Woodsist Festival 2013.

Big announcement from the Woodsist camp. This year Woodsist Festival will be happening over two weekends. The first batch of shows will be on September 22nd and September 23rd at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA. followed by another event happening on September 28th at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown CA. Good times in the woods and the desert.


SUNDAY- SEPT 22 - BIG SUR

Woods
White Fence
Foxygen
Michael Hurley
Skygreen Leopards
Jessica Pratt

MONDAY- SEPT 23 - BIG SUR

Real Estate
The Fresh and Onlys
Peaking Lights
Little Wings
MV & EE
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks 

SATURDAY- SEPT 28 - PIONEERTOWN

Real Estate Woods Fresh and Onlys White Fence
The Babies
Jessica Pratt
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
& more TBA

Revolver Related Shows This Week (5/7 - 5/13)

MONDAY MAY 7TH
DIRTY BEACHES - Northampton    MA    Iron Horse    w/ Xiu Xiu       
LA OTRACINA - Bremen    DE    Stubnitz           
SIC ALPS - Cologne    DE    King Georg           
MARK SULTAN - Denver    CO    Hi-Dive           
UNSANE - Dallas    TX    Trees     w/ The Melvins
   
TUESDAY MAY 8TH   
ALLO DARLIN'- San Francisco     CA    Rickshaw Stop           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Pawtucket    RI    The Met   
COLOSSAL YES -     San Francisco     CA    Hemlock Tavern   
DIRTY BEACHES - Portland    ME    SPACE Gallery     w/ Xiu Xiu       
JUCIFER - Geneva    CH    Le Kab Usine           
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Toronto    ON    Silver Dollar            
TY SEGALL - Minneapolis    MN    7th Street Entry     w/ White Fence        
SIC ALPS - Paris    FR    La Mecanique Ondulatoire           
STRANGE BOYS, THE - Nashville    TN    The End            
UNSANE - Santa Fe    NM    Santa Fe Brewing Company    w/ The Melvins               
ZOMES - Miami Beach    FL    The Fillmore Miami Beach     w/ Beach House

WEDNESDAY MAY 9TH       
A STORM OF LIGHT- Berlin    DE    Berghain    w/ Sleep       
ALLO DARLIN' - Chico     CA    Origami Lounge           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - New York    NY    Irving Plaza           
DIRTY BEACHES - Montreal    QC    La Sala Rossa    w/ Xiu Xiu       
LA OTRACINA - Stockholm    SE    Mother           
TY SEGALL - Madison    WI    High Noon Saloon     w/ White Fence        
SIC ALPS - Lille    FR    La Malterie           
SPITS, THE - Goteborg    SE    Truck Stop Alaska            
STRANGE BOYS, THE - Bloomington    IN    The Bishop            
UNSANE - Santa Ana    CA    Galaxy Concert Theatre     w/ The Melvins               
ZOMES - Orlando    FL    Beacham Theater     w/ Beach House

THURSDAY MAY 10TH       
A STORM OF LIGHT     - Leipzig    DE    Conne Island    w/ Sleep       
ALLO DARLIN' - Portland     OR     Mississippi Studios            
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Boston    MA    Paradise           
JUCIFER - Prague    CZ    Klub Final            
LA OTRACINA - Goteborg    SE    Koloni           
PURLING HISS - Fayetteville    AR    Arkansas Music Pavilion     w/ Wilco       
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Detroit    MI    Lager House             
TY SEGALL - Chicago    IL    Lincoln Hall    w/ White Fence, The Strange Boys        
SPITS, THE - Stockholm    SE    Vielles Montagnes                   
MARK SULTAN - Brooklyn    NY    Knitting Factory           
TERRY MALTS - San Francisco    CA    Slim's           
TORCHE - Chapel HIll    NC    Local 506               
ZOMES - Jacksonville    FL    Free Bird Live     w/ Beach House   

FRIDAY MAY 11TH   
A STORM OF LIGHT - Prague    CZ    Lucerna Music Bar    w/ Sleep       
ALLO DARLIN' - Seattle     WA    The Vera Project      
BLACK TWIG PICKERS - Birmingham    AL    Secret Stages Festival           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Baltimore    MD    Sonar           
DASH RIP ROCK - Macon    GA    Hummingbird Bar & Taproom           
DIRTY BEACHES - Ottawa    ON    Mavericks     w/ Xiu Xiu       
GENTLEMAN JESSE - Asheville    NC    Emerald Lounge    w/ Barreracudas       
JUCIFER - Halle    DE    Reilstrasse 78            
LA OTRACINA - Copenhagen    DK    Mayhem           
PURLING HISS - Birmingham    AL    Sloss Furnaces            
PYGMY LUSH - Philadelphia    PA    First Unitarian/Side Chapel           
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Cleveland    OH    Horrible Fest

TY SEGALL - Detroit    MI    Lager House     w/ White Fence, The Strange Boys              
SULTAN, MARK - New Haven    CT    Cafe 9           
TORCHE - Atlanta    GA    5 2 9        
ZOMES - Birmingham    AL    The Bottletree     w/ Beach House

SATURDAY MAY 12TH           
BLACK LIPS    5/12    Atlanta    GA    Terminal West at King Plow Arts Center           
BLACK TWIG PICKERS - Birmingham    AL    Secret Stages Festival           
BURNING IMAGE - Bakersfield    CA    Riley's Backstage           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Harrisburg    PA    The Abbey Bar           
DIRTY BEACHES - Toronto    ON    Lee's Place     w/ Xiu Xiu       
DUCKTAILS - New York    NY    Terminal 5            
GENTLEMAN JESSE - Washington    DC    Black Cat    w/ Barreracudas       
NATE HALL - Johnson City    TN    The Hideaway    Record Release Show       
JUCIFER - Berlin    DE    Magnet Club           
LA OTRACINA - Malmo    SE    Get Daun Festival           
MV & EE - Jamaica Plain    MA    The Whitehaus           
PURLING HISS - Jackson    MS    Thalia Mara Hall            
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Chicago    IL    Empty Bottle           
TY SEGALL - Toronto    ON    Horseshoe Tavern    w/ White Fence, The Strange Boys        
SPITS, THE - Aarhus    DK    Woxhall               
MARK SULTAN - Boston    MA    PA's Lounge           
TORCHE - Orlando    FL    Will's Pub               
ZOMES - Athens    GA    The Georgia Theatre     w/ Beach House

SUNDAY MAY 13TH           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Buffalo    NY    Soundlab           
GENTLEMAN JESSE - Brooklyn    NY    Knitting Factory    w/ Barreracudas       
JUCIFER - Slupsk    PO    Motor Rock Club           
MV & EE - Brooklyn    NY    285 Kent    Record Release Show       
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Milwaukee    WI    Cactus Club           
TY SEGALL - Montreal    QC    IL Motore             
SPITS, THE - Venice    IT    Guilty Boat Party                    
ZOMES - Asheville    NC    Orange Peel     w/ Beach House

MV & EE Tour Poster.

MV & EE's "Workingman's Smile".

"Workingman's Smile" off the upcoming Space Homestead album available May 15th via the Woodsist label. More info coming soon.

MV & EE January Residency @ Zebulon.

MV & EE will be doing a Sunday night residency at Zebulon in Brooklyn NY (258 Wythe Avenue) during the month of January. They will be doing 3 sets nightly, starting off acoustic, then electric and ending the evening with some free freakiness. January 8th/15th/22nd. Don't miss it.

The Jack Rose Tribute Comp.

An incredible Jack Rose tribute compilation entitled Honest Strings: A Tribute To The Life And Work Of Jack Rose is now available for digital download only. Quite an impressive assembly of friends, admirers, past collaborators have contributed to the massive six+ hour / 41 tracks testament. Contributors include: Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Spiral Joy Band, Six Organs Of Admittance, MV&EE, Bardo Pond, Hush Arbors, No Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, and many more. The comp. is priced at an extremely low $15.00 and all proceeds will go directly to Rose's estate. Honest Strings can be purchased HERE.

Crosby, Young, Valentine & Elder - MV & EE Review on Dusted.

Dusted Reviews
Artist: MV & EE with the Golden Road
Album: Drone Trailer
Label: DiCristina Stair Builders
Review date: Feb. 5, 2009

When listening to the prodigious output of Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, I always end up reaching some fairly simple, yet somehow confusing conclusions, particularly about the MV & EE ‘vibe,’ if you’ll excuse so gauche a term. Simply put, they’re one of the few duos/groups extant who manage to combine a communal, rural take on rock ‘n’ roll with the kind of heavyweight mystique that means you’re never entirely sure what they’re going to drop next. Staying faithful to your art while remaining open to what falls from the sky can make for a rewarding (if at times befuddling) relationship between performers and their audience.

You’ll also have a pretty different take on MV & EE depending how deeply you’ve been chasing the trip. If you skim their ‘major’ releases (for the DiCristina, Time Lag and Ecstatic Peace labels, amongst others) you’ll get some pretty good indicators as to how their thing’s developing, but burrow down into the sodden earth of their Child Of Microtones CD-Rs and you’ll end up with a more honest – or at least, more rigorous – reflection of the MV & EE totality. And I’m not about to encourage sending anyone broke from chasing limited editions (particularly regarding our current socio-economic impasse), but that expanded context lets MV & EE really flower. (Though the answer to that key question – how many live recordings [now taking on the totemic status of MV & EE’s “Dark Star”] do you need to hear? – is simple: all of ‘em.)

Drone Trailer comes off as one of MV & EE’s richest conciliations of primal rock impulse and agrarian drift – the kind of record that a confused major label would have leaked out into the world in the early 1970s, the last time the underground had any chance of seriously warping the mainstream milieu. There’s something in the whole deal that reminds me of a small clutch of hazed-out solo-record masterpieces – a touch of David Crosby’s If Only I Could Remember My Name here, an unhinged Neil Young on his most maxist folk/grunt form there – and traces of other acts who’ve picked up on that loner/loser mood and moved it along, from Opal (in the slow motion sway of the title track) through J Mascis’s solo navel gazing (“The Hungry Stones”).

It’s MV’s guitar that keeps things moving along. His playing’s a little more reined-in than I’d expect, but there’s something nice in the way he perpetually infers the kind of full temporal-psychic expansion he can reach at his most ‘out’ without really breaking the mold. Valentine’s restraint is a potent device here; there are some beautiful stretches in the title track, where Valentine’s playing tangles with Doc Dunn’s pedal steel, weaving through chord changes that sound like the song taking sharp breaths due to a change of altitude. If you’re looking for a song to add to the Valentine ‘canon,’ to slot alongside “Sky Ain’t High” and “Get Right Church,” then “Drone Trailer” is the latest addition. But it helps that it’s surrounded by great material, like the woozy, unraveled “Weatherhead Hollow,” or the late night ritual of “Huna Cosm.”

Chalk it up to reaping the rewards of single-mindedness and dedication – this one’s a winner. Then hunt down a batch of those live recordings ‘from the taper’s pit.’ They’re a whole other universe unto themselves.

By Jon Dale

Getting mellow in Santiago de Compostela last year:

MV & EE "Chunky" Live Review On TMT.

Spectre Folk / Kurt Vile / MV & EE / Pink Reason / Christian DeRoeck [Monster Island; Brooklyn, NY]
Tiny Mix Tapes original review

“Do you want to hear it mellow or do you want a chunky version like Lil Wayne does?” Matt Valentine asked the crowd gathered in Monster Island’s basement, just a few steps from the East River. “Chunky!” someone shouted from the corner of the room. Of course, drawing a link between the New Orleans rhymester and the "freak-folk" of MV & EE might seem a little absurd at first, but since Valentine brought it up, let’s roll with it: both are quite prolific, releasing a spectrum of releases that range from DIY to major label-linked affairs, and both have a morphing sonic territory that includes that very realm of chunkiness.

Valentine and Erica Elder were joined by two percussionists for their set, but the chunkiness really came from Valentine’s guitar stylings, which, whether acoustic or electric, have a thick, deliberate, but also natural sound. The duo focused on their latest release, Drone Trailer, kicking off with its opening track “Anyway” and finishing up with a swirling take on the title number, which progressed from a blanket of banjo noise to a soaring electric guitar outro.

MV & EE were by no means the only notable act of the night, though. Christian DeRoeck, formerly of Meneguar and Woods, kicked off the night, and Pink Reason followed, amping things up with dual guitars and drums. After Valentine and Elder did their thing, Kurt Vile did his: effortless but intricate folk held together with grit and simple honesty. Spectre Folk (Pete Nolan of Magik Markers) brought things to a close with tinny percussion loops, noodling guitar wanderings, and occasional vocal spurts. The crowd had thinned by this point, but Nolan meandered on as chatter floated from the back of the room and Valentine and Elder lounged and listened nearby. He was a spectre to some, but not all. And that seemed perfectly fine with him.

by Lincoln Doolittle

Stereogum Announces Upcoming MV & EE Release.

MV & EE sneak preview song download and feature on Stereogum today.

Prolific deepwoods Vermonters Matt Valentine (who played in the excellently ramshackle Tower Recordings) and Erika Elder are back with Drone Trailer. They're not shy about releasing recordings (together and apart), but the collections often show up in limited runs or on smaller labels. The forthcoming six-song collection Drone is out via the (slightly) easier to locate DiCristina. On it, the duo's backed by three-dude strong Golden Road, as you should be able to deduce after listening to the dense, full-band psych of cathartic opener "Anyway." We asked Valentine to unpack the lyrics. Let us know if it helps.

What inspired "Anyway"'s "anyway I can" theme? Y'know "space" was once the end all for the conqueroo ... Now that scene is a mere blip on the sonar of Spit James. We hinted at it sometime back with our "Meditations On Payday," that rub was as much Mississippi John Hurt as it was Rip Torn. Now we gotta go beyond nomenclature into some sorta '"any" "way" -- the "many are one" philosophy, you'd be as grateful as we if your "many" were a true singular "one," or one within a pair. It all gets in there anyway.

And, what was the spaceman's master plan? The spaceman could be Bill Lee. In his "space" the main aim to the end of the game is not allow anyone "on" base. That's the key, like salts to alchemists and the Masonic depth to baseball, turning "on" has always been where it is at. Tesla, the energy monopolies ... dig the idea of standing tall, as in the indian chief, or the inverse of laying low. You "can't stand" can be many rooms, mebbe the Velvets said it best ..."I Can't Stand It Anymore." Dig their castle, we are just a mere moat in this thing, swimming as best we can. This song is about a river and a life raft.

Drone Trailer is out 1/20 on DiCristina.