Women, Ryan Power & Vacant Lots

For the past couple months, Tick Tick adjunct and incredible illustrator, Colin-Patrick Charles has been working with David Strackany to produce a new design for a set of tees for Paleo. They had been communicating via email, delving into the seen unseen, Until NOW!

For the next couple hours, David hand rolled all the tees into tubes, taped them up and labeled them with their size, and made another point brutally clear, that we need an intern to do that kind of work.

All parties interested in rolling up t-shirts, mopping and vacuuming, cleaning squeegees and putting up posters around town please contact me immediately. This is a real opportunity to discover the inner workings of a screen printing business while being shamelessly exploited.

Designed By Colin-Patrick Charles

Thank You Seven Days for the sweet article!

Hanging out!

Photos from last night -  before the show’s awesomeness drained the camera battery.  Crinkles and Phil - you’re amazing.   Thanks to our wonderful hosts at The Bakery!   Speechless.

Truman Peyote couldn’t make it on the 18th to play with WOMEN, so we’ve added THE VACANT LOTS and RYAN POWER instead!!!!!!!!  Not too shabby, I must say.  Two of my favorite local bands, and in fact, Ryan is recording the ‘Lots this weekend in Addison.  Excited to see where they will take it in the studio.

MT EERIE tickets are pretty much sold out, though a few will still be available at the door tomorrow night, we think.  Probably to go pretty fast.

Last night Mr. Ryan Power put together a fantastic show down at the Pine Street Studios.  I love going to shows down there, and they always have a fire outside in a beautiful firepit, even with some marshmallow roasting.  It just feels kind of enchanted and wintry and Vermonty.

I missed Cosmic Matrix, but I didn’t miss CHRIS WISEMAN.  Can’t track down his possibly myspace right now, but he had a lovely croon and some nice things to say through the medium of song.

Nor did I miss TUNE-YARDS. Holy shit.  It was like a Fela Kuti, vaudeville, Silver Mt Zion, power combo with a healthy splash of incredible vocal control and a dash of NOT BEING AFRAID OF WHAT WE MIGHT THINK OF HER.  What was running through my mind was the phrase “separate the wheat from the chaff.”  What I mean, is that, there are many people who play music, especially in the field of indie rock, without a ton of natural musical talent.  And that’s how it should be.  And it’s nice to go see music and feel like the people playing it are just like you, some people working together, playing things simply, maybe, with some great ideas.  That’s one of the big reasons we have rock music.  But then occasionally people do all that, and also have overwhelming chops!  You can buy Merrill’s album here.

photo not from last night, and not taken by me

Glory! Glory! Check out photos from Noah’s farewell show last Friday.    

We first rid the devil with the Burlington Community Gospel Choir and Friends, then brought it right back with the Vacants Lots.  Amazing performances followed by Paddy Reagan, Pancho the Kid, Dick Heaven, Ryan Power, Toby Aronson (of Oak) & Greg Davis, CCCOME? and VETIVER!!

5 solid hours of music with chocolate, apples, wine, 8mm home videos, … thanks Noah, we miss you already!

TAPE RECORDER!!!!!

Our good friends Nose bleed island now have a 7 inch!! released by 3d and more records (our good friend Mr. Sundue)!!! The island crew have already distributed about 50 of the suckers over the summer, all of the (50) covers were hand drawn by Nose bleed and their friends (i did one!) The rest (150) were waiting for covers to be designed and printed by Tick Tick…well they are finished!!!!

me holding records, front and back baby!!!!!!!!!!

FRONT

BACK

Side A : Lazy Dreams with Susie Sue
Side B : Rosalina & Vamps

3 songs baby!!!!

Listen to VAMPS!:

Rosalina (written and recorded by 10 year old Z BEAR) is only available on this record…so if you want to hear the jam of the century BUY THIS BEAST, and the other songs are different mixes then the album versions!

You can listen to other nose bleed recordings and projects HERE!

As of now you can only buy one of these treasures at a nose bleed island show, which is convienient because he is playing at the monkey this coming Monday! Grab one before they are all gone!!!!!!!

Stereo Warmup Vol. 2 cover art

New mixtape… music by a bunch of people, djing by mike device, cover illustration by intern extraordinaire noah hoose, printed at tick tick studios. get it here.

RAD PEEPS OF BURLINGTON + THE 5TH ELEMENT + RYAN POWER + MIRACLE FORTRESS + HEARTHROBZ/MICHAEL JACKSON DANCE MIX = TOTALLY AMAZING SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night was so much fun!!!!!!

Ryan Power - Yeah! :

Miracle Fotress - Maybe Lately :

HeartThrobz - HeartThrob High :

Pictures soon!!!

I remember the first time I heard a Microphones record…I was 17, and I had just left the New Paltz, NY record store Rhino Records with a copy of The Glow, Pt. 2

I picked it up on a whim (most of my musical exploration back then involved “gut feelings”) I listened to it 3 times on the ride home and 1 last time in my (parents) driveway. I was sad, happy, alone, surrounded, sick, well, haunted and well blown away! Phil Elvrum has a way of cutting right to the bone of musical feeling…he is a master.

Tick Tick is proud to present Mr. Elvrum In Burlington on Oct. 11th (venue tba)

We will keep you posted!!!!

Until then take a listen :

and buy this stuff.