Frank Bango Bone Marrowthon / Stem Cellebration Benefit
Nada Surf (acoustic) / Dean & Britta
Richard Buckner / Sam Champion / Victoria Williams / Scott Matthew / Simone White
Tue 8/26
18+
Doors 7pm
$20
THE BOWERY BALLROOM PRESENTS A BONE MARROWTHON/STEM CELL-ABRATION BENEFIT
- http://sincererecording.com/listmanager/stemcellabration.html
- THE BOWERY BALLROOM PRESENTS A BONE MARROWTHON/STEM CELL-ABRATION BENEFIT
FOR ONE OF THEIR OWN, FRANK BANGO. THE SHOW WILL BE AUGUST 26TH AND WILL
FEATURE NADA SURF (ACOUSTIC), DEAN & BRITTA, RICHARD BUCKNER, SIMONE
WHITE, SAM CHAMPION AND OTHER FRIENDS.
On August 26th at The Bowery Ballroom, friends of Frank Bango will
celebrate their friendship and Bango's music with a benefit show to
support Bango through this challenging time.
Bango, who has just completed nearly two years of cancer treatments, is
incredibly grateful for the generosity of The Bowery and his friends, and
is looking forward to this evening of great music. The Bowery Ballroom has
been Frank's home as a bartender, bar manager, musician and fan for almost
ten years.
The show, which will feature sets by Nada Surf (acoustic), Dean & Britta,
Richard Buckner, Simone White, Sam Champion and more, will be an act of
love and support that Frank will never forget.
In other news, Frank Bango just released "The Sweet Songs of Decay", his
latest full-length, which was recorded mostly in New York at Jack
McKeever's Maid's Room Studio and in Frank's NYC apartment, as well as in
Hoboken, New Jersey.
Bango produced the record with help from numerous friends and allies
including Sean Eden (Luna), Steve Calhoon (Pretendo, Skeleton Key, Vic
Chesnutt, Daniel Johnston), Jane Scarpantoni, Joan Wasser, Graham Maby
(Joe Jackson), Jeremy Chatsky, and Bango's longtime band The Magic
Fingers. The record was mixed by Pete Min and Ed Stasium (Talking Heads,
The Ramones, The Smithereens, among countless others).
Nada Surf
- http://www.myspace.com/nadasurf
- http://www.nadasurf.com/
- Alternative rockers Nada Surf teamed singer/guitarist Matthew Caws and bassist Daniel Lorca, longtime school friends who played together in various bands throughout their formative years. After Lorca spent a year in Spain, he returned to New York in 1988, where he and Caws eventually formed Because Because Because; by 1993 the group had mutated into Nada Surf, issuing an indie label single which won them a contract with a European label. After recording an LP, the band's original drummer quit and was replaced by ex-Fuzztone Ira Elliot; the European deal then fell through, but a demo copy of the completed album was passed to Ric Ocasek, who agreed to produce the sessions if Nada Surf wished to re-record the material. The trio soon signed to Elektra, and with Ocasek at the helm they cut their 1996 debut LP, High/Low. - Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Richard Buckner
- http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=95446248
- http://www.richardbuckner.com/
- There are three kinds of American folk artist: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America's landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them. This [latter] is the area that the sombre-voiced Richard Buckner has been exploring since 1984†- Sylvie Simmons, The Guardian
Sam Champion
- http://www.myspace.com/samchampion
- http://www.samchampionband.com/
- Sam Champion is a four-piece rock band from New York known for writing wooly pop songs. Their live experience is a dexterous call back to shirtless festival crowds and the grunge workouts of yesteryear. Stereogum.com calls them "an absolute force of nature."
"They probably didn’t need to do this, of course. “In this town, you can’t sit around and wait for people to do shit for you,†Chernin explains. Consequently, Sam Champion have shared bills with tons of top acts—Ween, the Hold Steady, Cold War Kids—without the assistance of a manager or booking agent. They network themselves, and they’re pretty good at it, too. They have to be—their limited experiences with the label system have all ended badly. Their first record, Slow Rewind, was released on Razor & Tie in 2005, but that relationship didn’t really work out. “Mainly, the a&r guy got fired,†Chernin recalls. “He was the one championing us, no pun intended, and after that they didn’t seem to know what to do with us. So we split.†Last winter, the band funded the recording of their second full-length, Heavenly Bender, by hooking up with Fractured Atlas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the arts. Dolgen spearheaded this initiative himself. The result: 12 songs steeped in time-honored two-guitar rock, backed by Chernin’s wry, nasally, self-deprecating delivery. It’s a little Malkmus-heavy at times, but more often it’s pure south-of-the-Mason-Dixon barback rock. They’re indie guys who still listen to a shit-ton of classic rock; the band agrees that Heavenly Bender would make a perfect summer guitar-pop album." Village Voice
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