Posts Tagged ‘xrin arms’

Speak Onion w/ David B. Applegate, more, at Port d’Or on Fri., Aug 27!

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

YES! I’m playing at a rad place with some of my favorite old friends and some awesome new friends. This will be a bonkers night for sure. From the Free Techno of David B. Applegate to the straight weirdness of Bubblegum Octopus and Mysterious House to the true rocking of Xrin Arms, and of course some shattered rhythms from your #1 boss of drum’n'noise, the party will NOT BE STOPPING FOR ANYTHING. You’ve been warned.

Also, look how many Speak Onion shows are happening in the next few weeks. Pretty rad, huh? Between the I.B.N. Presents show at Party Expo where I’ll be doing the battle set, the ExperiMENTAL Fest Noise BBQ, August 26 at Goodbye Blue Monday, and this one, I’m a busy, man. That’s why I’m the boss, I guess. Anyway, I’ll see you out there!

Bubblegum Octopus
David B. Applegate
Mysterious House
Speak Onion

Port d’Or, 841 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY
Friday, August 27, 2010, 9PM
$5 donation

EDIT: Xrin Arms, sadly, won’t be able to make it up to NYC due to some rough times out on tour, so the GBM show is cancelled, and there will be only 4 bands at this show at Port d’Or. Still mad freshness guaranteed, though. Pour one out on the curb for XA, though.

Xrin Arms/Speak Onion- Snow Braid available now!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Click the pic to get to the download!

So here it is. The much-delayed, repeatedly-changed, widely-anticipated(?) split release from Xrin Arms and myself. I’m glad we waited, becasue it really became something pretty amazing. If you think you know Xrin Arms, think again and download this record, because he flips the script here. The tracks are so completely blown out and weird. He’s tapped into some psychadelic vibes that are really pretty exciting. His half of the release really makes you feel high on drugs.

And then my track comes in like a terrible hangover. Deep Cover is a track I’ve actually been working on for a long time, and it took me a while to get it right. I think I’ve even been playing versions of it live since June of 09. But I finally recorded something that captures the wildness of the live versions, and here it is.

Lastly, I’m really glad I got to do a split with Xrin Arms. We’ve played a ton of shows together and toured together and he’s really always helped get the word out about Speak Onion and shown me the ropes a bit, and we’ve become like brothers over the couple of years that we’ve known each other. The man DJ’d my wedding, you dig? So finally we get down together on record, and it’s a thing of beauty.