A Squared On The Air, every weekend on WITT 91.9FM

Track list for our shows on 4.2-3.2010:

Jail La La - Dum Dum Girls   
Beat The Devil's Tattoo - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Belong     - Washed Out   
10 Mile Stereo - Beach House
Let Go - jj   
Shelter - The XX
Cult Logic - Miike Snow
West Side - Studio
Promises - The Morning Benders   
Fake Blues - Real Estate   
Swim - Surfer Blood
Veni Vidi Vici (Diplo Remix)     - The Black Lips
Stylo - Gorillaz Feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def
Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games - Of Montreal   
Mongrel Heart - Broken Bells
Freeway - Kurt Vile
When I'm With You - Best Coast   
Melt Down The Knives - Sin Fang Bous
Cassius - Foals
Dominos - The Big Pink

Track list for our shows on 4.9-10.2010:

May You Never - Land Of Talk
Wide Eyes - Local Natives   
Kiara - Bonobo
Boy Lilikoi - Jónsi
C'mon - The Soft Pack   
You Came Out - We Have Band
Triangle Walks (Tiga 1-2-3-4 Mix) - Fever Ray
Keep Slipping Away - A Place To Bury Strangers
Lights - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
It Don't Move Me - Peter Bjorn & John
IRM - Charlotte Gainsbourg
Waves - Holly Miranda
Introducing Palace Players - Mew
Wucan     - Black Mountain
Mama Taught Me Better - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Shake A Fist - Hot Chip
Sun Medallion - King Tuff
Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter
Elephants - Warpaint   
Hold My Hand - UNKLE
This Ship Was Built To Last - The Duke Spirit   
Girls' Night Out - The Knife   
Cheap And Cheerful - The Kills

Track list for our shows on 4.16-17.2010:

You Think You're A Man - The Vaselines   
Bicycle - Memory Tapes
Lewis Takes Off His Shirt - Owen Pallett   
I Got Mine - The Black Keys
Wholehearted Mess - Bear In Heaven
Sister Saviour     - The Rapture
Nothin' but  - The Downtown Struts
Don't Go Phantom - Jookabox
Lisztomania - Phoenix
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Dead Sound - The Raveonettes
Light Of The Morning - Band Of Skulls
My Step - Little Dragon
Bayonets - Amazing Baby
Wanderlust - Every Time I Die
Gold Guns Girls - Metric   
New Fang - Them Crooked Vultures
Marching Through Your Head - Zeus
In the Trees - Moon Duo
Malko - Russian Circles
Ex Lion Tamer - Wire
Falling Tide - Bad Veins
Young Hearts Spark Fire - Japandroids
Don't Shake Me Lucifer - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
Pacer - Systems Officer
Pray For Rain - Massive Attack Feat. Tunde Adebimpe
Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths

Our shows on 4.23-24.2010 was curated and sponsored by Musical Family Tree dot com.
All the music was locally based and/or created and provided by MFT.
We will be doing this on the 4th weekend of every month.

Large Hadron Collider - Prizzy Prizzy Please
Gonna Listen To T Rex (All Night Long) - Burnt Ones
Magic Makes You - Marmoset
Junkyard - Accordions
Surplus - Kate Lamont
Beautiful Mind - Sarah Grain
Sugar On the Tongue - TJ Reynolds
The Plan w/ Pravada (MFT Remix) - Mudkids
Good Times - Oreo Jones
Colorful Mask (Remix) ft. Alpha - Grey Granite
New Addiction - Andy D
LIGHT - Jookabox
Save a Life With Diet Chocolate Sprite - Everything, Now!
I've Got a Bullet With Your Name on It - ThunderHawk
Crayola - The Bears of Blue River
A Regal Tomorrow - Amo Joy
Where Were You? - Beta Male
Casual Cruelty - Demilos
Where Only The Graves Are Real - Otis Gibbs
Ready to Go - Kaiser Cartel
Magic - The Academy
Quiet As A Mouse - Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
Laugh Laugh - Sanuk
Coming Out The Closet - Evan Snyder       
Track 02 - Crescent Ulmer
This Could Take Awhile - Re Vera

Track list for our shows on 4.30-5.2.2010:

Crazy Love - Colder
Stick to my side (featuring Panda Bear) - Pantha Du Prince
Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio
Hearts - Blair   
Elephants - Warpaint   
Crash Years - The New Pornographers   
Fake Blues - Real Estate
Heartbeats - José González       
Natural Selection feat. The Black Angels - Unkle
Stay Close - Delorean
Fangela - Here We Go Magic feat. Luke Temple
Hands Up - Big Business   
Voodoo - Ganglians
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
May You Never - Land Of Talk
Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno
Wide Eyes - Local Natives
Vanished - Crystal Castles
Glacially - Asobi Seksu
I Want Some More - Dan Auerbach
ONE - Yeasayer
Smokey Taboo - CocoRosie
Black Grease - The Black Angels
Fading All Away - Jay Reatard

Thank You For Calling Information Dynamics - Movie Premiere and party at Earth House Collective

A Squared Industries has the honor of being involved with the upcoming premiere of the new film short from the guys with Venogram – Alex Johnson, Collin Armstrong, and Dylan Griffith - and were are happy to be DJing and providing the music for the big event.

A Squared Industries is bringing the beats, Sun King Brewery is providing the beer and Dylan, Collin, and Alex want to fill your eyes with a few fruits of their 10 years of movie-making labor. Come down to the Earth House Collective for a night of film, fun, and FANTASY (no actual fantasy will be provided).

The night will feature:

THANK YOU FOR CALLING INFORMATION DYNAMICS (premiere)

The mundanities of everyday existence dominate the lives of a spread of characters working for a government bureau charged with executing and covering up assassinations in this darkly comic thriller.

SINGER/TASTEMAKER (premiere)

An experimental music video for dark weirdo-rock band We Are Hex's upcoming new album Heil The Goer. One of Dylan, Collin, and Alex's favorite bands. Period.

RED HARVEST

2006's internationally recognized and award winning horror short. A band of drug dealers are driving their supply across the Midwest when they hit SOMETHING with their van. Will they make it out alive?

AN EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE

A man's obsession to ask out a bank teller drives his unstable mind to the brink of insanity in this 2003 psychological thriller.

$5 at the door. $3 Sun Kings inside.

CONTRIBUTORS:

A-Squared Industries http://asquaredindustries.net
Sun King Brewery http://www.sunkingbrewing.com
Earth House Collective http://www.earthhousecollective.org
We Are Hex http://www.myspace.com/wearehex

 

 

A great photo blog of the movie-making prcoess can be seen here: http://www.blainehogan.com/post/143464664/thank-you-for-calling-information-dynamics-a-new

 

Some IMDB information on THANK YOU FOR CALLING INFORMATION DYNAMICS

 

Website:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568288/ 

Starring:

J. Horace Black, Judy Bobbitt, Mark Goetzinger, Blaine Hogan, Jen Johansen, Rob Johansen, Doug Johnson, James Leagre, Samantha Simon, Marc Szewczyk

Screenplay By:

Collin Armstrong

Directed By:

Dylan Griffith

Produced By:

Collin Armstrong, Dylan Griffith and Alex Johnson

Awards:

*The film will be sent to film festivals beginning in late 2009.

Plot Outline:

The script is a homage to the paranoid American thrillers of the 1970's (All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor) and a deconstruction of modern action movie overkill, infused with oddball humor inspired by the work of the Coen brothers (The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading). The story follows several employees of an organization charged with executing and covering up assassinations and the daily minutiae - familiar to us all - that makes up the bulk of their lives.

"The Hip Drop" & "A Film & Some Funk" at ARTBOX Gallery

ARTBOX Gallery invites you to join us on Friday, April 16th at 9pm when A Film and Some Funk presents a showing of "What's Going On? - the American Masters Documentary" film about Marvin Gaye. All ages are welcome for the film screening.

Immediately following the documentary, Old Soul Entertainment & A Squared Industries present: "The Hip Drop Funk & Soul Jam - Motown Edition" DJ dance night featuring MetroGnome, Salad Bar, Action Jackson and A Squared Industries DJs. Ages 21+ only for this portion of the evening. Cash bar available!  Open until 2am or so...$5 admission at the door.

Official Site: http://www.artboxindy.com

This event is perfect: it happens once a month on the 3rd Friday of every month at ARTBOX Gallery in the Stutz Building near Downtown. The films begin at 9pm, and are followed by a cash bar-fueled DJ dance party led by Indianapolis' premiere good guy DJ extraordinaire MetroGnome. What more could you want for a measly $5? Cinema, culture, art, dancing and fun with friends!

JONSI of Sigur Ros new solo album listening party to be held before April's LET GO! at The Lockerbie

Tonight at The Lockerbie Pub is our monthly LET GO! at The Lockerbie dance party... a great place to leave your cares at the door and dance your pants off! This month our special guest DJs are John Larner and Slater Hogan of Muzique Boutique, and we will be kicking off the night by playing some tracks from the new Jónsi ablum and giving away tons of swag and prizes courtesy of Paste Magazine and XL Recordings!

Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is universally known for his soft inimitable falsetto voice. He has also released an album as one half of Jónsi & Alex with his boyfriend Alex Somers, formerly of the band Parachutes. Jónsi’s solo album, Go, was released on April 5th 2010.

In his solo venture Jónsi departs from the ethereal, dreamy landscapes present in Sigur Rós’ music and instead concentrates on shorter, more instant ‘portrait’ tunes. It would still be foolish to place Jónsi in a specific genre, however; he again manages to create an isolated, unique sound which only he could do without being dubbed ‘cheesy’.

Birgisson grew up in Iceland, raised by parents who weren’t particularly musical; his early memories include playing The Beatles at double speed on his turntable and listening to and playing along with Iron Maiden records. You can hear him speak at length about his musical past and loves in an upcoming episode of All Songs Considered on NPR, in which Birgisson plays guest DJ. His history as Sigur Ros’ singer and guitarist spans 16 years, during which time the band has released five studio albums and coined a unique sound that has yet to be matched by any act since.

So come out early to LET GO! at The Lockerbie and check out the new Jónsi album and pick up some cool prizes! Then feel free to dance til we're done with DJs John Larner, Slater Hogan, Scotty Matelic and Annie & Andy of A Squared Industries!

The wonderful world of Aaron Scamihorn

A Squared Industries has had the incredible honor of working with a new friend on a promotion and branding project for our WITT 91.9FM Kickoff Party concert this upcoming April 1st.

Aaron Scamihorn, artist and owner of RONLEWHORN.COM contacted us after designing the poster for the February NAPTOWN ROLLER GIRLS bout to offer his services (and friendship - we're definitely taking him out for good beers and big laughs real soon).

We *kind of* had a vision for our project: the two of us and a microphone... for a poster and flyer campaign. We know: not much to work with, right? It's a good thing Aaron is a champ with this stuff. He came in and first took a ton of photos with his Canon 40d camera, outfitted with a Canon 17-85is lens and Canon Speedlite 420ex flash:

Using these reference photos Aaron blew out the contrast. Then using a Wacom tablet hooked up to his Mac computer Aaron used Adobe Illustrator to make the lines and shapes of the illustration in different layers over the contrasted photograph he chose for the piece:

 

 

Moving into Adobe Photoshop Aaron perfected the coloring and textures. He came up with a few incredible variations before laying the type and creating this masterpiece:

Aaron also went to work on some needed tweaks to our logo:

  

Aaron is such an incredible talent, and one of the nicest people we have met in the Indianapolis scene as well. He isn't limited to what you see here... go to his website to see for yourself all the design work he has done, alongside his portraiture, illustrations, typography, photography, branding and marketing campaigns he has chronicled there.

And if you didn't get the hint, you should definitely check out our radio show (beginning April 2nd on WITT)  and come out to the kickoff party on April 1st!

Thursday April 1st, 2010 9PM
Locals Only Art + Music Pub (21+)
2449 E. 56th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46220
Click here for a map.

Butler Scion Free Thursdays at Locals Only and A Squared Industries present:

The A-Squared on the Air radio show KICKOFF PARTY!
Come celebrate Annie & Andy launching their own radio show on WITT-FM!

THUNDERS MySpace
PRAVADA MySpace
JUDGEMENT DAY MySpace

Plus a dance party with your favorite DJs
A SQUARED INDUSTRIES DJS website

NO COVER! 21+ with valid ID only please.

TICKET GIVE-AWAYS!

Enter your Email to join our Email List and get up-to-date info on our shows and bands, and win free tickets:

ENTER HERE!

CURRENT TICKET CONTEST GIVE-AWAYS:
Win 4 tickets to see RJD2 at The Metro in Chicago on March 13th
Win 4 tickets to see THE TOSSERS at The Metro in Chicago on March 17th
Win 2 tickets to see GIRL TALK at The Murat Egyptian Room in Indy on March 27th

Put in your email address and we will be drawing winners AT RANDOM on Tuesday March 9th. We will contact winners by email on the 9th!

GIRL TALK at The Murat Egyptian Room

A Squared Industries has the honor of presenting GIRL TALK on March 27th at The Murat Egyptian Room!

 

Gregg Michael Gillis, better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American musician specializing in mashups and digital sampling. Gillis has released four LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles.  Gillis began making music while a student at Chartiers Valley High School in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bridgeville. After a few collaborative efforts, he started the solo "Girl Talk" project. He continued making music under the Girl Talk alias while studying biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He produces mashup-style remixes, in which he uses often a dozen or more unauthorized samples from different songs to create a new song. The New York Times Magazine has called his music "a lawsuit waiting to happen," a criticism that Gillis has attributed to mainstream media that want "to create controversy where it doesn't really exist," citing fair use as a legal backbone for his sampling practices.
He has given different explanations for the origin of his stage name, once saying that it alluded to a Jim Morrison poem and once saying that it alluded to an early Merzbow side project. Most recently, he attributed the name to a grunge band called TAD, based in Seattle. In a 2009 interview with FMLY, Gillis stated:

[T]he name Girl Talk is a reference to many things, products, magazines, books. It’s a pop culture phrase. The whole point of choosing the name early on was basically to just stir things up a little within the small scene I was operating from. I came from a more experimental background and there were some very overly serious, borderline academic type electronic musicians. I wanted to pick a name that they would be embarrassed to play with. You know Girl Talk sounded exactly the opposite of a man playing a laptop, so that’s what I chose.

Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal reported it this way: "Unlike mash-up makers in it to figure out the lamest way to combine two song titles, justify their existence with cheap mp3 blog Diggs, or wind up in a Cobrasnake shot with some Olsen twin look-a-like, Gillis just really likes stuffing tons of his favorite FM moments into bursts of Top 40 overload. "I'm a pop music enthusiast.""

Check out the show if you were able to get tickets!

Saturday March 27th, 2010 8PM
The Murat Egyptian Room (All-ages)
502 North New Jersey Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Click here for a map.

A Squared Industries, The Butler University SGA Program Board and LiveNation present:
GIRL TALK MySpace

Presale tickets are $15 plus applicable fees and are available online at LiveNation, The Murat Box Office, and at Indy CD & Vinyl in Broad Ripple. This is an all-ages event.

Broad Ripple Brew Pub turns 20 in 2010!

 

This year the Broad Ripple Brewpub will be celebrating 20 years of serving great food, quality ales, and being the hub of an ever-growing community! The Brew Pub has a special place in our hearts; and, to a fault, we usually drag our friends and bands from out of town to the Pub when they come to Indy. Highly recommended if you haven't been there yet!

To begin the big year the right way, they are kicking it off with $3.00 pints on Mondays, as well as booking a limited-return engagement of their favorite magician Trinity every Wednesday in March. Those of you in the internets might remember Trinity, long ago he was a weekly staple at the Brew Pub, performing tableside magic tricks for the kids (and the whole fan-damnily).

The Brew Pub's actual birth date is in November, but they plan to keep rolling towards the big birthday party on 11.14.2010 with more specials and other surprises (like a commemorative series of brews from years past).

Upcoming events will be posted on their website: www.broadripplebrewpub.com, www.Indianabeer.com, thier Twitter page, and their Facebook fan page.

A Squared in the Metromix, thanks to Rusty Redenbacher

 

Big thanks to Rusty Redenbacher and Metromix for the kind words in last week's Indianapolis Metromix issue! It is always nice to be recognized for our hard work, and Russ did it so eloquently. Props.

LOCAL LIFT-OFF at The Vogue on 2.5.2010

The great blizzard of 2010 didn't keep people from descending on The Vogue Theatre on Friday February 5th for an incredible night of locally-grown music on the big stage in Broad Ripple. While we definitley would have filled the place in better weather, 300 strong braved the worst road conditions possible for six hours worth of some of the best hip-hop, rap, trip-hop, dance, electro and indie-experimental music this fair city has to offer. Metromix definitely had it right when it declared that this show was the #1 event to attend this week: Metromix 2.4.2010

Right from the start patrons knew the night was for real: hip-hop act TWIN MONSTER devoured any negativity brought by the eight inches of fluffy snow piling outside with an incredibly tight, polished act featuring three rappers, keys and a DJ. The live set was remarkable for its expertly performed multi-vocal selections, not an easy task considering the lightning-quick timing the group has perfected. Hours of practice must have gone into creating their set, because not one hiccup was heard in a blistering 35-minute rap extravaganza. TWIN MONSTER definitely set the mood and left the bar high for the next acts. Check out the group online at http://www.myspace.com/twinmonster

Up next was Indianapolis' newest breakout act JOOKABOX (formely known as Grampall Jookabox), the brainchild of David "Moose" Adamson who over the years has taken a one-man programming/performance art/multi-instrumental/strange-yet-uncontrollably-dancy freak show and molded it into a four-piece indie-dance juggernaut. Three full-length albums deep into a career that has taken him around the world, this Vogue event was put together to hail the release of a remix EP put together by the cats at Audio Recon and released by globally-reached but locally-based Asthmatic Kitty Records. This release (which is available for download on the AK website) was the centerpiece of the evening, as it pointed out just how incestuous Indiapolis' music community truly is, even across different genres (hell, just look at the Jookabox lineup - it would be four pages of a tree map and flow charts to show how many bands are connected through these four musicians). Specifically, JOOKABOX's EP was remixed by musicians aligned with Audio Recon, headed up by the drummer of the headlining band MAB LAB, and contains tracks played out at DJ events by yours truly, A SQUARED INDUSTRIES, and the openers TWIN MONSTER helped with the record and is staffed by artists repped by Audio Recon. Confused? Us too. Anyway, check out JOOKABOX online at http://www.myspace.com/jookabox and check out some video from the show:


JOOKABOX live at The Vogue 2.5.2010 from A Squared Industries on Vimeo.

Headlining the live portion of the show (not that the DJs weren't "live," but, well, you know...) was MAB LAB, pretty much Indy's only trip-hop act for the past 10 or 11 years. A powerhouse of incredible (and famous) musicians in their own right, together as MAB LAB the band is the consummate headlining act with mature, well-written, incredibly performed, and stylistically unique songs that have always made this group ahead of its time here in Naptown. We remember when they used to sell out The Patio (sigh) on Friday nights back in the day, and we couldn't have been more excited to be a part of putting on a big show for them and what they have each done for the music scene here in Indy.  MAB LAB formed in early 1999 by vocalist/organist Kate Lamont and drummer Eric Brown, and were soon joined by MC/DJ/producer/artist Mike Graves. Brown was introduced to Graves through a mutal friend and top indianapolis drummer Devon Ashley. In 2000 they self-released their first album “Features and Controls” and followed that up with 2001’s "The Fadeback EP." Both of these homemade releases earned critical praise and were enough to garner them recognition from some serious industry folks, as they went on to work with producer Chris DeBenideto and bassist Jimmy “Jazz” Prescott (G Love and Special Sauce) as well as engineer/ producer Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle/Lucinda Williams) and producer Peter Collins (Rush/Indigo Girls/Queensryche). The ML crew has done notable work both musically and culturally in and around Indianpolis. Vocalist Kate Lamont released two albums with her progressive folk group Blueprintmusic and toured extensively. She has also been working on a new solo album with noted producer and musician Vess Ruthenberg (Queen Size Studio/The Pieces/Lemonheads) as well as serving as the director of operations of The Earth House. Mike Graves has been busy in the art and music worlds: in addition to creating new albums by Twilight Sentinels and People vs Radio he has had many successful showings of his art work from Indianapolis to Seattle. Eric Brown started Audio Recon in 2005, formed the glitch clique Post-Lab and released "Manifesto," then went on to release solo digital albums "Mind Film Vols. 1 and 2" in Dec 2007. He is currently working on a new glitch clique album as well as a host of other projects for Audio Recon. Ande Shaul was a integral part of the post-MAB LAB project New Year Revolution w/ Graves and Lamont, as well as playing bass for People vs Radio. He is currently writing material for an upcoming solo project as well as lending his many talents to various sessions around Indianapolis. These are important people who do important things - keep up with what they are doing folks and you will see just how we do it here in the Nap. Check out some video of their performance at The Vogue:


MAB LAB live at The Vogue 2.5.2010 from A Squared Industries on Vimeo.

And lastly, A SQUARED INDUSTRIES had the honor of DJing an incredible party after the bands with our buddy DJ ACTION JACKSON. If you aren't familiar with him, his parties in Indy and Bloomington have a reputation for being OUT OF CONTROL! Personally, we like him so much for being a good dude and good friend, and business-wise for showing how a motivated deejay can make a living through concentrating serious hustle. ACTION JACKSON keeps it real making a living by DJing locally most nights of every week. Kids, watch and learn. Here's some video of ACTION JACKSON for that night at The Vogue:


DJ ACTION JACKSON live at The Vogue 2.5.2010 from A Squared Industries on Vimeo.

All in all, it was quite a night (blizzard and everything!) Many thanks to NUVO for sponsoring the event, and to Transpanther, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Audio Recon, Musical Family Tree and The Vogue for making it happen.