Recently, Yvette did a performance about the recent events in her search for her iranian birth father. Filmmaker Michael Galinsky shot the footage. Also performing are Danny Tunick, Peter Zummo, and Sohrab Sadaat Ladjevardi. This was at Matchless in Greenpoint Brooklyn, Mon Sept 28, 2009.
you can view the video on Michael's blog here:
http://www.rumur.com/news/yvette-and-alana-part-dos/

have you ever read a book that you weren't supposed to?

come and confess this halloween @ the habeous lounge A BANNED  AHALLOWEEN  PARTY
the habeous lounge
@ the CUNY Grad Center Gallery is a 10-day event curated and organized by my friend Linda Pollack who has traveled all the way to nyc from los angeles just help us get our politik on.

http://habeasindex.org/
and
http://habeaslounge.org/

come for part of the lounge or all of it! but, do come on halloween for:

FRIDAY 10.31
7 - 11 PM
A BANNED  AHALLOWEEN  PARTY  …atypical, aholloween!
with Chris Finan, President, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression,  reading "From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America"  (Beacon Press, 2007)
Music  by H*E*R,  featuring Yvette Perez and Peter Zummo
Come pay homage to your favorite characters from the 2007 top banned books and beyond!

it's FREE! i love galleries....

yes, peter is in on it, too.
we're on sometime around 8 or 9. more deets soon.

hope to see you!!
come out and express yrself!
@
The Amie and Tony James Gallery
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th + 35th street)

after a long winter's nap...after many hours of spring cleaning...i'm ready...i'm coming to play philadelphia. i like sun ra very much. i like philly, too. and the tritone (http://www.tritonebar.com) is where they all come together. me and zummo (http://www.myspace.com/peterzummo) are playing as H*E*R this saturday, april 26th. danny is staying home. this will be one of sara sherr's Sugartown nights (http://www.myspace.com/sarasherr). we're on first at 10p. that's just enough time to eat and grab a whisky before we go on.
i tell you - the best part of this night will be my ol' pal alice cohen (http://www.myspace.com/alicecohen) who just release her first solo record called "sky flowers." she's a philly native and this will be a homecoming for her. yes!
also some more nice people: collette columbirch (http://www.myspace.com/colettecolumbirch), bells bells bells (http://www.myspace.com/bellsbellsbells) and dj julia factorial from wprb! (http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=1371).
you can also come to this show after my friend laris kreslins gives an auction at HeartWorks (http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2008/04/03/heartworks-week-long-event-in-philadelphia/)

i'm psyched to spend some time in another office. the old office at the knit. no computers there. and i'll be with my friends in the fabulous dust dive - www.myspace.com/thedustdive - and latitude/longitude - www.myspace.com/thelatitudelongitude.com. we have coordinates below:

Magnetic Electrics + Speech Night
Friday Jan 25th
Knitting Factory (Old Office space)
74 Leonard St , NYC (www.knittingfactory.com)

8:30 The Dust Dive

9:30 H*E*R

10:30 Latitude/Longitude

$7
Doors @ 8p

thrilling, whirring, chatting, distorting, resonating.. .

the new H*E*R cd "Songs About the Mysteries of Housework and Nature" is now on sale at Other Music!!!

the name of the next song is....solo

portland, oregon...here i come.

i'm so excited to head out to this fabled west coast city. real psyched to see my friend mike mcgonigal and find out wassup for the next issue of yeti magazine (http://yetipublishing.com/) (http://www.myspace.com/yetimagazine). it's been a while coming.

i'll be playing live on KBOO 90.7 fm on friday, jan 18th at around midnight on daniel's show 'the outer world.' (http://www.kboo.fm/index.php) apparently, he'll have some swordfish snacks.

then sunday jan 20th, i'll play at valentine's  (232 SW Ankeny). with hammers of hathor and lemon bear. not sure what time, maybe 9pm? there's good there, too. so no one will starve. very nice! more details here: http://portlandeyeandearcontrol.blogspot.com/

i'm also very psyched to meet kevin corrington who just posted this incredible entry about 'songs about the mysteries of housework and nature' in his blog 'eclectic-grooves':
http://eclectic-grooves.blogspot.com/2008/01/songs-about-mysteries-of-housework-and.html

the only sad thing about this trip is that danny and peter will stay in nyc...all by their lonesomes.

what's the group's name? "H*E*R". But sometimes it's "H.E.R." and other times "HER" but, god forbid "Her". these are the choices the ether has wrought. if you are looking for our new cd, Songs About the Mysteries of Housework and Nature, you will have to ask for it by name as you troll through these sites:
it's available for digital download from:
itunes
http://www.apple.com/search/ipoditunes/?q=%22songs+about+the+mysteries+of+housework+and+nature%22
emusic
http://www.emusic.com/album/Her-Songs-About-the-Mysteries-of-Housework-and-Nature-MP3-Download/11135995.html
napster
http://sms.napster.com/duet/sampler/sampler.html?opcode=search&type=album&id=12708329&class=album&artist_id=11587604&album_id=12708329 
music gremlin
http://www.musicgremlin.com/GetNewMusic/AlbumEnd.aspx?id=330438

if you'd like the cd itself, in your hand:
waysidemusic
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PERSIAN%
20CARDINAL%20002
squidco
http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=9072
eclipse-records
http://www.eclipse-records.com/catalog/h_1.html
downtown music gallery - nyc and soundfixrecords  brooklyn

so nice to be so loved!

i've been saddened lately by loss of life and tormented by all the dead leaves and abandoned feathers the recent winds brought in my kitchen. i invited my friends amy jones -former member of goddess (www.myspace.com/goddessisthemind) and jukeboxer (http://www.absolutelykosher.com/jukeboxer.html) -  and photographer kramer o'neill (http://www.flickr.com/photos/krameroneill/) to help me cope. we really cleaned up the place.

hey - we're playing our first gig since our record release! at the fabulous sound fix. (www.soundfixrecords.com). i love that bar behind the record shop. it will be sweet. we're on early - 8pm.

also - we've been blogged again!!
http://exhumedephemera.blogspot.com/2007/11/his-and-hers.html

part of the new H.E.R. cd 'songs about the mysteries of housework and nature' was recorded live at Tonic. but, did you know that was a show we did with Tall Firs (www.myspace.com/tallfirs; www.tallfirs.org)? dave, aaron and ryan - love you guys. kisses to you. our dreamiest night ever...

can't help but be psyched that 'songs about the mysteries of housework and nature' has been posted in a fabulous blog!

http://www.burymenot.com/2007/11/hum-is-coming-from-her.html

our release party was fab! lots of good friends. our next gig is coming up at Soundfix in Brooklyn on Dec 6th!