WEDNESDAY!

The Someday Lounge presents

THANK YOU (Thrill Jockey Records)
MI AMI
PAINT & COPTER

Wed, Feb 25th
At The Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave
Portland, OR
9pm. $7 admission
www.somedaylounge.com



THANK YOU
Thank You is an athletic rhythm/action unit from Baltimore, made up of
Jeffrey McGrath, Michael Bouyoucas, and Elke Wardlaw. They are three
free individuals, subsumed into a collective form that spits out dank,
skittering tracks filled with light and dark. Their new album,
Terrible Two, was engineered by Baltimore’s beloved J. Robbins
(Yeasayer, Mary Timony, Jets to Brazil) at his studio in Baltimore and
mixed by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Celebration, TV on the Radio)
at his studio in New York City.

Shortly after the recording of Terrible Two, Elke was drawn by
wanderlust and moved to Berlin. Drummers are always hard to find, but
luckily for Jeff and Michael, good friend Emmanuel Nicolaidis, who
played with Michael in a band called More Dogs (Monitor), stepped in
to man the kit. Emmanuel’s heavy but quick, nimble and inventive style
was an instant fit and he learned the entire set within a week. With
the collective whole once again, they’ve been working on new ideas and
are set to hit the road.

The band has been building up a reputation via their live show, which
has left audience members joyful, overwhelmed, and ready to spread the
word. A seeming telepathy occurs onstage. The band enters into musical
dervishes, a union, a breathless chaos that results in one hell of a
Saturday night and what seems like a musical fight.

The members of Thank You are longtime friends and musical
collaborators, working hard to bring to life their wholly original
compositions. Musical ideas are introduced and have conversations with
one another, each track filled with new articulation and insight. The
basics of drums, organ, and guitar build the foundation, but are
augmented by whistles, cowbell, hobo harmonica, snappy loops, car
horns, and whatever else might be at hand.

With the new album, building on the template they have created, under
the otherworldly guidance of producer Chris Coady, the band has
utilized live staples and new compositions to create a fully realized
portrait. They sing, they dance, they go far away and come back. The
listener taps their toes, nods their head, and smiles, welcomed into
their glorious song.

It is safe to say that beat-diggers and electronic artists will have a
rich resource in the recorded output of the band, each track having
the potential to be chopped and screwed, looped and loped into new
soundtracks and sample beds. Don’t wait for that to happen, though.
Listen to Thank You and listen to the future now.

www.myspace.com/wethankyou


MI AMI

Quarterstick Records, Touch and Go's partner label for the last
17-plus years, is pleased to welcome San Francisco-based drum punk
trio Mi Ami to the folds. Featuring two key members of Dischord's
hyper-percussive Black Eyes (Daniel Martin-McCormick on vocals and
guitar, and Jacob Long on bass) as well as Damon Palermo on drums, Mi
Ami builds on the promise of Black Eyes' spastic energy and renowned
live performances, but steers it into a more focused, volatile, and
personal direction.

Mi Ami's first single on Quarterstick, Echononecho, will be released
as a 12" and digitally January 27, 2009, with the follow-up full
length, Watersports, out February 17, 2009. The band fully takes
flight and thrives in the live setting, with shows turning into
all-out pulsating rhythmic throwdowns, so save up some energy and be
sure to catch them on their extensive tours throughout 2009.

www.myspace.com/miamiamiami


PAINT AND COPTER

Featuring members of influential Portland Space Rocks bands Jessamine
, Bering Sea and Fontanelle, Paint & copter create multi-media
experiences of regurgitated and improvised media. By synthesizing live
and pre-manipulated video feeds, field recordings and live
instrumentation, Paint and Copter filter cultural noise and reprocess
it into a new, mesmerizing thread.

http://www.myspace.com/paintandcopter