Halloween - Cleveland Style

We have mentioned before that the local rock club scene is mighty crowded this weekend and more so because of Halloween falling on a Saturday this year. We have listed a few of the most anticipated shows for local music this weekend. that is listed below, this is just a snipplet of the many gigs going on this weekend but you will not be disappointed with any of these choices.

Devil's Night - October 30, 2009

Halloween at Pat's In The Flat's is near legendary with the outrageously fun shows they had there in the last several years.
I'll let Jae explain this years gig with a direct quote below.

End of 1990's the last Washout Corp. lineup went in separate ways Davis forming the Franchise,Mike recording songs under the name "Mikey Machine" .Jae and Rich forming what was at that time a 4track noise project Self Destruct Button. Mikey would eventually put together a lineup of friends to perform the songs he'd write and called it Machine Go Boom! and on 8/9/2002 MGB and SDB would each perform their first show together at the Mantis in Kent in front of nobody. dispite completly different sounds these bands would go on to play a lot of shows together. In 2004 the bands put out a split EP . At this point MGB would begine playing Halloween at Pat's in the Flats often the busiest show of the year for Pat. this past year MGB broke up.So this leaves SDB with no choice but to save Halloween.MGB would have wanted the show to go on. FREE w/costume 9pm pats friday.

Halloween - October 31, 2009

The First Annual WCSB FREE Halloween Masquerade Ball 10/31/09 at Cleveland Public Theatre

Zero Boys & My Dad Is Dead. Enough said.

Keelhaul, Dysrhythmia, Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jerk +More @ Now That's Class

The Jack Fords @ The Croation Tavern

9pm Show at this ole man hangout hoping to catch some of the Halloween 'magic' flowing this weekend.

The tavern is located at 3244 St. Clair Avenue.

Coffinberry New 12 Inch

The Lakewood border band known as Coffinberry has a new album [self-titled] coming out on Collectible Escalators and will be released on 12" vinyl that will complete their troika after their last two releases were on CD & cassette only, respectably.
That album is not available yet but Coffinberry has it streaming on their website and from what I've heard after a couple listens, I really like. The album incorporates more acoustics and vocal harmonies and that is probably the largest difference from their previous efforts though the fine songwriting remains as Tony's vocals matures farther than anything I've heard from Coffinberry in the past. One way or another, do yourself a favor and listen to this album.

Coffinberry will be performing Thanksgiving Night with Buried Wires, Tinko & Wolly Bollie at Pat's In The Flats.

Inside Out & Martin Papcun

Martin Papcun came to Cleveland from his home in Prague, Czech Republic for a residency at Spaces Gallery in October 2008, during that time Papcun deconstructed a foreclosed home on West 45th. that entailed removing exterior walls of the home revealing the upstairs living area and commode.

Papcun has a similar project that will be revealed this Tuesday October 27th. from 4pm till 9pm. This abandoned home is located on 3601 Siam Avenue and is also in Ohio City just blocks from Papcun's previous west side project.
When I spoke to Papcun last Saturday night I asked him if he and his small crew were involved in the clearing of the litter left behind from the previous family that lived there before they were kicked out as the foreclosure procedures were enforced and Martin explained that they were part of that process and they had to hire exterminators to remove the mass of fleas that were feasting on them when they attempted to remove the carpet.

Martin has greatly improved his confidence of the English language since I first met him almost a year ago when he would only reply to my queries with a couple word answers. Saturday, Martin explained to me that  he and his small crew have only about 12 daylight hours remaining till the opening and he is worried about finishing the project by then but has confidence in the fine locals that are working with him.

The photo above is from Lara Kastner's excellent documentation of 45th street installation by Martin Papcun in December of 2008, that slideshow can be viewed here.

Spaces Executive Director Christopher Lynn has a fine description of this 45th. street installation of Papcun and his collaborators on papcun.net, below is an excerpt.
-LM

Inside Outside by Martin Papcun
3601 Siam Avenue [map]
October 27, 2009 from 4pm till pm.

Papcun's ambitious eight-week goal was not only to create an exhibition of
work in the gallery at SPACES' that addressed the foreclosure crisis,
but to physically dissect a foreclosed home. Cleveland has thousands
of homes whose windows and doors are shuttered with plywood to keep out
intruders who would pillage their copper or squat in their rooms.
The gallery component of Papcun's work organized toy homes, barns and
stores from thrift-stores (even children are abandoning their toy dwell-ings).
These miniature structures formed a ghostly street where windows
and doors were boarded up with balsa wood.

The Cleveland Auction Company

The shop on the corner of Professor Avenue & Jefferson in Tremont has just recently opened as the Cleveland Auction Company. From what I have seen in the windows the majority of the items are Vases, Pottery, Busts and other Antiques.
Cleveland Auction Co. will be holding its first auction this Sunday October 25th at 11am.
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We will start regular gallery hours on October 7th.
Wednesdays and Thursdays 12-7 pm
Fridays and Saturdays 12-9pm
Our next fine art and antique auction will be on October 25th.

The STAYloose HOLDtight EP

Our favorite local release of the fall goes out to this gem by Jeff Dixx that was recorded & mixed by RA Washington for ClevelandTapes.

Its the summer of 2008, and I'm living in the workers cottage on the edge of Ohio City, where it cease to be a nice environment, where even the babies on the street might smack you. Its the kind of summer, if you remember that meanders into loveless nights, and passionate conversations about nothing. My roommates are JEFF DIXX, and BRICK BARNES. You can guess the rest.

The EP can be download from the Cleveland Tapes site that also allows one stream the whole EP for free. Give tracks 5, 9 & 11 a whirl and let us know if we're wrong!

SCUM CITY SPRINTS: This Sunday

October 25th. @ 4pm

Meet at Mall B [map] w/bicycle. 3 Person heats, head to head & final heat. Wager-booth & booklets available. Sportsmanship is mandatory!


Fine-ass flyer by JohnG of ninepanelgrid.

PinkEye #6 Is Online

It has just been a little over a year since Ian and Leigh produced the first PinkEye [August of 2008] in its semi-glossy print state that was filled with some awesome artwork and interesting articles of the area art & music scene. Six strong issues later the PinkEye is still publishing their zine but with the skyrocketing cost of printing has forced them to temporarily end the print issue and become available only online.

Hopefully the PinkEye Magazine will be able to find an affordable printer in the near future though the online version features the same great look, articles & reviews and that can be viewed here.
[Edit- Oct. 26, 2009: Ian told me Saturday night that they hope to have a limited run of printed issues within the next couple weeks.]

Articles:  Invading the Wasteland – The Forgotten Triangle, Clothes Craft Warehouse (Read More Books Building), Notes from the Stark Naked Salon at Massillon Museum, Random Graffiti – The Foundation, Ugly Then Beautiful, We Need More Goddam Toes, Inner Ear Infection Local Album Reviews: Self Destruct Button, Mr. California, Muamin Collective, Hot Cha Cha

New DIY Space: The Cool Ranch

CoolRanch will be the name of the space that was once the BlackEye on [address hidden]. First show will November 28th w/Founding Fathers, Prisoners +more.

Photos from the last show @ The BlackEye are here.

Pat's Halloween Spectacular - FREE

FRIDAY OCTOBER 30

Megachurch [The Presidents of the United States of America]

Space Dokkers [Angry Samoans]

Mohammad Cartoon [Flipper]

Self Destruct Button w/Jae [Machine Go Boom]

Uno Lady & friends [Bikini Kill]

http://patsintheflats.com

City Center, MegaChurch @ Doubting Thomas

MegaChurch w/ City Center, Falling Rock, Wisdom Tooth, & Pimlo @ The DoubtingThomas in Tremont October 23 10pm $1 - BYOB

If you follow us on Twitter, you know how fondly we are of MegaChurch. City Center is on PolyVinyl & Falling Rock is Michael of Radio Dystopia/Defend Cleveland fame.

Cleveland Matinee Now Cranky's

We were the first outlet to report that the CM has subleased the club to Dizi a couple weeks back and we were also the first to report that they have changed their name to Cranky's, apparently referring to bicycles with Dizi being a former bike messenger.
The club still plans to have bands but I believe on a limited basis. Cranky's at the moment has zero web-presence but what I gleamed from Diz was that weeknights would have a theme, Mondays are bike nights with cheap beer prices, Tuesdays are trivia night, Wednesdays are 80's nights w/ "80's drinks @ 80's prices" [whatever that means].
For those that have yet been to the Matinee or Cranky's, the address is 2527 W25th street.

Amy Casey & New America Paintings

Cleveland Art Prize winner Amy Casey is featured on the cover of the latest New American Paintings #83 that is currently on the shelves at Visible Voice Books in Tremont.
Casey's next show is November 9th at Arts Collinwood.

New Cleveland Band: Crooked River Blues Band

CRBB consists of three members, Dan on Banjo, Miles on Violin & Myles on Guitar/Vocals and the band performed their first show at Doubting Thomas October 14th with no amps, PA or mics. Myles has mentioned that they plan to play out again. Cleveland Seen plans to be the first to announce that gig. Again.

R. Crumb's Awesome, Affecting Take On 'Genesis'

NPR has a favorable review of one of Cleveland's most famous writers 'R.Crumb', read the article here.

"But, to my surprise, The Book of Genesis Illustrated is straight-faced. The illustrator writes in the introduction that he has "faithfully reproduced every word of the original text," and the result is 224 pages of meticulous drawings that situate Genesis in a distinct culture and place.
It's a cartoonist's equivalent of the Sistine Chapel, and it's awesome. Crumb has done a real artist's turn here — he's challenged himself and defied all expectation"

Halloween At Now That's Class w/Keelhaul

SATURDAY 31, 2009

Keelhaul, Dysrhythmia, Stats, Clan Of The Cavebear, Jerk, Xrin Arms.

Jerk will be making its first appearance since disbanding a couple years ago.
Dress as a clown for $1 can specials & dollar off mix drinks.

Jacob Johansoen Poetry Reading From The Literary Cafe

The Literary Cafe has Poetry reading the second Thursday of every month.
The video below is courtesy of Andy Timithy.

Scott Radke & Moloko

ART NEWS: 

Scott Radke is featured in Moloko a online Art Magazine that you can download issue #9 here. http://ow.ly/vLdN

Graphic artists: Chris Kuzma, James Roper, Lisa Congdon, Artem Mishukov, Sergio Mora, Michel Ducourneau, Vladimir Snegotskiy, Charles Glaubitz, Félix Rodríguez, Justin Richel
Photographers: Roberta Ridolfi, Nastia Sukhanova, Katrin Kirojood, Olivia Locher, Alex & Cocco, Marina Adyrkhaeva, Joseph Valentino, Jesse Untracht-Oakner, Diana Thorneycroft, Corrado Dalco, Alexander Chernov, Alvin Tang, Alexey Shpunt
Toymakers: Scott Radke, Liza Sidorina, Arbito

 http://scottradke.com/