Newzrag #12
Big Heavy World Newzrag #12, Feb. 2, 2001
Penguin Winter Underpants
So here I am again, and my typing skills aren't getting any better, but hey, I've got you. Don't I? And even if I don't have you, I have the skinny on the local music scene right here. Well, I guess I could let you have some. Here you go. As always, or at least until the pixies devour his brain, the newsletter is brought to you by Joe "If practice makes perfect and nobody is perfect, why practice?" Atherton. If you have your own local music news you want in here, e-mail it to groundzero@bigheavyworld.com and make Joe fit it in for you. Enjoy!
STUFF INSIDE:
KOCHALKA MADNESS
DYSFUNKSHUN ON TV
HIGHER GROUND TIX ONLINE
MP3 SHOWCASE ADDITIONS
UPCOMING 242 SHOWS
BHW ACOUSTIC SERIES ONLINE
NEW PAPARAZZI PICS
BHW 24 HOUR MUSIC STREAM NEWZ
VERMONTMUSICSHOP.COM UPDATES
BHW THANKS!
LABEL NEWS:
CHAINSAWS AND FEAR...IT WAS INEVITABLE
UPCOMING DECIBEL DEATH
FOR THE MUSIC MAKERS AND DREAM WEAVERS:
SUBMISSIONS WANTED
WANNA BE ON FILM?
GET COLORADO AIRPLAY
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LOCAL MUSIC NEWS:
KOCHALKA FANS! LOOK HERE!
If you point your handy dandy Internet browser at http://www.cube-microplex.demon.co.uk/hotcherry/ you can watch a fan-made video by Kochalka Puppet Theatre. The concept is simple, monkey vs. robot = fun. The file is a mere 1.7 megs, so go check it out. Also in JKS news, you can read a review of James book The Perfect Planet at http://216.251.240.98/Comics/CB1212-ThingsMissed.asp
LOCAL BANDS MAKE IT BIG
If you check out Farmclub on the USA Network, Friday 2/2 at 11pm you will be pleasantly surprised to see some familiar faces. And those faces would be local favorites Dysfunkshun and the Dirty Blondes! Yes that's right, Burlington bands on national television! And for those of you who will be busy clipping your toenails on Friday, you can catch the program again on Saturday 2/3 at midnight, and Monday 2/5 at 3am. You can also catch them on MuchMusic Tuesday 2/6 at 9pm.
GET YOUR HIGHER GROUND TICKETS EASIER
You can now purchase tickets to all Higher Ground concerts online at http://www.highergroundmusic.comor you can pick up that thing that rings and dial 1-800-965-4827and get tickets there too.You can still get tickets at Pure Pop Records in Burlington or Peacock Music in Plattsburgh and of course at Higher Ground itself, but you will be unable to purchase tickets through the Flynn or any Flynn outlet.So go buy some tickets, and get out of the house!
SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN
New in the Big Heavy World MP3 Showcase this time around are songs by the re-formed local legends Five Seconds Expired, and the Seth Yacovone Band. Go check em out! http://www.bigheavyworld.com/mp3.html
UPCOMING AT 242 MAIN
Tuesday Feb, 6 - Dye Cast, Where Fear and Weapons Meet, Unearth, Downslide and Hope For Tomorrow. 7 PM, $6. Saturday Feb, 24 - Ninja Death Squad, Jigsaw Youth, Flat Stanley, Cheat to Win and I-7. 7pm, $5. Be there.
BIG HEAVY WORLD'S ONLINE ACOUSTIC SERIES
Catch the all new Big Heavy World acoustic online concert series at the Radio Bean, 8 North Winooski Ave. in Burlington. And if you'd prefer to sit on your lazy butt at home, you can do that too. The series will be broadcast online at the Big Heavy Site. Just go to http://www.bigheavyworld.com/streamery.html during the showtimes and you can listen live! The series begins on Feb. 5 at 8pm with Jake Ide. Future shows include: 3/5 8pm Patrick Fitzsimmons, 3/19 8pm with Stevie Rosenfeld, 4/2 8pm with Jennifer Matthews, 4/16 8pm with Laura and Greg Noble, 5/7 8pm with Mark Brine, 6/4 8pm with Cactus Highway, 6/18 8pm with Jen Tobey.
NEW BIG HEAVY PAPARAZZI
Added recently to the paparazzi section are pictures of bands such as the Dillinger Escape Plan, the Hemlock Verdict, Shadows Fall, 5% Joe, Torsion, Pleasant Tense, Dysfunction, Wreckinghorn, Zola Turn, KillswitchEngage, In Dying Days, Drowningman, and many more. Check out pics from the last couple of months or take a stroll down memory lane at http://www.bigheavyworld.com/paparazzi.html
BHW STREAM NEWZ
Now you can listen to Vermont music 24 hours a day in Quicktime AND streaming MP3 via our brand spanking new Shoutcast Server. You can play the stream with Sonique, Winamp, or whatever you've got on a PC and iTunes or SoundJam or Macast on your Mac. Thanx again to Chittenden Bank for the PC that serves the stream, and to the dump for letting us drag a disposed-of monitor back to the office to light it up. Here's the stream: http://www.bigheavyworld.com/studio.pls
VTMUSICSHOP.COM NEWZ
The biggest sellers at vtmusicshop.com this time around are:
Seth Yacovone Band
James Kochalka Superstar
Rusty Dewees (a.k.a. The Logger)
Tarquin Records Holiday Extravaganza
Aaron Flinn
New releases in the store include:
Gregory Douglass
Solomon (featuring Vernon Reid, John Popper and Bernie Worrell)
Sirius
Be That Way
BHW THANKS
We would like to welcome Heather Smith from St. Michael's College to the Big Heavy World family. Heather will be slamming down the online promo for the label and assisting with production of the Hop 3 compilation. We would also like to thank Jason Miller for the tech support with our PC so that we could get out Shoutcast server off the ground. Also to Jeremy Ward for getting our Sonique box up with Windows Media running on it (still in testing) and finally, thanks to Yahoo! Internet Life for giving us props.
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BIG HEAVY WORLD LABEL NEWZ:
CHAINSAWS BRING FEAR TO MTV
Fear, a program by MTV in which contestants are put in supposedly haunted locales and made to do various tasks (i.e. on one episode 5 people had to go into an abandoned, haunted prison.One person had to sit in the dark without saying or doing anything for 15 minutes.)Our very own masters of fear Chainsaws and Children will be most of the featured music for the program promos.Fear and Chainsaws, who would have thunk it? The new season of Fear starts on Sunday Feb. 18.
UPCOMING ELECTROHELL
Go see the above.level.pain kids at Bill's Bar in Boston on Feb, 26 with Specimen x and Mekanizm. You won't regret it.
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FOR THE MUSIC MAKERS:
LOCAL MUSIC NEEDED
Champlain Valley Union High School is starting an internet radio station and they need local music to play on it.There will be no commercial material and they welcome music of all levels and varieties.If you are interested, you can e-mail A/V coordinator Lyle King atLyle@cvuhs.org or call him at (802)-482-7100 and you can send in submissions to Champlain Valley Union High School ATTN:Lyle King (a/v dept.) Internet radio369 CVU Rd. Hinesburg, VT 05461
MUSIC FOR THE MASSES
Do you Like punk/hardcore music? Are you of African American descent? Would you like to talk about the African American influence in punk/hardcore? Well here's your chance. A man by the name of James Spooner is putting together a documentary on the African American element in punk/hardcore music, and he needs your help. And regardless of race, you can help by finding other participants. If you'd like to help, you can e-mail James at highyellow1@earthlink.net
WANT YOUR MUSIC PLAYED?
A kind and humble man by the name of Craig Duckworth would like to help all of you Vermont musicians out. He is offering to be an ambassador of Burlington music to KBCO, a radio station in Colorado that plays a format very similar to our very own 104.7 the Point. He will give your discs to them and you have a possibility of getting played in the mile high state! Send CDs to BHW at P.O. Box 428, Burlington, VT 05402 Attn: Ambassador Duckworth and we'll send the whole shebang westward to him!
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ABOUT US: BHW is Vermont's tech-heavy music cheerleader, promoting local artists through emerging technologies and publishing http://www.bigheavyworld.com, the comprehensive online guide to regional music known as "Burlington's Urban Scene Web Site". We also run an expanding record label with releases from Burlington's alt-rock kiddies Chin Ho! And the techno-core harbingers of doom chainsaws.and.children. Contact us at 800-303-1590, groundzero@bigheavyworld.com or P.O. Box 428 Burlington VT 05402. The Big Heavy World Web site is made possible by our generous annual sponsors: WBVT UPN (wbvt.com), Magic Hat Brewing Company (magichat.net), Chek.com, SoVerNet (www.sover.net) and Small Dog Electronics (smalldog.com).
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