Next weekends NY Eye and Ear Festival is totally non genre specific, with the only unifying factor being proximity to NYC and the Do It Your Self attitude. Much like me you might be looking at this line up and not recognize most of the bands or labels so why should you care enough to attend? I’ll give you 4 easy  reasons: discovering new music, supporting independent music and labels, there is surely quality underground darker stuff on the bill you will like, and its a damn cheap ticket (15$ for 2 day festival, am I right?). It’s really a kind of noon brainier but let me illustrate the point about darker or weirder bands of immediate interest to the Drop Dead audience. .On Friday Magick Report, Hells Hills and Realax are experimental electronics,  each interesting its own way, Taigaa! are girl synth wave. Wierd Label and Tesco are both participating with a DJ set from both 1:30 till you fall asleep , so you know that’s going to be good. Saturday is a crazy day with over 20 bands. There is more experimental electronics from  Ben Miller/Degeneration, minimal from Silk Flowers and Xeno & Oaklander, punk Michael Jordan, experimental weirdness of Necking and Zs ambient Infinity Window,  cool laid back  Excepter, and of course post apocalyptic folk Cult of Youth (think Death in June). All these bands and a wholle lota new music you never heard before. See you there punks!

== December 12 & 13 ==
… Presented by The Pendu Organization…
—A Benefit for Showpaper—

2 Days! 36 bands & 30+ record labels celebrate NYC DIY!

Fingered Media will document the festival for a DVD compilation that will surface in 2009!
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NY Eye & Ear is a 2 day record fair and all-ages music festival celebrating NYC homegrown DIY recording labels and bands. This is NYC’s only record fair devoted exclusively to NY record labels.  The title is inspired from the 1964 Michael Snow film w/ soundtrack by Albert Ayler and from the all-too-familiar signs seen daily in the subway tunnels by riders of the L-train of the famous NY Eye & Ear Infirmary. The Fest will be held at Vanishing Point, a huge 4700 sq. foot industrial loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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Vanishing Point
240 Meserole street, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Tickets:

2-day tickets - $15  via paypal to nyeyandear(at)gmail.com. Names will be kept at the door

Door prices per day:
$8 Friday, December 12 ,  $10 Saturday, December 13

Visit the NY Eye & Ear Fest MySpace page!
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Participating labels:
Abandon Ship Records
Acid Marshmallow
All Hands Electric
Analogous Projects
AnarchyMoon Recordings
Annihilvs
Arbitrary Signs
Arbor
Baked Tapes
Chinatown Records
Chrome Peeler
Cryptic Carousel Records
Dais Records
ESP-Disk
Fingered
Heat Retention Records
Hospital Productions
Impose Records
Infinite Limbs
Journal of Popular Noise
LittleFuryThings Records
Living Records
Lovepump United
Misc Music
No Fun Productions
Obsolete Units
Opposite Records
Our Mouth Records
Pendu Sound Recordings
Period Tapes
Run Roc
Shinkoyo Records
Tesco USA
THTFL
Tigerasylum Records
Tired Trails Collective
Unsound
Wierd Records
Young Tapes
+ more….

Also participating:
Arthur Magazine
Cinders Gallery
Impose Magazine

Festival Lineup: (Both Days doors will open at 2pm)
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Friday, December 12

1:30 am to ?… dance party with DJ Steve Lowenthal, Sto, Chinatown DJs
1:00 am Slasher Risk ni
12:30am Sightings
12:00 am Hells Hills
11:30 pm Muggabears
11:00 pm Taigaa!
10:30 pm Metalux
10:00 pm Vaz
9:30 pm Warm Hats
9:00 pm Twin Stumps
8:30 pm Realax
8:00 pm Hunters
7:30 pm Skeletons
7:00 pm Magick Report

Saturday, December 13
1:30 am to the wee hours… dance party with DJ aktions from Jane Tesco and Pieter Wierd!
1:00 am Xeno & Oaklander
12:30 am Excepter
12:00 am Talk Normal
11:30 pm Cult of Youth
11:00 pm Infinity Window
10:30 pm Zs
10:00 pm Necking
9:30 pm Freshkills
9:00 pm AAAPE
8:30 pm Michael Jordan
8:00 pm Spectre Folk
7:30 pm La Otracina
7:00 pm Nymph
6:30 pm Led er Est
6:00 pm Silk Flowers
5:30 pm Talibam!
5:00 pm Symbol
4:30 pm Quivers
4:00 pm Blastocyst
3:30 pm Fluorescent Vibes
3:00 pm Totally Dad
2:30 pm Ducktails
2:00 pm Ben Miller/Degeneration