We interrupt Rupert to announce...

I have two posts I'd like to post, but I just wanted to post that Carla Bozulich, one of Rupert's patron saints, is playing The Stone on the lower east side of New York on Tuesday, September 2. I had to miss a couple of local shows with Carla and her current band, Evangelista this year, but I've still seen three shows, all a little different, all transcendent. Carla has Tara Barnes as bassist all the time, and Dominic Cramp as keyboardist/sampler and then beyond that, she's like Chuck Berry using a different group of people at all times and it somehow stays this formed contextual thing and yet it's always different... sometimes more fun, sometimes a bit sadder... based on the collaboration of the particular night. I have no idea who will be at the Stone but Okkyung Lee played cello at the Bowery Ballroom with Evangelista last week and the great Lisa Gamble and Ches Smith shared a drum set. At that show, Carla mentioned that the show at the Stone may be the last show in NY in a while, so it's a good chance it will be memorable. Also the Stone doesn't consider itself a club as much as a gallery. It's a small space with folding chairs and no bar... you can find yourself shushed at the Stone, yet the whole Evangelista aesthetic is to bring the audience in so I really want to see what develops. Anyway, I thought I'd post since essentially the Stone shows don't get a lot of publicity and I thought I could catch some search engine user who was looking up Carla Bozulich but didn't know about the show. Did I? Also counter-intuitive to the usual Stone show... Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers plays the next night. Both shows are at 10pm on their respective nights. See The Stone's website for more details.