"If you've been finding yourself searching desperately for some heroic guitarists to worship from the sanctity of your home stereo, I'd like to suggest Wayne Rogers and Kate Village. These two have been around for years now, first gaining acclaim as part of the band Magic Hour (which featured Damon & Naomi as their rhythm section). Recently, they've supplied listeners with a series of great records as the leaders of Major Stars (whose most recent effort, 4, is a scorching display of six-string pyrotechnics), and also find time to run the much loved Twisted Village record shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an outlet regarded highly among both record collectors and civilian music fans alike. Heathen Shame is another project from Rogers and Village, a trio fleshed out by the addition of nmperign’s Greg Kelley on trumpet. At first glance, it may seem like a departure from the duo’s more overtly rock dynamics, but strip away the layers of blistering drone and feedback, and you got a batch of music that’s firmly rooted in the same scorching aesthetic. Live performances from these three more or less confirm this notion. Take, for example, their set at this year's No Fun Festival. While sonically they fit perfectly with the varied extremities of performance on display that weekend, watching Wayne flop and roll around on stage while assaulting his guitar as Greg kept yelling at the crowd basically confirmed the fact that no matter how it ends up sounding, these cats are rockers of the highest order. And that's not even remotely a bad thing." (Dusted)

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http://www.twistedvillage.com

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http://www.myspace.com/swordheaven

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Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in academic studios in Europe straight on through contemporary bedroom "digital music." Currently he is working towards implementing a complete system for live performance of improvised electronic music that incorporates elements from nearly every era: a reel-to-reel tape machine, a selection of small "jerry-rigged" / "circuit-bent" battery-powered sound-producing boxes, an analog modular synthesizer, an early "consumer" home-computer, and at the core; a contemporary computer running a custom-built Max-MSP based modular system that both controls these elements and acts as a central conduit into which their sounds are captured/collected, processed, then diffused to up to eight separate channels/speakers/amplifiers.

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http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/

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