Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Excerpt from article:
MJ: What about something totally outside your genre?
GM: I like to think there’s no outside; that I can hear whatever has a claim to make, but if you’d asked me if I were interested in poetry set to music, I’d probably say no. When I heard Ellyn Maybe’s “City Streets” on KALX in Berkeley I had no idea what it was, just that I was transfixed. I called up the DJ, went to Amoeba Records, couldn’t find it, wrote away—and after listening to Maybe’s album Rodeo for the Sheepish (Hen House) half a dozen times, I had no idea who the people behind it were—a poet, and a musician/singer who sounds like many of himself, or for that matter her-himself. But there’s a pathos cut with self-lacerating humor that makes this the most surprising and painful music I’ve come across.
Tags: Amoeba, CD, ellyn maybe, Greil Marcus, Hen House Studios, KALX, Michael Mechanic, Mother Jones, poetry, Pop Poetry, Rodeo for the Sheepish
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
Tags: Chinatown, ellyn maybe, Hen House Studios, Los Angeles, Music Video, nisey jay, Performance Art, poetry, Pop, riccardo spinotti, Slam, spoken word, Sylvia Plath, venice
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Tags: baba alade, Beyond Baroque, ellyn maybe, Eve Brandstein, Events, Hen House Studios, Jaimes Palacio, Literary Arts, Live, Live Music, Los Angeles, Michael C Ford, October 22, poetry, Rex Weiner, Rich Ferguson, Slam, spoken word, venice, Venice Beach
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Tags: Beat Poetry, ellyn maybe, Hen House Studios, Live, Marin, Northern California, poetry, San Francisco, SF Gate, Slam, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, spoken word, Tour, Zvents
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Tags: Beyond Baroque, Ellyn Maybe and her Band, Events, Hen House Studios, LA Weekly, Live Music, Los Angeles, Open Reading, poetry, Poetry Rodeo, September 30, Slam, venice, Yo Venice
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Viggo Mortensen‘s imprint Perceval Press is a small, independent publisher specializing in art, critical writing, and poetry. They were gracious enough to feature Ellyn Maybe’s Hen House release Rodeo for the Sheepish as one of their recommendations! Check out the spotlight and all the great content on their site.
Tags: Art, ellyn maybe, Hen House Studios, Independent Music, Independent Publisher, Los Angeles, Perceval Press, poetry, Rodeo for the Sheepish, Santa Monica, venice, Viggo Mortensen
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Thu., September 30, 7:30pm
MAYBE BABY
By Falling James
In her song-poem “There Were Two Girls Who Looked a Lot the Same,” the local poet Ellyn Maybe celebrates her titular subjects with a profusion of succinct details and a steadily rhythmic accumulation of playful phrases, such as “One wore lipstick/One bit her lip” and “The astronomy was tangible” and “They had eyelashes that looked like a hula skirt made of coal.” When Maybe declared, “They wanted a bite from each world,” she was marveling about how the girls appreciated both Gidget movies and Tennessee Williams plays. However, the L.A. wordsmith could have also been describing the sinuous way she moves between the worlds of poetry and music on her new CD, Rodeo for the Sheepish . Maybe’s homages to Picasso and Sylvia Plath are infused with beat-driven, soulful trip-hop moods from her simpatico band, who’ll not only back her tonight at this monthly event but will also whip up cool grooves for adventurous poets in the audience, who’d like to marry their words with this mysterious thing called music.
Location
681 Venice Blvd.; Venice CA
Tags: Beyond Baroque, ellyn maybe, Ellyn Maybe and her Band, Falling James, Hen House Studios, LA Weekly, Literary Arts, Live Music, Los Angeles, poetry, Poetry Rodeo, Pop Poetry, Rodeo for the Sheepish, venice
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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ROUND 9: SAN FRANCISCO
Thursday, OCT. 14TH – 7 P.M.
SPARRING W/ BEATNIK GHOSTS
RETURNS TO THE BEAT MUSEUM
540 Broadway – North Beach
Guest Host…Ginger Murray
with…
David Meltzer
Ellyn Maybe & Her Band
Steve Arntson
Jerry Ferraz
Martin Hickle
Richard Loranger
Whitman McGowan
Julie Rogers
Margery Snyder
Chris Vannoy
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ROUND 10: BERKELEY
Friday, OCT. 15th – 7 p.m.
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
@ ART HOUSE GALLERY
& CULTURAL CENTER
2905 Shattuck – at Ashby
Guest Host…Mark States
Ellyn Maybe & Her Band
J.R. Brady
Tim Donnely
Q. R. Hand
Mike The Poet
H.D. Moe
A. M. Stanley
Plus: Mystery Poets (To Be Announced)
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ROUND 11: SANTA CRUZ
Saturday, OCT. 16th – 7 p.m.
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
REVISITS FELIX KULPA GALLERY
107 Elm Street – Downtown Santa Cruz
Guest Host…Marc Kockinos
Gary Young, Santa Cruz Poet Laureate
Ellyn Maybe & Her Band
Dennis Holt
Debbie Kirk
Ron Lampi
Erik Lawson
B.C. Petrakos
William Taylor, Jr.
Mel C. Thompson
Plus Mystery Guest
Tags: Berkeley, Ellyn Maybe and her Band, North Beach, poetry, Rodeo for the Sheepish, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Slam, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, spoken word, the Beats, Tour
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Tags: Beyond Baroque, ellyn maybe, Event, Harlan Steinberger, Hen House Studios, Live Music, Live Show, Los Angeles, Open Reading, poetry, Rodeo for the Sheepish, Slam, spoken word, Tommy Jordan, venice
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
I have started to write something about you for your site several times, and each time I am struck by my inability to describe what you do in terms beautiful enough, original enough to do you justice. But it’s always been this way. Who has ever been able to say in other words what a song says? Maybe it’s why I like your poems so much, they say what can only be said in exactly the way you say it. The best way of turning someone on to you is to play you for them.
– Jackson Browne
Photo Credit: Brandise Danesewich
Tags: Album Review, Brandise Danesewich, ellyn maybe, Jackson Browne, poetry, Quote, Rodeo for the Sheepish, Slam, Song Writing
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