The Static Jacks
The Static Jacks are an American rock band from Westfield, New Jersey, consisting of singer Ian Devaney, guitarist Henry Kaye, guitarist Michael Sue-Poi, and drummer Nick Brennan.
History
Formation (2007-2010)
Devaney, Kaye, and Brennan started playing together their freshman year of high school for a class project on the Harlem Renaissance. A short time later they began writing songs with some other friends. Each attended separate universities for one semester before leaving to continue playing music together, along with then-bassist Spencer Kimmins. After putting up "guitarist wanted" flyers in local music stores, they received a call from Sue-Poi, who was interested in trying out and allegedly ripped down the flyer so no one else could contact the band.
In the middle of a conversation about how the group wanted someone to produce their next recording, they received an email from Andrew Maury, who had remixed one of their songs for Remix Artist Collective, offering his services as a producer. Music blog "Pop Tarts Suck Toasted" included The Static Jacks in their "Best Newish New Jersey Bands" feature of the Top 10 Jersey Bands Ever in 2009. Shortly afterwards, in the Spring of 2009, they recorded the Laces EP, setting up a makeshift studio in a local church. After a series of small tours around the Northeast in support of the EP in their parent's cars, the band decided it was time to get a van, and took to busking in New York City parks for money. After several months of this, they had enough money to buy a van, and did so, from an armed man in camouflage pants.
Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948) is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
Life and work
Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s
Branca started playing the guitar at age 15. He also created a number of tape sound art collage pieces for his own amusement. After attending York College in 1966–1967, he started the short-lived cover band The Crystal Ship with Al Whiteside and Dave Speece in the summer of 1967. In the early 1970s, Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston. In 1973, he moved from Boston to London with his then girlfriend Meg English.
After moving back to Boston in 1974, he met John Rehberger. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theatre in 1975. Working out of a loft on Massachusetts Avenue they wrote and produced the music/theater piece Anthropophagoi for a two-week run. The lead actor, John Keiser, was chosen in The Boston Phoenix as one of the best performances of the year. In 1976, The Bastard Theatre's second production was What Actually Happened at a new loft in Central Square, Cambridge and later at The Boston Arts Group. Considering the unconventional and sometimes confrontational nature of the productions, the shows still received interested reviews from the Phoenix and The Boston Globe. All music for Bastard Theatre productions were original compositions by Branca or Rehberger and were performed live by the actor/musicians.
Podcasts:
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The Static
by: Snipe DriveBlock the world. Hear the water rushing in the stream.
Between the words the silence gets overwhelming.
Block the static or the static will get you.
It is louder then ever before.
This is my escape. This is the place that I go
When the silence is all around.
Down on my face I am trying to concentrate on a memory.
Up all night again. Keep telling myself it's safe
In that hiding place which might just be blown away.
No fear for the side effects if the vision's loud and clear.
Hey now. Hold on. The static is gone.
This is my escape. This is the place that I go
When the silence is all around.
Down on my face I am trying to concentrate on a memory.
Back in that place there is a lot I could find
But I'm afraid of a breakdown.
Is this what it takes for once to feel whole?
Give up! Hey punk!
This is my escape. This is the place that I go
When the silence is all around.
Down on my face I am trying to concentrate on a memory.
This is my escape. This is what holds me together.
This is what it takes to once feel whole.
To feel whole
So long
My escape
So cold
So long