Spectre Folk did a gig on Brian Turner's show last week.. Peter Meehan, Pete Nolan, and Steve Shelley... Check it out here .. you can fast forward to the gig at 1.03 and 2.15.. or listen to the whole show which is pretty nice.. Thanks Brian!!

2 Spectre Folk gigs

Hello out there..

Spectre Folk has 2 gigs coming up

1st: at the ESP disc Jazz Lounge.. Peter Nolan and Peter Meehan will play duo and percussionist Eli Keszler will be doing a solo set this Tuesday at 8pm 520 Dekalb Ave. Brooklyn

2nd: Next Tuesday a live studio set on Brian Turner's show on wfmu.. Pete Nolan and Peter Meehan on guitars and Steve Shelley on drums.. this goes on at 3pm I believe.. Please tune in to the live stream when it goes down or check the archive:

www.wfmu.org

but for now... the stones

Magik Markers Tour

Day 1:

Princess Cake for Violet's #1Birthday.. see here

Cheese

Chicken Box from Pies and Thighs

Banana Cream Pie (also pies and thighs)

Growler of Rye IPA

Jim's Cheese Steak Sandwich (with whiz)

Day 2

Hot cakes with Country Sausage.. Aramingo Diner

Coffee

More BC Pie

Cookies (pies and thighs)

Mahi Mahi - Rice - Salad ... Black Cat

2 pitchers of Red Room Ale

the rest of the cookies and a doughnut

day 3

Capucino at Paragrin Coffee DC

Half Smoke with Cheese Fries - Ben's Chilli Bowl

More B.C. Pie

Cranny Banany from a rest stop in breeezewood

Pressure Cooker Rice with masala and bread

Day 4

Capucino .. 21st street Coffee

Free Donut + Bacon Maple Donut - Peace, Love , Donuts Pittsburgh

Capacola and cheese sandwich with fries on top... Permanti Brothers Pittsburgh

Budweiser - Ssausage Mushroom pizza .. Used Kids Records Colombus

Machos.. Genessee Beer.. Bourbon street

Hot dog 1 Bourbon Street

Hot Dog 2 Popper flavored... Dirty Frank's Colombus

Day 5

Crushed Tomato Flat Bread - Northstar Cafe CO.

Hostile Coffee.. Yeah Me too.. COL.

Shrimp Tacos, Beef Chimi, Rice Beans and Guac

Toxic Cookie Bite

Day 6:

Pringles

Pierogi and Bratwurst

Edmund Fitzgerald POrter.. Great Lakes Brew House and Pub.. Cleveland

Syranac Root Beer

Turkey Sandwich

Turkey Sandwich

Chips

Brocoli

Chocolate

Wine

Root Beer

Chips

Day 7

Coffe with a Douchbag

Mixed Veg Burrito from Best Burrito in Toronto AKA New York Subway

Vermicelli with pork skin and pork at Golden Turtle

Tea

Devil Beers

Spinach Pizza not from supermodel TO

Day 8

CApucino

New York Subway Spinach Potato Burrito with CHZ

Chips

Crunchie

Root Beer

Blonde Beer

Pastalini with shrimp, sausage, kale fenell scallps thanks Adam Leith Bollner

White Wine

Blonde Beer

Whiskey

Day 9

Bagel

Poutine

Root Beer Reeses

this just in

Hey everybody.. a couple of news items..

A live show by Spectre Folk has been put up on the Free Music Archive site. It was a show performed by me (Pete Nolan), Peter Meehan, Andy McCloed, and Noah Murphy at the Issue Project Room. They credited the concert to just Pete Nolan even tho it was a whole band. I was gonna wait till I made something like this before I actually took personal credit for something but anyway.. you can check it out here .
It's pretty good.. but I would advise avoiding the last tune... yeesh!

And the Spectre Folk record Compass,blanket, lantern, mojo got a nice write up at Raven Sings the Blues.. check it out here

Also some choice words from the Bulls Tongue on said same record here

Noah Sanders just sent me this link to a killer write up on the Compass.. record

Also don't forget!.. If you want to download some Arbitrary Signs music right this very instant.. you can! here


at OtherMusic.com

Current title available:

Spectre Folk.. So many ships out at sea in the Night
Spectre Folk.. Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo
Spectre Flux.. Oratum
and last but not least
Magik Markers.. Shame Mask

Magik Markers may be coming to your town this month!!!!

03.19.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool (with Spectre Folk)
03.20.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Danger Danger Gallery
03.21.10 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
03.22.10 - Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
03.23.10 - Columbus, OH - The Summit
03.24.10 - Cleveland, OH - Now That's Class
03.25.10 - Buffalo, NY - Sound Lab
03.26.10 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison
03.27.10 - Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo

The BOSS lp repress is still available as well as the Spectre Folk Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo .. both are 12 bucks . email petenolan@hotmail.com if you're innersted.

over and out

Spectre Folk live at Frankies 457 and EVR.COM

2 Spectre Folk shows this week..

1st.. this Sunday at 11pm on evr.com the just music show.. Pete Nolan and Peter Meehan duo Spectre action

2nd.. Spectre Folk, Kevin Barker, and ...
Thursday
2/25/2010 8:00 PM
at Frankie’s 457
457 Court St, Brooklyn,
Cost: free

Magik Markers Boss Repress OUT NOW!

Get a copy of the Magik Markers .. Lee Ranaldo produced classic BOSS from petenolan@hotmail.com
Now available in a sleek black design with expanded liner notes!

here's what Tiny Mix Tapes had to say about BOSS:

Lately, my heart has been telling me that perhaps the rock ‘n’ roll well has run dry, that all the inherent glee and rambunctious energy we draw from our Fun Houses and Rocket To Russias are beacons of their time, perfection never to again be duplicated. Take a look at any consciously amp-fueled rock of any shade from the past few years, and for the most part, those with the most exposure or support have let nostalgia work against any pure creative triumphs. Sure, a little revival or remembrance can be healthy when delivered with a certain unpretentious elation, but many musicians embody a self-conscious reaction against the fading of their beloved idols of years past, a prospect that gives us the occasional strychnine rush, but one that acts as a naive approximation of the breakthroughs of rock’s innovations.

So, to see one of the most vehemently combustible and untamable bands (who operate by a burnt thread under the “rock” banner) pull out one of the most rewarding and assured song-oriented rock records of recent years leaves me honestly dumbfounded. The Magik Markers have become one of the more difficult groups of iconoclasts operating in the underground, smearing their filthy tangles of feedback and rabid no-wave spittle against the face of the post-2000 “rock” revival, doing much the same as their most obvious predecessors (DNA, Mars, etc.) did when punk became tainted with the mainstream’s opportunist influence. Sounding like Kathy Acker throwing Half Japanese down a flight of stairs while Jaki Liebezeit keeps pace over the scene, the Molotov-cocktail of near-anti-melody and confrontational stream-of-conscious poetry truly splits the increasingly elitist, self-satisfied, and musically craven “indie” camp down the middle. And now, with Boss, the Markers have by leaps and bounds made questions of their talent moot. By reinvigorating the use of pop melody in the context of atonal and fervent desire (in a manner that stands inches by some of the greatest punk staples of yesteryear), they’ve become a potent machine that lesser bands best watch out for.

As a first “official” studio release, Boss is initially frustrating and disarming for the dedicated follower or the curious observer looking for an easy entry. With their trademark-free and unruly career-making squalor documented on countless CD-Rs and limited LPs, it makes sense that Boss aims for something more difficult to attain for such a typecasted band, even though one can only imagine the band’s early years wreaking havoc on the concept of a studio. From the moment Elisa Ambrogio lets her voice take reign on “Axis Mundi,” the song becomes less a noise-rock stalwart than a nugget of psych-punk utopia embedded with warm sonics and Ambrogio’s decision to actually sing. And regarding that eyebrow-raising choice... well, all those snide comments that were hurled at Ambrogio’s snarling atonal rants will feel mighty stupid after listening to this.

It’s not automatically impressive for a raucous act to go pop, but it is for a band whose fearless abandon into avant-punk noise was, and still is, their calling card. The secret in Boss is that the Markers, like all the greatest punk, psych, and garage bands, treat pop as a necessary part of the whole. Songs like “Body Rot” and “Circle” are still caked on every angle with grit and grime, but still serve their purpose as too-the-point blasts of fleeting joy that demand constant immersion. Too many bands in the realm of indie rock, indie pop, and even the classic punk/garage revival movements view pop as a saccharine novelty, a prospect still so coated in elitist irony that even the most sincere of the new breed feel either naively nostalgic, too shrouded in déjà vu to make a commanding statement. On Boss, Ambrogio and Pete Nolan (bassist Leah Quimby left last year) seem to understand the spirit that The Sonics, The MC5, The Stooges, and X-Ray Spex left, which is why a song like “Body Rot” has both the vigor and fuck-all attitude of the noise and avant scenes and the immediacy and appeal of more straight-ahead rock songs. Even the ballads (“Empty Bottles,” “Bad Dream”), a seeming oxymoron to the casual observer of this band, are treated with a careful restraint, never piling on the preciousness or melodrama of most post-Dylan/Cohen folkie fare. Why a song like “Bad Dream” somehow becomes fittingly gorgeous is that it never feels like its screaming to be heard in a specific manner. It just exists as it is, without any overextended effort or transparent showiness.

So many bands have forgotten how to make a song in a traditional format sound dangerous, and for those who need some sense of everlasting rebellion in their sonics, Boss has everything they’ve been wishing for in spades. It’s not trying to hearken to the past. It’s not trying to bid for a wider audience. It’s not a one-off experiment. It exists because this is what's most appropriate for the Markers at this point in time, and they evidently have more talent and passion than even some of their most fervent fans probably gave them credit for. As evidenced by the epic discomfort of the stunning “Last Of The Lemach Line,” the Markers still punish their instruments into catastrophic bouts of anguished fuzz and feedback, only here on a surprisingly restrained and mature manner. Lee Ranaldo’s production brings out all the echoed squeals and beautiful ambience that deserves to be heard, and what separates Boss from any cynical cashing-in critiques is that the Markers went above and beyond to actually create an album that nearly contradicts their constructed identity. Whether or not this is representative of a new phase of the Markers, at least the inevitable pop record has surprisingly staked itself as one of their strongest statements and one of the very few pop records in recent memory to engage its audience in something profound and challenging.

1. Axis Mundi2. Body Rot3. Last Of The Lemach Line4. Empty Bottles5. Taste6. Four/The Ballad Of Harry Angstrom7. Pat Garrett8. Bad Dream/Hartford’s Beat Suite9. Circle

Arbitrary Signs at Othermusic.com !

Arbitrary Signs releases will now be available for download at Othermusic.com .. So far we've got the new Spectre Folk "Compass" lp up there. Stayed tuned for releases from Magik Markers and other gems from the extensive back catalog!