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ONSLO releases new album this Friday!

shareef — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:13:49 +0000

Massachusetts punk trio ONSLO releases their new EP entitled TERRIBLE ELEPHANT ACCIDENT this Friday in Lowell!

Who: ONSLO, Hetfield & Hetifled, The Sinbusters, and Propaganda.
What: A new EP entitled TERRIBLE ELEPHANT ACCIDENT. And 3 other bands to celebrate with ‘em.
When: Friday night, July 30, round 8 to midnight.
Where: The Dirty Douglas (Lowell, MA)
Why: Cuz ONSLO just finished their new record! Now dance!
How: With your whole body, but most importantly your ears and booty.

NEW MUSIC! and Lowell Folk Fest this weekend!

shareef — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:14:03 +0000

Here are two brand new tracks from Folkin’ A (also known as Seth Bailin and friends). These songs will appear on “Seth Bailin’s Folk Music,” a new full-length CD available at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival.

Please right-click and “Save As” or “Save Link As”

Cherrapunji

Country Music

Cherrapunji features Derek Hayden (drums), Elisabeth Hodge (bass), Whit Love (banjo), Mike Kaskiewicz (trombone), Ray Santana (trumpet), and Seth Bailin (guitars, vocals, percussion, keyboards).
Country Music features Mark “Big Daddy” Brack (vocals), Jeremy Wegrzyn (bass), Derek Hayden (percussion), Mike Dettore (percussion), Theresa Cleary (viola, violin), and Seth Bailin (guitars, vocals, percussion, keyboards)

Both tracks were recorded by Brett Apitz and Seth Bailin at the UML senior studio and various bedrooms in Massachusetts, and mastered by Brian Redmond at The Space.

These songs will accompany 8 others on a full length CD available THIS WEEKEND!

ALSO

Find me performing live this Friday night (7/23/10) in front of Mambo Grill with funk explosion Jochemo. Entertaining from 8:30pm ’til the sangria runs dry. And be sure to check out everything else Lowell Folk Festival has to offer.
Thanks for listening!

Study music, be happy.

shareef — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:21:39 +0000

This summer I’m teaching private Guitar and Bass lessons at Centre Music House in Framingham, MA. It is a great place to learn a new instrument or buy strings for your guitar tuned to drop-C. And starting July 19, I will be running the rock band camp for the rest of the summer. Watch out Jack Black! So if you live in the Metro-West area and are thinking about private music lessons, stop in and meet us.

Also, be on the lookout for a new series of music books created by yours truly. I’ve been working on advanced studies for the saxophone for a couple years, and I think some day soon it will get published. The first book takes you through augmented and diminished exercises, along with chromatic scale studies and large-interval exercises. I’m looking for people who are good with music notation software and want to help me edit the thing.

Thanks for reading,
-Seth

Life on Earth/Livin’ in Lowell

shareef — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:27:12 +0000

Come down to Eyeful Beauty on Thursday, June 24 and hang out with us for Joe‘s closing reception. He took photos from all over the world and brought them back to the place he now calls home. I will be performing some improvised music with a few other musicians, so come out and enjoy this celebration of mixed media.

goose.pimp.orchestra.

shareef — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:05:44 +0000

Yesterday, Strange Creek. Tomorrow, Bonnaroo.

ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 2010, Boston/Lowell’s GOOSEPIMP ORCHESTRA will set sail toward the hot sunshine of Manchester Tennessee, to take part in one of the largest and loudest music festivals in the world. In proper funk-gypsy style, we have a caravan of our closest friends and freaks with vehicles filled with musical instruments and costumes following the band to BONNAROO 2010. If you are there, and you get bored of JAY-Z or GWAR (what the fuck?!), be sure to check out the WORMTOWN tent and catch Goosepimp hitting it all weekend. 6 sets between Thursday night and Sunday morning.

ALSO, thank you to everyone who came out to the annual STRANGE CREEK campout and music fest last weekend. We had so much fun and enjoyed an incredible amount of talented bands (check out Garage Mahal or The Sam Kininger Band). SEE YOU AT WORMFEST?

If you want more Goosepimp, head over to the BOOTLEGS page and download our LIVE AT LOWELL WINTERFEST performance! Thank you Emilie Palmer for the photos.

“Ants” EP is up.

shareef — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:41:38 +0000

It was the summer of 2007 and the heat was unbearable. A family (maybe I should say an army) of ants had found salvation in the basement of my Broadway St. apartment. At night I would overhear their plans to take over the house, then Lowell, then the world. We had to put a stop to this. They were everywhere. They were multiplying.
Neighbor Cody Rico recounted ancient myths of punk rock being the only reliable weapon against insect armies. So we plugged in the amps and set up the drum kit, and started composing the concept album that would exterminate our violent infestation.
ANTS is a 4-song EP with more strength than a cement truck full of pesticides. At the completion of the recording we went down to the basement to clean up and see what kind of damage we had done. There was not an ant to be seen. Either they got scared and ran off, or they dropped dead from the sheer energy of THE FORBIDDEN BEAT.
Would they have actually taken over the world had they lived? Maybe. Or are they still planning to take over the world by influencing the minds of young musicians? We will never know. From the moment that the ants disappeared, the basement was dubbed THE ANT CELLAR. Today the residents live up to the story by hosting live punk and hardcore shows for an all-ages audience.

Listen to the album that won (or started) a war with the ants.

119 Gallery Weekend!

shareef — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:10:20 +0000

NEW page! bootlegs!

shareef — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:48:37 +0000

Get your live music fix! I added a new page called BOOTLEGS, where I will post recordings of live shows. Right now you can hear some bangers from the 2010 Winter Jazz Fest and President Soup’s performance from Centro in Downtown Lowell. Right-click and save the files to your computer! or copy the link and paste it in your browser… I need to set up the link better.

http://www.nicebassproductions.com/bootlegs/

Live Music 5/6/10

shareef — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:57:45 +0000

We’re playing 2 sets. Come with an appetite for delicious food, drinks, and music.
visit CENTRO online

Prime Blowout!

shareef — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:04:25 +0000

**“Blowout status was officially achieved when I saw Nick crowd surfing while playing his guitar in the middle of our set.”**

It was in the Fall of 2008 when I spoke to Nick Collela at a party about a new band he was starting with local guerrilla-poet Patrick Shaughnessy. Says he needs a drummer, so I say count me in. We became The Sinbusters. After a year and a half of writing, performing, recording, bringing friends into our band, and having all sorts of fun, I realized I was unable to keep up with the momentous energy and output that these guys want to continue expressing. I had to back out of the band… So as a culmination of the music that we worked so hard on, and the beautiful friends we made along the way, we played a celebration show at PA’s lounge in Somerville, with Ladderlegs, The Kominas, and Venetian Grind on Thursday, April 8 2010. Abe Taber was there to visually document the craziness that ensued, so thanks to him for the pictures.

Our new album is called PRIME BLOWOUT and you can hear it HERE. Thursday’s show was nothing short of a Prime Blowout, which was realized when Ladderlegs and The Kominas started wreaking havoc all over the drunken attendants of the show. Blowout status was officially achieved when I saw Nick crowd surfing while playing his guitar in the middle of our set. During our last song, Basim (The Kominas) and Mike (Sweatpants Symphony) approached me as if to invade my personal space… but what they really did was lift me in the air, along with parts of my drums, so that I rocked out suspended above the crowd.People gathered to support the drum set and help bang on cymbals. Guys, you have no idea how much fun that is. I will die happy.

I wish to extend thanks to many people who helped us out as a band along the way. Firstly, 119 Gallery is where we played most of our shows. It is an amazing space with progressive art always on display, and friendly people inside. Matt Studivan came to the show, and I handed him a CD that he recorded in his basement in Medford. Abe also lives there, and he takes lots of cool pictures at shows. We used his bass rig for the recordings, and tape machine for mixing. Thanks guys! Stephanie Lak lets us rehearse in her room (!!!) almost every week, and that is seriously generous. Brian Redmond mastered our CD at the Fuzzbox, which means he made it louder and more badass than it was in the first place. We played with a lot of bands along the way- Ladderlegs and The Kominas, thanks for sharing Thursday night with us. Ralph Eats Dynamite is still awesome. Streight Angular, I hope you win the Phoenix poll for best new band. The Big Sway, keep it fresh. Hetfield & Hetfield was there when we started- thrash it up!

Thank you to Nick, Patrick, Jen, and Joe for helping me play the craziest, loudest, most honest music I have ever made.