Newz from Big Heavy World

BIG HEAVY WORLD NEWZRAG #25 November 8, 2001
The news of www.bigheavyworld.com and the music of Burlington, Vermont

FIRST NIGHT WILL. ROCK. THIS. TOWN.
LAST CHERIE & YOLANDA SHOW TUESDAY 11/13
WWW.MUSIC2FIGHT.COM <-- GO THERE
CONGRATS: NEW RELEASES!
AMAZON CUSTOMERS *LIKE* US (WE THINK...)
UPCOMING 242 MAIN SHOWS
NEW ALL-AGES VENUE: "THE SPACE"
BLACK LIST MEETINGS CONTINUE...
WELCOME MANU, ARI AND SANDRA TO THE BHW CREW
BHW THANKS...

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FIRST NIGHT WILL. ROCK. THIS. TOWN.
Keep your eyes out for the First Night Burlington program guides hitting the streets November 25. There's a wee surprise inside... a local all-ages ROCKOUT at Memorial Auditorium like Burlington has NEVER SEEN. From the Main Stage to the Annex to 242 Main the place will be slamming with bands and DJs of all flavors. Grab the guide at shops all over downtown Burlington or at the BHW office at 215 College Street, third floor over Pure Pop. We'll slide more info your way in the next 'rag, and (as always) at http://www.bigheavyworld.com...

LAST CHERIE & YOLANDA SHOW TUESDAY 11/13
Some of the most fun we've had at BHW has been tossing unsuspecting local bands into the laps of Cherie & Yolanda during the live broadcasts of their Cherie & Yolanda Show on Adelphia Channel 15. They've spanked chainsaws.and.children. They've spanked The Bazookas. And it's with a tear in our eyes that we bid our flaming friends adieu as they wrap up a very long history of bringing candid, progressive, uncritical humor to our community. The last show airs live at 10pm November 13 on Channel 15, a two-hour marathon with special guests The BAZOOKAS, ANDREW SMITH, COLIN CLARY, JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR, and STEAM GENIE. Help wish them farewell - tune in and phone-in!

WWW.MUSIC2FIGHT.COM <-- GO THERE
Read this rag. Then go to http://www.music2fight.com. And put December 1 on your calendar for a giant all-ages show at Metronome to benefit a young cancer victim. Details at the Web site... http://www.music2fight.com.

CONGRATS: NEW RELEASES
Congrats to the proud new mama and papa bands and musicians in the Burlington neighborhood: new releases are on the street from Rachel Bissex, Ryan Barrett (The Salton Hare) and Dysfunkshun's latest is imminent as well. If you've got a fresh disc let us know at groundzero@bigheavyworld.com and be sure we carry it at vermontmusicshop.com, our all-Vermont music store.

AMAZON CUSTOMERS *LIKE* US (WE THINK...)
News came our way this week that our 1997 compilation release "Pop Pie" is charting as Amazon.com's #22 Best Seller for Alternative/Indie-Rock compilations. Exactly what this means isn't really clear to us... because we're dumb? But hell, it smells like news...

UPCOMING 242 MAIN SHOWS
11/17: FIVE SECONDS EXPIRED, THE HARSH ABRASIVES, GNUTAR, NO GUARANTEE, & KOOPA TROOPAS (only 242 show this month), 7pm, $5. THE 242 MAIN/OVX (Our Voices XPosed) TOUR: DYSFUNKSHUN, THE BAZOOKAS, COMPANY FRONT, BLIND LUCK, RIVER CITY REBELS, 11/09, 17 Flat Street in Brattleboro VT. 7pm. On 11/06 Torsion replaces River City Rebels in Rutland, then 11/30 the tour hits St Johnsbury and the last show is 12/07 in Burlington at the Champlain School on Pine Street. All shows are FREE! For details call 242 Main at (802) 862-2244 and pick the "upcoming shows" message.

NEW ALL-AGES VENUE: "THE SPACE"
Battery Street Jeans is opening up the funky former-studio upstairs of their building at 182 Battery Street to all-ages shows. The fourth is coming up 11/17: SHIPWRECK and 13TH CHAIR, (Free, 6pm. It's early so you can hit 242 afterward!). They call it "The Space" and bands and artists can contact Caroline at (802) 865-4554 to set up shows and showings. Next art opening is this Friday, November 9 with work by Corey Davidson. Call them for details, and help Battery Street Jeans help all of us expand our scene!

BLACK LIST MEETINGS CONTINUE...
To anybody interested in banging ideas around about how to improve or support live music in Burlington, get your arse to a meeting of THE BLACK LIST. Inspired by Justin Wygmans (former co-owner of Club Toast) and named after the wine list at Red Square during the last (third) meeting, we're a random bunch of community activists looking for constructive ways to improve our scene. Doesn't matter if you join us as a spectator or as a conspiring agitator - your presence is welcome. Help us plot a course for making healthy improvements in our scene. Keep an eye out for meeting notes on the Big Heavy World discussion board at http://www.bigheavyworld.com

WELCOME MANU, ARI AND SANDRA TO THE BHW CREW
Manu Sachdeeva is *da man* for coordinating our online broadcasts in recent weeks. He sets up the scheduling, engineering, and permissions for us to bring local music live to the world on the 'net. Contact him at broadcasting@bigheavyworld.net if your band is playing at 242 Main or the Radio Bean and you want us to broadcast the live audio through our Streamery at http://www.bigheavyworld.com/streamery.html. It's free, and our volunteer crew throws the switches. Check the Streamery page to see wassup, past and present. Ari Bolles takes time off from her studies and career as a rock star to hang with us at the Big Heavy bait shop too... she's been helping us get the new vermontmusicshop.com together and is about to take over the MP3 Showcase on the site. We say, "Hey Ari, go learn an entirely new and complicated audio editing program in the next ten minutes!" and she says, "OK!". Then again, almost everybody around here is smarter than the boss... Welcome also to Sandra McKernan who's taking the reigns of the office, slowly settling in to managing the joint. She's getting handy with the pink baseball bat and yes, we're all *very* afraid.

BHW THANKS...
This time around our thanx get tossed to Greg Macedonia for his donation of two computers (a helpful shove in the right direction for our our broadcasting efforts). Make A Wish was kind enough to cover a big half-page of their newsletter with info about our release of Kyle "Fattie Bumballattie" Thompson's Hop 3 & Hop 4 CDs ($2 from each sale benefits Make A Wish Foundation of Vermont). Thanks to Jason Storer and Jeremy Ward (btownsound.com) for including us in their Serotonin all-night house party. Thanks to Steve Lemcke at the Burlington Free Press for his fantastic support of the 242.01 benefit disc and 242 Main in his Weekend section column this week, and to Seven Days for their review (we like the sound of "nasty"!). There aren't enough horn-playing music critics in this town. Right, Steve? :)

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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 and something like a billion compilations of Burlington's incredible regional music. Contact us at 802-865-1140, 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 (www.wbvt.com), Magic Hat Brewing Company (www.magichat.net), Chek.com, SoVerNet (www.sover.net), Scully Interactive (www.scullyinteractive.com), and Small Dog Electronics (www.smalldog.com).

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BIG HEAVY WORLD NEWZRAG #23 October 16, 2001
The news of www.bigheavyworld.com and the music of Burlington, Vermont

242 BENEFIT CD RELEASE OCTOBER 19 & 20
RICHARD BAILEY & BANDS FROM 242.01 ON WRUV 90.1 FRIDAY MORNING
UPCOMING BHW NETCASTS
WELCOME MANU AND SANDRA TO THE BHW CREW
EGAN MEDIA OPEN HOUSE = 4 HOUR RECORDING SESSION GIVEAWAY
STICKER JIM'S SORRY-ASS TRUCK
BHW SERVER MAINTENANCE SUNDAY 10/21
BHW THANKS

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242 BENEFIT CD RELEASE OCTOBER 19 & 20

First, THE 242.01 SPONSORS: Gravis (http://www.gravisfootwear.com); Burton (http://www.burton.com); SoBe (http://www.sobebev.com); Hot Topic (http://www.hottopic.com); CEDO (http://www.cedoburlington.org); Small Dog Electronics (http://www.smalldog.com); Egan Media Productions (http://www.eganmedia.com); 99.9 The Buzz (http://www.999thebuzz.com), and Jager Di Paola Kemp (http://www.jdk.com). They made it happen. Bow to them. Now get up and read about the release party...

THE 242.01 RELEASE PARTY: TEN BANDS/TWO DAYS: Friday and Saturday, October 19 & 20 at 242 Main (Burlington, Vermont, basement of Memorial Auditorium). $7, 7pm each night. FRIDAY 10/19: Prisoner 13, Torsion, Downslide, S.T.M.P., and Pleasant Tense. SATURDAY 10/20: Dysfunkshun, The Bazookas, The Magic Is Gone, Ninja Death Squad, and Absolute Zero. You know wassup and where to be. CU there.

THE 242.01 CD: '242.01' features nearly 80 minutes of music from twenty-two bands who have performed on the 242 Main stage. Here's the trax: Pleasant Tense “The New Way”; Suffer The Masses “Advancement”; Absolute Zero “Annie May”; River City Rebels “Religion”; S.T.M.P. “Time Kills All Pain”; chainsaws.and.children “Isolation”; Theatre Of Cruelty “The Girl Who Stood On A Grave”; Dysfunkshun “Company You Keep”; The Magic Is Gone “Nixon”; The Bazookas “Devil Dog”; Ninja Death Squad “If God Hates Fags (I Hate God)”; Downslide “Spiritscarred”; Five Seconds Expired “Memory”; 5% Joe “Letter From Luke”; Drowningman “Angles And Defenses”; The Halogens “Loudmouth”; Disillusioned “Mind Of Doubt”; Prisoner 13 “No Regrets”; Wreckinghorn “UFO”; Minimus “Dirty”; Dischord “Missing Dave”; and Torsion “We All Die”. All proceeds from CD sales benefit 242 Main, and the release party is a split-benefit for 242 Main and Big Heavy World. The CD will be available in record stores and at Big Heavy World (http://www.bigheavyworld.com) this week. Grab it for $10 during the release party or later at $12 in shops ($14 online - shipping, ya know). Buy it 'cause it's badass, and buy it to support 242 Main, and buy it because you rule!

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RICHARD BAILEY AND BANDS ON WRUV 90.1 FRIDAY MORNING
Richard Bailey (City Administrator for 242 Main), will be on the Howie Rose Show this Friday with DJ F.P. Cassini, spreading the love and spreading the word about 242 Main, Burlington's loudest youth center - WRUV 90.1FM (University of Vermont, http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv), at 9:30am. Expect bands from the 242.01 benefit CD to join them (Bazookas, Ninja Death Squad, & Torsion!), and call in to join the conversation, (802) 656-4399.

UPCOMING BHW NETCASTS
If you can't come out to play Friday and Saturday when ten bands perform at the 242.01 CD release party you can still tune in to the audio broadcast at Big Heavy World: http://www.bigheavyworld.com/streamery.html. For a list of bands see the info about the release party (go up to the top of the newzrag you crazy fool, can't believe you missed it!).

WELCOME MANU AND SANDRA TO THE BHW CREW
Manu Sachdeeva is at full-throttle as BHW's broadcasting boss, coordinating the live netcasts you find at http://www.bigheavyworld.com/streamery.html. He's gunning to keep Jesse and Mark running around like headless chickens every weekend streaming Burlington music online from the heart of the city. Sandra McKernan joins us as the Goddess of task management, our new (utterly dominating) Office Manager... though the plants she waters in our dinky sweatshop think of her in less threatened terms. :)

EGAN MEDIA OPEN HOUSE = 4 HOUR RECORDING SESSION GIVEAWAY
Get to the Egan Media Productions Fall Open House, Thursday, November 1st from 6 until 9 pm. Egan Media used to be Eclipse Recording, an epic name in BHW's annals, mastering almost all of the CD compilations BHW has released. Register to win a four-hour recording session at the brand new world-class recording studio. See and hear for yourself why EMP has been selected to appear on the cover of Mix Magazine: Two recording studios with Pro Tools 24, 2" 24 track analog, and 48 tracks of ADAT, 5.1 surround sound control room and automated analog and digital mixdown. Holy, um, crypies! Call (802) 655-1886 for details.

STICKER JIM'S SORRY-ASS TRUCK
If you happen to be walking by a red Toyota pickup in downtown Burlington with Vermont plate #ANF516 and you're carrying a manbag full of your band's stickers, slap one on the ass-end. Why? Dunno, can't tell you. But Jim & Victoria won't mind. Really. Just make sure you got the right truck...

BHW SERVER MAINTENANCE SUNDAY 10/21
The BHW Web site will be offline Sunday, October 21 in the A.M. for a server upgrade. We'll give you the details next time 'round, but hang loose during the upgrade and in a few weeks we'll do our best to amaze you with some new additions to the site.

BHW THANKS
Thanx to Burlington City Arts for letting us poster the Firehouse Gallery barricade for the 242.01 CD release party. It's off-limits usually, but they're lending support this way. Very cool of Sara and the crew. Thanks to Dave Bishop and the bands and volunteers who helped us poster and flyer for the 242.01 CD Release party!!!

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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 and something like a billion compilations of Burlington's incredible regional music. Contact us at 802-865-1140, 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 (www.wbvt.com), Magic Hat Brewing Company (www.magichat.net), Chek.com, SoVerNet (www.sover.net), Scully Interactive (www.scullyinteractive.com), and Small Dog Electronics (www.smalldog.com).

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BIG HEAVY WORLD NEWZRAG #24 October 26, 2001
The news of www.bigheavyworld.com and the music of Burlington, Vermont

242.01 CD RELEASE WUZZA PAAAAAAAAARTAY!
CATCH 22 AT GAVIN'S BARN IN WARREN
HALLOWEEN HARDCORE SHOW @ MILLENNIUM 10/29
EGAN MEDIA OPEN HOUSE NOV. 1 = WIN 4 HOURS OF RECORDING TIME
ROCK N BOWL 2001: ALL AGES ROCKOUT AT YANKEE LANES
SEROTONIN: MONSTER DJ BASH TO BENEFIT BHW
PERMANENT BROADCASTING AT 242 MAIN
"SCENE" MEETINGS ONGOING
WEEKLY CD GIVEAWAYS PORK UP
BHW SERVER UPGRADE: CONDITION GREEN
BHW THANKS

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242.01 CD RELEASE WUZZA PAAAAAAAAARTAY!
Ten raging bands, two full nights of outrageous music... last week's 242.01 CD release was a great time. Thanks to everyone who filled the place for coming out to support 242, Big Heavy World, and your Burlington scene and thanks from us to the bands who gave so much more than all they had to make it an over-the-top riot. We hope you had as much fun as us. PRISONER 13, TORSION, DOWNSLIDE, S.T.M.P., PLEASANT TENSE, THE BAZOOKAS, DYSFUNKSHUN, THE MAGIC IS GONE, NINJA DEATH SQUAD, and ABSOLUTE ZERO knew how to make it a party.

If you didn't grab 242.01 at the show, pick it up in downtown Burlington at Pure Pop or Disc Go Round. It's on its way to Middlebury, Rutland, Montpelier, and the rest of Vermont so keep your ears peeled (it's also available at http://www.bigheavyworld.com). 23 tracks (almost 80 minutes) of music by bands that have played at 242, with all proceeds benefiting 242 Main: Pleasant Tense “The New Way”; Suffer The Masses “Advancement”; Absolute Zero “Annie May”; River City Rebels “Religion”; S.T.M.P. “Time Kills All Pain”; chainsaws.and.children “Isolation”; Theatre Of Cruelty “The Girl Who Stood On A Grave”; Dysfunkshun “Company You Keep”; The Magic Is Gone “Nixon”; The Bazookas “Devil Dog”; Ninja Death Squad “If God Hates Fags (I Hate God)”; Downslide “Spiritscarred”; Five Seconds Expired “Memory”; 5% Joe “Letter From Luke”; Drowningman “Angles And Defenses”; The Halogens “Loudmouth”; Disillusioned “Mind Of Doubt”; Prisoner 13 “No Regrets”; Wreckinghorn “UFO”; Minimus “Dirty”; Dischord “Missing Dave”; and Torsion “We All Die”.

CATCH 22 AT GAVIN'S BARN IN WARREN 10/27
Punk hoard CATCH 22, RIVER CITY REBELS, WORTHLESS, and MY REVENGE torch Gavin's barn on Saturday October 27th, 7pm. $5, 46 School Road in Warren, VT, all ages. The BHW crew will be there, hope you will too. Info Ilovemug@hotmail.com or (802) 496-6750. Gavin's posted driving directions on the BHW bulletin board, http://www.bigheavyworld.com.

HALLOWEEN HARDCORE SHOW @ MILLENNIUM 10/29
Fiction Productions are staking Millennium to present a Halloween hardcore bash - TORSION and special guests return to rekindle the Club Toast embers on Monday 10/29. If you were at Fiction's SUMMER SKOOL this year you know wut we're talking about... 9pm-2am, 18+ until 11pm. DJ Friction spins between bands.

EGAN MEDIA OPEN HOUSE NOV. 1 = WIN 4 HOURS OF RECORDING TIME
The Egan Media Productions Fall Open House is Thursday, November 1 from 6 'til 9pm and if you're a musician you won't want to miss it. Register to win a four-hour recording session at the brand new recording studio. EMP is world class, selected to appear on the cover of Mix Magazine even. Some of the dirt: Two recording studios with Pro Tools 24, 2" 24 track analog and 48 tracks of ADAT, 5.1 surround sound control room and automated analog and digital mixdown. Be there, get the tour, win four hours of recording time. Any questions? :) Call (802) 655-1886 for details.

ROCK N BOWL 2001: ALL AGES ROCKOUT AT YANKEE LANES
Friday November 2 is the start of a slammin' weekend... get it rolling at the Rock 'n' Bowl with THE BAZOOKAS, THE DAKOTA, and SUMMER FLING. An all-ages show from 10pm to 1am. $12 Tix includes your bowling shoes. Yankee lanes is just off Exit 16 in Colchester.

SEROTONIN: MONSTER DJ BASH TO BENEFIT BHW
With huge props to producers Jason Storer, JeremyD (the btownsound) and the SEROTONIN event crew, we give you the heads-up for SEROTONIN on Friday, November 2. It's a house party with THREE DJ ROOMS, soundz spinning from 9pm 'til 5am, but Jason sez as long as it's hopping they won't bother stopping. Expect trance, house, drum'n'bass, jungle, downbeat, and ambient styles from Cygnus X-1 (Sun Temple Productions, Montreal), DJ Monaco (WRUV 90.1), Ke Dhis (Astral Loungers Society), Jeremy D. (btownsound.com), Major Tom (WRUV 90.1), Maxxx (Sun Temple Productions, Scream DJ, Montreal), McKen (Sun Temple Productions, Montreal), Pink Sol (DL Productions), Ricochet (Drontetone Productions), Solar Flair (WRUV 90.1), Valerie (WRUV 90.1), and Will Stanton (Sapphire Productions). SEROTONIN location TBA November 1 at http://www.btownsound.com/serotonin/ and (802) 283-2303 (web & message continually updated). Tix are $12 before the show, available at Liquid Energy Cafe and Pure Pop in downtown Burlington, $15 at the door ($3 discount w/college I.D.). 18+ or college I.D. to enter. The show is sponsored by btownsound.com, WRUV, and Liquid Energy Cafe (catering it). Our Webgod Justin Gonyea will be there with Kyle "Fattie B" Thompson's Hop 3 & Hop 4 compilation CDs for sale - save a couple bucks on them and grab some of Burlington's finest urban music stylings. For more info about the event contact majortom@goatrance.com. A portion of SEROTONIN proceeds will benefit Big Heavy World.

PERMANENT BROADCASTING AT 242 MAIN
We'll soon be installing a dedicated broadcasting PC at 242 and throwing the switch to broadcast any bands that want their bad selves heard live on the BHW web site, just about any day of the week. We've been streaming with Agent X's laptop for a loooong time and this takes us and 242 to the next level... if you're in a band and want to be broadcast from 242, contact broadcasting@bigheavyworld.com and Sarah or Manu will get a release to you. If you want to hear the live shows online, head to the Big Heavy World Streamery at http://www.bigheavyworld.com/streamery.html where you can also check a 24-hour broadcast of Vermont music - more than 3600 tracks from our Vermont music library spinning randomly. It's a trip and a timewarp, for sure.

"SCENE" MEETINGS ONGOING
Anybody wanting to join an open forum about Burlington scene issues is welcome to come: Thursday 11/8 6pm, Red Square. There's been two so far and we'll eventually get them going monthly at different venues each time. First couple meetings ended up about all ages shows and venues, 18+ venues, rehearsal space (and future lack of it). Got issues/ideas? Bring 'em. Especially if you can think of something more clever to name the damned meetings. That should be easy. Justin Wygmans, former co-owner of Club Toast, provided the kick in the ass to make them happen.

WEEKLY CD GIVEAWAYS PORK UP
Every week we do our best to give away cherry CDs on our weekly CD giveaway page at bigheavyworld.com. To give you an idea of what's there to score for yourself we'll be tossing up Drowning Pool, Puddle of Mudd, Suzanne Vega, The K.G.B., Garbage, The Apex Theory and more, one after another, through the end of the year. To enter send us an email with the subject "Booya!" and you'll be in the running. We're at groundzero@bigheavyworld.com.

BHW SERVER UPGRADE: CONDITION GREEN
With profound thanks to Dawn D'Angelillo and Small Dog Electronics for their sponsorship of Macintosh OSX 10.1 Server, we've upgraded the BHW G4 server (also sponsored by Small Dog!) and will soon be presenting what we hope you think is an absolutely lethally cool club listings section. A new custom storefront is in the works for vermontmusicshop.com too, all thanks to BHW site sponsor Scully Interactive. Meanwhile, if you notice anything buggy about the site would you let us know? We hope to polish it up and be roaring with new paparazzi and MP3 showcase trax by the end of the year. Our email is groundzero@bigheavyworld.com and we TOTALLY appreciate the help with getting it all nailed down right for you.

BHW THANKS
Thanks to Richard Bailey and Simon Brody for being so good to us during the 242.01 CD release - our communitiy owes a lot to them. Thanx also to Zach for manning his post during two grueling nights, and to Chris Valyou for the flawless sound engineering. Thanks to Mike Joyce and Russ Bennett at SoBe for giving away that sh*tload of SoBe at the party - Adrenaline Rush helped get us through it! Thanks to Luis Calderan, Eugene, and the Gravis grrlz for their incredible swag giveaways too. Thanx to Karri Benoit for the ultra-styling desk lamp donation. Seeing what we're doing is a fresh concept in our 7-watt office. Thanks to all the friends who are hanging with us through a year of BHW benefit shows - 2001 is the first time in six years we've made a determined effort to catch up and keep up. Only a couple thousand $ to go and we're in the clear. Your. Patience. Rocks.

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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 and something like a billion compilations of Burlington's incredible regional music. Contact us at 802-865-1140, 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 (www.wbvt.com), Magic Hat Brewing Company (www.magichat.net), Chek.com, SoVerNet (www.sover.net), Scully Interactive (www.scullyinteractive.com), and Small Dog Electronics (www.smalldog.com).

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BIG HEAVY WORLD NEWZRAG #26 November 27, 2001
The news of www.bigheavyworld.com and the music of Burlington, Vermont

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MUSIC2FIGHTCANCER BENEFIT THIS SATURDAY: TEN BANDS/8 HOURS
BIGHEAVYBUZZFEST: GIANT ALL-AGES NEW YEAR'S ROCKOUT AT MEMORIAL!
BLACK LIST MEETING THURSDAY
BHW THANKS
BHW LABEL NEWZ > CHIN HO! ON-AIR AT DIGITAL SATELLITE RADIO LAUNCH
BHW LABEL NEWZ > CHAINSAWS.AND.CHILDREN ON VOIDSTAR COMP

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MUSIC2FIGHTCANCER BENEFIT THIS SATURDAY: TEN BANDS/8 HOURS:
This Saturday, December 1, TEN BANDS rough up the Club Metronome stage to raise money and help for a young Vermont cancer victim. Be there for: DOWNSLIDE (http://www.downslide.net), NO GUARANTEE (http://bounce.to/noguarantee), WEASEL HEAD, PLEASANT TENSE (http://www.pleasanttense.bigheavyworld.com/), BLIND LUCK MUSIC, THE BAZOOKAS (http://www.members.aol.com/thebazookas), SKARMY OF DARKNESS (http://the-spa.com/skarmy/), TORSION (http://www.damageyastamina.com), BLUNT, and SPLIT 50. Eight hours of live music begins at noon when the doors open. There's free food and we can't stress enough how much your support for this intense cause will mean. It's ALL AGES, $7, info at http://www.music2fight.com.

BIGHEAVYBUZZFEST: GIANT ALL-AGES NEW YEAR'S ROCKOUT AT MEMORIAL:
Big Heavy World, 242 Main (http://www.monsterfestvt.com/242main.html), 99.9 The Buzz (http://www.999thebuzz.com), and OVX (Our Voices xposed, http://www.ovx.org) have joined forces to present one of First Night Burlington's hardest rocking events ever - a giant local noizefest cramming eight bands into every floor of Memorial Auditorium for your ALL AGES New Year's pleasure! Supersounds DJs (http://www.supersounds.com) slide into the 242 Main space to fire up a radio-hits dance party; 242 Main presents their jaw-cracking showcase in the Annex with RIVER CITY REBELS (http://www.rivercityrebels.com), DROWNINGMAN (http://www.drowningmanhatesyou.com), DYSFUNKSHUN (http://www.dysfunkshun.com) and THE STATIC AGE (http://www.thestaticage.com); and Big Heavy World drags ORBIT (http://www.orbitband.com), ZOLA TURN (http://www.zolaturn.com), JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR (http://indyworld.com/kochalka), and THE BAZOOKAS (http://www.members.aol.com/thebazookas) to Memorial's Main Stage for an altpop frosting on this three-tiered tasty treat. Admission is with a First Night button - ten bucks through November 30, then $13 after December 1. You can grab buttons in stores and banks all over town, and online at the First Night Burlington site: http://www.firstnightburlington.com. You might even win one if you listen to 99.9 The Buzz (which you'll be doing every Sunday at 9:30pm from now on anyway, 'cause that's when Kevin Murrihy's Homebrew Show spins music from our local music family and Montreal's too). The BIGHEAVYBUZZFEST is ALL AGES and substance-free. Details at www.firstnightburlington.com! BIGHEAVYBUZZFEST is also supported by Pepsi, UPN 39 (http://www.wbvt.com), and Advance Music (http://www.advancemusicvt.com/).

BLACK LIST MEETING THURSDAY
Next Black List meeting for anybody who wants to help kick the Burlington scene into higher gear, especially for the all-ages crowd, is this Thursday at Red Square, 6pm. Red Square's on lower Church Street, across from City Hall. Info/discussions on the BHW bulletin board at http://www.bigheavyworld.com.

BHW THANX:
Our thanx goes out this week to Wayne Perry, engineer at Vermont Public Radio (http://www.vpr.net), for fixing our long-crippled 8mm video camera. It's nice to have the gear back in action and it would have been dead forever without his generous help.

BHW LABEL NEWZ > CHIN HO! ON-AIR AT DIGITAL SATELLITE RADIO LAUNCH
On November 12 the first nation-wide digital satellite radio network scored coast-to-coast coverage with a hundred channels of pure digital audio delivered by satellite... and XM Satellite Radio's Channel 52 was broadcasting "Vincent's Head" from Burlington homeboyz and BHW recording artists Chin Ho!. The digital satellite radio service is brand new, but it seems like everybody's making receivers (Sony, Alpine, Pioneer) and everybody's going to be selling them (Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Sears). Cool thing is the digital radios are made for cars (it's a subscription service, $9.99 a month). XM's commercial-free Channel 52 is programmed by Pat Dinizio, the founder and leader of Smithereens, in search of "the musical geniuses who could blow your socks off next week or next year... bands too pure for a major label, or inspired experimenters ahead of their time." Well alrighty then. Check http://www.xmradio.com.

BHW LABEL NEWZ > CHAINSAWS.AND.CHILDREN ON VOIDSTAR COMP
CORONAL MASS EJECTION, a fresh, phat industrial compilation CD is out, featuring chainsaws.and.children's 'Species X' among other German and American trax. With a "spotlight on the industrial edge," it's the first CD release form Voidstar Productions, an artist-supportive organization in Massachusetts similar to the one run by the cranky geeks you know so well. For more info about the CME comp (or to order), visit http://www.syntheticcreations.com/cme/ and http://www.voidstarproductions.com.

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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 and something like a billion compilations of Burlington's incredible regional music. Contact us at 802-865-1140, 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 (www.wbvt.com), Magic Hat Brewing Company (www.magichat.net), Chek.com, SoVerNet (www.sover.net), Scully Interactive (www.scullyinteractive.com), and Small Dog Electronics (www.smalldog.com).

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