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Cory Casciato writes about this weekend’s major event: Laserpalace Tape Release Party this Friday Night @ Rhinoceropolis. Not to be missed.

“…It’s for a release party for Bocumast Records new sister label Laser Palace, and features a fine array of whacko experimental bands. From what we know of these bands, the design fits them well — weird, deep and more than meets the eye, and all put together with a deceptive amount of skill and care. Good stuff. ”

read on

Freeloader: Experimental goodness of Sense from Nonsense
By Cory Casciato
As much as we enjoy a good pop tune, rock song, dance track and/or hip-hop joint, occasionally we feel the need for something … weirder — something that puts the “mental” in experimental and helps us scrape our ears clean of all those predetermined expectations about what music is supposed to be…..read on.
its real nice…and includes free song samples.

download the albums on bandcamp for free for a limited time.

Meet our new intern!

Vital info
NAME: Luis Etscheid
AGE: 21
HOMETOWN: Denver co
AQUARIUS

Luis’ favorites:
1. White
2. 101 dalmations (original)
3. Confusion
4. Best buy
5. Twilight zone old
6. Belly buttons
7. Swedish things
8. Scratching
9. Sonic the hedgehog
10. Tomato
11. Asparagus
12. Feeding sophi
13. Hideous men
14. Cougar legs
15. 15
16. Skydiving
17. Aldous Huxley
18. Fresh linens
19. Bill Clinton
20. Marcel Duchamp

Bocumast is looking for interns ASAP! Anyone interested or knows someone who might? We are looking for people who know one or more of the following things: Video Editing, HTML/CSS, Photoshop and Awesomeness! It can be credited too if your going to school.

Please send and email to tom@bocumast.com if interested.

Bocumast Music Review:
M. Ward’s “Hold Time” Skates in Circles on Wooden Rails
Artist: M. Ward
Album: Hold Time
Label: Merge Records 2009

If I were to burn my hair ends, run down slides lined with blue jeans, and change my name to Elderoy, I would probably like this album just as much as I already do. Granted, M. Ward has a voice, fingers and legs that help bring this celebration of mostly pepped up gurgles and lazy hip slappers to life. Profound, picky, memorable. With a little western comfort tinge, catchy flips, simple licks, and lovely chicks (Zooey Deschanel on “Never Had Nobody Like You” & “Rave On”). M. Ward sets a tone.

Trotting past small town downtown shops, kicking dirt into the eyes of strangers, and peeling back a days worth of sweat from an old bandanna. Making love in American cars to sweet teens with mediocre grades, eating oranges out of a crate, racing across small lakes with summer breezes…lighting fireworks in slow-motion and jumping over fences that need mending. “Hold Time” does exactly what the title suggests. It reminds you of moments, whether you lived them or not. Hold onto them. Hold on to those melting popsicle, loose hipped, careless days. Hold on to all the big bangs, short skirt pockets, and bar-b-que winks, but most of all…Hold on to the hand holding. Don’t forget the hand holding.

“Hold Time” promises more than it gives, but it keeps giving over time. Its a hint at the next story or adventure piloted by Ward’s monumental crossbred tone. It makes breathing more beautiful like laying in soft grass and old wooden structures, which you could ride around on with the proper roller skate. I can only hope that the “outro” is a preliminary glimpse to an unreleased soundtrack to only the best kind of movie. Get this and take a ride alone…or at least a long bath….you need one.

status: recommended
if you like this, you may also enjoy:
Desire and Dissolving Men by The Wheel, Volume One by She and Him, Anything by The Traveling Wilburys.
for something not even remotely like this, check out:
Earthly Delights by Lightning Bolt

for more information visit:
http://mwardmusic.com/deluxe/

Its not too often in this world of ours that we get a gift such as this. Its not too often that even those around us, above or below, get to share in those gifts. The following radio show is a gift in itself. We are honored to feature Bocumast artists on the program and simply cannot wait to tune in every sunday from 4-6:

I’m speaking, of course, about SPIRITS REJOICE
featuring music new and old from the best of the best, the amazingly avant garde, and the simplistically experimental. Spirits Rejoice sets new standards in Radio experience. It values the raw power of music and sound, exposing the emotional underbelly that is what Cecil Taylor called “the life blood of music.” From the extraterrestrial flights of Sun Ra to the explosive emotion of Peter Brotzmann, this show aims to please and succeeds.

I encourage everyone to tune in. Lets keep this great music alive in our hearts, minds, eyes, and most of all, our ears. I cannot express the simple joy in the experience of this magic art form given new life through this amazing radio show.

Tune In.

Sundays 4-6pm, radio1190.org (1190 am Denver/Boulder: Voted Denver’s Best Radio Station 2009).

learn more about the show here:
http://www.myspace.com/spiritsrejoice

YO! When you’re finished here, go ahead and visit this cool site by our good friend Lori. The photos are very nice.
http://blathercakes.blogspot.com/

an example of walking.

Top 10 ways to arrive at the Hi Dive for Saturday Night’s Huge Event:
1. walk (great excercise and a lovely way to enjoy the weather).
2. ride a bike (bicycles are just plain awesome. if you don’t own your own, borrow from a friend or neighbor).
3. take the bus (you may just meet a new friend).
4. taxi cab (you may discover a new scent).
5. jumprope (I know it seems silly, but its actually possible to jump rope to somewhere…I’ve done it several times…just leave really early if you are going to attempt this one)
6. crawl (this one is not highly recommended, but if you are at the point where you can no longer stand because of drinking or exhaustion perhaps, than maybe this is the only way that will work for you).
7. backflip (I mostly just threw this one in there for the acrobats)
8. rollerskate/blade (I know its a dying fad, but roller skates are still considered cool in certain circles).
9. drive a car (if you have a driver’s license and have been consuming well within the legal limits, then by all means drive, otherwise please see suggestions 1-8 or 10).
10. if you still can’t find a ride, contact us and we’ll send a car for you! Totally serious (as long as you don’t live too far away). bocumast@bocumast.com

let us put our music inside you once again.

Raewyn Haughton presents a beautifully disturbing picture of American past times that perhaps don’t belong together.