Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Curtains

The Curtains: from Asthmatic Kitty

"The Curtains new album won't be out until end of October, but in the meantime you can catch them live on tour with Final Fantasy and then Beirut. They will be touring as four-piece and debuting their new material. Be sure to catch them in your home town, or a neighboring home town, or a further away town. Tour dates [here]."

SF--11/02 Oakland CA - @ 21 Grand w/ Mt. Eerie, Jason Anderson

http://myspace.com/musicalcurtains
The Minus One on slide show now playing "The Minus One" is the name of the group Dana Alberts, Liam Hart and Mike Henry started in the eighties. The band released four singles through the "Skate Rock" series through Thrasher Magazine, and appeared on “One Giant Leap”, a compilation record released in England on Venture Records in 1983. The next year, they recorded “Where A Man Was Made,” with Spencer Dryden on drums (Jefferson Airplane drummer) and Naomi Ruth Isenberg (Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks) on violin. Minus One toured the U.S. in 1985 with the VKTMS, the punk band formed by drummer Louis Gwerder and featuring Nyna Crawford. Later that year Alberts was approached by Danny Sugerman, the author and former manager of the “Doors, and Iggy Pop's manager, after Sugerman had heard a tape of the band. This led them to an offer of a record deal from Geffen Records. The band, broke up before the deal could be consummated. They reformed in late 2006, and are be currently rehearsing to play extensively in 2007.