THURSDAY, JUNE 25 @ THE SILENT BARN - 8PM

:: MAGIK MARKERS
:::: MOUTHUS
:::::: SOFT CIRCLE
:::::::: nu KNYFE HYTS

-> THE SILENT BARN
915 Wyckoff Ave @ Weirfield | Ridgewood, Queens | M-Myrtle/Wyckoff, L-Halsey
Doors 8PM / Bands 9PM / Over by MIDNIGHT | ALL AGES | $TBA
MYSPACE – http://myspace.com/thesilentbarn

Presented by STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
All-women-run, all-ages shows

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MAGIK MARKERS ::
Elisa Ambrogio (guitar, vocals) and Pete Nolan (drums, vocals) started as the Black and Blue Magik Markers in a basement in Hartford, Connecticut in 2001. Sonic Youth asked 'em to open on their U.S. tour in 2004, and their vinyl-only debut, "I Trust My Guitar, Etc..." was released in 2005 on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, as was their phenomenal 2007 full-length "Boss." Over the course of their eight-year existence, they have self-released and personally handmade over twenty Magik Markers albums, many of which are on Nolan's own imprint, Arbitrary Signs. Magik Markers just released their brand new full-length "Balf Quarry" on the Drag City label a couple weeks ago! It rulesss.
MYSPACE -> myspace.com/theemagikmarkers
WEBSITE / BLAWG -> http://themagikmarkers.com

MOUTHUS ::
"Combining the effects-heavy guitar excursions of Brian Sullivan with the free jazz stylings of drummer/percussionist Nate Nelson, the Brooklyn-based Mouthus utilize a combination of dense instrumentation and squelching, overloaded noise to create a sound that ranges from dark and ambient to piercing and tortured. Through a string of CD-R and vinyl releases, the duo has distinguished itself in what is arguably the hub of noise/experimental music on the East Coast, becoming a regular fixture at the No Fun festival, as well as being selected by Thurston Moore to perform at the 2006 All Tomorrow's Parties festival in England. Mouthus formed in 2002, and later that year Psych-O-Path issued their self-titled debut as a limited release. In 2004, the pair released the LP Loam on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! imprint. In 2005, a prolific year for Mouthus, they released the split LP 12-25-04 with San Francisco-based performer Axolotl on Olde English Spelling Bee; the limited CD-R/LP Bigger Throws on their label, Our Mouth Records; and the LP Slow Globes and a split tour LP with Double Leopards, both on Troubleman Unlimited. They kept up the pace in 2006, releasing the split double LP Crippled Rosebud Binding with Double Leopards and Sunroof! on Music Fellowship, the CD For the Great Slave Lakes on Three Lobed Recordings, a limited self-titled LP on Olde English Spelling Bee, the LP Sister Vibration on Our Mouth Records, and the CD The Long Salt on Important Records. In 2007, Mouthus self-released the CD-R Dual Drift and recorded their first official studio album, Saw a Halo, released on Load Records." - Allmusic

SOFT CIRCLE ::
"Soft Circle consists of one member, Hisham Akira Bharoocha. This music project came about after Hisham left his former band, Black Dice, in search of a new way to create music by himself. Through modern music technology he has been able to create a way to perform on his own, where he records and loops sounds live and then adds drums and singing. Bharoocha started out making tribal/electronic/ambient anthems that forged paths between the spirit world and the human tribes of past and present. His new sound is still based on his fascination with repetition, cyclical rhythms and trance inducing sounds, but has gone further into the direction of heavy beats and more solidified song structures, even using lyrics as a new means to communicate. Soft Circle's first album 'Full Bloom' was released in 2007 on Eastern Developments, His next release will be a split 12 inch with High Places on the label PPM that will come out in June 2009. Currently Hisham is working on his next full length album which is scheduled to be released in September 2009. Bharoocha has toured with such bands as Boredoms, No Age, and High Places. Bharoocha was the musical director for the now legendary 77 BOADRUM performance, a musical composition composed by Boredoms, which involved 77 drummers playing 77 drum kits in a spiral formation at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park on July 7th, 2007. In addition he was also the musical director for this year's 88 Boadrum performance which happened on August 8th, 2008 with 88 drummers playing with Boredoms in Los Angeles, as well as 88 drummers playing with Gang Gang Dance in New York City on the same day." - Soft Circle
MYSPACE / VIDS -> myspace.com/softcircle

KNYFE HYTS ::
New 2009-era line-up! "The krewe of Knyfe Hyts formed in the summer of 2006, when current members of Ex Models, Pterodactyl, and Oneida rekindled their 14-year musical relationship with role reversal, masquerade, power play, threesome, chance, and ritualized improvisation, re-emerging as Bubo V, Brother Khatamkari, and Brother Minakari. Instant magic." - GCT