Shows this week featuring High Mayhem artists

[High Mayhem Newsletter]

*The Proxemics performing with Times New Viking at Thirsty Ear Festival
Kick-Off Party*
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*Thursday, June 9 at 8pm*

*Corazon*
401 S. Guadalupe, Santa Fe


Corazón, Southwest Roots Music & T-Cubed present the Thirsty Ear
Festival<http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/> Kickoff
Party



*Times New Viking*

Contrary to popular belief, the members of Times New Viking are not art
school dropouts, they’re art school graduates; and instead of following the
path of stuffy galleries and regular unemployment, they chose to start a
band. Times New Viking, consisting of Beth Murphy on keyboards/vocals, Adam
Elliott on drums/vocals, and Jared Phillips on guitar, began inconspicuously
in 2003, when it was particularly out of vogue to do it yourself. Those
initial demos of messy, noise-crusted, indie rock recordings were merely
practice tapes of late-night house parties. Those tapes were lovingly lo-fi,
tapping into the gnarled aesthetics of Columbus’ old guard and reflecting
the influence of legendary Ohio bands like Guided by Voices, the Breeders,
and Pere Ubu. Frequently playing out, Times New Viking soon got too big for
the living room, and eventually those tapes dropped into the hands of
Philadelphia’s Tom Lax. The cacophony Lax found was enough to coax him out
of retirement, lifting the mothballs from his dormant Siltbreeze imprint to
release the band’s debut album, Dig Yourself, in 2005. By the time Present
the Paisley Reich arrived in 2007, it was easy to see that the jitters and
foibles of being a rookie band had been shed, and Times New Viking were
increasingly confident in their songwriting. Phillips’ guitar-playing became
an electrifying spectacle in the live setting; Murphy’s synth bleats and
cooing innocence a magnet for collector scum; and Elliott’s lyrics, about
love and war and romantic nihilism, stronger in their call to arms for a
disaffected youth culture. But no matter how far their star rose—making the
jump from Siltbreeze to indie-elite Matador Records in 2007—they still
sounded like the best Rough Trade one-off you always wanted to keep to
yourself.



http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking<http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking%20http://timesnewviking.net/>

http://timesnewviking.net/<http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking%20http://timesnewviking.net/>

[image: Dancer Equired is the new album Times New Viking release on April
26th by Wichita in the UK/Europe and Merge in the US. You can stream three
tracks below: Dancer Equired by Times New Viking Pre Order if you’re
in America Rough Trade (with bonus disc) Record Store (signed copies + bonus
disc) HMV buy iTunes (£4.99) link]

 *The Proxemics*
Founded in early 2009, The Proxemics are an autonomous music project with a
revolving cast of musicians led by lynch pin and frontman Alex Neville (The
brilliant Dullards, A. Barnhouse, Audible Whispering 1/2 Quartet). They are
currently working as a quartet featuring Neville (Guitar, Mandolin, Bass,
Samples, Vocals), Yozo Suzuki (Guitar), Roland Ostheim (Bass) and Michael
Smith (Drums) and reside on the High Mayhem label.

The Proxemics are a stripped down assembly, sometimes appearing as a
garage-based, dirty wall of sound, sometimes as deconstructed balladeers
offering you their hearts on their sleeves. Neville unites crunchy, angular
alt-rock with a singer-songwriter sensibility while never letting go of his
experimental roots. Mimicking the definition of their moniker, The Proxemics
are at times both distant and intimate, treating their audience to an
emotional tug-of-war. The songs appear effortless on the surface, but upon
deeper investigation they become a complex system of asymmetrical forms with
sonic threads and noise, weaving songs into a larger, continuous theme.

The shifting members of The Proxemics are all long-time members of the High
Mayhem Emerging Arts Collective, also based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
which has helped shape the City Different’s unique underground scene for the
last ten years.

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*JA "Dino" Deane performing at Warehouse 21*
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*Friday, June 10 at 8pm*

*Warehouse 21*
1614 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe

JA "Dino" Deane will be doing a beat-based solo set on lapsteel and sampler
at this show at Warehouse 21 show. All ages event.

And, check out his blog! http://jadeane.com/blog
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