Tartes Peel for Repeal!

Where: Galapagos Art Space

Date: 2008-04-21 21:30:00

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"...IRRESISTIBLE EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT" Amy Krivohlavek, Offoffonline.com Rouge your knees, roll your stockings down, find yourself a flask, and get a wiggle on down to the joint as New York's Juiciest Burlesque Troupe keeps it wet and hot in their Prohibition Era-inspired burlesque show. With special guests and swell prizes that are sure to be the cat's meow! 1920's & 30's vintage attire is admired, but not required.