Tuesday 23 December 2008 @9pm Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.)New York USA $3.00
Reverend Jen’s Very Special Holiday Spectacular
Are you trapped in the city this Holiday Season because of a crap retail job? Maybe you're estranged from your family? Or maybe no one loves you? Well it's time to turn that frown upside down because Reverend Jen's Open Mike Holiday Spectacular is here to save the day!!! From 9-10pm there will be an ArtStar Holiday Party—which is sure to suck less than your office holiday party! Bring your own ornament and help decorate The Official Art Star XXX-Mas Tree! At 10pm there will be an Anti-Slam open mike where everyone will get a ten no matter what, as well as some great featured acts (The Trachtenburg Slide Show Family Players, Brer Brian and more).
It’ll still be the same wonderfully weird show you know and l-u-v, love. Six minutes to do whatever you want.
Editor’s note: And rumor has it that Carmen Mofongo may be on hand and giving away some of her world-famous homemade Coquito!
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Saturday, December 13th 2008 galapagos~kids! presents: Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade Holiday World Galapagos Art Space 16 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Two Shows, 12pm & 3pm, $30 family, $15 individual, $7 kids
Rachel and her friends are coming over to share their arts, crafts and new songs. This special Holiday edition will include a lesson in making recycled wrapping paper and much more all with the help of her Mom and Dad. Just in time for the holidays, Rachel will show you all of her favorite hobbies with a beautiful homemade set
Buy tickets here
(Please note: only a limited number of advanced family tickets available-- so get them now!)
THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED
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Wednesday 3 December 2008 Nerve Centre, Derry, Derry, Northern Ireland
Duke Special with Cashier No. 9, Paul Pilot, The Lowly Knights, Jason Trachtenburg, Aussie comedian and Duke look-a-like Tim Minchin and Paul Currie, the voice of Potto in Sesame Street who’ll be compering the five hour, two-stage extravaganza.
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Tuesday 2 December 2008St George’s Market Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Duke Special with Jason Trachtenburg & Paul Pilot
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
November 2008
Wednesday 26 November 2008 Tea Factory Bushwick Brooklyn, NY 9pm
Jason Trachtenburg is premiering songs
from the forthcoming album called...
Jason Trachtenburg File Under: Pop, Male Vocal.
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Open Mic, Monday November 24, 2008 Sidewalk Cafe New York
from here
Jason Trachtenburg was back with "Everybody Loves the Clown."
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Saturday November 15, 2008 Benefit for Threads that Teach, sidewalk Cafe NYC
from
Jason Trachtenburg
Jason Trachtenburg came on stage with a scarf wrapped around his head, kind of like those bandages you see in old pictures after people left the dentist's office. Jason is very funny and usually spends a lot of time on stage setting up and joking around, which is really part of his act. Last night he said he was going to read some poems, which turned out to be a couple comedic bits, including one about trying to find his chapstick. The shows I've seen of Jason's lately have all featured this song "Everybody Loves the Clown." It's kind of a take off on "Make Them Laugh" from "Singing in the Rain." He'll usually perform it in English and then in some kind of awkwardly rendered translation in another language. After having heard this numerous times now I must say the whole thing is a bit surreal, which come to think of it, maybe is part of the point. Jason also played "All for the Sake of Art," and the ultra-catchy "I Don't Want to Tempt Time," plus a song he wrote with Julie LaMendola called "Giving Kisses." I like the idea of "giving kisses like it ain't nothing."
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Wednesday Nov. 13th City Hall NYC
Join The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on Wednesday Nov. 13th at City Hall to speak out against Michael Bloomberg's racist rezoning policies! Lets come together and put forth the effort to stop New York City from becoming a playground for the elite. 9:30 am folks! See you There!
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Monday November 10, 2008 Open Mic sidewalk Cafe New York
from
Jason Trachtenburg played All for the Sake of Art and his biggest charting single (as he explains it) Mountain Trip to Japan. I remember Mountain Trip from a performance by Jason at Joe's Pub sometime before I started coming to Sidewalk. I'd read about the Slideshow Players in various publications and decided to check them out at some sort of free gig at Joe's. Unfortunately Rachel was not playing that day (she was in Seattle "on business" Jason explained-she being about 9 years old at the time) but I really enjoyed seeing that song with the whole slide presentation.
Jason Trachtenburg is premiering songs
from the forthcoming album called...
Jason Trachtenburg File Under: Pop, Male Vocal.
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Open Mic, Monday November 24, 2008 Sidewalk Cafe New York
from here
Jason Trachtenburg was back with "Everybody Loves the Clown."
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Saturday November 15, 2008 Benefit for Threads that Teach, sidewalk Cafe NYC
from
Jason Trachtenburg
Jason Trachtenburg came on stage with a scarf wrapped around his head, kind of like those bandages you see in old pictures after people left the dentist's office. Jason is very funny and usually spends a lot of time on stage setting up and joking around, which is really part of his act. Last night he said he was going to read some poems, which turned out to be a couple comedic bits, including one about trying to find his chapstick. The shows I've seen of Jason's lately have all featured this song "Everybody Loves the Clown." It's kind of a take off on "Make Them Laugh" from "Singing in the Rain." He'll usually perform it in English and then in some kind of awkwardly rendered translation in another language. After having heard this numerous times now I must say the whole thing is a bit surreal, which come to think of it, maybe is part of the point. Jason also played "All for the Sake of Art," and the ultra-catchy "I Don't Want to Tempt Time," plus a song he wrote with Julie LaMendola called "Giving Kisses." I like the idea of "giving kisses like it ain't nothing."
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+++Not a show+++
Wednesday Nov. 13th City Hall NYC
Join The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on Wednesday Nov. 13th at City Hall to speak out against Michael Bloomberg's racist rezoning policies! Lets come together and put forth the effort to stop New York City from becoming a playground for the elite. 9:30 am folks! See you There!
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Monday November 10, 2008 Open Mic sidewalk Cafe New York
from
Jason Trachtenburg played All for the Sake of Art and his biggest charting single (as he explains it) Mountain Trip to Japan. I remember Mountain Trip from a performance by Jason at Joe's Pub sometime before I started coming to Sidewalk. I'd read about the Slideshow Players in various publications and decided to check them out at some sort of free gig at Joe's. Unfortunately Rachel was not playing that day (she was in Seattle "on business" Jason explained-she being about 9 years old at the time) but I really enjoyed seeing that song with the whole slide presentation.
October 2008
Wednesday October 29 2008
LIVE ACTION TV SHOW + ANTI-SLAM
WHAT: It’s The Great Pumpkin, Reverend Jen!
WHEN: Wednesday 10.29 @10pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Houston & Bleecker Sts.)
PRICE: $5!
http://www.revjen.com
WHY:
It’s the show that’ll make you wish you still did acid and walked in the door peaking! In Episode Four of Rev. Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood, the gang gets together to present a holiday classic you won't want to miss. It's Halloween in “The Neighborhood”—time to "bob for ass"—ask the Great Pumpkin for presents! But, will the holiday be ruined when Jen's new freeloader boyfriend, Pig Pen, comes to blows with Jen's BFF, Mr. Clean, (who lives in her closet) while Jen's foreign exchange student, Vlad (who is from the Carpathian Mountains) attempts to give Jen eternal life? Let's hope not!
Written by Reverend Jen, directed by Robert Prichard and starring almost every bona-fide art star around: Reverend Jen, Reverend Jen Junior, Faceboy, The Mangina, former Mr. L.E.S.’s Mike Amato and Moonshine, current Mr. L.E.S., Sven Wechsler, The O’Debra Twins, TPTwin Courtney Weber, Jason Thompson, Rachel Trachtenburg and more…
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Monday, October 27, 2008 Sidewalk Cafe NYC Open Mike
from
Jason Trachtenburg played...hmmm.. I think a song about how every day is somebody's birthday and then sang what he says is going to be his big hit, "I Don't Want to Tempt Time." Jason explained that since it's going to be a hit "I want to get used to playing it every night of the week for the rest of my life." I'll say one thing, it IS a damn catchy number.
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Saturday 25th October 2008 Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World - Galapagos Art Space
Date: October 25, 2008
Hours: 3pm
Ages: All Ages
Price: $7 children; $10 adults; $20 families
Address:
16 Main Street - 541- 788-0901
Brooklyn , NY 11201
www.galapagosartspace.com
Description: Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players presents a new show, complete with audience sing alongs, puppets, interactive arts and crafts, environmental messages, and cooking segments with snack time.
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LIVE ACTION TV SHOW + ANTI-SLAM
WHAT: It’s The Great Pumpkin, Reverend Jen!
WHEN: Wednesday 10.29 @10pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Houston & Bleecker Sts.)
PRICE: $5!
http://www.revjen.com
WHY:
It’s the show that’ll make you wish you still did acid and walked in the door peaking! In Episode Four of Rev. Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood, the gang gets together to present a holiday classic you won't want to miss. It's Halloween in “The Neighborhood”—time to "bob for ass"—ask the Great Pumpkin for presents! But, will the holiday be ruined when Jen's new freeloader boyfriend, Pig Pen, comes to blows with Jen's BFF, Mr. Clean, (who lives in her closet) while Jen's foreign exchange student, Vlad (who is from the Carpathian Mountains) attempts to give Jen eternal life? Let's hope not!
Written by Reverend Jen, directed by Robert Prichard and starring almost every bona-fide art star around: Reverend Jen, Reverend Jen Junior, Faceboy, The Mangina, former Mr. L.E.S.’s Mike Amato and Moonshine, current Mr. L.E.S., Sven Wechsler, The O’Debra Twins, TPTwin Courtney Weber, Jason Thompson, Rachel Trachtenburg and more…
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Monday, October 27, 2008 Sidewalk Cafe NYC Open Mike
from
Jason Trachtenburg played...hmmm.. I think a song about how every day is somebody's birthday and then sang what he says is going to be his big hit, "I Don't Want to Tempt Time." Jason explained that since it's going to be a hit "I want to get used to playing it every night of the week for the rest of my life." I'll say one thing, it IS a damn catchy number.
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Saturday 25th October 2008 Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World - Galapagos Art Space
Date: October 25, 2008
Hours: 3pm
Ages: All Ages
Price: $7 children; $10 adults; $20 families
Address:
16 Main Street - 541- 788-0901
Brooklyn , NY 11201
www.galapagosartspace.com
Description: Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players presents a new show, complete with audience sing alongs, puppets, interactive arts and crafts, environmental messages, and cooking segments with snack time.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
September 2008
Tue 30th September 2008 9 p.m. // Zebulon [258 Wythe Ave, Williamsburg] // Free
Skeleton$ (apparently Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys changed their name?), Arrington De Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun) and Jason Trachtenburg will fill the intimate Zebulon room with sound tonight. And rejoice: it's free!
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Saturday 27th September 2008 Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players with Pleassesuer & Anamanaguchi @ Knitting Factory New York USA $10
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Tuesday 23rd September 2008 Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London 7.30pm
tickets £10.00 (buy via seetickets from here)
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Monday 22 September 2008 Decorum presents: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players + An Axe + more TBC Bristol Bar Oppo, 72 Park St. £4.00 adv £5.00 on the door
from
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players & An Axe - September 22nd @ Oppo Bar, Bristol!
Decorum Records Presents...
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - An Axe - Monday 22nd Septermber - Bar Oppo, Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JX http://www.oppomusicbar.com/
Decorum presents a very special performance from the incredible Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
This is a last minute addition to their current UK tour. Playing at cafe and music bar Oppo (72 Park Street), this promises to be an extremely intimate show. To see the Trachtenburg family perform at a venue like this is incredibly rare, and almost unheard of outside the US. You will simply not get another chance to see the Trachtenburg family like this, so make sure you don't miss this one!
Tickets are £4 in adv, and will be available from Bristol Ticket Shop and Here Shop on Stokes Croft from Tuesday. Admission on the night will be £5
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio (dad Jason, mom Tina Piña, 15-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections theyve found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. Whats more, from their retro fashion sense to their disavowal of modern conveniences, the Trachtenburgs are a charming relic: a vintage throwback to simpler, more self-sufficient, family-oriented times just like their music.
Tina Piña and Jason met at a Greenwich Village open-mic in 1989, and the pair later relocated to Seattle. They had a daughter, Rachel, and ran a dog-walking business while Jason worked Seattles open-mic circuit. When his eccentric indie pop was failing to find an audience, Tina suggested he augment his act with slide imagery.
On a subsequent dog-walking trip with Rachel, she found an old slide projector at a garage sale, and a box of slides from a random familys 1959 mountain trip to Japan. One morning in 2000, Tina awoke to find Jason had spent the entire night writing a song to accompany the slide presentation (appropriately titled Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959). Six-year-old Rachel was recruited to play harmonica; (she later moved over to drum duties), Tina was appointed projector operator/backup singer, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players were born.
The remarkably favorable reaction to the family act was nearly unfathomable. The local press went wild; their coffee house shows boasted lines out the door.
In July 2002 the family relocated to New Yorks East Village and befriended artists like Regina Spektor and Nellie McKay. After being covered by The New Yorker, Spin, EW, the Village Voice, and others, Bar/None released their full-length debut, which showcased Jason singing about topics as varied as enjoying fondue in Switzerland to training employees to work at Wendys. Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Volume 1 (2003) was recorded in Seattle before the big move and features guest spots from the citys local stars.
Six months and a lot of DIY-campaigning later they were the first unsigned band to appear on Late Night with Conan OBrien.
'We're an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band, says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg. We've got the market cornered. Theres no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department.'
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
www.slideshowplayers.com
The Trachtenburgs will be supported by An Axe.
An Axe are purveyors of brooding melancholia and dark shanty-pop. Tales of taxidermy and cruel tides from the bottom of the bottle are the order of the day for this Bristol foursome. Simultaneously celebrating and questioning the acheivements of man, An Axe weave dense tapestries with sparse arrangements.
Their songs are cinematic in scope but concise in practice, only too aware that a point laboured is a point lost. An Axe meld the historical with the personal, utilising horrorshow keys, ramshackle percussion and chiming guitars
www.myspace.com/anaxe
For more details on this show please see: www.myspace.com/decorumrecords
Be sure to dress sharp.
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Saturday 20th September Theatre Royal Bath UK
Direct from the USA
Presented by The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players
Saturday 20th September
Starring American Indie Rock Star Rachel Trachtenburg14 year old American indie rock star and TV host Rachel Tractenberg host this wacky new variety show direct from the USA. Featuring Syd Barrett covers, puppets and organic cookery against a animated felt background!
Rachel’s unique show has been referred to as “Martha Stewart for kids” and “a psychedlic Seasame Street”
Running Time 50 minutes
Ages 2 – Adult
Tickets: £7 / £5 discounts
Performance Times11.30am & 3pm
www.puppetcraft.co.uk
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Friday 19th – Saturday 20th September 2008 Theatre Royal Bath
Direct from the Soho Theatre
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band”. Part stand-up comedy, part rock group, part art project, they’re unlike anything you’ve seen before.
Jason Trachtenburg makes music that tells the story of hundreds of vintage slides found in junk sales across the US and Europe. His wife Tina randomly selects the slides for each performance, making this unique show a spontaneous, madcap, weirdly chraming one-off, brought to Bath from the quirkier side of the U.S.A.
“They give a deeply warm feeling of a happy family, enjoying each other’s company … They are the White Stripes’ quirky cousins and a totally unique, Vaudevillian act that should be nurtured” - Stage“You will never see a show more weirdly wonderful” - MetroTickets: £11/£8 discounts
Buy Online from 21st July
Performance TimesEvenings: 8pm
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THU 18TH SEP, 2008 8.00pm £9.00 BRIGHTON OIB RECORDS @ THE HOPE
OIB Records Presents:
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
"NYC's Tratchenburg Family return to play a super intimate festival warm-up. Expect their usual quirky blend of indie-vaudeville slide-projection-pop-songs"
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
+
THE BOBBY McGEES
"No-fi vaudeville pop-shanties"
www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
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MARCUS HESSENBERG AND THE TULIPS
"Ukulele inspired lo-fi pop"
www.myspace.com/tulips
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Friday September 12 2008 Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
New York Tea Factory-Bushwick USA
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Thursday September 11 2008 Jason Trachtenburg - Zombieville # 8
Brooklyn Southpaw USA
Zombieville XII Featuring Jason Trachtenburg, The Extraordinaires, Miracles Of Modern Science and Shellshag @ Southpaw
Here is the 12th installment to this great showcase of music! This time Jason Trachtenburg from the Trachteburg Family Slide Show, The extraordinaitres, Miracles of Modern Science and Shellshag(house band) will be taking the stage. It is going to be a great show! ALSO get there on time and you will receive free cookies! Which is neat! Also Six point brew on tap will be two for one for all the people that don't get excited about free cookies!
@Southpaw
Location: 125 5th Ave (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: ?
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Saturday September 6 2008LES Howl! Festival, Tompkins Square Park, New York Free
1.00 p.m. Middle Collegiate Choir
1.30 p.m. Blonde Boy Wilson with On Davis
1.40 p.m. "Bang the Drum for the Brothers,"J. Fitzgerald creates a dazzling spectacle of rhythm and rhyme.
2.05 p.m. TIMBILA
2.25 p.m Baby Soda
2.45 p.m. Tin Pan
3.05 p.m Reverend Billy
3.25 p.m. Trachtenburg Family
4.05 p.m. Becky Wreck
4.20 p.m. Ari Up's Slits
5 p.m. THE COCKETTES and the Thrill Peddlers
6 p.m. The House of HOWL PRESENTS THE HOUSE OF BON VIVANT'S BALLHOUSE TRIBUTE
Skeleton$ (apparently Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys changed their name?), Arrington De Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun) and Jason Trachtenburg will fill the intimate Zebulon room with sound tonight. And rejoice: it's free!
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Saturday 27th September 2008 Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players with Pleassesuer & Anamanaguchi @ Knitting Factory New York USA $10
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Tuesday 23rd September 2008 Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London 7.30pm
tickets £10.00 (buy via seetickets from here)
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Monday 22 September 2008 Decorum presents: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players + An Axe + more TBC Bristol Bar Oppo, 72 Park St. £4.00 adv £5.00 on the door
from
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players & An Axe - September 22nd @ Oppo Bar, Bristol!
Decorum Records Presents...
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - An Axe - Monday 22nd Septermber - Bar Oppo, Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JX http://www.oppomusicbar.com/
Decorum presents a very special performance from the incredible Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
This is a last minute addition to their current UK tour. Playing at cafe and music bar Oppo (72 Park Street), this promises to be an extremely intimate show. To see the Trachtenburg family perform at a venue like this is incredibly rare, and almost unheard of outside the US. You will simply not get another chance to see the Trachtenburg family like this, so make sure you don't miss this one!
Tickets are £4 in adv, and will be available from Bristol Ticket Shop and Here Shop on Stokes Croft from Tuesday. Admission on the night will be £5
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio (dad Jason, mom Tina Piña, 15-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections theyve found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. Whats more, from their retro fashion sense to their disavowal of modern conveniences, the Trachtenburgs are a charming relic: a vintage throwback to simpler, more self-sufficient, family-oriented times just like their music.
Tina Piña and Jason met at a Greenwich Village open-mic in 1989, and the pair later relocated to Seattle. They had a daughter, Rachel, and ran a dog-walking business while Jason worked Seattles open-mic circuit. When his eccentric indie pop was failing to find an audience, Tina suggested he augment his act with slide imagery.
On a subsequent dog-walking trip with Rachel, she found an old slide projector at a garage sale, and a box of slides from a random familys 1959 mountain trip to Japan. One morning in 2000, Tina awoke to find Jason had spent the entire night writing a song to accompany the slide presentation (appropriately titled Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959). Six-year-old Rachel was recruited to play harmonica; (she later moved over to drum duties), Tina was appointed projector operator/backup singer, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players were born.
The remarkably favorable reaction to the family act was nearly unfathomable. The local press went wild; their coffee house shows boasted lines out the door.
In July 2002 the family relocated to New Yorks East Village and befriended artists like Regina Spektor and Nellie McKay. After being covered by The New Yorker, Spin, EW, the Village Voice, and others, Bar/None released their full-length debut, which showcased Jason singing about topics as varied as enjoying fondue in Switzerland to training employees to work at Wendys. Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Volume 1 (2003) was recorded in Seattle before the big move and features guest spots from the citys local stars.
Six months and a lot of DIY-campaigning later they were the first unsigned band to appear on Late Night with Conan OBrien.
'We're an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band, says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg. We've got the market cornered. Theres no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department.'
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
www.slideshowplayers.com
The Trachtenburgs will be supported by An Axe.
An Axe are purveyors of brooding melancholia and dark shanty-pop. Tales of taxidermy and cruel tides from the bottom of the bottle are the order of the day for this Bristol foursome. Simultaneously celebrating and questioning the acheivements of man, An Axe weave dense tapestries with sparse arrangements.
Their songs are cinematic in scope but concise in practice, only too aware that a point laboured is a point lost. An Axe meld the historical with the personal, utilising horrorshow keys, ramshackle percussion and chiming guitars
www.myspace.com/anaxe
For more details on this show please see: www.myspace.com/decorumrecords
Be sure to dress sharp.
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Saturday 20th September Theatre Royal Bath UK
Direct from the USA
Presented by The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players
Saturday 20th September
Starring American Indie Rock Star Rachel Trachtenburg14 year old American indie rock star and TV host Rachel Tractenberg host this wacky new variety show direct from the USA. Featuring Syd Barrett covers, puppets and organic cookery against a animated felt background!
Rachel’s unique show has been referred to as “Martha Stewart for kids” and “a psychedlic Seasame Street”
Running Time 50 minutes
Ages 2 – Adult
Tickets: £7 / £5 discounts
Performance Times11.30am & 3pm
www.puppetcraft.co.uk
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Friday 19th – Saturday 20th September 2008 Theatre Royal Bath
Direct from the Soho Theatre
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band”. Part stand-up comedy, part rock group, part art project, they’re unlike anything you’ve seen before.
Jason Trachtenburg makes music that tells the story of hundreds of vintage slides found in junk sales across the US and Europe. His wife Tina randomly selects the slides for each performance, making this unique show a spontaneous, madcap, weirdly chraming one-off, brought to Bath from the quirkier side of the U.S.A.
“They give a deeply warm feeling of a happy family, enjoying each other’s company … They are the White Stripes’ quirky cousins and a totally unique, Vaudevillian act that should be nurtured” - Stage“You will never see a show more weirdly wonderful” - MetroTickets: £11/£8 discounts
Buy Online from 21st July
Performance TimesEvenings: 8pm
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THU 18TH SEP, 2008 8.00pm £9.00 BRIGHTON OIB RECORDS @ THE HOPE
OIB Records Presents:
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
"NYC's Tratchenburg Family return to play a super intimate festival warm-up. Expect their usual quirky blend of indie-vaudeville slide-projection-pop-songs"
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
+
THE BOBBY McGEES
"No-fi vaudeville pop-shanties"
www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
+
MARCUS HESSENBERG AND THE TULIPS
"Ukulele inspired lo-fi pop"
www.myspace.com/tulips
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Friday September 12 2008 Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
New York Tea Factory-Bushwick USA
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Thursday September 11 2008 Jason Trachtenburg - Zombieville # 8
Brooklyn Southpaw USA
Zombieville XII Featuring Jason Trachtenburg, The Extraordinaires, Miracles Of Modern Science and Shellshag @ Southpaw
Here is the 12th installment to this great showcase of music! This time Jason Trachtenburg from the Trachteburg Family Slide Show, The extraordinaitres, Miracles of Modern Science and Shellshag(house band) will be taking the stage. It is going to be a great show! ALSO get there on time and you will receive free cookies! Which is neat! Also Six point brew on tap will be two for one for all the people that don't get excited about free cookies!
@Southpaw
Location: 125 5th Ave (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: ?
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Saturday September 6 2008LES Howl! Festival, Tompkins Square Park, New York Free
1.00 p.m. Middle Collegiate Choir
1.30 p.m. Blonde Boy Wilson with On Davis
1.40 p.m. "Bang the Drum for the Brothers,"J. Fitzgerald creates a dazzling spectacle of rhythm and rhyme.
2.05 p.m. TIMBILA
2.25 p.m Baby Soda
2.45 p.m. Tin Pan
3.05 p.m Reverend Billy
3.25 p.m. Trachtenburg Family
4.05 p.m. Becky Wreck
4.20 p.m. Ari Up's Slits
5 p.m. THE COCKETTES and the Thrill Peddlers
6 p.m. The House of HOWL PRESENTS THE HOUSE OF BON VIVANT'S BALLHOUSE TRIBUTE
August 2008
Saturday August 30 2008
WHAT: Anna Copacabanna Goes Back 2 School
WHEN: Saturday 08.30 @10pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.)
PRICE: $8
http://www.myspace.com/annacopacabanna
WHY:
Our fave Aussie blonde buttercup is back with an all-new show! Starring Anna and house band The MG 5, plus the legendary Anna Copacabanna Dancers, The Homosexuals, Rachel Trachtenberg’s Homemade World, Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne and Lady Starlight. Plus, The Wheel Of Wonderment, Yacht Rock, Tumbling, The Revenge Of The Nerds, Corporal Punishment, prizes, drink specials and more!
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Wednesday, August 27th, 10 p.m Reverend Jen's Waggytail Rescue Benefit and
Open Mike Spectacular!
Featuring the Trachtenburg Slide Show Family, Rob Paravonian and more!
Wednesday, August 27th, 10 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
take the 'F' to 2nd Ave. or the '6' to Bleecker
musicians, writers, dancers, performers, comedians and freaks welcome!
(Though this is a benefit for doggies, please leave yer doggie home!)
Five Dollars
Do you love animals, crazy open mikes and music? If so, then you don't want to miss Rev. Jen's Benefit for Waggytail Rescue (http://waggytailrescue.com/) a local dog rescue that's saved thousands of dogs (including Rev. Jen Junior's fiancé, Taco.)
There will be an Anti-Slam open mike where everyone will get a ten no matter what as well as some great featured acts (The Trachtenburg Slide Show Family Players, Brer Brian, Rob Paravonian and more…) I will keep you posted as I add other performers.
It'll still be the same wonderfully weird show! Open Mike slots will be available (6 minutes to do whatever you want.)
For over 12-years, the Anti-Slam provided audiences with some of the best entertainment the city has to offer. Pros and amateurs alike shared the stage, and both were given equal respect and a place to try out new things. This special event is sure to bring out some of the great acts that have performed at the show in the past. Come early because it's gonna be mayhem!
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Sunday 20 August 2008
WHAT: Goodbye Rosie: Rosie Rebel’s Last Show
WHEN: Sunday 08.24 @7pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.)
PRICE: $6
http://www.myspace.com/rosierebel
WHY:
Last year she was a Mo’s Ho from Radical Vaudeville and now she’s off to Columbia…University. So make sure you catch what may well be her last show for quite awhile as she features some of her fave performers: Joey Gay, Furious Murl, Tina & Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Touching You and Steph Sabelli, plus some surprise dancers. And it’s just a short walk to Steph’s Underground Sundae Open Mike afterwards!
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Fortified Summer Anti-Folk Fest presents
Jason Trachtenburg performing songs from the new album,
"File Under: Pop, Male Vocal."
Fri 15th, 9pm Sharpe New York
Sidewalk Cafe
6:30
Screening of "Making Lovers & Dollars"
A film by Justin Remer
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Brian Speaker-7:30pm
Ben Sadock-8:00pm
Linda Draper-8:30pm
Jason Trachtenburg-9:00pm
Erin Regan-9:30pm
Lach-10:00pm
The Bowmans-11:00pm
Brook Pridemore-Midnight
Isaac Gillespie-1am
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Saturday 2 August 2008 Rooftop Films @ The Yard presented by Sound Fix Not Available , Brooklyn, New York Cost : $9
WHAT: Anna Copacabanna Goes Back 2 School
WHEN: Saturday 08.30 @10pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.)
PRICE: $8
http://www.myspace.com/annacopacabanna
WHY:
Our fave Aussie blonde buttercup is back with an all-new show! Starring Anna and house band The MG 5, plus the legendary Anna Copacabanna Dancers, The Homosexuals, Rachel Trachtenberg’s Homemade World, Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne and Lady Starlight. Plus, The Wheel Of Wonderment, Yacht Rock, Tumbling, The Revenge Of The Nerds, Corporal Punishment, prizes, drink specials and more!
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Wednesday, August 27th, 10 p.m Reverend Jen's Waggytail Rescue Benefit and
Open Mike Spectacular!
Featuring the Trachtenburg Slide Show Family, Rob Paravonian and more!
Wednesday, August 27th, 10 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
take the 'F' to 2nd Ave. or the '6' to Bleecker
musicians, writers, dancers, performers, comedians and freaks welcome!
(Though this is a benefit for doggies, please leave yer doggie home!)
Five Dollars
Do you love animals, crazy open mikes and music? If so, then you don't want to miss Rev. Jen's Benefit for Waggytail Rescue (http://waggytailrescue.com/) a local dog rescue that's saved thousands of dogs (including Rev. Jen Junior's fiancé, Taco.)
There will be an Anti-Slam open mike where everyone will get a ten no matter what as well as some great featured acts (The Trachtenburg Slide Show Family Players, Brer Brian, Rob Paravonian and more…) I will keep you posted as I add other performers.
It'll still be the same wonderfully weird show! Open Mike slots will be available (6 minutes to do whatever you want.)
For over 12-years, the Anti-Slam provided audiences with some of the best entertainment the city has to offer. Pros and amateurs alike shared the stage, and both were given equal respect and a place to try out new things. This special event is sure to bring out some of the great acts that have performed at the show in the past. Come early because it's gonna be mayhem!
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Sunday 20 August 2008
WHAT: Goodbye Rosie: Rosie Rebel’s Last Show
WHEN: Sunday 08.24 @7pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.)
PRICE: $6
http://www.myspace.com/rosierebel
WHY:
Last year she was a Mo’s Ho from Radical Vaudeville and now she’s off to Columbia…University. So make sure you catch what may well be her last show for quite awhile as she features some of her fave performers: Joey Gay, Furious Murl, Tina & Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Touching You and Steph Sabelli, plus some surprise dancers. And it’s just a short walk to Steph’s Underground Sundae Open Mike afterwards!
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Fortified Summer Anti-Folk Fest presents
Jason Trachtenburg performing songs from the new album,
"File Under: Pop, Male Vocal."
Fri 15th, 9pm Sharpe New York
Sidewalk Cafe
6:30
Screening of "Making Lovers & Dollars"
A film by Justin Remer
------
Brian Speaker-7:30pm
Ben Sadock-8:00pm
Linda Draper-8:30pm
Jason Trachtenburg-9:00pm
Erin Regan-9:30pm
Lach-10:00pm
The Bowmans-11:00pm
Brook Pridemore-Midnight
Isaac Gillespie-1am
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Saturday 2 August 2008 Rooftop Films @ The Yard presented by Sound Fix Not Available , Brooklyn, New York Cost : $9
Thursday, June 19, 2008
July 2008
Jason Trachtenburg
Jason Trachtenburg is a New York City based professional male entertainer who flawlessly combines the elements of music, comedy, poetry, socio-political observations and health and fitness advice into an unparaleled half-hour of showmanship.Jason is best known for his recurring role as "the Dad" in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the world's first and only indy-vaudville conceptial art-rock traveling family slideshow pop band. Come to the show and live and learn.
"The Trachtenburg's are the most original, uplifting, charming, peculiar and downright hilarious thing I have seen in a very long time" Time Out London
Sun 27 July 2008 SHARP The Shack, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, IE
CARLSBERG COMEDY CARNIVAL
JASON TRACHTENBURG/FREEZE
MC JOHN LYNN
THE COMEDY FACTORY
THE IVEAGH GARDENS, D2.
SUN 27-JUL-08 3:00PM SHARP
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/180040B3E4FF33D9
SAT 26-JUL-08 8PM SHARP The Shack, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, IE
CARLSBERG COMEDY CARNIVAL
JASON TRACHTENBURG
DAVID MCSAVAGE
THE SHACK
THE IVEAGH GARDENS, D2.
SAT 26-JUL-08 8PM SHARP €20.00
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/180040B3E114335E?artistid=966207&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=51
Today, Thursday 19th June, a collection of thirty five pop-art inspired illustrations of many of the international and Irish comedians performing at the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival were unveiled at an exhibition at No. 15 St. Stephen''s Green. The illustrations have been specially commissioned for the four-day Carlsberg Comedy Carnival, which is taking place from 24th to 27th July in the Iveagh Gardens, and set to be one of the most exciting events on the summer festival calendar.
The unique illustrations feature many Irish and international comedians set to a variety of colourful backgrounds. The illustrations can be seen in the press advertising from today, Thursday 19th June, onwards and will also be on display in Vicar Street from 20th June for comedy fans to see. To mark the first day of the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival, on Thursday 25th July, the illustrations will be moved to the stunning setting of the Iveagh Gardens and installed in the Comedy Factory as part of the venue''s bespoke pop-art inspired interior.
The Carlsberg Comedy Carnival will play host to over 65 International and Irish acts, playing 50 shows over one unique carnival weekend. These will be performed in four magnificent, fully-seated, purpose-built marquees, including the impressive and atmospheric Iveagh Theatre tent, the Comedy Factory, the intimate Shack and the stunning Magic Mirrors Palace, a Spiegeltent, which is being shipped in from Belgium.
Speaking about the illustrations, Stephen O''Kelly, Marketing Manager, Carlsberg said, "The comedian illustrations are very colourful and exciting pieces and we''re confident that comedy fans are really going to like them.
The display of the Collection in the Comedy Factory will attract a lot of interest and create a memorable experience for festival-goers, as they see their favourite comedians presented in a unique way."
Festival Director, Bren Berry, Aiken Promotions said "The comedians really like the pop-art inspired illustrations of themselves, and it’s really exciting for us to create artwork which reflects the unique colourful character of the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival. We''re looking forward to displaying them at Vicar Street before we move them on to the Comedy Factory at the Iveagh Gardens in July. The Collection highlights the diverse line up from all over the world performing in this wonderful secret garden, and will be an added attraction at the event."
Carlsberg Comedy Carnival will showcase a diverse range of well known, alternative and up-and-coming talent, including Des Bishop, Louis C.K., The Tommy & Hector Show, Lee Mack, Ardal O''Hanlon, The Stars of ''Whose Line is it Anyway'' with special guest Phill Jupitus, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, John Cooper Clarke, Jason Byrne, PJ Gallagher, Reggie Watts, David O''Doherty, Maeve Higgins, Reginald D. Hunter, Adam Hills, Apres Match, Phil Nichol, John Bishop, Danny Bhoy and many more. It will also feature a lively array of performance artists, musicians, good food and refreshments in a vibrant, carnivalesque surrounding.
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Monday July 14 2008 Club Europa 8-104 Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint. New York USA
8.00 pm free show
Rachel Trachtenburg's 4 song presentation with
ukuleles and illustrated felt boards by Tina Pina.
Jason Trachtenburg will perform 2 songs and tell a few jokes.
Show starts at 8pm.
Rachel will be on at 9:30.
Jason will be on at 8:10.
There will be many interesting acts and performers inbetween.
Free Show !!!
Club Europa 98-104 Meserole Ave in Greenpoint
G train to Greenpoint
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Thursday July 10 2008 Cafe 939 Boston
The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio (dad Jason, mom Tina Pia, 12-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs'™ carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections they've found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances.
*STANDING ROOM ONLY*
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET
US $13.00
Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Tue, 07/01/08 10:00 AM EDT
CAFE 939 PRESENTS
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY
SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
CAFE 939 AT BERKLEE
939 BOYLSTON ST. BOSTON
THU JUL 10 2008 8:00PM
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I Heart U July 9th Sidewalk Cafe New York
It’s a lot of fun covering heroes like Bob Dylan, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley and Rush, but some of the nicest cover moments occur when a local artist pays homage to a peer. It happens a lot on Monday nights. Brook Pridemore is famous for doing this; he released an entire record of peer-to-peer coverage last year. On July 9, the Sidewalk presents I Heart U. It’s a night where everyone taking the stage picks a song or two by a peer they admire. Currently slated to play: Jason Trachtenberg, The Fools, Mike Baglivi, Benjamin Shepherd, The Telethons, Jaymay, Ben Krieger, Andrew Hoepfner, M. Lamar, Dan Costello, Carl Creighton, Debe Dalton, Brian Speaker, Isto, Major Matt Mason USA, Stephanie Nilles, Dan Fishback, Miwagemini, Vin, David Greenberg, and Daniel Bernstein.
Jason Trachtenburg is a New York City based professional male entertainer who flawlessly combines the elements of music, comedy, poetry, socio-political observations and health and fitness advice into an unparaleled half-hour of showmanship.Jason is best known for his recurring role as "the Dad" in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the world's first and only indy-vaudville conceptial art-rock traveling family slideshow pop band. Come to the show and live and learn.
"The Trachtenburg's are the most original, uplifting, charming, peculiar and downright hilarious thing I have seen in a very long time" Time Out London
Sun 27 July 2008 SHARP The Shack, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, IE
CARLSBERG COMEDY CARNIVAL
JASON TRACHTENBURG/FREEZE
MC JOHN LYNN
THE COMEDY FACTORY
THE IVEAGH GARDENS, D2.
SUN 27-JUL-08 3:00PM SHARP
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/180040B3E4FF33D9
SAT 26-JUL-08 8PM SHARP The Shack, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, IE
CARLSBERG COMEDY CARNIVAL
JASON TRACHTENBURG
DAVID MCSAVAGE
THE SHACK
THE IVEAGH GARDENS, D2.
SAT 26-JUL-08 8PM SHARP €20.00
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/180040B3E114335E?artistid=966207&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=51
Today, Thursday 19th June, a collection of thirty five pop-art inspired illustrations of many of the international and Irish comedians performing at the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival were unveiled at an exhibition at No. 15 St. Stephen''s Green. The illustrations have been specially commissioned for the four-day Carlsberg Comedy Carnival, which is taking place from 24th to 27th July in the Iveagh Gardens, and set to be one of the most exciting events on the summer festival calendar.
The unique illustrations feature many Irish and international comedians set to a variety of colourful backgrounds. The illustrations can be seen in the press advertising from today, Thursday 19th June, onwards and will also be on display in Vicar Street from 20th June for comedy fans to see. To mark the first day of the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival, on Thursday 25th July, the illustrations will be moved to the stunning setting of the Iveagh Gardens and installed in the Comedy Factory as part of the venue''s bespoke pop-art inspired interior.
The Carlsberg Comedy Carnival will play host to over 65 International and Irish acts, playing 50 shows over one unique carnival weekend. These will be performed in four magnificent, fully-seated, purpose-built marquees, including the impressive and atmospheric Iveagh Theatre tent, the Comedy Factory, the intimate Shack and the stunning Magic Mirrors Palace, a Spiegeltent, which is being shipped in from Belgium.
Speaking about the illustrations, Stephen O''Kelly, Marketing Manager, Carlsberg said, "The comedian illustrations are very colourful and exciting pieces and we''re confident that comedy fans are really going to like them.
The display of the Collection in the Comedy Factory will attract a lot of interest and create a memorable experience for festival-goers, as they see their favourite comedians presented in a unique way."
Festival Director, Bren Berry, Aiken Promotions said "The comedians really like the pop-art inspired illustrations of themselves, and it’s really exciting for us to create artwork which reflects the unique colourful character of the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival. We''re looking forward to displaying them at Vicar Street before we move them on to the Comedy Factory at the Iveagh Gardens in July. The Collection highlights the diverse line up from all over the world performing in this wonderful secret garden, and will be an added attraction at the event."
Carlsberg Comedy Carnival will showcase a diverse range of well known, alternative and up-and-coming talent, including Des Bishop, Louis C.K., The Tommy & Hector Show, Lee Mack, Ardal O''Hanlon, The Stars of ''Whose Line is it Anyway'' with special guest Phill Jupitus, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, John Cooper Clarke, Jason Byrne, PJ Gallagher, Reggie Watts, David O''Doherty, Maeve Higgins, Reginald D. Hunter, Adam Hills, Apres Match, Phil Nichol, John Bishop, Danny Bhoy and many more. It will also feature a lively array of performance artists, musicians, good food and refreshments in a vibrant, carnivalesque surrounding.
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Monday July 14 2008 Club Europa 8-104 Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint. New York USA
8.00 pm free show
Rachel Trachtenburg's 4 song presentation with
ukuleles and illustrated felt boards by Tina Pina.
Jason Trachtenburg will perform 2 songs and tell a few jokes.
Show starts at 8pm.
Rachel will be on at 9:30.
Jason will be on at 8:10.
There will be many interesting acts and performers inbetween.
Free Show !!!
Club Europa 98-104 Meserole Ave in Greenpoint
G train to Greenpoint
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Thursday July 10 2008 Cafe 939 Boston
The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio (dad Jason, mom Tina Pia, 12-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs'™ carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections they've found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances.
*STANDING ROOM ONLY*
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET
US $13.00
Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Tue, 07/01/08 10:00 AM EDT
CAFE 939 PRESENTS
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY
SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
CAFE 939 AT BERKLEE
939 BOYLSTON ST. BOSTON
THU JUL 10 2008 8:00PM
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I Heart U July 9th Sidewalk Cafe New York
It’s a lot of fun covering heroes like Bob Dylan, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley and Rush, but some of the nicest cover moments occur when a local artist pays homage to a peer. It happens a lot on Monday nights. Brook Pridemore is famous for doing this; he released an entire record of peer-to-peer coverage last year. On July 9, the Sidewalk presents I Heart U. It’s a night where everyone taking the stage picks a song or two by a peer they admire. Currently slated to play: Jason Trachtenberg, The Fools, Mike Baglivi, Benjamin Shepherd, The Telethons, Jaymay, Ben Krieger, Andrew Hoepfner, M. Lamar, Dan Costello, Carl Creighton, Debe Dalton, Brian Speaker, Isto, Major Matt Mason USA, Stephanie Nilles, Dan Fishback, Miwagemini, Vin, David Greenberg, and Daniel Bernstein.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
June 2008
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players June Tour
with Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World:
Sat., 28th Brooklyn, NY Market Hotel w/ Belaire, Vivian Girls
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Thurs., 26th Easton, Md. Coffee House
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Tues., 24th St. Louis Bluebird
featuring: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (NY), Everthus the Deadbeats (IN), tba
Doors: 8:00 PM
Cover: $12.00 adv/$14.00 dos +$2 minor surcharge
all ages
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Sun., 22nd Minneapolis Turf Club
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Touching You
Dana Thomspon w. Nate Dugan and Mick Wirtz
9:00 | $7
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Sat., 21st Chicago Abbey Pub
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Bad Flirt
The Alarmists
Doors open at 8:00pm, show starts at 9:00pm
Tickets are $12.00 in advance
THIS IS AN 18 AND OVER EVENT
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Thurs., 19th Detroit Magic Stick MI
GENERAL ADMISSION
US $8.00
Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Wed, 05/28/08 10:00 AM EDT
TRACHTENBURG FAMILY
SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
ALL AGES
MAGIC STICK
4120 WOODWARD, DETROIT
THU JUN 19 2008 DRS 8PM
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/080040B786352BB2?artistid=1226396&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=32
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Wed., 18th Rochester Bug Jar
From
ALTERNATIVE: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (6/18)
By Jen Graney on Jun. 11th, 2008
The Trachtenburgs are more traveling family circus than band. The trio stages shows that mix bright pop songs with found vintage slides and colorful gypsy-like outfits. Mama Tina Pina runs the projector (with the help of a lap dog or two, if I remember correctly from a show at the Dryden a few years back), daughter Rachel plays the drums (she's played in the band since she was 6; she's 14 now, and has her own television show), while dad Jason sings and plays guitars and keyboards. It's a visual and auditory delight punctuated by family banter, such as when (at the Dryden show) Jason wanted to play a song Rachel didn't; the father-daughter tension was palpable and endearing.
The show goes on Wednesday, June 18, 8 p.m., at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. $10-$12. 454-2966.
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Saturday June 7 2008 Jason Trachtenburg performs songs from
Jason Trachtenburg File Under: Pop, Male Vocal.Sidewalk Cafe New York
Jason Trachtenburg performs songs from
Jason Trachtenburg "File Under: Pop, Male Vocal"
Live at the Sidewalk Cafe Sat June 7 at 9pm sharpe
Free Show-Moderately Enforced 2 Drink Min.
New York City East Village
6th St and Ave A
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Monday June 2 Bug Jar Rochester Jason Trachtenburg "All of this Time" tour
with Ching Chong Song
Located @ 219 Monroe Ave Rochester, NY
with Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World:
Sat., 28th Brooklyn, NY Market Hotel w/ Belaire, Vivian Girls
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Thurs., 26th Easton, Md. Coffee House
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Tues., 24th St. Louis Bluebird
featuring: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (NY), Everthus the Deadbeats (IN), tba
Doors: 8:00 PM
Cover: $12.00 adv/$14.00 dos +$2 minor surcharge
all ages
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Sun., 22nd Minneapolis Turf Club
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Touching You
Dana Thomspon w. Nate Dugan and Mick Wirtz
9:00 | $7
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Sat., 21st Chicago Abbey Pub
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Bad Flirt
The Alarmists
Doors open at 8:00pm, show starts at 9:00pm
Tickets are $12.00 in advance
THIS IS AN 18 AND OVER EVENT
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Thurs., 19th Detroit Magic Stick MI
GENERAL ADMISSION
US $8.00
Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Wed, 05/28/08 10:00 AM EDT
TRACHTENBURG FAMILY
SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
ALL AGES
MAGIC STICK
4120 WOODWARD, DETROIT
THU JUN 19 2008 DRS 8PM
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/080040B786352BB2?artistid=1226396&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=32
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Wed., 18th Rochester Bug Jar
From
ALTERNATIVE: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (6/18)
By Jen Graney on Jun. 11th, 2008
The Trachtenburgs are more traveling family circus than band. The trio stages shows that mix bright pop songs with found vintage slides and colorful gypsy-like outfits. Mama Tina Pina runs the projector (with the help of a lap dog or two, if I remember correctly from a show at the Dryden a few years back), daughter Rachel plays the drums (she's played in the band since she was 6; she's 14 now, and has her own television show), while dad Jason sings and plays guitars and keyboards. It's a visual and auditory delight punctuated by family banter, such as when (at the Dryden show) Jason wanted to play a song Rachel didn't; the father-daughter tension was palpable and endearing.
The show goes on Wednesday, June 18, 8 p.m., at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. $10-$12. 454-2966.
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Saturday June 7 2008 Jason Trachtenburg performs songs from
Jason Trachtenburg File Under: Pop, Male Vocal.Sidewalk Cafe New York
Jason Trachtenburg performs songs from
Jason Trachtenburg "File Under: Pop, Male Vocal"
Live at the Sidewalk Cafe Sat June 7 at 9pm sharpe
Free Show-Moderately Enforced 2 Drink Min.
New York City East Village
6th St and Ave A
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Monday June 2 Bug Jar Rochester Jason Trachtenburg "All of this Time" tour
with Ching Chong Song
Located @ 219 Monroe Ave Rochester, NY
Saturday, March 22, 2008
May 2008
Jason Trachtenburg "All of this Time" tour
with Ching Chong Song
Saturday 31 May 2008 Toronto-Tranzac
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Thursday 29 May 2008 Thunder Bay, Ontario.-Apollo Bar
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Jason Trachtenburg & Ching Chong Song
with opening guest, Riley.
Wednesday 28 May 2008 Winnipeg Royal Albert Arms
Cost : $8.00
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Tuesday 27 May 2008 Minneapolis 7th St. Entry
The Entry 8:00 PM / 18+
JASON TRACHTENBURG (OF THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SIDESHOW PLAYERS)
and CHING GHONG SONG
$7.00 advance / $7.00 door
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Monday 26 May 2008 Chicago The Dark Room
Weird Kids Night 3
featuring Jason Trachtenberg (of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players + Ching Chong Song
WEIRD KIDS NIGHT 3
TEENSPLOITATION SUMMER BEACH PARTY
WITH JASON TRACHTENBERG
OF THE TRACHTENBERG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
CHING CHONG SONG
WITH HUMP DAY MOBILE UNIT DJ'S
DJ Dr. Drase
DJ Michael Flavor
DJ Arpad
DJ Magic Unicorn
Darkroom
2210 W. Chicago
Chicago, IL 60622
Doors open: 8:00 PM
Age restriction: 21+
Ticket Price: $10.00
Service Fee: $2.50
Hump Day Dance Party Presents: Weird Kids Night 3: Teensploitation Summer Beach Party at the Darkroom
We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Memorial Day and usher in the beginning of summer than by playing the best teen and weirdo beach party tunes we could find.
Expect to hear all sorts of blanket bingo jams from the 60s and beyond. Annette Funicello, Elvis, and tracks from campy B films like Wild Guitar! will all surely make an appearance for your watusi and frugging enjoyment.
This time around we’re joined by Jason Trachtenberg of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow players and Ching Chong Song from Brooklyn.
The show takes place on Monday, May 26th at 8pm @ Darkroom
Darkroom is located at 2210 West Chicago between Damen and Western
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Sunday 25 May 2008 Cleveland Beachland Ballroom
8 PM (7:30 PM door)
Jason Trachtenburg
(of Trachtenburg Family Slideshow players) / Ching Chong Song / Aunt Eater & Tony Meda Project
$8.00
Tavern | All ages
Jason Trachtenberg, Ching Chong Song, Aunt Eater and Tony Meda Project.
Trachtenburg's musical career began in the late '80s in New York City, where he was part of the Lower East Side's anti-folk and performance-art scenes. In 1992, he moved to Austin, TX, where he worked with Daniel Johnston on music and video projects.He also formed the band the Pancakes With Cheese while in Austin.
He relocated yet again to the Pacific Northwest in 1993 to collaborate with Chris Ballew of Presidents of the United States of America. Ballew produced Trachtenburg's early recordings in Seattle, including 1993's Let the Fishes Do the Asking and 1996's Lefty's Black Bag, which was co-produced by Conrad Uno of Pop Llama.
In 1999, Trachtenburg released Your Favorite Song. His folky, lo-fi acoustic songs instantly gained him favorable attention from Seattle music fans and from the Orange Recording Company, who released his Revolutions Per Minute album in 2000. The quirky songs on the album finally garnered Trachtenburg the national attention he'd always deserved. Topics on the album ranged from cellular phones to nutrition to auto insurance and toothpaste. It was during this era that his live shows in Seattle with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players included his six-year-old daughter on drums, while his wife Tina served as projectionist of the band's slide show.
~ Stephen Cramer, All Music Guide
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Saturday 24 May 2008 Pittsburgh Garfield Artworks
from New York City featuring the frontman of the Family Slideshow Players
JASON TRACHTENBURG AND JULIE LAMENDOLA (http://www.myspace.com/trachtenburgandlamendola)
with Ching Chong Song (from Brooklyn) and Buddy Nutt
8 pm
[note: advance tickets available from the local opener, and from Eide's Entertainment, Dave's Music Mine, Paul's CDs, Caliban Books, Wicked Discs, and The Exchange Squirrel Hill.]
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Friday May 23 2008 North By North West Philadelphia
FRIDAY night, starting @ 10pm,
JASON TRACHTENBURG
performing live in concert! Come in early for dinner & take advantage of our specials starting at 5pm!
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Wednesday May 21 2008 Emo's Austin, TX Doors Open: 8pm Show Starts: 10pm
Emo's
603 Red River
Austin, Texas
30.2666, -97.737
Category
Performing/Visual Arts
Description
Pianist/singer Jason Trachtenburg sings biting, satirical lyrics inspired by slides he digs up at estate sales. His wife, Tina, works the slide projector and his daughter, Rachel, performs on drums and sings backup. Belaire is a synth-prog-pop band from Austin, TX.
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Sunday May 18 2008 12 Galaxies San Francisco $10 adv/$12 door 9pm 21+
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Friday May 16 2008 El Cid Los Angeles Opening for Sounds of Asteroth 21.30
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Kate Nash Tour Continues
Tuesday May 13 San Francisco The Fillmore 8.00 pm US $22.50
from nme.com (note spelling mistake)
The singer goes all out on the final night
Kate Nash concluded the first-ever NME Awards USA Tour in Los Angeles last night (May 14) by playing a marathon set for a packed house of adoring fans.
Wearing a brightly coloured floral-print dress, the singer got things jumping from her very first song, 'Pumpkin Soup', which she ended by slamming on her piano.
Looking far more self-assured than at her first LA gig at the Troubadour a few months ago, Nash got the crowd at the Henry Fonda Theatre dancing and singing along from the very beginning of her nearly two-hour set.
"Hi LA, thanks for coming out," Nash said. "This is the last night of our tour and I'm pretty sad really. But let's have a fucking good time."
Nash was backed by a four-piece, all-male band and played beneath a sign with her named spelled out in pink neon letters as her boyfriend Ryan Jarman from The Cribs and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols looked on.
"The next song is a quiet one so shut up, please," Nash said before playing the romantic ballad 'Nicest Thing', and the audience complied.
The evening also saw Nash and her band singing 'Happy Birthday' to a girl in the audience called Mariella, before playing her song of the same name.
Nash invited Rachel Trachtenberg, the 14-year-old drummer from opening band The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players, to beat on the skins for a couple of tracks.
Later, toward the end of her set, Nash stopped her hit song 'Foundations' dead in the middle to prevent bouncers from ejecting Trachtenberg from the side of the stage.
"I know it's not professional but she's in the band, she's not leaving," Nash said.
Before wrapping up with a four-song encore that included a cover of Diana Ross' 'Baby Love' and the rousing punk romp 'Model Behaviour', Nash thanked her band and crew, saying, "I'm getting a bit emotional now," as she pretended to wipe tears from her eyes.
Kate Nash played:
'Pumpkin Soup'
'Shit Song'
'Stitching Leggings'
'We Get On'
'Birds'
'Nicest Thing'
'Seagulls'
'Dickhead'
'Pick Pocket'
'Do Waa Do'
'Paris'
'Skeleton Song'
'Mariella'
'Mouthwash'
'Foundations'
'Baby Love'
'Don't You Want To Share The Guilt?'
'Model Behaviour'
'Merry Happy'
video of incident here
Rachel sings Pigeons
Another review fron here
Went to Kate Nash last night at the Henry Fonda - and it was quite lovely mostly, minus all the freaks of nature. I am one so I'm not hating, they are just awkward, but anyway... Here is the review I wrote.... (yes, I have a problem stopping writing. no, I do NOT use paragraphs)
Kate Nash is known as a singer songwriter so in touch with her inner awkward girl. That is one of her major appeals that has won her so much success here in America and in the UK. However, that brings out all the really awkward freaks or the 14 year old girls who never go to concerts and get really excited – which was fun, but I really felt that the crowd was quite annoying and had patches of people jumping around annoyingly. Overall, the show was fantastic – if you could ignore the crowd.
The opening band was a “concept band” called the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Player. They basically go out to garage sales and estate sales and the like and purchase dead people’s old slideshow albums. Then they write songs that sort of tell a story using the slides – which is definitely interesting and funny, but also it’s also weird to see dead people’s slides! But that is just the kind of band they are. They are also a family. They are comprised of an awkward dad with glasses, a quiet mom, and an awkward daughter with really long hair and an adorable smile. They are really fun and interactive, as the Dad said, “The fourth wall is down! And it ain’t going back up!” They were really awkward and adorable and quirky, which did get a bit irritating overall, but was quite endearing at the same time. The songs were simple and adorable, and they seemed really happy to be on tour with Kate Nash with the Trachtenberg father even exclaiming, “Kate is one of the greatest vocalists of our time and one of the most natural melody smith’s ever.” Kate actually joined the Family Slideshow Player onstage for a song, but she was introduced as Barbara – as if no one would know! They were a fun band, though not sure that I’d go see them again but their set went by quickly in a haze of awkward conversation and cute songs.
The last time I saw Kate (way back in January!) were at Amoeba Records and the Troubadour – both venues that are quite a lot smaller than the Henry Fonda. She stormed on stage with a bigger band than she brought last time, but all of the band were the same except the new guys – keeping Elliott on drums and Jay on guitar. She started with “Pumpkin Soup”, “Shit Song”, and “Stitching Leggings” – playing up the “kid pounding on the piano” act that she plays up during live shows. Then she played crowd favorite “We Get On”. Then she got up and picked up her acoustic and strummed through crowd favorites “Birds” and “The Nicest Thing”. She then picked up a little seagull that the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Player made for her and explained how she hated seagulls and launched into a newer song (on her electric guitar) called “I Hate Seagulls”. “I Hate Seagulls” is basically a testament to what Kate likes and what Kate hates, including “rude ignorant bastards”, but the song doesn’t fall flat because of the extreme personal nature of the song, because Kate picks out quirky things to focus on which is what makes her songs great. The last time I saw her she basically switched from acoustic guitar to piano and back about every 3 songs, but this gig she really picked up the acoustic and led the way with the guitar as opposed to the keyboard melodies that drive her album forward. She played another new song, “Pick Pocket” which had her on acoustic but was backed by the full band. “Pick Pocket” started out slow, as many of her songs do, but really picked up the tempo and got more intense until the close of the song. Next, Kate actually put down the guitar and picked up the mic for a song called “Do Wah Do” which is a play on that old fifties song that everyone knows the words and the title to, except for me, which was really adorable, but the song quality wasn’t the same as most of the songs on “Made of Bricks”. Nash then moved back to the keyboard for “Skeleton Song” and “Mariella”, which the crowd had been jonesing for during the entire show. I mentioned before the freaks that showed up to Nash’s final date on the NME Awards tour, and one of them who was supposedly actually called Mariella screamed out for Kate to play her Happy Birthday! Little did she know that Elliot loves birthdays so the whole band geared up and sang happy birthday to the so-called “Mariella” in the crowd. If that isn’t odd enough, an older woman bum rushed closer to the stage and ended up next to me dancing wildly, hands waving. She then proceeded to chug from her flask, which I didn’t disapprove of, and then yelled at me for writing down the set list on my phone! She tried to get me dancing by tickling me, and then was finally settled down by me screaming that this was my 3rd time seeing Kate Nash and that I didn’t really need to jump around. Oh, the freaks! Kate finished off her set by running through Mouthwash and “Foundations” – but “Foundations” was interrupted when a security guard tried to make the daughter (Rachel) of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Player leave the photographers pit. Kate stopped the song and yelled at the guy saying, “Fuck that! Rachel’s not leaving! You can’t make her leave!” which was sweet and endearing, I mean the girl was 14 years old – totally harmless. She then restarted “Foundations” and it seemed the entire crowd was singing along. For the encore, which was one of the longest one’s that I’d witnessed in a while consisted of a cover of “Baby Love” – even though Kate didn’t know all of the lyrics, and a new song that I’d never heard before. Then she played her new song “Model Behaviour” with the chorus of “You don’t have to suck dick to succeed”. The song is pretty intense with Nash screaming and shouting into the microphone and twirling and jumping about – her floral dress twirling around. She ended with “Merry Happy” which literally 300 people had been screaming out for, which was lovely. Nash maintained her normal vocal gymnastics and ended the show looking like a kid fussing with her keyboard but it was quite endearing.
So after the gig, I met YET ANOTHER FREAK OF NATURE and he asked for an interview about Kate Nash and the gig, and I obliged (fame whore??) but I look like hideous and sound like a man. YUCK. but it's fuckin' hilarious!
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Sunday May 11 Portland Wonder Ballroom 8.00 pm US $17.00 WONDER BALLROOM IS NON SMOKING & WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. CAFE WONDER OPEN FOR DINNER & COCKTAILS
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Friday May 9th Seattle Showbox At The Market
Showbox and 107.7 The End present
NME AWARDS TOUR 2008
KATE NASH
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
$17.50 ADV / $20.00 DOS & at the door
Doors at 8pm - All Ages
Showbox at the Market - 1426 1st Avenue
review here
Kate Nash, the tart-tongued British pop star, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, our very own prodigal sons (and daughter), kept things off-kilter all evening. However, while both acts enjoyed terms of endearment, they too often left the capacity crowd, to quote Nash's "Mouthwash" lyrics, "singing 'uh oh' on a Friday night."
At the very least, the Trachtenburgs, who moved to New York City, proved that the family that plays and projects slides together, stays together. Mom, pop and daughter (drummer Rachel, now 14) have been providing soundtracks to found (bought, actually) slide collections for eight years now.
Their shtick still seems more suited to Hokum Hall than to a rock club, but the family has added amusing new wrinkles. Rachel sang the precious "Pigeons" while playing ukulele, and for the appropriately childlike "Let's Go on Tour With Kate" the Trachtenburgs were backed not by slides, but by live felt-board, um, artistry.
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THURSDAY MAY 8 2008 Vancouver Richard's On Richards Cabaret 8.00 pm CA $20.00 No Minors! Must be 19 & older with valid government ID to attend.
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Wednesday 7 May (Not with Kate Nash) Sunset Tavern Seattle with special guests TBA - $10 advance / $12 day of show. Buy tickets HERE 21+ only, please
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Monday May 5 Boulder Fox Theatre
97.3 KBCO & THE COLORADO DAILY Present
KATE NASH with THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
Doors: 8:00 PM /Show: 8:30 PM
Ages: All Ages $18.00
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Saturday May 3 Minneapolis First Avenue Main Room 6:00 PM / 18+
89.3 THE CURRENT PRESENTS.. KATE NASH
"NME Awards Tour"
With THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
$15.00 advance / $15.00 door
review & pic from here
First up was the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the “world’s first indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band” hailing from Brooklyn, New York. The Slideshow Players really are the Trachtenburg family – dad Jason, who bears a striking resemblance to Rick Moranis circa Ghostbusters, mom Tina, and 14-year-old Rachel, a very talented drummer in her own right.
The shtick of the Trachtenburgs is to take slides that once belonged to dead people they didn’t know – “various deceased strangers” - and then write songs about them. The songs were funny, but would lose all meaning and enjoyment without the accompanying slideshow, run (sometimes not quite successfully) by Tina. The whole thing reminded me of Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution from Arrested Development, which is to say that it’s cute on television but a little disturbing in reality
review from here
It was unofficial Cute Night on Saturday at First Avenue, as the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players opened for Kate Nash. A family act featuring a keyboard-pounding dad, a tambourine-slapping mom, and a 14-year-old daughter on drums? Cute. A 20-year-old British redhead in platform heels who coos lyrics about beautiful birds in front of a pink neon sign bearing her name? Cuter. An encore uniting the two acts for a rendition of the Supremes’ “Baby Love”? Cutest!
For more information about Kate Nash: myspace.com/katenashmusic. The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: myspace.com/slideshowplayers. Upcoming shows at First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry: first-avenue.com.
You can make a good musical career out of being cute, but fortunately, neither of these acts will need to. Newcomer Nash is on her first U.S. tour, supporting her debut album Made of Bricks. She’s often compared to her Brit peer Lily Allen, with whom she shares an independent spirit, a wicked sense of humor, a pop sensibility, and dangerously low bangs…but whereas Allen revels in a party-girl persona, Nash proudly described herself storming out of a party to write lyrics like “you don’t have to suck dick to succeed,” the chorus of an unreleased rave-up she performed on Saturday. To me, Nash’s performance recalled the young Natalie Merchant: a coy, demure, and slightly prim songstress who comes uncorked as she belts her confessional lyrics.
Reviews of early shows in Nash’s American tour reported that Nash seemed occasionally unsure of what to do with herself onstage, but by this point in the tour she seems to have learned how to make that touch of awkwardness work in her favor. With her nervous smiles and game banter (in response to a shout of “Marry me!”, she asked, “Have you even met my dad?”), she reminded us that we were watching a live performance by an actual human being. Besides running through Made of Bricks, she performed a few appealing new songs that suggest its follow-up is unlikely to evidence a sophomore slump.
As for the Trachtenburgs, they may be the perfect opening act—for Nash or for anyone. Performing off-kilter pop songs that serve as soundtracks to displays of slides scavenged from estate sales and thrift shops, the Trachtenburgs had the crowd cheering and giggling. Paterfamilias Jason Trachtenburg is set to return to First Ave (well, the Entry) on the 27th for a show sans family, sans slides…but his daughter Rachel’s charming ukulele-driven song about pigeons (her mom handled the feltboard illustrations) suggested that she may be the Trachtenburg to watch.
Jay Gabler is the Daily Planet’s arts editor.
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Friday May 2 Chicago Vic Theatre 07:30 PM DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 PM US $20.00
review here
Whether rocking out or reflecting, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players' quirks were on display throughout its opening set. And though folk art songs such as "Beautiful Dandelion" initially intrigued, they quickly grew tedious.
another review here
To say that the warm-up act was bizarre is to totally and utterly miss the mark. The world’s only “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band” has to be the one and only, because there just is not room for two bands of this kind in the universe. They are a family group, whose 14 year old daughter, Rachel, first joined them on stage at six, playing the harmonica. Their unique selling point is that their songs are written to describe slide-shows. They buy slides from estate sales or flea markets and proceed to project the slides on stage while they sing about them.
From our vantage point, they didn’t really seem to be holding the crowd too well. As a grumpy old person, I thought they were fascinating. And then they sang another song about a slide-show. And another. And they all sounded a bit similar. In 2006 Time Out New York described them as impossibly twee. Their reviewer was ultimately converted, but the poor Trachtenburg Family Slide-show Players* were thwarted in their attempts to win me over by the bathroom ceiling leaking on me towards the end of their set.
with Ching Chong Song
Saturday 31 May 2008 Toronto-Tranzac
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Thursday 29 May 2008 Thunder Bay, Ontario.-Apollo Bar
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Jason Trachtenburg & Ching Chong Song
with opening guest, Riley.
Wednesday 28 May 2008 Winnipeg Royal Albert Arms
Cost : $8.00
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Tuesday 27 May 2008 Minneapolis 7th St. Entry
The Entry 8:00 PM / 18+
JASON TRACHTENBURG (OF THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SIDESHOW PLAYERS)
and CHING GHONG SONG
$7.00 advance / $7.00 door
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Monday 26 May 2008 Chicago The Dark Room
Weird Kids Night 3
featuring Jason Trachtenberg (of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players + Ching Chong Song
WEIRD KIDS NIGHT 3
TEENSPLOITATION SUMMER BEACH PARTY
WITH JASON TRACHTENBERG
OF THE TRACHTENBERG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
CHING CHONG SONG
WITH HUMP DAY MOBILE UNIT DJ'S
DJ Dr. Drase
DJ Michael Flavor
DJ Arpad
DJ Magic Unicorn
Darkroom
2210 W. Chicago
Chicago, IL 60622
Doors open: 8:00 PM
Age restriction: 21+
Ticket Price: $10.00
Service Fee: $2.50
Hump Day Dance Party Presents: Weird Kids Night 3: Teensploitation Summer Beach Party at the Darkroom
We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Memorial Day and usher in the beginning of summer than by playing the best teen and weirdo beach party tunes we could find.
Expect to hear all sorts of blanket bingo jams from the 60s and beyond. Annette Funicello, Elvis, and tracks from campy B films like Wild Guitar! will all surely make an appearance for your watusi and frugging enjoyment.
This time around we’re joined by Jason Trachtenberg of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow players and Ching Chong Song from Brooklyn.
The show takes place on Monday, May 26th at 8pm @ Darkroom
Darkroom is located at 2210 West Chicago between Damen and Western
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Sunday 25 May 2008 Cleveland Beachland Ballroom
8 PM (7:30 PM door)
Jason Trachtenburg
(of Trachtenburg Family Slideshow players) / Ching Chong Song / Aunt Eater & Tony Meda Project
$8.00
Tavern | All ages
Jason Trachtenberg, Ching Chong Song, Aunt Eater and Tony Meda Project.
Trachtenburg's musical career began in the late '80s in New York City, where he was part of the Lower East Side's anti-folk and performance-art scenes. In 1992, he moved to Austin, TX, where he worked with Daniel Johnston on music and video projects.He also formed the band the Pancakes With Cheese while in Austin.
He relocated yet again to the Pacific Northwest in 1993 to collaborate with Chris Ballew of Presidents of the United States of America. Ballew produced Trachtenburg's early recordings in Seattle, including 1993's Let the Fishes Do the Asking and 1996's Lefty's Black Bag, which was co-produced by Conrad Uno of Pop Llama.
In 1999, Trachtenburg released Your Favorite Song. His folky, lo-fi acoustic songs instantly gained him favorable attention from Seattle music fans and from the Orange Recording Company, who released his Revolutions Per Minute album in 2000. The quirky songs on the album finally garnered Trachtenburg the national attention he'd always deserved. Topics on the album ranged from cellular phones to nutrition to auto insurance and toothpaste. It was during this era that his live shows in Seattle with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players included his six-year-old daughter on drums, while his wife Tina served as projectionist of the band's slide show.
~ Stephen Cramer, All Music Guide
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Saturday 24 May 2008 Pittsburgh Garfield Artworks
from New York City featuring the frontman of the Family Slideshow Players
JASON TRACHTENBURG AND JULIE LAMENDOLA (http://www.myspace.com/trachtenburgandlamendola)
with Ching Chong Song (from Brooklyn) and Buddy Nutt
8 pm
[note: advance tickets available from the local opener, and from Eide's Entertainment, Dave's Music Mine, Paul's CDs, Caliban Books, Wicked Discs, and The Exchange Squirrel Hill.]
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Friday May 23 2008 North By North West Philadelphia
FRIDAY night, starting @ 10pm,
JASON TRACHTENBURG
performing live in concert! Come in early for dinner & take advantage of our specials starting at 5pm!
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Wednesday May 21 2008 Emo's Austin, TX Doors Open: 8pm Show Starts: 10pm
Emo's
603 Red River
Austin, Texas
30.2666, -97.737
Category
Performing/Visual Arts
Description
Pianist/singer Jason Trachtenburg sings biting, satirical lyrics inspired by slides he digs up at estate sales. His wife, Tina, works the slide projector and his daughter, Rachel, performs on drums and sings backup. Belaire is a synth-prog-pop band from Austin, TX.
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Sunday May 18 2008 12 Galaxies San Francisco $10 adv/$12 door 9pm 21+
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Friday May 16 2008 El Cid Los Angeles Opening for Sounds of Asteroth 21.30
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Kate Nash Tour Continues
Tuesday May 13 San Francisco The Fillmore 8.00 pm US $22.50
from nme.com (note spelling mistake)
The singer goes all out on the final night
Kate Nash concluded the first-ever NME Awards USA Tour in Los Angeles last night (May 14) by playing a marathon set for a packed house of adoring fans.
Wearing a brightly coloured floral-print dress, the singer got things jumping from her very first song, 'Pumpkin Soup', which she ended by slamming on her piano.
Looking far more self-assured than at her first LA gig at the Troubadour a few months ago, Nash got the crowd at the Henry Fonda Theatre dancing and singing along from the very beginning of her nearly two-hour set.
"Hi LA, thanks for coming out," Nash said. "This is the last night of our tour and I'm pretty sad really. But let's have a fucking good time."
Nash was backed by a four-piece, all-male band and played beneath a sign with her named spelled out in pink neon letters as her boyfriend Ryan Jarman from The Cribs and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols looked on.
"The next song is a quiet one so shut up, please," Nash said before playing the romantic ballad 'Nicest Thing', and the audience complied.
The evening also saw Nash and her band singing 'Happy Birthday' to a girl in the audience called Mariella, before playing her song of the same name.
Nash invited Rachel Trachtenberg, the 14-year-old drummer from opening band The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players, to beat on the skins for a couple of tracks.
Later, toward the end of her set, Nash stopped her hit song 'Foundations' dead in the middle to prevent bouncers from ejecting Trachtenberg from the side of the stage.
"I know it's not professional but she's in the band, she's not leaving," Nash said.
Before wrapping up with a four-song encore that included a cover of Diana Ross' 'Baby Love' and the rousing punk romp 'Model Behaviour', Nash thanked her band and crew, saying, "I'm getting a bit emotional now," as she pretended to wipe tears from her eyes.
Kate Nash played:
'Pumpkin Soup'
'Shit Song'
'Stitching Leggings'
'We Get On'
'Birds'
'Nicest Thing'
'Seagulls'
'Dickhead'
'Pick Pocket'
'Do Waa Do'
'Paris'
'Skeleton Song'
'Mariella'
'Mouthwash'
'Foundations'
'Baby Love'
'Don't You Want To Share The Guilt?'
'Model Behaviour'
'Merry Happy'
video of incident here
Rachel sings Pigeons
Another review fron here
Went to Kate Nash last night at the Henry Fonda - and it was quite lovely mostly, minus all the freaks of nature. I am one so I'm not hating, they are just awkward, but anyway... Here is the review I wrote.... (yes, I have a problem stopping writing. no, I do NOT use paragraphs)
Kate Nash is known as a singer songwriter so in touch with her inner awkward girl. That is one of her major appeals that has won her so much success here in America and in the UK. However, that brings out all the really awkward freaks or the 14 year old girls who never go to concerts and get really excited – which was fun, but I really felt that the crowd was quite annoying and had patches of people jumping around annoyingly. Overall, the show was fantastic – if you could ignore the crowd.
The opening band was a “concept band” called the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Player. They basically go out to garage sales and estate sales and the like and purchase dead people’s old slideshow albums. Then they write songs that sort of tell a story using the slides – which is definitely interesting and funny, but also it’s also weird to see dead people’s slides! But that is just the kind of band they are. They are also a family. They are comprised of an awkward dad with glasses, a quiet mom, and an awkward daughter with really long hair and an adorable smile. They are really fun and interactive, as the Dad said, “The fourth wall is down! And it ain’t going back up!” They were really awkward and adorable and quirky, which did get a bit irritating overall, but was quite endearing at the same time. The songs were simple and adorable, and they seemed really happy to be on tour with Kate Nash with the Trachtenberg father even exclaiming, “Kate is one of the greatest vocalists of our time and one of the most natural melody smith’s ever.” Kate actually joined the Family Slideshow Player onstage for a song, but she was introduced as Barbara – as if no one would know! They were a fun band, though not sure that I’d go see them again but their set went by quickly in a haze of awkward conversation and cute songs.
The last time I saw Kate (way back in January!) were at Amoeba Records and the Troubadour – both venues that are quite a lot smaller than the Henry Fonda. She stormed on stage with a bigger band than she brought last time, but all of the band were the same except the new guys – keeping Elliott on drums and Jay on guitar. She started with “Pumpkin Soup”, “Shit Song”, and “Stitching Leggings” – playing up the “kid pounding on the piano” act that she plays up during live shows. Then she played crowd favorite “We Get On”. Then she got up and picked up her acoustic and strummed through crowd favorites “Birds” and “The Nicest Thing”. She then picked up a little seagull that the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Player made for her and explained how she hated seagulls and launched into a newer song (on her electric guitar) called “I Hate Seagulls”. “I Hate Seagulls” is basically a testament to what Kate likes and what Kate hates, including “rude ignorant bastards”, but the song doesn’t fall flat because of the extreme personal nature of the song, because Kate picks out quirky things to focus on which is what makes her songs great. The last time I saw her she basically switched from acoustic guitar to piano and back about every 3 songs, but this gig she really picked up the acoustic and led the way with the guitar as opposed to the keyboard melodies that drive her album forward. She played another new song, “Pick Pocket” which had her on acoustic but was backed by the full band. “Pick Pocket” started out slow, as many of her songs do, but really picked up the tempo and got more intense until the close of the song. Next, Kate actually put down the guitar and picked up the mic for a song called “Do Wah Do” which is a play on that old fifties song that everyone knows the words and the title to, except for me, which was really adorable, but the song quality wasn’t the same as most of the songs on “Made of Bricks”. Nash then moved back to the keyboard for “Skeleton Song” and “Mariella”, which the crowd had been jonesing for during the entire show. I mentioned before the freaks that showed up to Nash’s final date on the NME Awards tour, and one of them who was supposedly actually called Mariella screamed out for Kate to play her Happy Birthday! Little did she know that Elliot loves birthdays so the whole band geared up and sang happy birthday to the so-called “Mariella” in the crowd. If that isn’t odd enough, an older woman bum rushed closer to the stage and ended up next to me dancing wildly, hands waving. She then proceeded to chug from her flask, which I didn’t disapprove of, and then yelled at me for writing down the set list on my phone! She tried to get me dancing by tickling me, and then was finally settled down by me screaming that this was my 3rd time seeing Kate Nash and that I didn’t really need to jump around. Oh, the freaks! Kate finished off her set by running through Mouthwash and “Foundations” – but “Foundations” was interrupted when a security guard tried to make the daughter (Rachel) of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Player leave the photographers pit. Kate stopped the song and yelled at the guy saying, “Fuck that! Rachel’s not leaving! You can’t make her leave!” which was sweet and endearing, I mean the girl was 14 years old – totally harmless. She then restarted “Foundations” and it seemed the entire crowd was singing along. For the encore, which was one of the longest one’s that I’d witnessed in a while consisted of a cover of “Baby Love” – even though Kate didn’t know all of the lyrics, and a new song that I’d never heard before. Then she played her new song “Model Behaviour” with the chorus of “You don’t have to suck dick to succeed”. The song is pretty intense with Nash screaming and shouting into the microphone and twirling and jumping about – her floral dress twirling around. She ended with “Merry Happy” which literally 300 people had been screaming out for, which was lovely. Nash maintained her normal vocal gymnastics and ended the show looking like a kid fussing with her keyboard but it was quite endearing.
So after the gig, I met YET ANOTHER FREAK OF NATURE and he asked for an interview about Kate Nash and the gig, and I obliged (fame whore??) but I look like hideous and sound like a man. YUCK. but it's fuckin' hilarious!
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Sunday May 11 Portland Wonder Ballroom 8.00 pm US $17.00 WONDER BALLROOM IS NON SMOKING & WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. CAFE WONDER OPEN FOR DINNER & COCKTAILS
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Friday May 9th Seattle Showbox At The Market
Showbox and 107.7 The End present
NME AWARDS TOUR 2008
KATE NASH
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
$17.50 ADV / $20.00 DOS & at the door
Doors at 8pm - All Ages
Showbox at the Market - 1426 1st Avenue
review here
Kate Nash, the tart-tongued British pop star, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, our very own prodigal sons (and daughter), kept things off-kilter all evening. However, while both acts enjoyed terms of endearment, they too often left the capacity crowd, to quote Nash's "Mouthwash" lyrics, "singing 'uh oh' on a Friday night."
At the very least, the Trachtenburgs, who moved to New York City, proved that the family that plays and projects slides together, stays together. Mom, pop and daughter (drummer Rachel, now 14) have been providing soundtracks to found (bought, actually) slide collections for eight years now.
Their shtick still seems more suited to Hokum Hall than to a rock club, but the family has added amusing new wrinkles. Rachel sang the precious "Pigeons" while playing ukulele, and for the appropriately childlike "Let's Go on Tour With Kate" the Trachtenburgs were backed not by slides, but by live felt-board, um, artistry.
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THURSDAY MAY 8 2008 Vancouver Richard's On Richards Cabaret 8.00 pm CA $20.00 No Minors! Must be 19 & older with valid government ID to attend.
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Wednesday 7 May (Not with Kate Nash) Sunset Tavern Seattle with special guests TBA - $10 advance / $12 day of show. Buy tickets HERE 21+ only, please
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Monday May 5 Boulder Fox Theatre
97.3 KBCO & THE COLORADO DAILY Present
KATE NASH with THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
Doors: 8:00 PM /Show: 8:30 PM
Ages: All Ages $18.00
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Saturday May 3 Minneapolis First Avenue Main Room 6:00 PM / 18+
89.3 THE CURRENT PRESENTS.. KATE NASH
"NME Awards Tour"
With THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
$15.00 advance / $15.00 door
review & pic from here
First up was the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the “world’s first indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band” hailing from Brooklyn, New York. The Slideshow Players really are the Trachtenburg family – dad Jason, who bears a striking resemblance to Rick Moranis circa Ghostbusters, mom Tina, and 14-year-old Rachel, a very talented drummer in her own right.
The shtick of the Trachtenburgs is to take slides that once belonged to dead people they didn’t know – “various deceased strangers” - and then write songs about them. The songs were funny, but would lose all meaning and enjoyment without the accompanying slideshow, run (sometimes not quite successfully) by Tina. The whole thing reminded me of Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution from Arrested Development, which is to say that it’s cute on television but a little disturbing in reality
review from here
It was unofficial Cute Night on Saturday at First Avenue, as the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players opened for Kate Nash. A family act featuring a keyboard-pounding dad, a tambourine-slapping mom, and a 14-year-old daughter on drums? Cute. A 20-year-old British redhead in platform heels who coos lyrics about beautiful birds in front of a pink neon sign bearing her name? Cuter. An encore uniting the two acts for a rendition of the Supremes’ “Baby Love”? Cutest!
For more information about Kate Nash: myspace.com/katenashmusic. The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: myspace.com/slideshowplayers. Upcoming shows at First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry: first-avenue.com.
You can make a good musical career out of being cute, but fortunately, neither of these acts will need to. Newcomer Nash is on her first U.S. tour, supporting her debut album Made of Bricks. She’s often compared to her Brit peer Lily Allen, with whom she shares an independent spirit, a wicked sense of humor, a pop sensibility, and dangerously low bangs…but whereas Allen revels in a party-girl persona, Nash proudly described herself storming out of a party to write lyrics like “you don’t have to suck dick to succeed,” the chorus of an unreleased rave-up she performed on Saturday. To me, Nash’s performance recalled the young Natalie Merchant: a coy, demure, and slightly prim songstress who comes uncorked as she belts her confessional lyrics.
Reviews of early shows in Nash’s American tour reported that Nash seemed occasionally unsure of what to do with herself onstage, but by this point in the tour she seems to have learned how to make that touch of awkwardness work in her favor. With her nervous smiles and game banter (in response to a shout of “Marry me!”, she asked, “Have you even met my dad?”), she reminded us that we were watching a live performance by an actual human being. Besides running through Made of Bricks, she performed a few appealing new songs that suggest its follow-up is unlikely to evidence a sophomore slump.
As for the Trachtenburgs, they may be the perfect opening act—for Nash or for anyone. Performing off-kilter pop songs that serve as soundtracks to displays of slides scavenged from estate sales and thrift shops, the Trachtenburgs had the crowd cheering and giggling. Paterfamilias Jason Trachtenburg is set to return to First Ave (well, the Entry) on the 27th for a show sans family, sans slides…but his daughter Rachel’s charming ukulele-driven song about pigeons (her mom handled the feltboard illustrations) suggested that she may be the Trachtenburg to watch.
Jay Gabler is the Daily Planet’s arts editor.
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Friday May 2 Chicago Vic Theatre 07:30 PM DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 PM US $20.00
review here
Whether rocking out or reflecting, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players' quirks were on display throughout its opening set. And though folk art songs such as "Beautiful Dandelion" initially intrigued, they quickly grew tedious.
another review here
To say that the warm-up act was bizarre is to totally and utterly miss the mark. The world’s only “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band” has to be the one and only, because there just is not room for two bands of this kind in the universe. They are a family group, whose 14 year old daughter, Rachel, first joined them on stage at six, playing the harmonica. Their unique selling point is that their songs are written to describe slide-shows. They buy slides from estate sales or flea markets and proceed to project the slides on stage while they sing about them.
From our vantage point, they didn’t really seem to be holding the crowd too well. As a grumpy old person, I thought they were fascinating. And then they sang another song about a slide-show. And another. And they all sounded a bit similar. In 2006 Time Out New York described them as impossibly twee. Their reviewer was ultimately converted, but the poor Trachtenburg Family Slide-show Players* were thwarted in their attempts to win me over by the bathroom ceiling leaking on me towards the end of their set.
Monday, March 10, 2008
April 2008
from nme.com
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players join North American tour
Kate Nash is set to be joined on the US NME Awards Tour by support band The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, NME.COM can announce.
The self-styled "indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band" will join Nash as the British touring fixture – which has given breaks to the likes of Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand in the past – heads to North America for the first time.
See Slideshowplayers.com for more information on the band.
The tour is taking place to celebrate the NME Awards moving across the Atlantic for the first time, with this year's ceremony to be held at Los Angeles' El Ray Theatre on April 23.
More information on the NME Awards 2008 can be found in NME.COM's dedicated US Awards section.
Kate Nash’s NME Awards Tour visits the following venues:
Wednesday April 30, 2008 07:00 PM Detroit St Andrew’s Hall US $17.00
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Monday, April 28 Toronto The Phoenix
Tickets: $17.50
Available at
TICKETMASTER: online @ ticketmaster.ca or by phone 416-870-8000
ROTATE THIS: By phone: 416-504-8447. 620 Queen St. West
THE HORSESHOE TAVERN: By phone: 416-598-4753 . 368 Queen St. W.
Doors open @ 8:00 pm ALL AGES
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Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 April New York City Webster Hall Doors 7pm $20.00
review & pics
The felt board from the Kate Nash Tour Theme!
The most successful Family Slideshow band in history did not disappoint tonight! They were quirky, funny, & brilliant and once again delivered a great set and left me definitely wanting more. They are 100% worth showing up early for and they have a bunch of cool merch that you should check out if you go see one of the shows as it's not available anywhere else!
couple more pics from here
Another (Wednesday) review here
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Monday, April 21 Boston Paradise Rock Club 08:00 PM $20.00
Saturday, April 19 Philadelphia Trocadero 08:00 PM $15.00
All tickets are general admission standing room only -- NO chairs !!
full review here
another review from here
Anyway, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players opened up for Ms. Nash.
I consider myself a fairly open-minded guy. But I have no idea what the hell is wrong with the Trachtenburg Family.
The band is made up of three non-related members playing the parts of a family. The drummer is a 14-year-old girl named Rachel. The "mother" operates a slideshow while "daddy" plays guitar and keyboard.
The band takes photo albums from the 1960s, '70s, and writes songs based on these pictures of random strangers. Then, while playing live, the slideshow matches up with the lyrics in the song.
And the lyrics are quite literal. If we see a picture of a fish, we're hearing a fish lyric.
I have no idea what the hell is wrong with the Trachtenburg Family.
I guess this is art, right? Like, if I ever wanted to look smart in front of someone, a future employer, a scientist, a foreign dignitary, I absolutely plan on casually mentioning I listen to the Trachtenburg Family.
And then I casually plan on accepting their kudos.
Here's "Look at Me" by The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and "Pigeons" by the girl-wonder drummer, Rachel T.
Friday, April 18 Towson Recher Theatre 08:00 PM $15.00
Thursday, April 17 Washington DC 9:30 Club 7:30PM
Wednesday, April 16, 9:00 PM EDT (8:00 PM Doors)$15.00 9:00 PM EDT Asheville The Orange Peel
Tuesday, April 15, 8pm $15.00 Atlanta Variety Playhouse Atlanta
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Saturday 5th April 2008 8:00PM
GLUBDUB anniversary party with art show and SPECIAL GUEST,
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players & Anna Copacabanna Asbury Lanes ASBURY PARK, NJ
"MR. ROGERS" GONE WILD
Trachtenburg Family show is a sight to see
The term "alternative" usually is a misnomer in rock 'n' roll, but that's not the case when it comes to the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
The theatrical, quirky, creative unit of singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist Jason Trachtenburg, his wife, Tina, and their 14-year-old daughter, drummer Rachel, is unlike most other rock acts, especially when it comes to live performance.
Jason Trachtenburg, who writes songs inspired by offbeat slides his spouse finds at estate sales or flea markets, views all of the critical praise as left-handed compliments.
"To call us great onstage is nice, but it doesn't mean as much as it could because there is no showmanship in rock 'n' roll anymore," he said while calling from his Manhattan apartment. "We're more entertaining than all of the other bands in rock combined. We're different (from) any other band."
The group, which will make its Asbury Park debut Saturday at Asbury Lanes, is unusual but above all, a family.
"You can't forget about that," Tina Trachtenburg said.
The Trachtenburg parents formed the group eight years ago in Seattle. Daughter Rachel is the act's evolving wildcard. She has morphed from a novelty to a respected entity.
"It's about time that that's happening," Jason Trachtenburg said. "She's not a little kid anymore. She's a musician."
The Trachtenburgs' lone child is learning to make art for arts sake.
"I just think you need to make the best music that you can and realize that it's unlikely that it's going to be a hit," Jason Trachtenburg said. "Rachel understands that. The bully wins out in entertainment. Intellectuals are marginalized in this business. That's something that hasn't changed and won't change, but you can't stop making music. I know we're not going to be a huge success, but I'm having as much fun as I can doing this."
Part of the fun for the Trachtenburgs is that there always seems to be a filmmaker documenting their music.
"I think there's been at least six documentaries shot about us," Tina Trachtenburg said. "We just can't say no to anyone who wants to make a movie about us."
The most important visual production involving the Trachtenburgs is "Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World." The show, which is in production, will run on the band's Web site and is being shopped to networks.
"It's a wild variety show/"Mr. Rogers'-type program for those (age 2) and up," Tina Trachtenburg said. "It's Rachel's venture, and it's so entertaining. There (are) puppets who come to life, and it's just all-around entertaining."
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players join North American tour
Kate Nash is set to be joined on the US NME Awards Tour by support band The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, NME.COM can announce.
The self-styled "indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band" will join Nash as the British touring fixture – which has given breaks to the likes of Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand in the past – heads to North America for the first time.
See Slideshowplayers.com for more information on the band.
The tour is taking place to celebrate the NME Awards moving across the Atlantic for the first time, with this year's ceremony to be held at Los Angeles' El Ray Theatre on April 23.
More information on the NME Awards 2008 can be found in NME.COM's dedicated US Awards section.
Kate Nash’s NME Awards Tour visits the following venues:
Wednesday April 30, 2008 07:00 PM Detroit St Andrew’s Hall US $17.00
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Monday, April 28 Toronto The Phoenix
Tickets: $17.50
Available at
TICKETMASTER: online @ ticketmaster.ca or by phone 416-870-8000
ROTATE THIS: By phone: 416-504-8447. 620 Queen St. West
THE HORSESHOE TAVERN: By phone: 416-598-4753 . 368 Queen St. W.
Doors open @ 8:00 pm ALL AGES
review here
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Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 April New York City Webster Hall Doors 7pm $20.00
review & pics
The felt board from the Kate Nash Tour Theme!
The most successful Family Slideshow band in history did not disappoint tonight! They were quirky, funny, & brilliant and once again delivered a great set and left me definitely wanting more. They are 100% worth showing up early for and they have a bunch of cool merch that you should check out if you go see one of the shows as it's not available anywhere else!
couple more pics from here
Another (Wednesday) review here
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Monday, April 21 Boston Paradise Rock Club 08:00 PM $20.00
Saturday, April 19 Philadelphia Trocadero 08:00 PM $15.00
All tickets are general admission standing room only -- NO chairs !!
full review here
another review from here
Anyway, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players opened up for Ms. Nash.
I consider myself a fairly open-minded guy. But I have no idea what the hell is wrong with the Trachtenburg Family.
The band is made up of three non-related members playing the parts of a family. The drummer is a 14-year-old girl named Rachel. The "mother" operates a slideshow while "daddy" plays guitar and keyboard.
The band takes photo albums from the 1960s, '70s, and writes songs based on these pictures of random strangers. Then, while playing live, the slideshow matches up with the lyrics in the song.
And the lyrics are quite literal. If we see a picture of a fish, we're hearing a fish lyric.
I have no idea what the hell is wrong with the Trachtenburg Family.
I guess this is art, right? Like, if I ever wanted to look smart in front of someone, a future employer, a scientist, a foreign dignitary, I absolutely plan on casually mentioning I listen to the Trachtenburg Family.
And then I casually plan on accepting their kudos.
Here's "Look at Me" by The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and "Pigeons" by the girl-wonder drummer, Rachel T.
Friday, April 18 Towson Recher Theatre 08:00 PM $15.00
Thursday, April 17 Washington DC 9:30 Club 7:30PM
Wednesday, April 16, 9:00 PM EDT (8:00 PM Doors)$15.00 9:00 PM EDT Asheville The Orange Peel
Tuesday, April 15, 8pm $15.00 Atlanta Variety Playhouse Atlanta
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Saturday 5th April 2008 8:00PM
GLUBDUB anniversary party with art show and SPECIAL GUEST,
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players & Anna Copacabanna Asbury Lanes ASBURY PARK, NJ
"MR. ROGERS" GONE WILD
Trachtenburg Family show is a sight to see
The term "alternative" usually is a misnomer in rock 'n' roll, but that's not the case when it comes to the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
The theatrical, quirky, creative unit of singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist Jason Trachtenburg, his wife, Tina, and their 14-year-old daughter, drummer Rachel, is unlike most other rock acts, especially when it comes to live performance.
Jason Trachtenburg, who writes songs inspired by offbeat slides his spouse finds at estate sales or flea markets, views all of the critical praise as left-handed compliments.
"To call us great onstage is nice, but it doesn't mean as much as it could because there is no showmanship in rock 'n' roll anymore," he said while calling from his Manhattan apartment. "We're more entertaining than all of the other bands in rock combined. We're different (from) any other band."
The group, which will make its Asbury Park debut Saturday at Asbury Lanes, is unusual but above all, a family.
"You can't forget about that," Tina Trachtenburg said.
The Trachtenburg parents formed the group eight years ago in Seattle. Daughter Rachel is the act's evolving wildcard. She has morphed from a novelty to a respected entity.
"It's about time that that's happening," Jason Trachtenburg said. "She's not a little kid anymore. She's a musician."
The Trachtenburgs' lone child is learning to make art for arts sake.
"I just think you need to make the best music that you can and realize that it's unlikely that it's going to be a hit," Jason Trachtenburg said. "Rachel understands that. The bully wins out in entertainment. Intellectuals are marginalized in this business. That's something that hasn't changed and won't change, but you can't stop making music. I know we're not going to be a huge success, but I'm having as much fun as I can doing this."
Part of the fun for the Trachtenburgs is that there always seems to be a filmmaker documenting their music.
"I think there's been at least six documentaries shot about us," Tina Trachtenburg said. "We just can't say no to anyone who wants to make a movie about us."
The most important visual production involving the Trachtenburgs is "Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World." The show, which is in production, will run on the band's Web site and is being shopped to networks.
"It's a wild variety show/"Mr. Rogers'-type program for those (age 2) and up," Tina Trachtenburg said. "It's Rachel's venture, and it's so entertaining. There (are) puppets who come to life, and it's just all-around entertaining."
Friday, March 07, 2008
March 2008
Saturday March 15th 2008 Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World"
(formerly the Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show) 1:45 p.m.
Auditorium Shores Stage (Lady Bird Lake) (Riverside Dr & S 1st St)
Hit Sheet Magazine (UK) Party @ Momo's 618 W. 6th Street Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701
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Thursday, March 13th 2008
Sarathan Records Party Noon-5pm
@ Friends Bar (208 East 6th Street)
12:00 Abra Moore (Sarathan Records)
12:45 Peter Bradley Adams (Sarathan Records)
1:30 Jason & Rachel Trachtenburg (Sarathan Records)
2:15 Two Loons for Tea (Sarathan Records)
3:00 The Ettes
3:45 Feral Children (Sarathan Records)
4:30 War Tapes (Sarathan Records)
RSVP: sxsarathan08@gmail.com
sarathan.com/ecards/SXSW2008
review from here
Jason and Rachel at SXSW
Jason and Rachel were awesome at South by Southwest. Rachel did a solo song with ukulele (along with a felt board display by Tina), both of them did a few songs together, and Jason did some solo acoustic guitar stuff, including a very interesting cover of "She Loves You." I've posted my photos on Flickr.
(formerly the Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show) 1:45 p.m.
Auditorium Shores Stage (Lady Bird Lake) (Riverside Dr & S 1st St)
Hit Sheet Magazine (UK) Party @ Momo's 618 W. 6th Street Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701
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Thursday, March 13th 2008
Sarathan Records Party Noon-5pm
@ Friends Bar (208 East 6th Street)
12:00 Abra Moore (Sarathan Records)
12:45 Peter Bradley Adams (Sarathan Records)
1:30 Jason & Rachel Trachtenburg (Sarathan Records)
2:15 Two Loons for Tea (Sarathan Records)
3:00 The Ettes
3:45 Feral Children (Sarathan Records)
4:30 War Tapes (Sarathan Records)
RSVP: sxsarathan08@gmail.com
sarathan.com/ecards/SXSW2008
review from here
Jason and Rachel at SXSW
Jason and Rachel were awesome at South by Southwest. Rachel did a solo song with ukulele (along with a felt board display by Tina), both of them did a few songs together, and Jason did some solo acoustic guitar stuff, including a very interesting cover of "She Loves You." I've posted my photos on Flickr.
Monday, January 21, 2008
February 2008
More than 50 songwriters, musicians, bands, spoken word artists and other performers from the world of Antifolk will take the stage of Sidewalk Café (94 Avenue A, NYC. Club Phone: 212-473-7373) for the 2008 Fortified Summer Antifolk Festival, running February 19-29. The Festival provides the opportunity to tap into a cross section of the creative and expressive musical community centered in the East Village. Now in its 23rd year, Fortified Entertainment, an entertainment company run by Lach, presents the Antifolk Festival.
Wednesday Feb.27 2008 7:30-Brian Speaker, 8-Brownbird Rudy Relic, 8:30-Isto, 9-Poez, 9:30-Debe Dalton, 10-Eric Wolfson and The War Cabinet, 11-Jason Trachtenburg and The National Distractions Sidewalk Cafe New York USA
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Sat 23 FEB 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 The Khyber Philadelphia USA
Bob Wiseman Hanging a label on Bob Wiseman is an effort not worth undertaking. By the time you get around to setting a boundary to what it is that he does, it no longer applies. He is an idiosyncratically unique performer who has always remained true to his artistic vision. An award winning pianist (he can play 5 Cs simultaneously) and song-writer who accompanies live on the accordion, guitar or casio - little films he writes featuring guests Feist, Sara Harmer or Scott Thompson of Kids in The Hall. Unfortunately Warner Canada chose to destroy their first pressings (2,000 copies) of his debut release "In Her Dream" , as lawyers deemed his political songs libelous, yet precisely for his songs he won the 2007 "Lifetime Achievement" award from CBC Radio 3. He has also been the recipient of 5 Juno awards (The Canadian Grammys), 3 NOW Magazine Peoples' Choice Awards, Q107 Radio Best Keyboardist Award and sits on the board of directors for both the Blocks Recording Club (the only Musician owned and run co-op in the world) and TAIS (the Toronto Animated Image Society).
Jason Trachtenburg and The National Distractions
Mem of Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Charles Latham "The heir to the KY Jelly fortune, Charles Latham blew his inheritence on a massive underground bunker, which he stocked with low-grade instruments, recording equipment, liquor and ready-meals. Since it was completed he has released an album a year, most of which have disappeared into obscurity."
8 PM $7 21+
Upstairs:
Khyber Drink Special!
The Strawberry Mansion DJs
9 PM
$10
21+
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Saturday February 9 2008 Pete's Candy Store NYC USA
La Pieta 9pm
Bob Wiseman 10pm
Jason Trachtenburg 11pm
Also The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show
Valentine episode
Different friends, new snack, new craft. Wear red. 45 Bleecker St between Mott and Mulberry Sts East Village USA 3.00 pm $12
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Saturday February 9 2008 STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE:
A musical history of vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania.
8 pm-10.00 pm $10
Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
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A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
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Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
(The Halloween Romance Returns for Valentine's Day!!)
You may lie awake at night and think, Why hasn’t anyone made a jukebox musical based on the hits of Paula Abdul? Oh, but they have: Just in time for the Valentine’s season, Corn Mo, the O’Debra Twins, Jason Trachtenberg and the Jollyship the Whiz-Bang crew revive their horror-musical about young Quaker Paula Abdul Blackwood and the idealist bloodsucker she gives her heart to in colonial Pennsylvania
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Fri 8 February 2008 STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE:
A musical history of vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania.
8 pm-10.00 pm $10
Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
_______
A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
_______________________________________
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
(The Halloween Romance Returns for Valentine's Day!!)
You may lie awake at night and think, Why hasn’t anyone made a jukebox musical based on the hits of Paula Abdul? Oh, but they have: Just in time for the Valentine’s season, Corn Mo, the O’Debra Twins, Jason Trachtenberg and the Jollyship the Whiz-Bang crew revive their horror-musical about young Quaker Paula Abdul Blackwood and the idealist bloodsucker she gives her heart to in colonial Pennsylvania
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Thur February 7 2008 STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE:
A musical history of vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania.
8 pm-10.00pm $10
Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
_______
A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
_______________________________________
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
You may lie awake at night and think, Why hasn’t anyone made a jukebox musical based on the hits of Paula Abdul? Oh, but they have: Just in time for the Valentine’s season, Corn Mo, the O’Debra Twins, Jason Trachtenberg and the Jollyship the Whiz-Bang crew revive their horror-musical about young Quaker Paula Abdul Blackwood and the idealist bloodsucker she gives her heart to in colonial Pennsylvania
Wednesday Feb.27 2008 7:30-Brian Speaker, 8-Brownbird Rudy Relic, 8:30-Isto, 9-Poez, 9:30-Debe Dalton, 10-Eric Wolfson and The War Cabinet, 11-Jason Trachtenburg and The National Distractions Sidewalk Cafe New York USA
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Sat 23 FEB 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 The Khyber Philadelphia USA
Bob Wiseman Hanging a label on Bob Wiseman is an effort not worth undertaking. By the time you get around to setting a boundary to what it is that he does, it no longer applies. He is an idiosyncratically unique performer who has always remained true to his artistic vision. An award winning pianist (he can play 5 Cs simultaneously) and song-writer who accompanies live on the accordion, guitar or casio - little films he writes featuring guests Feist, Sara Harmer or Scott Thompson of Kids in The Hall. Unfortunately Warner Canada chose to destroy their first pressings (2,000 copies) of his debut release "In Her Dream" , as lawyers deemed his political songs libelous, yet precisely for his songs he won the 2007 "Lifetime Achievement" award from CBC Radio 3. He has also been the recipient of 5 Juno awards (The Canadian Grammys), 3 NOW Magazine Peoples' Choice Awards, Q107 Radio Best Keyboardist Award and sits on the board of directors for both the Blocks Recording Club (the only Musician owned and run co-op in the world) and TAIS (the Toronto Animated Image Society).
Jason Trachtenburg and The National Distractions
Mem of Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Charles Latham "The heir to the KY Jelly fortune, Charles Latham blew his inheritence on a massive underground bunker, which he stocked with low-grade instruments, recording equipment, liquor and ready-meals. Since it was completed he has released an album a year, most of which have disappeared into obscurity."
8 PM $7 21+
Upstairs:
Khyber Drink Special!
The Strawberry Mansion DJs
9 PM
$10
21+
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Saturday February 9 2008 Pete's Candy Store NYC USA
La Pieta 9pm
Bob Wiseman 10pm
Jason Trachtenburg 11pm
Also The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show
Valentine episode
Different friends, new snack, new craft. Wear red. 45 Bleecker St between Mott and Mulberry Sts East Village USA 3.00 pm $12
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Saturday February 9 2008 STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE:
A musical history of vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania.
8 pm-10.00 pm $10
Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
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A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
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Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
(The Halloween Romance Returns for Valentine's Day!!)
You may lie awake at night and think, Why hasn’t anyone made a jukebox musical based on the hits of Paula Abdul? Oh, but they have: Just in time for the Valentine’s season, Corn Mo, the O’Debra Twins, Jason Trachtenberg and the Jollyship the Whiz-Bang crew revive their horror-musical about young Quaker Paula Abdul Blackwood and the idealist bloodsucker she gives her heart to in colonial Pennsylvania
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Fri 8 February 2008 STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE:
A musical history of vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania.
8 pm-10.00 pm $10
Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
_______
A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
_______________________________________
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
(The Halloween Romance Returns for Valentine's Day!!)
You may lie awake at night and think, Why hasn’t anyone made a jukebox musical based on the hits of Paula Abdul? Oh, but they have: Just in time for the Valentine’s season, Corn Mo, the O’Debra Twins, Jason Trachtenberg and the Jollyship the Whiz-Bang crew revive their horror-musical about young Quaker Paula Abdul Blackwood and the idealist bloodsucker she gives her heart to in colonial Pennsylvania
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Thur February 7 2008 STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE:
A musical history of vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania.
8 pm-10.00pm $10
Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
_______
A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
_______________________________________
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
You may lie awake at night and think, Why hasn’t anyone made a jukebox musical based on the hits of Paula Abdul? Oh, but they have: Just in time for the Valentine’s season, Corn Mo, the O’Debra Twins, Jason Trachtenberg and the Jollyship the Whiz-Bang crew revive their horror-musical about young Quaker Paula Abdul Blackwood and the idealist bloodsucker she gives her heart to in colonial Pennsylvania
Monday, December 31, 2007
January 2008
Sat 26 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
review:
On the Scene: The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show
Jan 28, 2008, 02:48 PM | by Alisa Cohen
Categories: Concert Reviews, Kids' Corner, Morning Madness, Music
If Rachael Ray pulled a Network and slipped some anti-corporate-America sentiments in between her "Yum-O!s," her TV series might look a wee bit like The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show, a kid-friendly, progressive-parent-approved variety show in downtown Manhattan. (Well, at the very least, both shows do have snacks, crafts, and special guests…) I first caught 14-year-old Rachel's band, the indie-vaudeville Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, about five years ago, playing at a shoebox-y theater with a then-unknown Regina Spektor. Back then, Rachel (pictured) could barely reach her drum kit, but she made her presence known with her winningly off-the-cuff comments and chirpy-sweet singing voice. So when I heard she was putting on a show of her own, I figured it wouldn't be your typical children's hour. Right I was.
The purple octopus who offered me a balloon on the way in was my first clue. After he danced an awkward jig, I overheard him admit to another audience member, "I never realized how complicated it is to be an octopus." It was that kind of freewheeling, glimpse-behind-the-curtain quality that summed up the show. Sets fell down and science experiments fizzled the first time around, but I'm firmly in the camp that prefers charming goofs to robotic perfection. "You heard there's a writers' strike! I don't think so. This is 'A' material, people!" joked manic dad Jason as he helped Rachel and wife Tina do the weather report on a felt board. (Despite the name-branding, the RTMS is still a family affair.) And much of the material did kill, based on the hearty, knowing response from the adults in the crowd, including actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale), who told me he owns all of the Slideshow Players' CDs.
Performance artist Reverend Jen gave gentrification a childlike spin with a puppet show about the sale of Manhattan for $24. "Smallpox, dysentery, cholera, malaria, and whiskey" were just a few of the "gifts" bestowed upon the Native American puppet — who was promptly replaced by a dead Native American puppet. A hilariously deadpan magic-mushroom puppet, voiced by comic Master Lee, dissed David Copperfield and hinted at the meaning of life. Australian/vegetarian go-go dancer Anna Copa Cabanna and her sequin-wearing male dancers (no doubt moonlighting as understudies in the Broadway production of Xanadu) cautioned against cellphone use via a lilting little musical number. But the award for most whacked-out political performance went to death-metal enthusiast T.Y. (link contains some non-kid-friendly language), who didn't even remotely try to candy-coat his segment for the kiddies. "Can you say 'Super Satan,' boys and girls?" he asked while holding up a hand-drawn picture of Rudy Giuliani.
Lest you think said kiddies sat with their chins in their hands while their parents laughed and laughed, there was plenty to keep the under-8 set enthralled. They traipsed after roller-skating Rosie Rebel, who led a workout with construction-paper weights to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger," and giggled at Seagull the puppet, a Scottish bird fond of eating its "cousin," General Tso's chicken. (Of course, the bird appeared to be the only meat-eater on stage. The snack du jour: organic popcorn with vegan butter.) If I could relive my kindergarten days (and I wouldn't mind, if only for the mandatory naptime), I'd probably be right up there in the front row, dancing around to Rachel's ukulele. Some might call it indoctrination; I call it an entertaining way to spend a Saturday.
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Fri 18 Jan 2008 20:00 Ching Chong Song CD release w/ Jason Trachtenburg and the National Distractions, The Wowz, and Creaky Boards at Sound Fix Records 110 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11211 USA (718) 388-8090
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Sat 19 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
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Thur 17 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 9.30pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
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Sat 12 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
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Jan 1 2008 The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002
Cost : $6
Super-Show Every New Year's Day, traditionally your cultural choices for this day off (a Tuesday this time) are the two giant all-day poetry readings, so finally this year there'll be an alternative: It's the Super-Show. Over 50 acts, featuring some of NYC's most insanely talented maniacs in the fields of comedy, music, video, acting, and hard-to-describe shit. Help us remind people to drink lots of water before they go to bed on December 31 (to avoid hangovers) and then party harder at this clusterfest! Confirmations from: Juggernut, Reverend Jen, Seth Herzog, Puppies Hold Hands, Mike Dobbins, Goatslayer of Uber Luber, Diane ODebra as Murder, Jessica Delfino, the Vox Illuminati, Howling Vic, Rob Latahn, Mike Amato as Mormon Surprise Is Mormon Delicious, Livia Scott, Mike Raphone as the Megalomaniac, John F. ODonnell as Shard, David Jenness as Barry Agida, Dr. Steamwhipple of the Pizzas, Rob Shapiro, the Bitter Poet, Rosie Rebel, Jason Trachtenburg, Peter Mavros of Bellmer Dolls, the Fools, Dame Darcy, Touching You, Tom Ritchford, Chuck Funk, Bohemaphelia, Erick Kirchberger, Kelli Rae Powell, and more. The Green Room,45 Bleecker, Manhattan 1p-midnight.$6
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
review:
On the Scene: The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show
Jan 28, 2008, 02:48 PM | by Alisa Cohen
Categories: Concert Reviews, Kids' Corner, Morning Madness, Music
If Rachael Ray pulled a Network and slipped some anti-corporate-America sentiments in between her "Yum-O!s," her TV series might look a wee bit like The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show, a kid-friendly, progressive-parent-approved variety show in downtown Manhattan. (Well, at the very least, both shows do have snacks, crafts, and special guests…) I first caught 14-year-old Rachel's band, the indie-vaudeville Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, about five years ago, playing at a shoebox-y theater with a then-unknown Regina Spektor. Back then, Rachel (pictured) could barely reach her drum kit, but she made her presence known with her winningly off-the-cuff comments and chirpy-sweet singing voice. So when I heard she was putting on a show of her own, I figured it wouldn't be your typical children's hour. Right I was.
The purple octopus who offered me a balloon on the way in was my first clue. After he danced an awkward jig, I overheard him admit to another audience member, "I never realized how complicated it is to be an octopus." It was that kind of freewheeling, glimpse-behind-the-curtain quality that summed up the show. Sets fell down and science experiments fizzled the first time around, but I'm firmly in the camp that prefers charming goofs to robotic perfection. "You heard there's a writers' strike! I don't think so. This is 'A' material, people!" joked manic dad Jason as he helped Rachel and wife Tina do the weather report on a felt board. (Despite the name-branding, the RTMS is still a family affair.) And much of the material did kill, based on the hearty, knowing response from the adults in the crowd, including actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale), who told me he owns all of the Slideshow Players' CDs.
Performance artist Reverend Jen gave gentrification a childlike spin with a puppet show about the sale of Manhattan for $24. "Smallpox, dysentery, cholera, malaria, and whiskey" were just a few of the "gifts" bestowed upon the Native American puppet — who was promptly replaced by a dead Native American puppet. A hilariously deadpan magic-mushroom puppet, voiced by comic Master Lee, dissed David Copperfield and hinted at the meaning of life. Australian/vegetarian go-go dancer Anna Copa Cabanna and her sequin-wearing male dancers (no doubt moonlighting as understudies in the Broadway production of Xanadu) cautioned against cellphone use via a lilting little musical number. But the award for most whacked-out political performance went to death-metal enthusiast T.Y. (link contains some non-kid-friendly language), who didn't even remotely try to candy-coat his segment for the kiddies. "Can you say 'Super Satan,' boys and girls?" he asked while holding up a hand-drawn picture of Rudy Giuliani.
Lest you think said kiddies sat with their chins in their hands while their parents laughed and laughed, there was plenty to keep the under-8 set enthralled. They traipsed after roller-skating Rosie Rebel, who led a workout with construction-paper weights to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger," and giggled at Seagull the puppet, a Scottish bird fond of eating its "cousin," General Tso's chicken. (Of course, the bird appeared to be the only meat-eater on stage. The snack du jour: organic popcorn with vegan butter.) If I could relive my kindergarten days (and I wouldn't mind, if only for the mandatory naptime), I'd probably be right up there in the front row, dancing around to Rachel's ukulele. Some might call it indoctrination; I call it an entertaining way to spend a Saturday.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri 18 Jan 2008 20:00 Ching Chong Song CD release w/ Jason Trachtenburg and the National Distractions, The Wowz, and Creaky Boards at Sound Fix Records 110 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11211 USA (718) 388-8090
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Sat 19 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
------------------------------------------------------------------
Thur 17 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 9.30pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
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Sat 12 Jan 2008 The Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002, 3pm $12.00
Miss Trachtenburg, the young yet veteran drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, launches a sure-to-be-fun variety show that she debuted in London and now takes to her hometown. How can this not be interesting? (Note that not only is this an all-ages performances, but kids are encouraged to come!)
------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 1 2008 The Green Room
45 Bleecker, manhattan at lafayette, NYC, 10002
Cost : $6
Super-Show Every New Year's Day, traditionally your cultural choices for this day off (a Tuesday this time) are the two giant all-day poetry readings, so finally this year there'll be an alternative: It's the Super-Show. Over 50 acts, featuring some of NYC's most insanely talented maniacs in the fields of comedy, music, video, acting, and hard-to-describe shit. Help us remind people to drink lots of water before they go to bed on December 31 (to avoid hangovers) and then party harder at this clusterfest! Confirmations from: Juggernut, Reverend Jen, Seth Herzog, Puppies Hold Hands, Mike Dobbins, Goatslayer of Uber Luber, Diane ODebra as Murder, Jessica Delfino, the Vox Illuminati, Howling Vic, Rob Latahn, Mike Amato as Mormon Surprise Is Mormon Delicious, Livia Scott, Mike Raphone as the Megalomaniac, John F. ODonnell as Shard, David Jenness as Barry Agida, Dr. Steamwhipple of the Pizzas, Rob Shapiro, the Bitter Poet, Rosie Rebel, Jason Trachtenburg, Peter Mavros of Bellmer Dolls, the Fools, Dame Darcy, Touching You, Tom Ritchford, Chuck Funk, Bohemaphelia, Erick Kirchberger, Kelli Rae Powell, and more. The Green Room,45 Bleecker, Manhattan 1p-midnight.$6
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