Ebu Gogo keyboardist Gavin Castleton has just launched his brand new website! You can stream his entire zombie opera ---HOME ---- there, for free. Do it.

Five ( Dramatic Pauses ) from Brendan Bell on Vimeo.

Description: "We let the television news into the perceived safety of our lives on a daily basis. Even without direct contact, the language of the medium connects with us via background noise, internet blips, and watercooler small-talk. It has a distinct, and often overlooked, authority over the way we think and feel.

The nightly half-hour national news format attempts to condense the state of the world into easily digestible soundbites. My intention is to release these soundbites, inherent powers intact, realign them and force them to interact in unintended ways.

For seven months, I watched NBC Nightly News, recording phrases that piqued my interest. I focused on this single media outlet to give the project a specific voice and began reconfiguring the phrases into what can best be described as collage poems. Poetry, like the news media, uses evocative language to provide insight into the inner workings of the world. However, poetry allows subtleties and subtext to take center stage. The resulting collage poems highlight the ambiguous spaces between language and life, exposing the vagaries of the ostensibly concrete world around us.

The term (Dramatic Pause) implies a brief deviation from an intended script, or a small crack in real time, where things that are normally hidden become visible. It is based on instructions written for news broadcasters on their teleprompters."

Gavin Castleton's newest full-length pop opera, Home, is finally available in CD form (with glorious artwork by Justin Muir and full lyrics sheet) in stores everywhere and at fiveoneinc.com. He's on tour right now with a live band heading up the west coast from LA.  Catch him at one of these performances:

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.... Apr 17 2009 10:00P	The Beauty Bar	San Diego, California
.... Apr 18 2009 7:00P	Modified Arts	Phoenix, Arizona
.... Apr 19 2009 7:00P	The Wire *ALL AGES EARLY SHOW*	Upland, California
.... Apr 20 2009 7:00P	Cafe Trieste *FREE ALL AGES SOLO SET*	San Jose, California
.... Apr 21 2009 9:45P	Red Devil Lounge	San Francisco, California
.... Apr 22 2009 8:00P	Applegate River Lodge	Applegate, Oregon

To celebrate the CD release of Home, Gavin's made 3 new T-shirts available to you at the Integers Only Online Store - take a look now!
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>> view footage of Gavin's recent live performance on KCRW
>> get Home and the b-sides on iTunes

"DSurfNA" live at The Fire in Philly, PA on 8/30/08



"Dkembe Boombwembwe" live at The Fire in Philly, PA on 8/30/08



"Never Ending Hole + H.U.G.S." live at The Fire in Philly, PA on 8/30/08..>


"Late Due to Sweatpants Boner" live at The Fire in Philly, PA on 8/30/08



"Wordy Wordpenis + Bleargrarghhh" live at The Fire in Philly, PA on 8/30/08..>


"Waterworld pt. 1: Limp Joust" live at The Hudson House in Nyack, NY on 8/29/08



"DSurfNA" live at The Hudson House in Nyack, NY on 8/29/08



Here are some more from our last show in Providence.

Hey young men and women, we are waist deep in our Fall East Coast Tour!!! The dates are listed below, as well as on our page, check back for updates.

October 17th
Muggs
211 South Main Street
Doylestown, PA
w: Mose Giganticus, The Emotron
THIS SHOW IS FREE

October 18th
The Artist Underground
1600 Monument Avenue (NW Corner of Monument & Lombardy, Basement of Stuart Court Apts)
Richmond, VA

October 20th
Ground Zero
3059 Howard Street
Spartanburg, SC

October 22nd
Stardust Video & Coffee
1842 East Winter Park Rd
Orlando, FL
w: Tele V. Cheeseburger, Spittin' Image

October 23rd
1982 Bar
919 West Universtity Ave.
Gainesville, FL
w: Astronautalis, Midikidi, Sewards Folly

October 24th
New World Brewery
1313 East 8th Ave
Tampa, FL
w: Jarvik 7, Oceans Rise

October 25th
Gallery Above
563 Harrison Ave
Panama City, FL
w: Disco Vato

October 26th
Eclipse
4219 St. Johns Ave
Jacksonville, FL 32210

October 27th
The Secret Squirrel
766 West Broad St
Athens, GA
w: Double Dagger, Mouser

October 28th
The Milestone
3400 Tuckaseegee Rd
Charlotte, NC
w: Genlteman Auction House

October 29th
The Lantern
211 Draper Road
Blacksburg, VA 24060
w: The New Familiars

October 30th
The Hexagon
1825 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
w: Adventure!, Thurst Lab

November 2nd
Club Hell
73 Richmond Street
Providence, RI
w: Cowgirl, Herra Terra

Exploring the Imaginary Worlds, by Eve Wartenberg Condon
From Connect Providence

You take a drummer to LA for 3 days and this happens:

The meeting was fleeting
He was sheathed in fleece
He had fur legwarmers
and a mink cod piece
We started bustin sheit
and he was like "peace."

http://geekspeak.org/shows/2008/02/02/

we are big fans of this 'cast, so this is an honor. Please give the show a listen and let them know you like hearing the new track.