{"id":655,"date":"2018-02-11T04:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T04:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-02-11T04:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T04:38:46","slug":"bardo-pond-major-stars-honey-radar-henry-owings-at-jbs-friday-february-16-at-9-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Bardo Pond \/ Major Stars \/ Honey Radar \/ Henry Owings at JB&#8217;s Friday, February 16 at 9 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bardo Pond \/ Major Stars \/ Honey Radar \/ Henry Owings at JB&#8217;s Friday, February 16 at 9 PM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/24058773_10159929528505227_6841578094584519893_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-656\" src=\"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/24058773_10159929528505227_6841578094584519893_n-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"24058773_10159929528505227_6841578094584519893_n\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/24058773_10159929528505227_6841578094584519893_n-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/24058773_10159929528505227_6841578094584519893_n.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Come on out it&#8217;s going to be a good one!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnnybrendas.com\/event\/1603147-bardo-pond-philadelphia\/\">Johnny Brenda&#8217;s link<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"artist-box-headliner\">\n<div class=\"artist-headline\"><span class=\"artist-name\">Bardo Pond<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnnybrendas.com\/event\/1603147-bardo-pond-philadelphia\/#tfly-more-1\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bio-image-right\" title=\"Bardo Pond\" src=\"https:\/\/image-ticketfly.imgix.net\/00\/02\/74\/80\/47-og.jpg?w=100&amp;h=75\" alt=\"Bardo Pond\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bio\">The world\u2019s most essential psychedelic rock experience should defy rational explanation and scholarly deconstruction. No tablature can define for you what these latter day cosmic couriers bring to the table, no lyric sheet will give you access to their text; you put the music on, close your eyes, and dream your equivalent of the pond into existence. Bardo Pond has the outward specifications of a rock band \u2014 guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, occasional but crucial flute and violin and vocals \u2014 but the rivers that converge into the band\u2019s oneiric flow have their headwaters in the outlands of ecstatic jazz, free noise and the avant-garde. Their slow-motion avalanches of churning instrumentation and voice suggest drugged states but don\u2019t necessarily require them.<br \/>\nThey alter brain chemistry by the alchemical effect of distressed sound alone, aspiring to become engineers of the soul\u2019s passage to alternate states of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>At the foundation of the pyramid, the drums of Jason Kourkounis and the bass of Clint Takeda lay down a sinewy, sexy and hypnagogic bottom end. At the centre of the pyramid, the twin guitars of John and Michael Gibbons send out emissaries of fire, flaying flesh from bone in a storm of holy liberation. Isobel Sollenberger inhabits the place where the pyramid meets the eye of their storm, weaving fibres of voice, flute and violin through the din.<\/p>\n<p>I heard someone comment recently that the limits of music have now been defined, bracketed by John Cage\u2019s silence at one end and Merzbow\u2019s maximum noise at the other, leaving only the option of filling the spaces in between. Bardo Pond demonstrate how much scope there is to innovate within that continuum. If rock music is to have any relevance in the new millennium, it is bands like Bardo Pond that will make it so.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artist-box-support\">\n<div class=\"artist-headline\"><span class=\"artist-name\">Major Stars<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnnybrendas.com\/event\/1603147-bardo-pond-philadelphia\/#tfly-more-2\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bio-image-right\" title=\"Major Stars\" src=\"https:\/\/image-ticketfly.imgix.net\/00\/02\/74\/80\/54-og.jpg?w=100&amp;h=47\" alt=\"Major Stars\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bio\">Major Stars is an American psychedelic rock band from greater Boston, Massachusetts. Their first live performance was in 1997 at the inaugural Terrastock Festival in Providence, Rhode Island. They toured Japan in 2000 with Overhang Party. In 2002, they toured with Acid Mothers Temple as an opening act and performed at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. In December 2006 they performed at the Thurston Moore curated All Tomorrow&#8217;s Parties festival in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Wayne Rogers sang lead vocals on all of the band&#8217;s releases through 2005&#8217;s 4, when Sandra Barrett joined to take over those duties.[5] Barrett left the band in 2008 and was replaced by Amanda Bristow, who joined during the recording of the album Return To Form. Vocalist Hayley Thompson-King joined in 2010, and appears on the albums Decibels of Gratitude and Motion Set but has since left the group and the current live singer is Noell Dorsey.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artist-box-support\">\n<div class=\"artist-headline\"><span class=\"artist-name\">Honey Radar<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnnybrendas.com\/event\/1603147-bardo-pond-philadelphia\/#tfly-more-3\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bio-image-right\" title=\"Honey Radar\" src=\"https:\/\/image-ticketfly.imgix.net\/00\/02\/74\/80\/50-og.jpg?w=100&amp;h=75\" alt=\"Honey Radar\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bio\">\u201cLo-fi, catchy and classic-sounding, Honey Radar\u2019s albums evoke a dirt-covered Nuggets collection from an alternate universe.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Pitchfork<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot sure if it\u2019s layered solo work or a group or what, but it\u2019s great short pop spasms owing equal debts to early New Zealand\u2019s South Island groups and Guided By Voices.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; The Wire<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artist-box-support\">\n<div class=\"artist-headline\"><span class=\"artist-name\">Henry Owings<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnnybrendas.com\/event\/1603147-bardo-pond-philadelphia\/#tfly-more-4\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bio-image-right\" title=\"Henry Owings\" src=\"https:\/\/image-ticketfly.imgix.net\/00\/02\/74\/80\/60-og.jpg?w=100&amp;h=66\" alt=\"Henry Owings\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bio\">It\u2019s often said that those who can, do; those who can\u2019t, teach. However, in the case of Henry Owings, he does. Quite a bit. And quite a bit more. He\u2019s a graphic designer, magazine publisher, author, concert promoter, record producer, tour manager and now to add to this list: comedian. Brought on stage after a dare with his wife as to who was funnier, Henry quickly found out his wife is way funnier than him. And he admits to it. Freely. However, he persists going on stage largely to excise the beasts that he&#8217;s targeted in the pages of his three books and also in his long-standing magazine Chunklet. He recently self-released his first record called \u201cMicro-Impressions Vol. 1\u201d and is a five minute collection of his one-second impressions of bands ranging from AC\/DC and Blonde Redhead to, well\u2026you get the idea. Owings took his act on the road with The Gotobeds last year and couldn\u2019t be discouraged from continuing his utter nonsense. And so here we are, watching a grown man, father, husband and labradoodle owner queef into a microphone and call it \u201ccomedy.\u201d There you go, 2017, do your worst.<\/p>\n<p>It should be added that Owings is currently the top selling artist in the long-dead Mini Disc market for 2017. His record \u201cMicro-Impressions Vol. 1\u201d has sold four copies. Then again, that was just at last count. It might be more by now.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bardo Pond \/ Major Stars \/ Honey Radar \/ Henry Owings at JB&#8217;s Friday, February 16 at 9 PM Come on out it&#8217;s going to be a good one! Johnny Brenda&#8217;s link Bardo Pond links The world\u2019s most essential psychedelic rock experience should defy rational explanation and scholarly deconstruction. 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