Adventures

I saw Burning Star Core AKA C. Spencer Yeh (thanks!) and Menace Ruine last night as part of The Wire magazine's Adventures in Modern Music festival at the Empty Bottle. Spencer played an excellent solo set that continued the evolving style and concept of the last three-piece BxC show at The Mopery... Loops, "samples," violin, voice... ending on an amazing note with an unanticipated beat that had heaps of violin added to it, which seemed to heave or go out of phase or something. Yes! It was also great to belatedly meet and see/hear Menace Ruine, who were supposed to play with BLOODYMINDED at the Matchitehew Assembly...fucking dark and cold...like black metal filtered through minimal synth... I have to say that it was somewhat amusing watching all of the Yacht fans squirming through the discordance and the darkness of both sets. Funny and wonky Smegma-related (Ju Suk Reete Meate & Oblivia) stuff started it all off. Nice to run into all sorts of friends there. Great late-night record spinning afterward...Abrupt and abrasive lock grooves giving way to The Cure "Seventeen Seconds," New Order "Temptation" 12-inch (um...), Echo & the Bunnymen "The Killing Moon" 12-inch (extended!), and finally... the elusive Tones on Tail "Pop" LP...