"Quiet In The Head" is the ongoing musical project of guitarist Seamus Maynard and violinist Jonathan Talbott. Their original acoustical music has evolved over many years of playing together and is always an exploration of texture and melody. There are echoes of familiar influences such as tango, middle eastern and eastern european gypsy music but ultimately searches far and wide for new sounds. With Jonah Thomas on cell

TRIAGE is a trio made up of Jarrett Gilgore on alto saxophone, Noah Jarrett on upright bass, and Kevin Ripley on drums.  The trio plays with the vision of creating deep, uncompromising, and relevant improvised music.  The lack of chordal instruments allows every performance to evolve organically, note by note, without confinement to chords, melodies, or moods. Triage plays mostly original music, with smatterings of free jazz greats, such as Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Dewey Redman, Anthony Braxton, and more.  From moment to moment, their music can alternate between meditative and cacophonous, animated and reminiscent, chamber-like and contrapuntal, fluid and odd-metered, all the while speaking with an honest voice and keeping an open musical perspective.

Tica Douglas has been building a fan base for years by releasing heartfelt bedroom recordings and playing shows all over, from New Hampshire to New Orleans to Edinburgh, Scotland where Tica lived for two years. In 2013, Tica brought a batch of songs to producers Andrew Lappin and Ryan Dieringer and released Summer Valentine. Tica was raised in Portland, ME, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Founded in early 2012 in Brooklyn, Double King came on the scene swinging with their debut, self-titled LP later that year. Deftly recalling facets of 70's/80's rock & roll (WXPN), the album was recorded quickly and all-live. Their follow-up EP, Premonitions, saw the band experimenting with a more groovy studio sound, with shades of R&B. They're currently at work on something for 2015.

Attention Filmmakers! Tremble and behold the magnificent beast that is THE one and only 5th Spotty Dog Occasional/International Film Festival: Oct 11th, 2015 For inclusion is this hideous terrifying spectacle please provide us with: 1. A digital copy of your original short film/video (10 mins or under) 2. Information about you (The Filmmaker) and your film for the Spotty Dog Film Festival program 3. One blood sacrifice (animal, human or avatar) The submission DEADline is September 15th. Preference will be given to recent work. Time is short, Human. Darkness descends and there will be no farm to table service in the afterlife. So go, now... make your film, and glory will be yours when you inscribe your name in the legendary Spotty Dog Film Festival.    

On June 27th, 2005, the Spotty opened its doors for the first time. We've seen thousands of customers, and dozens of starry-eyed employees pass through our doors. Thank you for an amazing ride. Come by any time on Saturday, June 27th from 11am-Close - We will be serving $4 pints all day. - Take 10% of all merchandise. - We will be raffling off 10 larger-than-life stuffed dalmatians to ten lucky kids. - Champagne toast and cake at 5pm. Then stay on to see yek koo and Gabie Strong at 8pm.

Gabie Strong is a California based artist exploring spaces of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. To explore the arena between exteriority and interiority, she uses sound performance, radio broadcasting, sculpture, photography and video as a mediums for experimentation. In looking for the differential, Strong invokes noise to summon the invisible. She is currently exploring themes of spatial decay through her KCHUNG Radio program Crystalline Morphologies. Crystalline Morphologies is a platform for broadcasting experimental music, noise, sound art and field recordings She has performed at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Human Resources, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and with Dawn Kasper and Lady Noise for the 2012 Whitney Biennial opening events. yek koo is the solo project of visual and performing artist Helga Fassonaki (half of free psych duo Metal Rouge), often appearing in a ragged stripped-down cloak of distorted guitar, wailing vocals, pocket trumpet and non-kosher samples.  Originally from Los Angeles, she recently relocated to the East Coast where her latest LP, ‘Desolation Peak’ was recorded – a classic example of yekkoo’s unruly rhythm logic and haunting vocals. She has performed at Hammer Museum’s Made in LA part of KCHUNG TV’s Crystalline Morphologies, Open Melody Festival at UC Irvine (CA), Ear&Eye Festival (Auckland, NZ), On Land Festival (San Francisco), Human Resources (LA), Public Fiction (LA), Whitney Biennial 2012 (NYC), and a multitude of other galleries and venues throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Residing in Brooklyn, New York, Yek koo is currently performing live on radio stations throughout the USA for coined ‘Radio Concept Tour’, exploring the relationship between body, microphone and air movement.  It features vocal feedback, horn exclamations and sparse rhythms moving with and against each other in space.