The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Mischief Brew, Night Birds
Sat, February 18, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY
$15 advance / $18 day of show
Tickets
This event is 18 and over
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/75573/The World/Inferno Friendship Society
The World/Inferno Friendship Society are a gang of dangerous loonies who like to break things, and who have been making beautiful, orchestral punk rock records since 1997. The World/Inferno Friendship Society consist of 7 to 13 life-long members who enthusiastically delight in encouraging all who identify as youth, both young and old, to change the system. They come armed with cascading piano, ace saxophones, several drummers, snarling guitars, low B bass, and whomever else gets in the bus. The World/Inferno Friendship Society is fronted by an undead Sherlock Holmes, who had his exploits profiled in the NY Times Arts Section for the multi-media stage version of the group’s last record Addicted to Bad Ideas. On their new release The Anarchy and The Ecstasy, Inferno hope to make you dance, laugh and cry -- often in the same song. With their full horn section, baby grand piano, punk guitar, 5 string bass and dueling male and female vocals, this freedom fighting, punk-as-world-music cult channels Phillip K. Dick, Kurt Weill and Jonathan Richman on their 13th release.
Mischief Brew
Ask 11 people what kind of music Mischief Brew is, and you'll get 11 different genres: from folk punk to Gypsy-punk, pirate music to circus music to none of the above. And after 11 years and several split albums, EPs, and collaborations, the band is releasing their third proper studio album, "The Stone Operation."
In a church-turned-studio way outside of Philadelphia, the songs were recorded loud and fast on tour-battered gear, fiercely strummed banjos, and trashy drum kits more suited for a fairground organ. All the flare of past Mischief Brew recordings is there: junk percussion, drunken mandolin-playing, linocut imagery in a lyric book that strangely resembles an early edition of "Grimm's Household Tales." But those are just spices and ornaments, not the main dish - and the main course on "The Stone Operation" is raging hot.
Here we have 11 (er, 12) songs about drunken trespassers, street-performers, Trick-or-Treaters, train hoppers, jugglers, clowns, card-playing ghosts…and watching the TV show "Dallas" during Soviet rule in Romania. If it is a "Folk Punk" record, then it may be the first one to have a track reserved exclusively for cowbell… or, to use the word "Caco-daemon" in the lyrics… or, to have a song with a doom metal outro…
In a church-turned-studio way outside of Philadelphia, the songs were recorded loud and fast on tour-battered gear, fiercely strummed banjos, and trashy drum kits more suited for a fairground organ. All the flare of past Mischief Brew recordings is there: junk percussion, drunken mandolin-playing, linocut imagery in a lyric book that strangely resembles an early edition of "Grimm's Household Tales." But those are just spices and ornaments, not the main dish - and the main course on "The Stone Operation" is raging hot.
Here we have 11 (er, 12) songs about drunken trespassers, street-performers, Trick-or-Treaters, train hoppers, jugglers, clowns, card-playing ghosts…and watching the TV show "Dallas" during Soviet rule in Romania. If it is a "Folk Punk" record, then it may be the first one to have a track reserved exclusively for cowbell… or, to use the word "Caco-daemon" in the lyrics… or, to have a song with a doom metal outro…
Venue Information:
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th St
Brooklyn, NY, 11211
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th St
Brooklyn, NY, 11211
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/
