The Creators of HUMANWINE host 

"The Naked Residency" @ Lizard Lounge

Get Tickets for any of the shows. 

The Lizard Lounge 

1667 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 547-0759

21+/$7

Doors @ 8:30 | Showtime 9pm - Midnight Each night with different special guests:

3/9 - Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (Portland) 

3/16 - What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? (BOS) & Clara Engle (CAN)

3/23 - The David Wax Museum (BOS) 

3/30 - Seth Chatfield (BOS)

Labels: Acoustic, Boston, Clara Engle, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, live music, Lizard Lounge, mat mcniss, Seth Chatfield, What time is it mr fox

Saturday 1/23 (HUMANWINE)
Cafe 939 (Berklee School of Music)
939 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
 Tickets on sale: 1/5
Doors @ 8p - 8:30 Showtime ALL AGES / $10

ATTENTION! This is a Pajama Party in honor of the song "Wake Up!"

"Crawl out of bed even in your night clothes and meet us outside where the sky greets the road..."

Launch Over and BlackTie Affair Booking present their picks for "Best of 2009", an evening which showcases four of the best groups Boston has to offer. You won't find a catch phrase band here, this is a solid bill that will leave you feeling thankful you got there early and inspired because you stayed late.

2/17
HUMANWINE
Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
Sarah RabDAU

Church
69 Kilmarnock Street
Boston, MA 02215
617.236.7600
$8/21+

Labels: HUMANWINE

Avast Comrade! HUMANWINE announces their first show of '10 and it's ALL AGES! Berklee School of Music has a wonderful red cafe called simply, Cafe 939 where HUMANWINE first played last year and they liked us so much they use a picture from that show on their events page. We have the ticket link (see below). Saturday 1/23 (HUMANWINE) Cafe 939 (Berklee School of Music) 939 Boylston Street Boston, MA  Tickets on sale: 1/5 Doors @ 8p - 8:30 Showtime ALL AGES / $10 ATTENTION! This is a Pajama Party in honor of the song "Wake Up!" "Crawl out of bed even in your night clothes and meet us outside where the sky greets the road..." (cc) 2010 Nervous Relatives Records

Labels: Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, january, jeremy harman, live music, mat mcniss, Nate greenslit, Paul Dilley

Labels: Brooklyn, Extra Life, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Knitting Factory, Larkin Grimm, live music, Martin Bisi, mat mcniss, Nate greenslit, NYC, Paul Dilley

Great Scott 1222 Commonwealth Ave @ Harvard Ave. Allston, MA 02134 18+ $9 [map it] Buy Tickets Click on the poster to the left to view at 100% Part II of III: White Light I seem to leave (my) body. I want to tell my family not to worry for me, but they can't hear me. A feeling encourages me to go, I am being guided. A glowing white light reveals the walls of a tunnel. The light is stronger than any drug, more fulfilling than any food and more sensual and raw than any sex I have ever had. It's wonderful.

Labels: Absinthe Rose, concerts, Dex Ter, Great Scott, HUMANWINE, live, live music, Mehran, robby roadsteamer

Avast comrades!

We are happy to announce our new CD through Nervous Relatives Records (the first in two years). Copies of the New Album 'Mass Exodus' are available now. Visit our store.

HUMANWINE's latest full length CD (released 10/08/09 through their own label, Nervous Relatives Records) Mass Exodus is a tall glass of allegorical song stories lifting a few more veils that have been covering their elusive Vinland since 2000; a land filled with riddles, keys, captains, seafarers, makers, breakers, dissenting masses, a drug hazed public, caustic self appointed leaders, a cog turned YerYerOwn called 01, their journey through a forbidden city which reveals important bits of enjoyeur history including an early deal with the terrible Not-Me, the listener is dropped off at the door of the Veil Nil in the form of a cliffhanger poised for a sequel that we won't have to wait 2 more years for. HUMANWINE has been bitten by the recording bug and how sweet the sting!

Mass Exodus reminds us that we are all a stone's throw away from shedding our self-imposed chains and encourages us to question not only how but why we chose them in the first place.

All 14 tracks were either recorded live at shows, a renegade trip late at night to a studio or recorded on HUMANWINE's own Converted School Bus, engineered by Holly Brewer, M@ McNiss, Anthony Froney and Matt Malikowski, HUMANWINE (Brewer/McNiss) produced, mixed and mastered the entire album.

Visit HUMANWINE's online store to purchase Mass Exodus.

Pass this around to anyone who you think would enjoy the work of HUMANWINE. Thank you.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

Labels: Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, live muzik, mass exodus, mat mcniss

We have a bunch of local shows for New Englanders this month and into October, two new shirt designs and a new CD through Nervous Relatives Records (the first in two years). Copies of the New Album 'Mass Exodus' will first be available to you at our CD Release show on October 8th @ TT the Bear's Place there are no pre-orders but you can get tickets in advance. The CD will be available after October 8th through our nrr store, select independant stores, iTunes, Amazon, yadda yadda. CD RELEASE SHOW WHERE: TT The Bear's Place 10 Brookline Ave Cambridge, MA WHEN: Thursday October 8th Time: 11:00pm - 1:00am He are honored to have with us: KETMAN What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? Workman's Comp (no site avail) $10 | 18+ 09/18 Worcester, MA The Lucky Dog Music Hall 10/01 Manchester, NH Milly's Tavern 10/03 Portland, ME Empire Do you want to help us? Please donate to our Recycled Movement Thank you for taking the time to read our Newzletter and thank you for your support. LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH! HUMANWINE (cc) 2009 Nervous Relatives Records

To view this as a webpage copy/paste the link below into your browser www.HUMANWINE.org/NEWZLETTER/53PT3MB3R-09.html or click here

Labels: holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live, matteo Mcniss, merch, show

Artist: HUMANWINE
CD: Mass Exodus ep

Label: Nervouse Relatives Records / Self Released

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With a previous EP ("Rivolta Silenziosa") the US wandering HUMANWINE introduced us full-on to their narrative world of Vinland. They matched the metaphor-as-politics (and vice versa) stories with a gutter-circus-folk sound style that was a stunning marriage of simplicity and subtlety. It's sepiachord required listening.

On their full-length follow up, "Fighting Naked", the band continued to explore their Vinlandish themes but the music had more of a "rock" feel. The end result was good, but the band seemed a little uncomfortable in their new skin.

The new EP ("Mass Exodus") finds the band returning to a three song format and returning to more pared down arrangements. The results are arresting.

Of the three pieces found on this CD the last, "Our Devolution is Televised", best continues the work that Vinland fans love. It's political (of course) and features an infectious circus bounce. It could easily have been slipped in as the fourth track on "Rivolta Silenziosa" and held its own against the great songs found there.

The opening piece on this new EP is also overtly political: "1st Amendment". Its "be the media" messsage might come across as a nuts-and-bolts politcal screed... were it not so spare and, well, pretty. It builds and flows nicely showing off the performers individual strengths especially Holly Brewer's remarkable voice. Its a perfect appetizer for the middle piece: "Megan Rose".

"Megan Rose" seems to pre-date the existence of HUMANWINE as a band and features Holly alone, just her voice and a piano. When the song starts you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is merely a ballad of friendship to the title character. It *IS* that, but takes stomach-wrenching turns that are all the more powerful because you don't see them coming. This is the key to tragedy: you don't see it coming. "Megan Rose" is a beautiful, seductive PUNCH IN THE GUT that will make you cough up a bit of blood and still make you want to play it over and over... even if, like me, you found yourself on the verge of tears the first time you heard it. This really is one of those songs that descriptions fail for, you have to sit down and listen to it. And you should.

HUMWINE's DIY aesthetic has never been more clear in their sound ~and~ in the EP's visual presentation. Not only does the look and feel of the packaging clearly place the band in the line of descent from seminal grass-roots political rollickers Crass but HUMANWINE does something other bands never seem to do: give credit where it's due!

Lots of politically charged punk bands have aped the art of Crass, but this is the first time I can think of where credit for inspiration is given to the artist responsible for this distinctive look: Gee Vaucher. Kudos.

Recommended.

HUMANWINE:
http://www.humanwine.org/

Labels: Ashley vandiver, Courtenay vandiver, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, mass exodus, mat mcniss, nathan greenslit, Paul Dilley, recorded, sepiachord

06-01-09

Avast Comrades! Tuesday June 9th (Live on air) 9pm-9:45pm 6/9 HUMANWINE on WMBR 88.1 FM Pipeline! ATTN: This show will be available as a podcast. You are encouraged to Listen Live! below is taken directly from pipeline.wmbr.org: Here’s how it works: Starting at 8pm, Jeff plays records and CD’s of bands from all over the New England region. Then, at 9pm (or close to it!), that week’s live band starts playing over the air. That usually wraps up around 9:45pm, leaving time for a quick on-air interview before the next group of degenerates comes in at 10pm. Feel free to poke around, join in on the fun, and drop us a line if you feel like it. Don’t be shy. At the end of each Pipeline! we podcast the live band set. Every week, you can download a live in-studio recording from one of New England’s finest bands! There are two ways to do this: 1) Use iTunes to get the set from the iTunes podcast directory. You can even set it to automatically grab each new episode for you. 2) Use the raw podcast file. Some web browsers will let you download the sets by directly clicking on the link, while others require the use of third party software. There are already 50+ sets for you to download, going back more than a year. Enjoy! What’s Pipeline? Pipeline! is the live local music program of WMBR 88.1 FM. We play music by bands from the Boston metro area, as well as all of New England. In addition to spinning records and CD’s, every week a local band plays live on the air. Hosted by Jeff Breeze, show airs every Tuesday night from 8pm-10pm EST. Multi-Media Ep Release @ The Paradise 6/27! A 2 hour set from HUMANWINE joined by members of A Far Cry Paradise Rock Club 967 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA doors @ 8pm/ 9pm showtime cost:$12 Adv/$14 Dos This show is age restricted to 18yrs and up Tickets for this once in a lifetime show are here also if you click on the ticket image to the right and at Paradise Rock Club and Orpheum box offices to avoid insane fees Box Office hours Mon – Sat 12-6 Phone 617-562-8800 Fax 617-562-8804 concert line at 617-562-8800 *We are overwhelmed at the amount of presale tickets already sold, thank YOU for spreading the word. This show is going to be magnificent! These Seeds Become Trees There will be prizes awarded to folks who come as Characters of Vinland HUMANWINE will be joined by A Far Cry for a full 2 HOUR SET! If you have a camera bring it to this show. Not to say HUMANWINE is wrapping up but once this show is complete we will compile all live material of our new songs and get them ready for release. The New CD will be available before the end of the summer out on Nervous Relatives Records. HUMANWINE just released Mass Exodus the ep through Nervous Relatives Records. Get a copy here. A Far Cry (Boston's proudly unconducted Chamber Orchestra)We are a group of musicians bound together by our desire to share great music and great art with people who are young, people who are mature, those near, and far. The music we play is music we love, and music we don’t want to live without. We have a mission to bring together all the loves of our lives, those that range from film, dance, and visual art, to our love for each person who lives the joy and suffering (and in-betweenness) that inspire the art of life. We are excited to have you join us as we discover how we can communicate our passion with different audiences, with different artists and with each other, to be a part of the cries of need and celebration that make up the world in which we live. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds (AUS) The Boy Who Spoke Clouds might be described by some as indigenous, world, tribal, folk, neo folk, electroacoustic, or some amalgamation of the above. Imagine Sufjan Stevens meets Jesu. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds is an intimate portrait of Adam Casey and his native Australia and emotes something lost in much of today's music; no doubt having a tendency to put down roots wherever he is listened to. The Boy Who Spoke Clouds will be launching their debut album (released on Sun Sea Sky Productions) and touring as a three piece band across the Eastcoast of the USA, and the Southcoast of Canada throughout June/July, 2009. We know some folks who drive from North Carolina, Pennsylvania and far reaching states who are saddened when HUMANWINE plays a 30 minute set, WELL **TONIGHT WILL NOT BE ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS! These Seeds Become Trees! Tell everyone you know, bring everyone you know. *Groundkrew: Thank YOU for your e-mails and messages of volunteering! We're printing more flyers as soon as we get back into town. GroundKrew join @ info@HUMANWINE.org "GroundKrew" **If you are already planning to attend the show and would like to be involved in our performance please send HUMANWINE an e-mail @ info@humanwine.org "AKTOR" Donate Scraps to Recycled Movement What we still need: + wood stove (under 2 ft wide/under 2 ft long) + plywood (any size/depth) + steel caging (window security) If you have these materials or can direct us to them... Please write to: donate@HUMANWINE.org Mass Exodus ep USA orders $8.00 All other orders $10.00 The Buy Now link may not work for folks using hotmail.com LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH! word. holly & m@ The muzik of HUMANWINE can be found on the web in a bunch of different places. We run EVERY site that is OFFICIALLY marked. HUMANWINE.org, MySpace, facebook, purevolume, CDBaby, iLike, lastfm and now twitter.

(cc) 2009 Nervous Relatives Records

Labels: a far cry, Boston, concert, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live, matteo Mcniss, n8 greenslit, Paradise Rock Club, Paul Dilley

March 9th at 8:00pm HUMANWINE will be live on air

For some interviewing, pre-recorded muzik listening and live acoustic in-studio muzik playing.

The show is broadcast in SF and LA on 87.9fm also the show is streamed live from their site.

Feel free to call in while we're there...Studio Line: 415-341-1199


What is Pirate Cat Radio?
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm is an unlicensed low powered community radio station, broadcasting on 87.9 megahertz, to both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles basin.

We believe that Title 47 Section 73.3542 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations currently allows Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm to legally broadcast with out a formal licence from the FCC.

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Wednesday March 18th @ Slim's

SF Steampunk Sioree @ Slim's 8:00pm

333 11th St. San Francisco, Ca 94103
(415) 255-0333
[map]
Cost: $20.00
- ALL AGES



10pm - Abney Park
Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.

9pm - HUMANWINE

There are only two bands on the bill, HUMANWINE is direct support for Abney Park. Doors are @ 8pm and the show starts with HUMANWINE @ 9pm.

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HUMANWINE is having a multi-media extravaganza @ The Paradise 6/27!

Communication!
Inform! Reform! Empower!
Community!

A Far Cry (Boston's unconducted Chamber Orchestra) is preparing for you a 45 minute set of ancient cover songs from dead composers and some living, maybe undead composers.
HUMANWINE will then be joined by A Far Cry for a full 2 HOUR SET!
We know some folks who drive from North Carolina, Pennsylvania and far reaching states who are saddened when HUMANWINE plays a 30 minute set, WELL TONIGHT WILL NOT BE ON OF THOSE NIGHTS!

So many wonderful surprises are in store for you. Communication! Revolution! Puppets! Machines! YOU! THEHUMANWINEFAMILY.

These Seeds Become Trees! Tell everyone you know, bring everyone you know. Groundkrew get yourselves ready!!!

$12 Adv/$14 Dos 18+
Tickets for this once in a lifetime show go on sale 2/28

For updates join the mail list LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

word.
holly & m@

Labels: DIY, HUMANWINE, Knitting Factory, Lauren Goldberg, live music, pirate cat radio, SF Bay Area, Slim's, steampunk

HUMANWINE and their mobile workshop, Wire and Bone, are in Oakland for the Winter!

533D5 M15510N; These Seeds Become Trees

HUMANWINE is looking to the OAK/SF Bay Area for folks who play
accordion
cello
oboe
saw
trashkit*
trombone
trumpet
upright bass
violin
washboard
washtub

We are also looking for unique acts**

• Please let us know what you do and how to get in contact with you.

• If you can provide us with a link to some examples we'd love to see/hear them. Send e-mails to info@HUMANWINE.org.
  

• Rehearsals will be with Holly & m@. We work around your schedule so we can get you well rested and as peaceable as possible. The first time you will likely play with everyone is the day of the show.
  

* like a trap kit but made of 'trash'

**HUMANWINE is looking for Socio-political, solution oriented material having to do with basic Earth Rights, Animal & Human Rights. Plays, mini-skits, dance, interactive acts, poetry/spoken word, bomb dismantling, etc.

Labels: Cambridge, Folk, freak, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live muzik, matthew mcniss, musicians, oakland, singers, socio-political

Avast Ye! Finally it's here! We announced the MUZIK PLAYER, AM-TV (Abrogated Munificent Television) in the last 7R4N5M15510N. Much to our delight you all have been using it and passing it along to other folks. Thank you for your feedback! Now we unveil the NRR STORE! Buy Mp3s from us instead of going though CD Baby, Napster, iTunes, PayPlay, Tradebit, GroupieTunes, MusicIsHere, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic, etc. M@ designed a programme that allows you to purchase anything we make directly from us all at HUMANWINE.org. Below we have a list of what has just become available and below you can see how it's laid out. 3 new T-Shirts Blood Red w/ Black Gear Black w/ Black Gear Army Green w/ Black Gear Muzik for download Our Devolution IS Televised (single) 2008 Fighting Naked (full length) 2007 Rivolta Silenziosa (3 song EP) 2006 Coming Soon: 1st Amendment (single) 2008 Mass Ededous (Full Length) 2008 From Nervous Relatives Designs Experience it at HUMANWINE.org A Message from HUMANWINE: What have we been up to? With the help of our Mechanical Saints, we are working around the clock, on our bus making it ready for the great beyond. We've pushed our deadline twice and are now 3 weeks behind but we're on track. When it's too dark or cold to work on the bus we're inside random warehouses working on our computers building programs like, AM-TV, The NRR STORE and the MUZIK PLAYER, editing the various sound/video recordings that will soon be released and writing new songs. We have been accepting renegade studio time with folks we know to finish up recording our next album which we will release before we ship out. We have a recording our our live show with A Far Cry (unconducted string orchestra) @ A Warehouse in Allston, MA that we are editing and making ready for d/l. RECYCLED MOVEMENT: Every day we get closer to this being a reality. Please donate to our Recycled Movement if you can by going to HUMANWINE.org and clicking the "Recycled Movement" button. LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH! word. holly & m@ DemocracyNow!, 9-11 cover up, Zeitgeist , HUMANWINE.org , MySpace , WebLog , LJ , the61 , YouTube.com [c] 2008 Nervous Relatives Records

Labels: donate, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, m mcniss, October, Oktober, online store, Recycled Movement

When we hear our songs in our heads we hear them in a very orchestral way but we have never had a chance to hear see/hear/feel these songs dripping with strings, covered in a fine layer of violins, laid down in a bed of cellos and upright bass and wrapped lovingly with viola.
September 28th, in a warehouse in Allston Massachusetts, with A Far Cry our dream came true.
8 songs were chosen 6 days before the show.
M@ transposed all of the songs within 3 days and e-mailed them off to Courtenay Vandiver (cello) and Ashley Vandiver (violin) who then built parts for all the songs in 2 days.

Day of the show
Sunday
A Far Cry trickled into the space
we went over each song once
The moment we heard the first song
We were seeing the song or real
for the first time
and a few hours later
our dreams came true

Ken from Brighton, MA said,
"I really enjoyed the performance and the backing strings section - it brought back the mystique of one of Pan 9's *you just had to be there to see them* shows to Rugg Road."


Then night began with What Time Is It? Mr.Fox, a welcomed, reoccurring visitor of Vinland, who filled the room with songs from their new album, tales of Joan D'Arc, love and Religious interference performed by Brian King (piano/guitar), Nathan cohen (violin), Courtenay Vandiver (cello) yes she was in all three bands! and Mike Leggio (double bass).

Brian King said,
"I have spent countless hours, driving through snowstorms, hurricanes, to concerts, shows, plays, movies, anything, hoping to be moved, shaken, or transformed. Unfortunately I'm often let down. Something is missing. I'm just not taken over or taken in. Or I just don't believe it. But I still continue to go, knowing that at some point someone is going to reach into my chest and shock me back to life. Sunday was one of those nights.
Everything felt real. No clever aesthetic. Just the raw beauty of true passion and talent transcending ego and creating something alive. I'm beyond thrilled to have been able to be there and part of it. That night I dreamt in strings. "

The center of the evening was filled with the sounds of Boston's Unconducted String Orchestra, A Far Cry who's set included the likes of Bartok & Mozart performed by Andrew Eng, Annie Rabbat, Ashley Vandiver, Courtenay Vandiver, Frank Shaw, Jesse Irons, Loewi Lin, Margaret Dyer, Megumi Stohs, Sarah Darling, Sharon Cohen


Amy Toxic said,
"It was a fantastic night. You sounded brilliant! Like it was meant to be that way.
It can’t get much better than hearing both Bartok and HUMANWINE live on the same night!"


Afterward members of A Far Cry came up to us and said, "I've always wanted to play to a standing audience."
Think about it
you're in an orchestra
the audiences generally are sitting and reserved
they clap at the end of each piece
and remain silent otherwise.

The set up of a Concert Hall lends a hand in creating
the atmosphere of institution unless you look deeper into ART.

It can seem like a "one way energy stream".
If the audience doesn't give back
the energy coming from the stage
hits a sponge.

The CYCLE is broken
it can be draining

whereas
when the energy coming from the stage
is allowed to be a CYCLE
it is so enlivening

you don't even feel like
you're pushing.


For example
2 shows
1 week apart
The artist(s) put 100% into both shows.
NIGHT #1 the audience is like the aforementioned audience (sitting, reserved, docile)
NIGHT #2 the audience is REACTING to you (standing/sitting/crawling on the rafters, laughing, dancing, singing along, standing perfectly still with their jaws open in appreciation), the 2 shows will "feel different" to the artist(s).
The first night will be more of a drain and the second night will leave the artist(s) energized.

It's a symbiotic relationship between the audience and the stage.
As lovers of ART, we are often in an audience
as a part of the audience
you can tell whether an audience
is a CYCLE or a SPONGE

HUMANWINE shows have been filled with positive and open energy for a long time running.
We all feel honored to collaborate with so many wonderful bands
who we love
and to know that there will be the likes of YOU there reciprocating, inspires us all
to do it a while lot more.




A Far Cry [Official Site][MySpace site]

“Homage” Quincy, Massachusetts - October 16, 2008
Tickets $5/$10/$15
7:30pm Eastern Nazarene College Cove Fine Arts Center, 23 East Elm Avenue

• Pärt: Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
  
• Mozart: Divertimento #2 in B-flat Major, K. 137
• Muffat: Concerto Grosso No. 12 in G major “Propitia Sydera”
• Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10

Hailed by the Boston Globe as “one of Boston’s most promising classical music groups,” A Far Cry is making waves, experimenting with how music is performed and heard. A tightly-knit group of 16 young professional musicians, A Far Cry formed in early 2007, seeking the freedom and flexibility of a string quartet as well as the power and beauty of an orchestra. Operating with rotating leadership and no conductor, A Far Cry is generating interest not only in the concert hall, but also with its innovative model. All artistic decisions are made by vote as a collective, and the musicians take care of all the behind-the-scenes work, from booking concerts to designing programs. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, A Far Cry is also committed to social change and harmony, donating proceeds from concerts to homeless shelters in the Boston area, and partnering with other non-profits such as the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A Far Cry’s 2008-09 season holds engagements at the Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall Festivals, concerts from Minnesota to Florida, and a growing hometown series in Boston.





What Time Is It ? Mr.Fox [Official Site] [MySpace Site]

10-23-2008
T.T. the Bear’s
10 Brookline St
Cambridge
Massachusetts
02139

with Dorian Wood (L.A.)
Black Fortress of Opium
Garvy J

We are thrilled to bring Dorian Wood to Boston! A monster talent: "The androgynous emotionality of Wood’s singing voice lends itself to the demanding theatricality of [his] lyrics, arrangements and production. The nakedness of a lover’s need and the wide-eyed madness that ensues when that need is not met twine around one another." - LA Weekly ----- "Dorian’s voice is evocative of those persons, places and things in your mind that ring like cultural archetypes (the carnival ring leader who knows everyone’s secrets, the fool lamenting at the moon, the gregarious saloon piano player), but these apparently familiar characters he seems to be depicting yank at the proverbial rug under you and demonstrate his dynamic cultural literacy. Though they draw from different sources, his songs’ emotional roots are firmly planted in his own experience." - Signal Tribune ----- "Wood unleashes gospel-infused wails and testimony that bring the audience…to a frenzy.” – The Advocate ----- "Dorian Wood is an instigator extraordinaire. A shape-shifter. A subtle court jester posing as a harmless house pet. An inspiring addition to the freakish world we now live in...a true artist in the purest sense of the word. Fearless, confident, filled with passion. His songs are beautiful without being pretty, well orchestrated, and creepy almost to the point of being masochistic, all the while continuing to work under the guise of ’folk music’." - Citizen LA Mr. Fox goes on at 9pm sharp Garvy J: 10pm Black Fortress of Opium: 11pm Dorian Wood: 12 midnight

WHO is MR. FOX? a dahl character? bluebeard-like bachelor? a teacher? a friendly furry creature with an intimate knowledge of clocks? any ideas are welcome. Never fit into a scene. never subscribe to a specific genre. just try to be true to the guts of the song. whether it be gospel, carnival, psychedelic blues, folk, country or a collage, we hope the truth of it comes through. Lots of songs about relationships and their many beautiful and demonic manifestations. songs about identity, and trying to make sense of the inner workings of our own clocks. and of course the occasional "i just got dumped," "i'm afraid you're going to dump me," or "you smell" songs. So i write the songs and fantasize about being some sort of male annie lennox. nathan travels abroad like bartok, collects ideas, and basically proves you can play any type of music on a violin. so when we make music we get to be transported to turkey, alabama, ghana, hungary, ireland and sometimes pluto.

Labels: a far cry, Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live recording, m mcniss, music, Paul Dilley, What time is it mr fox

Avast Ye!

Knowing the every single year the Pentagon receives more money than they ask for deepens this wound even further, now, not only are our tax dollars going to more pork in the already misappropriated military budget but our money is actually going into ad campaigns in other countries to try and convince their populous that WE ARE GOOD, WE ARE GOD, but it's not even US it's the American Dream; they are hoping to run that faded vision of our lady of Liberty standing for freedom, truth, justice, the American way through enough Photoshop that no one will notice that she is dead.

word.
holly

check this out:

Firms Awarded $300M for Pro-US Propaganda in Iraq

Labels: brainwashing, HUMANWINE, Iraq, Leonie Industries, Lincoln Group, MPRI, Pentagon, Propaganda, SOSI, strategis communications

07-05-08 Avast Comrades! July 5th, 2007 we decided that we should live in a bus that was converted to run off of people's wasted used veggie oil. one year and $8,043.00 later paint=$60.00 bus=$1,500.00 insurance=$300.00 brake lines=$40.00 registration=$350.00 6 new tires=$2,328.00 2 state inspections=$110.00 circuit brakers & flare kit=$40.00 brake drums, calipers & pads=$2,995.00 lights, light covers, wipers, mirrors=$320.00 People have donated wood, tools, screws, nails, the conversion kit, barrels, pressure sprayer, parking space, electricity hook up, sinks, stove, fridge, water heater, piping, distro box, cables, screen, blankets, steel, their time, money and use of vehicles/bikes to get us this far. Our bus needs a tune up before we can move forward. We need your help to see it through. Any donation that you can make is most appreciated. Our goal is to get this done in the next week so we can make it down to Boston for the 18th show. We estimate about $300 of work so it will probably be $400. Please help us out if you can by donating online We came up to N.H. to get our bus inspected and it passed with flying colours. We also came up because M@'s bro, Nate is gettin' hitched in the White Mountains Region on the 8th of July! Go Nate! We're very excited to come back to Boston on July 18th as openers for Squirrel Nut Zippers @ The Paradise; See information below. 07/18/2008 Paradise Rock Club 969 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 617-562-8800 Doors @ 8:30pm 9:00pm - 9:45 Come Early! $20/18+ 8:00pm - doors open check out the tables 9:00pm - HUMANWINE (45 Minute set) 10:00pm - Squirrel Nut Zippers Recycled Movement www.nervousrelatives.com Our goal has shifted from a "plan" (that perpetuates a system of dependency which would only enslave & hide us) to a PLAN which allows HUMANWINE to speak to as many people as possible in the most independent, clean and self-sustainable way our current technology allows. Please donate to this RECYCLED MOVEMENT if you can. To the Krew: Gordon Corless, Al The Ninja, Jake Von Slott, David Dowling, Tom Porter, Max Cassidy, Nebraska, Jill, Maus & Josh Diers, Will Weiss, Maaak and many more for donating your time, energy tools & appliances. Sheri Anderson, Angie Brown, Jennifer Murphy, Ben Parson, Nicole Keane, Charles Hein, Sarala B., John Reimers, Bill Knighton, Uwe Schaefer, Barbara Goldman, Matthew Muise, Sarah Blackmore, Guillermo Briz, reAnimation Studios, Eben Holub, Bobby Masuret, Patrick Fitzgerald, Seth Maleri, Oedipus, Ron Nordin, Jerome Brewer, Chase & Barb McNiss, Sara Poisson, Terra Fredrichs, who have donated loot to Recycled Movement. LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH! word. holly & m@ Dr. Todd, 9-11 cover up, Zeitgeist , DemocracyNow! IMPEACH Bush and Cheney HUMANWINE.org , MySpace , WebLog , LJ , the61 Fighting Naked and mp3s also available through CD Baby, Napster, iTunes, PayPlay, Tradebit, GroupieTunes, MusicIsHere, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic

Labels: Adam Simon, Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, m mcniss, nathan greenslit, Recycled Movement, squirrel nut zippers

MUSIC for LIBERATION!

FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008
6:00pm – 10:00pm
$7-15 sliding scale donation

The "Dojo"
1486 Dorchester Ave, Boston
RIGHT across from the Fields Corner T-Stop on the Red Line

Featuring the music and the message of:

HUMANWINE (socio-political freak folk)
EVAN GREER (of the riot-folk! collective)
THE PAPERDOLLS (acoustic gypsy punk on tour from FL)
AMATUL & NATEBOX (radical spoken word from somerville)
BAMBUU WAZA (local voice of liberation)
ADELAIDE (puppets and ukeleles. at the same time.)

Proceeds will support The Northeast Climate Confluence – a critical social/environmental justice gathering this summer to strengthen relationships within our region and organize to take care of the needs of our community and decrease our dependency on the institutions and systems that are killing the planet. More info: www.climateconfluence.org

We will also be supporting a bail fund for activists who will be protesting the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Labels: Adelaide, Amatul, Bambuu Waza, Benefit, Boston, Evan Greer, HUMANWINE, Live Concert, Natebox, Northeast Climate Confluence, Paperdolls, Riot Folk Collective, RNC, Spoken Word

So HUMANWINE played a 2 and a half hour set on Saturday May 3rd. For all of you who came thank you for helping us fill Great Scott, thank you for being you, Emily, congrats on finding the World's Wisest TinyTV, Thank you for your concern over my well being (holly here) and thank you Courtenay, Ashley, Adam, Nathan & N8 for being so insane and wonderful...

pictures by Dave Green are here
http://www.adoorable.org/temp/HUMANWINE/index.html

We loaded in around 6pm.
I walked through the door and noticed a huge altar to RCN (cable company), which I though ironic considering we rented the room for the night and we did not invite RCN to be a part of the event. We did however have 2 other organizations tabling the event, one is TEN The Emancipation Network which works to abolish modern slavery and RAW! RAW! RAW!, Boston's first radical cheerleading squad (of which I am a proud member, I am also the treasurer). Back to the RCN altar. I dropped off a bunch of my equipment and approached the guy working the table and asked him what 'they' were doing there and he said it was a promotional thing but didn't say much else. I told him we needed the space for our 2 organizations and that he could moved to another section. He started to pack up the key chains, flyers and the blue tarps saying "RCN Cable Network". I left to tell everyone else the scoop. When I started to set up the tables for our guest bands, We Will Eat Rats To Survive and Drake, I noticed that the fellow was now joined by another person, she said that they were from the Phoenix (a local magazine) and that they were sent to the show as part of a promotional thing. All this seemed very strange to me since, it was after all, a Celebration of "TV Turn off week". I mean. did they know, did RCN just see "TV" on our flyers and think, that's the show we want to be at. I don't know but I found it all amusing. The girl and the guy asked me if they should pack up completely. I said,"I'm not a censor, Cable companies DO exist, we just don't have any room for them, so do whatever you want as long as you don't eat into the merch table space. They seemed satisfied and a little surprised once I told them it was a celebration for TV Turn off week.

Meanwhile...
Since April 2nd I have been feeling a very strong pinching feeling in my pelvis (left ovary region), being a veteran of ovarian cysts I figured it was another one.
Having no health Care Insurance I decided to wait it out but it never ever went away.
It only got worse.
So on the say of the show 1 month and 1 day after the pain had started it all came to a climax.
I spent most of the day crying in intense pain.
I decided that I had to play the show but that afterwards I would just check into the ER for council.

When I got to Great Scott I was met by Courtenay (cello ninja) who promptly gave me a whole bouquet of flowers!
I decided that if I should spent time in the hospital that I would already have room decorations.

The Cellist from Drake told me she was a Reiki worker and offered to spend a little time one me.
Once I could rest for a moment during the dead time when the merch tables are set, the place is decorated, the TV had been stashed for the scavenger hunt, we had sound checked and Jill was on food details, I walked over to Monica (Drake's Cellist) and said I was ready. I got up on an unused merch table near the back of the room and laid my ass out. We Will Eat Rats To Survive was sound checking, I closed my eyes with little tears streaming down my face and just zoned out. It felt like she was pressing on me but there was no contact, I could feel "static" coming from my spine into my pelvis. We had a good 25 minute session before we realized the doors had been called and people were coming in. She wrapped up and told me to lay there for a bit, asking me how I felt. I noticed that the pain had moved for the first time, from my pelvis to my lower spine and that I was relieved to feel at least a different pain for once.
She is so wonderful. I really think that gave me the strength to do the night.

We powered through every bit, I felt like fainting about 3 songs from the end but we did it. I was happy.

So we finish the set and I go over to talk with the manager about loot and he hands me loot laughing and talking about the RCN guy.
I told him my story and he laughed even harder. He said, "When you had the Scavenger Hunt for the TV and the girl (Emily) found it, HAHHA The kids with the RCN table looked so..hahaha...everyone at the bar broke into hysterics when you announced the little factoids about spending 7 years of your life watching commercials...hahaha..oh my god so check this out okay...RCN picked HUMANWINE's show to promote apparently they were shooting off Ads on FNX (Phoenix) Radio for 2 weeks saying "RCN sponsors HUMANWINE @ Great Scott" or something like that..hahaha! I guess they dug your band, THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T DIG DEEP ENOUGH!! HAHAHAH!

It was so ironic that I am truly touched. It may have well been Revlon, Nike or Buick but who ended up taking it upon themselves to use a band's local show for more airtime...a cable corporation...during TV Turn Off Week.
Now I know why he was laughing so hard, why they all were. I am too. I think I always will. That's one for the books I said, and here it is, on the books.


We've got some shows coming up, on of which is a Benefit show to pay for upcoming lawyer fees to get folks out of jail who are planning to attend the Republican National Convention (RNC) <---oddly enough. So in preparation for the Nazi tyrants at the Convention, we are playing a Benefit to raise loot to get the good guys out of jail. That's on May 23rd.
Go to HUMANWINE.org for show details.

P.S.
I went to the ER right after we broke down and packed up.
Jill took me.
We stayed there until 8am.
The docs were great.
They took ultrasounds of my insides from the outside AND the inside. yikes!
pain, pain,pain.
No lumps or cysts detected, I was left with the possibility that I was walking around with a pinched nerve that had "A typical radiant pain" coming through my pelvis.
Jill set up an acupuncture appointment for me that following Friday.
I went, it was awesome.
I have magnets taped to me still.
It was sooooooo expensive. $250 for the first visit.
I told her that if there would be a future visit it would have to be a barter.
So I'm making her a website in trade for more care.

Ever since they stick the inside ultrasound wand up me I have felt a tiny bit better.
It's like we scared the thing into submission for a bit.
Doing okay.
Thank you for your care.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
-HUMANWINE

Labels: Adam Simon, Ashley vandiver, Courtenay vandiver, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Live Concert, m mcniss, music, Nate greenslit, nathan chohen, pain

Rumble Odds - This is an article by Jed Gottlieb about his opinion on who’s gonna take the tiara at the 30th Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble

WBCN’s Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble is still kicking - This is an article by Jed Gottlieb about the ghost of rumbles past. HUMANWINE is not mentioned in the article but they used our picture so we wanted to tell you about it.

Go to our "Rumble Coverage Site" to check out the dates we’re playing and find out what the hell this Rumble thing is all about and why we’re doing it.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!

-HUMANWINE

Labels: article, boston herald, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, m mcniss, Rumble

Avast Comrades!
I was included in the nominees for this years FNX Best Music Poll with some very talented and wonderful strong female voices from Boston. I’m honored that they thought to include lil me in it. I’ve never won an award as a vocalist in my life I don’t assume this will be the first but it’s fun to try!
Below is a quick message of WHO and HOW. Thanks you for your unending support of HUMANWINE and what it is that we are working to accomplish!

Go to www.bestmusicpoll.com to begin voting. Voting Ends April 4th. While you’re there, check out the other music categories and vote for your local favorites if you don’t see HUMANWINE in there and you think we should be, give up a "Write in" and we’ll be like the green party. ( A good idea just not a popular one)


Below is what you will find @ the site...
Look they even spelled our name right!
(bonus points for FNX)

Vote for your favorite! You have 6 options to choose from. If you don’t like those, show us what’s really good by writing in your own. Once you’ve made a choice, remember to click SUBMIT and then move on to the next category.
Boston’s Best Female Vocalist


* Sarah Borges
* Holly Brewer (HUMANWINE)
* Casey Desmond
* Casey Dienel
* Antje Duvekot
* Marissa Nadler

Labels: FNX, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, music, Poll, Vite

Malleable HUMANWINE embraces fluid lineup

The Boston Herald
By Barry Thompson
Saturday, February 16, 2008

To stand out in the ultracompetitive Boston music scene, a band must bring something extraordinary to the table or have a good gimmick. At a glance, HUMANWINE is an act that manages both. But scratch the surface and the gimmick reveals itself as a philosophy that encompasses music, art, politics and life itself.

Soon HUMANWINE won't be a Boston band: Plans call for a summer departure to, well, everywhere.

"Our goal is to keep moving and not stop, like a fish," said vocalist and co-songwriter Holly Brewer, sitting in a Jamaica Plain pub.

"We've been (in Boston) three years," Brewer said. "It wouldn't matter if it was France or Mozambique. I would still be itchy."

Having purchased a school bus, HUMANWINE, which plays tonight at the Middle East, is in the process of converting the engine to run on vegetable grease, the electrical systems to run on solar power and turning the interior into living quarters for two to seven people.

"We end up taking people with us," said Brewer. "If someone's like, 'I'm good at what I do, and I want to go to Oregon,' they tour with us to Oregon. We drop them off, and pick up somebody else. We're like a Greyhound, except you play music."

Naturally, a liquid roster necessitates liquid songs.

"Sometimes you can't get somebody who plays upright bass," said multi-instrumentalist M@ (as in Matt) McNiss. "So we're like, 'We don't have a bass player, so we'll have the piano supplement it.' Then it's, 'Well, that changes the orchestration of what we're doing.' "

HUMANWINE formed in New Hampshire in 2001. The group matches parabolic lyrics set in the metaphorical realm of Vinland with haunting, neo-classical-anarcho-math-punk. Band mates, rightfully, cringe at comparisons to the Dresden Dolls, not that they hold a grudge. Brian Viglione of the Dolls played drums on HUMANWINE's "Fighting Naked." To the band, labeling itself anything would be self-defeating.

"That's what art is, the connection with life in your medium," McNiss said. "If you're guarding it, saying, 'We're a blah blah band,' you're shorting yourself."

Odds are any band dedicated to artistic freedom won't last on a label, which explains why HUMANWINE split from Cordless Recordings last year. Aside from an anti-corporate, self-reliant ethic, HUMANWINE does without boundaries.

"We like the sentence 'Change is the only constant,' " Brewer said. "Vinland changes, too. With the quilt of Vinland, every song is a patch. If you hold it a different way, each song shines differently."

barrythompson84@gmail.com

Labels: art, barry thompson, Boston, d.i.y., fighting naked, herald, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live, m mcniss, music, WVO