OK, here is that video

Booyah...

Women of Providence Rock show was GO!

Super fun. Imostly forgot that I had a camera on me but I did manage to snap some shots. I will post them to the gallery later...with video too...but for now, here are 2 shots of Made In Mexico.

Flavorcave and Women of Rock

Two goings-ons that I am psyched for:

First, The Flavor Cave installation, a la Firehouse 13 is having a 3 week Saturday-a-thon on January 13, 20 and 27 with bands and films. Along with all of the other craziness there...my band (MEGASUS) is playing it's first RI show on the 27th. Megasus is Me, Brian Gibson, Jason Kendall and Paul Lyons. I know, shameless self promotion but hey...it's is the first hometown show of the Megasus.

Here is a blurb from the Flavorcave site:

Every one hundred years, for three weekends in winter, a miracle of nature, the Flavor Cave, appears. Step inside the Flavor Cave and be forever altered by the spectacle of color and sound! Wonder at the strange landscape and big shiny things!

The Flavor Cave is an installation created by Providence, RI artists The Awesome Brothers. The cave entrance is located at Firehouse 13 (41 Central St., Providence, RI) and will only be open from January 12 - 27, 2007. Every Friday and Saturday night, film and music shows will be held inside the installation involving filmmakers, performers, and musicians from the community and beyond. During each week, the installation will be altered to suit its weekend's flavor.

Second, there is a monsters of rock show happening at AS220 on Jan 21 titled The Women Of Providence ROCK Fest.

A blurbette from the AS220 site:

AWESOME! A Sunday night mini-festival highlighting the women ROCKERS in PVD. Doors at 7pm (really!) - get here early.





Here's the lineup:

The Midnight Creeps
Can't Face the Falling
Made in Mexico
Sweet Thieves
Lolita Black
Set of Red Things
Battlesnake
Drab
Blue Shift

THE MIDNIGHT CREEPS: Straight out of the bowels of Creepsville USA (uh, Rhode Island) armed with sleazy tales of sin, sex, and destitution come the Midnight Creeps to bring the danger back to rocknroll! Consisting of singer Jenny Hurricane, guitarist Stimbot, bassist Jonas Parmelee, and drummer...ummm...well we don't know who the drummer is right now but anyway the Midnight Creeps specialize in churning out three-minute roller coasters of good gone bad. The Midnight Creeps have toured extensively playing well over 500 shows in the past 4 years both in the US & Europe including such festivals as Holidays in The Sun/Wasted & Viva Le Punk leaving a trail of busted eardrums and broken hearts in their wake. With their latest release, Doomed From the Get Go, the Midnight Creeps give the kick in the ass to Rock n' Roll that the stylists and handlers for The Strokes & Good Charlotte didn't have the guts to give. MADE IN MEXICO (Rebecca Mitchell – vocals Jon Loper – bass Dare Matheson – drums Jeff Schneider – guitar) came into existence when Rebecca Mitchell moved to Providence, Rhode Island from Oklahoma. Mitchell began changing things around when she was asked by Dare Matheson and Jon Loper (members of Providence’s psychedelic freak- out ensemble La Machine) to start a band. They pitched the endeavor as playing live some songs that they had on tapes they had kicking around for years. Jon Loper recalls that “Rebecca called one day and asked me if I was into the idea of dragging Jeff Schneider out. Schneider was a guitarist in Arab On Radar. I’d played with him before so it seemed like a good enough idea to try.” The beginning rehearsals took place at a studio in Providence, RI and it went strangely at first. Everyone tried their best to relax the tension by playing some music that they mutually agreed was good: Captain Beefheart, Devo, Chrome, Amon Duul II, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Sleetmute/Nightmute and that’s when writing began. When this writer talked with Jeff all he stated was that “It is not that easy to do it when there are people out there who tried to kill me… musically.”

Happy New Year

So, I went to a Casino Night New Years party...gambled for about 6 hours and went home 3 dollars lighter.

Not too shabby.

Happy New Year!

Oh, and if some jerk that you don't recognize with short red, curly hair is hanging around claiming to be Ryan from Lotsofnoise...it is...I cut all of my hair off. 20 years in the making, 20 minutes in the destroying. I still have it though, it is in my closet. I talk to it at night now and pet it. Heh Heh.

Sweet Fancy Moses, the Forums are back!

In the true spirit of holidaze, LOTSOFNOISE frequenter Gauze gave us our forums back. Waiting for my webhost to solve my forum woes was going nowhere but Gauze brought us back from the depths. Not only are the boards back but there are now multiple anti spamola strategies in there as well. I think there are still a few to go...but things should be a lot better now.

Sorry for the look of the forums...I will need to make a new skin that fits the site's style again...but that is an MP not a YP. For now, enjoy the fully functioning yet visually dull forums.

Oh yeah...we unfortunately lost a week or so of posts so please repost if you need to.

Fuckin' Spam!

Sorry everyone, but the forums are down. Spammers were hitting us hard and during an attempt to squash the problem, something went, um, wrong.

I will hopefully have this fixed by tonight with the help of some awesome LON'ers.

The rest of the site is working fine though.

Monument of Urns, Lorna Doom and more

I recently got copies of the 2 Monument of Urns CDs, Lorna Doom, Get Killed, the 75 or less cd comp, the Rare Youth comp and others. The stuff is out in the reviewer's hands and you should be able to feast your eyes shortly.

I have to say that I have been listening to M.O.U. and it is sweet. They are these 2 tiny little CDs with 1 song per (mind you, the songs are like 20 minutes long). The art is good, the music is good. If you like large helpings of doom and gloom with your metal...go snag copies at Armageddon.


I am pretty torn about Lorna Doom. Although I quickly got over the fact that it is in fact NOT a doom metal band :) , I go back and forth on how much I like/dislike the CD. The music is pretty great almost all the way through. It has that cool 80's hip hop thing going on where the song actually has structure and changes (unlike most hip hop albums now with one loop per song). It is noisy and raw and differentiates itself from most hip hop sounds. However, it is the singing that I do not think I can get behind. It is a weird blend of Beasties/Dr. Octagon/MC Paul Barmann. I have been going through phases where I love it...and then don't. You should listen for yourself though...and read the real review when it gets posted.

Lotsofnoise Mobile

Just wanted to let you know that the Listings page works super sweet-like on mobile phones. I mean, I can only speak for Verizon's LG phones with web browsers...but I think it will work universally. I did not do anything to make it so...I guess I just got lucky. Here are shots from my LG phone. Now you can check what the hell is going on no matter where you are.

In this animation I show how I have Lotsofnoise.com as a "Favorite", but you can just type in www.lotsofnoise.com to your phone and navigate over (make sure you use the L_side link) OR make a favorite that is direct to http://www.lotsofnoise.com/rails/

Photos from LOCAL IMAGES section of lotsofnoise

Just thought that I would post some of the cool images that are in the LOCAL IMAGES section...in case you did not know it was there :) Check them out...there is a ton over there.

Punk Rock Farmers

There ia a rad article on punk-inspired, urban Women Farmer's in Providence in BUST this month, written by Providence's own Vikki Warner.
I scanned the article...click HERE to read the pages: