Mourning [A] BLKstar at The Far Out Lounge
Nov
10
7:30 PM19:30

Mourning [A] BLKstar at The Far Out Lounge

Doors at 7p
$15
All Ages

Mourning [A] BLKstar with Kinder and a DJ set by Butcher Bear

Mourning [A] BLKstar is a collective of musicians, writers and multimedia artists formed in Cleveland, Ohio. In dialogue with Hip Hop production techniques and live instrumentation,
M[A]B bears witness to the pathways and frequencies that have sustained the African Diaspora and beyond.


Since 2016, Mourning [A] BLKstar has received critical acclaim for their five recordings and had the opportunity to share bills and tour in support of some of this generation's most amazing
musical outfits including US Girls, Oshun, Algiers, Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio/Ice Balloons), and the legendary Doom Gospel pioneers, ONO.


Get Tickets: https://bit.ly/faroutmab

PLEASE NOTE: Parking is limited, and rideshares are encouraged!
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The Far Out Lounge is located at 8504 South Congress. Winner of Best New Venue at the Austin Music Awards 2020.
http://www.thefaroutaustin.com/

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Mourning [A] BLKstar ~ Global Octopus ~ Monks Of Saturnalia ~ DJ Mutarrancho
Nov
9
9:00 PM21:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar ~ Global Octopus ~ Monks Of Saturnalia ~ DJ Mutarrancho

  • Rubber Gloves Rehersal Studios (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Mourning [A] BLKstar is a collective of musicians, writers and multimedia artists formed in Cleveland, Ohio. In dialogue with Hip Hop production techniques and live instrumentation, M[A]B bears witness to the pathways and frequencies that have sustained the African Diaspora and beyond.
Since 2016, Mourning [A] BLKstar has received critical acclaim for their five recordings and had the opportunity to share bills and tour in support of some of this generation's most amazing musical outfits including US Girls, Oshun, Algiers, Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio/Ice Balloons), and the legendary Doom Gospel pioneers, ONO.
In 2019, M[A]B performed at The Kennedy Center in the nation's capital and their fourth full length release, Reckoning was released by Don Giovanni Records to rave reviews. The Wire Magazine's Neil Kulkarni said this about the collective's work -
"It is, impossibly, even better than Garner and one of the finest albums of 2019 thus far, from a band whose importance is fast becoming evident."
In 2020, M[A]B released a double album entitled, The Cycle which garnered the collective massive praise from NPR All Songs Considered, AFROPUNK, and The Wire Magazine.

Mourning [A] BLKstar ~ 1030PM
Global Octopus ~ 945
Monks Of Saturnalia ~ 9PM

DJ Mutarrancho
Doors at 8pm
$10

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Springsfest 2020 - 5 Year Anniversary
Jul
18
11:30 AM11:30

Springsfest 2020 - 5 Year Anniversary

Celebrating 5 years of Springsfest on July 18th, 2020.

Springsfest is a Music and Craft Beer festival located in downtown Yellow Springs, OH. Springsfest is known for featuring a curated selection of premier musical talent from all over the country, excellent craft beer selections, and it's beautiful outdoor setting.

If you enjoy getting up front at the main stage, shopping with local craft vendors, kicking back in the grass with friends, drinking a delicious craft brew or taking a hike in the beautiful Glen Helen Nature Reserve, Springsfest is the place for you.

This year's lineup:

Guided By Voices (Only Ohio show of 2020)
Andy Shauf
SHEER MAG
mungbean
Vacation
Mourning [A] BLKstar
Sport Fishing USA
Mery Steel
Didi


Date And Time
Sat, July 18, 2020, 11:30 AM – 11:30 PM EDT

Location
Antioch College
One Morgan Place, Yellow Springs, OH 45387

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W.I.T.C.H (We Intend To Cause Havoc) wsg Mourning A BLKstar
Oct
18
8:00 PM20:00

W.I.T.C.H (We Intend To Cause Havoc) wsg Mourning A BLKstar

Friday, October 18th, 2019

$20 ADV / $25 DOS / ALL AGES / BALLROOM

W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc)

www.weintendtocausehavoc.com

Witch was a Zamrock band formed in the 1970s. Widely seen as the most popular Zambian band of the 1970s, W.I.T.C.H (an acronym for "We Intend To Cause Havoc") were formed during Zambia's golden post-independence days, and were headed by lead vocalist Emanuel "Jagari" Chanda. With the economy collapsing in the late-1970s, and increasing government authoritarianism, Witch, like most Zamrock bands, were reduced to playing daytime shows to avoid the curfews, and faded away.

This prompted Jaggari to leave the band and pursue his career as a teacher. The Witch Band later recruited Patrick Chisembele and Christine Jackson as lead vocalists. This was the time the band switched from rock to disco music. After the departure of Patrick Chisembele and Christine Jackson, the witch further switched to the Zambian traditional music, Kalindula led by Chris Mbewe. Under this genre, they recorded hit tracks such as Janet, Nazingwa among others.

Chanda was invited to the US to perform in 2012. As of 2013, "New Witch" is touring again with the lineup including Chanda, and new members from the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland. The band's previous discography has also been re-released (digitally and on vinyl).

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Mourning [A] BLKstar

www.mourningablkstar.com

"Mourning [A] BLKstar is a multi-generational, gender and genre non-conforming amalgam of Black Culture dedicated to servicing the stories and songs of the apocalyptic diaspora. Creating songs of both eulogy and revolution, the expansion of 21st century Black consciousness is felt in waves through Ohio’s Mourning [A] BLKstar. A force that has deep conviction, purpose, and weight, songs are voiced through a lens of chopped up drum grooves, stark melodies, washed-out synth tones, and historic sample pulls."

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Spirit of the Suffragettes Feat. OSHUN and Mourning [A] BLKstar
Aug
13
5:00 PM17:00

Spirit of the Suffragettes Feat. OSHUN and Mourning [A] BLKstar

OSHUN and Mourning [A] BLKstar perform as part of "Spirit of the Suffragettes," an 8-part music series and community resource fair showcasing women and gender non-conforming musicians, from international to local, featuring free music, arts activities and food!

5-8 PM Tue 8/13 OSHUN (www.oshuniverse.com)

FREE

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Mourning [A] BLKstar / Talie / Shepherds at PhilaMOCA
Aug
11
8:30 PM20:30

Mourning [A] BLKstar / Talie / Shepherds at PhilaMOCA

Mourning [A] BLKstar wants to communicate their vision and love for the community while collectively creating greater opportunities to create and share.
https://mourningablkstar.com/ https://mourningablkstar.bandcamp.com/ Talie
philly based haitian girl who be singing sometimes
https://taliemusic.bandcamp.com/releases https://soundcloud.com/taliemusic Shepherds
The healing hand and surgeon’s scalpel are intertwined on Shepherds’ new album ​Insignificant Whip​. The art-rock masterpiece encases the band’s vulnerable wisdom in flighty melodies that burn with intimacy and fragility as singer/lyricists Jonathan Merenivitch and Adrian Benedykt Świtoń address everything from toxic masculinity and Catholic guilt to Youtube comments and Tupac Shakur. Since their 2011 EP ​Holy Stain,​ the band have received accolades for their taut analyses of social ills and the resulting strain on body and mind, but even the skeletal no-wave that defined their early sound was bound with, in the broadest sense of the word, soul. The band’s ability to confront their deepest insecurities and doubts is more than simple catharsis, it serves to illuminate deeper questions of existence and identity, and frame them in context of systemic oppression, discrimination, and isolation. The band's expansive new LP "Insignificant Whip" will be released on Arrowhawk Records in 2019 - Russell Rockwell
https://shepherds.bandcamp.com/

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6th Annual Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival
Aug
10
to Aug 11

6th Annual Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival

  • Court Square Avenue Springfield, MA, 01103 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

2019 marks the sixth season of Springfield Jazz & Roots, an annual celebration that brings roughly ten thousand people together in the heart of downtown Springfield. Presented by Blues to Green, this internationally heralded festival draws visitors from throughout the Northeast and has become a powerful expression of civic pride, uniting our region’s diverse cultural communities through music, arts, education, and revelry.

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Mourning A BLKstar at Race Street Brew Works
Aug
9
8:00 PM20:00

Mourning A BLKstar at Race Street Brew Works

Mourning [A] BLKstar is a multi-generational, gender and genre non-conforming amalgam of Black Culture dedicated to servicing the stories and songs of the apocalyptic diaspora. Creating songs of both eulogy and revolution, the expansion of 21st century Black consciousness is felt in waves through Ohio’s Mourning [A] BLKstar. A force that has deep conviction, purpose, and weight, songs are voiced through a lens of chopped up drum grooves, stark melodies, washed-out synth tones, and historic sample pulls.


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Earthquaker Day 2019 - Mourning [A] BLKstar / Pleasure Leftists / The Beyonderers
Aug
2
8:00 PM20:00

Earthquaker Day 2019 - Mourning [A] BLKstar / Pleasure Leftists / The Beyonderers

EarthQuaker Day is two parts music festival, three parts customer appreciation day, one-part effects pedal factory open house, one-part guitar show, one-part art installation, and one-part street fair; with a pinch of carnival fun & games, and a side of bazaar - a collection of like-minded, enthusiastic, and talented individuals coming together for one day on August 3, 2019 in celebration of the quirkiness, innovation, and “anything goes” attitude that makes Akron, Ohio the-heart-of-it-all in The Heart of It All - a wonderful place to live and work.

https://www.earthquakerday.com/

Don't forget that there are FREE concerts all weekend! We have brought you a wide range of sonic pleasures folks, make sure you attend all the shows!

Friday 8/2
Musica
Doors: 8:00pm / Show: 9:00pm
The Beyonderers / Pleasure Leftists / Mourning [A] BLKstar

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Mourning [A] BLKstar with Combo Chimbita at Beachland Tavern
Jul
17
7:00 PM19:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar with Combo Chimbita at Beachland Tavern


Through her folkloric mystique, otherworldly psychedelia, and a dash of enigmatic punk, Ahomale by Combo Chimbita catapults the sacred knowledge of our forebears into the future. Their second studio album and Anti- Records debut sees the visionary quartet drawing from ancestral mythologies and musical enlightenment to unearth the awareness of Ahomale, the album’s cosmic muse. Comprised of Carolina Oliveros’ mesmeric contralto, illuminating storytelling and fierce guacharaca rhythms, Prince of Queens’ hypnotic synth stabs and grooving bass lines, Niño Lento’s imaginative guitar licks, and Dilemastronauta’s powerful drumming, the lure and lore of Combo Chimbita comes into existence.

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Mourning [A] BLKstar at Nelsonville Music Festival
Jun
8
7:00 PM19:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar at Nelsonville Music Festival

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! The 15th annual Nelsonville Music Festival takes place June 6-9, 2019 in Nelsonville, Ohio featuring many musical acts in four days on multiple stages along with on-site camping, artisan vendors, kids activities, food, a beer garden, and more. The lineup includes Death Cab for Cutie, Mavis Staples, Tyler Childers, The Breeders, Mandolin Orange, Thee Oh Sees, The Wood Brothers, Todd Snider, Allah-Las, Bully, The War and Treaty, Darlingside, Julia Jacklin, Molly Burch, Town Mountain, Michael Hurley, Mattson 2, JJUUJJUU, The Brother Brothers, Death Valley Girls, Steve Poltz, Laura Gibson, The Huntress and Holder of Hands, Orkesta Mendoza, Campdogzz, The National Reserve, Skyway Man, Hubby Jenkins, Radattack, and Streetlamps for Spotlights, with many more to be announced! Stay tuned for more announcements coming soon.
Click here for tickets

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Mourning [A] BLKstar with U.S. Girls
Jun
7
8:00 PM20:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar with U.S. Girls

This year marks a significant anniversary for U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist, Meg Remy. 10 years ago Remy first used a 4-track recorder and a microphone to self-produce a series of spontaneous, starkly musical, ‘instant expressions’. These collisions of static, clang and sung melody seem in retrospect like a uniquely American display of minimalism, an unmistakably feminine counterbalance to Nebraska or Rev & Vega’s early sonic confrontations. In contrast, her latest work for 4AD, In A Poem Unlimited, Remy’s 6th album and 2nd LP for the label, was painstakingly crafted in multiple studios by a creative cast of 20+ collaborators. Remy traverses an immediate and increasingly politicized vision over the course of this decade of work. And while U.S. Girls, denoting the plural, is no longer a misnomer, In A Poem Unlimited may be Remy’s most individually distilled protest to date.

Click here for tickets

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Mourning [A] BLKstar with U.S. Girls
Jun
6
8:00 PM20:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar with U.S. Girls

This year marks a significant anniversary for U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist, Meg Remy. 10 years ago Remy first used a 4-track recorder and a microphone to self-produce a series of spontaneous, starkly musical, ‘instant expressions’. These collisions of static, clang and sung melody seem in retrospect like a uniquely American display of minimalism, an unmistakably feminine counterbalance to Nebraska or Rev & Vega’s early sonic confrontations. In contrast, her latest work for 4AD, In A Poem Unlimited, Remy’s 6th album and 2nd LP for the label, was painstakingly crafted in multiple studios by a creative cast of 20+ collaborators. Remy traverses an immediate and increasingly politicized vision over the course of this decade of work. And while U.S. Girls, denoting the plural, is no longer a misnomer, In A Poem Unlimited may be Remy’s most individually distilled protest to date.

Click here for tickets

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Mourning [A] BLKstar + Brittany Campbell at BaB
Jun
5
7:30 PM19:30

Mourning [A] BLKstar + Brittany Campbell at BaB

Swinging by on their tour with U.S. Girls, we're somehow gonna squeeze all 8 of the members of Mourning [A] BLKstar in our humble space!

M[A]B is a multi-generational, gender and genre non-conforming amalgam of Black Culture dedicated to servicing the stories and songs of the apocalyptic diaspora. Creating songs of both eulogy and revolution, the expansion of 21st century black consciousness is felt in waves through Ohio’s Mourning A BLKstar. A force that has deep conviction, purpose, and weight, songs are voiced through a lens of chopped up drum grooves, stark melodies, washed-out synth tones, and historic sample pulls.

Plus local Brittany Campbell!

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Mourning [A] BLKstar with U.S. Girls
Jun
4
8:00 PM20:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar with U.S. Girls

This year marks a significant anniversary for U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist, Meg Remy. 10 years ago Remy first used a 4-track recorder and a microphone to self-produce a series of spontaneous, starkly musical, ‘instant expressions’. These collisions of static, clang and sung melody seem in retrospect like a uniquely American display of minimalism, an unmistakably feminine counterbalance to Nebraska or Rev & Vega’s early sonic confrontations. In contrast, her latest work for 4AD, In A Poem Unlimited, Remy’s 6th album and 2nd LP for the label, was painstakingly crafted in multiple studios by a creative cast of 20+ collaborators. Remy traverses an immediate and increasingly politicized vision over the course of this decade of work. And while U.S. Girls, denoting the plural, is no longer a misnomer, In A Poem Unlimited may be Remy’s most individually distilled protest to date.

SOLD OUT

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Mourning [A] BLKstar/Talie/Shepards at PhilaMOCA
Jun
4
12:00 PM12:00

Mourning [A] BLKstar/Talie/Shepards at PhilaMOCA

We want to communicate their vision and love for the community while collectively creating greater opportunities to create and share.
https://mourningablkstar.com/
https://mourningablkstar.bandcamp.com/

Talie
philly based haitian girl who be singing sometimes
https://taliemusic.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/taliemusic

Shepherds
The healing hand and surgeon’s scalpel are intertwined on Shepherds’ new album ​Insignificant Whip​. The art-rock masterpiece encases the band’s vulnerable wisdom in flighty melodies that burn with intimacy and fragility as singer/lyricists Jonathan Merenivitch and Adrian Benedykt Świtoń address everything from toxic masculinity and Catholic guilt to Youtube comments and Tupac Shakur. Since their 2011 EP ​Holy Stain,​ the band have received accolades for their taut analyses of social ills and the resulting strain on body and mind, but even the skeletal no-wave that defined their early sound was bound with, in the broadest sense of the word, soul. The band’s ability to confront their deepest insecurities and doubts is more than simple catharsis, it serves to illuminate deeper questions of existence and identity, and frame them in context of systemic oppression, discrimination, and isolation. The band's expansive new LP "Insignificant Whip" will be released on Arrowhawk Records in 2019 - Russell Rockwell
https://shepherds.bandcamp.com/

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
http://www.philamoca.org

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