Poster: Josh Levi

Saturday November 4 * 7pm * TICKETS

Nick Millevoi is a guitarist and composer whose personal sound reflects the full history of electric guitar music, from early rock & roll and surf music through noise and the avant-garde. With his band, Desertion Trio, Nick has released four full-length albums on the Cuneiform, Long Song, and Shhpuma/Clean Feed labels, which have been called “potently surreal” (Rolling Stone), “a nonstop instrumental thrill-ride” (Aquarium Drunkard), and “supremely weird desert noir” (Noisey). With keyboardist Ron Stabinsky, Nick recently released The Sounds of Grassy Sound, which features guest appearances from the Meat Puppets.

Nick’s extensive discography includes everything from solo experimental 12-string guitar recordings to chamber ensemble readings of his Streets of Philadelphia songbook, plus five albums as co-leader of brutal-prog trio Many Arms—including two on John Zorn’s Tzadik label—whose extreme sound was described by Pitchfork as “music that seeks the sun by exploding toward it.” He has recorded with Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, Moppa Elliott, Dead Neanderthals, and Deveykus and collaborated with artists such as John Zorn, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jamie Saft, and Fugazi’s Joe Lally. As a touring artist, Nick has performed at venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe and has been featured in broadcasts on NPR’s Jazz Night in America and Tiny Desk Concerts, and BBC Radio 3. 

Nick's Digital Reaction ensemble features members of Pissed Jeans and Moor Jewelry. Their Rhizome set will be part of a brief tour in support of Nick's most recent release, Digital Reaction, out on Ropeadope Records

Kendraplex: Dusty neofolk noise grunge. Singing songs with electric guitar. In the abyss solo or grooving with band. Sometimes organ/tape loop longformist. Relentlessly improvising. Releasing music as or with Kendraplex, Kendra Calhoun, Kendra Amalie, Names Divine, Mind Crush, and others. Freaking Out with Kendraplex on WFMU.

Ryan McDermott is a guitarist who works to make the instrument sound like anything other than a guitar. Like a cello. Or a sledgehammer. Or a 60-foot fall.