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Selenography = Poems by Joshua Marie Wilkinson + Polaroids by Califone’s Tim Rutili. Awesome.
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March with Monofonus
Mar 06 10
We’ve got so much going on this month, we decided to share our schedule with you. We didn’t have room for all the unofficial day parties our bands are playing; those times are available on the bands’ own sites! Most bold items are clickable links.
SXSW FRI 3.12/MON 3.15/TUE 3.16/WED 3.17/THU 3.18/FRI 3.19/SAT 3.20
or, jump to POST-SXSW
Alamo Ritz, 10:15pm: SXSW Film’s Music Videos program, featuring the video for Diagonals‘ “Clones.”
11am, Paramount Theater: Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate, a film co-produced by Monofonus. We’re happy to announce that IFC Films recently purchased the film and will be making it nationally available to watch at home on OnDemand the same day.
3pm-2am, The Independent @ 501 Studios: Awthumfetht, feat. 16 bands and videos by Monofonus, among others
12-2pm, Convention Center: Visit us at SXSW’s Indie Village.
1pm, Alamo Ritz: Music Videos, featuring Diagonals’ “Clones.”
2-8pm, Hotel San Jose: Monofonus Day Party, co-sponsored by the SIMS Foundation and featuring Ralph White, Eternal Tapestry, Soft Healer, Expensive Shit, Zs, Follow That Bird!, the Coathangers, and Turbo Fruits.
7:30pm, Velveeta Room: Ralph White official SXSW showcase
12-2pm, Convention Center: Visit us at SXSW’s Indie Village.
9:30pm, Alamo South Lamar: Lovers of Hate
12-2pm, Convention Center: Visit us at SXSW’s Indie Village.
12mid, Wave: Follow That Bird! official SXSW showcase
3pm, Alamo Ritz: Music Videos, featuring Diagonals’ “Clones.”
8pm, Continental Club: Diagonals official SXSW showcase
12mid, Encore Patio: Golden Boys official SXSW showcase
Unit B, San Antonio: Over the Hill’s video series & Okay Mountain
TUE 3.30
8pm, Hotel San Jose: Teleportal 3: McSweeney’s, featuring Bill Cotter and Annie La Ganga, a Teleportal reading by Dean Young, video from Wholphin, and a special musical guest
Teleportal Is Today!
Feb 09 10
As promised, it’s the second installment of Teleportal, Monofonus’ new monthly reading series in partnership with the Hotel San Jose and Domy Books. Designed for people who love reading but hate readings, Teleportal is a relaxed evening of multimedia literary delights. Every Teleportal features a live reading, a virtual reading, and video transmissions from some of the nation’s most exciting small presses and literary journals. This month’s Teleportal includes a live reading by prolific poet Nick Courtright, a virtual reading by noir novelist Richard Lange, and excerpts from 60 Writers/60 Places.
Poetry from Nick Courtright’s Levis Prize-finalist manuscript, Likely Fates, is forthcoming or has recently appeared in such esteemed journals as The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among numerous others. His new chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, will be debuting this month with Blue Hour Press. Courtright teaches at Southwestern and St. Edward’s and is also a music writer for the Austinist.
Richard Lange’s short-story collection Dead Boys and L.A. noir novel This Wicked World have won him praise from publications as highly regarded and far-flung as The L.A. Times, The New York Times, and France’s Le Figaro. Novelist T.C. Boyle has said, “Richard Lange’s stories combine the truth-telling and immediacy of Raymond Carver with the casual hip of Denis Johnson.”
60 Writers/60 Places is a film by Michael Kimball and Luca Dipierro (whose animation for Electric Literature screened at last month’s Teleportal). Inspired by tableaux vivants, the film features short readings in unorthodox venues, such as a laundromat, the subway, and a botanical garden. The film’s mix of established and emerging authors includes Gary Lutz, Sam Lipsyte, Deb Olin Unferth, Blake Butler, and Justin Taylor, among others.
Teleportal 2 March 2, 8pm
Hotel San Jose 1316 South Congress Ave
will have a pop-up shop at this and every Teleportal.
Lovers of Hate Goes to Sundance
Jan 20 10
This year, Monofonus helped to produce Lovers of Hate, a film by BRYAN POYSER, which is now an official 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection. The film premieres this Sunday at the festival in Park City, Utah, so on the off chance that you’re there, keep an eye out for a Monofonus man passing around our Lovers of Hate interview book, posted here in futuristic, digi-book form.
Bear Claw one-sider out Jan 19th
Jan 14 10
Bear Claw’s one-sider includes four tracks from their recently self-released cassette that we felt more than deserved the vinyl treatment. Wonderfully recorded, beautiful songs on a one-sided, 10″ vinyl. take a listen.
Pick one up at the release show, Saturday Jan. 23rd at United States Art Authority when Bear claw plays with Soft Healer and Mutating Meltdown.
Teleportal Readings
Jan 06 10
Beginning on Tuesday, January 19th, the Hotel San Jose will become home to a multimedia reading series designed for those who love reading but hate readings. We’ve done away with the fluorescent lights, folding chairs, and library atmosphere of literary events. As for that opposite extreme of the reading world, the poetry slam, you can rest assured that this is a curated series – we’re all for democracy, just not when it means suffering through awful poems. Every month, we’ll be hosting live readers, virtual readings from some of the nation’s most exciting authors, and video transmissions from small presses and literary magazines across the country. In the coming year, Teleportal Readings will be expanding to other cities, hosted by various presses and publications in partnership with Monofonus.
Our first reading will feature a live performance by poet Jill Alexander-Essbaum, who’s been described as “a cross between Dorothy Parker and a lap dance.” Our virtual reader will be former National Book Award nominee Dan Chaon, whose Await Your Reply has appeared on the year-end top-ten lists of The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Salon, and The New York Times‘ Janet Maslin, among others. Electric Literature, a digital literary magazine whose innovative approach has won them mentions in The New Yorker and the Times, will also be contributing videos from their Single Sentence Animation series, in which video artists animate sentences by renowned authors.
Circulatory System in San Antonio!
Dec 01 09
Monofonus pardners Circulatory System debuted their Traveling Video Show #1 last Saturday, December 5th, at Domy Houston. This week (Dec 11th), they’ll be heading to Unit B in San Antonio. Check out their website for more information!
FOLLOW THAT BIRD
Oct 16 09
Record Release!
Monofonus is psyched to kick off our One-sider series with a chunky 3-tracker from this local Austin trio. Available on one-sided 10″ vinyl, b/w art by Lauren Dickens.
Come see Follow That Bird do it live at United States Art Authority (next to Spider House) on Oct. 24th along with Dikes of Holland, Literature and Pillow Queens. Ony 7 bux to get in, plus the 10″ is included with entry!
IF 08: GET HELP!
Sep 18 09
Do you need Help? For your Self? You’re in luck! Art Healer Michelle Devereux has just what the doctor would order… if you had health insurance and could go to one.
Turn This Book Right Side Up: An Interactive Guide to Self-Improvement gives new meaning to “this book will save your life.” She might even have called it that if it weren’t already taken.
Part art book, part workbook, part comedy book, all fu-un! Turn This Book Right Side Up: An Interactive Guide to Self-Improvement has everything you need to turn over a new leaf. Or masturbate in front of a mirror. (more…)
Marfan Videos Oct. 9-10
Sep 18 09
Have you heard the news? Marfa is having another fun party. This one’s at Liz Lambert’s El Cosmico. It’s called the Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love. The Heartless Bastards will play. So will Ben Kweller, Amy Cook, Hotel Brotherhood, Tift Merritt, and Patty Griffin. And Monofonus will be there to debut our new video series, organized by the great Jill Pangallo, under the biggest of night skies.
Vote for us! By JULY 21!
Jul 08 09
The venerable Austin Chronicle has a little thing they like to call Best of Austin, and we thought that maybe some of you might want to, like, VOTE for us?
No-fooling, we think we deserve “Best Party of the Year” for Woolworth’s Harsh Realm: A Rennaissance Affaire, the kick-ass party we threw during South by Southwest. It may sound like braggin’, but come on, there was a whole legend, and a real wizard, and a warehouse-sized dragon sculpture with an enormous gaping mouth that moved and a huge bloody eyeball that popped out. Not to mention all the handmade games, the free-flowing beer and Dragon’s Blood cocktails, and, of course, the music. Follow this link to experience the magic all over again, and if you need more, we have video proof.
And you could also say that we are the “Best Scenester/Mover and Shaker,” because what does that really mean anyway?
All you have to do is CLICK RIGHT HERE to cast your ballot!!!