WOODS ON PINE STREET BOOTLEG TAPE

Here's a low fidelity bootleg recording of Woods playing Will Delicious Smith's old house on Pine Street, from 2008, when Woods was a three-piece, Jeremy, Jarvis, and Christian, when WOODS FAMILY CREEPS LP came out, so when they were a burning lo-fi psych-folk trio. Taped on a Panasonic handheld tape recorder that I assumed was dead after I left in my parents backyard overnight in the rain with the Ghostbusters soundtrack in it.

(picture from Joh M)

WOODS ON PINE STREET, MARCH 2008

1 DON'T PASS ON ME

2 NIGHT CREATURE-PSYCH JAM

3 RING ME TO SLEEP

4 BE STILL

5 BLOOD IN THE SAND

6 MILITARY MADNESS (GRAHAM NASH)

7 CROWD DEMANDS WEED JAM

8 WOODS WEED JAM

http://www.mediafire.com/?5vvy628c4op3hez

AH HUNNIT

ONE HUNDREDth CAVES CAVERNS SHOW at Sprout was awesome. Many thanks to Richmond peoples who came into the spot for the celebration, Kohoutek and Frankzig and Cosmic Hum Sara & Greg, Patty Conway, Mark Gibson & his Baklavian Charity, Tubevision Greg & Good Show Steve, Sprout motherfuckers & their Moste Potente past, Dylan Languell for skronking heavy.

check out Tubevision's video of our Sprout show, JK, Mike, Tony, JRuss, Dylan w/Sara, Greg, and Mark on double oil projections.

APRIL CAVES CAVERNS TOUR EAST COAST 2011

Mon APR 18 ARLINGTON, VA @ GALAXY HUT w/ CIGARETTE

Tue APR 19 NEWARK, DE @ house TBA

Wed APR 20 - PHILLY, PA @ MARVELOUS RECORDS w/ AMPS FOR CHRIST, DRUMS LIKE MACHINE GUNS, and KOHOUTEK/CURANDEROS

Thu APR 21 - BROOKLYN, NY @ DEATH BY AUDIO w/ NO SKY GOD

Fri APR 22 - RICHMOND, VA @ COUCH HEAVEN w/ ANTLERS, BROKEN WATER

Sat APR 23 - FAIRFAX, VA @ AVANT FAIRFAX w/ AMPS FOR CHRIST, 500MG (Bardo Pond), BLACK TWIG PICKERS, KOHOUTEK, DRUMS LIKE MACHINE GUNS, HUMAN ADULT BAND, FUN, HEAVY MEDICAL, SCOTT VERRASTRO/NATHAN BOWLES PERCUSSION DUO

Kohoutek coming to Sprout 3/14

Kohoutek coming to Sprout 3/14

Kohoutek has been an improv psych collective since 2003, when the group was cultivated at DC DIY spots 611 Florida Ave and the 7^th Street Warehouse Nextdoor. The instrumental lineup is always a malleable beast, changing from show to show, tour to tour, always held down by the percussive king/Kohoutek mastermind Scott Verrastro. Kohoutek's always cosmic sets vary but include Verrastro’s wash of free-jazz bells and brushes leading into a heavy stomps of ultra-heady space rock with thick slow-burning psychedelic guitars bucking and echoing, typically backed with burnt crackling homemade electronic noise and field recordings from 804Noise collaborator Scott Alison. Kohoutek has other times enlisted the screaming saxophones of outsider-jazz misfits Paul Flaherty and Little Howlin' Wolf into their free improv freakout. Last summer Kohoutek melted downtown loft, Couch Heaven as the backing band for George Kinney and as a five-piece Kohoutek set before Kinney stepped in. Kinney is notable for being in the 1960's Texas psychedelic rockers GOLDEN DAWN, known for their cult-collectors LP 'Power Plant', whom Kohoutek is touring to Texas this March to play with again at South By Southwest. Kohoutek sometimes makes use of Richmonder Damian Languel ,of terrifying acoustic-electric performance ensemble Twilight Memories of the Three Suns, playing distorted noisy broken synth blasts or other times blowing free on a didgeridoo or channelling Roland Kirk, puffing through wooden panflutes. Once a Kohoutek set finds its plateau, it rides it out in the heady zone where Hawkwind finds Neu! so you hang stay high, only to come down to minimal percussion and a fried buzzing in the back of your skull.

Definitely brings to mind the free-psych contemporaries of Sonic Youth's SYR long playing instrumental records as well as the swirling heavy psych rock of White Hills, the urgent jazz-inspired electric improv of Nels Cline, the New England experimental collective Sunburned Hand of the Man and the manipulated deconstruction of 'Beaches and Canyons'-era Black Dice. Jam band types who have taken an heroic dose could probably appreciate the freeness and elevation of Kohoutek’s jams bordering on the most far out moments of “Dark Star” or whatever, but Kohoutek has no intention of campfire singalongs, bluegrass impersonation or anything resembling traditional song structure, its all mindfuck, have a seat if you’d like.

Kohoutek takes their name from freaked out 1973 LPs from both Sun Ra and Father Yod & The Spirit of '76. Kohoutek's Scott Verrastro has performed in collaborations with Sun Ra's saxophone player/current Arkestra bandleader Marshall Allen and in 2008, Kohoutek played a week of East Coast shows opening for the touring lineup of Father Yod's Yahowa 13 band. Cosmic approval for head music. A handful of live recordings are available for free download at http://districtofnoise.org/?tag=kohoutek

Kohoutek plays at Sprout Organic Cafe & Market at 1 N. Morris (at Main St) on Monday March 14th, at 9:30 w/ Caves Caverns (100th show, Richmond psych-punk) and Frankzig (talented meditations for classical Spanish guitar conquest). All sets will be visually enhanced with Greg & Sara’s Cosmic Hum psychedelic oil projections.

J. Russell

spring fervor

spring fervor

Upcoming Caves Caverns

MARCH 12th - WASHINGTON, DC - VELVET LOUNGE w/ KOHOUTEK, PAUL JOYNER BAND, and LUGER (psych from SPAIN)

MARCH 13th - RICHMOND, VA - STRANGE MATTER w/ SHARDS (NC hardcore punk), SEX MOVE, and MIRRORS & WIRES (NJ surf punk/Agent Orange instrumental cuts)

MARCH 14th - RICHMOND, VA - SPROUT w/ KOHOUTEK, FRANKZIG, COSMIC HUB PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW

APRIL 18th - ARLINGTON, VA - GALAXY HUT w/ CIGARETTE

APRIL 20th - PHILADELPHIA, PA - MARVELOUS RECORDS w/ DRUMS LIKE MACHINE GUNS, NEWTON (BREATHMINT RECORDS) , CURANDEROS (Kohoutek/Bardo Pond improv collaboration)

APRIL 22 - RICHMOND, VA - COUCH HEAVEN w/ BROKEN WATER, ANTLERS

APRIL 23 - FAIRFAX, VA - 2011 AVANT FAIRFAX FESTIVAL w/ Michael Chapman, Kenny Millions, Kohoutek, Black Twig Pickers, Drums Like Machine Guns, Human Adult Band, Heavy Medical, FUN, and Scott Verrastro/Nathan Bowles Percussion Duo

geographically holes to be smoothed out, on the smoothness tip.

313

CAVES CAVERNS on tour APRIL 2011

April 15th - 23rd.

Still getting worked out, should have cities/dates figured out in a week.

Tour will start in Memphis, TN on the 15th and end on the 23rd at the AVANT FAIRFAX FESTIVAL. Get ready. New tapes, new shirts, all four cavernous dudes.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 6th at STRANGE MATTER 929 W. GRACE ST

PRE-INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE BANGER IN RICHMOND.
FIVE BUCKS goes to
Three touring acts coming through town (two from AUSTRALIA), sending a couple racks of true Richmond homies down to Florida for INC (Head Molt/Mutwawa/Leo Flish from Positiveland/Twilight Memories dudes)



HEAD MOLT//BAYLIES BAND//OCCULT BLOOD// IVENS//POSITIVELAND//GIANTSUBAQUATIC LIFE FORM//FLOODBEAST//FRAILTY OF ANGELS

<<<>>>
<<>>

. .… … . . HEAD MOLT (GARY STEVENS NOISE LIAISON “SPACE FUNERAL”)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOJs9fHXA0

. . . . . ...,,,. POSITIVLAND (leo/wolfgang smiley face ecstasy male enhancement)

... . . .,,, . . KING CLOPS (the return of the KING. aftershower funk/post LSD musk/VIDE DROME IS REAL) this shit right here http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs924.snc4/73736_1432416381610_1568910078_30927816_1821468_n.jpg

… … … . BAYLIES BAND (MASSACHUSETTS FREAKOUT ROCK, I.N.C. TEMPLE OF BATIN, ETC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdI3EsWYJ2g

. . . . . .,,,, ..OCCULT BLOOD (Australian noisy dark shit) download their STEPHEN HAWKING cassette http://terminalescape.blogspot.com/2010/08/occult-blood.html

. .. ,, , , ,. IVENS (Australian noise hip hop ala Dalek/Food For Animals)

.… … … GIANT SUBAQUATIC LIFE FORM (JK’S MYTHIC KRAFTWERKIAN CONSTRUCT/PSYCHIC CONTROL VESSEL)

.… . … … FLOOD BEAST (J.RUSSELL’S LIBRARITORIUM DUB FEVER MISCONCEPTION) http://ia700108.us.archive.org/2/items/CheapFest2/12-Floodbeast.mp3


..... ..., . . . . FRAILTY OF ANGELS (brutal droning bastard noise skull electronics/THE YOUTH ARE GETTING OSCILLATORS) http://frailtyofangels.bandcamp.com/

TWENTY TEN

CAVES CAVERNS

DOWNLOAD COMMUNIQUE (2010 Cassette)
http://www.mediafire.com/?hndxyzqjyim

” they channeled some serious Hawkwind-Acid Mothers-F/i vibes and shoe-horned a lot of sonics into a short set … Apparently the guitar player for Caves Caverns plays the keys for locals Resin Pyramid who put on another stellar opening set at the Moon Duo gig. Really interesting stuff … well worth checking out in town if you need to get your feet off the ground.” (Mr. Atavist)

The free-form, instrumental heavy psychedelia that this Richmond band plays on their latest release, a four-song, forty-minute cassette, has many worthy antecedents. Most prominent are Ash Ra Tempel’s epic Krautrock space jams and Hawkwind’s acid-soaked biker rock. These trippy jams will pry open your third eye. (Andrew Necci, RVA Magazine)

“Improv psych from this Richmond 4-piece. Swirling fuzz, squealing saxophone, and a theremin cameo ensures this cassette to be an auditory interplanetary medium for your neurons. It’s a little more relaxed, but it’s a sound that lies somewhere between Raccoo-oo-oon and Comets on Fire. Less than 100 cassettes made. Get one from Sounds From the Pocket.” (http://ongakubaka.blogspot.com/2010/05/caves-caverns-communique.html)

56. 1/10/10 COUCH HEAVEN w/ Kohoutek, Gondola, Richmond, VA

57. 1/11/10 THE TRIPLE w/ Bermuda Triangles, Holy Sheet, Richmond, VA

58. 1/14/10 LAST MONTH GALLERY 101 S. ADDISON w/ Balaclava, Sexy Crimes, Richmond, VA

59. 3/15/10 THE TRIPLE w/ Ultra Dolphins, Fuzz Orchestra (Italy), and Guadalupe Plata (Spain), Richmond, VA

60. 3/17/10 Club 1808 w/ Prince Rama, How I Quit Crack, Reading Rainbow, The Beets, Austin, TX

61. 3/18/10 THE COMPOUND w/ Magic Jewels, Telepathik Friend, DD/MM/YYYY, Death Sentence Panda, Videohippos, Austin, TX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHMzDnGbPE

62. 3/18/10 THE PARLOR w/ Rusted Shut (earlier show), Austin, TX

63. 3/20/10 MOOSE LODGE w/ Telepathik Friend, Zs, Venision Whirled, Bubblegum Shitface Experience, Austin TX

64. 3/20/10 21st St CO-OP w/ Thank God, Atlas Moth, Suplecs, Austin, TX

65. 3/30/10 COUCH HEAVEN w/ GUNSLINGERS (france), Human Smoke, Richmond, VA

66. 4/19/10 THE TRIPLE w/ Kohoutek, the Styrenes, Richmond, VA

67. 4/22/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ The Catalyst, Field Day, Creta Kano, Richmond, VA

68. 4/28/10 THE TREE SWING HOUSE w/ Cigarette, Riverdale Park, MD

69. 5/6/10 THE TRIPLE w/ VINCENT BLACK SHADOW, Cough, Kill Your Brain, Richmond, VA

70. 5/15/10 THE TRIPLE w/ Bermuda Triangles, Vialka (france), Blake Midgette, Gary Stevens DJ (new age space library) Richmond, VA

71. 5/29/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Head Molt, Positiveland, Big Ass Chicks, Richmond, VA

72. 6/06/10 HADAD'S LAKE, RUMORS BOUTIQUE PARTY w/ Two Funerals and DJ DIRTY FINGERS

73. 6/19/10 COUCH HEAVEN w/ TASHA YAR and Buck Gooter, Richmond, VA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFfxAMhNLak

74. 7/5/10 THE TRIPLE w/ Floating Colors, Churches Burn, STREET PIZZA, Richmond, VA

75. 7/9/10 THE SUBMARINE w/ Human Smoke, Buck Gooter, Layne Garrett, Moon Pie, more, Washington, DC

76. 8/24/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Windhand, Souvenir's Young America, Richmond, VA

77. 9/10/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Dadfag, Mutwawa, Human Baggage Richmond, VA http://vimeo.com/16981208

78. 9/20/10 STRANGE MATTERw/ Mondo Drag, Main Street Gospel, The Diamond Center, Richmond, VA

79. 9/28/19 STRANGE MATTER w/ Tinsel Teeth, Diamond Black Hearted Boy, Richmond, VA http://vimeo.com/15516427

80. 10/12/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Two Funerals, TV Budha (Israel), Richmond, VA (as 2-piece TATE HOUSE)

81. 10/23/10 COUCH HEAVEN w/ TITAN, Head Molt, Old Swampy, Richmond, VA (TATE HOUSE)

82. 11/01/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Bermuda Triangles, Rhythm Bandit, and The Intelligence, Richmond, VA

83. 11/08/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Neon Blud, Mutwawa, Flora & Fauna, Richmond, VA http://vimeo.com/17179342

TATE HOUSE/BERMUDA TRIANGLES TOUR 2010

84. 11/11/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Buck Gooter and Head Molt, Richmond, VA

85. 11/12/10 BIRD NAMES house show, Athens GA

86. 11/13/10 Alabama Music Box w/ Bermuda Triangles, Mobile, AL

87. 11/14/10 ALLWAYS LOUNGE w/ Bermuda Triangles, Lovey Dovies, Dummy Dumpster, New Orleans, LA

88. 11/15/10 816 Calumet St. w/Bermuda Triangles, B L A C K I E, Limb, and Somosuno, Houston, TX

89. 11/16/10 The Shit House, Bermuda Triangles San Antonio, TX

90. 11/17/10 EAST SIDE ISLE,Bermuda Triangles Austin, TX

91. 11/18/10 Club 1808, Bermuda Triangles Austin, TX

92. 11/19/10 The Cavern, Bermuda Triangles Dallas, TX

93. 11/20/10 The Dairy, Bermuda Triangles Memphis, TN

94. 11/21/10 Bettys, Bermuda Triangles Nashvile, TN

95. 11/22/10 Thee Killing Floor, w/ Bermuda Triangles, Projexorcism, DJ Heavy Flow, and Smell The Rott, Hickory, NC

96. 11/23/10 The Night Light, Bermuda Triangles, Chapel Hill

97. 12/06/10 STRANGE MATTER w/ Taco Leg, Trass, Richmond, VA

NEW YEAR, TWENTY-ELEVEN, AWH FUG

• January 8th ....... Couch Heaven . . . downtown . . . . shhhhhhh
  .................................................................
  ........ THE GIFT (DC gothy grunge punx, ex-Turboslut/Exosus)
  ........ CAVES CAVERNS (psych-weed-stuff)
  ........ FLECHETTE (actually good post-hardcore, dudes from Resonance)
  ...... + 1 TBA

media en la nariz

Mike, Tony, JK, and the BTs back from tour in time for Thanksgiving feast bash at Couch Heaven.

TATE HOUSE recording some stuff. Something cool possible in the future for its release.

MONDAY DECEMBER 6th at STRANGE MATTER

9:30, bucks for international touring band

. . . . . . . . . . . . CAVES CAVERNS (last show of the year?? who knows) http://vimeo.com/17179342

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TACO LEG (lo-fi punk, dirge pop from AUSTRALIA, record out on FAN DEATH RECORDS) http://testostertunes.blogspot.com/2010/01/while-back-i-went-on-trip-to-real.html

. . . . . . . . . . TRASS (a k a CUM DIAPERS a k a PENNY RIMJOB, awesome experimental anarcho reimagining of CRASS, feat. a cello if they can find one) http://vimeo.com/17061544

. . . . . .. .. . + 1 TBA.

NOVEMBER shows/tour

BERMUDA TRIANGLES/TATE HOUSE (1/2 half caves caverns, spacebanger surf)

TATE HOUSE will have a new tape on tour, maybe some RESIN PYRAMID/CAVES CAVERNS tapes also.

Monday Nov. 8 @ Strange Matter, Richmond, VA CAVES CAVERNS/NEON BLUD/MUTWAWA/FLORA & FAUNA (mem. Antlers)

Thursday Nov. 11th @ Strange Matter, Richmond, VA w/ Head Molt

Friday Nov. 12th @ Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA w/ Nuclear Power Pants, Buffalo Bangers, and Bird Names

Saturday Nov. 13th @ Alabama Music Box, Mobile w/ Swamp Wompus

Sunday Nov. 14th @ Allways Lounge, New Orleans, LA w/ Lovey Dovies, and Dummy Dumpster

Monday Nov. 15th @ 1816 Calumet St., Houston, TX w/
B L A C K I E, Limb, and Somosuno

Tuesday Nov. 16th @ The Shit House, San Antonio, TX

Wednesday Nov. 17th Austin, TX

Thursday Nov. 18th @ Club 1808, Austin, TX w/ Reflux Man, Unisex Bicycle, Bubbleface, Os Ovni, Lead Pipe

Friday Nov. 19th @ The Cavern, Dallas, TX

Saturday Nov. 20th @ The Dairy, Memphis, TN

Sunday Nov. 21st @ Betty's, Nashville, TN w/ Red Dawn Chong

Monday Nov. 22nd @ Thee Killing Floor, Hickory, NC w/ Projexorcism, DJ Heavy Flow, and Smell The Rott

Tuesday Nov. 23rd @ Night Light, Chapel Hill

Mike, JK, and JRuss each played solo sets last week at Cheap Fest II, curated by Gary Stevens (head molt/mutwawa), with other friends from VA and PA. CUSTER FLUX/HAPPY SCRAPPY archived the whole thing. check it out

http://www.archive.org/details/CheapFest2

GIANT SUB-AQUATIC LIFE FORM - JK

KING CLOPS - MIKE

FLOODBEAST - JRUSS

the other stuff rules too, that TWILIGHT MEMORIES.... set fucking kills.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 23

COUCH HEAVEN, DOWNTOWN RICHMOND, VA

TITAN (Brooklyn prog-psych, ex/current ZOMBI, MASERATI, LA OTRACINA)

CAVES CAVERNS (cosmique sloppedelic garbage rock)

+ 1 TBA

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30

STRANGE MATTER, 929 W. GRACE ST, RICHMOND, VA

CHEAPFEST (noise/experimental showcase/free-for-all)

feat. friends HEAD MOLT, HOW I QUIT CRACK, POSITIVELAND, TWILIGHT MEMORIES..., CAUSTIC CASTLE, BRIAN MORSEBERGER (DRUMS LIKE MACHINE GUNZ), and more

THREE CAVES CAVERNS SOLO SETS AT CHEAP FEST

KING CLOPS (M. Raftery bedroom nuyorican mysticism explosion, the sound of beads of water on a sexy lady, aftershower funk dish network)

GIANT SUB-AQUATIC LIFEFORM (J.K. stands for JEWISH KRAFTWERK, cosmic pingponging, psychic control and cheap synths)

FLOOD BEAST (J. Russell library dub for fever dreamers and Euro-free jazz jackoffs)

MONDAY NOVEMBER 1

STRANGE MATTER, again

THE INTELLIGENCE (long-running west coast garage rock)

BERMUDA TRIANGLES (triangular homies, chromatic lifers, new jams of frightening and funky post-punk freakitude)

CAVES CAVERNS

ORDER (long running Harrisonburg rockers, pop-lockers)

MONDAY NOVEMBER 8

STRANGE MATTER, where else

NEON BLUD (tampa florida truly ruling SONIC DEATH/SONIK LIFE NOISEPUNK, ex-Cult Ritual, favorite band from SXSW adventure)

MUTWAWA (Head Molt vs Suppression soundclash, dis is a (mental) TAKEOVER/PERCOLATOR)

CAVES CAVERNS

+ 1 TBA (will know by the end of the week, Dry Spell dropped off)

owl

CAVES CAVERNS ...... DIAMOND BLACK HEARTED BOY ....... TINSEL TEETH (Providence freakout punk) ....... RETARDED GENIUS (STINOON KEISTER) at STRANGE MATTER TUESDAY SEPTMBER 28

life is the only thring

upcoming Cavernous Bullshit


MOON DUO w/ RESIN PYRAMID 9/14 at Strange Matter
Witchmond Festival in Charlottesville (NU-BRIDGE AFFAIR)
Mondo Drag/Main Street Gospel (ex-BJM) at Strange Matter
Neon Blud/Mutwawa/Dry Spell/ Caves Caverns
EVERY PIECE OF TRASH IN TOWN aka MIKE RAFTERY & THE OFF DUTY SAILORS . . . . CAVES CAVERNS DICKS Halloween Tribute

Bermuda Triangles Caves Caverns southern trip postponed til November

life is the only thring

RICHMOND AUGUST 24th


STRANGE MATTER 929 W. GRACE, BEER, VIDEOGAMES, NO DANCING, PETE


WINDHAND (return home from tour, true doom rock, ex-ATP/Facedowninshit)
SOUVENIRS YOUNG AMERICA (rich psychedelic plateaus of Americana)
CAVES CAVERNS (cosmic sloppedelic rock jam)

pepper pot

still booking FALL TOUR WITH BERMUDA TRIANGLES




next show AUGUST 24 at STRANGE MATTER
w/ WINDHAND (return home to Richmond from tour//// WINDHAND are great doomy stoney rock band, dudes from ATP and Facedowninshit/Attitude Problem, vibes like Saint Vitus meets Kyuss, do check out, powerful dixie lady singer)

We'll be playing at Old Bridge Festival in scummy Anus'ville, VA next weekend. Last year bummed us out, but what the fuck ever, we're down... down again . . . more trucker speed and teenage ravers copping feels in dark shamed in minivan headlights, girls punching boyz, boyz building tents, meat marinating in summer rain, LIFESA KREW, last year we took a nap before played and I was wearing US Navy swimming trunks and then I get aggro at Arby's. Who knows, it could be a beautiful thing. pack yr shit.

Caves Caverns
Body Cop
Kohoutek
Cigarette
Bird Names
Hume
Dustin Wong


I guess we're playing at 1:20 Pee 'Em on Saturday.
so guess no one will see us