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Darren Keen, the mastermind behind The Show Is the Rainbow, says TSITR is going on hiatus indefinitely. “We went on tour as a full band, and now we decided to keep doing that,” he said. That band is called High Art, and features drummer Jim Schroeder from UUVVWWZ, bassist Saber Blazek from Machete Archive and keyboardist Josh Miller from Columbia V. Challenger. All will provide backup vocals.

“We played out the rest of the TSITR dates and the promoters and fans fucking loved it pretty much unanimously,” Keen said. “My bandmates are super fucking awesome and really cool people and really great musicians and I think we are really onto something and we are just gonna jam so hard and so fun and say ‘fuck it’ to all of the people trying too hard.”

High Art is currently recording a live demo and video before recording a formal CD next month in Keen’s home studio. A complete DIY project, Keen said the band will release and promote the CDR and vinyl themselves. They’re also booking their own shows, which includes dates at The Bourbon Theater in Lincoln April 27 (w/Nice Nice), May 24 (w/Dapose and Golden Lions) and July 10 (w/Mahjongg).

“We are really having trouble booking a show in Omaha,” Keen said. “If anyone has a living room/basement/Ted and Wally’s hook-up and they want us to come play in Omaha, call/text me at 402.540.8001 or email me at tsitrainbo@gmail.com“

As for TSITR, Keen said he’s “just a bit tired of it.”

“I’m not killing TSITR for good probably, but I don’t even know what I would do with it right now,” he said. “It will rise again as a one-man band, but not for a year or so. I need a legit break to find out what the fuck TSITR is all about.”

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Lincoln singer/songwriter Ember Schrag wrote in to say that she’s currently recording a new album at Enamel with AJ Mogis. “Musicians are me (guitar, piano, vocals), Günter Voelker (guitar, drums, banjo, vocals), AJ Mogis (on upright bass), Joe Salvati (from Triggertown, pedal steel), Dan McCarthy (piano), Rebecca McPherson (piano), Pearl Lovejoy Boyd (vocals) and Lenna Pierce (from Das Hoboerotica, cello),” Schrag said. “Thirteen new songs. I’ve got some interest from a label that I’m excited about, can’t say who quite yet.”

Schrag also said that she’s bringing Jad Fair to Lincoln’s Clawfoot House (1042 F St.) next month. “His art will be up at Clawfoot House during May,” she said. “May 7 will be the opening, with a concert afterward. The opening is at Clawfoot House from 6-9 p.m. with music by The Shipbuilding Co, and the concert is at the Zoo Bar at 10 p.m. with Jad Fair, UUVVWWZ and Samuel Locke Ward & the Boo Hoos, $6. (Entry to art opening is free).”

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I’ll post my thoughts on Friday night’s Digital Leather show at Harrah’s at a later date in the very near future. Later that night I headed back over the river for the Slumber Party Records showcase, and was pleasantly surprised. Remember, I had accidentally said online (and in print) a few days prior to the show that it was going to be held in the front room, based on assumption more than anything, and not bothering to double-check with the Slowdown site. Stupid, lazy me. Turns out that Slowdown’s big room was the right room. When I arrived at around 10:30, the main floor and the railing area back to the bar were completely filled for Conchance, which made me wonder if he’s emerging as the label’s next (or first) big star. We’ll find out when he finishes recording his new album. In the meantime, I’ll say what I’ve said in the past — backed with an eight-piece band that included trumpet, bongos, bari-sax, keys and the usual rock accouterments, Conchance must be taken seriously. The band definitely knew its way around a comfortable, mid-tempo groove, and Conchance did his thing with the right amount of swagger and confidence needed to pull it off. So is he any good? You’d have to ask a real hip-hop aficionado. My take: You can tell about 10 seconds into any hip-hop performance if the guy/gal on the mic knows what s/he’s doing (or doesn’t, which in those cases, is embarrassing for everyone involved). Conchance knows what he’s doing. But we’ll have to wait for the record to decipher what he’s got on his mind, and if there’s any weight to his words.

The crowd dwindled slightly for Talking Mountain, who put on their typically colorful circus act — lots of LEDs, smoke, strobes and, of course, the monster mask, worn by frontman Jason Meyer-Cusack. Goofy fun. I still think they need to get a live drummer and drop the pre-recorded drum tracks, but who knows — the crowd didn’t seem to care as they hopped around to the bands candy-punk beat.

Closing out the evening, with the floor only half-filled, was Noah’s Ark was a Spaceship, whose sound these days resembles a cross between Sonic Youth and metal, and is very loud indeed. See photo. If you missed the showcase, you’ll be able to catch all of these bands again this week/weekend at the Omaha Invasion Festival in Lincoln. The sched is in Facebook, here.

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What did I expect from Students of Crime, who had their debut Saturday night at a respectably packed O’Leaver’s? Well, since frontman Robert Thornton is sort of known as a punk rock guy, I was expecting another punk band. What we got instead was something that bordered on alt country — like a combination of Uncle Tupelo, Buffalo Tom and The Replacements. Call it Americana or Whipkey Rock, but with a punk sheen. Or think of it as Thornton’s previous band, Carmine, with an undercurrent of twang and you’re halfway there. For their first performance, they were very solid and a lot of fun, though Thornton’s vocals were timid for the first half of the set. He and the rest of these criminals in training will only get better over time.

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Slowdown and Matador Records are hosting a special listening party in the front room tonight for the new New Pornographers album, Together, which comes out May 4. The “event’ starts at 8, and according to Matador, the first 20 folks through the door get an exclusive/numbered mix from New Porno’s Carl Newman. Admission is free and 21+.

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I know I’ve messed up dates and times throughout the week, but I’m going to get this right:

So tonight, at the floating gambling den called Harrah’s Casino, Digital Leather and Little Brazil are performing in the Stir Lounge. My understanding is that each band will be forced by rifle-barrel to play sets that are longer than they’ve probably ever played before. That fact, added to a menu of cheap booze, gambling and general decadence, will likely result in an evening of fun and embarrassment, which is just fine because what happens in Council Bluffs, stays in Council Bluffs. $5, and I’m told Digital Leather could start as early as 8:30.

My plan is to catch some early-evening gambling/rock action and then head over to Slowdown for the Slumber Party showcase on the big stage. The lineup includes some of the area’s best bands: Capgun Coup, Conchance, Honeybee, Noah’s Ark Was a Spaceship, Talking Mountain and Thunder Power. The price: Free. Show starts at 8:30.

Saturday night Students of Crime — the new band featuring Robert Thornton (The Wagon Blasters, Now Archimedes!), drummer Brad Smith, guitarist Dan Stewart and bassist Marc Phillips — will make their stage debut at O’Leaver’s with The Third Men and The Ground Tyrants. 9:30 p.m., $5

Meanwhile, in Benson Saturday night, Bloodcow returns after a lengthy hiatus to perform at The Waiting Room with Saudi Arabia (formerly The Dinks), Bible of the Devil and Desire to Destroy. $7, 9 p.m.

Finally, Lincoln punk duo Once a Pawn is playing a rare Omaha show at The Barley Street with Cat Island, Charles S. McVey and Chad Wallin. Once a Pawn’s new album, Mission Accomplished, is one of my faves so far this year. $5, 9 p.m.

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It’s springtime at O’Leaver’s. The volleyball players are back, drunkenly flopping around out in the sand. The smoke hut has been dismantled and put away ’til next year, and there’s new outdoor furniture in the beer garden — handmade, thick, wooden benches and tables surrounding the perimeter, which I’m told have been weatherproofed with multiple layers of marine-quality spar varnish so as to never warp. It’s only a matter of time until those benches have been lovingly carved with dick jokes and badly drawn nude women with over-sized boobs. A topic of discussion last night: Would it be possible for someone to light this new wooden furniture on fire? Conclusion: I suppose, yes. With enough gasoline and time, anything will burn, even weather-treated moisture-sealed wooden planks. And at O’Leaver’s, nothing is fire-proof.

By the time A Weather took the stage last night, the volleyball players and their cars had disappeared, leaving the parking lot partially empty. A small crowd of around 30 was inside to hear the trio play a quiet, slightly withdrawn set that didn’t resemble their new album, but was good in its own way. Live, A Weather deconstructs their lush, dense music with a frontman who sings and (barely) plays an electric guitar, and a rhythm section that includes a bass player and a cute blond girl with a pretty voice that gently tap-tap-tapped on drums. Last night the music was all about bass and voices, together in a minimal setting that reminded me of ’90s band Bedhead. I liked it, but in the end I prefer the sound of their new album (Everyday Balloons), which has an added beauty and depth thanks to its keyboards. The album is a daylight walk through a forest in summer. Last night’s performance was that same walk, but in December with the trees bare — it’s still a beautiful stroll.

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Tonight at Slowdown Jr., Joe Jack Talcum of the Dead Milkmen performs along with Simon Joyner, Samuel Locke Ward and the Boo Hoos (Iowa City), and our very own Yuppies. $7, 9 p.m.

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One more correction — I said yesterday in my column that The Slumber Party showcase Friday night would be held at Slowdown Jr. In fact the showcase will be held on Slowdown’s big stage. All the more reason…

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I promise I’m not going to keep writing columns about this festival every week, but I feel obligated to report on what’s become something of a dream concert for indie music fans. And as I say below, they’re not done yet. If they want to make this festival pitch-perfect, they need to get at least one more keynote national act, preferably a cutting edge up-and-comer like Hot Chip or Beach House (who just played here last week) or Frightened Rabbit or Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (who aren’t really new or up-and-coming, but are just plain awesome).

Column 266: No Excuses
The MAHA Festival line-up is indie paradise.

You now have nowhere to hide. Nowhere. If the MAHA Festival fails, well, it’s as much your fault as theirs.

I say this upon receipt of three more national bands named to play the festival’s Lewis & Clark Landing main stage July 24 along with indie mega-band Spoon. If you follow local music or indie music or music in general, you’ve probably heard who they are by now, but let’s review anyway.

First there’s The Faint, arguably the funnest band from Omaha since 311 (who hasn’t been “from Omaha” for a couple decades). The Faint playing MAHA was a coup on a number of levels. Because of their extensive audio/visual requirements, the band rarely if ever plays outdoors and certainly not before dark. Yet, they’ll have to accommodate both fresh air and daylight for this festival.

“We knew getting The Faint would be a huge score, but we didn’t know if it would work in an outside setting, given the energy of their performances,” said Tre Brashear, president of YFC, Inc., the nonprofit organization that launched the event. “There was a lot of discussion regarding price, their rider and technical specifications for the performance. They wanted video screens, but even if we had them, we didn’t know if they’d be visible during that time of day. We’re still working that out.”

The Faint adds something unique to MAHA — a performance on the main stage by a local band, and that’s something Brashear and his partners are proud of.

Next, Old ’97s, the Dallas band whose name is mentioned alongside acts like Drive-By Truckers, The Jayhawks and Uncle Tupelo as alt-country pioneers. Brashear said they were one of the first bands the MAHA folks targeted. “It’s a band with commercial appeal, that has a different age demographic and that attracts a beer-drinking crowd,” he said. “The fact that they were available, and that they sold-out the last time here and are recording a new album makes them a natural fit.”

Other than Spoon, Old ’97s is the most popular band on the bill, but still fits into the festival’s under-the-radar nature when you consider you’ll never hear them on your radio.

Finally, the wildcard: Superchunk, the pride of Chapel Hill, a punk band whose name is synonymous with the DIY essence of indie rock. The word “legendary” is appropriate to use here. Anyone even vaguely familiar with this band is smiling right now. Their appearance at South By Southwest this year was one of the most talked-about performances of the festival, in part because they rarely play live these days, and when they do, everyone wants to be a part of it. And now, unbelievably, they’re being flown to Omaha for a one-off show.

Brashear said the MAHA team knew of Superchunk and their connection to Merge Records, a label founded by Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance. Merge is one of the most important indie labels going today; whose roster includes Arcade Fire, Conor Oberst, She & Him and Spoon. But that’s not why they booked them.

“We’re getting a band that is recognized as a legend,” Brashear said. “We don’t believe they’ve ever been to Omaha before.” He hopes that Superchunk’s position as indie-rock royalty will help attract out-of-town fans that realize the rarity of the performance. “The challenge here will be attracting young people who don’t connect with the name.

“We think all the bands work well together,” Brashear said, adding that with every new band they considered, they consulted with promoter Marc Leibowitz (One Percent Production) to think through how many more tickets each would sell. “We needed to add pieces to the puzzle, because we weren’t sure that any one band would be able to sell enough tickets.”

Here’s where they’re being somewhat conservative. Spoon by itself is a $35 ticket in most markets. The Faint, $25 or more. Old ’97s, $30+. And Superchunk: priceless. MAHA will give you all four bands, plus two more TBD national bands and a handful of the best local bands all for $33 when tickets go on sale April 24.

So there are no excuses. Unlike last year, no one can point to the lineup or ticket price as reasons for not going to this show, especially if they’re indie music fans. It’s the “indie” part that may be the clink in the armor, however. How many indie music fans are there in Omaha and the surrounding area? Enough to sell 6,000 tickets?

“We know we’re taking a risk,” Brashear said. “We’re not booking Ke$ha. We could have gone that direction. Instead, we’re excited about our line-up, and with Marc (Leibowitz’s) input, feel good that people will come out for these bands.”

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Here’s another show worth mentioning: Slumber Party Records, one of Nebraska’s most innovative labels, is hosting a showcase this Friday night on Slowdown’s big stage. The lineup includes some of the area’s best bands: Capgun Coup, Conchance, Honeybee, Noah’s Ark Was a Spaceship, Talking Mountain and Thunder Power.

Slumber Party label executive Aaron Markley said that each band either recently released new music, has just finished recording or is in the process of making its first full-length album. “Music from these new albums will be performed live, and in many cases for the first time, at the showcase,” he said. The show starts at 8:30 p.m., and the price: Free. Don’t miss it.

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C O R R E C T I O N S: That’s right, there’s more than one. In Monday’s blog, I boasted about all of the great shows going on this week, and in the process got the dates wrong on two of them. I said the Slumber Party Records showcase was Saturday night — it’s not, it’s Friday night. And I said that the debut of new band Students of Crime starring Robert Thornton (The Wagon Blasters, Now Archimedes!), drummer Brad Smith, guitarist Dan Stewart and bassist Marc Phillips was Sunday night. Wrong wrong wrong! The debut is Saturday night at O’Leaver’s with The Third Men and The Ground Tyrants. Take note.

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I did get the date right for tonight’s show at O’Leaver’s — Team Love recording artist A Weather is playing along with McCarthy Trenching and Thunder Power. Check out the clever, cool A Weather website (right here), where you can hear their gorgeous new album, Everyday Balloons, streamed in its entirety. $5, 9:30 p.m. Do not miss this one.

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You’ve very likely heard the news by now. You’re not dreaming: The Faint, Old ’97s and Superchunk all have been added to this year’s MAHA Music Festival lineup. I’ll be waxing poetic about this in tomorrow’s column, but thought I’d share it with you now (as I won’t have time for a blog update later). It’s hard — nay impossible — to argue with this lineup, and MAHA isn’t done yet, as they’re considering two more nationals to fill out the bill along with the local stage. Impressive, and all for only $33. Tix go on sale April 24. How many people can they fit into Lewis & Clark Landing? We’ll find out July 24.

Also, briefly, tonight at The Waiting Room it’s San Francisco indie-psychrock band Girls (Matador Records) with Sub Pop act Dum Dum Girls. $15, 9 p.m. Be there or be square.

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My allergies got the best of me this weekend. I’m hoping they retreat quickly as there are a number of promising shows this week, including Girls tomorrow night, A Weather on Wednesday, Little Brazil and Digital Leather at the boats Friday, the Slumber Party Records showcase also Friday night, and Bloodcow/Saudi Arabia and the Students of Crime debut both Saturday night. Someone, get me a Zyrtec.

A few items worth mentioning today…

— The remaining headlining bands — three of them — are about to be announced by the MAHA Festival organizers, possibly as early as tomorrow. I’m willing to bet you’ll be surprised by at least a couple of them.

–Jake Bellows has a rocking new track posted on jakebellows.com called “If You Can Wait,” available for download for a mere $1.29. It’s well worth it. While you’re there, also download the amazing “Should You Ever Change Your Mind,” also just $1.29. This is the new business model, folks. Be a part of it.

— Finally, it came to my attention that the infamous lost full-length from Lincoln band The Golden Age is now available for free download right here. According to the site, The Golden Age was frontman Rob Hawkins, bassist Ian Aellio and drummer Tim Jensen, though when I saw them play at Sokol Underground in early ’03 opening for Simon Joyner (review here) there were six people on stage, and the word in the crowd was that these guys were destined to be the next band on Saddle Creek Records. Well, that never happened. TGA did release an EP called Calla Lily, but then just faded away. This full-length is worth checking out for more than history’s sake.

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The OEAA’s Spring Showcase on tonight in five venues on the 100 block of Broadway in Council Bluffs. So where is that exactly? It’s apparently near where Kanesville and Broadway meet near downtown CB. For example, here’s where the Fiddlin’ Monkey is on Google Maps. Consider it an adventure. A $10 cover gets you in the doors of all five venues. The full band listing and schedule is here: http://www.oea-awards.com/ I know only three of the performers. Strangely, no set runs past 1 a.m. — what’s the point of hosting this in CB if you can’t take advantage of the 2 a.m. closing time (which we’ll be getting here in Omaha, eventually)?

Also happening tonight, Matador band Dead Meadow is down at Slowdown Jr. with Imaad Wasif and Life of a Scarecrow. 9 p.m. $10.

Tomorrow there’s an all-afternoon homeless benefit punk festival at The Hole featuring 13 bands. Full schedule is here. Show starts at 2 p.m. Admission is $10, or $5 with a can of food.

Nathaniel Rateliff (Born in the Flood) opens for Megafaun and Breathe Owl Breathe at The Waiting Room. $10, 9 p.m.

And then, Sunday, Bare Wires plays at The Barley Street Tavern with Saudi Arabia (formerly The Dinks) and Cheap Smokes. $5, 9 p.m.

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Lot’s o’ shows tonight. Down at The Hole, 712 So. 16th St., it’s Digital Leather with Baby Tears and out-of-town act JEFF the Brotherhood from Nashville. $6, 7 p.m. No Booze!

Afterward, head over the Barley Street Tavern for Jake Bellows with Matt Cox, Andrew Jay and Jeff Metil. $5, 9 p.m. Or swing by Slowdown Jr. for Unwed Sailor and All the Young Girls Are Machine Guns. $7, 9 p.m.

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By the way, when Bare Wires frontman Matthew Melton was asked how he knew Chris Aponick, this is what he said: “Isn’t he in Digital Leather?”

Column 265: Safety Violation
Bare Wires talks garage…

Thank Chris Aponick for the following snapshot of rock band Bare Wires. Chris is a fellow music writer at The Reader who contributed to The City Weekly in the past and also sells CDs at Homer’s in the Old Market.

He’s a garage band freak — I’m not talking about the Mac software, but the “music genre” that became popular in the indie world three or four years ago and whose essence continues to linger. It was Aponick who booked Bare Wires at the Barley Street Tavern this Sunday night, which, of course, made him ineligible to write about them (It’s that whole journalistic impartiality/ethics bug-a-boo that we pride ourselves on at The Reader). So he hounded me.

From Oakland by way of Memphis, the band’s frontman Matthew Melton called Sunday from Brooklyn, where the band had the day off from their tour. It also happened to be Easter.

“There are funny tourists everywhere,” he said as he and the band strolled through the bowels of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Melton said Bare Wires includes members Fletcher Johnson and drummer Nathan Price. “We all met in the Bay Area, in Oakland, where there’s a cool garage thing going on with a lot of bands.”

Those involved in the “garage thing” include Ty Segall, Greg Ashley Band, Nobunny and my favorite, Thee Oh Sees, whose frontman, John Dwyer, is putting out the next Bare Wires album on his Castle Face label. “It’s great to be a part of it,” Melton said. “It’s a bunch of bands recording on tape, making demos and releasing vinyl.”

Bare Wires’ music has been called “Soft Punk” and “Smooth Punk” for reasons I don’t understand. It’s not soft or smooth at all. Instead, the band fuses the sloppy, amateurish qualities of garage with surf, glam and ’60s psychedelic. “We didn’t call ourselves ‘soft punk,’ someone else did,” Melton said, though the band now uses the term in its publicity materials. “I thought it was funny.”

But in the end, he still prefers “garage” — a generic term that describes not only the music’s simplistic genius, but a subculture similar to indie except that the characters involved seem angrier and slightly less fashion-conscious. “It’s sincere, it’s simple,” Melton said. “You’re making songs, you’re performing from your heart, there’s something about it that makes for good pop songs. It’s a crude, raw, minimal thing. The people that go to these types of shows love the music of it more than the style or the scene of it.”

Melton was friends with one of the genre’s heroes — Jay Reatard, a rock musician, singer and songwriter whose music has influenced a lot of garage bands. Reatard’s death Jan. 13 of this year shook the rock world. Garage band temple Beerland in Austin hosted a Reatard tribute night during this year’s South by Southwest Festival.

Melton said he hung out with Reatard growing up in Memphis. “We lived in the same neighborhood and did nothing things together, like explore abandoned buildings,” Melton said. “He recorded my first band’s stuff. The one thing that stands out is he was really hard working. He really put the work into his efforts, and his energy was as much an influence as the music itself.”

Melton said at the time he didn’t have the means to go to Reatard’s funeral, so he remembered him in his own way. “He would have wanted me to be in my room cranking out a record,” Melton said. “He believed that you only got so much time, so do as much cool stuff as you can.”

I told Melton I couldn’t understand why he moved away from Memphis, which is garage-rock ground zero. “I’d been in Memphis my whole life and my family didn’t do anything or go anywhere,” he explained. “They still live in the same house in West Memphis built in 1958. I had to see the world myself; I had to get out. There was so much happening in the Bay Area, and the Oakland garage rock explosion was a cool part of it.”

But Memphis, it seems, is calling him back. “When we played there again recently, I started looking for a house where I could move my recording studio.”

Melton said Sunday’s Barley St. show, which also features Cheap Smokes and Saudi Arabia (formerly The Dinks), would be his first time in Omaha (“I love the Box Elders,” he added), but then admitted, “Actually, I played in Omaha with my first band. We drove across the country and did a show at O’Leaver’s on St. Patrick’s Day. I remember we traded some LSD to some guy for a delay pedal. It was fun.” I bet it was.

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The video of Cursive’s cover of Starship’s “We Built This City” is online (here), and making its way through the blog-o-sphere. My question: Where is Ted Stevens?

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